Japan

LASER Nomad OSAKA: The Role of Science and Technology in Art and Humanities

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In collaboration with nexCafé event, Swissnex in Japan

When

November 16th, 2022 from  6:00 PM to  9:00 PM (Kyoto)

Location

1F, 1 Chome-13-22 Sonezakishinchi, Kita Ward
WeWork Midosuji Frontier
Osaka, 27 530-0002
Japan

What

The first Japanese edition of LASER NOMAD continues its investigation and critic of the implicit biases found in academic publishing, or the disconnect between work within a university and that going on outside, by decompartmentalizing knowledge, namely by creating bridges, and here asking what is the role of science and technology in art and humanities. The quest relates to interdisciplinarity, and indisciplinarity generated by art and science collaborations. Such pervasive fields are now mostly approached from a techno-scientific and Western perspective, and looking outside well established Western academic methodologies, focusing on the rituals involved within such collaboration through a nomad lab as mobile and multi-sited ethnography might lead to new questions and answers.

We investigate the role of science and technology in art and humanities. We invite Ryuta Aoki, a Tokyo-based artistic director and social sculptor, and Adrian Altenburger, professor for building technology in Lucerne, Switzerland, for an exclusive discussion.

18:00-18:10 Welcome and Intro
18:10-19:00 Presentation
19:00-19:20 Discussion
19:20-21:00 Networking Reception with music performance by Luca Forcucci / The Room Above

Who

Ryuta Aoki | 青木竜太

Tokyo-based artistic director and social sculptor. I have been creating invisible structures that maximize people’s creativity to explore the form of “society as it could be” that terraforms cultural deserts into cultural forests. I currently plans, designs, directs and implements research projects, exhibitions, and artworks in the interdisciplinary art and science technology field.

Adrian Altenburger

Professor and Head of Institute / Course Building Technology and Energy at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2015. Former partner, board member and co-owner Amstein+Walthert AG from 1999-2015.
Lecturer and adjunct professor in the field of energy and building services engineering in Switzerland and abroad (ETH Zurich, HTW Chur, Harvard University – Graduate School of Design and Harvard University – Extension School, University of Zurich, Kyoto Institute of Technology).

Moderator: Fiammetta Pennisi / Art & Science Swissnex Japan

CHAIRED BY:

Luca Forcucci

Eric Lyon: Embracing space and pushing further inclusivity in computer music and beyond

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The journey takes us from the 1980’s USA to Japan and 1990’s Berlin. Music stories emerges from Merzbow, Zbigniew Karkowski and ear plugs, Amsterdam squats, Aphex Twin’s influence to the great tradition of counterpoint reborn as disco in Germany. How shared technology and evolution of music relates to culture ? What it means spatializing music and inclusivity in The CUBE at Virginia Tech with a festival created around Afrofuturism and immersive music ? As a composer Eric Lyon talks about pushing the boundaries further and interstices in music, like for example composing for a violin duo, with String Noise, accidents in the process and nuclear wars, random encounters, rewriting the Bad Brains’ music and the intemporal in the arts.

Eric Lyon / Interview by Luca Forcucci – May 2022 / Berlin – Blacksburg / Part 1
Eric Lyon/ Interview by Luca Forcucci – May 2022 / Berlin – Blacksburg / Part 2

Eric Lyon is a composer and audio researcher focused on digital interventions, post-hierarchies,
high-density loudspeaker arrays, and the inspiration of performer-based creativity. His publicly
released audio software includes “FFTease” and “LyonPotpourri.” He is the author of
“Designing Audio Objects for Max/MSP and Pd,” a guidebook for writing audio DSP code for
live performance. In 2015-16, Lyon architected both the Spatial Music Workshop and Cube Fest
at Virginia Tech to support the work of other artists working with high-density loudspeaker
arrays. Lyon’s creative work has been recognized with a ZKM Giga-Hertz prize, MUSLAB
award, the League ISCM World Music Days competition, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Lyon
teaches in the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech, and is a Faculty Fellow at the Institute
for Creativity, Arts, and Technology.

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