LASER

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by Arizona State University Art Museum, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.

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

Schedule:

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: Mathias Crawford (Institute for the Future) on "The Future of Games, and Games for the Future"

Games that help us think about the world, and our place in it, in new and profound ways. How to harness a massive amount of attention in order to create games that help change the world.

7:10-7:35pm: Robert Buelteman (Photographer) on "Photography Without the Camera"

The application of high-voltage electrical currents and hand-delivered fiber optic light can create fine-art photographs of living plants through a creative process inspired by Japanese ink-brush painting and improvisational jazz

7:35-7:50: BREAK

7:50-8:15pm: Suzanne Husky (Recology artist in residence) on "Sleeper Cell Hotel"

A conceptual craft public art proposal and past projects that involve "Off The Grid" living, plant perception, and how humans engage with nature in our complex environmental times.

8:15pm-8:45pm: Robert Horn (Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute & Stanford)

TBA