May LASER Event

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

7pm - 7:25pm: Lucia Ayala Asensio (UC Berkeley) on "Fluid Skies - or how to combine art, history and cosmology"

A collaboration between an art and astronomy historian, an astrophysicist and an artist.

7:25-7:50pm: Sara Loesch-Frank (Lettering Artist) on "Follow the Glow: Metallic Leaf and Unusual Media in Art"

Many people are familiar with gilding as the flash of gold on medieval manuscript pages. Most people are unaware of how the metal adhered to the page or where the colors came from on the illuminations.

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.

8:10-8:35pm: Reuben Margolin on "Making Waves"

Ant colonies work without any central control. Gordon's work shows how this system, which we call "Anternet", is analogous to the one that regulates the flow of data in the Internet.

8:35pm-9:00pm: Sasha Leitman & John Granzow (Stanford CCRMA) on "Research in Computer Music at Stanford's CCRMA"

An overview of the history of The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)'s research and current work being done in Digital Signal Processing, Network Sound, Laptop Performance, Perception, Interface Design and Interactive Art Installations.

Maier Room