Friday, 7 September 2018 - 5:00pm to Monday, 10 September 2018 - 6:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Organizers: Dawn Faelnar + Ben Olsen
Art|Sci alumni and current grad student at Interface Cultures, Dawn Faelnar is one of the organizers of Leonardo SLAM, Sept. 7th, 9th and 10th, Ars Electronica Festival 2018, OK center Ursulinensaal, 5-6pm More info >>
The Leonardo Slam is an event for cross contamination of ideas, a short open public gathering based on the format of poetry slam, but more free-form: an individual or group may present work, words, stories, video, sound, ideas about work, work about ideas, work about work, ideas about ideas, work about nothing, ideas about music, music about performances, apples about oranges, oranges about history, history about histories, dance about architecture, et cetera.
Present or demonstrate an artwork, give a serious presentation, give a parody presentation, read a manifesto, tell an anecdote, involve the audience, improvise a song. There is no limit on the form of the presentation other than having a non negative duration and not being too long.
* Composer and neuroscientist Indre Viskontas will explore how music engages the brain and why it continues to be a worldwide addiction
* Rebecca Kamen of Northern Virginia Community College will discuss the notion of scientist as artist and artist as scientist, highlighting historic images from prestigious library collections.
* Shamit Kachru, a Physicist at Stanford Unviersity, will discuss how extra dimensions of space dimensions may help to explain some of the puzzles of modern physics.
* Performance artist Scott Kildall will explain how he plans to beam Twitter messages from participants worldwide to Gliese 581d - an exoplanet 20 light years away that can support extraterrestrial life.
Audience members are also invited to share their current projects. For more information, click here.
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Stanford University
Geology Corner (Bldg 320), Room 105
Palo Alto, CA
LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by School of Visual Arts MFA Computer Art Department, Arizona State University Art Museum, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.
Schedule:
6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.
7pm - 7:25pm: Shona Kitchen (San Jose State Univ's CADRE) on "Speculation of an Alternative Today"
A fresh outlook at technological adaptations and how they can enhance and enrich our surroundings rather that distract us from them.
7:25-7:50pm: Carlo Sequin (U.C. Berkeley) on "Knotty Sculptures"
Simple knots can be used as constructivist building blocks for abstract geometrical sculptures.
7:50-8:05: BREAK
Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work. Please present your work as a teaser so that those who are interested can seek you out during social time following the event.
8:05-8:30pm: Margarita Marinova (NASA) on "The Dry Valleys of Antarctica as an Analogue for Mars"
The Dry Valleys of Antarctica are a unique place on Earth: the coldest and driest rocky place, with no plants or animals in sight. Studying the Dry Valleys allows us to understand how the polar regions on Earth work, what the limits of life are - and to apply these ideas to the cold and dry environment of Mars.
8:30pm-8:55pm: Peter Foucault (SFAI) on "Systems and Interactivity in Drawing"
A discussion on how drawings are constructed through mark making systems, and how audience participation can influence the outcome of a final composition, focusing on an interactive robotic drawing installation.
Join the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), October 14, 2009 at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, CA, for feature presentations by Carlo Sequin on "Knotty Sculptures," Steve Wilson on "Overview of Art and Biology Experimentation," Wayne Vitale on "The Aesthetics of Oscillation in Balinese Music," and Bruce Damer on "The EvoGrid: Building a Precursor Artificial Origin of Life Simulator."
This event is FREE but space is limited. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com
