Interdisciplinary Interviews

in the San Francisco Bay Area

See also the Videos Jeanne Finley (video artist) [26 march 2013] Individual vs power institutions Workplace design at Xerox PARC "There is no such thing as a mistake" Click to play: Lera Boroditsky (Stanford Univ) [15 march 2013] Does language shape thought? Languages are disappearing rapidly How children learn language Click to play: Curtis Frank (Stanford Univ) [19 march 2013] What is fascinating about chemistry The uniquity of chemistry The chemistry of art Click to play: Amy X Neuburg [8 march 2013] Electronic sound art Cabaret and pop in the age of the new wave Click to play: Oussama Khatib (Stanford Univ) [8 january 2013] Early robotic research Progress in robotics Robotics and neuroscience Click to play: Sarah Cahill (Contemporary Music Performer) [20 december 2012] Life as a contemporary music performer Henry Cowell, John Cage, etc Click to play: Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley) [13 december 2012] Robotics Engineering and art Art and society Click to play: Antara Bhardwaj (Khatak Indian Dancer, Chitresh Das Dance Company) [3 december 2012] Khatak dance Western vs Indian dance Filmmaking and dance Click to play: Amitav Ghosh (Writer) [3 december 2012] China and the Making of Modern India The importance of the opium industry for the history of the last two centuries The great capitals of the opium trade: Guangzhou, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Singapore The opium industry in West India (mostly independent) and East India (mostly contolled by the British) Chinese products assimilated in Indian culture (eg, the wedding sari) via Guangzhou ("the Cantonization of India") Click to play: George LeGrady (Director, UC's Experimental Visualization Lab) [19 september 2012] Interactive digital media Computational photography Harold Cohen and the early days of computer art Click to play: Anne Fougeron (Architect) [10 september 2012] West Coast architecture Green architecture The future of urban life Click to play: Chris McKay (NASA planetary scientist) [29 august 2012] Searching for life on other planets The state of space exploration Click to play: Piero Scaruffi (Cultual historian, scientist, poet) interviewed by a German journalist on Silicon Valley [august 2012] Click to play: or click here to download Piero Scaruffi interviewed by a Danish journalist on Silicon Valley [june 2012] Piero Scaruffi interviewed by an anthropologist on Cognitive Science [may 2012] Jaron Lanier (Writer, composer, computer scientist) [february 2012] Cyberculture and counterculture Cybernetic totalism Digital maoism You are not a gadget Click to play: Eric Schlosser (Journalist at the Atlantic and author of "Fast Food Nation") [14 march 2012, lecture] The environmental movement lost touch with its democratic roots The food supply has changed more over the last 40 years than over the previous 20,000 years The industrialized food system causes hidden costs for society the same way that polluters do Increased chances of food-borne illnesses Organic food movement and sustainability movement Click to play: Chris Chafe (Director of Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) [february 2012] Summary of career CCRMA, IRCAM, Banff music centers Distributed improvised music Click to play: James McClelland (Director of Stanford's Center for Mind, Brain and Computation) [february 2012] Summary of career Modeling the brain Tracking neurons Click to play: Deborah Aschheim (Multimedia artist) [february 2012] Summary of career The theme of memory Louise Bourgeois (1911), Eva Hesse (1936), Christian Boltanski (1944), Mark Lombardi (1951), Sophie Calle (1953) Click to play: Jean-Pierre Changeux (neuroscientist) [27 january 2012] The neuroscience of Art There is a history of art, but no progress: one can't define one age as "better" than a previous age. They are different. However, evolution is critical to the definition of art: art has to be unique. The first sign of aesthetic activity are the symmetric tools of prehistory. Literacy reorganizes the brain at the physical level: reading and writing hijack a brain. So do other symbolic activities and art. Click to play: Slide show Lynn Hershman (San Francisco Art Institute) [4 january 2012] Interactive multimedia art Identity and privacy in a high-tech society We are cyborgs Feminist art movement Click to play: David Sloan Wilson (Binghamton Univ) [8 december 2011, lecture] Compassion Altruism Group-based selection Social engineering Play: Paul Rabinow (UC Berkeley, Dept of Anthropology) [30 Oct 2011] Foucault Synthetic Biology Epistemology of Anthropology Play: Brian Arthur (Santa Fe Institute) [5 Aug 2011] The silent and unseen digital economy Processors and sensors Play: Leonard Susskind (Stanford Univ, Dept of Theoretical Physics) [2 Aug 2011] Holographic principle Quantum vacuum Life sciences and physical sciences Play: Jeremy Bailenson (Stanford Univ, Human Virtual Reality Lab) [28 july 2011, lecture] Virtual Reality Psychology of the Self Communication Play: Pamela Z (Multimedia Composer) [11 july 2011] Extended vocal techniques and electronic music Interactive installation Avantgarde music Play: Jan English-Lueck (San Jose State Univ) [6 july 2011] Anthropology of Silicon Valley Busier than ever Health in the high-tech world Play: Gail Wight (Stanford Univ) [1 july 2011] Art and Science Electronic sculpture Living art Play: Tanu Sankalia (USF Department of Architecture) [13 september 2010] Megalopolies and slums The architect as an activist Cities of the West vs cities of the developing world Play: Anthony D'Agostino (SFSU Department of History) [2 march 2010] Russia Euro crisis Global economic crisis China Play: Robert Buelteman: a visual interview [12 december 2010] John Chowning (Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) [13 may 2010] What is computer music How it was born Sociological relevance Interaction with Silicon Valley Play: Bruce Damer [21 june 2010]: EvoGrid for studies on life origins Telepresence for space exploration History of computing Virtual worlds and psychedelic worlds Part 1 Part 2 Sonya Rapoport (Interactive and Web-based Art) [24 january 2010]: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Interactive art: art as a collaboration between the artist and the audience Interactive art: art as a recapitulation of the artist's process of creation Reconciling technology and aesthetics The cultural role of the Internet Thought-provoking art vs art as entertainment Art that reflects society at a point in time Gender-conscious art: the female as a displaced person Science in art Cross-cultural art before the advent of globalization Interactive art as gradual refinement of the artist's autobiography Play part1: Play part2: Play part3: