Dr. Martin E. Rosenberg

Male

Pittsburgh, PA

United States

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Pittsburgh Connection
Mt. Lebanon resident for almost 7 years.
Favorite Pittsburgh musicians/performers
Ken Karsh, Nelson Harrison, Eric Kloss, Howie Alexander, Marva Josie, George Benson, Jimmy Ponder, Dwayne Dolphin, Eric Suseoff, Tony DePaolis, Dave Throckmorton, Alex Peck, Roby Supersax Edwards, Paul Thompson, Sean Jones...and I'm just getting to know Pittsburgh and its rich jazz heritage!
Favorite Jazz Radio or media station
wduq
Favorite Pittsburgh Jazz Venue
Manchester Craftsman's Guild
About Me:
I am an independent scholar and former professional jazz guitarist living in the Pittsburgh area for almost 7 years. I am currently trying to get back in shape musically, taking lessons from Jimmy Ponder on the blues and its abstract truth, and Eric Suseoff on guitar technique and contemporary chord-scale keyboard cognition, to retrieve and hopefully surpass where I was musically in the late 1970's.
Here are some of my interests:
Research on Science, Technology and Culture: Complexity Theory in physics and cognitive science, Visual Art, Music, Literature, Philosophy and Politics: Poincare and Bergson, Duchamp and the emergence of emergence; Duchamp and Dada; the History of Jazz; Jazz and cognition; Chess and Go; the scientific epistemological foundations of fascism; Thomas Pynchon; Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard; Kiki Smith, Arakawa and Gins, Pilobolus, The Pulsa Group, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari; Henri Atlan & Ilya Prigogine, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, Jean Petitot, and Edwin Hutchins. Here is a NSF Conference website with samples of my published work:
http://bart.tcc.virginia.edu/tradzoneworkshop/papers.htm
Here is a video-taped lecture on the metaphor of jazz in cognitive and computer science (and the relationship between embodied and distributed cognition) from the same conference:
http://www.sts.virginia.edu/small/ZebuErisCthrag/rosenberg.mov
I have had as well a sideline in Hypermedia, HCI and Interaction-Design.
You can see a list of publications, including articles translated into Spanish and Portuguese, at:
http://www.interaction-design.org/references/authors/martin_e__rose...
You can listen to an audio file of a lecture on the mathematics of phase space, contemporary cognitive science, and the avant-garde architecture of Arakawa and Gins, that I gave for the Slought Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania, April 5, 2008:
http://slought.org/content/11366/ .

With Jondi Keane of Griffith University, Brisbane AU, I co-directed AG3-Online: The Third International Arakawa and Gins: Architecture and Philosophy Conference, which ran from March 12-26, 2010 with concluding celebrations at Barnard College April 30, and at
The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, May 1, where Martin gave the inaugural keynote.
See the conference website:
http://ag3.griffith.edu.au

Martin has given a number of invited lectures and conference plenaries internationally, including: Universidade de Sao Paolo (1999 and 2000); University of Bergen, Norway (1998); Trent University Ontario CA, (2005); University of Cologne, Germany (2009); University of Warwick, GB (1994); Free University of Brussels--Flemish (2000); The Sense Lab, Concordia University, Montreal (2010); as well as in the US, at Harvard University (1999); Texas Tech University (2X) (1998 and 2001); Center for Nano-Technology and Society and the NSF, ASU (2006); Arlington Arts Center DC (2010); Slought Foundation, U. Pennsylvania (2008); and many other places. You can discover more on my scholarship at: http://independent.academia.edu/martinerosenberg
Website:
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  • Monica Chapman,jazz vocalist

    Hi Dr. Rosenberg,

    Thank you for the kind words. I will be interviewd on www.indieshowcase.net this Tues. Dec. 15th at 9p.m.(Toronto,ON. time) about my CD and will feature my music if you have a chance to listen. Thanks for your friendship.Happy Holidays, All my best,Monica.

    Dec 14, 2009

  • Barbara Ray

    Thank you, it is my pleasure - indeed. I'm off on a journey - not knowing where it will lead me, you know?

    All I know is I love performing it's in my soul. (smile).

    My motto for today is: Claim it, believe it and act on it.

    Have a blessed day.

    Barb

    Mar 6, 2010

  • Mara Rosenbloom

    Dr. Rosenberg,

    Thanks for writing. Wow - I would love to hear more about your work (in addition to your music of course). I hope we will have the opportunity to meet in person on April 14 during our show at the Shadow Lounge. Please do introduce yourself! ~Mara

    Apr 5, 2010