October LASER Event (note location has changed from previous listing)

* 6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.

* 7:00-7:25: 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.

7:25-7:50: Rachel Beth Egenhoefer (USF) on "Knitting Code"

Knit cloth is tangibly constructed from series of knit and purl stitches. Code 
is constructed from intangible sets of zeros and ones strung together. In 
Virtual Knitting users are able to knit with custom made electronic knitting 
needles in both physical and virtual space at the same time, constructing both 
tangible and intangible cloth.

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.

8:05-8:30: Myrrh Reagan (Visual Artist) on "My Life Among the Patterns"

Studying natural patterns both by drawing them and finding analogs for them in 
crafts materials. Patterns as metaphors for philosophic ideas.

8:30-8:55: Wayne Vitale (Gamelan Sekar Jaya) on "Makrokosma Bali"

Through the use of portable video cameras, live media processing and projections on multiple screens an ancient Hindu text is given new dimensions in "Makrokosma Bali", recently premiered by a 25 musician gamelan ensemble from Bali and a team of US-based visual, audio, and software artists.