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# the League of Imaginary Scientists

the League of Imaginary Scientists

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- [launchpad](http://imaginaryscience.org/) - yes, it's all true. Featured Experiments The Incredible Balancing Act, mechanized Mechanized Eco-Systems, playing with The Evolving Contraption, site-specific at MOCA See All Experiments x & why League experiments Imaginary scientists battle global warming, save the planet, reverse time, return to childhood, engorge themselves on global consumption, and colonize space and sea. Read More all
- [projects](http://imaginaryscience.org/league-experiments/) - experiments abound. the League of Imaginary Scientists concocts interdisciplinary research projects in collaboration with scientists, technologists, and artists engaged in many media. In playful interdisciplinary leaps, the League creates everyday mythologies based on scientific information. As evidenced by the League’s many experiments, imaginary scientists balance scientific inquiry with a healthful dose of fun. Browse by
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- [about LOIS](http://imaginaryscience.org/about/) - about the league LOIS Overview LOIS Doings LOIS Resume Who is The League of Imaginary Scientists? Imaginary98% Science2% LOIS is an inventive research collective of Lucy HG Solomon, Steve Shoffner, Jeremy Speed Schwartz, Matt Solomon, and Leonard Trubia – as well as others pulled into the fray. Drawing on the combined creativity of artists and

## Projects

- [x y z, and u](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/x-y-z-u/) - x, y, z and U Participatory mapping in art and science, including site-specific art and science works in LA: listening to trees, sensing remote toilet flushes, ironing found trash and embroidering territorial borders. related workshops, discussions and community interventions included: Kim Abeles’ open studios at Outpost, where she ironed trash for the construction of a
- [The Incredible Balancing Act, mechanized](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/incredible-balancing-act/) - Step right up and play the go extinct-or-not game! Spin the wheel to destiny. The Incredible Balancing Act went to Balance-Unbalance 2017 in Plymouth, UK. LOIS mainstays made mechanized ecological interactions, along with undergraduate students and artists Kodie Gerritsen and Sarai Silva Carvajal. John Konno collaborated on this one. Contributing conservation researchers, Samia Carrillo-Percastegui and Mathias Tobler,
- [RePangaea, swimming with land masses](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/repangaea/) - REPANGAEA Included in the exhibition, Flat Earth, at Ship in the Woods in Escondido, CA, in 2016. RePangaea is a pool-based interactive piece that invites viewers to recreate Pangaea with floating continents. This interactive sculptural installation allows visitors to engage in their immediate environment while contemplating a changing planet, taking the very long view. As
- [The Childhood Machine](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/childhood-machine/) - A bicycle-driven megamedia contraption for returning to childhood and reversing civilization, in Trondheim, Norway. Exhibitions: Babel Art Space in Norway in 2007; re.sonance.007 festival, and for Prototipi Manzoni in Milan in 2008. The Childhood Machine, which premiered at Babel Art Space in collaboration with imaginary scientists and the city of Trondheim, is an interactive kinetic
- [The Evolving Contraption, site-specific at MOCA](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/evolving-contraption/) - The Evolving Contraption at MOCA in Los Angeles launched a land art campaign to save worms and study wormholes and supplied portals into genomic science at MIT and artists' studios. As the Automatoggler, the contraption morphed into mechanized structures for participatory art, sound and universe pondering. LOIS recalls the organ that viewers played to the
- [The Zephyr Experiment, also at MOCA](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/zephyr-experiment/) - The League of Imaginary Scientists flies and/or does research at MOCA in LA. The Zephyr Experiment floated some boats but mostly explored flight in all ways – including an interactive flying station, winged additions to your museum experience, and – YES – the launch of the world’s largest (known) paper airplane.
- [Lovely Weather, in Mars and Ireland](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/lovely-weather/) - exploratory climate art expedition LOIS at Scoil Naomh Bhride LOIS went aboard The Irish Rover to study Mars, on Ireland. With samples of rock and ocean water from Mulroy Bay, the waters near Island Roy, their study parallels the Mars rovers’ sampling of the aerology of that planet and poses the inverse question of NASA’s mission. The
- [Vague Notations, or Please Befigulate](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/vague-notions/) - Edible and editable pie charts, and the images overlaid atop them... LOIS in conversation with FICTILIS and friends at Interface Gallery in Oakland LOIS examines the future of humanity within the layered context of pie charts and edible pies. In a cross-California visual conversation filled with friendly crossfire, LOIS exchanges information and ideas with FICTILIS
- [The Conversation Contraption](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/conversation-contraption/) - View Project Website The Conversation Contraption is a micro-festival of circuitous communication, featuring the League’s artists and collaborators as they rewire and reinterpret conversation. Based on the work they developed while in residency at the Casula Powerhouse, the League of Imaginary Scientists and Tasmanian intercommunications artist Pip Stafford – Professor Swift, in collaboration with local and remote interlocutors, present The Conversation
- [The Social Cinema Machine](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/social-cinema-machine/) - The Social Cinema Machine, in collaboration with Sundance Institute, at Sundance 2017. View Project Website
- [Evolve You and Evolving Data](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/evolve-you/) - LOIS advances human evolution through hybridization with machines and data. LOIS advances humanity with the Evolve You Machine, which pushes participants into a technological hybrid self with the help of visual gymnastics and gear spinning. Exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. LOIS likewise encourages the adaptation of the human sensory system
- [Mechanized Eco-Systems, playing with](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/mechanized-eco-systems/) - Communicating with nature starts close to home, in a gallery. Above you encounter a viewer’s playful exploration of the rainbow-generating plant sculpture and Dr. Schleidan’s demonstration of Leavesdropping. Exhibited at Ship in the Woods in Escondido, California. Rainbow-making with the League’s Sensitive Touch Plant Rainbow Generator at Ship in the Woods required one touch the leaves
- [Rebuilding Rome, global bike tour](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/rebuilding-rome/) - mobile timeline A city-building project in collaboration with psychogeographer Liz Kueneke and constructed by Romans everywhere – namely, citizens of places called Rome all over the world who tell their stories of along a bike path in Rome. Part of The Eternal Tour 2008 / art & science festival in Rome, Italy Rebuilding Rome is an adventure through time and
- [Earth, exit this way.](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/earth-exit/) - Exhibited in the Vision LA – Climate Action Arts Festival at the Armory Center For the Arts in Pasadena, CA In a multimedia performance intervention, LOIS offers post-Earth therapy for the ultimate form of separation anxiety. The art and science collective takes on the foremost global warming malady – one person at a time. You think you’ve got receding
- [Pianissimo, climate duets by roly polies and human players](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/pianissimo/) - Viewers interact with a nature responsive to human input/output. The roly-poly piano is tuned to reflect changes to Earth’s global mean surface temperature. Together, the human viewer and the roly-poly play a melody with notes tuned to reveal Earth’s temperature shift over the past decades. Apart from musical performance as a type of play, the piece
- [Balancing Act, exhibition and workshops](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/balancing-act/) - The Incredible Balancing Act at McNish Gallery at Oxnard College A series of objects inviting interaction and the contemplation of planetary balance and imbalance. Balance in a time of ecological imbalance has become an essential theme for an art collective that embraces the participation of viewers and shifts their role from one of onlooker to one
- [Meta-Physical](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/metaphysical/) - The exhibition of Meta-Physical presents a trial study of verbal narcotics by the League of Imaginary Scientists. Exhibited with NewTown’s Medical Arts at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California in 2007 and as part of Prototipi Manzoni at the atrium of the Teatro Manzoni in Milan, Italy in 2008. Verbal Narcotics and Meta-physicals consisted of the League’s rewriting of
- [Postcards from the Anthropocene](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/hello-from-here/) - Exhibited in Postcards for the Anthropocene in Edinburgh in summer 2017. We posted these to extinct California coastal species. Haven't heard back.
- [The Grafting Parlour, communicating with plants](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/grafting-parlour/) - Synthetic bioworks: including green light bulbs, build-your-own bacteria sculptures, and micro-rainbow generators. Rainbow Generator for The Grafting Parlour: interacting with the plant generates an animation of a plant growing and - yes - a rainbow! The League's Dr. Gomez is a Grafting Parlour collaborator, with artists Kelly Jaclynn Andres, Nurit Bar-Shai, Saoirse Higgins, and Antti Tenetz. The Grafting
- [Blazar! inside a black hole](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/blazar/) - A study on matter and meaning; presented as an interactive participatory performance utilizing the League of Imaginary Scientists’ dupliporter for teleporting objects to a black hole. Overall, Blazar! suggests the enormity of that which does not contain matter. The dupliporter provides a teleportation portal into a black hole, where a driven scientist conducts research in semi-obscurity… to a
- [Petri dishes and an expanding universe](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/petri-dishes-universe/) - Combining art, science, and digital media to examine our universe. The remote broadcast of specimens in Dr. Natalie Kuldell’s Synthetic Biology laboratory at MIT is navigable alongside the stellar universe. For this collaboration, LOIS developed a method for observing specimens in Dr. Natalie Kuldell’s laboratory remotely. Peering in at Petri dishes in the lab from California, we
- [Entropy Engineering, earthquakes and tennis balls](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/entropy-engineering/) - The League of Imaginary Scientists collaborated with the departments of Engineering and Art at Bradley University to create an interactive mechanized model of earthquakes and entropy. Earthquakes and Entropy at Bradley University Galvanized by Dr. David Zietlow in Mechanical Engineering and his quest for the perfect model of entropy, The League of Imaginary Scientists has initiated
- [Waterways: human actions and prefab glaciers](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/waterways/) - A collaboration between US-based artists and scientists and Scandinavian choreographers, who fuse methods from chemistry, architecture, media, music and movement. Waterways is a collaborative research endeavor and residency, with research nodes enacted as public actions surrounding the theme of water in Brooklyn. Among the actions and performances of Waterways is the human enactment of a melting
- [Dream Assemblyline](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/dream/) - manual for lost dreams Interactive dream construction in collaboration with the city of Tábor, at CESTA in the Czech Republic; interactive assembly line and performance installation by LOIS and collaborating artists and dreamers. The interactive dream assembly line is a participatory fill-in-your-dream production of participants’ dreams. Residents of Tábor narrated their dreams, which were analyzed via
- [Really Real Estate: let's move campaign](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/really-real/) - time to move The Let’s Move campaign uses infographics to describe social and environmental conditions leading to The League of Imaginary Scientists’ push to relocate to another planet! Really Real Estate a real estate venture bioneered by the League of Imaginary Scientists. With stickers, tape, and paper, the League unveils their timely solution to an ecologically damaged and
- [Live Diagram of the Human Condition](http://imaginaryscience.org/project/live-diagram/) - Interactive performance developed by the League, with movement by paige starling sorvillo of dance company Blindsight and sound by George Cremaschi and live drawing by Misato Suzuki and Anne Chao. Performance at MilkBar 2007 Interanational Live Film Festival Eating words and swallowing clouds, starling sorvillo brings her lexicon of animated gestures and

## Skills

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