LASER Talks in New York City--POSTPONED | Leonardo/ISASTwith Arizona State University

LASER Talks in New York City--POSTPONED

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Dear friends and colleagues, Due to mounting concerns and security precautions related to COVID 19 and due to the fact that two of our speakers for the March 22 event were planning to fly in from outside the NY area, we have decided to cancel our next NY LASER. We will keep you posted on dates for future events when the situation levels out. In the meantime, please be safe and we look forward to seeing you at a future NY LASER event.

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CHAIRS: Ellen Levy and Patricia Olynyk

NY LASER is a series of lectures and presentations on art and science projects, in support of Leonardo/ISAST’s LEAF initiative (Leonardo Education and Art Forum).  Former LEAF Chairs, Ellen K. Levy, former IDSVA Special Advisor in the Arts and Sciences and Patricia Olynyk, Chair, Graduate School of Art, Washington University co-direct these presentations to promote dialogue at the highest level among artists, scientists, scholars, and historians. Space is limited, so please rsvp by sending an email to levy@nyc.rr.com or olynyk@wustl.edu. There will be feature presentations by Nina Czegledy, Thomasz Imielinski, and Piroska Kopar.

 

Nina Czegledy is an independent media artist, curator, and researcher based in Canada, who collaborates on art, science, and technology related projects. Paradigm shifts in the arts involving cross-cultural, intergenerational impact; interdisciplinary practices; and eco-art inform her collaborations. Recent curatorial projects include: Who’s you? in, New Zealand; Leonardo 50th at ARS Electronica, Austria; and Shared Passions, exhibited in Canada and Mexico. Czegledy’s upcoming projects include: Senses and also Cosmos, at the Laznia Contemporary Art Centre, Poland in 2020 and 2024. She has been a member of the Governing Board of Leonardo/ISAST; a board member of Noema Scientific Committee, Bologna Italy; and President of the Critical Media Knowledge Institute, Canada. Czegledy is an Adjunct Professor at OCAD University and a Senior Fellow at the Hungarian University of the Arts in Budapest. She will discuss her latest curatorial project: Agents for Change | Facing the Anthropocene, which features artworks by women media artists who focus on ecological change—the greatest danger of our time.

 

Dr. Tomasz Imielinski is a computer scientist and pioneer in the areas of data mining, mobile computing, data extraction, and search engine technology. He is a professor of computer science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and a recipient of many awards, including: a 2003 SIGMOD Test of Time Award; a 2002 VLDB 10 Year Award; and The 2019 Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award. He is also an author of multiple patents. Imielinski co-founded technology companies that include Connotate Technologies, and Art Data Laboratories, which specializes in big data. Articker, a product of Art Data Laboratories is the largest non-price related database about artists in the world. It automatically collects up to 5000 online articles daily from over 10,000 art related online publications - ranging from New York Times to small audience blogs. Every artist who has been published has an automatically generated dynamic Articker page, with very rich statistics.

 

Dr. Piroska Kopar is a trauma and critical care surgeon and an assistant professor at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis. She studied philosophy at the Great Books Program of St. John’s College and was a Woodruff Fellow at Emory University School of Medicine. She completed her clinical training at Dartmouth and Yale, and an academic fellowship in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School. Kopar directs the Center for Humanism and Ethics in Surgical Specialties (CHESS) at Washington University and serves as the president for the Consortium of Surgical Ethics. She will discuss the bond between patient and physician growing ever more complex with the changing boundaries of what modern medicine makes possible and what our culture’s social contract will allow. Central to this dynamic is a candid examination of where life ends and death begins, and the role of human consciousness in defining the edges between the capabilities of our technology and the art of medicine.

 

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NY LASER is a series of lectures and presentations on art and science projects, in support of Leonardo/ISAST’s LEAF initiative (Leonardo Education and Art Forum). Former LEAF Chairs Ellen K. Levy and Patricia Olynyk co-organize these presentations on behalf of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts and Washington University in St. Louis, respectively.

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
March 22nd, 2020 from  4:00 PM to  7:00 PM