June LASER Event

6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.

7pm - 7:25pm: Walter Kitundu (Sound artist) on "The Turntable as a Lens"

Records are sonic archives and they naturally reference the past. They are also objects that encourage a conversation with materials and movement. The turntable becomes a lens through which one can view the world...

7:25-7:50pm: Sean Gourley (Quid) on "A Global Intelligence Platform: the new AI - not Artificial Intelligence, but instead Augmented Intelligence"

How to augment our intelligence as algorithms take over the world.

7:50-8:10: 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.

8:10-8:35pm: Jeremy Mende (Designer) and Bill Hsu (San Francisco State University) on "Confrontational Strategies - The Social Mirror"

Two recent art installations use different approaches to the idea of the social mirror....

8:35pm-9:00pm: Melanie Swan on "Natural Aesthetics: GenArt, BioArt, Biomimicry, SynBio, CrowdArt"

The arts and technology are coming together in exciting ways in contemporary society...

Geology Corner, Braun Hall

Room 320-105