December LASER Event

Schedule:

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

7pm - 7:25pm: Jennifer Parker (UC Santa Cruz) on "Down to Earth: Art, Astronomy and Physics"

Highlighting new works created by artists and scientists from the UCSC OpenLab Network.

7:25-7:50pm: Jennifer Dionne (Stanford Univ) on "Lights, Nano, Action!"

Imagine a world where cancer is cured with light, objects can be made invisible, and teleportation is allowed through space and time.

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: Audrey Shafer (Stanford Univ) on "Meaning and Medicine: Poetry and the Arts, Humanities & Medicine Program"

Medical humanities is a relatively young field with ties to history of medicine, medical anthropology, literature & medicine, feminist & disability studies, bioethics, cultural studies, arts therapies, and religious studies.

8:30pm-8:55pm: Mark Wagner (Street painter) on "Street Painting & Burning Man: Creating Community Through Impermanent Art"

Street Painting, aka chalk drawing/pavement art has recently come to the front of the global art world. The largest chalk drawing that set the Guinness World Record required working on the streets with tens of thousands watching.