August LASER Event

6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.

7-7:25pm: Ken Eklund (Game Designer) on "Massively Seeking Susan: Connecting Strangers Through Gameplay"

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. Is it possible that just by visualizing simple human connections we can make the world a better place?

7:25-7:50pm: Jonathan Trent (NASA) on "Space-Time Traveling in the Here and Now: How Did We Get Here and What's Next?"

A broad perspective on our place in the history of the biosphere and the future of civilization with an emphasis on energy

7:50-8:05: 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.

8:05-8:30pm: Robert Edgar (Art Institute) on "The Simultaneous Opposites Engine"

Programs that let the artist jump through videos and reconstruct them in real time, playing the video and its audio like improvising with a musical instrument.

8:30pm-8:55pm: Cindy Stokes (Photographer) on "Dynamic Form"

Photographs and comments on some of the universal principles involved in the image structures. Formations in the macroscopic world resemble the structure and pattern of cells and tissues revealed by a microscope.

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