March LASER Event - San Francisco

• 7:00-7:25: Juniper Harrower(UC Santa Cruz) on "Merging art and science to save Joshua trees"An eco-art and social-science approach to understand the ways that climate change impacts key symbiotic interactions...Read more
• 7:25-7:50: Fabio Barry(Stanford/ Art History) on "Where Do White Temples Come From?"The Acropolis was an anomaly... the Greeks strove to build in light...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: Andrew Blanton(San Jose State Univ) on "Networks as Art and Extended Interface"A philosophical look at the relationship between alchemy and cyberpunk aesthetics of the 1980's...Read more
• 8:35-9:00: Stephen Auger(Media Artist & Light Theorist) and Benjamin Smarr on "Interstellar Hallucination"Visualization of patterns that inform nearly all shamanic and archaic traditions...Read more

Berman Room

Editor's Note: We originally listed this event for March 12.  This is the correct date.