UPCOMING IN THE BAY AREA:
2023-24 - (Archive of past Bay Area LASERs: click here)
- 15 February 2023 @ 7pm - Hybrid!
Stanford LiKaShing building
Jennifer Dionne (Stanford Univ) on " Life-speed reads of biological bits with Silicon photonics"
Alice Yuan Zhang (Media Artist) on "The Need for Intergenerational Tech"
Adegboyega Mabogunje (Stanford Univ) on "Accelerating Innovation: Children, Women, Sex, and Bombs" - 29 March 2023 @ 12pm - Online - Lunchtime!
Live from Europe:
Christina Jauernik (Architect and Artist) on "Touching Distance - Inter-Views with the Virtual"
Hanna Haslaahti (Media Artist) on "Storytelling with Personal Avatars"
Javier Ideami (Filmmaker and A.I. Scientist) on "Encounters of the third kind with Generative Artificial Intelligence" - 12 April 2023 @ 12pm @ USF - Online!
Margaret Geller (Harvard) on "Mapping the Universe"
Roxana Marachi (San Jose State Univ) on "How Surveillance Capitalism Ate Education for Lunch "
Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian) on "What's in a Transformer: Why ChatGPT works so well" - 8 May 2023 @ 7pm - Hybrid!
Stanford LiKaShing building
Ravi Majeti (Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine) on "Stem Cells and Reprogramming in Human Acute Leukemia"
Thomas Haakenson (California College of the Arts) on "Kurt Schwitters and the Space, Sound, Sexuality of Dada Resistance"
David Stork (Visiting Lecturer, Stanford University) on "Rigorous computer-assisted lighting analysis of the works by Johannes Vermeer"
Paige Emery (Media Artist) on "On Divinatory Ecologies for More-Than-Human Time" - 12 July 2023 @ 12pm @ USF - Online!
Victoria Vesna (UCLA) on "Vibrations Matter: Art & Science of Deep Listening"
Yizhou Dong (Mt Sinai) on "Lipid nanoparticles enabled mRNA therapeutics"
Sara Ludy (Media Artist) on “Materializing the Immaterial” - 18 Sep 2023 @ 6:30pm - Hybrid!
Stanford LiKaShing building
Michal Kosinski (Stanford Univ) on "Theory of Mind Might Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models"
Amy Karle (Media Artist) on "Digital Dreams and Bio-realities: Reimagining Humanity Through Art and Technology"
Eti Ben Simon (UC Berkeley) on "The Emotional Brain in a Sleepless World" - 26.10.23 LASER Talks in Brussels: Illuminating Liquid Crystals at the Kikk Festival
- 26.10.23 LASER Talks in Shanghai: Synthetic Reality: Perception, Emotion, and Identity
- 26.10.23 LASER Talks at Cambridge: Residence of art
- 1 Nov 2023 @ 12pm - Online at Stanford
Antony Jose (University of Maryland) on "Heredity constrains the nature of living systems"
Curtis Suttle (Univ of British Columbia) on "Viruses and their Role in the Environment" - 3.11.23 LASER Talks in Tacoma: Decolonizing Land's Imaginary
- 7.11.23 LASER Talks in Toronto: Streaming Carbon Footprint
- 8 Nov 2023 @ 12pm - Online at Stanford
A special LASER about Russia's media art scene with:
Nina Czegledy (Media Artist and Curator)
Anna Frants (Media Artist and Curator)
Elena Gubanova (Media Artist and Curator)
Natalia Kolodzei (Curator and Art Historian)
Olga Shishko (Curator and Art Historian) - 9.11.23 LASER Talks in Cambridge in collaboration with LASER UCLA: AnotherAI.art: Decolonising art ecosystem PART II
- 09.11.23 LASER Talks in Brussels: Restoring the Human Element The Power of Transdisciplinary Collaboration between Arts, Science and Technology
- 12.11.23 LASER Talks in New York City in collaboration with LASER Cyland
- 16.11.23 LASER Talks Amsterdam: Planetary Public Stack
- 16.11.23 LASER Talks at Vienna: Making Souls – Making Bodies: Amerindian Cosmologies, AI, and the Microbiome
- 30.11.23 LASER Talks Espoo/Helsinki: Out of Fashion
- 30.11.23 LASER Talks in Cambridge in collaboration with LASER UCLA: AnotherAI.art: Decolonising art ecosystem PART II
- 21.12.23 Laser Talks in Santa Fe
The Stanford LASERs are sponsored by the schools of Medicine, Engineering, and Humanities & Sciences, by Continuing Studies and by the department of Chemical Engineering.
The San Francisco LASERs are sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Sciences.