LASER Talks in Pasadena | Leonardo/ISASTwith Arizona State University

LASER Talks in Pasadena

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.


CHAIRS: Stephen Nowlin and Robert Crouch

Description

Grab some refreshments and join an avid audience of curious participants in the art-science dialogue, and speakers sharing their art/science/technology/media explorations and adventures in short 12-15-minute bursts -- followed by a reception in the Williamson Gallery's MOONS exhibit. LASER Pasadena: Wunderkammer is a part of the 2018 AxS Festival, organized by Fulcrum Arts.

 

Totally free, but seating limited to 50 -- so RSVP (Register) today @ http://LASERpasadena.eventbrite.com

 

Speakers include:

 

Lia Halloran

Lia Halloran is a Los Angeles artist whose paintings and cyanotypes explore the history, epistemology, and social dimensions of science and astronomy. Halloran received her BFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. She is currently working on a book with physicist Kip Thorne about the Warped Side of the Universe with Thorne's poetry and her paintings. In 2016 Halloran was awarded an Art Works Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts for the project Your Body is a Space that Sees. Halloran is Assistant Professor of Art and Director of the Painting and Drawing Department at Chapman University in Orange, CA, where she teaches painting as well as courses that explore the intersection of art and science.

 

Daniel Lewis

Daniel Lewis is a scholar, author, and Dibner Senior Curator of the History of Science and Technology at The Huntington Library. His award-winning exhibition Beautiful Science: Ideas that Changed the World, is on permanent display in the Huntington’s Dibner Hall. Lewis received his MA and PhD from the University of California, Riverside. His latest book Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai'i, is an environmental history of extinction and survival among the Hawaiian avifauna, told in just four species; it questions notions of purity among humans and animals. His new book project is a global history of biodiversity. Lewis holds a faculty appointment in Environmental History at Caltech, and is an associate research professor at Claremont Graduate University.

 

Cynthia Hunt

Cynthia Hunt is Social Media Strategist for the Carnegie Institution for Science. She is based at the campus of Carnegie Observatories, the Carnegie Institution's astronomy department. Hunt received her PhD in Materials Science from Caltech, and AB in Physics from the University of Chicago. She is Chair of the Carnegie Observatories History Committee and oversees their archives, including the second-largest single-institution astronomical photographic plate collection in the United States. Included among the collection are many plates taken by astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory, about which Hunt wrote in her article "These Astronomical Glass Plates Made History," for Nautilus magazine (2016). A frequent public speaker, Hunt has delivered talks and presentations on the history of Mount Wilson and George Ellery Hale. In 2015/16 she launched a suite of social media channels and a quarterly digital newsletter for the Carnegie Observatories.

 

Steve Roden (performance)

Visual and sound artist Steve Roden will perform a 12-minute musical piece in the Williamson Gallery based on his musical score "when stars become words", three pages of which are exhibited in the gallery's MOONS exhibit. Roden is a Los Angeles artist living in Pasadena whose work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, text and performance. Roden devises systems from musical scores, words, maps, printed cards and papers and uses them to create visual and sound artworks. He has performed his soundworks at various arts spaces and experimental music festivals worldwide including: Serpentine Gallery London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, DCA Dundee Scotland, Redcat Los Angeles, Crawford Gallery Cork Ireland, as well as performance tours of Brazil and Japan. Roden studied at Parsons Paris, received his BFA at Otis/Parsons in Los Angeles, and his MFA at ArtCenter, Pasadena.

 

Peter Collopy

Peter Collopy is University Archivist and Head, Special Collections, at California Institute of Technology. Collopy received a BA in history at Oberlin College and a MA and PhD in history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2015-17 he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Digital Humanities Program at the University of Southern California. His research project, “The Revolution Will Be Videotaped,” is on the networks of people and institutions — from artists to psychotherapists to members of the Black Panther Party — that emerged around the new technologies of portable video recording and video synthesis in the 1960s and early 1970s. It is in dialogue with scholarship not only in history of science, technology, and medicine, but also in media studies, communications, art history, and the history of the counterculture and New Left. He also studies how evolutionary theories have been invoked in religious and political discourses.

 

MOONS Exhibit Reception

Bring your wine glass and join curator Stephen Nowlin, miscellaneous MOONS artists, LASER speakers and guests in the Williamson Gallery for casual conversation and socializing. Ponder artworks and artifacts by the artists and sources contributing to MOONS: Alternative Moons (Nadine Schlieper & Robert Pufleb), Carnegie Observatories, Caltech Archives, Kevin M. Gill (JPL), James Griffith, Tim Hawkinson, The Huntington Library, Melanie King, Sarah Perry, Steve Roden, Karley Sullivan, Penelope Umbrico, Mount Wilson Observatory and Jacqueline Woods. Says Nowlin, "Celestial bodies tethered by orbital physics to our solar system’s planets, commonly known as moons, comprise a consortium of enticing worlds that are rocky, wet, icy, cratered, hot, cold, and puzzling, with veneers textured by mountains, lakes, concealed oceans, valleys, volcanoes, geysers, canyons, and plains. Such objects lead us to both the poetics and the disruptions ignited by an age-old urge to ponder reality beyond the single planet in which we are cradled."

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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.

When
November 5th, 2018 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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