Videos of Bay Area's LASERs chaired by Piero Scaruffi

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Abbeel, Pieter: Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley/ Robotics) on Deep Learning and RObots at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Abel, Tom: Tom Abel (Stanford/ Physics) on "How Things in the Universe Came About & How They Ended Up Within Us" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Ackerman, Maya: Maya Ackerman (Santa Clara Univ/ Computational Creativity) on "An Introduction to Computational Creativity" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Ackerman, Maya: Maya Ackerman at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Aguilar, Carmen: Carmen Aguilar y Wedge (Hyphen Labs) on "NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism" (program)
Albaitis, Tamara: Tamara Albaitis' sculptural sound costume "Armor" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program)
Alexander, Lily: Lily Alexander (UC Santa Cruz) on "Counterculture, Collectivity, and the Aesthetics of Early Communications Art at the Western Front and Beyond" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Altman, Mitch: Mitch Altman (Virtual reality pioneer and Noisebridge founder) on "The Hackerspace Movement" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Anderson David: David Anderson (UC Berkeley/ SETI@home) on "An introduction to SETI@home" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Anno, Kim: Kim Anno (California College of the Arts) on "Aesthetics and Adaptation in a World of Rising Sea Levels" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Anno, Kim: Kim Anno (California College of the Arts) on "Climate's Secular Dante" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Appelbaum, Mark: Mark Aplpebaum (Stanford CCRMA) on "Visual Music and the Rehabilitation of Archaic Technologies" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Aronica, Lucia: Lucia Aronica (Stanford Prevention Research Center) on "Epigenetics, Nutrition and your Health" (program of this evening)
Aronica, Lucia: Lucia Aronica (Stanford Prevention Research Center) on "Epigenetics, Nutrition and your Health" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Aschheim, Deborah: Multimedia artist Deborah Aschheim on Mind
Auger, Stephen: Stephen Auger (Media Artist) & Benjamin Smarr (UC Berkeley/ Neuroscience) on "Interstellar Hallucination" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Ayala, Lucia: Visual artist Lucia Ayala (UC Berkeley) on "Fluid Skies - or how to combine art, history and cosmology"
Bailey, Stephen : Stephen Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) on "How to Make a 3D Map of the Universe (and Why?)" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Baines, Lauren: Lauren Baines (Choreographer) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Baines, Lauren: Lauren Baines (Choreographer) on "Embodied Knowledge: Mirror Neurons, Kinesthetic Empathy, and What Site Dance Can Show Us" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Barry, Fabio: Fabio Barry (Stanford/ Art History) on "Where Do White Temples Come From?" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Baruah, Indrani: Indrani Baruah (Architect and Visual Artist) on "Cultural Re-Imaginations : Experiments in Creative Placemaking" at a Stanford LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014.html
Baruah, Indrani : Indrani Baruah (Architect and Visual Artist) on "Cultural Re-Imaginations : Experiments in Creative Placemaking" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Bellouin, Ashley: Ashley Bellouin (Musician) on "In Search of an Eternal Present" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Beltran, JD: JD Beltran (Media Artist) on "Oil paintings, Message Machines, and Snowglobes: Retro-fitting future-facing technology with our Analog Past at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Benson, Sally: Sally Benson ((Director of Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project) on "A Prescription To Cure The Planet's Climate Woes." at a Stanford LASER (program)
Bent, Stacey: Stacey Bent (Stanford's TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy) on "Shining Light on Energy" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Berdugo, Liat: Liat Berdugo (Media Artist) on "Technologies of Power, Access, and Freedom" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Bergmann, Uwe: Uwe Bergmann (Stanford/ Linear Accelerator) on "The science and applications of X-Rays" at a Stanford LASER
Berlier, Terry: Visual artist Terry Berlier on junk sculpture [Slides]
Berlier, Terry: Kinetic artist Terry Berlier at a Stanford LASER
Berry, Jennifer: Jennifer Berry (Beekeeper and Media Artist) on "Industrial Evolution" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Bhardwaj, Antara: North-Indian classical dancer Antara Bhardwaj (Chitresh Das Dance company) at a SMMMASH
Bhaumik, Sita: Sita Bhaumik (Visual Artist) on "The Edible Body: Food as Political Strategy in a Contemporary Art Practice"
Birnbaum, Paula: Paula Birnbaum (USF Art History) on "Contemporary Feminist Art and Globalization" at USF at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Blanton, Andrew: Andrew Blanton (San Jose State Univ) on "Sound in the Machine at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Blanton, Andrew: Andrew Blanton (SJSU) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Blau, Helen: Helen Blau (Stanford/ Stem Cell Biology) on "Stem Cells: Seeds of a Therapeutic Revolution" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Bogart, Willard: Willard Van De Bogart (Author & Composer) on "How Scientists and Artists are Discovering Musical Patterns in Protein Structures" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Bojic, Jasmina: Jasmina Bojic (Stanford/ Cinema) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Boodhoo, Gary: Gary Boodhoo (Videogame designer) on "Human Encounters With a Gregarious Learning Machine" (program)
Boodhoo, Gary: Gary Boodhoo (Videogame designer) on "Human Encounters With a Gregarious Learning Machine" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Boroditsky, Lera: Stanford psychologist and linguist Lera Boroditsky at a SMMMASH on Language
Bronte-Stewart, Helen: Helen Bronte-Stewart (Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "Using Art and Science to Improve the Lives of People with Parkinson's disease" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Brown, Clair: Clair Brown (UC Berkeley) on "Buddhist Economics" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Brown, Stephanie: Stephanie Brown (USF/ Museum Studies) on "Authenticity, apples, and the art market: The mystery of 1939.34.3" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Buckingham, Lark: Lark Buckingham (Berkeley/ Center for New Media) on "Tech startups as 21st century imagination" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Buelteman, Robert: Photographer Robert Buelteman discussing his career [Slides] at a Berkeley LASER
Buiani, Roberta: Roberta Buiani (Artist, Critic and Curator) on "Beyond mapping; or, how to cope with ecological complexity" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Burchat, Patricia: Stanford physicist Patricia Burchat at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Burke, Ben: Ben Burke's kinetic sculpture "Every Body Needs Some Body" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program)
Cahill, Sarah: Contemporary music performer Sarah Cahill at a SMMMASH
Cahill, Sarah: Sarah Cahill on "Music in Unusual Spaces" at a USF LASER
Chafe, Chris: Music composer Chris Chafe (director of Stanford CCRMA) on Mind at a SMMMASH
Chalmers, Catherine: Catherine Chalmers (Artist & Filmmaker) on "The Original Social Network" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Chang, Vanessa: Vanessa Chang (California College of the Arts) on "A Poetics of Mediated Movement" (program)
Chessa, Luciano: Avantgarde composer Luciano Chessa discussing futurist art at a Stanford LASER
Chessa, Luciano: Luciano Chessa discussing Luigi Russolo at a USF LASER
Chessa, Luciano: Luciano Chessa (Composer) on "After the noise intoners" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Chichilnisky, Eduardo Jose: E.J. Chichilnisky (Stanford/ Neurosurgery) on "Toward a High-fidelity Artificial Retina" (program of this evening)
Chiu, Charles: Charles Chiu (UCSF School of Medicine) on the Ebola virus at the second LAST festival
Clinton, Cory: Cory Clinton's installation "Art On the Body" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program)
Cocciardi, Caroline: Caroline Cocciardi (Art Writer) on "Leonardo's Knots" (program)
Conrad, Brian: Brian Conrad (Stanford/ Math) on "The Mathematics of Symmetry" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Cook, Lia: Lia Cook (Visual Artist) on "Woven Faces and Neuro Nets" at a USF LASER (2014) (program) (or better quality)
Crawford, Stephan: Stephan Crawford (Climate Music Project) on "Climate Music" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Crutchfield, Jim: Chaos scientist Jim Crutchfield at a Davis LASER
Crutchfield, Jim: Chaos scientist Jim Crutchfield at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Cumbers, John: John Cumbers (SynBioBeta & NASA) on "The Synthetic Biology Startup Ecosystem" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Cumbers, John: John Cumbers (Synbiobeta) on "Synthetic Biology and the Naturalist Fallacy " at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Darnovsky, Marcy: Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society) on "The Case for a New Biopolitics" at a Berkeley LASER
Darnovsky, Marcy: Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society) on "The Case for a New Biopolitics" at a USF LASER (2014) (program) (or better quality)
Davidson, Anna: Anna Davidson (UC Davis) on "It's Alive! A brief history and survey of Bioart" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Davis, Cere: Cere Davis (Media Artist) at a Berkeley LASER on "Kinetic Design Patterns Produced Through Motion" (program)
Day, Mel: Mel Day (SJSU) on "Everyday Voices: Building a Different Kind of Wall" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Deamer, David: David Deamer (UCSC) on "Meteorites, soap bubbles and the origin of cellular life" at a USF LASER
Deamer, David: Dave Deamer (UC Santa Cruz/ Biomolecular Engineering) on "Meteorites, soap bubbles and the origin of cellular life" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Degarrod, Lydia: Lydia Degarrod (California College of the Arts) on "Ethnographic Research and Art Making" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
DeKosnik, Abigal: Berkeley media historian Abigal DeKosnik discussing fan fiction at a Stanford LASER
DeMarinis, Paul: Paul DeMarinis (Stanford/ Music) on "Erased Dots and Rotten Dashes" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Dionne, Jennifer: Stanford professor Jennifer Dionne on "Nanotechnology" at UC Berkeley 2013 [Slides]
Dionne, Jennifer: Jennifer Dionne at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Dionne, Jennifer: Stanford professor Jennifer Dionne on "Nanotechnology" at a Stanford LASER [Slides]
Dionne, Jennifer: Jennifer Dionne, founding director of the Stanford Nanotech Lab, on Nanotechnology at the first LAST festival (San Jose, June 2014)
Dionne, Jennifer: Stanford professor Jennifer Dionne on "Nanotechnology" at a USF LASER [Slides]
Dionne, Jennifer: Jennifer Dionne (Stanford) on Nanotechnology at the 2015 LAST festival
Dresher, Paul: Paul Dresher (Composer) on "What Would Happen If..Inventing Musical Instruments" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Duniven, Aja: Aja Duniven (Animate) on "Gamification of Altruistic Action" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Earl, Carina: Visual artist Carina Earl at a USF LASER
Edgar, Robert: Robert Edgar's interactive installation "Eye Mask" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program)
Edmark, John: John Edmark (Stanford) on "Blooms: Phi-Based, Strobe-Animated Sculptures" at a Berkeley LASER (program) [Note: the videos showed in this presentation are not visible because of the room's lighting but you can find them here: video 1, video 2, video 3, video 4, video 5, video 6, video 7]
Elul, Tamira: Tamira Elul (Touro University) on "Patterns in Nature and Art" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Endy, Andrew: Andrew Endy (Stanford) on Synthetic Biology at the 2015 LAST festival
Endy, Drew: Drew Endy (Stanford Univ) on "Human Gene Editing" at the 4th LAST Festival www.lastfestival.org (San Jose, April 2017)
Eram, Cosana: Cosana Eram (Univ of the Pacific) at a Berkeley LASER on "What to Learn from the Half-staged Conflicts of the Avant-garde?" (program)
Feldman, Jessica: Jessica Feldman (Stanford/ Biology) on "Patterning the Cell During Development" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Feldman, Mark: Stanford cultural historian Mark Feldman on "Urban Ecology" at a USF LASER
Ferrell, James: James Ferrell (Stanford/ Systems Biology) on "Can Living Cells Assemble Themselves?" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Ffortissimo, Mauro: Mauro Ffortissimo (Piano Deconstructor) on "What is a Piano?" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Finley, Jeanne: Jeanne C Finley (California College of the Arts) on "The Non-Fiction Imagination" at a Stanford LASER
Finley, Jeanne: Filmmaker Jeanne Finley at a SMMMASH on Language
Florin, Fabrice: Fabrice Florin (Artist and Technologist) on "The Pataphysical Slot Machine" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Florin, Fabrice: Fabrice Florin (Artist and Technologist) on "The Pataphysical Slot Machine" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Frank, Curtis: Curtis Frank on Language at a SMMMASH
Frank, Curtis: Curtis Frank (Stanford Univ) on the materials of painting at a USF LASER
Frank, Curt: Curt Frank (Stanford Univ) on "Historical Pigments" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Frank, Curt: Curt Frank (Stanford Univ) on "Historical Pigments" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Frank, Loren: Loren Frank (UCSF/ Neuroscience) on "What is a memory?" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Frank, Loren: Loren Frank (UCSF) on "What is a memory?" at a USF LASER (2014) (program)
Frenkel, Edward: Edward Frenkel (UC Berkeley/ Mathematics) on "Love and Math" at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program
Frick, Laura: Laura Frick on "Sleep, Self-tracking and Art-making" at a USF LASER
Fullman, Ellen: Ellen Fullman (Musician) on "A Compositional Approach Derived from Material and Ephemeral Elements" at a San Francisco LASER (or better quality)
Fullman, Ellen: Ellen Fullman (Musician) on "A Compositional Approach Derived from Material and Ephemeral Elements" at a Stanford LASER
Gavish, Michal: Michal Gavish (Visual Artist) on "Visualizing DNA" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Gazzaley, Adam: Adam Gazzaley (UCSF/ Neuroscience Imaging Center) on "Technology meets Neuroscience - A Vision of the Future of Brain Health" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Gerritsen, Margot: Margot Gerritsen (Stanford Computational Math) on "Linear Algebra: the incredible beauty of a branch of math with a bad reputation" at a USF LASER [Slides]
Goldberg, Ken: Multimedia artist and inventor Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley)
Goldberg, Ken: Ken Goldberg at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Goldberg, Ken: Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley) on "Wow and Flutter: Perception and the Seismic Landscape" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Gopnik, Alison: Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "The Philosophical Baby" at a Stanford LASER (2013)
Gopnik, Alison: Alison Gopnik at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Gopnik, Alison: UC Berkeley Psychology professor Alison Gopnik on "The Philosophical Baby" at a USF LASER [Slides] (2012)
Gopnik, Alison: Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "Theory formation and the evolution of learning" at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program
Gourley, Sean: Mathematician and entrepreneur Sean Gourley on "A Global Intelligence Platform" at a USF LASER
Gourley, Sean: "A Global Platform for Augmented Intelligence" at a Stanford LASER
Granger, Sarah: Sarah Granger (Author) on "The Digital Mystique" at the 2015 LAST festival
Granzow, John: John Granzow (Stanford CCRMA) on "Drawing Things into Sound" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program) (or better quality)
Greely, Hank: Hank Greely (Director of the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences) on "The End of Sex" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
Guadagno, Rosanna: Rosanna Guadagno (University of Texas at Dallas) on "Men, Women, and Technology: Insights from Social Psychology" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Han, Yoon: Yoon Chung Han (SJSU) on "Biometric Data Arts using Fingerprint and Iris Data" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Harrower, Juniper: Juniper Harrower (UC Santa Cruz) on "Merging art and science to save Joshua trees" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Haurwitz, Rachel: Synthetic biologist Rachel Haurwitz on "Precise DNA edits to advance biological research and human health" at Berkeley LASER (2014)
Hawthorne, Katharine: Katharine Hawthorne (Choreographer) on "Thinking Bodies in Motion" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Hawthorne, Katharine: Choreographer Katharine Hawthorne (Slides) at a Stanford LASER
Hearst, Marti: Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley) on "Search User Interfaces" at a USF LASER
Hill, Cherie: Cherie Hill (Choreographer) at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program)
Hill, Cherie: Cherie Hill (Choreographer) at a San Francisco LASER - higher resolution (program)
Hill, Cherie: Cherie Hill (Choreographer) on "Moving Space & Time: Dub Dance Project" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Ho, Amy: Amy Ho (Projection Artist) on "The Space We Inhabit" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Ho, Amy: Amy Ho (Projection Artist) on "The Space We Inhabit" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program) (or better quality)
Holberton, Rhonda: Rhonda Holberton (Media Artist) on "Best of Both Worlds: Physical Ramifications of Digitally Engineered Reality(s)" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Holberton, Rhonda: Rhonda Holberton (Media Artist) on "Best of Both Worlds: Physical Ramifications of Digitally Engineered Reality(s)" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Holt, Allison: Allison Leigh Holt (Visual Artist) on "The Beginning Was The End: Hybrid Reality in Javanese Culture" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Holt, Allison: Allison Leigh Holt (Visual Artist) on "The Beginning Was The End: Hybrid Reality in Javanese Culture" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Horn, Robert: Robert Horn (Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute) at a San Francisco LASER - higher resolution (program)
Horn, Robert: Robert Horn (Social Scientist) at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program)
Hott, Carrie: Carrie Hott (Media Artist) on "Nets for the Unweighable: a Brief History of Nets" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Hott, Carrie: Carrie Hott (Media Artist) on "Nets for the Unweighable: a Brief History of Nets" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Houlding, Jesse: Visual artist Jesse Houlding on "Phenomena as material" at a USF LASER
Huang, Sandy : Sandy Huang (UC Berkeley/ A.I.) on "Adversarial Examples in Reinforcement Learning" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Hughen, Amanda: Hughen/Starkweather (Visual Artists) on "Shifting Shorelines" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening) - only first 13 minutes
Hughen, Amanda: Amanda Hughen (Visual Artist) on "Consumerism and cellular transformation" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Hughen/Starkweather: Hughen/Starkweather (Visual Artists) on "Shifting Shorelines" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Hutchinson, Brenda: Brenda Hutchinson (Composer) on "Sound, Listening and Public Engagement" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program) (or better quality)
Ideami, Javier: Filmmaker Javier Ideami at a LASER at a Berkeley LASER
Israel, David: David Israel (SRI Intl) on Natural Language Processing (Slides) at a Stanford LASER
Jacobs, Charlotte: Charlotte Jacobs (Standford) on "Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program
Jacobs, Charlotte: Charlotte Jacobs (Stanford University) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Jacobs, Lucia: Cognitive neuroscientist Lucia Jacobs at a Berkeley LASER (2014) at a Berkeley LASER
Jacobs, Lucia: Lucia Jacobs (UC Berkeley Psychology) on "How the Brain Evolved from a Nose" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Jacobson, Mark: Stanford environmental scholar Mark Jacobson on "Alternative Energy" at a Stanford LASER
Jameson, Elizabeth: Elizabeth Jameson (Neuro-Artist) on "Re-Imaging the MRI" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Jankowski, Tito: Tito Jankowski (Biocurious) on "Are You BioCurious? Amateur biotech from Entertainment to Entrepreneurship" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Jiang, Li: at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Johnson, Jeff: Jeff Johnson (USF/ Computer Science) on "Designing Technology for an Aging Population" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Johnson, Terry: Terry Johnson (UC Berkeley) on "Synthetic Biology: Teaching Old Cells New Tricks" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Juffman, Thomas: Enar de Dios Rodriguez (Photographer), Thomas Juffmann (Stanford/ Physics and SEEC Photography) and Phillip Haslinger (UC Berkeley/ Physics) on " Photography at the Speed of Light" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Kachru, Shamit: Stanford physicist Shamit Kachru discussing extra dimensions (Slides) at a USF LASER
Kachru, Shamit: Stanford physicist Shamit Kachru discussing Dark Matter and Dark Energy (Slides) at a Stanford LASER
Kahle, Brewster: Brewster Kahle (Founder and director of the Internet Archive) on "Universal Access to All Knowledge" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Kahle, Brewster: Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Kamen, Rebecca: Artist and scholar Rebecca Kamen talking about art and science at a USF LASER
Kaneshiro, Blair: Blair Kaneshiro (Stanford CCRMA) on "Music Discovery" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Karimi, Pantea: Pantea Karimi (Media Artist) on "(Re) Visualizing Medieval Science" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Karimi, Pantea: Pantea Karimi (Media Artist) on "(Re) Visualizing Medieval Science" (program)
Kataoka, Drue: Drue Kataoka (Visual artist) on "Mining Memory: Membranes & Magic Boxes " at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program
Keats, Jonathon: Jonathon Keats (Philosopher) on "A Dilettante's Guide to the Universe" at a Stanford LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014.html
Keats, Jonathon: Jonathon Keats (Philosopher) on "A Dilettante's Guide to the Universe" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Keay, Andra: Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics) on "Designing Good Robots" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Keay, Andra: Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Keay, Andra: Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics) on "Designing Good Robots" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Kendall, Stuart: Stuart Kendall (California College of the Arts) on "Domestic Arts: A Fable" at a Stanford LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014.html
Kendall, Stuart: Art/Design: The State of the Object
Kessler, Elizabeth: Elizabeth Kessler (Stanford/ Art) on "There and Back Again - Seeing Ourselves Through Telescopes, Satellites, and Space Probes" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Khatib, Oussama: Robot scientist Oussama Khatib (head of Stanford's Robotics Lab) at a SMMMASH
Kildall, Scott: Multimedia artist Scott Kildall on "Tweets in Space" (Slides)
King, Catherine: Catherine King (International Museum of Women) on "Imagining Equality: Transformational Media Creating Inspiration, Awareness, and Action on Women's Human Rights" at a USF LASER
Kitundu, Walter: Walter Kitundu at a Stanford LASER (2013)
Kitundu, Walter: Walter Kitundu at a USF LASER (poor video)
Knight, Margot: Margot Knight (Djerassi Resident Artists Program) on "Scientific Delirium Madness" at a Stanford LASER (2014) - program
Knight, Margot: Margot Knight (Djerassi Resident Artists Program) on "The Scientific Delirium Madness program" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Knight, Margot: Margot Knight (Djerassi Resident Artists Program) on "Scientific Delirium Madness" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Koene, Randall: Randal Koene on "Why and how to transition from wet-ware to substrate-independent minds" at a USF LASER
Konjevod, Goran: Goran Konjevod (Origami Artist) on "Origami Beyond Geometry" at a Stanford LASER (2017) - program
Konjevod, Goran: Goran Konjevod (Origami Artist) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Kosinski, Michal: Michal Kosinski (Stanford ) on "The End of Privacy" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Krubitzer, Leah: Leah Krubitzer (UC Davis/ Neurobiology) on "How does Evolution build a Complex Brain" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Kurenkov, Andrey: Andrey Kurenkov (Stanford/ Computational Vision Lab) on "How impressive are recent A.I. accomplishments, really?". at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Kurillo, Gregorij: Gregorij Kurillo (Berkeley/ Teleimmersion Lab) on "Human-Centered Modeling for Human-Machine Interaction" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Kurillo, Gregorij: Gregorij Kurillo (Berkeley/ Teleimmersion Lab) on "Virtual and Augmented Reality for Connecting People" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Lahaie, Therese: Therese Lahaie (Media Artist) at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program)
Lange, Patricia: Patricia G. Lange (California College of the Arts) on "Is Ranting Ever a Good Idea?" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Lange, Patricia: Patricia Lange (California College of the Arts) on "Evaluating Techno-Aesthetics in Video" at a Stanford LASER (2014) - program
Lange, Patricia: Patricia Lange (California College of the Arts) on "Is Ranting Ever a Good Idea?" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
Lanier, Jaron: Composer, technologist and author Jaron Lanier on Mind at a SMMMASH
Law, John: John Law at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Law, John et al: Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian), John Law (organizer of the first Burning Man in Nevada), Kal Spelletich (Seemen founder) and Daniel Kottke (Apple before it was called Apple) on "From the Counterculture to the Digital Society" at the 2015 LAST festival
Law, John: John Law (Cacophony Society, Burning Man) on "Chaos, Cacophony and the Counterculture - How the San Francisco Underground made your life weirder" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Leder, Evie: Evie Leder (Video Artist) on "#NSFW Looking / Seeing" (program)
Lee, Christine: Christine Lee (Visual Artist and Designer) at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Leitman, Sasha: Inventor and composer Sasha Leitman on "Research in Computer Music at Stanford's CCRMA" at a Stanford LASER
Leitman, Sasha: Sasha Leitman (Stanford CCRMA) on "Research in Computer Music at Stanford's CCRMA" at a USF LASER
Leonard, Cheryl: Nature composer Cheryl Leonard about music from Antartica) at a Stanford LASER
Leonard, Cheryl: Cheryl Leonard (Composer) on "Music from High Latitudes" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Levi, Margaret: Margaret Levi (Director of the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences) on "The Future of Work in the Age of Intelligent Automation" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
Lewis, Sydell: Visual artist Sydell Lewis demonstrating her rotating paintings (Slides) at a Stanford LASER
Lingenfelter, Andrea: Andrea Lingenfelter (USF) on "A Translator's Tale: The Joys and Perils of Online Resources" at a Berkeley LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014b.html
Loesch-Frank, Sara: Visual artist Sara Loesch-Frank discussing Metallic Leaf and Unusual Media in Art at a USF LASER 2013 (better audio)
Loesch-Frank, Sara: Visual artist Sara Loesch-Frank discussing Metallic Leaf and Unusual Media In Art at a Stanford LASER (2012)
Lombrozo, Tania: Tania Lombrozo (UC Berkeley Psychologist) on "What makes an explanation beautiful?" ( Slides) at a USF LASER
Lombrozo, Tania: Berkeley psychologist Tania Lombrozo on the neuroscience of explanation at Berkeley LASER (2014)
Lopes, Daiane: Daiane Lopes Da Silva (Choreographer) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Lord, Chip: Chip Lord (Media Artist) on "Space, Time, and Architecture" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Lubell, Bernie: Bernie Lubell (Kinetic Artist) at USF on "Intimacy and Entanglement" (Slides) at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Lubell, Bernie: Bernie Lubell (Kinetic Artist) on "Intimacy and Entanglement" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Mabuchi, Hideo: Hideo Mabuchi (Stanford/ Applied Physics) on "Creative Process in Applied Science and Art" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Madray, Damian: Damian Madray (DXLabs) on "Evolution of Design with Culture Thinking" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Maguire, Laura: Laura Maguire (Stanford & Philosophy Talk) on "A New Theory of Bullshit" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Maguire, Laura: Laura Maguire (Stanford & Philosophy Talk) on "Does Neuroscience Threaten Free Will?" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Makela, Maria: Maria Makela (California College of the Arts) on "Regen(d)eration: The Discovery of Sex Glands and Modern German Culture" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Malina, Roger: Roger Malina (Univ of Texas) on "Art and Science for the Space Age" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Manago, Adriana: Adriana Manago (UC Santa Cruz) on "Millennials go Online to Build their Offline Lives" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
Maravelis, Peter: Peter Maravelis (City Lights) on "Schizo-curation: Transcending the boundaries of spectatorship" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Marcom, Micheline: Micheline Marcom (Novelist) on "The Illuminated Book, the Imaginal World, Dreams, and Deep Reading" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Marcus, Philip: Philip Marcus (UC Berkeley/ Mechanical Engineering) on "ZOMBIE Vortices - Self-replication in the DEAD Zones of Stars" at a Berkeley LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014b.html
Margolin, Reuben: Margolin's TED talk with videos of his kinetic sculptures at a USF LASER
Marie, Christine: Shadow artist Christine Marie at a Stanford LASER
Mayor, Adrienne: Adrienne Mayor (Stanford/ Classics and History and Philosophy of Science) on "Gods and Robots" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Mazza, Christina: Visual artist Christina Mazza at a USF LASER [Slides]
McClelland, Jay: Jay McClelland (Stanford Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology) on "Embodiment in Mathematical Cognition" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
McConville, David: David McConville (Buckminster Fuller Institute) on "Beyond the "Whole Earth" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
McConville, David : David Mc Conville (Buckminster Fuller Inst) on "Beyond the "Whole Earth" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on the NASA missions that search for life at a Berkeley LASER
McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on "Why space exploration" at the 4th LAST Festival www.lastfestival.org (San Jose, April 2017)
McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on "Imagining life in the Universe" at a Stanford LASER (program)
McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on the Curiosity Mars Mission at a Stanford LASER
McKay Chris: Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist at NASA Ames, on Space Exploration and Life in the Universe at the first LAST festival (San Jose, June 2014)
McClelland, Jay: Stanford neuroscientist Jay McClelland on Mind at a SMMMASH
McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on Space Exploration at the 2015 LAST festival
McVarish, Maria: Art/Design: The State of the Object
McVarish, Maria: Maria McVarish (Stanford/ Modern Thought and Literature) on "Mapping the Uncharted: Non-Cartesian Spaces" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Meador, Kimford: Kimford Meador (Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "How does brain damage affect how we think?" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Meagley, Rob: Rob Meagley (ONE Nanotechnologies) " at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Mende, Jeremy: Jeremy Mende on "The Social Mirror" at a Stanford LASER
Mende, Jeremy: Jeremy Mende (Visual Designer) on "Confrontational Strategies - The Social Mirror" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Merencillo, Melissa: Melissa Merencillo (Virtual Reality Designer) on "Where We Are in Augmented, Virtual, Mixed and Cinematic Realities" (program)
Metzger, Christine : Christine Metzger (California college of the Arts) on "Lights, Camera...Fiction?" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Metzger, Christine: Christine Metzger (California college of the Arts) on How much science (mis)education do we get from movies at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Mialet, Helene: Berkeley anthropologist Helene Mialet on "Stephen Hawking and his Extended Body" at a Stanford LASER
Mialet, Helene: Helene Mialet (UC Berkeley Anthropology) on "On Stephen Hawking and his extended body" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Ming, Vivienne: Vivienne Ming (Neuroscientist) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Ming, Vivienne: Vivienne Ming at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Miranda, Omar: Omar Miranda (USF) on "Digitizing Spoken Poetry in the Age of Social Media" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Moffat, Susan: Susan Moffat (UC Berkeley's Global Urban Humanities Initiative) on "The Albany Bulb" (program)
Monchaux, Nicholas: Nicholas de Monchaux (UC Berkeley Architecture) on "Spacesuits and Cities" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Monchaux, Nicholas: Nicholas de Monchaux (UC Berkeley Architecture) on "Spacesuits and Cities" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Mori-Bottger, Hana: USF professor Hana Mori Bottger on "Beauty and Strength" (Slides) at a USF LASER
Muehlhauser, Luke: Singularity Institute's Luke Muehlhauser on "Super-human Intelligence" at a Stanford LASER
Murray, Soraya: Soraya Murray (UC Santa Cruz/ Film & Digital Media) on "Games, Connectedness and Radical Empathy Under Globalization" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Murray, Soraya: Soraya Murray (UC Santa Cruz/ Film + Digital Media) on "The Visual Politics of Videogames" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
Nagarajan, Vijaya: USF professor Vijaya Nagarajan on "Embedded Mathematics in Women's Ritual Art Designs in southern India" at a USF LASER
Nelson, Mark: Mark Nelson (Stanford Peace Innovation Lab) at a San Francisco LASER on "Peace Technology" (program)
Nelson, Mark: Mark Nelson (Co-director, Stanford Peace Innovation Lab) on "Technology for Peace" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Neuburg, Amy: Musician Amy X Neuburg at a SMMMASH on Language
Newsome, William: William Newsome (Stanford/ Medicine) on "The Future of Neuroscience" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Nichols, Kate: Kate Nichols on Art and Nanoscience at a Stanford LASER
Niemeyer, Greg: Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley/ Center for New Media) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Nivas, Rachna: Rachna Nivas (Chitresh Das Dance Company) on "India's Meditation in Motion: Pushing Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Boundaries through Kathak Dance" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Nivas, Rachna: Rachna Nivas (Chitresh Das Dance Company) on "India's Kathak Dance: Synthesizing rhythmical math, ancient philosophy, and complex movement" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Norvig, Peter: Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google on Artificial Intelligence at the first LAST festival (San Jose, June 2014)
Norvig, Peter: Peter Norvig (Google) on Artificial Intelligence at the 2015 LAST festival
O'Leary, Marion: Marion O'Leary (Stanford) on "Music and Science" at a Berkeley LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014b.html
Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience) on the Ebola virus at the second LAST festival
Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley) on "Modeling the Neural Basis of Visual Perception, and Implications for Technology and Art" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley) on "Modeling the Neural Basis of Visual Perception, and Implications for Technology and Art" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley) on Neuroscience at the 2015 LAST festival
Omohundro, Steve: Steve Omohundro (A.I. and Blockchain researcher) on " AI, Deception, and Blockchains" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Omohundro, Steve: Steve Omohundro at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Omohundro, Steve: Steve Omohundro on "Blockchain for a society based on the truth" at the 4th LAST Festival www.lastfestival.org (San Jose, April 2017)
Ortenberg, Dasha: Dasha Ortenberg (Designer/Artist) on "Transformative Potentials of Speculative Mapping" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Ostertag, Bob: Bob Ostertag on the history of Electronic Music at a USF LASER
Ouyang, Derek: Derek Ouyang (Architect) at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program)
Ouyang, Derek: Derek Ouyang (Architect) at a San Francisco LASER - higher resolution (program)
Palmer, Megan: Megan Palmer (Stanford/ Biosecurity) on "Engineering Biology at Social Scales" at a Stanford LASER (2017) - program
Palmer, Stephen: Stephen Palmer (UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "Colour, Music, and Emotion in Synesthetes and Non-Synesthetes" at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program
Pandey, Annapurna: San Jose State Univ's anthropologist Annapurna Pandey on "Magic" at Berkeley LASER (2014)
Parker, Jennifer: UC Santa Cruz OpenLab director Jennifer Parker at a Stanford LASER [Slides]
Parker, Jennifer: UC Santa Cruz OpenLab director Jennifer Parker on "Art, Astronomy and Physics" at a USF LASER [Slides]
Parker, Jennifer: Jennifer Parker at a Berkeley LASER
Partch, Carrie: Carrie Partch (UCSC/ Biochemistry) on the Human Circadian Rhythms at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Paulos, Eric: Eric Paulos (UC Berkeley) on "Hybrid Assemblages, Environments, and Happenings" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Payton, Paul: Paul Payton (Chief Engineer of Visa Research) on "Pixtile Patterns: Science and Art - Two Sides of a Moebius Strip" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Pedersen, Anders: Anders Pedersen (Composer) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Peel, Ellen: Ellen Peel (SFSU/ Literature) on "Imagining the Constructed Body: From Statues to Cyborgs" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Peterson, Christine: Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute) on the Nanofuture (Slides) at a SMMMASH
Petrenko, Sasha: Choreographer Sasha Petrenko on "A World without Nature" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program
Petrenko, Sasha: Sasha Petrenko (Choreographer) on Choreography that reflects a more integrated planetary existence at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Phanichphant, Purin: Purin Phanichphant (Interaction Designer) on "Can Art Be More?" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Pitt, Leonard: Actor and mime Leonard Pitt discussing the power of body movements at a Stanford LASER
Pratkanis, Tony: Tony Pratkanis (Stanford Univ) on Robotics (Slides) at a USF LASER
Quinn, Jackie: Jackie Quinn (Google, formerly Autodesk Bio/Nano Programmable Matter Group) on "Communicating Synthetic Biology" at a USF LASER
Rael, Ron: Ron Rael (UC Berkeley/ Architecture) on "3D Printing Materials for Architecture" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Raicu, Irina: Irina Raicu (Santa Clara University/ Director of the Internet Ethics Program) on "Developing Norms for the Internet of Someone Else's Things" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
Ramsundar, Bharath: Bharath Ramsundar (CTO of Computable) on "Decentralized Data Markets" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Rath, Alan: Alan Rath on his digital scultures at a USF LASER - program
Ray Smith, Alvy: Computer graphics pioneer Alvy Ray Smith on "A Biography of the Pixel" at a USF LASER
Ray Smith, Alvy: Alvy Ray Smith, Co-founder of Pixar, on Graphics/Animation at the first LAST festival (San Jose, June 2014)
Reben, Alex: Alex Reben (Inventor) at a Berkeley LASER on "Engineering Psychology" (program)
Reben, Alex: Alex Reben (Inventor & Artist) on "Human-Computer Collaboration" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Reben, Alex: Alex Reben (Inventor) on "Digital drugs and humanity in algorithms" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Rich, Robert: Electronic composer Robert Rich on "Ambient Music" at a Berkeley LASER (Slides)
Rich, Robert: Ambient composer Robert Rich at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Rindfleisch, Jan: Jan Rindfleisch (Author) on "The Blossoming of Silicon Valley's Arts Community" (program)
Rindfleisch, Jan: Jan Rindfleisch (Author) on "The Blossoming of Silicon Valley's Arts Community" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Rocha, Marilia: Marilia Librandi Rocha (Stanford/ Literature) on "Clarice Lispector and Vincent van Gogh - Hearing the Wild Heart" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Rong, Kiri: Kiri Rong (Curator) on "The State of the Arts in China" at a USF LASER
Rong, Kiri: Kiri Rong (Visual Artist, Curator, Computer Scientist) on "The State of the Arts in China" at a Stanford LASER (2014) (Slides)
Rothschild, Lynn: Lynn Rothschild (NASA Astrobiologist) on "Synthetic Astrobiology" at a Stanford LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014.html
Russell, Stuart: Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley/ Center for Intelligent Systems) on "The long-term future of (Artificial) Intelligence" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Sabes, Philip: Philip Sabes (UCSF/ Neuroscience) on "Brain-Machine Interfaces" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Sahami, Mehran: Mehran Sahami (Stanford/ Computer Science) on "Ethical Implications of Machine Learning" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Salesin, David: David Salesin (Adobe Creative Lab) on "How to use the Power of the Computer to Bring Aesthetics and Good Design into our Lives" at a Berkeley LASER
Scaruffi, Piero: Cultural historian Piero Scaruffi at UCLA on the LASER series and on how art/science influenced Silicon Valley
Scaruffi, Piero: Piero Scaruffi (Author) on "Artificial Intelligence in the age of Deep Learning and Machine Art" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Scaruffi, Piero: Cultural historian Piero Scaruffi on "Roger Sperry and the Age of the Brain" [Slides]
Scaruffi, Piero: Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian) on "Why the Singularity is not Coming any Time Soon - A Contrarian's View" at a Stanford LASER (program) [slides)
Scaruffi, Piero: Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian) on "The Two Cultures in the age of A.I." at Univ of San Francisco (program)
Scaruffi, Piero: "When A.I. makes art, is it still Art?" Panel at Univ of San Francisco with Meredith Tromble (San Francisco Art Institute), Karen Gaskill (Curator, Media Art Innovation), Mark Carranza (Self Quantifier and Pansophist) and Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian, Author of "Intelligence is not Artificial") (program)
Schaffer, Karl: Karl Schaffer (Choreographer) on "Dancing with Mathematics" at a Berkeley LAsER (program)
Schwarzer, Marjorie: Marjorie Schwarzer on "An Elephant in the Closet: The history of habitat dioramas" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Sears, Derek: on "The Science of Meteorites" at a USF LASER [Slides]
SEEC Photography: Enar de Dios Rodriguez (Photographer), Thomas Juffmann (Stanford/ Physics and SEEC Photography) and Phillip Haslinger (UC Berkeley/ Physics) on " Photography at the Speed of Light" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Seelig, Tina: Tina Seelig (Stanford, Faculty Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program) on "From Inspiration to Implementation" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Segal, Adrien: Adrien Segal (Sculptural Data Artist) on "Scientific inquiry, sensory experience, and the creative process" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Segal, Adrien: Adrien Segal (Sculptural Data Artist) on "Scientific inquiry, sensory experience, and the creative process" at a Stanford LASER - take 2 (program)
Sequin, Carlo: Carlo Sequin (UC Berkeley) on "Hyperbolic Hexagon to Evolving Trefoil" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Sequin, Carlo: Carlo Sequin (UC Berkeley) on "Klein bottles and Super-Bottles" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Shafer, Audrey: Stanford director of the Arts, Humanities and Medicine Program (teaser only)
Shaff, Stan: Stan Shaff (Audium) on "Exploring and expanding the language of space in music composition and performance" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Shaff, Stan: Stan Shaff (Audium) on "Exploring and expanding the language of space in music composition and performance" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Sheng, Shanshan: Multimedia artist Shanshan Sheng at a USF LASER
Sheng, Shan Shan: Visual artist Shan Shan Sheng at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Sherwood, Katherine: Katherine Sherwood (UC Berkeley) on "How a Cerebral Hemorrhage Altered my Art" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Siegel, Mikey: Mikey Siegel (Consciousness Technologist) on "The Art and Technology of Human Connection" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Siegel, Mikey: Mikey Siegel at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Siegel, Mikey : Mikey Siegel (Consciousness Technologist) on "The Art and Technology of Human Connection" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Siembieda, Danielle: Danielle Siembieda (Visual Artist and Curator) on "The Future of Eco Art/Tech" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Siembieda, Danielle: program)
Siembieda, Danielle: Danielle Siembieda-Gribben (Visual Artist and Curator) on "The Future of Eco Art/Tech" at a Berkeley LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014b.html
Sigurdson, Vanessa: Vanessa Sigurdson (Autodesk Artist in Residence) on "Autodesk Artist in Residence" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Sigurdson, Vanessa: Vanessa Sigurdson (Autodesk Artist in Residence) on "Autodesk Artist in Residence" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Sigurdson, Vanessa: Vanessa Sigurdson (Autodesk Artist in Residence) on "Autodesk Artist in Residence" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Silverstein, Eva: Eva Silverstein (Stanford/ Cosmology) on "Horizon Dynamics and String Theory" at a Stanford LASER (2017) - program
Sitoy, Renetta: Multimedia artist Renetta Sitoy on "Art and Science"
Skokowski, Paul: Paul Skokowski (Stanford Philosopher) on "Are you a zombie?" at a USF LASER
Smith, Jenn: Jenn Smith (Mills College) on "Cooperation in Mammalian Societies" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Smith, Jenn: Jenn Smith (Mills College) on "Family Matters in Wild Mammals" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Smolke, Christina: Stanford biologist Christina Smolke on "Synthetic Biology" at a USF LASER
Snyder, Michael: Michael Snyder (Stanford, Co-Principal Investigator at the Center for Genomics) on "Transforming Health Care Using Genomics, Wearables and Big Data" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Snyder, Michael: Michael Snyder at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Sonalkar, Neeraj: Neeraj Sonalkar (Stanford/ Design) on "What improvised theater, jazz and design thinking have in common" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Sonami, Laetitia: Laetitia Sonami (Kinetic and Sound Artist) on "Your presence is Required" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Song, Beibei: Beibei Song (Essinova) on "Exodus, influx and residencies" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Spain, Sharon: Art curator Sharon Spain at a Stanford LASER (2014) on Recology's Artist in Residence Program
Spector, Tami: Tami Spector (USF) on "The Molecular Elusive" at a Berkeley LASER (program) [Slides]
Spector, Tami: Tami Spector (USF) at a Stanford LASER (program)
Spelletich, Kal: Kinetic artist Kal Spelletich at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Spelletich, Kal: Kal Spelletich on "Interactive Machine Art" at a Berkeley LASER
Stevenson Won, Andrea: Andrea Stevenson Won (Stanford's Communication Dept) on "The Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab" at a Stanford LASER (2014) - program
Stork, David: David Stork (Rambus Labs) on "Computer image analysis of Parmigianino's Self portrait in a convex Mirror and of Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Stork, David: at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Stork, David: David Stork (Rambus Labs) on "Computer image analysis of Parmigianino's Self portrait in a convex mirror" at a Stanford LASER
Sturtz, Michael: Michael Sturtz (Stanford dSchool) at a Berkeley LASER on "Creativity, design thinking, and the future of making and learning" (program)
Sumner, Dawn: Dawn Sumner (UC Davis/ Earth and Planetary Sciences) on "On the CAVE, Creativity and Curiosity" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Sundaralingam, Pireeni: Pireeni Sundaralingam on "Poetry & Memory" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program
Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan on "Natural Aesthetics: GenArt, BioArt, Biomimicry, SynBio, CrowdArt" at a Stanford LASER [Slides]
Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan (Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies) on "Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology Explained" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Swan, Melanie: Futurist and philosopher Melanie Swan at a Berkeley LASER on "GenArt, BioArt, Biomimicry, SynBio, CrowdArt" [Slides]
Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan (New School of New York) on "The Age of Cybercurrencies" at the 2015 LAST festival
Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan on "Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology Explained" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Tanaka, Hirohisa: Hirohisa Tanaka (SLAC National Laboratory) on " Neutrinos: The Desperate Remedy" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Todhunter, Andrew: (Stanford writer Andrew Todhunter discussing Art and Science) at a Stanford LASER
Tody, James: James Doty (Founding Director, Stanford's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education) on "Why be Nice" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Travaglianti, Manuela: Manuela Travaglianti (UC Berkeley/ Political Science) on "How can we Prevent Election Violence?" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Tromble, Meredith: Art/Design: The State of the Object
Tromble, Meredith: Visual artist Meredith Tromble and Cave scientist Jordan Van Aalsburg
Tromble, Meredith: Artist and educator Meredith Tromble of the San Francisco Art Institute on "The Dream Vortex And Collaborative Process" at a USF LASER
Tromble, Meredith: Multimedia artist Meredith Tromble on " Dream Vortex" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program
Tromble, Meredith: Meredith Tromble (San Francisco Art Institute) on " Dream Vortex" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Tullman-Ercek, Danielle: Danielle Tullman-Ercek (UC Berkeley/ Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) on "Synthetic Biology: The Challenges and Potential of Engineering Living Systems" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Tullman-Ercek, Danielle: Danielle Tullman-Ercek (UC Berkeley) on "Synthetic Biology" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program) (or better quality)
Turner, Fred: Fred Turner (Stanford/ Dept of Communication) on "Technology, Counterculture and The Dream of a World Without Politics" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Tyler, Christopher: Christopher Tyler (City University of London) on "Leonardo himself: A lifelong self-portrait" (program of this evening)
Ulehla, Niki: Niki Ulehla on "Marionettes, forms and relationships" (Slides) at a Stanford LASER
Ulfeldt, Anja: Anja Ulfeldt (Media Artist) on "Subjective Infrastructure" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Urnov, Fyodor: Fyodor Urnov (pioneer of gene editing) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Urnov, Fyodor: Fyodor Urnov (UC Berkeley/ Genomics) on "Genetics and Society" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Viskontas, Indre: Singer and neuroscientist Indre Viskontas discussing "Music and Brain" (2013) (Slides) at a Berkeley LASER
Viskontas, Indre: Singer and neuroscientist Indre Viskontas discussing "Music and Brain" at a Stanford LASER (Slides)
Viskontas, Indre: Singer and neuroscientist Indre Viskontas discussing "Music and Brain" at a USF LASER (Slides)
Vitale, Wayne: Wayne Vitale on his gamelan opera "Makrokosma Bali" at a Berkeley LASER
Wagner, Mark: Mark Wagner at UC Berkeley on "Street Painting" (2013)
Wagner, Mark: Digital media and street artist Mark Wagner at a Stanford LASER
Waisman, Nina: Nina Waisman (Media Artist) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Wall, James: James Wall (Stanford/ Biodesign) at a Stanford LASER (program)
Walter, Peter: program)
Wang, Ge: Ge Wang (Stanford CCRMA) on "Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Wang, Ge: Ge Wang (Stanford CCRMA) on "Artful Design" (program of this evening)
Weigend, Andreas: Andreas Weigend (Stanford and former chief scientist at Amazon) on "How the Social Data Revolution changes (almost) everything" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Weissman, Irving: Irving Weissman (Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine) on "How normal stem cells regenerate the body but sometimes lead to cancer" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Whaley, Birgitta: Birgitta Whaley (Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center) on "What role does Quantum Mechanics play in Biology? at a USF LASER (2014) (program) (or better quality)
Whaley, Birgitta: Birgitta Whaley (Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center) on "What role does Quantum Mechanics play in Biology? at a Berkeley LASER (program)[slides]
Whaley, Birgitta: Birgitta Whaley on "Quantum Biology" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Whitney, Hunter: Art/Design: The State of the Object
Widom, Jennifer: Jennifer Widom (Stanford/Computer Science) on "Big Data" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Winters, Ian: Ian Winters (Media Artist) on "Summer, Winter, Spring - Observing the Seasons" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Winters, Ian: Multimedia artist Ian Winters on "Responsive Art" at a USF LASER
Witkowsky, Lea: Lea Witkowsky (Innovative Genomics Institute/ Policy Analyst) on "CRISPR, Rewriting DNA, and the Societal Questions it Raises" (program)
Wold, Erling: Erling Wold (Composer) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Wong, Theresa: Theresa Wong (Composer and Performer) on "Multiplicity of Roots - Expanded Techniques and Harmonies of the Cello and Voice" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Wong, Theresa: Theresa Wong (Composer and Performer) on "Multiplicity of Roots - Expanded Techniques and Harmonies of the Cello and Voice" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Worel, Kathrine: Kathrine Worel (Visual Artist) on "Touch Me There - The Role of Plastic Art in the Digital Age" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Wymore, Lisa: Lisa Wymore (UC Berkeley/ Theater) on "Improvisational Dance Within Computer Augmented Spaces: Dancing with the Unknowable" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
Wyss-Coray, Tony: Tony Wyss-Coray (Stanford/ Neurology) at a Stanford LASER (program)
Xie, Shelly: Shelly Xie's sand-animated video "The Moving Hands" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program)
Yajima, Rieko: Rieko Yajima (AAAS and Stanford/ Design) on "Art/Science Policy" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Yajima, Rieko: Rieko Yajima (Stanford/ Design and AAAS) at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Yang, Weidong : Weidong Yang (Kine-tech) on "Data insights through gestural interactive 3D visualization" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
Yang, Weidong: Weidong Yang (Kine-tech) at a Stanford LASER (program)
Zacharia, Janine: Janine Zacharia (Stanford/ Communication) on "The Era of Noise: How to Counter Fake News" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Zadeh, Reza: Reza Zadeh (Stanford Institute for Computational Mathematics) on "Computer Vision Made Simple" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Zadeh, Reza: Reza Zadeh (Stanford Institute for Computational Mathematics) on "Computer Vision Made Simple" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
Zhang, Caterina: Caterina Zhang (Media Artist, China) on "Multi-dimentional representation of Oriental Art" at a Stanford LASER (program)
Zhang, Stella: Visual artist Stella Zhang
Zoi, Catherine Radford: Cathy Zoi (Stanford) on "Human Ingenuity, the Renewable Resource that Really Can Halt the Climate Crisis" at a Stanford LASER (program)

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