In October, EAD faculty member Simon Penny organized a two-day symposium focused on the remarkable – but almost lost – navigation and seafaring traditions of the peoples who traversed and settled one-third of the world. Participants considered the centrality of seafaring for pacific island cultures, focusing on the intersections of history, …
8-10 December, 2016 CTSA, UCI Director – Simon Penny Academic manager – Kelly Donahey This conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group including cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, philosophers of mind, physiologists, psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, computer scientists, artists and designers to explore emerging cognitive neuroscience and theories of embodied cognition. The goal …
Orthogonal is a transdisciplinary research project involving anthropology, hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, design prototyping, experimental structures and materials science, traditional and contemporary artisanal practices, sustainability and ‘critical technical practice’ (Agre) Micronesian and other Pacific island communities have a long (and almost lost) tradition of fast asymmetrical multihull sailboats (generally referred to …
What Social Robots Can and Should Do. Simon Penny was a keynote speaker. International Research Conference Robophilosophy 2016 / TRANSOR 2016: Aarhus, Denmark, October 17-21, 2016 http://conferences.au.dk/robo-philosophy/
December 8-10, 2016. UC Irvine will be hosting Body of Knowledge, a conference on embodied cognition and the arts organized by EAD faculty member Simon Penny, with assistance from graduate student Kelley Donahey. The focus of the event is to bring contemporary cognitive neuroscience and philosophy of mind to bear …
Simon Penny is giving a talk at the Conférence Hybride at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifsin in Paris on April 7th.
In April, EAD faculty member Antoinette LaFarge gave a talk at the Feminist Infrastructures and Technology Conference at UC San Diego on the late Beatriz da Costa’s work. Entitled “Less Dismal Science,” it was a look at da Costa’s commitment to furthering public understanding of science and a hands-on approach …
The international Digital Arts and Cultures conference is being held at UC Irvine this year, Dec. 12-19. Subtitled “after media: embodiment and context” it looks like being an exciting event. It’s directed by Simon Penny, a faculty member in the Studio Art and EECS departments, and it features dozens of …