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LASER Talks in Los Angeles

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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.

CHAIR: Victoria Vesna

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous
[LASER] speakers:
 

Jennifer Moon is a conceptual and life artist based in Los Angeles, whose interdisciplinary work focuses on self-empowerment through a movement she calls "The Revolution". Moon blends queer science, self-help, fantasy, and the deeply personal in performances, videos, writing, and sculpture to share their unconventional vision with the world.

 Moon published two books in 2012 as part of and exhibition at Commonwealth and Council, a Los Angeles art exhibition space: Principle 1 of The Revolution Definition of Abundance (2012) and and Where I Learned of Love (2012). As part of their contribution to the 2014 iteration of the Hammer Museum's Made in LA Biennial exhibition, Moon published The Book of Eros (2014).
 
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian is a writer, artist, and researcher born in Yerevan, Armenia and residing in Los Angeles. Her work is concentrated in media studies, visual culture, performance, contemporary art, and diaspora studies. Firunts Hakopian holds a PhD in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania, with a Graduate Certificate in Cinema and Media Studies. With Avi Alpert and Danny Snelson, she makes up one-third of Research Service, an academic media collective that pursues performative and practice-based forms of scholarship. Firunts Hakopian also serves as a Contributing Editor to ASAP/J, and the co-editor of Present Tense Pamphlets, a hybrid digital and print publishing platform for score-based performance, released through Northwestern University and the Block Museum of Art.
 
Lauren Lee McCarthy is an LA-based artist examining social relationships in the midst of surveillance, automation, and algorithmic living. She is the creator of p5.js, an open source JavaScript platform that aims to make creative expression and coding on the web accessible and inclusive for artists, designers, educators, and beginners. She is Co-Director of the Processing Foundation, a non-profit whose mission is to promote software literacy within the visual arts, and visual literacy within technology-related fields—and to make these fields accessible to diverse communities. She is an Associate Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts.
 

Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey who currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is an alumni, lecturer, and visiting researcher in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.

Anadol is working in the fields of site-specific public art with parametric data sculpture approach and live audio/visual performance with immersive installation approach, particularly his works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts with machine intelligence.

 

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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. 

For most up to date information on Los Angeles LASER Talks visit the UCLA Art | Sci Center LASER Page.

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
January 9th, 2020 from  5:00 PM to  7:00 PM
Location
CSNI
570 Westwood Plaza, Building 114, 5th floor
Presentation Space, CNSI (SOUTH)
Hybrid / Los Angeles, CA 90095
United States
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