Comments on: Visions and Voices

By: Alan Alda Chats With KC Cole - Asymptotia

Alan Alda Chats With KC Cole - Asymptotia — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:13:11 +0000

[...] KC’s always so good at steering these conversations, so while I’ve no idea what they’ll be talking about in this Visions and Voices event, I’m sure it’ll be interesting indeed, covering science, the arts, and more. [...]

By: Drawing Room - Asymptotia

Drawing Room - Asymptotia — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:34:13 +0000

[...] I like this idea a lot, not the least because I suggested something like this for a Visions and Voices event not so long ago. I will try to find a good excuse to do this sometime as an event. The difference is that I want it a live event - with both scientists and artists drawing together. Yeah, I know. I’m a dreamer. [...]

By: Point of View, II - The Event - Asymptotia

Point of View, II - The Event - Asymptotia — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:59:07 +0000

[...] Well, I will admit that while I enjoyed helping make these events possible, I’m glad it is all over, because I am exhausted. It ended on a very high note, and the four events overall really fulfilled my vision of how they could contribute to the Provost’s whole Arts and Humanities (Visions and Voices) idea. I must remember to buy K C Cole a large helping of her favourite drink as thanks for collaborating with me to bring her Categorically Not! concept to USC. It was just great. [...]

By: Point of View, II - Asymptotia

Point of View, II - Asymptotia — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:23:58 +0000

[...] The second of the Point of View campus events in the Visions and Voices series is on Thursday. It is at 7:00pm at the Gin Wong conference center (which is near Fine Arts and Architecture, by the way.) See the bottom of this post for some earlier events of this type, and this post for the background on Visions and Voices. [...]

By: Point of View, I - Asymptotia

Point of View, I - Asymptotia — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:54:16 +0000

[...] Tomorrow sees the next in the series of events here on the USC campus that science writer KC Cole and I have arranged. They’re in the style of the Categorically Not! events I tell you about from time to time (held each month over at the Santa Monica Art Studios) but are over on the USC campus instead, as part of the Provost’s Visions and Voices events. You can read more in the links at the end of this post. [...]

By: Steve Reich in the Afternoon - Asymptotia

Steve Reich in the Afternoon - Asymptotia — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:02:10 +0000

[...] You get the idea. Various ensembles of musicians from USC’s Thornton School of Music will be performing some of his compositions. It should be a great evening indeed. This is certainly potentially one of the highlights of the year’s Visions and Voices program. [...]

By: Mathematics and Music - Asymptotia

Mathematics and Music - Asymptotia — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:06:51 +0000

[...] On Wednesday there’ll be an evening event about Mathematics and Music here at USC. It is part of the Visions and Voices programme I’ve talked about before. The presenter/performer will be Elaine Chew, whose research is at the intersection of engineering and music. Read more about the event here. It’s free! You can find out more about Professor Chew from her website here. [...]

By: More Uncertainty - Asymptotia

More Uncertainty - Asymptotia — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:52:09 +0000

[...] Well it is time for the second one in the series. Recall that it is part of the Provost’s Visions and Voices series, which has been running since August, with a huge program of events of all sorts. [...]

By: Go Figure - Asymptotia

Go Figure - Asymptotia — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:28:37 +0000

[...] So I think maybe I died and went to cvj heaven. Let me explain. I mentioned to you a while ago the freshman seminar entitled “The Art and Science of Seeing and the Seeing and Science of Art”, for which there was an enrollment snafu. Well, it is continuing, and on Wednesday afternoons, I sit under the trees with two students for an hour and a half (KC Cole pulled out, since it would be a ridiculous professor-student ratio otherwise) and talk about a huge spectrum of things that fall into this category, as well as some of the things that come up in the Visions and Voices series. [...]

By: A University of Wonderful Things - Asymptotia

A University of Wonderful Things - Asymptotia — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:01:27 +0000

[...] So, beyond the exciting Visions and Voices events I told you about, there’ll be even more interesting events and talks on campus as a result, no doubt. Here’s one already. Excellent. If only I had more hours in the day… [...]

By: The Stampede - Asymptotia

The Stampede - Asymptotia — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:26:37 +0000

[...] So this semester, at the request/suggestion of the people who bring USC freshmen the Freshman Seminars, KC Cole and I started a new course. Turned out we were brought in to replace another professor who was originally billed to do what looks to be an Art appreciation course. Looked good. The title was “The Art of Seeing and the Seeing of Art”. For whatever reason, that professor was no longer doing it, and relatively late in the day we were asked if we wanted to do a seminar, and it would be one of two freshman seminars that meets from 2:00-3:50 (or so) each Wednesday afternoon and deliberately engages with the events of the Visions and Voices programme. (See earlier blog post about that programme.) [...]

By: The Uncertainty Event - Asymptotia

The Uncertainty Event - Asymptotia — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:18:48 +0000

[...] The audience was exactly what I’d dreamed of -or more appropriately, what the Provost had conjured up when he pitched the Arts and Humanities Initiative to all of us (see my earlier posts for extracts of his speech, here and here)- there were students and faculty from from an astonishing cross-section of the numerous schools, departments and programs that one can encounter by tracing a random 20 minute path through the campus on foot. I’m lucky enough to know a lot of these people, so it was a pleasure to look into the audience and see faculty, students and other friends from from Physics and Astronomy sitting next to faculty, students and other friends I know from the music school; and behind friends from the English department; right across from friends from political science who in turn were near a students and faculty from the school of theatre, of cinema-television, etc. It was rather like happens when you invite friends from lots of different cicles to all come together to meet each other at a dinner party at your house. You’re excited since you’ve always wondered what it would be like to bring these people together, but you don’t know how it is going to turn out….but you’re sure it will be interesting. And maybe that’s enough to make it worthwhile. [...]

By: Uncertainty - Asymptotia

Uncertainty - Asymptotia — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:50:13 +0000

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By: Categorically Not! - Uncertainty (Revisited) | Cosmic Variance

Categorically Not! - Uncertainty (Revisited) | Cosmic Variance — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 00:42:35 +0000

[...] This is it. There is a series of wonderful events going on throughout the year on the USC campus - the embodiment of our new Provost’s “Arts and Humanities Initiative”. It is called “Visions and Voices”, and I’ll tell you more about it on Asymptotia. Our program within that larger program is not called Categorically Not! but “Science and Serendipity”. Anyway more on that elsewhere. [...]