Art/Science Cultural Events in San Francisco

Leonardo Interdisciplinary Cultural Events

in the San Francisco Bay Area

I have chaired or co-chaired or will chair the following events in the San Francisco Bay Area on behalf of Leonardo ISAST:

Meeting of the Working Group of Bay Area Scientists active in the Arts (april 2007)
Art/Science Evening - LASER I (january 2008)
Art/Science Evening - LASER II (march 2008)
Art/Science Evening - LASER III (may 2008)
"Big Bang" New Media Conference at U.C. Berkeley (june 2008)
Art/Science Evening - LASER IV (14 july 2008)
Art/Science Evening - LASER V (8 september 2008)
Art/Science Evening - LASER VI (10 november 2008)
Art/Science Evening - LASER 2.1 (12 january 2009)
Art/Science Evening - LASER 2.2 (9 march 2009)
Art/Science Evening - LASER 2.3 (11 may 2009)
Art/Science Evening - LASER 2.4 (13 july 2009)
Art/Science Evening - LASER 2.5 (14 september 2009)
Art/Science Evening - LASER 2.6 (9 november 2009)
Also in the pipeline: interdisciplinary round-tables on Consciousness, Time and Life
Also in the pipeline: another Big Bang/ Remix conference

Email me if you'd like to be on the mailing list for these interdisciplinary cultural events.
Why i do this: a cognitive and historical perspective on art and science

Leonardo ISAST
piero scaruffi

piero scaruffi

piero scaruffi, who graduated in Mathematics from the University of Torino in Italy, is a cognitive scientist who has been the manager of an Artificial Intelligence Center in a large multinational, has been a visiting scholar at several academic centers (notably Harvard and Stanford universities), has lectured in three continents (including U.C. Berkeley Extensions) and published several books on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, the latest one being "The Nature of Consciousness" (2006). He pioneered Internet applications in the early 1980s and the use of the World-Wide Web for cultural purposes in the mid 1990s. His interdisciplinary research aims at merging Physics (notably Quantum Physics, Relativity and Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics), Mathematics (notably non-linear systems), Psychology, Linguistics and Biology towards a synthesis that would yield a theory of consciousness. His poetry has been awarded several national prizes in Italy and the USA, and is currently working on a multi-lingual poem with sounds and images. As a music historian, he has published ten books, the latest ones being "A History of Rock Music" (2003) and "A History of Jazz Music" (2007). He is currently working on "A History of Avantgarde Music". He has also written extensively about cinema, literature and the visual arts for his website www.scaruffi.com, and has been working for several years on a history of knowledge. An avid traveler, he has visited more than 120 countries of the world and hiked all over California..

Essays on science and art | Cognitive Science

Latest book: "The Nature of Consciousness"

Self-portrait (2007)