The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are an international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. See the program for the whole international series and the dates for the Bay Area.
Chaired by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi.
Send an email to "scaruffi at stanford dot edu" if you want to be added to the mailing list for the LASERs.
Where: on Zoom.
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Program (the order of the speakers might change):
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Amy Ione (Diatrope Institute) on "Neuroscience and Art: The Neurocultural Landscape"
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Meredith Tromble (Artist and Curator) on "The New College Circle: The Lifelong Impact of a Creative School"
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Caroline Jones (MIT Art Historian) on "Impressionism as a Function of Techno-shock"
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Bios:
- Amy Ione, the Director of The Diatrope Institute, is a writer, artist, and educator. She has studied the extensive linkages between art and neuroscience for over thirty years and her sixth book, Neuroscience and Art: The Neurocultural Landscape, was released by Springer in September 2024.Earlier books include Innovation and Visualization: Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths (2006); Art and the Brain: Plasticity, Embodiment and the Unclosed Circle (2016); and Nature Exposed to Our Methods of Questioning(2002). Amy had also published over 200 articles and book reviews on art, neuroscience, technology, and cultural issues. In addition, Amy Ione is a lifelong artist, with artwork commissioned by the City of San Francisco, exhibited internationally, and found in many collections.
- Caroline Jones is Professor of art history, Director of the Transmedia Storytelling Initiative, and Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. She studies modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on its technological modes of production, distribution, and reception, as well as its interface with science. Dr. Jones has curated exhibitions such as Sensorium (2006), Video Trajectories (2007), and Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere (2022). Her solo-authored publications include Machine in the Studio (1996/98), Eyesight Alone (2005/08), and The Global Work of Art (2016). She has edited Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998), Sensorium (2006), and Experience (2016). Jones received her MA/PhD from Stanford University. She has been a fellow at the Institut national d'histoire de l'art in Paris, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College, and the Wissenschaftskolleg and Max-Planck-Institut fr Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. Jones has received Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities awards, and her films and exhibitions have appeared at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Arts in Tokyo, the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
- Meredith Tromble is an intermedia artist working with digital media, installation, drawing, and performance. Her art about the interplay between imagination and knowledge has sparked deep collaborations with scientists, including the Vortex series of artworks with geobiologist Dawn Sumner, 2011-2021, which began with experimental interactive 3D programming and spun off multiple daughter works including a series of performances with the choreographer Donna Sternberg and her company. Her work has been shown internationally and nationally at venues ranging from Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. In 2024 she presented a trilogy of art exhibitions related to research and learning: What Does It Mean to Know? (Sharp Museum, SIU Carbondale); Alice in the Archives (Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M), and The New College Circle (Gray Loft Gallery, Oakland). She is a professor emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies/Art & Technology at the San Francisco Art Institute and Affiliate Artist at the UCD Feminist Research Institute. She maintains a studio in Oakland, California.
- Piero Scaruffi is a cultural historian who has lectured in three continents 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 poetry has been awarded several national prizes in Italy and the USA. His latest book of poems and meditations is "Synthesis" (2009). As a music historian, he has published ten books, the latest ones being "A History of Rock and Dance Music" (2009) and "A History of Jazz Music" (2007). His latest book of history is "A History of Silicon Valley" (2011). The first volume of his free ebook "A Visual History of the Visual Arts" appeared in 2012. His latest book is "Intelligence is not Artificial" (2013). He has also written extensively about cinema and literature. He founded the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) in 2008. Since 2015 he has been commuting between California and China, where several of his books have been translated.
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