November 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: Ken Eklund on "Massively Seeking Susan: Connecting Strangers Through Gameplay / ZOROP"

Don't believe those who dismiss it as some sort of game. Zorop is real, and so is the Great Zoropathetic Warp - the fabric of human connection woven whenever strangers find something in common. Zoropathians can prove it: through their agency, people will see the threads they add to this great weave (at the 01SJ Biennial in September). is it possible that just by visualizing simple human connections we can make the world a better place?

7:10-7:35pm: Tom McKeag (BioDreamMachine) on "How Would Nature Do That?"

Teaching science through design to natural-born inventors

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15pm: Robert Lang (Origami Artist) on "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes"

Origami, the ancient Japanese art of has undergone a renaissance over the last few decades, in part due to the contributions of scientists and mathematicians to the art. Mathematical techniques can give rise to both artworks of remarkable beauty as well as real-world applications in medicine, space, and more.

8:15pm-8:45pm: Robert Edgar on "Software Engines to Examine Mediated Artifacts"

The Simultaneous Opposites engine is a performance/navigation system for real-time traversal of existing video files, sorting through the audio and video a single frame at a time, in a arrhythmic spiraling motion.

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