Leonardo Calendar of Upcoming Events
(see also the list of past events)
- Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 5 June 2013, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
- Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 6 June 2013, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
5 June 2013
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
UC Berkeley
Room 110, Barrows Hall
Berkeley, CA
LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Art Department, Arizona State University Art Museum, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm-7:25pm: Indre Viskontas on "Music that Moves: the art and neuroscience of effective performance"
We are constantly bombarded by a cacophony of sounds and yet music still has the power to influence us, often outside our awareness.
7:25-7:50pm: Robert Buelteman (Photographer) on "Photography Without the Camera"
The application of high-voltage electrical currents and hand-delivered fiber optic light can create fine-art photographs of living plants through a creative process inspired by Japanese ink-brush painting and improvisational jazz
7:50-8:10: BREAK
Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work. Please present your work as a teaser so that those who are interested can seek you out during social time following the event.
8:10-8:35pm: Jennifer Dionne (Stanford Univ) on "Lights, Nano, Action!"
Imagine a world where cancer is cured with light, objects can be made invisible, and teleportation is allowed through space and time.
8:35pm-9:00pm: Vijaya Nagarajan (USF Hinduist Studies) on "Embedded Mathematics in Women's Ritual Art Designs in Southern India"
The kolam and the key ideas embedded within this ephemeral ritual.
Find out more about the LASER series
6 June 2013
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Stanford University
Room 320-105
Geology Corner, Braun Hall
Palo Alto, CA
LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Art Department, Arizona State University Art Museum, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Walter Kitundu (Sound artist) on "The Turntable as a Lens"
Records are sonic archives and they naturally reference the past. They are also objects that encourage a conversation with materials and movement. The turntable becomes a lens through which one can view the world...
7:25-7:50pm: Sean Gourley (Quid) on "A Global Intelligence Platform: the new AI - not Artificial Intelligence, but instead Augmented Intelligence"
How to augment our intelligence as algorithms take over the world.
7:50-8:10: BREAK
Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work. Please present your work as a teaser so that those who are interested can seek you out during social time following the event.
8:10-8:35pm: Jeremy Mende (Designer) and Bill Hsu (San Francisco State University) on "Confrontational Strategies - The Social Mirror"
Two recent art installations use different approaches to the idea of the social mirror....
8:35pm-9:00pm: Melanie Swan on "Natural Aesthetics: GenArt, BioArt, Biomimicry, SynBio, CrowdArt"
The arts and technology are coming together in exciting ways in contemporary society...
Find out more about the LASER series
Updated 20 May 2013
