July LASER Event - San Francisco

• 7:00-7:25: Cere Davis(Media Artist) on "Kinetic Design Patterns Produced Through Motion"Methods to visualize, model and ultimately create life-like kinetic forms of motion...Read more
• 7:25-7:50: Beibei Song(Essinova) on "Exodus, influx and residencies"What exactly is going on between art and technology in the Bay Area?...Read more
• 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.
• 8:10-8:35: Lark Buckingham(Berkeley/ Center for New Media) on "Tech startups as 21st century imagination"The concept of Silicon Valley startups as a cultural location where imagined realities are made real through financial backing...Read more
• 8:35-9:00: 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") will lead a discussion on "When A.I. makes art, is it still Art?" Everybody in the audience is welcome to participate.Over the last year Artificial Intelligence has produced paintings, music and poetry. When these are so convincing that most humans think they are made by fellow humans, should they be considered art and exhibited in museums? Or do we need a new definition of what art is? (Download the slides) ...Read more

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• 9:00pm-9:30pm: Discussions, networkingYou can mingle with the speakers and the audience

Room FR115