LASER Talks in Pasadena | Leonardo/ISASTwith Arizona State University

LASER Talks in Pasadena

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LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) is Leonardo/ISAST's international program of evening gatherings that brings artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations.


ArtCenter College of Design/Williamson Gallery

CHAIR: Stephen Nowlin and Robert Crouch

Simon Penny 

is an artist, theorist, curator and professor in the field of Digital Cultural Practices at UC Irvine where he founded the Arts, Computation and Engineering (ACE) graduate program. 

Lita Albuquerque

is an internationally active installation artist, sculptor, and painter acclaimed for her ephemeral and permanent artworks focusing on astronomical relationships and alignments.

Robert Hurt 

is a physicist and member of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) at the California Institute of Technology. Since 2006, he has hosted a video podcast called The Hidden Universe and often speaks on the subject of using new media to communicate science and astronomy.  

Christopher O’Leary 

is a photographer and media artist living in Los Angeles. His current research project Cloud Chambers studies the aesthetics of cosmology through documentary photographs, and algorithmically generated visualizations.

Sarah Rara

Is a Los Angeles-based artist and poet working with video, sound, and performance, whose practice includes a focus on human-technology relationships. Her work in progress is SYZYGY, an astronomical term used to describe objects "yoked to the sun."

Jay Marx

is a Caltech experimental particle physicist who in recent decades has been involved in several of the highest-profile physics projects in the country, and was most recently the executive director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).

SPONSORS

ArtCenter College of Design/Williamson Gallery

 

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LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks is Leonardo's international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations. LASER Talks were founded in 2008 by Bay Area LASER Chair Piero Scaruffi and are in over 20 cities around the world. To learn more about how our LASER Hosts and to visit a LASER near you please visit our website

The mission of the LASERs is to provide the general public with a snapshot of the cultural environment of a region and to foster interdisciplinary networking.

When
November 9th, 2017 from  7:00 PM to  9:00 PM
Location
1700 Lida St
ArtCenter College of Design
Los Angeles
Online / Pasadena, LA, CA 91103
United States
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