July LASER Event

6:30pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.

6:45-7:10pm: Margarita Marinova (NASA) on "Exploring University Valley in Antarctica"

7:10-7:35pm: Jack Eric Grossman, Anisha Jain, Laura Martini and James Thompson (Stanford University) on "Boutique for Robots" introduced by Shona Kitchen (multidisciplinary artist) and Bill Smart (Willow Garage and Washington University of St Louis)

Imaginary products designed specifically for a world where robots and humans live in harmony playfully and imaginatively interrogate the future through design experiments.

7:35-7:50: 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.

7:50-8:15pm: Randal Koene (Carboncopies) on "Why and How to Transition from Wet-Ware to Substrate-Independent Minds"

Our minds are run on a machine composed of wet-ware that we describe as the brain. Substrate-independent minds are the route by which we can achieve pattern survival for our species in a competitive universe.

8:15pm-8:45pm: Pamela Z (Multimedia artist) on "Baggage Allowance"

The making of a sonically and visually layered multimedia work focusing on the concept of baggage in all its literal and metaphorical permutations.

Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com