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<div>Dear All,</div>
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<div>you are most welcome to join us</div>
<div>-please post widely the announcement</div>
<div>best</div>
<div>nina</div>
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<div>Announcement.</div>
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<div>Apologies for cross posting.</div>
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<div>We are pleased to announce the upcoming opening of</div>
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<div><font size="+1"><i>The Pleasure of Light</i>,</font></div>
<div><font size="+1"><i>Gy<font color="#000000">ö</font>rgy Kepes
and Frank J. Malina</i></font></div>
<div><font size="+1"><i>at the intersection of Art and
Science</i></font></div>
<div><font size="+1"><br></font></div>
<div>an exhibition and conference at the<font size="+1"> Ludwig
Museum</font></div>
<div><font size="+1">- Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest,
Hungary.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><i>The Pleasure of Light exhibition and
conference aim to present</i></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><i>the pioneering interdisciplinary
concepts of György Kepes and</i></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><i>Frank J. Malina through the course of
their lives, creations and</i></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><i>enduring influence. Simultaneously we
wish to chart the</i></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><i>intersection of art, science and
technology, particularly in the</i></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><i>last century.</i></font></div>
<div><i>Nina Czegledy and Rona Kopecky, Project Curators.</i></div>
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<div><b>The Pleasure of Light</b> exhibition opens on</div>
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<div><b>September 2nd 2010 at 8 pm</b> by</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Prof. Dr.<b> Michael Punt</b>,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Transtechnology Research, University of
Plymouth, UK,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Editor in Chief, Leonardo
Reviews</font></div>
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<div>Please join us on <b> September 3, 2010</b> for</div>
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<div><b>The Pleasure of Light </b><font
face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"> conference,</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">a collaboration
between the Hungarian Academy of Sciences,</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Collegium Budapest,
Institute for Advanced Study, The French Institute</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Budapest and the
Ludwig Museum- Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><br>
Date:<x-tab>
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</x-tab>September 3, 2010<br>
Location:<x-tab>
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</x-tab>Auditorium (1st floor) Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary
Art, Budapest.<br>
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</x-tab>Palace of Arts, Komor Marcell u. 1 Budapest, H-1095,
Hungary<br>
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</x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>The
conference will be held in English with simultaneous translation into
Hungarian.</font></div>
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</x-tab>FREE</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Welcome<x-tab>
</x-tab>Nina Czegledy and Rona Kopeczky</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000">Schedule:</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">10.00 <x-tab>
</x-tab>Introduction:<i><b> Miklos Peternak</b></i>, chair<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Professor, Intermedia Department,
Hungarian University of Fine Arts<br>
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10.15<x-tab>
</x-tab>Keynote:<i><b> Roger Malina</b>,</i> astronomer, editor<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Intimate
Science; Frank Malina and Gyorgy Kepes</i></font></div>
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<i><x-tab> </x-tab>Invited
speakers:<br>
</i>11.00<x-tab> </x-tab><i><b>Annick Bureaud</b>,</i> director
Leonardo/OLATS</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000"><i><x-tab>
</x-tab>40 Years later, The Legacy of the Journal Leonardo<br>
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</i>11.30<x-tab> </x-tab><i><b>Mrs. Nicholas Schoffer</b></i>, artist,
Co-founder & President of the ANSI. Association<br>
<x-tab>
</x-tab>Internationale des Amis de Nicolas Schöffer</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000">12.00 <i> <b>
Martha Blassnigg</b>,</i> media anthropologist, Research Fellow,
University of Plymouth</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000"><x-tab>
</x-tab><i>Delightful(l) Mind: Toward an Anthropology of
Light</i></font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">12.30<x-tab>
</x-tab><i><b>Gabor Zemplen</b>,</i> historian of science, Budapest
University of Technology and</font></div>
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color="#000000"> <x-tab>
</x-tab>Economics, fellow, Budapest Collegium Institute for Advanced
Study<br>
<i><b><x-tab> </x-tab></b>Exciting
interactions in the history of light and color theories<br>
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</i>13.00 <x-tab> </x-tab>Buffet lunch provided</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000">14.00 <x-tab> </x-tab><i>Introduction:<b>
Ivan Almar</b>, chair</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000"><i><x-tab>
</x-tab></i>Fellow, Budapest Collegium, Institute for Advanced
Study</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000">14.15 <x-tab> </x-tab><i>Keynote:<b> Oliver
Botar</b>,</i> art historian, professor, University of Manitoba,
Canada</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000"><i><x-tab>
</x-tab>The Nexus of Science, Art and Technology: György Kepes’
New Landscape<br>
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Invited speakers:</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">15.00<x-tab>
</x-tab><i><b>Norbert Kroo</b>,</i> physicist, Vice President,
Hungarian Academy of Science</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000"><i><x-tab>
</x-tab>Some ideas on science and arts<br>
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</i>15.30<x-tab> </x-tab><i><b>Attila
Csaji</b>,</i> laser and hologram artist<br>
<i><b><x-tab> </x-tab></b>In the spirit of Gyorgy Kepes</i></font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">16.00<x-tab>
</x-tab><i><b>Michael Punt</b>,</i> Transtechnology Research,
University of Plymouth,</font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman"
color="#000000"> <x-tab
> </x-tab>Editor in Chief
Leonardo Reviews<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Grinding
A Ridge: The Subversive Pleasure of Artificial Light</i></font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">16.30<x-tab>
</x-tab><i><b>Keiko Prince</b>,</i> artist, fellow, Center of Advanced
Visual Studies MIT<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab><i>KEPES Beacon<br>
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Closing Overview:</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">17.00<x-tab>
</x-tab><i><b>Arnauld Pierre,</b></i> art historian, Sorbonne
University, France</font></div>
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17.30<x-tab> </x-tab>Coffee break<br>
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17.45<x-tab> </x-tab><i>Closing
discussion<br>
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</i>18.30<x-tab> </x-tab>ends</font></div>
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