A personal experience from the early beginnings of this art (1969/70)
In 1969, in collaboration with the well known Concrete Artist Waldemar Cordeiro I was involved in a very interesting and rich experience in Digital Art that was at once recognized by international experts as innovative and is up to theese days widely cited. I intend to talk about our collaboration, its receptivity by artists in general and the computer art community, and its relation with art, science and technology. The results were considered innovative in the area of visualcommunication since it is considered as one of the first examples of image processinga a new level and nowadays is widely used in visual communication in TV and images presented for laisure and entertainment and marketing. The wok is also considered a precursor of now widely used instruments for extracting/enhancing important informations hidden in scientific, medical, natureand other images, helping in understanding their possible important messages. Another importand aspect of this collaboration has been noted as an example of the potenciality of the collaboration of specialist of different areas, that succede in talking with each other, in finding innovative approaches in areas previously unexplored.
Invitee: Giorgio Moscati
MINI CURRICULUM
Giorgio Moscati graduated in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (1957) and Physics (1959) at University of São Paulo (USP). Obtained the PhD degree at USP in 1962. Was professor of physics at USP from 1958 to 1975 and full professor since 1975. From 1958 until 1979 at the Physics Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters FFCL.
At the beginning of 1970 was nominated Pro Tempore Director of the newly created Institute of Physics of USPÍFUSP, at the time of the University Reorganization, being responsible for Implantation if IFUSP. Was head of the Experimental Physics Department of IFUSP in various occasions; deputy director of the Astronomy and Geophysics Institute of USP from 1979 to 1982;
Research Associate at Physics Department of the University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign Campus (USA) from 1963 to 1966 (Fulbright travel Grant recipient); Visiting Researcher (as a recipient of the first British Council “Queen Scholarship” (for Brazil) at the University of Liverpool (UK) from 1970 to 1971; coordinator of the Exact Science Division of the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) from 1981 to 1983;
Director of Scientific and Industrial Metrology at the Brazilian National Institute for Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO) from 1990 to 1991; Brazilian Member of the International Committee for Weights and Measures CIPM (18 member Governing Board of the Meter Convention), in Paris (France) from 1995 to 2007, being its Vice-President from 2002 to 2007, and President of the Consultative Committee for Ionizing Radiation (CCRI/CIPM) from 1995 to 2007.
Where?
Jacy Monteiro Room at IME-USP
- Date
- May 19th, 2011 at 16h