Phila. Future Salon Thurs. July 12, 6-8 PM
LaBlogga
A quick reminder that the next Future Salon is not tonight but next
Thursday with Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger from DinoArt (http://
www.dinoart.com)
regarding the importance of visual representation of animals and
fossils in science, beauty and art and some of the current modern
technology tools such as digital scanning and other technologies.
Thurs. July 12, 6-8 PM
FUTURE SALON SPEAKERS:
Bob Walters
http://www.dinoart.com/artists/robert_walters.html
Bob Walters studied art at the Acadmy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and
has been a professional dinosaur life restoration artist for more than
twenty years with artworks on permanent display in museums across the
country. Bob is working with scientists at the Smithsonian on the
"Virtual Triceratops" project, the first scientific attempt to
discover how Triceratops looked and moved by animating digital scans
of the bones.
Tess Kissinger
http://www.dinoart.com/artists/tess_kissinger.html
Tess Kissinger is a Carnegie Mellon University trained artist with
twenty years of art and design experience including work on display in
the Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga, the Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia, and The Delaware Museum of Natural History,
among others. Tess' current projects include a series of fine art
paintings including the skulls of ceratopsian dinosaurs as subject
material and co-curating two dinosaur artwork exhibits.
LOCATION:
Buchanan Ingersoll
1835 Market Street, 14th Floor
Philadelphia PA 19103
(215) 665-8700
Directions:
http://www.buchananingersoll.com/offices.php?OfficeID=7&page=directions
REGISTRATION: Please email franci...@bipc.com with your name to be
added to the building security list. Please note that you MUST be on
the list to enter the building.
COST: Free and open to the public.
THE SALON:
The Philadelphia Future Salon is part of a nationwide network of
future salons discussing cutting edge science and technology
innovations and their implications http://accelerating.org/futuresalon.html
JOIN OR INVITE OTHERS TO THE EMAIL LIST:
http://groups.google.com/group/PhiladelphiaFutureSalon
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Best regards,
Melanie Swan
Philadelphia Future Salon co-moderator