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MUSIC
- Cavdir, Doga: Doga Cavdir (Stanford CCRMA) on "Movement-based Music-making" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Spence, Heather: Heather Spence on "Underwater Sound Research: Music of Marine Biology" (program)
- Leonard, Cheryl: Cheryl Leonard on "Phantom Limbs: Composing Music Amidst the Sixth Extinction" (program)
- Kapuscinski, Jarek: Jaroslaw Kapuscinski (Intermedia Composer) on "Talking of Intermedia" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
- Bogart, Willard: Willard Van De Bogart (Author & Composer) on "How Scientists and Artists are Discovering Musical Patterns in Protein Structures" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Crawford, Stephan: Stephan Crawford (Climate Music Project) on "Climate Music" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Wang, Ge: Ge Wang (Stanford CCRMA) on "Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
- Wang, Ge: Ge Wang (Stanford CCRMA) on "Artful Design" (program of this evening)
- Ffortissimo, Mauro: Mauro Ffortissimo (Piano Deconstructor) on "What is a Piano?" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Kaneshiro, Blair: Blair Kaneshiro (Stanford CCRMA) on "Music Discovery" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Day, Mel: Mel Day (SJSU) on "Everyday Voices: Building a Different Kind of Wall" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Dresher, Paul: Paul Dresher (Composer) on "What Would Happen If..Inventing Musical Instruments" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Chessa, Luciano: Luciano Chessa (Composer) on "After the noise intoners" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Wold, Erling: Erling Wold (Composer) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Wong, Theresa: Theresa Wong (Composer and Performer) on "Multiplicity of Roots - Expanded Techniques and Harmonies of the Cello and Voice" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
- Shaff, Stan: Stan Shaff (Audium) on "Exploring and expanding the language of space in music composition and performance" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Leonard, Cheryl: Cheryl Leonard (Composer) on "Music from High Latitudes" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Pedersen, Anders: Anders Pedersen (Composer) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Wong, Theresa: Theresa Wong (Composer and Performer) on "Multiplicity of Roots - Expanded Techniques and Harmonies of the Cello and Voice" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Shaff, Stan: Stan Shaff (Audium) on "Exploring and expanding the language of space in music composition and performance" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- DeMarinis, Paul: Paul DeMarinis (Stanford/ Music) on "Erased Dots and Rotten Dashes" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Sonami, Laetitia: Laetitia Sonami (Kinetic and Sound Artist) on "Your presence is Required" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Hutchinson, Brenda: Brenda Hutchinson (Composer) on "Sound, Listening and Public Engagement" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program)
- Granzow, John: John Granzow (Stanford CCRMA) on "Drawing Things into Sound" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program)
- Cahill, Sarah: Contemporary music performer Sarah Cahill
- Sonami, Laetitia: Laetitia Sonami at the second LAST festival (2014)
- Bellouin, Ashley: Ashley Bellouin (Musician) on "In Search of an Eternal Present"
- Rich, Robert: Ambient composer Robert Rich at a Stanford LASER (2014) on Ambient Music
- LaBarbara, Joan: Joan LaBarbara live in Berkeley (March 2014)
- Chechile, Alex: Alex Chechile's "Sonic Vivarium" at Stanford CCRMA 2014
- Fullman, Ellen: Ellen Fullman (Musician) on "A Compositional Approach Derived from Material and Ephemeral Elements" at a San Francisco LASER
- Appelbaum, Mark: Mark Appelbaum (Stanford CCRMA) on "Visual Music and the Rehabilitation of Archaic Technologies" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
- Fullman, Ellen: Ellen Fullman (Musician) on "A Compositional Approach Derived from Material and Ephemeral Elements"
- Leitman, Sasha: Inventor and composer Sasha Leitman on "Research in Computer Music at Stanford's CCRMA"
- Vitale, Wayne: Wayne Vitale on his gamelan opera "Makrokosma Bali" at a Berkeley LASER
- Rich, Robert: Electronic composer Robert Rich at UC Berkeley on "Ambient Music" (Slides)
- O'Leary, Marion: Marion O'Leary (Stanford) on "Music and Science" at a Berkeley LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014b.html
- Cahill, Sarah: Sarah Cahill on "Music in Unusual Spaces"
- Leitman, Sasha: Sasha Leitman at USF (Stanford CCRMA) on "Research in Computer Music at Stanford's CCRMA"
- Kitundu, Walter: Walter Kitundu at a USF LASER (poor video)
- Kitundu, Walter: Walter Kitundu at a Stanford LASER
- Ostertag, Bob: Bob Ostertag on the history of Electronic Music
- Neuburg, Amy: Musician Amy X Neuburg at a SMMMASH on Language
- Vocallective performing Golijov's Tenebrae (2002)
- Vocallective performing Golijov's Tenebrae (2002)
- Indre Viskontas discussing music and brain at a San Francisco LASER (Slides)
- Viskontas, Indre: Singer and neuroscientist Indre Viskontas discussing "Music and Brain" at UC Berkeley 2013 (Slides)
- Indre Viskontas discussing music and brain at a Stanford LASER (Slides)
- Vocallective and soprano Indre Viskontas performing Golijov's How Slow the Wind (2001)
- Vocallective and soprano Indre Viskontas performing Golijov's Lua Descolorida (2002)
- Leonard, Cheryl: Nature composer Cheryl Leonard about music from Antartica)
- Gamelan Sekar Jaya
- Avantgarde composer Luciano Chessa discussing futurist art at a LASER
- Luciano Chessa discussing Luigi Russolo
- Tabla solo by Yogesh Samsiji (snippet)
- Tabla solo by Yogesh Samsiji (full concert)
- Dutch vocalist Jaap Blonk's virtuoso performance of Kurt Schwitter's "Ursonate" (1932)
- Chris Chafe on Mind (at a SMMMASH)
- Jaron Lanier (at a SMMMASH)
- Amjad Ali Khan - Part 1
- Amjad Ali Khan - Part 2
- Amjad Ali Khan - Part 3
- Edward Schocker
- Amy X Neuburg - Part 2
- Luciano Chessa : Solo for wind machine
- Cardew Choir performing Oliveros' Heart Chant
- Miya Masaoka
- Paul Dresher
- Maggi Payne: Fountain Installation
- Larnie Fox's feather propelled resonating strings
- Thomas DiMuzio & Wobbly
- Motoko Honda
- Eric Glick Rieman
- Ellen Fullman
- Amy X Neuburg - Part 1
- Vitale, Wayne: Wayne Vitale on his gamelan opera "Makrokosma Bali" at a Berkeley LASER
- Vitale, Wayne: Gamelan composer Wayne Vitale and filmmaker Robert Edgar collaborate on this video about the gamelan opera "Makrokosma Bali"
Cinema and Videogames
- Kirby, David: David Kirby (Cal Poly) on "The Nature of Diegetic Prototypes and their Social Impact" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Metzger, Sean + Liu, Jessie + Moses, David: Jessie Liu, David Moses & Sean Metzger (UC San Francisco) on Speech Neuroprosthesis at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Muotri, Alysson: Alysson Muotri (UC San Diego) on "Applications of Human Brain Organoids" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Metzger, Christine : Christine Metzger (California college of the Arts) on "Lights, Camera...Fiction?" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Murray, Soraya: Soraya Murray (UC Santa Cruz/ Film + Digital Media) on "The Visual Politics of Videogames" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
- Bojic, Jasmina: Jasmina Bojic (Stanford/ Cinema) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Finley, Jeanne: Jeanne C Finley (California College of the Arts) on "The Non-Fiction Imagination"
- Finley, Jeanne: Filmmaker Jeanne Finley at a SMMMASH on Language
Philosophy
LITERATURE
- Corngold, Stanley: Stanley Corngold (Princeton) on "An Interdisciplinary Celebration of Kafka" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Krimstein, Ken: Ken Krimstein (Cartoonist) on "An Interdisciplinary Celebration of Kafka" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Pentecost, Claire: Claire Pentecost (Media Artist) on "An Interdisciplinary Celebration of Kafka" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Perloff, Marjorie: Marjorie Perloff (Stanford Univ) on "Infrathin: Poetry as Verbivocovisual Art" (program of that evening)
- Perloff, Marjorie: Marjorie Perloff (Stanford Univ) on "TS Eliot's 'The Waste Land' at 100" (program of that evening)
- Cole, Sarah: Sarah Cole (Columbia Univ) on James Joyce's "Ulysses" at 100 at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Ascoli, Albert: Albert Russell Ascoli (UC Berkeley) on "Dante and the Invention of Italian, Italians, and Italy" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. in conversation with Piero Scaruffi (program of the evening: Ian Duncan (UC Berkeley) on "The Novel after the Scientific Revolution" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Mayor, Adrienne: Adrienne Mayor (Stanford/ Classics and History and Philosophy of Science) on "Gods and Robots" (program)
- Miranda, Omar: Omar Miranda (USF) on "Digitizing Spoken Poetry in the Age of Social Media" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Maravelis, Peter: Peter Maravelis (City Lights) on "Schizo-curation: Transcending the boundaries of spectatorship" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Peel, Ellen: Ellen Peel (SFSU/ Literature) on "Imagining the Constructed Body: From Statues to Cyborgs" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Marcom, Micheline: Micheline Marcom (Novelist) on "The Illuminated Book, the Imaginal World, Dreams, and Deep Reading" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Lingenfelter, Andrea: Andrea Lingenfelter (USF) on "A Translator's Tale: The Joys and Perils of Online Resources" at a Berkeley LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014b.html
- Rocha, Marilia: Marilia Librandi Rocha (Stanford/ Literature) on "Clarice Lispector and Vincent van Gogh - Hearing the Wild Heart" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Sundaralingam, Pireeni: Pireeni Sundaralingam on "Poetry & Memory" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program
DANCE
- Schaffer, Karl: Karl Schaffer (Choreographer) on "Dancing with Mathematics" at a Berkeley LAsER (program)
- Hill, Cherie: Cherie Hill (Choreographer) on "Moving Space & Time: Dub Dance Project" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Baines, Lauren: Lauren Baines (Choreographer) on "Embodied Knowledge: Mirror Neurons, Kinesthetic Empathy, and What Site Dance Can Show Us" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Nivas, Rachna: Rachna Nivas (Chitresh Das Dance Company) on "India's Kathak Dance: Synthesizing rhythmical math, ancient philosophy, and complex movement" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- Lopes, Daiane: Daiane Lopes Da Silva (Choreographer) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Wymore, Lisa: Lisa Wymore (UC Berkeley/ Theater) on "Improvisational Dance Within Computer Augmented Spaces" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Hill, Cherie: Cherie Hill (Choreographer) at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program)
- Hill, Cherie: Cherie Hill (Choreographer) at a San Francisco LASER - higher resolution (program)
- Baines, Lauren: Lauren Baines (Choreographer) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Hawthorne, Katharine: Katharine Hawthorne (Choreographer) on "Thinking Bodies in Motion" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Nivas, Rachna: Rachna Nivas (Chitresh Das Dance Company) on "India's Meditation in Motion: Pushing Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Boundaries through Kathak Dance" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Petrenko, Sasha: Choreographer Sasha Petrenko on "A World without Nature" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program
- Petrenko, Sasha: Sasha Petrenko (Choreographer) on Choreography that reflects a more integrated planetary existence at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- Bhardwaj, Antara: North-Indian classical dancer Antara Bhardwaj (Chitresh Das Dance company)
- Hawthorne, Katharine: Choreographer Katharine Hawthorne at Stanford
Architecture
ART
- Morawetz, Sata: Sara Morawetz (Media Artist) on "Measuring by Measuring Against: Experimental Methods in Artistic Practice" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Shiota Chiharu's exhibition at the opening of the new Shenzhen Art Museum (Nov 2023)
- Czegledy, Nina: Nina Czegledy on Russia's alternative media art at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Frants, Anna: Anna Frants on Russia's alternative media art at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Gubanova, Elena: Elena Gubanova on Russia's alternative media art at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Kolodzei, Natalia: Natalia Kolodzei on Russia's alternative media art at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Shishko, Olga: Olga Shishko on Russia's alternative media art at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Russian Artists and Curators: A special L.A.S.E.R. on Russia's alternative media art - Discussion at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Karle, Amy: Amy Karle (Bio-artist) on "Digital Dreams and Bio-realities: Reimagining Humanity Through Art and Technology" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Vesna, Victoria: Victoria Vesna (UCLA) on "Vibrations Matter: Art & Science of Deep Listening" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Stork, David: David Stork (Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University) on "Rigorous computer-assisted lighting analysis of the works by Johannes Vermeer" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening https://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/may2023.html )
- Haakenson, Thomas: Thomas Haakenson (California College of the Arts) on "Kurt Schwitters and the Space, Sound, Sexuality of Dada Resistance" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening https://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/may2023.html )
- Emery, Paige: Paige Emery (Interdisciplinary Artist) on "On Divinatory Ecologies for More-Than-Human Time" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening https://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/may2023.html )
- Jauernik, Christina: Christina Jauernik on "Touching Distance - Inter-Views with the Virtual" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Haslaahti, Hanna: Hanna Haslaahti on "Storytelling with Personal Avatars" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Ideami, Javier: Javier Ideami on "Encounters of the third kind with Generative Artificial Intelligence" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Zhang, Alice: Alice Yuan Zhang (Media Artist) on "The Need for Intergenerational Tech" at a Stanford LASER ( program of the evening)
- Lahaie, Therese: Therese Lahaie (Media Artist) on "Analog and Digital Migration" at a San Francisco LASER chaired by Tami Spector and Piero Scaruffi (program of that evening)
- Rare footage (mostly silent) of favorite painters of the early 20th century
- Ayton, Bill: Bill Ayton (Media Artist) on "Interplanetary VR Sustainable Futures" at a USF LASER (program of the evening)
- Bureaud, Annick: Annick Bureaud (Curator) on "Art and Science" at a USF LASER (program of the evening)
- Sommerer, Christa: Christa Sommerer (Media Artist) on "The Artwork as a Living System" at a USF LASER (program of the evening)
- Spiess, Klaus: Klaus Spiess (Vienna Medical Univ) on "Ecolalia" at a USF LASER (program of the evening)
- Anno, Kim: Kim Anno (California College of the Arts) on "Spectacle of Nature and Iconic Western texts: Oedius Rex and Dante’s Purgatorio" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Kan, Virj: Virj Kan (Design Scientist) on "Molecular Design Interactions" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Spelletich, Kal: Kal Spelletich (Machine Artist) on "Galactic Scale Inquiries into the Nature of the Cosmos" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Joshi, Suyash: Suyash Joshi (Engineer and Magician) on "S.T.E.A.M. Magic" (program of that evening)
- Splan, Laura: Laura Splan (Media Artist) on "Recursive Residues: Navigating Interfaces Between Virtual and Biological Worlds" (program of that evening)
- Paulsen, Kris: Kris Paulsen (Ohio State Univ) on "Virtual Surrender: Agency and Embodiment in Artists' Virtual Reality" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Sargeant, Betty: Betty Sargeant (Media Artist) on "The Art of Collaboration: Decolonising Digital Landscapes" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Yang, Lily: Lily Xiying Yang (Virtual Reality Artist) on "Land of Illusions - Creativity and Activism in Extended Reality" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Rossin, Rachel: Rachel Rossin (Media Artist) on "On Proxies: the vocabulary of art in the age of virtual and crypto cultures" (program of that evening)
- Friend, Sarah: Sarah Friend (Cryptoartist) on "Systems as Fictions" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (Program of the evening)
- Winger-Bearskin, Amelia: Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Univ of Florida) on "Visual Storytelling with Bleeding-edge Technologies" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (Program of the evening)
- Angel, Jessica: Jessica Angel (Media Artist) on "Integrated Immersive Experiences as Doors to the Metaverse" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Mustatea, Kat: Kat Mustatea (Playwright & Technologist) on "Augmented Reality and the Decaying Book" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. in conversation with Albert Ascoli and Piero Scaruffi (program of the evening: Heather Barnett (University of the Arts London) on "Compostulations: stories of interspecies encounters (between art, science and ecology)" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Stanton, Clare: Clare Stanton (Harvard Law School) on "Linkrot and Content Drift: The Irreversible Decay of Internet Content" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Barnett, Heather: Heather Barnett (University of the Arts London) on "Compostulations: stories of interspecies encounters (between art, science and ecology)" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Strohecker, Carol: Carol Strohecker (Dean of Design, University of Minnesota) at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Raina, Anastasiia: Anastasia Raina (Rhode Island School of Design) on "Posthuman Polymythology" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Hooper, Cynthia: Cynthia Hooper (Media Artist) on "Pulled Apart: Re-engineering and Re-purposing Human Civilization" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Chin, Adam: Adam Chin (Photographer) on "Pulled Apart: Re-engineering and Re-purposing Human Civilization" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Berlier, Terry: Terry Berlier (Stanford/ Art) on "Pulled Apart: Re-engineering and Re-purposing Human Civilization" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Simmons, Glori: Glori Simmons (USF Thacher Gallery) on "Pulled Apart: Re-engineering and Re-purposing Human Civilization" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Randerson, Janine: Janine Randerson (Auckland University of Technology) on "Weather as Medium" (program of the evening)
- Smith, Monica: Monica Smith (UC Los Angeles/ Anthropology) on "Urban Art: The First 6,000 Years" (program of this evening)
- Raina, Anastasiia: Anastasiia Raina and the Posthuman Mobility team (Rhode Island School of Design) on "Microbial Cosmologies" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Razi, Maryam: Maryam Razi (Art Researcher) on "Iran's Media Art Scene" (program of the evening)
- DePaulis, Daniela: Daniela de Paulis (Conceptual Artist) at a Stanford LASER/LAST (program)
- Marchessault, Janine: Janine Marchessault (York University) at a Stanford LASER/LAST (program)
- Dym, Miriam: Miriam Dym (Systems Artist) on her visual art based on infinitely variable and interactive pattern systems (program of the evening)
- Buelteman, Robert: Robert Buelteman (Photographer) at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Kodama, Sachiko: Sachiko Kodama (Visual Artist) at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Rutstein, Rebecca: Rebecca Rutstein (Interdisciplinary Artist) at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Bercial, Blanca: Blanca Bercial (Artist, Curator, Critic) on "The Paradox of Silence within a Social and Artistic Framework" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Karimi, Pantea: Pantea Karimi (Artist) on a virtual tour of her exhibition "The Unbearable Lightness of Mathematics" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Schuld, Dawna: Steve Harris (SFSU), Dawna Schuld (Texas A&M) and Saul Perlmutter (UC Berkeley) on "Revolution (in politics, art and science)" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Schleiner, AnneMarie: AnneMarie Schleiner on "Transnational Play" at a virtual LASER (program of this evening)
- Demir, Ilke: Ilke Demir on "The Science of Generative Art", at a virtual LASER (program of this evening)
- Malina, Roger: Roger Malina on "The Legacy of Frank Popper", at a virtual LASER (program of this evening)
- Hobbs, Craig: Craig Hobbs at a Stanford LASER - June 2020 (program of the evening)
- Li, Jiabao: Jiabao Li at a Stanford LASER - June 2020 (program of the evening)
- Reben, Alex: Alex Reben at a Stanford LASER - June 2020 (program of the evening)
- Codame: Codame founders Bruno Fonzi and Jordan Gray, Don Hanson and Char Stiles on "New Paradigms and Spaces for Artistic Expression" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Parker, Jennifer: "Opportunities for Online Art/Science Collaboration" (Part 2 of a discussion about Online Art) with Jennifer Parker (OpenLab), Bettina Forget (SETI AIR), Curtis Frank (Stanford) and Joel Slayton (program of this evening)
- Jones, Caroline: "Rethinking Art for the Online World: Online Art, Online Exhibitions, Online Audience" (Part 1 of a discussion about Online Art) with Chris Chafe (Stanford CCRMA), Caroline Jones (MIT) and Joel Slayton (program of this evening)
- Berlier, Terry: Terry Berlier (Kinetic Artist) on "Nonorientable: Queering Objects" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Marie, Christine: Christine Marie (Light Artist) on "Creating (antiquated) Augmented Reality" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Litman-Cleper, Jules: Jules Litman-Cleper (Media Artist) on "Unsimulatableness: that which cannot be simulated" (program)
- Davidson, Anna: Anna Davidson (UC Davis) on "It's Alive! A brief history and survey of Bioart" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Han, Yoon: Yoon Chung Han (SJSU) on "Biometric Data Arts using Fingerprint and Iris Data" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Duniven, Aja: Aja Duniven (Animate) on "Gamification of Altruistic Action" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Ulfeldt, Anja: Anja Ulfeldt (Media Artist) on "Subjective Infrastructure" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Auger, Stephen: Stephen Auger (Media Artist) & Benjamin Smarr (UC Berkeley/ Neuroscience) on "Interstellar Hallucination" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Chang, Vanessa: Vanessa Chang (California College of the Arts) on "A Poetics of Mediated Movement" (program)
- Cocciardi, Caroline: Caroline Cocciardi (Art Writer) on "Leonardo's Knots" (program)
- Hughen/Starkweather: Hughen/Starkweather (Visual Artists) on "Shifting Shorelines" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Holberton, Rhonda: Rhonda Holberton (Media Artist) on "Best of Both Worlds: Physical Ramifications of Digitally Engineered Reality(s)" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Beltran, JD: JD Beltran (Media Artist) on "Oil paintings, Message Machines, and Snowglobes: Retro-fitting future-facing technology with our Analog Past at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
- Blanton, Andrew: Andrew Blanton (San Jose State Univ) on "Sound in the Machine at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
- Harrower, Juniper: Juniper Harrower (UC Santa Cruz) on "Merging art and science to save Joshua trees" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
- Tyler, Christopher: Christopher Tyler (City University of London) on "Leonardo himself: A lifelong self-portrait" (program of this evening)
- Holberton, Rhonda: Rhonda Holberton (Media Artist) on "Best of Both Worlds: Physical Ramifications of Digitally Engineered Reality(s)" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Lord, Chip: Chip Lord (Media Artist) on "Space, Time, and Architecture" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Ortenberg, Dasha: Dasha Ortenberg (Designer/Artist) on "Transformative Potentials of Speculative Mapping" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Stork, David: at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Chalmers, Catherine: Catherine Chalmers (Artist & Filmmaker) on "The Original Social Network" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Hott, Carrie: Carrie Hott (Media Artist) on "Nets for the Unweighable: a Brief History of Nets" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Brown, Stephanie: Stephanie Brown (USF/ Museum Studies) on "Authenticity, apples, and the art market: The mystery of 1939.34.3" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Winters, Ian: Ian Winters (Media Artist) on "Summer, Winter, Spring - Observing the Seasons" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
- Boodhoo, Gary: Gary Boodhoo (Videogame designer) on "Human Encounters With a Gregarious Learning Machine" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Berdugo, Liat: Liat Berdugo (Media Artist) on "Technologies of Power, Access, and Freedom" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Rindfleisch, Jan: Jan Rindfleisch (Author) on "The Blossoming of Silicon Valley's Arts Community" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Reben, Alex: Alex Reben (Inventor) on "Digital drugs and humanity in algorithms" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Reben, Alex: Alex Reben (Inventor & Artist) on "Human-Computer Collaboration" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Blanton, Andrew: Andrew Blanton (SJSU) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Boodhoo, Gary: Gary Boodhoo (Videogame designer) on "Human Encounters With a Gregarious Learning Machine" (program)
- Karimi, Pantea: Pantea Karimi (Media Artist) on "(Re) Visualizing Medieval Science" (program)
- Rindfleisch, Jan: Jan Rindfleisch (Author) on "The Blossoming of Silicon Valley's Arts Community" (program)
- Aguilar, Carmen: Carmen Aguilar y Wedge (Hyphen Labs) on "NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism" (program)
- Leder, Evie: Evie Leder (Video Artist) on "#NSFW Looking / Seeing" (program)
- Moffat, Susan: Susan Moffat (UC Berkeley's Global Urban Humanities Initiative) on "The Albany Bulb" (program)
- Jameson, Elizabeth: Elizabeth Jameson (Neuro-Artist) on "Re-Imaging the MRI" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Segal, Adrien: Adrien Segal (Sculptural Data Artist) on "Scientific inquiry, sensory experience, and the creative process" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Phanichphant, Purin: Purin Phanichphant (Interaction Designer) on "Can Art Be More?" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Anno, Kim: Kim Anno (California College of the Arts) on "Climate's Secular Dante" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Karimi, Pantea: Pantea Karimi (Media Artist) on "(Re) Visualizing Medieval Science" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Rael, Ron: Ron Rael (UC Berkeley/ Architecture) on "3D Printing Materials for Architecture" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Makela, Maria: Maria Makela (California College of the Arts) on "Regen(d)eration: The Discovery of Sex Glands and Modern German Culture" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
- Hott, Carrie: Carrie Hott (Media Artist) on "Nets for the Unweighable: a Brief History of Nets" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- Schwarzer, Marjorie: Marjorie Schwarzer on "An Elephant in the Closet: The history of habitat dioramas" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- Sigurdson, Vanessa: Vanessa Sigurdson (Autodesk Artist in Residence) on "Autodesk Artist in Residence" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Zhang, Caterina: Caterina Zhang (Media Artist, China) on "Multi-dimentional representation of Oriental Art" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Juffman, Thomas: Enar de Dios Rodriguez (Photographer), Thomas Juffmann (Stanford/ Physics and SEEC Photography) and Phillip Haslinger (UC Berkeley/ Physics) on " Photography at the Speed of Light" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Waisman, Nina: Nina Waisman (Media Artist) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Konjevod, Goran: Goran Konjevod (Origami Artist) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Scaruffi, Piero: "When A.I. makes art, is it still Art?" Panel at Univ of San Francisco with Meredith Tromble (San Francisco Art Institute), Karen Gaskill (Curator, Media Art Innovation), Mark Carranza (Self Quantifier and Pansophist) and Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian, Author of "Intelligence is not Artificial") (program)
- Sigurdson, Vanessa: Vanessa Sigurdson (Autodesk Artist in Residence) on "Autodesk Artist in Residence" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Song, Beibei: Beibei Song (Essinova) on "Exodus, influx and residencies" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Buckingham, Lark: Lark Buckingham (Berkeley/ Center for New Media) on "Tech startups as 21st century imagination" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Segal, Adrien: Adrien Segal (Sculptural Data Artist) on "Scientific inquiry, sensory experience, and the creative process" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Knight, Margot: Margot Knight (Djerassi Resident Artists Program) on "The Scientific Delirium Madness program" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Buiani, Roberta: Roberta Buiani (Artist, Critic and Curator) on "Beyond mapping; or, how to cope with ecological complexity" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Florin, Fabrice: Fabrice Florin (Artist and Technologist) on "The Pataphysical Slot Machine" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Degarrod, Lydia: Lydia Degarrod (California College of the Arts) on "Ethnographic Research and Art Making" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Sturtz, Michael: Michael Sturtz (Stanford dSchool) at a Berkeley LASER on "Creativity, design thinking, and the future of making and learning" (program)
- Eram, Cosana: Cosana Eram (Univ of the Pacific) at a Berkeley LASER on "What to Learn from the Half-staged Conflicts of the Avant-garde?" (program)
- Davis, Cere: Cere Davis (Media Artist) at a Berkeley LASER on "Kinetic Design Patterns Produced Through Motion" (program)
- Sigurdson, Vanessa: Vanessa Sigurdson (Autodesk Artist in Residence) on "Autodesk Artist in Residence" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Lee, Christine: Christine Lee (Visual Artist and Designer) at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Goldberg, Ken: Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley) on "Wow and Flutter: Perception and the Seismic Landscape" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- Florin, Fabrice: Fabrice Florin (Artist and Technologist) on "The Pataphysical Slot Machine" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Siembieda, Danielle: program)
- Lahaie, Therese: Therese Lahaie (Media Artist) at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program)
- Kessler, Elizabeth: Elizabeth Kessler (Stanford/ Art) on "There and Back Again - Seeing Ourselves Through Telescopes, Satellites, and Space Probes" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Metzger, Christine: Christine Metzger (California college of the Arts) on How much science (mis)education do we get from movies at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- Tromble, Meredith: Meredith Tromble (San Francisco Art Institute) on " Dream Vortex" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Niemeyer, Greg: Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley/ Center for New Media) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Yang, Weidong: Weidong Yang (Kine-tech) at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Whitney, Hunter: Art/Design: The State of the Object
- Knight, Margot: Margot Knight (Djerassi Resident Artists Program) on "Scientific Delirium Madness" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- McVarish, Maria: Maria McVarish (Stanford/ Modern Thought and Literature) on "Mapping the Uncharted: Non-Cartesian Spaces" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Gavish, Michal: Michal Gavish (Visual Artist) on "Visualizing DNA" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Spelletich, Kal: Kal Spelletich at Catherine Clark Gallery (2015)
- Alexander, Lily: Lily Alexander (UC Santa Cruz) on "Counterculture, Collectivity, and the Aesthetics of Early Communications Art at the Western Front and Beyond" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Ho, Amy: Amy Ho (Projection Artist) on "The Space We Inhabit" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Holt, Allison: Allison Leigh Holt (Visual Artist) on "The Beginning Was The End: Hybrid Reality in Javanese Culture" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Yang, Weidong : Weidong Yang (Kine-tech) on "Data insights through gestural interactive 3D visualization" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Hughen, Amanda: Amanda Hughen (Visual Artist) on "Consumerism and cellular transformation" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Tromble, Meredith: Multimedia artist Meredith Tromble on " Dream Vortex" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program
- Cook, Lia: Lia Cook (Visual Artist) on "Woven Faces and Neuro Nets" at a USF LASER (2014) (program)
- Ho, Amy: Amy Ho (Projection Artist) on "The Space We Inhabit" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program)
- Rath, Alan: Alan Rath on his digital scultures at a USF LASER - program
- Kataoka, Drue: Drue Kataoka (Visual artist) on "Mining Memory: Membranes & Magic Boxes " at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program
- Knight, Margot: Margot Knight (Djerassi Resident Artists Program) on "Scientific Delirium Madness" at a Stanford LASER (2014) - program
- Lange, Patricia: Patricia Lange (California College of the Arts) on "Evaluating Techno-Aesthetics in Video" at a Stanford LASER (2014) - program
- Kendall, Stuart: Stuart Kendall (California College of the Arts) on "Domestic Arts: A Fable" at a Stanford LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014.html
- Siembieda, Danielle: Danielle Siembieda-Gribben (Visual Artist and Curator) on "The Future of Eco Art/Tech" at a Berkeley LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014b.html
- Murray, Soraya: Soraya Murray (UC Santa Cruz/ Film & Digital Media) on "Games, Connectedness and Radical Empathy Under Globalization" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
- Rong, Kiri: Kiri Rong (Visual Artist, Curator, Computer Scientist) on "The State of the Arts in China" at a Stanford LASER (2014) (Slides)
- Stork, David: David Stork (Rambus Labs) on "Computer image analysis of Parmigianino's Self portrait in a convex Mirror and of Vermeer's Girl With a Pearl Earring" at Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Felice, Gene: Gene Felice's and Nathan Ober's Transfluent Orchestra
- Spain, Sharon: Art curator Sharon Spain at a Stanford LASER (2014) on Recology's Artist in Residence Program
- Spelletich, Kal: Kinetic artist Kal Spelletich at a Stanford LASER (2014)
- Sheng, Shan Shan: Visual artist Shan Shan Sheng at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Worel, Kathrine: Kathrine Worel (Visual Artist) on "Touch Me There - The Role of Plastic Art in the Digital Age" at a San Francisco LASER
- Mende, Jeremy: Jeremy Mende (Visual Designer) on "Confrontational Strategies - The Social Mirror". at a San Francisco LASER
- Anno, Kim: Kim Anno (California College of the Arts) on "Aesthetics and Adaptation in a World of Rising Sea Levels" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
- Paulos, Eric: Eric Paulos (UC Berkeley) on "Hybrid Assemblages, Environments, and Happenings" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Sherwood, Katherine: Katherine Sherwood (UC Berkeley) on "How a Cerebral Hemorrhage Altered my Art" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Lubell, Bernie: Bernie Lubell (Kinetic Artist) on "Intimacy and Entanglement" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Birnbaum, Paula: Paula Birnbaum (USF Art History) on "Contemporary Feminist Art and Globalization" at USF
- Siembieda, Danielle: Danielle Siembieda (Visual Artist and Curator) on "The Future of Eco Art/Tech" at USF
- Rong, Kiri: Kiri Rong (Curator) on "The State of the Arts in China" at USF
- Bhaumik, Sita: Sita Bhaumik (Visual Artist) on "The Edible Body: Food as Political Strategy in a Contemporary Art Practice"
- Nichols, Kate: Kate Nichols on Art and Nanoscience
- Parker, Jennifer: Jennifer Parker at a Berkeley LASER presenting the OpenLab
- Tromble, Meredith: Visual artist Meredith Tromble and Cave scientist Jordan Van Aalsburg
- Holt, Allison: Allison Leigh Holt (Visual Artist) at USF on "The Beginning Was The End: Hybrid Reality in Javanese Culture"
- Lubell, Bernie: Bernie Lubell (Kinetic Artist) at USF on "Intimacy and Entanglement" (Slides)
- Kendall, Stuart: Art/Design: The State of the Object
- Tromble, Meredith: Art/Design: The State of the Object
- McVarish, Maria: Art/Design: The State of the Object
- Ulehla, Niki: Niki Ulehla on "Marionettes, forms and relationships" (Slides)
- Spelletich, Kal: Kal Spelletich at UC Berkeley on "Interactive Machine Art"
- Wagner, Mark: Mark Wagner at UC Berkeley on "Street Painting" (2013)
- Mende, Jeremy: Jeremy Mende on "The Social Mirror"
- Buelteman, Robert: Photographer Robert Buelteman discussing his career [Slides]
- Ayala, Lucia: Visual artist Lucia Ayala (UC Berkeley) on "Fluid Skies - or how to combine art, history and cosmology"
- Albaitis, Tamara: Tamara Albaitis' sculptural sound costume "Armor" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program)
- Burke, Ben: Ben Burke's kinetic sculpture "Every Body Needs Some Body" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program)
- Oron Catts, director of SymbioticA, on BioArt
- Clinton, Cory: Cory Clinton's installation "Art On the Body" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program)
- Earl, Carina: Visual artist Carina Earl
- Edgar, Robert: Robert Edgar's interactive installation "Eye Mask" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program)
- Frick, Laura: Laura Frick on "Sleep, Self-tracking and Art-making"
- Goldberg, Ken: Multimedia artist and inventor Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley)
- Hawthorne, Katharine: Choreographer Katharine Hawthorne (Slides)
- Kildall, Scott: Multimedia artist Scott Kildall on "Tweets in Space" (Slides)
- Mazza, Christina: Visual artist Christina Mazza at a LASER
- Zhang, Stella: Visual artist Stella Zhang at a LASER
- Tromble, Meredith: Artist and educator Meredith Tromble of the San Francisco Art Institute on "The Dream Vortex And Collaborative Process"
- Parker, Jennifer: UC Santa Cruz OpenLab director Jennifer Parker at a Stanford LASER [Slides]
- Parker, Jennifer: UC Santa Cruz OpenLab director Jennifer Parker on "Art, Astronomy and Physics" at a USF LASER [Slides]
- Wagner, Mark: Digital media and street artist Mark Wagner
- Marclay, Christian: Favorite sequences from Christian Marclay's "Videoquartet": 3. Tapping
- Marclay, Christian: Favorite sequences from Christian Marclay's "Videoquartet": 4. Whistling
- Marclay, Christian: Favorite sequences from Christian Marclay's "Videoquartet": 2. Piano playing
- Marclay, Christian: Favorite sequences from Christian Marclay's "Videoquartet": 1. No
- Marie, Christine: Shadow artist Christine Marie
- Berlier, Terry: (Visual artist Terry Berlier on junk sculpture) [Slides]
- Berlier, Terry: (Kinetic artist Terry Berlier (second LASER presentation))
- Houlding, Jesse: Visual artist Jesse Houlding on "Phenomena as material"
- Nagarajan, Vijaya: USF professor Vijaya Nagarajan on "Embedded Mathematics in Women's Ritual Art Designs in southern India"
- Sydell Lewis (Slides)
- Renetta Sitoy at a LASER
- Ian Winters at a LASER
- Xie, Shelly: Shelly Xie's sand-animated video "The Moving Hands" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program)
- Kal Spelletich's kinetic art presented at a LASER (2011)
- Abigal DeKosnik discussing fan fiction at a LASER [Slides]
- Filmmaker Javier Ideami at a LASER
- Frank, Curt: Curt Frank (Stanford Univ) on "Historical Pigments" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Stork, David: David Stork (Rambus Labs) on "Computer image analysis of Parmigianino's Self portrait in a convex mirror"
- Frank, Curtis: Curtis Frank (Stanford Univ) on the materials of painting
- Frank, Curtis: Curtis Frank on Language at a SMMMASH
- Loesch-Frank, Sara: Visual artist Sara Loesch-Frank discussing Metallic Leaf and Unusual Media in Art - USF 2013 (better audio)
- Loesch-Frank, Sara: Visual artist Sara Loesch-Frank discussing Metallic Leaf and Unusual Media In Art - Stanford 2012
- Actor and mime Leonard Pitt discussing the power of body movements at a LASER
- Kamen, Rebecca: Artist and scholar Rebecca Kamen talking about art and science at a LASER
- United Visual Artists with Scanner: "Origin" at night (at Creators Project 2012)
- United Visual Artists with Scanner: "Origin" during the day (at Creators Project 2012)
- Chris Milk: "The Treachery of Sanctuary"
- Zigelbaum + Coelho: "Six-Forty by Four-Eighty"
- SuperUber: "OctoCloud"
- Social Print Studio & Intel Labs: "Creators Live"
- Minha Yang: "Meditation"
- Quayola: "Strata #4"
- Casey Rodarmor, Brandon Liu, Elle Sakamoto & Angelo Hizon: "Partyline"
- Squarepusher's concert at the end of Creators Project 2012
- Deborah Aschheim on Mind (at a SMMMASH)
- Shanshan Sheng at a LASER
- Mark Feldman at a LASER
Travel
SOCIETY
- Marachi, Roxana: Roxana Marachi (San Jose State Univ) on "How Surveillance Capitalism Ate Education for Lunch " at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening: https://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/apr2023.html )
- Mabogunje, Adegboyega: Adegboyega Mabogunje (Stanford Univ) on "Accelerating Innovation: Children, Women, Sex, and Bombs" ( program of the evening)
- Domanska, Ewa: Ewa Domanska (Stanford Univ & Adam Mickiewicz Univ) on "Prefigurative Art and Micro-Utopias" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Kahana, Eran: Eran Kahana (Stanford Law School) on "The Metaverse and its Potential Impact on Agency for Artificial Intelligence Entities" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Stanton, Clare: Clare Stanton (Harvard Law School) on "Linkrot and Content Drift: The Irreversible Decay of Internet Content" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Cohn, Cindy: Cindy Cohn (Executive Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation) on "Imagining A Future with Real Digital Privacy" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program of that evening)
- Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth: Elizabeth Currid-Halkett (University of Southern California) on "Inconspicuous Consumption and Cultural Capital: the New Inequality" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program of that evening)
- Lavine, Jennie: Jennie Lavine (Emory Univ) on "What is the endgame of the covid pandemic? Will covid become endemic?" (program of the evening)
- Moskalenko, Sophia: Sophia Moskalenko (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism) on "Radicalization and Martyrdom" (program of this evening)
- Scaruffi, Piero: Michal Kosinski (Stanford), Irina Raicu (Santa Clara Univ), Piero Scaruffi (cultural historian) and Simina Mistreanu (China-based journalist) on "The Algorithmic Society" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Kosinki, Michal: Michal Kosinski (Stanford), Irina Raicu (Santa Clara Univ), Piero Scaruffi (cultural historian) and Simina Mistreanu (China-based journalist) on "The Algorithmic Society" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Mistreanu, Simina: Michal Kosinski (Stanford), Irina Raicu (Santa Clara Univ), Piero Scaruffi (cultural historian) and Simina Mistreanu (China-based journalist) on "The Algorithmic Society" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Raicu, Irina: Michal Kosinski (Stanford), Irina Raicu (Santa Clara Univ), Piero Scaruffi (cultural historian) and Simina Mistreanu (China-based journalist) on "The Algorithmic Society" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Nagarajan, Vijaya; Vijaya Nagarajan (Univ. of San Francisco) on "Embedded Mathematics in Southern India's Ritual Art of the Kolam" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Kopar, Piroska: Piroska Kopar (Washington Univ) on "Ethics in the Time of Coronavirus" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Tody, James: James Doty (Founding Director, Stanford's Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education) on "Why be Nice" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Trounce, Milana: Milana Trounce (Stanford) on "Pandemic Resilience" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Char, Danton:: Danton Char (Stanford/ Anesthesia Dept) on "AI, Ethics & Healthcare: Challenges" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
- Kosinski, Michal: Michal Kosinski (Stanford ) on "The End of Privacy" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Raicu, Irina: Irina Raicu (Santa Clara University/ Director of the Internet Ethics Program) on "Developing Norms for the Internet of Someone Else's Things" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
- Levi, Margaret: Margaret Levi (Director of the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences) on "The Future of Work in the Age of Intelligent Automation" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
- Brown, Clair: Clair Brown (UC Berkeley) on "Buddhist Economics" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Law, John: John Law at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
- Lange, Patricia: Patricia Lange (California College of the Arts) on "Is Ranting Ever a Good Idea?" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
- Lange, Patricia: Patricia G. Lange (California College of the Arts) on "Is Ranting Ever a Good Idea?" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Manago, Adriana: Adriana Manago (UC Santa Cruz) on "Millennials go Online to Build their Offline Lives" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
- Zacharia, Janine: Janine Zacharia (Stanford/ Communication) on "The Era of Noise: How to Counter Fake News" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Guadagno, Rosanna: Rosanna Guadagno (University of Texas at Dallas) on "Men, Women, and Technology: Insights from Social Psychology" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Travaglianti, Manuela: Manuela Travaglianti (UC Berkeley/ Political Science) on "How can we Prevent Election Violence?" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Kahle, Brewster: Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Turner, Fred: Fred Turner (Stanford/ Dept of Communication) on "Technology, Counterculture and The Dream of a World Without Politics" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Kahle, Brewster: Brewster Kahle (Founder and director of the Internet Archive) on "Universal Access to All Knowledge" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Nelson, Mark: Mark Nelson (Stanford Peace Innovation Lab) at a San Francisco LASER on "Peace Technology" (program)
- Nelson, Mark: Mark Nelson (Co-director, Stanford Peace Innovation Lab) on "Technology for Peace" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Seelig, Tina: Tina Seelig (Stanford, Faculty Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program) on "From Inspiration to Implementation" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Law, John: John Law (Cacophony Society, Burning Man) on "Chaos, Cacophony and the Counterculture - How the San Francisco Underground made your life weirder" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Yajima, Rieko: Rieko Yajima (Stanford/ Design and AAAS) at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Horn, Robert: Robert Horn (Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Horn, Robert: Robert Horn (Social Scientist) at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program)
- Granger, Sarah: Sarah Granger (Author) on "The Digital Mystique" at the 2015 LAST festival
- Law, John et al: Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian), John Law (organizer of the first Burning Man in Nevada), Kal Spelletich (Seemen founder) and Daniel Kottke (Apple before it was called Apple) on "From the Counterculture to the Digital Society" at the 2015 LAST festival
- Law, John: John Law interview: Part1 - Suicide Club
- Law, John: John Law interview: Part 2: Cacophony Society
- Law, John: John Law interview: Part 3: Burning Man
- King, Catherine: Catherine King (International Museum of Women) on "Imagining Equality: Transformational Media Creating Inspiration, Awareness, and Action on Women's Human Rights" at a USF LASER
- Darnovsky, Marcy: Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society) on "The Case for a New Biopolitics"
- Pandey, Annapurna: San Jose State Univ's anthropologist Annapurna Pandey on "Magic" at Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Thomas Edison at the 1904 St Louis Exposition
- Darnovsky, Marcy: Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society) on "The Case for a New Biopolitics" at a USF LASER (2014) (program)
HISTORY
MATHEMATICS
- Sugihara, Kokichi: Kokichi Sugihara (Meiji University, Japan) on "How to Make Impossible Objects" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Sack, Warren: Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz/ Digital Media) on "The Software Arts" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Conrad, Brian: Brian Conrad (Stanford/ Math) on "The Mathematics of Symmetry" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Edmark, John: John Edmark (Stanford) on "Blooms: Phi-Based, Strobe-Animated Sculptures" at a Berkeley LASER (program) [Note: the videos showed in this presentation are not visible because of the room's lighting but you can find them here: video 1, video 2, video 3, video 4, video 5, video 6, video 7]
- Frenkel, Edward: Edward Frenkel (UC Berkeley/ Mathematics) on "Love and Math" at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program
- Gerritsen, Margot: Margot Gerritsen on "Computational Mathematics gives you wings" at a virtual LASER (program of this evening)
- Gerritsen, Margot: Margot Gerritsen (Stanford Computational Math) at USF on "Linear Algebra: the incredible beauty of a branch of math with a bad reputation" [Slides]
- Sequin, Carlo: Carlo Sequin (UC Berkeley) on "Klein bottles and Super-Bottles" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- Konjevod, Goran: Goran Konjevod (Origami Artist) on "Origami Beyond Geometry" at a Stanford LASER (2017) - program
- Crutchfield, Jim: Chaos scientist Jim Crutchfield at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Crutchfield, Jim: Chaos scientist Jim Crutchfield at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Crutchfield, Jim: Chaos scientist Jim Crutchfield
- Sequin, Carlo: Carlo Sequin (UC Berkeley) on "Hyperbolic Hexagon to Evolving Trefoil" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Tokieda, Tadashi: Odd toys by mathematician Tadashi Tokieda - Toothbrush and screw
PHYSICS
- Geller, Margaret: Margaret Geller (Smithsonian) on "Mapping the Universe" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening: https://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/apr2023.html )
- Kritcher, Annie: Annie Kritcher (Lawrence Livermore Lab) on "The State of Nuclear Fusion Research" at a San Francisco LASER chaired by Tami Spector and Piero Scaruffi (program of that evening)
- Yunger, Nicole: Nicole Yunger Halpern (Univ of Maryland) on "Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Perlmutter, Saul: Steve Harris (SFSU), Dawna Schuld (Texas A&M) and Saul Perlmutter (UC Berkeley) on "Revolution (in politics, art and science)" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Tanaka, Hirohisa: Hirohisa Tanaka (SLAC National Laboratory) on " Neutrinos: The Desperate Remedy" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Dionne, Jennifer: Jennifer Dionne at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
- Dionne, Jennifer: Jennifer Dionne (Stanford) on Nanotechnology at the 2015 LAST festival
- Silverstein, Eva: Eva Silverstein (Stanford/ Cosmology) on "Horizon Dynamics and String Theory" at a Stanford LASER (2017) - program
- Burchat, Patricia: Stanford physicist Patricia Burchat at a Stanford LASER (2014) on Dark Matter
- Marcus, Philip: Philip Marcus (UC Berkeley/ Mechanical Engineering) on "ZOMBIE Vortices - Self-replication in the DEAD Zones of Stars" at a Berkeley LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014b.html
- Burchat, Patricia: Stanford physicist Patricia Burchat at a Stanford LASER (2014) on Dark Matter
- Bergmann, Uwe: Uwe Bergmann (Stanford/ Linear Accelerator) on "The science and applications of X-Rays"
- Sumner, Dawn: Dawn Sumner (UC Davis/ Earth and Planetary Sciences) on "On the CAVE, Creativity and Curiosity" at a San Francisco LASER
- Abel, Tom: Tom Abel (Stanford/ Physics) on "How Things in the Universe Came About & How They Ended Up Within Us" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Anderson David: David Anderson (UC Berkeley/ SETI@home) on "An introduction to SETI@home" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- SEEC Photography: Enar de Dios Rodriguez (Photographer), Thomas Juffmann (Stanford/ Physics and SEEC Photography) and Phillip Haslinger (UC Berkeley/ Physics) on " Photography at the Speed of Light" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on "Why space exploration" at the 4th LAST Festival www.lastfestival.org (San Jose, April 2017)
- McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on Space Exploration at the 2015 LAST festival
- McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on "Imagining life in the Universe" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on the Curiosity Mars Mission
- Mc Kay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) at UC Berkeley on the NASA missions that search for life
- Kachru, Shamit: Theoretical physicist Shamit Kachru discussing extra dimensions at a LASER (Slides)
- Rothschild, Lynn: Lynn Rothschild (NASA Astrobiologist) on "Synthetic Astrobiology" at a Stanford LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014.html
- Bailey, Stephen : Stephen Bailey (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) on "How to Make a 3D Map of the Universe (and Why?)" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Dionne, Jennifer: Jennifer Dionne, founding director of the Stanford Nanotech Lab, on Nanotechnology at the first LAST festival (San Jose, June 2014)
- McKay Chris: Chris McKay, Planetary Scientist at NASA Ames, on Space Exploration and Life in the Universe at the first LAST festival (San Jose, June 2014)
- McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on "Imagining life in the Universe" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Dionne, Jennifer: Stanford professor Jennifer Dionne on "Nanotechnology" - Second time [Slides]
- Dionne, Jennifer: Stanford professor Jennifer Dionne on "Nanotechnology" at UC Berkeley 2013 [Slides]
- Dionne, Jennifer: Stanford professor Jennifer Dionne on "Nanotechnology" [Slides]
- Peterson, Christine: Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute) on the Nanofuture (Slides)
- Sears, Derek: on "The Science of Meteorites" at a LASER
- Shamit Kachru discussing Dark Matter and Dark Energy at a LASER (Slides)
BIOLOGY
- Majeti, Ravi: Ravi Majeti (Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine) on "Stem Cells and Reprogramming in Human Acute Leukemia" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening https://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/may2023.html )
- Zolotovsky, Katia: Katia Zolotovsky (RISD) on "Spatial design with Engineered Living Materials" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Kriegman, Sam: Sam Kriegman (Harvard Medical School) on "Computer-designed Organisms" (program of that evening)
- Shubin, Neil: Neil Shubin (University of Chicago) on "Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. in conversation with Piero Scaruffi (program of the evening: Stanford virologist Catherine Blish on "Covid-19 - a 2021 update" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Muotri, Alysson: Alysson Muotri (UC San Diego) on "Applications of Human Brain Organoids" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Parsonnet, Julie: Stanford epidemiologist Julie Parsonnet on "Covid 19: Where we Stand" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Villarreal, Luis: Luis Villarreal (UC Irvine) on "Living in the Virosphere: A Virus-first Theory of the Evolution of Life" (program of this evening)
- Blish, Catherine: Catherine Blish (Stanford Medicine) on "Covid-19: What we know and what we don't know" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Dever, Daniel: Daniel Dever (Stanford/ Regenerative Medicine) on "Repairing disease genes for developing next-generation gene therapies" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
- Weissman, Irving: Irving Weissman (Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine) on "How normal stem cells regenerate the body but sometimes lead to cancer" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Ferrell, James: James Ferrell (Stanford/ Systems Biology) on "Can Living Cells Assemble Themselves?" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Feldman, Jessica: Jessica Feldman (Stanford/ Biology) on "Patterning the Cell During Development" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Witkowsky, Lea: Lea Witkowsky (Innovative Genomics Institute/ Policy Analyst) on "CRISPR, Rewriting DNA, and the Societal Questions it Raises" (program)
- Blau, Helen: Helen Blau (Stanford/ Stem Cell Biology) on "Stem Cells: Seeds of a Therapeutic Revolution" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Snyder, Michael: Michael Snyder at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
- Greely, Hank: Hank Greely (Director of the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences) on "The End of Sex" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
- Berry, Jennifer: Jennifer Berry (Beekeeper and Media Artist) on "Industrial Evolution" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
- Elul, Tamira: Tamira Elul (Touro University) on "Patterns in Nature and Art" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
- Snyder, Michael: Michael Snyder (Stanford, Co-Principal Investigator at the Center for Genomics) on "Transforming Health Care Using Genomics, Wearables and Big Data" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Endy, Drew: Drew Endy (Stanford Univ) on "Human Gene Editing" at the 4th LAST Festival www.lastfestival.org (San Jose, April 2017)
- Endy, Andrew: Andrew Endy (Stanford) on Synthetic Biology at the 2015 LAST festival
- Smolke, Christina: Christina Smolke at a LASER [Slides]
- Palmer, Megan: Megan Palmer (Stanford/ Biosecurity) on "Engineering Biology at Social Scales" at a Stanford LASER (2017) - program
- Urnov, Fyodor: Fyodor Urnov (UC Berkeley/ Genomics) on "Genetics and Society" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Walter, Peter: Peter Walter (UCSF/ Biochemistry and Biophysics) on "How Our Cells Cope with Strees and Why it Matters" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Urnov, Fyodor: Fyodor Urnov (pioneer of gene editing) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Smith, Jenn: Jenn Smith (Mills College) on "Family Matters in Wild Mammals" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Smith, Jenn: Jenn Smith (Mills College) on "Cooperation in Mammalian Societies" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- Wyss-Coray, Tony: Tony Wyss-Coray (Stanford/ Neurology) at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Wall, James: James Wall (Stanford/ Biodesign) at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Whaley, Birgitta: Birgitta Whaley on "Quantum Biology" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Whaley, Birgitta: Birgitta Whaley (Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center) on "What role does Quantum Mechanics play in Biology? at a Berkeley LASER (program)[slides]
- Whaley, Birgitta: Birgitta Whaley (Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center) on "What role does Quantum Mechanics play in Biology? at a USF LASER (2014) (program)
- Meagley, Rob: Rob Meagley (ONE Nanotechnologies) " at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Jacobs, Charlotte: Charlotte Jacobs (Stanford University) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Jacobs, Charlotte: Charlotte Jacobs (Standford) on "Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program
- Tullman-Ercek, Danielle: Danielle Tullman-Ercek (UC Berkeley) on "Synthetic Biology" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program)
- Tullman-Ercek, Danielle: Danielle Tullman-Ercek (UC Berkeley/ Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) on "Synthetic Biology: The Challenges and Potential of Engineering Living Systems" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
- Cumbers, John: John Cumbers (SynBioBeta & NASA) on "The Synthetic Biology Startup Ecosystem" at USF
- Deamer, David: Dave Deamer (UC Santa Cruz/ Biomolecular Engineering) on "Meteorites, soap bubbles and the origin of cellular life" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
- Deamer, David: David Deamer (UCSC) on "Meteorites, soap bubbles and the origin of cellular life"
- Johnson, Terry: Terry Johnson (UC Berkeley) on "Synthetic Biology: Teaching Old Cells New Tricks"
- Haurwitz, Rachel: Synthetic biologist Rachel Haurwitz on "Precise DNA edits to advance biological research and human health" at Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Mialet, Helene: Berkeley anthropologist Helene Mialet at Stanford on "Stephen Hawking and his Extended Body"
- Mialet, Helene: Helene Mialet (UC Berkeley Anthropology) at USF on "On Stephen Hawking and his extended body"
- Quinn, Jackie: Jackie Quinn (Google, formerly Autodesk Bio/Nano Programmable Matter Group) on "Communicating Synthetic Biology" at a USF LASER
- Chiu, Charles: Charles Chiu (UCSF School of Medicine) on the Ebola virus at the second LAST festival
- Jankowski, Tito: Tito Jankowski (Biocurious) on "Are You BioCurious? Amateur biotech from Entertainment to Entrepreneurship" at a Stanford LASER (program)
NEUROSCIENCE
- Chun, Jerold: Jerold Chun (Sanford Burnham Prebys) on "Our Genomically Mosaic Brain" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Metzger, Sean + Liu, Jessie + Moses, David: Jessie Liu, David Moses & Sean Metzger (UC San Francisco) on Speech Neuroprosthesis at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Knutson, Brian: Brian Knutson (Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "Toward a Deep Science of Affect, Motivation, and Choice" (program of this evening)
- Newsome, William: William Newsome (Stanford/ Medicine) on "The Future of Neuroscience" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley) on "Visual Perception and the Brain" (program of this evening)
- Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley) on Neuroscience at the 2015 LAST festival
- Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley) on "Modeling the Neural Basis of Visual Perception, and Implications for Technology and Art"
- Shenoy, Krishna: Krishna Shenoy (Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "Brain-machine Interfaces" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Luo, Liqun: Liqun Luo (Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "What motivates animals to do what they do?" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
- Meador, Kimford: Kimford Meador (Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "How does brain damage affect how we think?" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Bronte-Stewart, Helen: Helen Bronte-Stewart (Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "Using Art and Science to Improve the Lives of People with Parkinson's disease" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Frank, Loren: Loren Frank (UCSF/ Neuroscience) on "What is a memory?" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Frank, Loren: Loren Frank (UCSF) on "What is a memory?" at a USF LASER (2014) (program) (or better quality)
- McClelland, Jay: Jay McClelland (Stanford Center for Mind, Brain, Computation and Technology) on "Embodiment in Mathematical Cognition" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Jay McClelland on Mind (at a SMMMASH)
- Ming, Vivienne: Vivienne Ming at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
- Ming, Vivienne: Vivienne Ming (Neuroscientist) at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Chichilnisky, Eduardo Jose: E.J. Chichilnisky (Stanford/ Neurosurgery) on "Toward a High-fidelity Artificial Retina" (program of this evening)
- Sabes, Philip: Philip Sabes (UCSF/ Neuroscience) on "Brain-Machine Interfaces" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Gazzaley, Adam: Adam Gazzaley (UCSF/ Neuroscience Imaging Center) on "Technology meets Neuroscience - A Vision of the Future of Brain Health" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Jacobs, Lucia: Cognitive neuroscientist Lucia Jacobs at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Jacobs, Lucia: Lucia Jacobs (UC Berkeley Psychology) on "How the Brain Evolved from a Nose" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Jacobs, Lucia: Cognitive neuroscientist Lucia Jacobs at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Krubitzer, Leah: Leah Krubitzer (UC Davis/ Neurobiology) on "How does Evolution build a Complex Brain" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley) on "Modeling the Neural Basis of Visual Perception, and Implications for Technology and Art" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience) on the Ebola virus at the second LAST festival
- Lombrozo, Tania: Berkeley psychologist Tania Lombrozo on the neuroscience of explanation at Berkeley LASER (2014)
- Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley) on "Modeling the Neural Basis of Visual Perception, and Implications for Technology and Art"
COMPUTER SCIENCE
- Kosinski, Michal: Michal Kosinski (Stanford Univ) on "Theory of Mind Might Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Scaruffi, Piero: Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian) on "What's in a Transformer: Why ChatGPT works so well" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening: https://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/apr2023.html )
- DeFilippi, Primavera: Primavera De Filippi (National Center of Scientific Research, Paris) on "Do blockchains dream of electronic flowers?" at a San Francisco LASER chaired by Tami Spector and Piero Scaruffi (program of that evening)
- Ryskeldiev, Bektur: Bektur Ryskeldiev (Tsukuba Univ, Japan) on "The (near) future of immersive and interactive media" (program of that evening)
- Bongard, Josh: Josh Bongard (University of Vermont) on Evolutionary Robotics and Evolutionary Computation at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Smith, Alvy Ray: Alvy Ray Smith (Co-founder of Pixar) on "A Biography of the Pixel" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program of that evening)
- Zeng, Yi: Yi Zeng on "Brain-inspired Artificial Intelligence" at a virtual LASER (program of this evening)
- Sahami, Mehran: Mehran Sahami (Stanford/ Computer Science) on "Ethical Implications of Machine Learning" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Keay, Andra: Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics) on "Postponing the Robopocalypse" (program)
- Zadeh, Reza: Reza Zadeh (Stanford Institute for Computational Mathematics) on "Computer Vision Made Simple" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Ramsundar, Bharath: Bharath Ramsundar (CTO of Computable) on "Decentralized Data Markets" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Goldberg, Ken: Ken Goldberg at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
- Jiang, Li: Li Jiang (Director of Stanford AI, Robotics and Education) on "AI, Robotics and Future Education " at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Ackerman, Maya: Maya Ackerman at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
- Kurenkov, Andrey: Andrey Kurenkov (Stanford/ Computational Vision Lab) on "How impressive are recent A.I. accomplishments, really?". at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Huang, Sandy : Sandy Huang (UC Berkeley/ A.I.) on "Adversarial Examples in Reinforcement Learning" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Zadeh, Reza: Reza Zadeh (Stanford Institute for Computational Mathematics) on "Computer Vision Made Simple" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program)
- Omohundro, Steve: Steve Omohundro at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
- Scaruffi, Piero: Piero Scaruffi (Author) on "Artificial Intelligence in the age of Deep Learning and Machine Art" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
- Keay, Andra: Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics) at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Keay, Andra: Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics) on "Designing Good Robots" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- Keay, Andra: Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics) on "Designing Good Robots" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Scaruffi, Piero: Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian) on "Why the Singularity is not Coming any Time Soon - A Contrarian's View" at a Stanford LASER (program) [slides)
- Omohundro, Steve: Steve Omohundro (A.I. and Blockchain researcher) on " AI, Deception, and Blockchains" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Johnson, Jeff: Jeff Johnson (USF/ Computer Science) on "Designing Technology for an Aging Population" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Ackerman, Maya: Maya Ackerman (Santa Clara Univ/ Computational Creativity) on "An Introduction to Computational Creativity" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Kurillo, Gregorij: Gregorij Kurillo (Berkeley/ Teleimmersion Lab) on "Virtual and Augmented Reality for Connecting People" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan on "Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology Explained" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Russell, Stuart: Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley/ Center for Intelligent Systems) on "The long-term future of (Artificial) Intelligence" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Kurillo, Gregorij: Gregorij Kurillo (Berkeley/ Teleimmersion Lab) on "Human-Centered Modeling for Human-Machine Interaction" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Merencillo, Melissa: Melissa Merencillo (Virtual Reality Designer) on "Where We Are in Augmented, Virtual, Mixed and Cinematic Realities" (program)
- Omohundro, Steve: Steve Omohundro on "Blockchain for a society based on the truth" at the 4th LAST Festival www.lastfestival.org (San Jose, April 2017)
- Weigend, Andreas: Andreas Weigend (Stanford and former chief scientist at Amazon) on "How the Social Data Revolution changes (almost) everything" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
- Norvig, Peter: Peter Norvig (Google) on Artificial Intelligence at the 2015 LAST festival
- Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan (New School of New York) on "The Age of Cybercurrencies" at the 2015 LAST festival
- Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan (Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies) on "Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology Explained" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan on "Natural Aesthetics: GenArt, BioArt, Biomimicry, SynBio, CrowdArt" [Slides]
- Swan, Melanie: Futurist and philosopher Melanie Swan at UC Berkeley on "GenArt, BioArt, Biomimicry, SynBio, CrowdArt" [Slides]
- Altman, Mitch: Mitch Altman (Virtual reality pioneer and Noisebridge founder) on "The Hackerspace Movement" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Abbeel, Pieter: Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley/ Robotics) on Deep Learning and RObots at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
- Widom, Jennifer: Jennifer Widom (Stanford/Computer Science) on "Big Data" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
- Stevenson Won, Andrea: Andrea Stevenson Won (Stanford's Communication Dept) on "The Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab" at a Stanford LASER (2014) - program
- Norvig, Peter: Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google on Artificial Intelligence at the first LAST festival (San Jose, June 2014)
- Ray Smith, Alvy: Alvy Ray Smith, Co-founder of Pixar, on Graphics/Animation at the first LAST festival (San Jose, June 2014)
- Israel, David: David Israel (SRI Intl) on Natural Language Processing (Slides)
- Salesin, David: David Salesin (Adobe Creative Lab) at UC Berkeley on "How to use the Power of the Computer to Bring Aesthetics and Good Design into our Lives"
- Pratkanis, Tony: Tony Pratkanis (Stanford Univ) on Robotics (Slides)
- Hearst, Marti: Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley) on "Search User Interfaces"
- Khatib, Oussama: Robot scientist Oussama Khatib (head of Stanford's Robotics Lab)
- Muehlhauser, Luke: Singularity Institute's Luke Muehlhauser on "Super-human Intelligence"
- Ray Smith, Alvy: Computer graphics pioneer Alvy Ray Smith on "A Biography of the Pixel"
- Scaruffi, Piero: Cultural historian Piero Scaruffi at UCLA on the LASER series and on how art/science influenced Silicon Valley
- Gourley, Sean: Sean Gourley on "A Global Platform for Augmented Intelligence"
- Gourley, Sean: "A Global Platform for Augmented Intelligence" at Stanford in 2013
PSYCHOLOGY
- Scott, Julia: Julia Scott (Santa Clara Univ) on "Biofeedback Integration into immersive Virtual Reality Experiences" (program of that evening)
- Gopnik, Alison: Alison Gopnik at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
- Gopnik, Alison: UC Berkeley Psychology professor Alison Gopnik on "The Philosophical Baby" [Slides] (2012)
- Gopnik, Alison: Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "Theory formation and the evolution of learning" at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program
- Gopnik, Alison: Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "The Philosophical Baby" (2013)
- Palmer, Stephen: Stephen Palmer (UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "Colour, Music, and Emotion in Synesthetes and Non-Synesthetes" at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program
- Siegel, Mikey: Mikey Siegel at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
- Siegel, Mikey : Mikey Siegel (Consciousness Technologist) on "The Art and Technology of Human Connection" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Siegel, Mikey: Mikey Siegel (Consciousness Technologist) on "The Art and Technology of Human Connection" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Reben, Alex: Alex Reben (Inventor) at a Berkeley LASER on "Engineering Psychology" (program)
- Scaruffi, Piero: Cultural historian Piero Scaruffi on "Roger Sperry and the Age of the Brain" [Slides]
- Lombrozo, Tania: Tania Lombrozo (UC Berkeley Psychologist) on "What makes an explanation beautiful?" ( Slides)
- Boroditsky, Lera: Stanford psychologist and linguist Lera Boroditsky at a SMMMASH on Language
CLIMATE SCIENCE
- Jacobson, Mark: Mark Jacobson (Stanford) on "Impact of 100% clean, renewable Green New Deal roadmaps on costs, jobs, health, and climate in 143 countries" (program)
- Benson, Sally: Sally Benson ((Director of Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project) on "A Prescription To Cure The Planet's Climate Woes." at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Zoi, Catherine Radford: Cathy Zoi (Stanford) on "Human Ingenuity, the Renewable Resource that Really Can Halt the Climate Crisis" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Bent, Stacey: Stacey Bent (Stanford's TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy) on "Shining Light on Energy" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
- Jacobson, Mark: Mark Jacobson at a LASER [Slides]
SCIENCE
- Rosengaus, Leah: Leah Rosengaus (Director of Digital Health at Stanford Health Care) on "Towards Digital Health" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Jose, Antony: Antony Jose (University of Maryland) on "Heredity constrains the nature of living systems" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Suttle, Curtis: Curtis Suttle (Univ of British Columbia) on "Viruses and their Role in the Environment" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Ben Simon, Eti: Eti Ben Simon (UC Berkeley) on "The Emotional Brain in a Sleepless World" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Dong, Yizhou: Yizhou Dong (Mt Sinai) on "Lipid nanoparticles enabled mRNA therapeutics" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Dionne, Jennifer: Jennifer Dionne (Stanford Univ) on "Life-speed reads of biological bits with Silicon photonics" ( program of the evening)
- Maes, Pattie: Pattie Maes (MIT) on "Cognitive Enhancement" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (Program of the evening)
- Kohler, Christian: Christian Kohler (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) on "Environmental Building Technologies" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
- Aronica, Lucia: Lucia Aronica (Stanford Prevention Research Center) on "Epigenetics, Nutrition and your Health" (program of this evening)
- Aronica, Lucia: Lucia Aronica (Stanford Prevention Research Center) on "Epigenetics, Nutrition and your Health" at a San Francisco LASER (program)
- Sonalkar, Neeraj: Neeraj Sonalkar (Stanford/ Design) on "What improvised theater, jazz and design thinking have in common" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Yajima, Rieko: Rieko Yajima (AAAS and Stanford/ Design) on "Art/Science Policy" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Mabuchi, Hideo: Hideo Mabuchi (Stanford/ Applied Physics) on "Creative Process in Applied Science and Art" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
- Payton, Paul: Paul Payton (Chief Engineer of Visa Research) on "Pixtile Patterns: Science and Art - Two Sides of a Moebius Strip" at a Berkeley LASER (program)
- Spector, Tami: Tami Spector (USF) at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Spector, Tami: Tami Spector (USF) on "The Molecular Elusive" at a Berkeley LASER (program) [Slides]
- Malina, Roger: Roger Malina (Univ of Texas) on "Art and Science for the Space Age" at a Stanford LASER (program)
- Koene, Randall: Randal Koene on "Why and how to transition from wet-ware to substrate-independent minds"
- Todhunter, Andrew: (Stanford writer Andrew Todhunter discussing Art and Science)
- Shafer, Audrey: Stanford director of the Arts, Humanities and Medicine Program (teaser only)
Nature/Hiking
- Mt Gandalf, Palisades
- Mt Goode, Palisades
- Sphinx Lakes, Kings Canyon
- Barrett Peak, Palisades
- Lost Coast, Northern California
- Lassen Peak, Northern California
- Leavitt Peak, Emigrant Wilderness
- Mt Julius Caesar and Italy Pass
- Black Eagle Camp
- View from Potluck Pass
- Lower Carillon Peak, Eastern Sierra
- View from Mt Goddard
- Goddard Canyon
- View from Lamarck Col
- View from Mt Whitney (2020)
- Waterwheel Falls and Tuolumne Falls, Yosemite
- Flying over Yosemite
- View from Clouds Rest, Yosemite
- View from Mt Jepson, Eastern Sierra
University Peak View from University Peak, Eastern Sierra
- Mt Brewer and the Great Western Divide from Sphinx Pass, Kings Canyon
- Sphinx Lakes in Kings Canyon National Park
- View from the top of Mt Brewer, Kings Canyon National Park
- Video from Rose Peak, Bay Area
- Video of Big Basin waterfalls, Bay Area
- Video from Selden Pass, Kings Canyon
- Video from the top of Mt Langley, Eastern Sierra
- Video of Mt Langley and of the Cottonwood Lakes
- Video from the top of Mt Langley (2017), Eastern Sierra
- Video from the top of Freel Peak, Lake Tahoe (take 1)
- Video from the top of Freel Peak (take 2)
- Video from Half Dome, Yosemite
- Video from El Capitan, Yosemite
- View from Sentinel Peak, Death Valley, California
- View from Mt Lamarck, Eastern Sierra, California
- North Palisade: the ledges and
- North Palisade: from the bowl to the top
- View from the top of Mt Keith
- View from the top of Yosemite's White Mountain that shows the routes to Mt Conness
- View from the top of Mt Wallace
- Rapids near the Minarets in the Ansel Adams wilderness
- The ledges on North Palisade
- View from the top of Echo Peak/ Mt Tolkien
- View from the top of Kuna Peak
- View from the top of Koip Peak
- View from the top of Mt Morgenson
- Lake Tulainyo, the highest named lake in the USA
- View from the top of Mt Tunnabora
- View from Mt Ericsson
- View from Three Sisters
- View from Mt Cloudripper
- View from Split Mt
- Video from Banner Peak
- Video from Mt Russell
- Video from Junction Peak
- Video from Mt Stanford
- Video from Middle Palisade - take 1
- Video from Middle Palisade - take 2
- Video from Kaiser Peak
- Video of Alamere Falls
- View from Mt Kafka
- View from Mt Whitney (Mt Whitney )
- View from Mt Shasta (Mt Shasta )
- View from Mt Tyndall (Mt Tyndall )
- View from Mt Winchell (Mt Winchell )
- View from North Palisade
- View from Trojan Peak
- View from Mt Williamson
- View from North Guard
- View from Telescope Peak (Death Valley)
- Mosaic Canyon (Death Valley )
- View from Mt Dana, Yosemite, California (Mt Dana )
- View from Mt Hoffmann, Yosemite
- View from North Dome, Yosemite, California (North Dome)
- View from Ventana Double Cone, Ventana Wilderness, California (Double Cone)
- View from Mt Barnard, Eastern Sierra, California (Mt Barnard )
- View from Mt Darwin, Eastern Sierra, California (Mt Darwin )
- View from Mt LeConte, Eastern Sierra (Mt LeConte )
- View from Mt Gayley, Palisades (Mt Gayley )
- View from Mt Gayley (2018)
- View of the Palisades glacier from Mt Sill (Mt Sill )
View from Mt Sill (2021 video)
- View from Mt Sill (Mt Sill )
- View from the top of Clouds Rest, Yosemite 2013 (Clouds Rest )
- View from the top of Clouds Rest, Yosemite 2020 (Clouds Rest )
- Video from the top of Shastina
My Art Videos
- "The Dancer at the Beach" (Feb 2014) featuring Nia, Anand, Sofia, Ideami, ocean waves
- "The Dancers at the Top" (Mar 2014) featuring Anand, Sofia, Onam, Rohit, Shira, Karen, mountains, wind
- The hiker in the forest
My Public Talks
- Executive workshop on Biotech (May 2023)
- Executive workshop on Materials (May 2023)
- Executive workshop on Chips (May 2023)
- Interviewed by Gerry Fialka (2023)
- ChatGPT in Context. Part 1 - The Transformer, A Revolution in Computing (2023)
- ChatGPT in Context. Part 2 - Social Impact (2023)
- ChatGPT in Context. Part 3 - Philosophy (2023)
- Interviewed by CGTN on ChatGPT and Silicon Valley (2023)
- My version of the history of computers in 20 minutes (2023)
- When AI makes it, is it Art? (2018, revised December 2022)
- A Political Tour of the World 2022 (December 2022)
- Videos of my 2014 class "History of Knowledge"
- Piero Scaruffi on Russia's invasion of Ukraine I (March 2022)
- Piero Scaruffi on Russia's invasion of Ukraine II (May 2023)
- Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci on the lab origin of covid (June 2022)
- My introduction to Leonardo DaVinci (September 2021)
- Interviewed by Abe Zbornik on dystopia of cloud computing, quantum computing, AI, China, etc, May 2021
- Interviewed about the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) program (February 2021)
- Interviewed about the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) program (podcast of September 2018)
- Interviewed by Mark O'Loughling on "Deep Learning vs Deep Thinking" (June 2020)
- Interviewed from outer space by Javier Ideame on AI, philosophy, art, creativity, Silicon Valley, May 2020
- Qbay interview by Brian Sparkes on AI, bioscience, etc, Apr 2020
- Robots and Pandemics (excerpt from a May 2020 panel)
- The state of Deep Learning, Honolulu, Jan 2020
- "The Two Cultures in the age of A.I." at Univ of San Francisco/ Humanities & AI/ Deep Learning vs Deep Thinking (2019)
- Interviewed by Shawn Flynn in Silicon Valley, July 2019 (Silicon Valley Podcast)
- The Future of Technology at Qingdao's Venture Capital Conference, May 2019 (my talk begins at 147:35)
- The Vast Algorithmic Bureaucracies, The Age of Stupid Machines, Progress, etc
- Interviewed in San Francisco, February 2019
- "Intelligence is not Artificial - A History of Artificial Intelligence" and thoughts about the Singularity at Xerox PARC, August 2017 [slides]
- "Intelligence is not Artificial - A History of Artificial Intelligence" and thoughts about the Singularity at Xerox PARC, August 2017 [slides]
- Panel on Artificial Intelligence at Xerox PARC, February 2018
- "The Status and Limits of Artificial Intelligence" at the World Congress on A.I., Tianjin, China, June 2017 [slides]
- "Artificial Intelligence Today" in Hangzhou, June 2017 [slides)
- "Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity" in Beijing, May 2016 [slides)
- CCTV interview about "What is unique about Silicon Valley"
- Dan Schneider interviewing piero
- Piero interviewed in Chongqing about A.I.
- "Silicon Valley" (May 2015) for the China Innovation Summit 2015
- Interviewed on Silicon Valley by a Chinese magazine (June 2015)
- Publicity about my talk in Wuhan
- Speaking on a tv show in China
- "The Two Cultures in the age of A.I." at Univ of San Francisco (program)
- "When A.I. makes art, is it still Art?" Panel at Univ of San Francisco with Meredith Tromble (San Francisco Art Institute), Karen Gaskill (Curator, Media Art Innovation), Mark Carranza (Self Quantifier and Pansophist) and Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian, Author of "Intelligence is not Artificial") (program)
- Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian), John Law (organizer of the first Burning Man in Nevada), Kal Spelletich (Seemen founder) and Daniel Kottke (Apple before it was called Apple) on "From the Counterculture to the Digital Society" at the 2015 LAST festival
- Piero Scaruffi (Author) on "Artificial Intelligence in the age of Deep Learning and Machine Art" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
- Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian) on "Why the Singularity is not Coming any Time Soon - A Contrarian's View" at a Stanford LASER (program) [slides)
- Introduction to the LASER series and on how art/science influenced Silicon Valley (at UCLA)
- "Roger Sperry and the Age of the Brain" [Slides]
Events
- L.A.S.E.R. and L.A.S.T. talks
- The 5th LAST festival: A quick tour of the exhibition space (30 seconds video)
- The 5th LAST festival: A collage of installations, performances, workshops and talks (10 minute video)
- The art exhibition of the 2018 LAST festival (Creator: Roya Ebtehaj)
- The fourth LAST festival (San Jose, April 2016)
- Panel on Artificial Intelligence and Creativity at the 4th LAST Festival www.lastfestival.org (San Jose, April 2017) with Maya Ackerman (SJSU), Meredith Tromble (SFAI) and Lisa Winter.
- Panel on Technology for Peace at the 4th LAST Festival www.lastfestival.org (San Jose, April 2017) with Melissa Day (SJSU, artist), Rosanna Guadagno (UT Dallas), Fabiola Hanna (UCSC, artist from Lebanon), Susana Ruiz (UCSC, artist), Rieko Yajima (Stanford)
- Panel on Virtual/Augmented Reality and Buckminster Fuller at the 4th LAST Festival www.lastfestival.org (San Jose, April 2017) with Andrew Blanton (SJSU, media artist and percussionist), Meredith Drum (video and animation artist), David McConville (Buckminster Fuller Institute), Mark Stephen Meadows (Botanic.io)
- Pauline Oliveros tribute (2017)
- Djerassi Open House 2016
- Dada Centennial Celebration 2016
- Autodesk Pier 9 - November 2015
- A mix of the performances held at Kinetech.org's anniversary special in San Francisco in April 2015
- The second LAST festival (San Francisco, 23-25 October 2014)
- Djerassi's Scientific Delirium Madness 2014
- Playing with David Glowacki's Danceroom Spectrography
- Pierre Passeur's documentary of the first LAST festival
- Opening night of the first LAST festival (San Jose, 6 June 2014)
- Creators Project
- Summer Solstice Garden of Memory
- Yerba Buena "Big Sounds on a Small Scale"
- Art Expo at the third LAST festival (2015)
- "Engineering the Future" at the 2015 LAST festival (4')
The art exhibition of the 2018 LAST festival (Creator: Roya Ebtehaj) (3')
History of Silicon Valley in Chinese
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