Project Skye: New Perspectives at Bay Area Science Festival
Skye recently participated in the Bay Area Science Festival with swissnex San Francisco, performing spectacular ...
From October 29th to November 6th, the Bay Area will come alive with over 100 science and technology activities – lectures, debates, exhibitions, concerts, plays, workshops, and more. This ambitious collaborative public education initiative brings together leading academic, scientific, corporate, and non-profit institutions to showcase the region as an international leader in innovation. Science happens all around us and directly impacts our daily lives – are you ready to unleash your inner scientist? Learn more. #basf11
swissnex San Francisco is thrilled to be a core partner in this year’s inaugural festival. We are organizing events all over the city in collaboration. Here’s a rundown of what we’re cooking up:
Now through November 12, 2011
San Francisco Art Institute, Walter and McBean Galleries
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco
Find out what happens when artists spend nine months in a science lab. This exhibition features eight works developed during the Swiss artists-in-labs residency, which places artists in scientific settings.
November 1, 2011, 6:30 pm
swissnex San Francisco
730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
Have you ever seen a blind, juggling robot? After the evening’s panel discussion between scientists, artists, and a science fiction specialist, you’ll be able to answer yes. This event is part of an ongoing series on robotics.
November 2, 2011, 6:00 pm
swissnex San Francisco
730 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
Geometric patterns of logarithmic spirals. The art of recycling. No-camera photography. Visual art and physics teaming up to understand the universe. Don’t miss descriptions of these and other projects as well as the chance to share your own work at the interface of art and science at this Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER).
November 2, 2011, 7:00 pm
California Academy of Sciences
55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco
Henry Markram, Coordinator of the Human Brain Project at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in conversation with David Eagleman, Director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at the Baylor College of Medicine. Moderated by Christian Simm, Executive Director, swissnex San Francisco.
November 2, 2011, 7:30 pm
MADE (Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment)
610 16th Street, Suite 230, Oakland
As always, dorkbot brings “people doing strange things with science.” Swiss Ph.D. student Philipp Reist joins the roster to describe his Blind Juggler robot and other projects.
November 3, 2011, 6:00 pm
Exploratorium
Palace of Fine Arts, 3601 Lyon Street, San Francisco
Philip Reist, a Ph.D. student in the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich demonstrates his invention, the Blind Juggler, a robotic device that relies on mathematics (rather than sensors) to keep a ball in play during the Exploratorium’s “After Dark” series. “After Dark: The Senses” is an evening designed to help you get in touch with the sensual world—human and otherwise.
November 3, 2011, 6:00 pm
San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco
While physicists attempt to understand the universe in their own way, Christian Gonzenbach draws on his experience as an artist-in-residence in the lab of Martin Pohl at the University of Geneva and at CERN to do so with experiments and sculptures using objects from everyday life.
November 4, 2011, 7:00 pm
The Lab
2948 16th Street, San Francisco
This hands-on workshop, based on the SolarSoundModule by Ralf Schreiber, combines simple analogue circuits, piezo speakers, and tiny photovoltaic panels to create unique electronic organisms that come alive with light. Build your own miniature solar animabots and hear them chirp and coo like birds and insects in a collective performance with SF-based Swiss sound artist Jorge Bachmann.