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2014Dec 21 @ Berkeley Art Museum: Farewell party to the old building with a full day of free events including Ligeti's PoŠme Symphonique for 100 metronomes Till Dec 19 @ Zero1: Karolina Sobecka http://zero1.org/exhibitions/sobecka Dec 17 @ Stanford CCRMA: Berglind Maria Tomasdottir and Carolyn Chen http://event.stanford.edu/events/476/47683/ Till Dec 14 @ Pacific Film Archives: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/houhsiaohsien Dec 12 @ Chabot Science Center: Matt Walker on "Mysteries of the Sleeping Brain" http://wonderfest.org/secrets-of-the-sleeping-brain/ Dec 11 @ Stanford: Robert Lang on Art and Science of the Origami CANCELED FOR BAD WEATHER Dec 11 @ Stanford: An art/science evening with Sally Benson (Stanford/ Energy Engineering), Lucia Jacobs (UC Berkeley Psychology) on "How the Brain Evolved from a Nose", Rachna Nivas (Chitresh Das Dance Company), Chris Chafe (Stanford CCRMA) and Josef Parvizi (Stanford Neurology) CANCELED FOR BAD WEATHER Dec 10 @ UC Berkeley: An art/science evening with Lily Alexander (UC Santa Cruz) on "Counterculture, Collectivity, and the Aesthetics of Early Communications Art", Carlo Sequin (UC Berkeley) on "Hyperbolic Hexagon to Evolving Trefoil", Paula Birnbaum (USF Art History) on "Contemporary Feminist Art and Globalization", Laetitia Sonami (Kinetic and Sound Artist) Dec 9 @ Castro Theater: Jared Diamond Dec 9 @ Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience: Dirk DeRidder on "The Bayesian brain, phantom percepts and brain implants" Dec 8 @ Long Now Foundation: Juerg Lehni's chalk drawing robot http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/event/chalkdrawingrobot Dec 6 @ Stanford: Shostakovich's Qiartet #8 Dec 5 @ Berkeley Art Museum: Terry Riley Dec 4-6 @ Yerba Buena: Christine Marie's shadow show 4TRAINS http://www.ybca.org/christine-marie Dec 4 @ Byers Auditorium, Genentech Hall, UCSF Mission Bay Campus: Clown and mime Geoff Hoyle Dec 4 @ Stanford: Indian Literature and Culture in Medieval China http://event.stanford.edu/events/464/46417/ Dec 3 @ CCRMA: Computer music concert Dec 3 @ Stanford: Sustainable architecture http://event.stanford.edu/events/468/46889/ Dec 2 @ Stanford: David Adjaye - Designing the Architecture of Civic Space http://event.stanford.edu/events/469/46915/ Dec 2 @ Stanford: Susskind, Linde, Kuo and Silverstein on "How Did the Universe Begin, and How Will We Know?" Dec 1 @ Stanford: Christof Koch on "Exploring Cortex in a High-Throughput Manner" https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/events/exploring-cortex-high-throughput-manner-building-brain-observatories-christof-koch Nov 21 @ Berkeley Art Museum: Pauline Oliveros Nov 21 @ Mozilla: Virtual Reality with Kinetech's immersive 3D data experience http://www.eventbrite.com/e/codame-arttech-virtual-reality-tickets-13773776737?aff=efbbt Nov 18 @ Computer History Museum: IBM's Chairman & CEO Ginni Rometty Nov 17 @ David Brower Center, Berkeley: Rick Lowe http://atc.berkeley.edu/ Nov 16 @ Hertz Hall: World premiere of two works by George Crumb Till Nov 14 @ swissnex: Placemakers/ Moments in Algorithmic Places (MAPs) http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/event/placemakers/ Nov 14 - Jan 31 @ Jules Maeght Gallery: Art In Motion with Kal Spelletich and others Nov 13 @ CCRMA: Composer, performer, and installation artist James Fei will present a solo show of The Nerve Meter and Sine of Merit III http://event.stanford.edu/events/455/45577/ Nov 13 @ Stanford: Hyeonseo Lee, North Korean Defector and Activist http://event.stanford.edu/events/467/46739/ Nov 13 @ Stanford: David Velleman on "Kant among the sherpas" Nov 12 @ Stanford: David Velleman on "Aristotle in Bali" Nov 10 @ Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience: Steve Chase (Carnegie Mellon University) http://redwood.berkeley.edu/seminars.php Nov 10 @ USF: LASER with Brenda Hutchinson (Composer) on "Sound, Listening and Public Engagement", Amy Ho (Projection Artist) on "The Space We Inhabit", Danielle Tullman-Ercek (UC Berkeley/ Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) on "Synthetic Biology", John Granzow (Stanford CCRMA) on "Drawing Things into Sound" www.lasertalks.com Nov 8 @ Omni: Daniel Spaulding on Marxist Art History https://omnicommons.org/wiki/Event:2014/11/08_BAPS/Birdhouse_presents_On_Marxist_Art_History Nov 7 @ Stanford: Michael Bratman on "Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together" Nov 6 @ Stanford: Monks, Silks and Spices: Towards a History of Buddhist Mobility in the 2nd-millennium Indian Ocean Region http://event.stanford.edu/events/464/46409/ Nov 6 @ Stanford: Suzanne Guerlac on "Proust and Photography" Nov 5 @ ZERO1: panel discussion with Roselyn (Cissie) Swig, Bay Area cultural civic leader, Derek Slater, Policy Manager at Google Inc, Sean Hewens, Amplify Program Director and In-House Counsel at IDEO. org in conversation with Jaime Austin Nov 5 @ Stanford: Roberto Calasso http://event.stanford.edu/events/469/46999/ Nov 4 @ Berkeley: Indrani Baruah's "Cultural Re-imaginations" http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/sseas.html?event_ID=81000&date=2014-11-04&filter=Event%20Type Nov 4 @ Stanford: mathematician Tadashi Tokieda on "Toy Models" http://events.stanford.edu/events/459/45971/ Nov 3 @ CCA: A symposium on machines that construct stuff http://digitalcraft.cca.edu/2014/10/fall-2014-colloquium/ Oct 31 @ Geekdom: Codame's In-Secure http://www.codame.com/post/portfolio/in-secure/ Oct 30 @ Stanford: Joshua Landy on "Proust and Consciousness - Philosophy as Fiction" Oct 29 @ Stanford: Zimbabwean mbira master Cosmas Magaya presents a concert of traditional mbira music http://event.stanford.edu/events/467/46707/ Oct 28 @ Omni: Biohacker Social in Counter Culture Labs Oct 27 @ BAASICS: "Monsters" with Erik Butler, Daniel Cohen, Brynda Glazier, John Hafernik, Jill Miller Oct 26 @ CCRMA: Special concert for 40 years since CCRMA's inception, 50 years of computer music at Stanford, John Chowning's 80th birthday Oct 25 @ Rohnert Park: Laurie Anderson Oct 24 @ California Institute of Integral Studies: "Is Mind Change the new Climate Change?" symposium Oct 23 - Nov 1 @ San Francisco: Bay Area Science Festival - lots of events: http://www.bayareascience.org Oct 23-25 @ The Lab, San Francisco: the second LAST festival www.lastfestival.com mixing science talks (Chris McKay of NASA, Bruno Olshausen of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute on Nanotech, Charles Chiu of UCSF on the Ebola epidemics, Piero Scaruffi on the Singularity) with digital/interactive/participatory art (Adam Carlin & Erich Richter: "Some Thing Grounded"; Carlos Castellanos: "Mobile Bioenergy Lab"; Gene Felice & David Kant: "Coactive Systems"; Peter Foucault: "Attraction/Repulsion"; Emily Martinez: "AntiApocalypse"; OpenLab (Sean McGowen, Ian Ayyad, Richard Vallejos, Joel Horne) : "BioSensing Garden"; SonicSENSE (Jennifer Parker & Barney Haynes): "SoundPool"; Erich Richter: "Chant") plus a live performance by sound artist Laetitia Sonami, and a noise music coda Oct 21 @ swissnex: Placemakers http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/event/placemakersopening/?utm_content=2013-02-28%2001%3A52%3A13&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=PLACEMAKERS%20Opening%20Reception&utm_campaign=Fall%20events%20at%20swissnex%20San%20Franciscocontent Oct 21 @ Stanford: Doug Wolens' documentary "The Singularity" http://event.stanford.edu/events/466/46641/ Oct 21 @ Modernism: Jonathon Keats' Microbial Associates http://www.modernisminc.com/exhibitions/Jonathon_KEATS--Microbial_Associates/ (Read about it here: http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/should-silicon-valley-hire-microbes-140926.htm ) Till Oct 18 @ Hosfelt Gallery: Jim Campbell Oct 16-26 @ Palo Alto: International Documentary Film Festival http://www.unaff.org/2014/schedule.html Oct 16 @ Yerba Buena: Emergent Atlas' interactive exhibition with Amy Ho and others Till Oct 16 @ SFSU's Fine Arts Gallery: A survey of collage practices in the Bay Area Till Oct 16 @ Agrella Art Gallery: "Art and Science Intersect" with Gail Wight, Adrien Segal, Ken Goldberg, Amanda Hughen, Chris Taggart, John Roloff Till Oct 16 @ Museo Italo Americano: Lina Wertmuller's films Oct 15 @ San Francisco Conservatory Recital Hall: Sarah Cahill performing Sofia Gubaidulina's Chaconne, Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin, Beethoven's "Spring" Sonata and Mozart's Sonata in E minor www.sfcm.edu Oct 15 @ Minerva Foundation: Lynn Hershman, JD Beltran, Karen Marcelo, etc http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/archive/201410/ Oct 12-13 @ ODC Theater: dance piece by Gilles Jobin CERN with visual artist Julius von Bismarck and physicist Nicolas Chanon http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org/event/quantum/ Oct 12 @ Fort Mason/ The Interval: Book launch of Leonard Shlain's posthumous "Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius" Oct 11 @ San Mateo: Robert Buelteman, Lia Cook, Alan Rath, Kal Spellectich www.lasertalks.com Oct 9-11 @ San Mateo Art Silicon Valley Fair http://www.artsvfair.com Oct 9-10 @ Stanford: Inaugural Symposium of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute http://event.stanford.edu/events/460/46041/ Oct 9 @ Stanford Univ: Andrea Stevenson Won (Stanford's Communication Dept) on "The Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab", Margot Knight (Djerassi Resident Artists Program) on "Scientific Delirium Madness", Maria McVarish (Stanford/ Modern Thought and Literature) on "Mapping the Uncharted: Non-Cartesian Spaces", Patricia G Lange (California College of the Arts) on "Evaluating Techno-Aesthetics in Video" www.lasertalks.com Oct 8 @ Computer History Museum: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Marissa Mayer Oct 8 @ UC Berkeley: Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "The Philosophical Baby", Edward Frenkel (UC Berkeley/ Mathematics) on "Love and Math", Stephen Palmer (UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "Color, Music, and Emotion", Drue Kataoka (Visual artist) on "TBA" www.lasertalks.com Oct 5 @ Stanford: Kronos Quartet Oct 5 @ Point Reyes Dance Palace: Schubert's B-flat major Trio, Beethoven's "Spring" Sonata, Mozart's E minor Sonata www.dancepalace.org Oct 4 @ Yerba Buena: Open City/Art City Festival http://ybca.org/open-city-art-city Oct 3 @ Zero1: Karolina Sobecka Oct 2 @ Stanford: Dave Eggers and Tobias Wolff on privacy in the digital age http://event.stanford.edu/events/449/44995/ Oct 1-2 @ Stanford CCRMA: Outdoors computer music concert Oct 1 @ Stanford: Earth Matters: Feeding the World in the 21st Century, lecture by Roz Naylor Till Sep 30 @ PAcific FIlm Archives: Kubrick's films Till Sep 28 @ Yerba Buena: Bay Area Now 7th Triennial Sep 27-28 @ Art Institute: Iranian Film Festival Sep 27-28 @ The Lab, 2948 16th Street: Brutal Sound Effects Festival #78 Sep 26-27 @ Recology: Samuel Levi Jones, Jeremy Rourke and Shushan Tesfuzigta Sep 25-28 @ Davies Hall: Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra Sep 25-28 @ Zellerbach Hall: Mark Morris' "Spring" Sep 25 @ Stanford: Fundamental Themes in Neuroscience http://event.stanford.edu/events/454/45443/ Sep 23 @ Stanford: Conflict, War and Genocide in East Central and South East Europe http://event.stanford.edu/events/453/45391/ Sep 21 @ Redwood Park in Oakland: Art in Nature festival, featuring music, dance, sculpture, painting, martial arts, poetry, body painting, circus arts, theater, visual arts, ... www.artinnaturalfestival.org Sep 20-21 @ Treasure Island: Dragon Boat Festival Till Sep 20 @ Classic Cars West: Elena Kulikova photography Sep 20 @ Castro: A night of 1914 cinema Till Sep 20 @ Exit Theaterplex: Fringe Festival Sep 20 - Oct 16 @ SFSU's Fine Arts Gallery: A survey of collage practices in the Bay Area Till Sep 20 @ Stanford: David Glowacki's digital interactive quantum art piece http://event.stanford.edu/events/449/44911/ Sep 18-21 @ Davies Hall: Tchaikovsky's Symphony 5 Sep 18 @ Agrella Art Gallery: "Art and Science Intersect" with Gail Wight, Adrien Segal, Ken Goldberg, Amanda Hughen, Chris Taggart, John Roloff Sep 18 @ St Johns Presbyterian Church: Diane Ackerman on "The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us" http://www.stjohnsberkeley.org Sep 18 @ Xerox PARC: Steve Omohundro on AI and Robotics Sep 18 @ Stanford: Computing, Imagination and Identity in Phantasmal Media http://event.stanford.edu/events/455/45573/ Sep 16 - Oct 21 @ UC Berkeley: Piero Scaruffi's class on History of Thought http://bit.ly/1juff1k Sep 13-14, 18-21 @ Cowell Theater: Dances of the Sacred and Profane, a collaboration among Mark Foehringer, Camille Utterback, David Glowacki, Phill Tew, Melissa Kaufman-Gomez, Michael StClair http://www.fortmason.org/events/events-details?id=3038 Sep 14 @ Berkeley Arts Festival: Sarah Cahill performing Mamoru Fujieda's Patterns of Plants with the composer berkeleyartsfestival.com Sep 12 @ UC Berkeley's Wheeler Auditorium: Free screening of the film "Particle Fever" with UCB physicists Lawrence Hall, Yasunori Nomura, Surjeet Rajendran, Beate Heineman, Petr Horava, Marjorie Shapiro Sep 12 @ 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley: Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence Sep 10-13 @ Davies Hall: Beethoven's Piano Concerto 1 & Bates' Alternative Energy Sep 10 @ Stanford: Insights From The Intersection of Technology, Law & Politics http://event.stanford.edu/events/455/45539/ Sep 8 @ USF: LASER with Loren Frank (UCSF/ Neuroscience) on "What is a memory?", Lia Cook (Visual Artist) on "Woven Faces and Neuro Nets", Birgitta Whaley (Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center) on "What role does Quantum Mechanics play in Biology?", Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society) on "The Case for a New Biopolitics" www.lasertalks.com Sep 6-7 @ UC Berkeley: 2014 Conference on Neuroesthetics http://www.minervaberkeley.org/conferences/seeing-knowing-vision-knowledge-cognition-and-aesthetics/ Sep 5 @ Zero1: Eric Parren's immersive audiovisual performance Sep 4-20 @ Stanford: David Glowacki's interactive installation "danceroom Spectroscopy" http://event.stanford.edu/events/449/44911/ Till Aug 29 @ Pacific Film Archive: Kenji Mizoguchi's films Till Aug 28 @ Pacific Film Archive: Derek Jarman films Aug 20 @ Zero1: David Szlasa's real-time post-production Aug 9 @ Stanford Bing Concert Hall: Chick Corea August 7 - Stanford University: Lynn Rothschild (NASA Astrobiology), Jonathon Keats (Philosopher), Stuart Kendall (California College of the Arts), Indrani Baruah (Architect and Visual Artist) www.lasertalks.com August 6 - UC Berkeley: Philip Marcus (UC Berkeley/ Mechanical Engineering), Curator and artist Danielle Siembieda-Gribben, Marion O'Leary (Carnegie Institute), Andrea Lingenfelter (USF) www.lasertalks.com Aug 6 @ Zero1: Cara Rose DeFabio's interactive cell phone theater Aug 4 @ Stanford: Kenny Burrell Aug 3 @ Stanford: Fred Hersch Aug 1 @ Zero1: Live performance by ATOM-r (Anatomical Theatres of Mixed Reality) Jul 31 @ Montalvo: Taj Mahal and John Hiatt Jul 31 @ Royce Gallery: Donald Swearingen, Jon Leidecker, Pamela Z, and Kadet Kuhne Jul 27 @ Djerassi: Scientific Delirium Madness open house http://www.djerassi.org/openhouse.html Jul 26 @ Kala: Residency Projects by Brian Barr, Ben Bigelow, Tammy Rae Carland, Andrew Connelly, John Davis, Corey Escoto, Amy Ho, Cybele Lyle, James Sterling Pitt Jul 26 @ Alter Space: Soundwave Festival's Opening night party of Atmospheric Multimedia Exhibition http://www.soundwavesf.com/6/july26 Jul 24 @ Yerba Buena: Lucas Artists Residency Program with composer Tiffany Lin, Mexican musician Andres Solis, Columbian dancer Sandra Gomez, performance artists Susan O'Malley and Leah Rosenberg Jul 23 - Nov 17 @ Cantor Museum: Experiments in Light by Gyorgy Kepes Jul 23 @ Zero1: John Slepian's levitation http://zero1.org/events/bringit/slepian Jul 20 @ Headlands Center for the Arts: Open House Jul 19 @ Stanford: Mozart's Symphony #40 Jul 19 @ Catherine Clark Gallery: live performance by John Slepian Jul 19 @ SOMArts: Pamela Z's solo performance Jul 19-20 @ ODC Theater: Kinetech Arts' "The Other Sight" by Daiane Lopes da Silva, Weidong Yang, Charlie Levin, Raymond Larrett Robert Edgar, Robin Edgar and Jean Tarantino http://kine-tech.org Jul 18 @ CounterPulse: Bay Area Now 7 After Party Jul 18 - Sep 28 @ Yerba Buena: Bay Area Now 7th Triennial Jul 18 @ Starry Plough in Berkeley: Moe Staiano, Amy Neuburg, Joey Molinaro Jul 14 @ ODC Theater: BAASICS Monsters with John Hafernik, Erik Butler, David McGuire, sculptor Brynda Glazier Jul 12 @ Mirus: British painter James Roper http://www.mirusgallery.com Jul 11 - Aug 8 @ http://etaletc.com : Amy Ho's We Are Only Dust and Shadow Jul 10 @ Swissnex: Who Are the Hacktivists? http://swissnexsanfrancisco.org/Ourwork/events/hacktivism Jul 10 @ Royce Gallery: Piano music by Sarah Cahill, Luciano, Chessa, and Joe Lasqo Jul 10 - Sep 28: Soundwave Festival http://www.soundwavesf.com Jul 7 @ USF: July 7 - Univ of San Francisco: David Glowacki (Bristol University), Jackie Quinn (Autodesk Bio/Nano), Digital video sculptor Alan Rath, Catherine King (International Museum of Women) Jul 3 @ Center for New Music: Cheryl Leonard performing natural-object instruments Jul 1 @ Stanford: Ravi Shankar's lecture on compassion http://event.stanford.edu/events/446/44669/ Jun 27 @ Montalvo Arts Center: Terry Berlier's kinetic sculpture "played" by Chris Chafe, Luciano Chessa, and Ellen Fullman Jun 26,27,29 @ Davies Symphony Hall: Britten's "Peter Grimes" Jun 25 @ Zero1: Miwa Matreyek's multimedia live performance Jun 22 @ SF Jazz Festival: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble Jun 22, 23,25,27,28,29 @ Stanford: St Lawrence String Quartet http://music.stanford.edu/SLSQWorkshop/ Jun 20 @ SF Jazz Festival: Zoe Keating Jun 21 @ Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland: Garden of Memory performances of new music http://www.gardenofmemory.com Jun 19-21 @ Ojai: North Music Festival Jun 19-21 @ Zellerbach Hall: Ojai North Music Festival calperformances.org Jun 17 @ SF Jazz Festival: Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood Jun 19-21 @ Ojai: North Music Festival Jun 12 @ Stanford: Leonardo Art Science Evening http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/jun2014.html with Tania Lombrozo (UC Berkeley Psychologist), Rachel Haurwitz (CaribouBioSciences), Annapurna Pandey (San Jose State Univ/ Anthropology), David Stork (Rambus Labs) Jun 11-29 @ ACT: "The Orphan of Zhao" Jun 11 @ UC Berkeley: Leonardo Art Science Evening http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/jun2014b.html with Stacey Bent (Stanford's TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy), Soraya Murray (UC Santa Cruz/ Film & Digital Media), Danielle Tullman-Ercek (UC Berkeley/ Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), Kiri Rong (Curator) on "The State of the Arts in China" Jun 6-7 @ Zero1: the first LAST festival www.lastfestival.com Jun 4-7 @ Davies Symphony Hall: Beethoven Concerto #2 & Shostakovich Symphony #10 Till May 25 @ Berkeley Art Museum: The Possible May 15-18 @ Fort Mason Center: artMRKT http://www.art-mrkt.com/sf May 22 @ Stanford: Benjamin Simon performing and lecturing on the Haydn quartets https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/publicprograms/eventcalendar.php May 17 @ Cubberley Community Center: Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra performing Ralph Vaughan Williams, Ernest Bloch and Handel http://www.pacomusic.org/paco_wp/2013-14-concert-season May 16-17 @ Stanford: Jack Kornfield on neuroscience and Buddhism https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/publicprograms/eventcalendar.php May 15 @ Stanford: Robin Fleming on using human bones to rewrite history https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/publicprograms/eventcalendar.php May 13 @ SRI Intl: Sven Beiker on "The Future of Automobiles and Our Personal Mobility" http://www.cafescisv.org May 9-10 @ Zellerbach Hall: Orchester Wiener Akademie & John Malkovich May 9-10 @ Joe Goode Annex, 401 Alabama St: Katharine Hawthorne's "The Escapement," a evening-length dance performance tracking human methods of timekeeping from sundials through the atomic clock May 9 @ Berkeley Art Museum: Michael Gordon's opera "Van Gogh" May 6 @ UCSC: Paul Koch (Biology), Norman Locks (Art), Elaine Sullivan (History), Ronaldo Wilson (Literature) http://arts.ucsc.edu/institute/events-site May 5 @ USF: Terry Johnson (UC Berkeley) on "Synthetic Biology: Teaching Old Cells New Tricks", Chhoti Rao (USF) on "India's Contemporary Art Scene", Bruno Olshausen (Director of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley) on "Modeling the Neural Basis of Visual Perception, and Implications for Technology and Art", Ashley Bellouin (Composer) on "In Search of an Eternal Present" http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/may2014.html May 3 @ UC Berkeley: Cognitive Science Conference http://cssa.berkeley.edu/conference.php May 3 @ Kickstarter: Kickstarter block party May 2 @ Berkeley Art Museum: Del Sol String Quartet May 1 @ Center for New Music: composer Brenda Hutchinson http://centerfornewmusic.com/calendar/ May 1 @ Stanford CCRMA: Laptop Orchestra Apr 30 @ Stanford: Ed Catmull, cofounder of Pixar Apr 29 @ Berkeley: Bay Area Modern Music http://www.composersinc.org/ Apr 29 @ Stanford: mediaX 2014 Conference Apr 29 @ Kinetech: David Glowacki on Quantum Art http://www.kine-tech.org/ Apr 29 @ California College for the Arts: Isaac Julien speak his NYMOMA installation Ten Thousand Waves Apr 28 @ UC Berkeley ATC: composer Paul De Marinis http://atc.berkeley.edu/ Apr 27 @ Sudo Room: BICEP2's collaborator Jamie Tolan on their discovery of gravitational waves https://sudoroom.org/ai1ec_event/gravity-waves-results-and-implications-of-the-bicep2-experiment/?instance_id= Apr 25-26 @ Zellerbach Hall: Mark Morris Dance Group Apr 25 @ Marines Memorial Theater: Baghdad in Its Golden Age (762-1300) http://www.marineclub.com/calendar/?y=2014&m=4&d=25&id=691&view=list Apr 25 @ St. Mark's Episopal Church in Palo Alto: Shostakovich's Piano Quintet, in G minor, Op.57 Apr 24-27 @ Fort Mason: Sweet Thunder: Electro-acoustic music festival http://www.fortmason.org/events/events-details?id=2743 Apr 24 @ Stanford: Chrystia Freeland on "Plutocrats, the Hollowed out Middle Class and Democracy" Apr 24 @ Berkeley Arts Festival: Multimedia Extravaganza - An evening of light, motion, music, technology, innovation, art, science, and dance. https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php?event_ID=77684&date=2014-04-24&tab=all_events Apr 23 @ Stanford: Morris Chang, founding chairman of Taiwan's TSMC conversation with Stanford University President John Hennessy Apr 22 @ Center for New Music: The Hub, the world's first laptop ensemble Apr 22 @ SETI Institute: Ed Frenkel http://www.seti.org/weeky-lecture/greater-sum-seti-artist-residence-special-event Apr 19 @ Abbott Lighthouse in Santa Cruz: Eve Warnock, Gene, Nate Ober, Catalina Giraldo, etc http://lighthousebloom.com/ Apr 18 @ Stanford: Haydn's Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross Apr 16 @ Pacific Film Archives: Godard's Contempt with lecture http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/film50_2014 Apr 16 @ Stanford: Imagining Xi Jinping's China in 2023 http://event.stanford.edu/events/431/43117/ Apr 15 @ Stanford CCRMA: Annual one-night presentation of Electronic Music Apr 15 @ Kinetech (1 Grove St): Piero Scaruffi on "A Brief History of Creativity kfrom Athens to Silicon Valley" http://www.kine-tech.org Apr 14 @ Stanford: Sitta von Reden on Global Economic History 1000 BCE - 600 CE Apr 12 @ Hertz Hall: Eco Ensemble performing Garvey, Lin, Gee, Campion Apr 11 @ Center for New Music: Ned Rothenberg Apr 11 @ Stanford: St Michael Trio performing and lecturing on Beethoven https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/publicprograms/eventcalendar.php Apr 11 @ California College for the Arts: Piero Scaruffi on "The Body" http://www.scaruffi.com Apr 11 @ CA College of Arts: Lisa Cholodenko Apr 11 @ Berkeley Art Museum: Alvin Curran Apr 11 @ Stanford: Michael McFaul (former US Ambassador to Russia) on US-Russian Relations http://event.stanford.edu/events/430/43065/ Apr 10 @ Computer History Museum: Sony Computer Entertainment's Shuhei Yoshida Apr 10 @ Stanford: Pakistan in the Contemporary World http://event.stanford.edu/events/433/43347/ Apr 10 @ SRI Intl: Xconomy Forum: Robo Madness 2014 http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2014/01/29/xconomy-forum-robo-madness-2014-2/ Apr 9 @ Intersection: Berlie Lubell's reception http://theintersection.org/2014/02/bernielubell/ Apr 9 @ Stanford: The technology of simulation and animation in Japan http://event.stanford.edu/events/431/43199/ Apr 9 @ Stanford: "The Status of Women in Islam" Apr 9 @ Stanford: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education http://event.stanford.edu/events/433/43383/ Apr 8 @ Stanford: Jeff Raikes (Gates Foundation) on " Wealth, Philanthropy, and Inequality" https://ethicsinsociety.stanford.edu/events/lectures/ethics-of-wealth-series/jeff-raikes-wealth-philanthropy-and-inequality Apr 7 @ Berkeley Gund Theater: Ed Catmull berkeleyarts.org Apr 7 @ UC Davis: Christina Cogdell (UC Davis), Jesse Drew (UC Davis), Michael Neff (UC Davis), Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian) www.lasertalks.com Apr 8 @ UC Santa Cruz: Jenny Reardon, Pamela Z, Slawek Tulaczyk, Martin Berger www.lasertalks.com Apr 6 @ Hertz Hall: Kronos Quartet performing Aleksandra Vrebalov's "World War I Chronicles" Apr 5 @ Stanford: "Rediscovering Brahms": Demonstration, Workshop, Discussion http://event.stanford.edu/events/428/42869/ Apr 4 @ Interface: Site responsive artworks by Finnis, Lyle, Amy Ho, Spertus Apr 4 @ Old First Church: Clarinet Thing Apr 4 @ CA College of Arts: Kristian Simsarian "Meaning First: Let's Humanize Technology" Apr 1-6 @ Zellerbach Hall: Alvin Alley Dance Theater calperformances.org Apr 3 @ Stanford: Patricia Burchat (Stanford Physics), Robert Rich (Composer), Kal Spelletich (Kinetic Artist), Sharon Spain (Art Curator) http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/apr2014.html Apr 2 @ UC Berkeley: chaos scientist Jim Crutchfield, cognitive scientist Lucia Jacobs, multimedia artist Shan Shan Sheng, video and sound artists Renetta Sitoy and Laetitia Sonami http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/apr2014b.html Mar 31 @ UC Berkeley ATC: Stephanie Syjuco http://www.lasertalks.com>http://atc.berkeley.edu/ Mar 23 @ Zellerbach Hall: Zakir Hussain and the Masters of Percussion Mar 22-23 @ Hertz Hall: Bartok's Quartets Mar 21 - 22 @ Zellerbach: Trey McIntyre Project calperformances.org Mar 20 @ ZERO1 Garage: premiere of Tiffany Shlain's film "The Science of Character" https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-science-of-character-tickets-10810236709 Mar 16 @ Zellerbach Hall: Shostakovich's Quartets #2,4,13 calperformances.org Mar 15 @ Mills College: Signal Flow Festival http://www.signal-flow.org Mar 14 @ Stanford CCRMA: CCRMA Winter Concert Mar 14 @ Berkeley Art Museum: Joan LaBarbara http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late031414 Mar 14 @ Sandler Neurosciences Center: Mind Matters multidisciplinary art exhibit http://mind-matters.org/ Mar 12 @ Zellerbach Hall: Eva Yerbabuena (flamenco) Mar 12 @ Computer History Museum: Technion's president Peretz Lavie http://www.computerhistory.org/events/upcoming/#technions-president-peretz-lavie-conversation Mar 12 @ Pacific Film Archives: DeSica's Umberto D with lecture http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/film50_2014 Mar 10-28 @ Sandler Neurosciences Center: Mind Matters multidisciplinary art exhibit http://mind-matters.org/ Mar 10 @ UC Berkeley ATC: Don Buchla http://atc.berkeley.edu/ Mar 10 @ USF: Katherine Worel (Visual Artist), Dawn Sumner (UC Davis/ Earth and Planetary Sciences), Jeremy Mende (Visual Designer), Ellen Fullman (Composer) http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/mar2014.html Mar 8 @ Cubberley Community Center: Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra performing Britten's Simple Symphony and Shostakovich's first piano concerto http://www.pacomusic.org/paco_wp/2013-14-concert-season Mar 8, 9, 13, 29; Apr 5, 12, 19 @ Pacific Film Archives: Jean-Luc Godard http://my.berkeley.edu/site/R?i=IpTobKt2PqJbv9Hn_SXN1g Mar 7-8 @ Zellerbach: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra calperformances.org Mar 6 @ Stanford: Hirokazu Yoshikawa: Public Policy and Interventions Designed to Reduce Poverty and Inequality Mar 6, 8, 9, 23, 29, 30; Apr 6, 12, 19, @ Pacific Film Archives: Satyajit Ray http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/ray Mar 4 @ Stanford: Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohn, "The New Digital Age, Transforming Nations, Business and Our Lives" Mar 4 @ swissnex: Forecasting the Future of Science and Science Communication. Mar 3 @ Computer History Museum: Google's Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen in conversation with Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Feb 28, Mar 8, Mar 9, Mar 13, Mar 29, Apr 5, Apr 12, Apr 19 @ Pacific Film Archives: Jean-Luc Godard http://my.berkeley.edu/site/R?i=IpTobKt2PqJbv9Hn_SXN1g Feb 28 @ UC Santa Cruz: Oron Catts http://openlabresearch.com/archives/3108 Feb 28 @ Stanford: Technology + Performance with Magrin-Chagnolleau, Christine LeRoy, Shannon Jackson, Abigail deKosnik, Jennifer Brody Feb 27-28 @ UC Berkeley: Art-in-Science: The intersection of image and research http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/?event_ID=74783&date=2014-02-27&tab=all_events Feb 27 @ UC Santa Cruz: Amy Youngs http://openlabresearch.com/archives/3108 Feb 26 @ Zellerbach: Yo-yo Ma and Emanuel Ax calperformances.org Feb 26 @ UC Santa Cruz: Helen and Newton Harrison http://openlabresearch.com/archives/3108 Feb 25 - March 2 @ San Francisco Ballet: Firebird Feb 25 @ UC Santa Cruz: LASER http://arts.ucsc.edu/institute/events-site Feb 24 @ UC Berkeley ATC: Casey Reas http://atc.berkeley.edu/ Feb 23 & Alley Cat Books Gallery (3036 24TH St): Jack Freeman reception and Babar Jug Band Feb 23 @ Hertz Hall: Schoenberg's String Quartet No 2 and Schubert's String Quartet No 14 Feb 22-23 @ Zellerbach Hall: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet calperformances.org Feb 23 @ Stanford CCRMA: Buddha, the Brain, and Bach https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/matb/ Feb 22 @ Stanford CCRMA: Music and Altered Cognitive States https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/matb/ Feb 22 @ Lake Chabot: ATOMIC walk http://www.scaruffi.com/phi/atomic.html Feb 20-22 @ Stanford: "American Buffalo" by David Mamet Feb 22 @ Hertz Hall: Eco Ensemble performing Ligeti, Bedrossian, Jodlowski Feb 20 @ Stanford: The Fight for Internet Freedom Feb 19 @ Stanford: "The Evolutionary Enigma of Sex," Feb 19 @ Pacific Film Archives: Orson Welles' Citizen Kane with lecture http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/film50_2014 Till Feb 15 @ SOMArts Cultural Center: "All Possible Futures" exhibition on graphic design http://www.somarts.org/allpossiblefutures/ Feb 16 @ Mills College: Haydn http://musicnow.mills.edu/spring_concert3.php Feb 16-28 @ Alley Cat Books Gallery (3036 24TH St): Jack Freeman retrospective Feb 15, 23, 27; Mar 6, 8, 9, 23, 29, 30; Apr 6, 12, 19, @ Pacific Film Archives: Satyajit Ray http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/ray Feb 13 @ Stanford: Ingrid Robeyns on "Having Too Much" http://event.stanford.edu/events/402/40271/ Feb 12 @ Stanford: Adrian David Cheok (Mixed Reality Lab, Singapore), Dave Deamer (UC Santa Cruz Astrophysics), Margot Gerritsen (Stanford Computational Mathematics), Mark Applebaum (Stanford CCRMA) http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/feb2014.html Feb 11 @ Berkeley: Mason Bates' Digital Loom http://www.composersinc.org/ Feb 11 @ UC Berkeley: Eric Paulos (multimedia artist), Curt Frank (Stanford Chemical Engineering), Bernie Lubell (Kinetic Artist), Katherine Sherwood (Visual Artist) http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/feb2014b.html Feb 9 @ ZSpace: Amy Neuburg and Kronos Quartet Feb 8 @ Stanford: Understanding Buddhist Art http://event.stanford.edu/events/409/40999 Feb 7 & 8 @ Joe Goode Annex in Project Artaud: "Carbon Song Cycle", an intermedia work for chamber ensemble and expanded cinema by composer Pamela Z and video artist Christina McPhee http://carbonsongcycle.brownpapertickets.com/ Feb 4 @ Stanford Dinkelspiel: George Gershwin Legacy https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/publicprograms/event.php?eid=20132_EVT%20237 Feb 3 @ Stanford: Marvin Odum, President of Shell Oil Company http://event.stanford.edu/events/419/41999/ Feb 3 @ Berkeley: Ren Weschler on "A Typology of Convergences: Towards a Unified Field Theory of Cultural Transmission" events.berkeley.edu/?event_ID=71727&date=2014-02-03 Feb 1 @ Stanford Bing Studio: Pan-Asian Music Festival panel http://event.stanford.edu/events/412/41247/ Jan 31 - Feb 1 @ Zellerbach: Martha Graham Dance Company Jan 30 @ Stanford CCRMA: Jonathan Berger's chamber operas "Visitations" Jan 30 @ Stanford: Elaine Pagels on The Book of Revelation http://events.stanford.edu/events/409/40989/ Jan 30 @ Kala: Light artist Amy Ho http://www.kala.org/fellow/fellowship_events.html#pro_space Jan 30 @ Cantor Arts Center: Nancy Troy Jan 30 @ Stanford: "The Holocaust, Modern Genocides and the Anti-Atrocity Movement" Jan 29 - May 25 @ Berkeley Art Museum: The Possible http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/possible Jan 28 @ Stanford: David Glowacki and Joseph Hyde - Danceroom Spectroscopy: Generating Coupled Graphics & Sound by Modelling Humans as Energy Fields https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/david-glowacki-and-joseph-hyde-danceroom-spectroscopy-generating-coupled-graphics-sound-model Jan 25- Feb 2 @ San Francisco Ballet: Giselle Jan 24-25 @ Recology: Yulia Pinkusevich; Stephanie Syjuco and Brittany Watkins http://www.recologysf.com/index.php/sculpture-garden/106-artist-in-residence/606-artist-in-residence-exhibitions-work-by-yulia-pinkusevich-stephanie-syjuco-and-brittany-watkins Jan 25-26 @ Zellerbach: Peking Acrobats calperformances.org Jan 23 @ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art: Kinetic sculptor Terry Berlier http://www.sjica.org/detail.html?eid=1013 Jan 23 @ Stanford: Karl Eikenberry on "The Limits of Counterinsurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan" http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/8022 Jan 22 @ Stanford: A selection of videos about dance selected by Lynette Kessler Jan 22 @ Stanford: Vint Cerf, inventor of the Internet protocol http://event.stanford.edu/events/386/38679/ Jan 18 @ Stanford: Beethoven's Great Fugue with lecture https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/publicprograms/event.php?eid=20132_EVT%20384 Jan 16 - Feb 15 @ SOMArts Cultural Center: "All Possible Futures" exhibition on graphic design http://www.somarts.org/allpossiblefuturesopens Jan 16 @ Stanford: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties http://event.stanford.edu/events/410/41069/ Jan 16 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: ConVerge, an evening of cross-disciplinary performance and conversation http://www.ybca.org/converge Jan 15 @ Stanford: Nicholas Lemann on "The Transaction Society: Origins and Consequences" Jan 14 @ SRI Intl: Cafe Scientifique with Robert Kerr of the Arecibo Observatory Jan 13 @ USF: Paula Birnbaum (USF Art History) on "Contemporary Feminist Art and Globalization", John Cumbers (NASA) on "The Synthetic Biology Startup Ecosystem", Danielle Siembieda-Gribben (Curator) on "The Future of Eco Art/Tech", Kiri Rong (Curator) on "The State of the Arts in China" http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/jan2014.html Jan 12 @ Shapeshifters Cinema: live performance by Allison Leigh Holt & Scott Stark Jan 10 @ Stanford: Interdisciplinary workshop on sound as an embodied experience https://soundmaterialimagination.stanford.edu/ Jan 8 & 15 @ Davies Symphony Hall: Beethoven and Mason Bates 2013 |