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YASMIN DISCUSSION MAY 2011:
ARTS AND SCIENCES OF RE-DRAWING BOUNDARIES

LEA New Media Exhibition Re-Drawing Boundaries
Interview with Teri Rueb
Interview with Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Moderated by Roger Malina

Invited Discussants : Jeremy Hight, Lanfranco Aceti

This YASMIN discussion grows out of the LEA Re-Drawing Boundaries on-line exhibition:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Leonardo-Electronic-Almanac/209156896252

Curator: Jeremy Hight
Senior Curators: Lanfranco Aceti and Christiane Paul

It will also feed into the IMERA (http://www.imera.fr) Institut Mediterranean de Recherche Avancees where a new initiative on Frontiers is beginning, led by political anthropologist Cedric Parizot, http://www.imera.fr.  The annual IMERA art-science symposium planned for the fall of 2011 in Marseille will be on this topic.

In this YASMIN discussion we are interested in art-science questions that arise such as :

a) Bio-Metrics: how are the new biological and medical technologies redefining the boundaries of personal and group identities ? What work of artists explore these questions?

b) How do the evolving nature of boundaries between the physical and the virtual change our concepts of borders? How to architects and urban planners manifest these changes in the built environment ?

c) Network science helps us understand complex networks, What concepts of boundaries emerge in complex networks and the flows through them? These issues will be discussed at Leonardo Day at the NESCI Conference Budapest:
https://leoalmanac.org/arts-humanities-and-complex-networks-2nd-leonardo-satellite-symposium-at-netsci-2011/

d) How can ontologies and terminologies become problematic and even restrictive in the face of cross over works and interests that cross boundaries within and outside art; do artificial borders between art and science inhibit new ideas and
work? Between art and craft?

e) Do our geo-political concepts of borders impose inhibiting constraints? There is an explosion of artistic and cultural use of geographic information systems, locative media, and other new mapping technologies. What social and political implications do these mapping technologies
carry? How to we avoid ‘screen obsession”? What is the role of arists in the “Jasmin” revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East ?

We welcome contributions from YASMINERS on art-science work related to these questions or others.

Here are details of the LEA galleries :

This exhibition presents key innovators in Locative Media, New Media and Mapping in a show that works to display not only fields and works but more of cross pollinations, progressions, the need to move beyond labels just like the importance of reconsidering borders on maps, what space is and what pragmatic tools and previous forms can do.

The selected artists are:

Kate Armstrong, Alan Bigelow, Louisa Bufardeci, Laura Beloff, J.R Carpenter, Jonah Brucker Cohen, Vuk Cosic, Fallen Fruit, Luka Frelih, Buckminster Fuller, Rolf Van Gelder, Natalie Jeremijenko, Carmin Kurasic, Paula Levine, Mez, Lize Mogel, Jason Nelson, Christian Nold, Esther Polak, Proboscis, Kate Pullinger, Carlo Ratti, Douglas Repetto, Teri Rueb, Stanza, Jen Southern, Kai Syng Tan, Jeffrey Valance, Sarah Willams, Jeremy Wood, Tim Wright.

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http://malina.diatrope.com/2011/05/01/re-drawing-borders-yasmin-may-discussion/

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Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as artist, curator, and academic. He is a research affiliate and visiting professor at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press. He has exhibited numerous personal projects including Car Park, a public performance in the UK at the John Hansard Gallery; Who The People?, an installation artwork acquired in its entirety by the Chetham’s Library and Museum in Manchester; Sowing and Reaping, installation artworks acquired in their entirety by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Cyprus; and Hope Coming On, a site-specific choral performance he designed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the collaboration of the Boston Children’s Chorus, and realized in front of Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). In 2017, Aceti prepared a series of new artworks for an exhibition entitled Shimmer and curated by Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) at the Tobazi Mansion in Hydra, a new large choral performance titled Accursed for the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece; and Knock, Knock, Knocking a public space installation in the Mediterranean Garden Pavilion of the New Sea Waterfront of Thessaloniki.