This season's LASERs
The LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) series, organized by Leonardo ISAST and currently chaired by piero scaruffi, is a local forum for presenting art and science projects underway in the Bay Area that are creative, original and interdisciplinary in nature. Each evening, free of charge and open to the public, presents up to four artists, scientists, philosophers, historians, inventors and scholars who are working on paradigm shifts. The series has already presented over 50 speakers. Each evening allows the audience time to socialize and encourages people in the audience to briefly introduce their work.
San Francisco (USF):
Mountain View (SETI Inst):
See also the Audio interviews
Past LASERs
- San Francisco - LASER 1.1 (january 2008):
Roger Malina (Leonardo ISAST), David Stork (Ricoh Innovations and Stanford Univ), Douglas Kahn (UC Davis) , Laura Peticolas (Berkeley's Space Science Lab)
- San Francisco - LASER 1.2 (march 2008):
Tami Spector (SFU), Amy Ione (Diatrope Institute), Kathelin Gray, Sharon Daniel (UC Santa Cruz)
- San Francisco - LASER 1.3 (may 2008):
Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley), Carlo Sequin (UC Berkeley), Kris Paulsen (UC Berkeley), Trevor Paglen (UC Berkeley)
- San Francisco - LASER 1.4 (14 july 2008):
Amy Ione (Diatrope Institute), Roger Malina (Leonardo ISAST), Robert Rich, Lynette Cook
- San Francisco - LASER 1.5 (8 september 2008):
Thomas Zimmerman (IBM), Sharon Siskin (SF Dump), Deborah Munk (SF Dump), William Hsu (SFSU), Matt Heckert
- San Francisco - LASER 1.6 (10 november 2008): Sam Bower (Green Museum), Nomi Talisman (Israel), Frank Pietronigro (Zero Gravity Art Consortium), Hasan Elahi (San Jose State Univ)
- San Francisco - LASER 2.1 (12 january 2009):
Steve Wilson (SFSU), Dor Abrahamson (UC Berkeley), Kavita Philip and Beatriz da Costa (UC Irvine), Paul Rabinow (UC Berkeley)
- Mountain View - LASER 2.2 (11 february 2009): Amy Ione (Diatrope Institute), Frank Pietronigro (Zero Gravity Arts Consortium), Cosmo Kichman (DeYoung Museum), Robert Rich
- LASER 2.3 (San Francisco, 9 march 2009): Ruzena Bajcsy (UC Berkeley), Irene Chien (UC Berkeley), Richard Rinehart (UC Berkeley Art Museum), Wayne Vitale (composer)
- LASER 2.4 (Mountain View, 8 April 2009): Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz), Hasan Elahi (San Jose State University), Chris McKay (NASA AMES)
- LASER 2.6 (Mountain View, 10 June 2009): Sheila Pinkel (artist), Robert Edgar (Stanford Univ), Liena Vayzman (San Jose State University), Roger Malina (CNRS Marseille)
- LASER 2.7 (San Francisco, 13 july 2009): Jamie McHugh (John Kennedy University), Daniel "Cosmo Kichman" Grupp (Artist), Rhonda Holberton (Artist), Terrence Deacon (U.C. Berkeley)
- LASER 2.8 (Mountain View, 12 august 2009): David Stork (Ricoh and Stanford), Laura Granka (Google and Stanford), Darlene Lim (NASA), Irene Chien (UC Berkeley)
- LASER 2.9 (San Francisco, 14 september 2009): Rachel Beth Egenhoefer (USF), Chris McKay (NASA AMES), Bonnie DeVarco, Zann Gill
- LASER 2.10 (Mountain View, 14 october 2009): Julie Newdoll (Artist), Steve Wilson (SFSU), Wayne Lanier (San Francisco Exploratorium)
- LASER 2.11 (San Francisco, 9 november 2009): Jim Campbell (artist), Phil Ross (artist), Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz), Renetta Sitoy (artist)
- LASER 2.12 (Mountain View, 11 december 2009): Chris Chafe (Stanford CCRMA), Brad Drda (SF Dump), Cindy Stokes (Photographer)
- LASER 3.1 (San Francisco, 11 january 2010): Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison (Artists), Joe Davis (MIT), Laura Granka (Stanford Univ), Victoria Vesna (UCLA)
- LASER 3.2 (Mountain View, 10 february 2010): June Power (Altor Systems), John Edmark (Stanford Univ), Carlo Sequin (U.C. Berkeley), Gertrude Reagan (Visual Artist)
- LASER 3.3 (San Francisco, 8 march 2010): Anna Couey (Artist), Taraneh Hemami (Artist), Helena Carmena (California Academy of Sciences), Jesse Austin & Charles Lee (BIOS Design Collective)
- LASER 3.4 (Mountain View, 14 april 2010): Rachel Beth Egenhoefer (USF), Ken Eklund, Phil Ross (USF), Tami Spector (USF)
- LASER 3.5 (San Francisco, 10 may 2010): Chris Palmer (Artist), Therese Lahaie (Artist), Mona El Khafif (California College of the Arts), Evelyne Gayou (INA France)
- LASER 3.6 (Mountain View, 9 june 2010): Robert Lang (Origami Artist), Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison (UC San Diego), Victoria Scott and Scott Kildall (Artists), Robert Buelteman (Photographer)
- LASER 3.7 (San Francisco, 12 july 2010): Linda Gass, Peter Foucault, Imin Yeh, Cindy Stokes
- LASER 3.8 (Mountain View, 11 august 2010: Shona Kitchen (San Jose State University CADRE), Leila Takayama (Willow Garage and Stanford Univ), Fred Kuttner (U.C. Santa Cruz), Roger Malina (CNRS Marseille)
I have also chaired or co-chaired or will chair the following events in the San Francisco Bay Area:
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Why i do this: a cognitive and historical perspective on art and science
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Leonardo ISAST
Piero Scaruffi,
who graduated in Mathematics from the University of Torino in Italy,
is a cognitive scientist
who was the manager of the Olivetti Artificial Intelligence Center in Silicon Valley,
held visiting scholarships at several academic centers (notably Harvard and Stanford universities),
lectured in three continents, and published several books on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (most recently, "The Nature of Consciousness" in 2006). He pioneered Internet applications in the early 1980s and the use of the World-Wide Web for cultural purposes in the mid 1990s. His
poetry
has been awarded several national prizes in Italy and the USA.
His latest book of poems and meditations is "Synthesis" (2009).
As a music historian, he has published ten books, the latest ones being "A History of Rock Music" (Second edition, 2009) and "A History of Jazz Music" (2007).
He is currently working on "A History of Avantgarde Music".
He has also written extensively about cinema, literature and the visual arts for his website www.scaruffi.com.
An avid traveler, he has visited more than 120 countries of the world and hiked all over California.
See also my Audio interviews with distinguished authors, artists, scientists, philosophers, etc.
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