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Appendix VIII: Creative Engagements
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From page 399... ... As part of a commitment to creating a memorable experience -- and to inspire creative problem solving, collaboration, and innovation -- in 2015 NAKFI for the first time introduced a variety of exhibitions, installations, and events that reflected the spirit of the gathering called Creative Engagements. From the moment attendees arrived at the Beckman Center, they were exposed to experiences that defined the space as a place where something special would happen. Read the entire page →
From page 400... ... Creative Engagement descriptions are reprinted as they appeared in the original conference materials. CREATIVE ENGAGEMENTS AT THE 2015 FUTURES CONFERENCE Brandon Ballengée Love Motel for Insects: Viceroy Variation Maquette Black lights, fabric, aluminum 2001-Ongoing Loaned from IDEAS xLab, Louisville, KY Brandon Ballengée is a visual artist, biologist, and environmental activist based in Louisiana. Read the entire page →
From page 401... ... These interactive environments integrate fine art, interactive media, protocell chemistry, distributed kinetics, and evolutionary control systems. The LASG explores a new generation of responsive spaces, raising fundamental questions about how architecture might behave in the future. Read the entire page →
From page 402... ... The work is a collaboration among Katy Börner, Professor of Engineering and Information Science at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University (IU) and Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center; Norbert Herber, IU Department of Telecommunications senior lecturer and sound artist and musician; and Ying-Fang Shen, an artist and Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Read the entire page →
From page 403... ... piezoelectric crystals. When the machine is turned on, these crystals rapidly vibrate, creating ultrasoundwaves that transform liquids into clouds of tiny droplets that can then be breathed into the mouth and savored through a glass straw. Read the entire page →
From page 404... ... Black Turbulence is a 3D printed necklace by Niccolò Casas and Leyre Valiente. The necklace is part of a two-piece collaboration -- Turbulence and Black Turbulence -- presented at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Madrid in March 2013 and part of the Leyre Valiente collection Malleus Maleficarum. Read the entire page →
From page 405... ... http://www.onotes.com Ken Goldberg, Sanjay Krishnan, and Yiming Jen Internet 2015 Ken Goldberg is an artist, writer, inventor, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation. He is the Craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media at the University of California (UC) Read the entire page →
From page 406... ... Thanks also to JoAnne Northrup and Catharine Clark and Rick Rinehart for insights and Richard Allen, Doug Neuhouser, and Peggy Hellweg of the UC Berkeley Seismological Laboratory for the live data feed. http://bloomcanvas.parseapp.com Dan Goods and David Delgado Anthony White -- Technical integration Refraction Theater light, water, custom electronics 2014 Pasadena-based artist and designer Dan Goods is the Visual Strategist for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) Read the entire page →
From page 407... ... candidate; Department of Visualization, Texas A&M University Interactive Conference Roster App and touch screen 2015 A simple mobile app nudges you into making connections with other at tendees. Through play, you map a sentence to a dance, gesture, or motion to be combined with your visual images into a conference avatar. Read the entire page →
From page 408... ... She left the Dance Exchange in 2011 and now works as an independent artist. From a piece about her days as a go-go dancer into a recent investigation of origins that included putting dancers in the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, she has spent the past four decades making her artistic research personal, funny, intellectually vivid, and up to the minute. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to various publics from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and outcomes that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others. Read the entire page →
From page 409... ... During the 2015 Futures Conference, and in collaboration with the Beckman Center culinary staff, Metcalfe raised awareness of the food we eat through a "food tracking" exercise. Attendees made hypotheses about the origins of each ingredient in the food on their plates -- inspiring a deeper understanding of how science and art, culture and technology, and history and innovation are necessary to feed the world. Read the entire page →
From page 410... ... researcher Hassan the continent completely Basagic downloading data from a weather station on Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. devoid of terrestrial vegCredit: Andrea Polli. Read the entire page →
From page 411... ... He creates transdisciplinary artworks inspired from his ecological field and laboratory research. Since 1996, a central investigation focus has been the occurrence of developmental deformities and population declines among amphibians. Read the entire page →
From page 412... ... Archival ink jet print 2016 Permanent collection of the National Academy of Sciences Documentary photograph on display in the Atrium Sentient Chamber was an interactive installation on view at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, from November 2015 through May 2016. This experimental cross-disciplinary work drew from ideas about next-generation lightweight structures, in teractive distributed com putation, and synthetic bi ology to imagine a possible future of architecture. Read the entire page →
From page 413... ... These population explosions -- what are known as blooms -- cause wide-scale destruction of human systems by clogging power plants, capsizing fishing boats, and decimating fish populations. Their ability to thrive where other species are struggling also means that jellyfish routinely obliterate fragile ecosystems by causing dead zones and a lack of dissolved oxygen underwater. Read the entire page →
From page 414... ... Dion is a contemporary artist whose work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. He has received numerous awards, including the ninth annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award (2001) Read the entire page →
From page 415... ... On a diet of animal plankton, small fish, and other jellies, the lion's mane jelly grows quickly, reaching its adult size in less than 1 year. This photograph is from Spineless, Susan Middleton's series exploring the mysterious and surprising world of marine invertebrates, which repre- Lion's Mane Jelly from the series Spineless. Read the entire page →

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... As part of a commitment to creating a memorable experience -- and to inspire creative problem solving, collaboration, and innovation -- in 2015 NAKFI for the first time introduced a variety of exhibitions, installations, and events that reflected the spirit of the gathering called Creative Engagements. From the moment attendees arrived at the Beckman Center, they were exposed to experiences that defined the space as a place where something special would happen.

Appendix VIII: Creative Engagements Pages 399-416

Appendix VIII: Creative Engagements
Pages 399-416