Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous

The LASERs are a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. See the program for the whole series.

Leonardo ISAST and USF invite you to a meeting of the Leonardo Art/Science community. See below for location and agenda.

The event is free and open to everybody. Email me if you want to be added to the mailing list for the LASERs.

Like previous evenings, the agenda includes some presentations of art/science projects, news from the audience, and time for casual socializing/networking.

6:45pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.
7:00-7:25: Piero Scaruffi(author) on "Roger Sperry and the Age of the Brain"As tradition, the first LASER of the year is a centennial tribute: Roger Sperry and his "split-brain" theory launched brain studies that revolutionized our idea of the self
7:25-7:50: Meredith Tromble(San Francisco Art Institute) on "The Dream Vortex And Collaborative Process" "Take Me To Your Dream" is a virtual installation and an artistic experiment...
7:50-8:10: 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.
8:10-8:35: Alison Gopnik(Berkeley) (Berkeley) on "The Philosophical Baby" What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love and the Meaning of Life...
8:35-9:00: Alvy Ray Smith(Pixar and Lucasfilm veteran) on "A Biography of the Pixel" A funny thing happened on the way to the millenium: The world went digital...
9:00pm-9:30pm: Discussions, networking You can mingle with the speakers and the audience