UPCOMING IN THE BAY AREA:
2022-23 - (Archive of past Bay Area LASERs: click here)
- 21 September 2022 @ 6:30pm - Hybrid!
Stanford LiKaShing room LK101
Suyash Joshi (Engineer and Magician) on "S.T.E.A.M. Magic"
Marjorie Perloff (Stanford Univ) on "Infrathin: Poetry as Verbivocovisual Art"
Julia Scott (Santa Clara Univ) on "Biofeedback Integration into immersive Virtual Reality Experiences" - 16 November 2022 @ 6:30pm - Hybrid!
Stanford LiKaShing room LK205/206
Kokichi Sugihara (Meiji University, Japan) on "How to Make Impossible Objects"
Virj Kan (Design Scientist) on "Molecular Design Interactions"
Kim Anno (California College of the Arts) on "Spectacle of Nature and Iconic Western texts: Oedius Rex and Dante’s Purgatorio"
Kal Spelletich (Media Artist) on "Galactic Scale Inquiries into the Nature of the Cosmos" - 14 December 2022 @ 12pm - Online!
A Special LASER: "Art & Science at Ars Electronica 2022"
Christa Sommerer (Austria-France) on "The Artwork as a Living System"
Klaus Spiess (Austria) on "Ecolalia"
Bill Ayton (Britain) on "Interplanetary VR Sustainable Futures"
Annick Bureaud (France) on "Art and Science - Out of the Bubble" - 18 January 2023 @ 7pm - Online!
Therese Lahaie (Media Artist) on "Analog and Digital Migration"
Annie Kritcher (Lawrence Livermore Lab) on "The State of Nuclear Fusion Research"
Primavera De Filippi (National Center of Scientific Research, Paris) on "Do blockchains dream of electronic flowers?" - 15 February 2023 @ 7pm - Hybrid!
Stanford LiKaShing building
Jennifer Dionne (Stanford Univ) on " Life-speed reads of biological bits with Silicon photonics"
Alice Yuan Zhang (Media Artist) on "The Need for Intergenerational Tech"
Adegboyega Mabogunje (Stanford Univ) on "Accelerating Innovation: Children, Women, Sex, and Bombs" - 29 March 2023 @ 12pm - Online - Lunchtime!
Live from Europe:
Christina Jauernik (Architect and Artist) on "Touching Distance - Inter-Views with the Virtual"
Hanna Haslaahti (Media Artist) on "Storytelling with Personal Avatars"
Javier Ideami (Filmmaker and A.I. Scientist) on "Encounters of the third kind with Generative Artificial Intelligence" - 12 April 2023 - Online!
TBA - 11 May 2023 @ 7pm - Hybrid!
Stanford LiKaShing building
TBA
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