July LASER Event

6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

6:45-7:10pm: Linda Gass (Artist) on "Can Art Change Our Water Consciousness?"

A visual presentation on textile-based art informed by site, maps, aerial photography and environmental activism. The artwork portrays aerial views of the human marks on our landscape in an effort to draw attention to concerns about water, using beauty to encourage people to look at the hard issues we face.

7:10-7:45pm: 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

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15pm: Cindy Stokes (Photographer) on "Dynamic Form"

A discussion of photographs and comments on some of the universal principles involved in the image structures.

8:15pm-8:45pm: Imin Yeh on "Downloadable Mahjong"

A discussion and craft circle based upon print media in the digital age and contemporary possibilities for "La Perruque"

Admission is free but limited. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com