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"Carbon versus Silicon : Thinking Small/Thinking Fast" : [agenda]

File consists of an agenda for the summit on nanotechnology, which was held August 7-10, 2003. The program description reads: "Nanotechnology researchers intervene at the level of carbon, shifting fundamental building blocks of matter at the atomic and molecular levels. Computer science and digital media intervene into the virtual, working with non-physical matter. If the digital revolution brought a new era, then the nanotechnology revolution heralds even more change. For one thing, it returns us to our bodies, to technologies that are literally below and on the skin.

Nanotechnology R&D is opening up vast new horizons in material sciences, medicine, biotechnology, genomics, and manufacturing, as well as computing, information and communications technology. Where do the fields of silicon and carbon overlap? Where do they conflict in concept and methodology? Both fields have the challenge of representing abstract concepts and processes that cannot be seen. What social and cultural tools do we need to understand these shifts? How can artists and designers from the physical and digital domain participate in the carbon revolution? How can we imagine new applications for these new materials, in wearables, architecture?

As humans, we have struggled with the limits of the speed of light, the vastness of the universe, the accelerated pace of digital technologies, and now with the expansion of the world inward, to a minuteness and complexity of scale difficult to imagine. How can we approach the responsibility to the unseen; what are the ethics of intervention? Digital media and cultural knowledge may allow us to ride the early waves of this tsunami.

This atom-breaking summit brought together nanotechnology researchers, members of the National Institute for Nanotechnology, applications designers, ICT researchers, social scientists and humanists, science fiction writers, new media artists, fashion designers, choreographers, architects, and designers to discuss these questions."

Clara Dolhagary interview

Interview of Clara Dolhagary (née Gagnon) conducted by Arlene Borgstede. File consists of register, consent form, interview notes, and transcript. Also included is the audio cassette recording of the interview.

Clara Terrault interview

Interview of Clara Terrault (née Brennais) conducted by Ruth Horne. File consists of register, consent form, donation form, handwritten interview notes, and transcript. Also included is the audio cassette recording of the interview.

Competition guide

File consists of a guide to the 1983 Banff International String Quartet Competition, which includes biographical information on the jury members and participating quartets, as well as Michael Vann and Harry Somers.

"Creative Content and New Media Research" : [report by Sara Diamond]

File consists of two reports, one is titled "Creative Content and New Media Research at The Banff Centre for the Arts", and contains information relating to the New Media research projects, projects, partners, and other information. As well as a draft copy of a report outlining phase two of New Media research at The Banff Centre.

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