Swissnex San Francisco connects the best of many worlds by bridging the knowledge, energy and competencies in science, higher education, art and innovation between Switzerland, the U.S.A and Canada. Initiated by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) as a public-private venture, and managed in cooperation with the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, swissnex San Francisco is an annex of the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco. Vital financial support is provided by public and private sponsors sharing swissnex San Francisco's commitment to "connecting the dots."
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| Last Friday we had the pleasure of welcoming a delegation from the Swiss National Science Foundation with an internal breakfast meeting before heading across the Bay for a busy day on the UC Berkeley campus. The group was back in San Francisco for a dinner at swissnex that night with local Swiss post-docs who received SNSF grants, giving the delegation an opportunity to hear firsthand about the grant program and giving grantees an unparalleled networking opportunity. |
| The red air quality sensor installed at swissnex SF is one of 15 around the globe that transmit 6 measures of pollution via TCP/IP to the Black Cloud database. |
These join the 10 blue ones using SMS technology to relay the data, which can be viewed in graph form here. The Black Cloud project aims to measure the air quality experiences of humans and how various activities effect their cycles. An interactive project by nature, Black Cloud also has games, music and stories that go with it.
Swiss new media artist Greg Niemeyer, Associate Professor for New Media Art at UC Berkeley is the principal investigator behind it. Funds for the Black Cloud are provided by a Digital Media Learning Grant from the MacArthur Foundation, as well as from swissnex, Pro Helvetia and the Mellon Foundation.
