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 30 speakers.
San Francisco (USF):
Mountain View (SETI):
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, 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)
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
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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.
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.
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