October LASER Event

6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

7:00-7:30pm: Renetta Sitoy (artist) on "The Internet as Media"

Employing a range of strategies for acquiring, organizing, and re-contextualizing information found on the World Wide Web; exploring themes such as online communities (in which participants communicate through mediated, self-defined personas), "cyber-stalking," as well as using the Internet as a means of self-discovery and recollecting personal histories.

7:30-8:00pm: Henrik Bennetsen (Katalabs) on "What the Next Phase of the Web Could Mean"

In its first two decades the web has had a profound impact on how we work and collaborate. With the emerging HTML5 and WebGL standards we are poised to see a broad wave of change in the coming years. The inclusion of richer technologies such as 3D in the population of native web citizens is likely to see us truly move beyond the Gutenberg paradigm.

8:00-8:30pm: BREAK

8:30-9:00pm: Anna Couey on "Communication Systems as Social Sculpture"

Projects and reflections about artists involved in telecommunications as an artistic medium, from building communication systems as social sculpture to facilitating community-led research as a strategy for building power and transforming social systems.

9:00pm-9:30pm: Chris Palmer (Artist) on "Tradition Meets Modern Digital Fabrication"

Custom software tools (rhinoscripts | grasshopper definitions) developed to serve the expression and fabrication of Middle Eastern styles combining structure and ornament.

9:30pm-10:00pm: Discussions, more socializing

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