Challenge 7 - Nanotechnology and Culture

• On Wednesday, November 14, I will be at the ICT attending their first anniversary event.
• Your challenge for Wednesday, November 14, will be to attend the 9/11 - N2N Conference session on Nanotechnology and Culture.
• It takes place from 9 'til noon in the UCLA, Design | Media Arts EDA (Experimental Digital Arts) auditorium.
• This is located on North Campus at 1473 Dickson Art Center, at the northern end of the courtyard.
• If you cannot attend on Wednesday, the conference is also going on Tuesday 9/11 - N2N Conference session on Performance Networks.

Conference panelists have been asked to talk about the events of 9/11 in relationship to their work as digital and computational artists. Some will talk about 9/11; some will talk about their artwork. Either way, many of them will be talking about society, simulations, visualizations and/or games. I would like you to write a critical review of any of the topics raised that you think are relevant to our task of writing computer simulations and models of societal and cultural systems. You may focus on the role of art as a visualizer of social process, as a "subversion" of mainstream culture, and/or as a discoverer, along with scientists, of new social processes and behaviors. Three to five pages of thoughtful written text will probably be fine.

Go to the conference, listen, talk, discuss, enjoy and then report back...