CHAIRS: Craig Hobbs, Andrew Blanton, and Dr. Michael Kaufman

Join SJSU's CADRE Media Lab on Thursday, April 26th for talks by:

Tiare Ribeaux
http://www.tiareribeaux.com/
Tiare Ribeaux is a Hawaiian-American new media artist whose work explores the entanglements of human technologies and infrastructures with mythologies, the environment, and non-human species. Her work seeks to promote conversation around media ecologies, speculative futures, and multi-species collaborations.

Mark Marley
https://www.nasa.gov/ames/ocs/scientific-awards/ames-associate-fellow/mark-marley
Mark Marley is a Research Scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center. He specializes in the study of the atmosphere­­s of giant planets and brown dwarfs and has published over 170 refereed papers in these fields. He received his B.S. from Caltech and his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, both in Planetary Science. He has twice been awarded the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.

Lark Buckingham
https://larkvcr.com/
Lark VCR works in video, installation, interactive media, critical design, and performance. VCR stands for Virtually Conflicted Reality. A common thread in her work is multiplicity of meaning and experience in an increasingly digitized world — many projects explore the personal, political, and social implications of the dissolving boundary between body and machine. Using humor within a critical queer framework, Lark tackles subject matter as diverse as biofeedback, data privacy, oceanic myth, sexual violence culture, virtual trauma, and human-computer desire.

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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 30 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.