Videos of Bay Area's LASERs chaired by Piero Scaruffi

L.A.S.E.R. and L.A.S.T. talks

in alphabetical order
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Abbeel, Pieter: Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley/ Robotics) on Deep Learning and RObots at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
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 of that evening)
Ackerman, Maya: Maya Ackerman (Santa Clara Univ/ Computational Creativity) on "An Introduction to Computational Creativity" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Ackerman, Maya: Maya Ackerman at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Aguilar, Carmen: Carmen Aguilar y Wedge (Hyphen Labs) on "NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism" (program of that evening)
Albaitis, Tamara: Tamara Albaitis' sculptural sound costume "Armor" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program of that evening)
Alessandrini, Patricia: Patricia Alessandrini (Stanford) on "Ada's Song: Artistic Research in Robotics from a (Cyber)Feminist Perspective" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
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 of that evening)
Altman, Mitch: Mitch Altman (Virtual reality pioneer and Noisebridge founder) on "The Hackerspace Movement" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Anderson David: David Anderson (UC Berkeley/ SETI@home) on "An introduction to SETI@home" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Angel, Jessica: Jessica Angel (Media Artist) on "Integrated Immersive Experiences as Doors to the Metaverse" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
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)
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)
Anno, Kim: Kim Anno (California College of the Arts) on "Climate's Secular Dante" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Appelbaum, Mark: Mark Aplpebaum (Stanford CCRMA) on "Visual Music and the Rehabilitation of Archaic Technologies" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
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 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: Multimedia artist Deborah Aschheim on Mind
Auger, Stephen: Stephen Auger (Media Artist) & Benjamin Smarr (UC Berkeley/ Neuroscience) on "Interstellar Hallucination" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Ayala, Lucia: Visual artist Lucia Ayala (UC Berkeley) on "Fluid Skies - or how to combine art, history and cosmology"
Ayton, Bill: Bill Ayton (Media Artist) on "Interplanetary VR Sustainable Futures" at a USF LASER (program of the evening)
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 of that evening)
Baines, Lauren: Lauren Baines (Choreographer) at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
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 of that 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)
Barry, Fabio: Fabio Barry (Stanford/ Art History) on "Where Do White Temples Come From?" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Baruah, Indrani: Indrani Baruah (Architect and Visual Artist) on "Cultural Re-Imaginations : Experiments in Creative Placemaking" at a Stanford LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014.html
Baruah, Indrani : Indrani Baruah (Architect and Visual Artist) on "Cultural Re-Imaginations : Experiments in Creative Placemaking" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Bellouin, Ashley: Ashley Bellouin (Musician) on "In Search of an Eternal Present" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
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)
Ben Simon, Eti: Eti Ben Simon (UC Berkeley) on "The Emotional Brain in a Sleepless World" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
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 of that evening)
Bent, Stacey: Stacey Bent (Stanford's TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy) on "Shining Light on Energy" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
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)
Berdugo, Liat: Liat Berdugo (Media Artist) on "Technologies of Power, Access, and Freedom" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Bergmann, Uwe: Uwe Bergmann (Stanford/ Linear Accelerator) on "The science and applications of X-Rays" at a Stanford LASER
Berlier, Terry: Terry Berlier (Stanford/ Art) on "Pulled Apart: Re-engineering and Re-purposing Human Civilization" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Berlier, Terry: Terry Berlier (Kinetic Artist) on "Nonorientable: Queering Objects" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Berlier, Terry: Visual artist Terry Berlier on junk sculpture [Slides]
Berlier, Terry: Kinetic artist Terry Berlier at a Stanford LASER
Berry, Jennifer: Jennifer Berry (Beekeeper and Media Artist) on "Industrial Evolution" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Bhardwaj, Antara: North-Indian classical dancer Antara Bhardwaj (Chitresh Das Dance company) at a SMMMASH
Bhaumik, Sita: Sita Bhaumik (Visual Artist) on "The Edible Body: Food as Political Strategy in a Contemporary Art Practice"
Birnbaum, Paula: Paula Birnbaum (USF Art History) on "Contemporary Feminist Art and Globalization" at USF at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Blanton, Andrew: Andrew Blanton (San Jose State Univ) on "Sound in the Machine at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Blanton, Andrew: Andrew Blanton (SJSU) at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Blau, Helen: Helen Blau (Stanford/ Stem Cell Biology) on "Stem Cells: Seeds of a Therapeutic Revolution" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Blish, Catherine: Stanford virologist Catherine Blish on "Covid-19: What we know and what we don't know" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Blish, Catherine: Stanford virologist Catherine Blish on "Covid-19 - a 2021 update" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
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 of that evening)
Bojic, Jasmina: Jasmina Bojic (Stanford/ Cinema) at a San Francisco LASER (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)
Boodhoo, Gary: Gary Boodhoo (Videogame designer) on "Human Encounters With a Gregarious Learning Machine" (program of that evening)
Boodhoo, Gary: Gary Boodhoo (Videogame designer) on "Human Encounters With a Gregarious Learning Machine" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Boroditsky, Lera: Stanford psychologist and linguist Lera Boroditsky at a SMMMASH on Language
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)
Brown, Clair: Clair Brown (UC Berkeley) on "Buddhist Economics" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that 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 of that evening)
Buckingham, Lark: Lark Buckingham (Berkeley/ Center for New Media) on "Tech startups as 21st century imagination" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Buelteman, Robert: Robert Buelteman (Photographer) at a 2020 Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Buelteman, Robert: Robert Buelteman (Photographer) at a Berkeley LASER [Slides]
Buiani, Roberta: Roberta Buiani (Artist, Critic and Curator) on "Beyond mapping; or, how to cope with ecological complexity" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Burchat, Patricia: Stanford physicist Patricia Burchat at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Bureaud, Annick: Annick Bureaud (Curator) on "Art and Science" at a USF LASER (program of the evening)
Burke, Ben: Ben Burke's kinetic sculpture "Every Body Needs Some Body" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program of that evening)
Cavdir, Doga: Doga Cavdir (Stanford CCRMA) on "Movement-based Music-making" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Cahill, Sarah: Contemporary music performer Sarah Cahill at a SMMMASH
Cahill, Sarah: Sarah Cahill on "Music in Unusual Spaces" at a USF LASER
Campbell, John: John Campbell (UC Berkeley/ Philosophy) on "Pulled Apart: Re-engineering and Re-purposing Human Civilization" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Chafe, Chris: "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)
Chafe, Chris: Music composer Chris Chafe (director of Stanford CCRMA) on Mind at a SMMMASH
Chalmers, Catherine: Catherine Chalmers (Artist & Filmmaker) on "The Original Social Network" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Chang, Vanessa: Vanessa Chang (California College of the Arts) on "A Poetics of Mediated Movement" (program of that evening)
Char, Danton:: Danton Char (Stanford/ Anesthesia Dept) on "AI, Ethics & Healthcare: Challenges" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program of that evening)
Chessa, Luciano: Avantgarde composer Luciano Chessa discussing futurist art at a Stanford LASER
Chessa, Luciano: Luciano Chessa discussing Luigi Russolo at a USF LASER
Chessa, Luciano: Luciano Chessa (Composer) on "After the noise intoners" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Chichilnisky, Eduardo Jose: E.J. Chichilnisky (Stanford/ Neurosurgery) on "Toward a High-fidelity Artificial Retina" (program of this evening)
Chin, Adam: Adam Chin (Photographer) on "Pulled Apart: Re-engineering and Re-purposing Human Civilization" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Chiu, Charles: Charles Chiu (UCSF School of Medicine) on the Ebola virus at the second LAST festival
Chun, Jerold: Jerold Chun (Sanford Burnham Prebys) on "Our Genomically Mosaic Brain" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Clinton, Cory: Cory Clinton's installation "Art On the Body" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program of that evening)
Cocciardi, Caroline: Caroline Cocciardi (Art Writer) on "Leonardo's Knots" (program of that 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)
Cole, Sarah: Sarah Cole (Columbia Univ) on James Joyce's "Ulysses" at 100 at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Conrad, Brian: Brian Conrad (Stanford/ Math) on "The Mathematics of Symmetry" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Cook, Lia: Lia Cook (Visual Artist) on "Woven Faces and Neuro Nets" at a USF LASER (2014) (program of that evening) (or better quality)
Corngold, Stanley: Stanley Corngold (Princeton) on "An Interdisciplinary Celebration of Kafka" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Crawford, Stephan: Stephan Crawford (Climate Music Project) on "Climate Music" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Crutchfield, Jim: Chaos scientist Jim Crutchfield at a Davis LASER
Crutchfield, Jim: Chaos scientist Jim Crutchfield at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Cumbers, John: John Cumbers (SynBioBeta & NASA) on "The Synthetic Biology Startup Ecosystem" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Cumbers, John: John Cumbers (Synbiobeta) on "Synthetic Biology and the Naturalist Fallacy " at a Berkeley LASER (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)
Czegledy, Nina: Nina Czegledy on Russia's alternative media art at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Darnovsky, Marcy: Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society) on "The Case for a New Biopolitics" at a Berkeley LASER
Darnovsky, Marcy: Marcy Darnovsky (Center for Genetics and Society) on "The Case for a New Biopolitics" at a USF LASER (2014) (program of that evening) (or better quality)
Davidson, Anna: Anna Davidson (UC Davis) on "It's Alive! A brief history and survey of Bioart" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Davis, Cere: Cere Davis (Media Artist) at a Berkeley LASER on "Kinetic Design Patterns Produced Through Motion" (program of that evening)
Day, Mel: Mel Day (SJSU) on "Everyday Voices: Building a Different Kind of Wall" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Deamer, David: David Deamer (UCSC) on "Meteorites, soap bubbles and the origin of cellular life" at a USF LASER
Deamer, David: Dave Deamer (UC Santa Cruz/ Biomolecular Engineering) on "Meteorites, soap bubbles and the origin of cellular life" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Degarrod, Lydia: Lydia Degarrod (California College of the Arts) on "Ethnographic Research and Art Making" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
DeFilippi, Primavera: Primavera De Filippi (National Center of Scientific Research, Paris) on "Do blockchains dream of electronic flowers?" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
DeKosnik, Abigal: Berkeley media historian Abigal DeKosnik discussing fan fiction at a Stanford LASER
DeMarinis, Paul: Paul DeMarinis (Stanford/ Music) on "Erased Dots and Rotten Dashes" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Demir, Ilke: Ilke Demir on "The Science of Generative Art", at a virtual LASER (program of this evening)
Denson, Shane: Shane Denson (Stanford) on "How is Human Embodiment Transformed in an Age of Algorithms?" (program of that evening)
DePaulis, Daniela: Daniela de Paulis (Conceptual Artist) at a Stanford LASER/LAST (program of that evening)
Devasher, Rohini: Rohini Devasher (Media Artist in India) on "Between Wonder and the Strange" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
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 of that evening)
Dionne, Jennifer: Jennifer Dionne (Stanford Univ) on "Life-speed reads of biological bits with Silicon photonics" ( program of the evening)
Dionne, Jennifer: Stanford professor Jennifer Dionne on "Nanotechnology" at UC Berkeley 2013 [Slides]
Dionne, Jennifer: Jennifer Dionne at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Dionne, Jennifer: Stanford professor Jennifer Dionne on "Nanotechnology" at a Stanford LASER [Slides]
Dionne, Jennifer: Jennifer Dionne, founding director of the Stanford Nanotech Lab, on Nanotechnology at the first LAST festival (San Jose, June 2014)
Dionne, Jennifer: Stanford professor Jennifer Dionne on "Nanotechnology" at a USF LASER [Slides]
Dionne, Jennifer: Jennifer Dionne (Stanford) on Nanotechnology at the 2015 LAST festival
Domanska, Ewa: Ewa Domanska (Stanford Univ & Adam Mickiewicz Univ) on "Prefigurative Art and Micro-Utopias" 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)
Doty, James: James Doty (Stanford) on "Mind Magic" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Dresher, Paul: Paul Dresher (Composer) on "What Would Happen If..Inventing Musical Instruments" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Duncan, Ian: Ian Duncan (UC Berkeley) on "The Novel after the Scientific Revolution" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Duniven, Aja: Aja Duniven (Animate) on "Gamification of Altruistic Action" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Dutton, Kristina: Kristina Dutton (Composer) on "Soundscapes and Nanoscapes" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Dym, Miriam: Miriam Dym (Systems Artist) on her visual art based on infinitely variable and interactive pattern systems (program of the evening)
Earl, Carina: Visual artist Carina Earl at a USF LASER
Edgar, Robert: Robert Edgar's interactive installation "Eye Mask" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program of that evening)
Edmark, John: John Edmark (Stanford) on "Blooms: Phi-Based, Strobe-Animated Sculptures" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening) [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]
Elul, Tamira: Tamira Elul (Touro University) on "Patterns in Nature and Art" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
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 )
Endy, Andrew: Andrew Endy (Stanford) on Synthetic Biology at the 2015 LAST festival
Endy, Drew: Drew Endy (Stanford Univ) on "Human Gene Editing" at the 4th LAST Festival www.lastfestival.org (San Jose, April 2017)
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 of that evening)
Feldman, Jessica: Jessica Feldman (Stanford/ Biology) on "Patterning the Cell During Development" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Feldman, Mark: Stanford cultural historian Mark Feldman on "Urban Ecology" at a USF LASER
Ferrell, James: James Ferrell (Stanford/ Systems Biology) on "Can Living Cells Assemble Themselves?" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Ffortissimo, Mauro: Mauro Ffortissimo (Piano Deconstructor) on "What is a Piano?" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Finley, Jeanne: Jeanne C Finley (California College of the Arts) on "The Non-Fiction Imagination" at a Stanford LASER
Finley, Jeanne: Filmmaker Jeanne Finley at a SMMMASH on Language
Florin, Fabrice: Fabrice Florin (Artist and Technologist) on "The Pataphysical Slot Machine" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Florin, Fabrice: Fabrice Florin (Artist and Technologist) on "The Pataphysical Slot Machine" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Fonzi, Bruno: 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)
Forget, Bettina: "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)
Frank, Curtis: Curtis Frank on Language at a SMMMASH
Frank, Curtis: "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)
Frank, Curtis: Curtis Frank (Stanford Univ) on the materials of painting at a USF LASER
Frank, Curt: Curt Frank (Stanford Univ) on "Historical Pigments" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Frank, Curt: Curt Frank (Stanford Univ) on "Historical Pigments" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Frank, Loren: Loren Frank (UCSF/ Neuroscience) on "What is a memory?" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Frank, Loren: Loren Frank (UCSF) on "What is a memory?" at a USF LASER (2014) (program of that evening)
Frants, Anna: Anna Frants on Russia's alternative media art at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Frenkel, Edward: Edward Frenkel (UC Berkeley/ Mathematics) on "Love and Math" at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program of that evening
Frick, Laura: Laura Frick on "Sleep, Self-tracking and Art-making" at a USF LASER
Friend, Sarah: Sarah Friend (Cryptoartist) on "Systems as Fictions" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (Program of the evening)
Fullman, Ellen: Ellen Fullman (Musician) on "A Compositional Approach Derived from Material and Ephemeral Elements" at a San Francisco LASER (or better quality)
Fullman, Ellen: Ellen Fullman (Musician) on "A Compositional Approach Derived from Material and Ephemeral Elements" at a Stanford LASER
Gavish, Michal: Michal Gavish (Visual Artist) on "Visualizing DNA" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
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 of that evening)
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 )
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) on "Linear Algebra: the incredible beauty of a branch of math with a bad reputation" at a USF LASER [Slides]
Goldberg, Ken: Multimedia artist and inventor Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley)
Goldberg, Ken: Ken Goldberg at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Goldberg, Ken: Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley) on "Wow and Flutter: Perception and the Seismic Landscape" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Gopnik, Alison: Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "The Philosophical Baby" at a Stanford LASER (2013)
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" at a USF LASER [Slides] (2012)
Gopnik, Alison: Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "Theory formation and the evolution of learning" at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program of that evening
Gourley, Sean: Mathematician and entrepreneur Sean Gourley on "A Global Intelligence Platform" at a USF LASER
Gourley, Sean: "A Global Platform for Augmented Intelligence" at a Stanford LASER
Granger, Sarah: Sarah Granger (Author) on "The Digital Mystique" at the 2015 LAST festival
Granzow, John: John Granzow (Stanford CCRMA) on "Drawing Things into Sound" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program of that evening) (or better quality)
Gray, Jordan: 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)
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 of that evening)
Guadagno, Rosanna: Rosanna Guadagno (University of Texas at Dallas) on "Men, Women, and Technology: Insights from Social Psychology" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Gubanova, Elena: Elena Gubanova on Russia's alternative media art at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
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 )
Han, Yoon: Yoon Chung Han (SJSU) on "Biometric Data Arts using Fingerprint and Iris Data" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Hanson, Don: 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)
Harris, Steve: 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)
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)
Haslaahti, Hanna: Hanna Haslaahti on "Storytelling with Personal Avatars" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Haurwitz, Rachel: Synthetic biologist Rachel Haurwitz on "Precise DNA edits to advance biological research and human health" at Berkeley LASER (2014)
Hawthorne, Katharine: Katharine Hawthorne (Choreographer) on "Thinking Bodies in Motion" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Hawthorne, Katharine: Choreographer Katharine Hawthorne (Slides) at a Stanford LASER
Hearst, Marti: Marti Hearst (UC Berkeley) on "Search User Interfaces" at a USF LASER
Hill, Cherie: Cherie Hill (Choreographer) at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program of that evening)
Hill, Cherie: Cherie Hill (Choreographer) at a San Francisco LASER - higher resolution (program of that evening)
Hill, Cherie: Cherie Hill (Choreographer) on "Moving Space & Time: Dub Dance Project" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Ho, Amy: Amy Ho (Projection Artist) on "The Space We Inhabit" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Ho, Amy: Amy Ho (Projection Artist) on "The Space We Inhabit" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program of that evening) (or better quality)
Hobbs, Craig: Craig Hobbs at a Stanford LASER - June 2020 (program of the evening)
Hodder, Ian: Ian Hodder (Stanford/ Anthropology) on "What we learn from studying Çatalhöyük, one of the world's earliest societies" (program of the 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)
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)
Hooper, Cynthia: Cynthia Hooper (Media Artist) on "Pulled Apart: Re-engineering and Re-purposing Human Civilization" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Holt, Allison: Allison Leigh Holt (Visual Artist) on "The Beginning Was The End: Hybrid Reality in Javanese Culture" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Holt, Allison: Allison Leigh Holt (Visual Artist) on "The Beginning Was The End: Hybrid Reality in Javanese Culture" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Horn, Robert: Robert Horn (Human Science and Technology Advanced Research Institute) at a San Francisco LASER - higher resolution (program of that evening)
Horn, Robert: Robert Horn (Social Scientist) at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program of that 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)
Hott, Carrie: Carrie Hott (Media Artist) on "Nets for the Unweighable: a Brief History of Nets" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Houlding, Jesse: Visual artist Jesse Houlding on "Phenomena as material" at a USF LASER
Huang, Sandy : Sandy Huang (UC Berkeley/ A.I.) on "Adversarial Examples in Reinforcement Learning" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Hughen, Amanda: Hughen/Starkweather (Visual Artists) on "Shifting Shorelines" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening) - only first 13 minutes
Hughen, Amanda: Amanda Hughen (Visual Artist) on "Consumerism and cellular transformation" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Hughen/Starkweather: Hughen/Starkweather (Visual Artists) on "Shifting Shorelines" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Hutchinson, Brenda: Brenda Hutchinson (Composer) on "Sound, Listening and Public Engagement" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program of that evening) (or better quality)
Ideami, Javier: Filmmaker Javier Ideami at a LASER at a Berkeley LASER
Ideami, Javier: Javier Ideami on "Encounters of the third kind with Generative Artificial Intelligence" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Ione, Amy: Amy Ione (Diatrope Institute) on "Neuroscience and Art: The Neurocultural Landscape" (program of that evening)
Israel, David: David Israel (SRI Intl) on Natural Language Processing (Slides) at a Stanford LASER
Jacobs, Charlotte: Charlotte Jacobs (Standford) on "Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program of that evening
Jacobs, Charlotte: Charlotte Jacobs (Stanford University) at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Jacobs, Lucia: Cognitive neuroscientist Lucia Jacobs at a Berkeley LASER (2014) at a Berkeley LASER
Jacobs, Lucia: Lucia Jacobs (UC Berkeley Psychology) on "How the Brain Evolved from a Nose" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Jacobson, Mark: Stanford environmental scholar Mark Jacobson on "Alternative Energy" at a Stanford LASER
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 of that evening)
Jameson, Elizabeth: Elizabeth Jameson (Neuro-Artist) on "Re-Imaging the MRI" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Jankowski, Tito: Tito Jankowski (Biocurious) on "Are You BioCurious? Amateur biotech from Entertainment to Entrepreneurship" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Jauernik, Christina: Christina Jauernik on "Touching Distance - Inter-Views with the Virtual" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
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)
Johnson, Jeff: Jeff Johnson (USF/ Computer Science) on "Designing Technology for an Aging Population" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Johnson, Terry: Terry Johnson (UC Berkeley) on "Synthetic Biology: Teaching Old Cells New Tricks" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
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)
Jones, Caroline: Caroline Jones (MIT Art Historian) on "Impressionism as a Function of Techno-shock" (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)
Joshi, Suyash: Suyash Joshi (Engineer and Magician) on "S.T.E.A.M. Magic" (program of that evening)
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 of that evening)
Kachru, Shamit: Stanford physicist Shamit Kachru discussing extra dimensions (Slides) at a USF LASER
Kachru, Shamit: Stanford physicist Shamit Kachru discussing Dark Matter and Dark Energy (Slides) at a Stanford LASER
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)
Kahle, Brewster: Brewster Kahle (Founder and director of the Internet Archive) on "Universal Access to All Knowledge" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Kahle, Brewster: Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Kamen, Rebecca: Artist and scholar Rebecca Kamen talking about art and science at a USF LASER
Kan, Virj: Virj Kan (Design Scientist) on "Molecular Design Interactions" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Kaneshiro, Blair: Blair Kaneshiro (Stanford CCRMA) on "Music Discovery" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Kapuscinski, Jarek: Jaroslaw Kapuscinski (Intermedia Composer) on "Talking of Intermedia" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program of that evening)
Karimi, Pantea: Pantea Karimi (Media Artist) on "(Re) Visualizing Medieval Science" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that 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)
Karimi, Pantea: Pantea Karimi (Media Artist) on "(Re) Visualizing Medieval Science" (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)
Kataoka, Drue: Drue Kataoka (Visual artist) on "Mining Memory: Membranes & Magic Boxes " at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program of that evening
Keats, Jonathon: Jonathon Keats (Philosopher) on "A Dilettante's Guide to the Universe" at a Stanford LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014.html
Keats, Jonathon: Jonathon Keats (Philosopher) on "A Dilettante's Guide to the Universe" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Keay, Andra: Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics) on "Designing Good Robots" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Keay, Andra: Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics) at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
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 "Postponing the Robopocalypse" (program of that evening)
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
Kendall, Stuart: Art/Design: The State of the Object
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)
Khatib, Oussama: Robot scientist Oussama Khatib (head of Stanford's Robotics Lab) at a SMMMASH
Kildall, Scott: Multimedia artist Scott Kildall on "Tweets in Space" (Slides)
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
Kirby, David: David Kirby (Cal Poly) on "The Nature of Diegetic Prototypes and their Social Impact" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Kitundu, Walter: Walter Kitundu at a Stanford LASER (2013)
Kitundu, Walter: Walter Kitundu at a USF LASER (poor video)
Knight, Margot: Margot Knight (Djerassi Resident Artists Program) on "Scientific Delirium Madness" at a Stanford LASER (2014) - program of that evening
Knight, Margot: Margot Knight (Djerassi Resident Artists Program) on "The Scientific Delirium Madness program" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Knight, Margot: Margot Knight (Djerassi Resident Artists Program) on "Scientific Delirium Madness" at a San Francisco 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)
Kodama, Sachiko: Sachiko Kodama (Visual Artist) at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Koene, Randall: Randal Koene on "Why and how to transition from wet-ware to substrate-independent minds" at a USF LASER
Kohler, Christian: Christian Kohler (Lawrence Berkeley Labs) on "Environmental Building Technologies" 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)
Konjevod, Goran: Goran Konjevod (Origami Artist) on "Origami Beyond Geometry" at a Stanford LASER (2017) - program of that evening
Konjevod, Goran: Goran Konjevod (Origami Artist) at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Kopar, Piroska: Piroska Kopar (Washington Univ) on "Ethics in the Time of Coronavirus" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
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)
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)
Kosinski, Michal: Michal Kosinski (Stanford ) on "The End of Privacy" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Kriegman, Sam: Sam Kriegman (Harvard Medical School) on "Computer-designed Organisms" (program of that evening)
Krimstein, Ken: Ken Krimstein (Cartoonist) on "An Interdisciplinary Celebration of Kafka" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Kritcher, Annie: Annie Kritcher (Lawrence Livermore Lab) on "The State of Nuclear Fusion Research" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Krubitzer, Leah: Leah Krubitzer (UC Davis/ Neurobiology) on "How does Evolution build a Complex Brain" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
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)
Kurillo, Gregorij: Gregorij Kurillo (Berkeley/ Teleimmersion Lab) on "Human-Centered Modeling for Human-Machine Interaction" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Kurillo, Gregorij: Gregorij Kurillo (Berkeley/ Teleimmersion Lab) on "Virtual and Augmented Reality for Connecting People" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Lahaie, Therese: Therese Lahaie (Media Artist) at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program of the evening)
Lahaie, Therese: Therese Lahaie (Media Artist) on "Analog and Digital Migration" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
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)
Lange, Patricia: Patricia Lange (California College of the Arts) on "Evaluating Techno-Aesthetics in Video" at a Stanford LASER (2014) - program of that evening
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 of that evening)
Lanier, Jaron: Composer, technologist and author Jaron Lanier on Mind at a SMMMASH
Lavine, Jennie: Jennie Lavine (Emory Univ) on "What is the endgame of the covid pandemic? Will covid become endemic?" (program of the evening)
Law, John: John Law at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the 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 (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 of that evening)
Leder, Evie: Evie Leder (Video Artist) on "#NSFW Looking / Seeing" (program of that evening)
Lee, Christine: Christine Lee (Visual Artist and Designer) at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Leitman, Sasha: Inventor and composer Sasha Leitman on "Research in Computer Music at Stanford's CCRMA" at a Stanford LASER
Leitman, Sasha: Sasha Leitman (Stanford CCRMA) on "Research in Computer Music at Stanford's CCRMA" at a USF LASER
Leonard, Cheryl: Cheryl Leonard on "Phantom Limbs: Composing Music Amidst the Sixth Extinction" (program of that evening)
Leonard, Cheryl: Nature composer Cheryl Leonard about music from Antartica) at a Stanford LASER
Leonard, Cheryl: Cheryl Leonard (Composer) on "Music from High Latitudes" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
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 of that evening)
Lewis, Sydell: Visual artist Sydell Lewis demonstrating her rotating paintings (Slides) at a Stanford LASER
Li, Jiabao: Jiabao Li at a Stanford LASER - June 2020 (program of the evening)
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
Litman-Cleper, Jules: Jules Litman-Cleper (Media Artist) on "Unsimulatableness: that which cannot be simulated" (program of that evening)
Loesch-Frank, Sara: Visual artist Sara Loesch-Frank discussing Metallic Leaf and Unusual Media in Art at a USF LASER 2013 (better audio)
Loesch-Frank, Sara: Visual artist Sara Loesch-Frank discussing Metallic Leaf and Unusual Media In Art at a Stanford LASER (2012)
Lombrozo, Tania: Tania Lombrozo (UC Berkeley Psychologist) on "What makes an explanation beautiful?" ( Slides) at a USF LASER
Lombrozo, Tania: Berkeley psychologist Tania Lombrozo on the neuroscience of explanation at Berkeley LASER (2014)
Lopes, Daiane: Daiane Lopes Da Silva (Choreographer) at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Lord, Chip: Chip Lord (Media Artist) on "Space, Time, and Architecture" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Lubell, Bernie: Bernie Lubell (Kinetic Artist) at USF on "Intimacy and Entanglement" (Slides) at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Lubell, Bernie: Bernie Lubell (Kinetic Artist) on "Intimacy and Entanglement" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Luo, Liqun: Liqun Luo (Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "What motivates animals to do what they do?" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (program of that evening)
Mabogunje, Adegboyega: Adegboyega Mabogunje (Stanford Univ) on "Accelerating Innovation: Children, Women, Sex, and Bombs" ( program of the 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)
Madray, Damian: Damian Madray (DXLabs) on "Evolution of Design with Culture Thinking" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Maes, Pattie: Pattie Maes (MIT) on "Cognitive Enhancement" at a Stanford L.A.S.E.R. (Program of the evening)
Maguire, Laura: Laura Maguire (Stanford & Philosophy Talk) on "A New Theory of Bullshit" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Maguire, Laura: Laura Maguire (Stanford & Philosophy Talk) on "Does Neuroscience Threaten Free Will?" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
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 )
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 )
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)
Malina, Roger: Roger Malina (Univ of Texas) on "Art and Science for the Space Age" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Malina, Roger: Roger Malina on "The Legacy of Frank Popper", at a virtual 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 of that evening)
Maravelis, Peter: Peter Maravelis (City Lights) on "Schizo-curation: Transcending the boundaries of spectatorship" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Marchessault, Janine: Janine Marchessault (York University) at a Stanford LASER/LAST (program of that evening)
Marcom, Micheline: Micheline Marcom (Novelist) on "The Illuminated Book, the Imaginal World, Dreams, and Deep Reading" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
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
Margolin, Reuben: Margolin's TED talk with videos of his kinetic sculptures at a USF LASER
Marie, Christine: Shadow artist Christine Marie at a Stanford LASER
Marie, Christine: Christine Marie (Light Artist) on "Creating (antiquated) Augmented Reality" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Marks, Laura: Laura Marks (Simon Fraser Univ) on "Soul-Assemblage Media" (program of that evening)
Mayor, Adrienne: Adrienne Mayor (Stanford/ Classics and History and Philosophy of Science) on "Gods and Robots" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Mayor, Adrienne: Adrienne Mayor (Stanford/ Classics and History and Philosophy of Science) on "Gods and Robots" (program of that evening)
Mazza, Christina: Visual artist Christina Mazza at a USF LASER [Slides]
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)
McConville, David: David McConville (Buckminster Fuller Institute) on "Beyond the "Whole Earth" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
McConville, David : David Mc Conville (Buckminster Fuller Inst) on "Beyond the "Whole Earth" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on the NASA missions that search for life at a Berkeley LASER
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 "Imagining life in the Universe" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on the Curiosity Mars Mission at a Stanford LASER
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)
McClelland, Jay: Stanford neuroscientist Jay McClelland on Mind at a SMMMASH
McKay, Chris: Chris McKay (NASA) on Space Exploration at the 2015 LAST festival
McVarish, Maria: Art/Design: The State of the Object
McVarish, Maria: Maria McVarish (Stanford/ Modern Thought and Literature) on "Mapping the Uncharted: Non-Cartesian Spaces" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Meador, Kimford: Kimford Meador (Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "How does brain damage affect how we think?" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Meagley, Rob: Rob Meagley (ONE Nanotechnologies) " at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Mende, Jeremy: Jeremy Mende on "The Social Mirror" at a Stanford LASER
Mende, Jeremy: Jeremy Mende (Visual Designer) on "Confrontational Strategies - The Social Mirror" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Merencillo, Melissa: Melissa Merencillo (Virtual Reality Designer) on "Where We Are in Augmented, Virtual, Mixed and Cinematic Realities" (program of that evening)
Metzger, Christine : Christine Metzger (California college of the Arts) on "Lights, Camera...Fiction?" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that 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)
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)
Mialet, Helene: Berkeley anthropologist Helene Mialet on "Stephen Hawking and his Extended Body" at a Stanford LASER
Mialet, Helene: Helene Mialet (UC Berkeley Anthropology) on "On Stephen Hawking and his extended body" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Micheli, Fiorenza: Fiorenza Micheli (Stanford) on "Harnessing the data revolution for ocean and human health" (program of that evening)
Ming, Vivienne: Vivienne Ming (Neuroscientist) at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Ming, Vivienne: Vivienne Ming at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Miranda, Omar: Omar Miranda (USF) on "Digitizing Spoken Poetry in the Age of Social Media" at a San Francisco 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)
Moffat, Susan: Susan Moffat (UC Berkeley's Global Urban Humanities Initiative) on "The Albany Bulb" (program of that evening)
Monchaux, Nicholas: Nicholas de Monchaux (UC Berkeley Architecture) on "Spacesuits and Cities" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Monchaux, Nicholas: Nicholas de Monchaux (UC Berkeley Architecture) on "Spacesuits and Cities" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Morawetz, Sata: Sara Morawetz (Media Artist) on "Measuring by Measuring Against: Experimental Methods in Artistic Practice" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Mori-Bottger, Hana: USF professor Hana Mori Bottger on "Beauty and Strength" (Slides) at a USF LASER
Moskalenko, Sophia: Sophia Moskalenko (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism) on "Radicalization and Martyrdom" (program of this evening)
Muehlhauser, Luke: Singularity Institute's Luke Muehlhauser on "Super-human Intelligence" at a Stanford LASER
Mullaney, Tom: Tom Mullaney (Stanford) on "The Audacity of Chinese Computing" 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)
Murray, Soraya: Soraya Murray (UC Santa Cruz/ Film & Digital Media) on "Games, Connectedness and Radical Empathy Under Globalization" at a Stanford LASER (2014)
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 of that 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: USF professor Vijaya Nagarajan on "Embedded Mathematics in Women's Ritual Art Designs in southern India" at a USF LASER
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)
Nelson, Mark: Mark Nelson (Stanford Peace Innovation Lab) at a San Francisco LASER on "Peace Technology" (program of that evening)
Nelson, Mark: Mark Nelson (Co-director, Stanford Peace Innovation Lab) on "Technology for Peace" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Neuburg, Amy: Musician Amy X Neuburg at a SMMMASH on Language
Newsome, William: William Newsome (Stanford/ Medicine) on "The Future of Neuroscience" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Nichols, Kate: Kate Nichols on Art and Nanoscience at a Stanford LASER
Niemeyer, Greg: Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley/ Center for New Media) at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
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 of that evening)
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)
Norvig, Peter: Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google on Artificial Intelligence at the first LAST festival (San Jose, June 2014)
Norvig, Peter: Peter Norvig (Google) on Artificial Intelligence at the 2015 LAST festival
Novelo, Miguel: Miguel Novelo (Media Artist) on "Technoshamanic Playgrounds" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
O'Leary, Marion: Marion O'Leary (Stanford) on "Music and Science" at a Berkeley LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014b.html
Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience) on the Ebola virus at the second LAST festival
Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley) on "Visual Perception and the Brain" (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 USF LASER (or better quality)
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 of that evening)
Olshausen, Bruno: Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley) on Neuroscience at the 2015 LAST festival
Omohundro, Steve: Steve Omohundro (A.I. and Blockchain researcher) on " AI, Deception, and Blockchains" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Omohundro, Steve: Steve Omohundro at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
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)
Ortenberg, Dasha: Dasha Ortenberg (Designer/Artist) on "Transformative Potentials of Speculative Mapping" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Ostertag, Bob: Bob Ostertag on the history of Electronic Music at a USF LASER
Ouyang, Derek: Derek Ouyang (Architect) at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program of that evening)
Ouyang, Derek: Derek Ouyang (Architect) at a San Francisco LASER - higher resolution (program of that evening)
Palmer, Megan: Megan Palmer (Stanford/ Biosecurity) on "Engineering Biology at Social Scales" at a Stanford LASER (2017) - program of that evening
Palmer, Stephen: Stephen Palmer (UC Berkeley/ Psychology) on "Colour, Music, and Emotion in Synesthetes and Non-Synesthetes" at a Berkeley LASER (2014) - program of that evening
Pandey, Annapurna: San Jose State Univ's anthropologist Annapurna Pandey on "Magic" at Berkeley LASER (2014)
Parker, Jennifer: UC Santa Cruz OpenLab director Jennifer Parker at a Stanford LASER [Slides]
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)
Parker, Jennifer: UC Santa Cruz OpenLab director Jennifer Parker on "Art, Astronomy and Physics" at a USF LASER [Slides]
Parker, Jennifer: Jennifer Parker at a Berkeley LASER
Parsonnet, Julie: Stanford epidemiologist Julie Parsonnet on "Covid 19: Where we Stand" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Partch, Carrie: Carrie Partch (UCSC/ Biochemistry) on the Human Circadian Rhythms at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Paulos, Eric: Eric Paulos (UC Berkeley) on "Hybrid Assemblages, Environments, and Happenings" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
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)
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 of that evening)
Pearson, Mike: Mike Parker Pearson (UC London/ Archeology) on "The World of Stonehenge" (program of the evening)
Pedersen, Anders: Anders Pedersen (Composer) at a San Francisco LASER (program of that 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)
Pentecost, Claire: Claire Pentecost (Media Artist) on "An Interdisciplinary Celebration of Kafka" 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)
Perloff, Marjorie: Marjorie Perloff (Stanford Univ) on "TS Eliot's 'The Waste Land' at 100" (program of that evening)
Perloff, Marjorie: Marjorie Perloff (Stanford Univ) on "Infrathin: Poetry as Verbivocovisual Art" (program of that evening)
Peterson, Christine: Christine Peterson (Foresight Institute) on the Nanofuture (Slides) at a SMMMASH
Petrenko, Sasha: Choreographer Sasha Petrenko on "A World without Nature" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program of that evening
Petrenko, Sasha: Sasha Petrenko (Choreographer) on Choreography that reflects a more integrated planetary existence at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Phanichphant, Purin: Purin Phanichphant (Interaction Designer) on "Can Art Be More?" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Pitt, Leonard: Actor and mime Leonard Pitt discussing the power of body movements at a Stanford LASER
Pratkanis, Tony: Tony Pratkanis (Stanford Univ) on Robotics (Slides) at a USF LASER
Quinn, Jackie: Jackie Quinn (Google, formerly Autodesk Bio/Nano Programmable Matter Group) on "Communicating Synthetic Biology" at a USF LASER
Rael, Ron: Ron Rael (UC Berkeley/ Architecture) on "3D Printing Materials for Architecture" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that 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)
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 of that 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)
Raina, Anastasiia: Anastasia Raina (Rhode Island School of Design) on "Posthuman Polymythology" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Ramsundar, Bharath: Bharath Ramsundar (CTO of Computable) on "Decentralized Data Markets" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Randerson, Janine: Janine Randerson (Auckland University of Technology) on "Weather as Medium" (program of the evening)
Rath, Alan: Alan Rath on his digital scultures at a USF LASER - program of that evening
Ray Smith, Alvy: Computer graphics pioneer Alvy Ray Smith on "A Biography of the Pixel" at a USF LASER
Ray Smith, Alvy: Alvy Ray Smith, Co-founder of Pixar, on Graphics/Animation at the first LAST festival (San Jose, June 2014)
Razi, Maryam: Maryam Razi (Art Researcher) on "Iran's Media Art Scene" (program of the evening)
Reben, Alex: Alex Reben at a Stanford LASER - June 2020 (program of the evening)
Reben, Alex: Alex Reben (Inventor) at a Berkeley LASER on "Engineering Psychology" (program of that evening)
Reben, Alex: Alex Reben (Inventor & Artist) on "Human-Computer Collaboration" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Reben, Alex: Alex Reben (Inventor) on "Digital drugs and humanity in algorithms" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Rich, Robert: Electronic composer Robert Rich on "Ambient Music" at a Berkeley LASER (Slides)
Rich, Robert: Ambient composer Robert Rich at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Rindfleisch, Jan: Jan Rindfleisch (Author) on "The Blossoming of Silicon Valley's Arts Community" (program of that evening)
Rindfleisch, Jan: Jan Rindfleisch (Author) on "The Blossoming of Silicon Valley's Arts Community" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
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)
Rong, Kiri: Kiri Rong (Curator) on "The State of the Arts in China" at a USF LASER
Rong, Kiri: Kiri Rong (Visual Artist, Curator, Computer Scientist) on "The State of the Arts in China" at a Stanford LASER (2014) (Slides)
Rosengaus, Leah: Leah Rosengaus (Director of Digital Health at Stanford Health Care) on "Towards Digital Health" 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)
Rothschild, Lynn: Lynn Rothschild (NASA Astrobiologist) on "Synthetic Astrobiology" at a Stanford LASER http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/aug2014.html
Russell, Stuart: Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley/ Center for Intelligent Systems) on "The long-term future of (Artificial) Intelligence" at a San Francisco 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)
Rutstein, Rebecca: Rebecca Rutstein (Interdisciplinary Artist) at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Ryskeldiev, Bektur: Bektur Ryskeldiev (Tsukuba Univ, Japan) on "The (near) future of immersive and interactive media" (program of that evening)
Sabes, Philip: Philip Sabes (UCSF/ Neuroscience) on "Brain-Machine Interfaces" at a San Francisco 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)
Sahami, Mehran: Mehran Sahami (Stanford/ Computer Science) on "Ethical Implications of Machine Learning" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Salesin, David: David Salesin (Adobe Creative Lab) on "How to use the Power of the Computer to Bring Aesthetics and Good Design into our Lives" at a Berkeley LASER
SanFratello, Virginia: Virginia San Fratello (San Jose State Univ) on "3D Printing the Future/ Out of the Lab and Into the Landscape" (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)
Scaruffi, Piero: Cultural historian Piero Scaruffi at UCLA on the LASER series and on how art/science influenced Silicon Valley
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 )
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)
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)
Scaruffi, Piero: Cultural historian Piero Scaruffi on "Roger Sperry and the Age of the Brain" [Slides]
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 of that evening) [slides)
Scaruffi, Piero: Piero Scaruffi (Cultural Historian) on "The Two Cultures in the age of A.I." at Univ of San Francisco (program of that evening)
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 of that evening)
Schaffer, Karl: Karl Schaffer (Choreographer) on "Dancing with Mathematics" at a Berkeley LAsER (program of that evening)
Schleiner, AnneMarie: AnneMarie Schleiner on "Transnational Play" at a virtual 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)
Schwarzer, Marjorie: Marjorie Schwarzer on "An Elephant in the Closet: The history of habitat dioramas" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Scott, Julia: Julia Scott (Santa Clara Univ) on "Biofeedback Integration into immersive Virtual Reality Experiences" (program of that evening)
Sears, Derek: on "The Science of Meteorites" at a USF LASER [Slides]
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 of that evening)
Seelig, Tina: Tina Seelig (Stanford, Faculty Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program) on "From Inspiration to Implementation" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Segal, Adrien: Adrien Segal (Sculptural Data Artist) on "Scientific inquiry, sensory experience, and the creative process" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Segal, Adrien: Adrien Segal (Sculptural Data Artist) on "Scientific inquiry, sensory experience, and the creative process" at a Stanford LASER - take 2 (program of that evening)
Sequin, Carlo: Carlo Sequin (UC Berkeley) on "Hyperbolic Hexagon to Evolving Trefoil" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Sequin, Carlo: Carlo Sequin (UC Berkeley) on "Klein bottles and Super-Bottles" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Shafer, Audrey: Stanford director of the Arts, Humanities and Medicine Program (teaser only)
Shaff, Stan: Stan Shaff (Audium) on "Exploring and expanding the language of space in music composition and performance" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that 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)
Sheng, Shanshan: Multimedia artist Shanshan Sheng at a USF LASER
Sheng, Shan Shan: Visual artist Shan Shan Sheng at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Shenoy, Krishna: Krishna Shenoy (Stanford/ Neuroscience) on "Brain-machine Interfaces" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Sherwood, Katherine: Katherine Sherwood (UC Berkeley) on "How a Cerebral Hemorrhage Altered my Art" at a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Shishko, Olga: Olga Shishko on Russia's alternative media art at a Stanford LASER (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: Mikey Siegel (Consciousness Technologist) on "The Art and Technology of Human Connection" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
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 of that evening)
Siembieda, Danielle: Danielle Siembieda (Visual Artist and Curator) on "The Future of Eco Art/Tech" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Siembieda, Danielle: program of that evening)
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
Sigurdson, Vanessa: Vanessa Sigurdson (Autodesk Artist in Residence) on "Autodesk Artist in Residence" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Sigurdson, Vanessa: Vanessa Sigurdson (Autodesk Artist in Residence) on "Autodesk Artist in Residence" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Sigurdson, Vanessa: Vanessa Sigurdson (Autodesk Artist in Residence) on "Autodesk Artist in Residence" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Silverstein, Eva: Eva Silverstein (Stanford/ Cosmology) on "Horizon Dynamics and String Theory" at a Stanford LASER (2017) - 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)
Sitoy, Renetta: Multimedia artist Renetta Sitoy on "Art and Science"
Skokowski, Paul: Paul Skokowski (Stanford Philosopher) on "Are you a zombie?" at a USF LASER
Slayton, Joel: "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)
Slayton, Joel: "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)
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)
Smith, Jenn: Jenn Smith (Mills College) on "Cooperation in Mammalian Societies" at a Berkeley LASER (program of this evening)
Smith, Jenn: Jenn Smith (Mills College) on "Family Matters in Wild Mammals" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Smith, Monica: Monica Smith (UC Los Angeles/ Anthropology) on "Urban Art: The First 6,000 Years" (program of this evening)
Smolke, Christina: Stanford biologist Christina Smolke on "Synthetic Biology" at a USF LASER
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 of that evening)
Snyder, Michael: Michael Snyder at the 2018 LAST festival (program of the festival)
Sommerer, Christa: Christa Sommerer (Media Artist) on "The Artwork as a Living System" at a USF LASER (program of the evening)
Sonalkar, Neeraj: Neeraj Sonalkar (Stanford/ Design) on "What improvised theater, jazz and design thinking have in common" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Sonami, Laetitia: Laetitia Sonami (Kinetic and Sound Artist) on "Your presence is Required" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Song, Beibei: Beibei Song (Essinova) on "Exodus, influx and residencies" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Spain, Sharon: Art curator Sharon Spain at a Stanford LASER (2014) on Recology's Artist in Residence Program
Spector, Tami: Tami Spector (USF) on "The Molecular Elusive" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening) [Slides]
Spector, Tami: Tami Spector (USF) 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)
Spelletich, Kal: Kinetic artist Kal Spelletich at a Stanford LASER (2014)
Spelletich, Kal: Kal Spelletich on "Interactive Machine Art" at a Berkeley LASER
Spence, Heather: Heather Spence on "Underwater Sound Research: Music of Marine Biology" (program of that evening)
Spiess, Klaus: Klaus Spiess (Vienna Medical Univ) on "Ecolalia" at a USF LASER (program of the evening)
Splan, Laura: Laura Splan (Media Artist) on "Recursive Residues: Navigating Interfaces Between Virtual and Biological Worlds" (program of that 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)
Stevenson Won, Andrea: Andrea Stevenson Won (Stanford's Communication Dept) on "The Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab" at a Stanford LASER (2014) - program of that evening
Stiles, Char: 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)
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 )
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 a Berkeley LASER (2014)
Stork, David: at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Stork, David: David Stork (Rambus Labs) on "Computer image analysis of Parmigianino's Self portrait in a convex mirror" at a Stanford LASER
Strohecker, Carol: Carol Strohecker (Dean of Design, University of Minnesota) at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Sturtz, Michael: Michael Sturtz (Stanford dSchool) at a Berkeley LASER on "Creativity, design thinking, and the future of making and learning" (program of that evening)
Sugihara, Kokichi: Kokichi Sugihara (Meiji University, Japan) on "How to Make Impossible Objects" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Sumner, Dawn: Dawn Sumner (UC Davis/ Earth and Planetary Sciences) on "On the CAVE, Creativity and Curiosity" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Sundaralingam, Pireeni: Pireeni Sundaralingam on "Poetry & Memory" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (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)
Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan on "Natural Aesthetics: GenArt, BioArt, Biomimicry, SynBio, CrowdArt" at a Stanford LASER [Slides]
Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan (Founder, Institute for Blockchain Studies) on "Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology Explained" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Swan, Melanie: Futurist and philosopher Melanie Swan at a Berkeley LASER on "GenArt, BioArt, Biomimicry, SynBio, CrowdArt" [Slides]
Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan (New School of New York) on "The Age of Cybercurrencies" at the 2015 LAST festival
Swan, Melanie: Melanie Swan on "Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology Explained" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Tanaka, Hirohisa: Hirohisa Tanaka (SLAC National Laboratory) on " Neutrinos: The Desperate Remedy" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Todhunter, Andrew: (Stanford writer Andrew Todhunter discussing Art and Science) at a Stanford LASER
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 of that evening)
Travaglianti, Manuela: Manuela Travaglianti (UC Berkeley/ Political Science) on "How can we Prevent Election Violence?" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Tromble, Meredith: Meredith Tromble (Artist and Curator) on "The New College Circle: The Lifelong Impact of a Creative School" (program of that evening)
Tromble, Meredith: Art/Design: The State of the Object
Tromble, Meredith: Visual artist Meredith Tromble and Cave scientist Jordan Van Aalsburg
Tromble, Meredith: Artist and educator Meredith Tromble of the San Francisco Art Institute on "The Dream Vortex And Collaborative Process" at a USF LASER
Tromble, Meredith: Multimedia artist Meredith Tromble on " Dream Vortex" at a San Francisco LASER (2015) (program of that evening
Tromble, Meredith: Meredith Tromble (San Francisco Art Institute) on " Dream Vortex" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Trounce, Milana: Milana Trounce (Stanford) on "Pandemic Resilience" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
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)
Tullman-Ercek, Danielle: Danielle Tullman-Ercek (UC Berkeley) on "Synthetic Biology" at a USF LASER (2014) ( program of that evening) (or better quality)
Turner, Fred: Fred Turner (Stanford/ Dept of Communication) on "Technology, Counterculture and The Dream of a World Without Politics" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Tyler, Christopher: Christopher Tyler (City University of London) on "Leonardo himself: A lifelong self-portrait" (program of this evening)
Ulehla, Niki: Niki Ulehla on "Marionettes, forms and relationships" (Slides) at a Stanford LASER
Ulfeldt, Anja: Anja Ulfeldt (Media Artist) on "Subjective Infrastructure" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Urnov, Fyodor: Fyodor Urnov (pioneer of gene editing) at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Urnov, Fyodor: Fyodor Urnov (UC Berkeley/ Genomics) on "Genetics and Society" 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)
Villarreal, Luis: Luis Villarreal (UC Irvine) on "Living in the Virosphere: A Virus-first Theory of the Evolution of Life" (program of this evening)
Viskontas, Indre: Singer and neuroscientist Indre Viskontas discussing "Music and Brain" (2013) (Slides) at a Berkeley LASER
Viskontas, Indre: Singer and neuroscientist Indre Viskontas discussing "Music and Brain" at a Stanford LASER (Slides)
Viskontas, Indre: Singer and neuroscientist Indre Viskontas discussing "Music and Brain" at a USF LASER (Slides)
Vitale, Wayne: Wayne Vitale on his gamelan opera "Makrokosma Bali" at a Berkeley LASER
Wagner, Mark: Mark Wagner at UC Berkeley on "Street Painting" (2013)
Wagner, Mark: Digital media and street artist Mark Wagner at a Stanford LASER
Waisman, Nina: Nina Waisman (Media Artist) at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Wall, James: James Wall (Stanford/ Biodesign) at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Walter, Peter: program of that 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)
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)
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)
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 of that evening) (or better quality)
Whaley, Birgitta: Birgitta Whaley (Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center) on "What role does Quantum Mechanics play in Biology? at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)[slides]
Whaley, Birgitta: Birgitta Whaley on "Quantum Biology" at a Stanford LASER (program of the evening)
Whitney, Hunter: Art/Design: The State of the Object
Widom, Jennifer: Jennifer Widom (Stanford/Computer Science) on "Big Data" at a Stanford LASER (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)
Winters, Ian: Ian Winters (Media Artist) on "Summer, Winter, Spring - Observing the Seasons" at a San Francisco LASER (program of the evening)
Winters, Ian: Multimedia artist Ian Winters on "Responsive Art" at a USF LASER
Witkowsky, Lea: Lea Witkowsky (Innovative Genomics Institute/ Policy Analyst) on "CRISPR, Rewriting DNA, and the Societal Questions it Raises" (program of that evening)
Wold, Erling: Erling Wold (Composer) at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
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 of that evening)
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)
Worel, Kathrine: Kathrine Worel (Visual Artist) on "Touch Me There - The Role of Plastic Art in the Digital Age" at a USF LASER (or better quality)
Wymore, Lisa: Lisa Wymore (UC Berkeley/ Theater) on "Improvisational Dance Within Computer Augmented Spaces: Dancing with the Unknowable" at a Berkeley LASER (program of that evening)
Wyss-Coray, Tony: Tony Wyss-Coray (Stanford/ Neurology) at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Xie, Shelly: Shelly Xie's sand-animated video "The Moving Hands" (at the SMMMASH of Jan 2013 @ Stanford - program of that evening)
Yajima, Rieko: Rieko Yajima (AAAS and Stanford/ Design) on "Art/Science Policy" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Yajima, Rieko: Rieko Yajima (Stanford/ Design and AAAS) at a Stanford LASER (program of the 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)
Yang, Weidong : Weidong Yang (Kine-tech) on "Data insights through gestural interactive 3D visualization" at a San Francisco LASER (program of that evening)
Yang, Weidong: Weidong Yang (Kine-tech) at a Stanford LASER (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)
Zacharia, Janine: Janine Zacharia (Stanford/ Communication) on "The Era of Noise: How to Counter Fake News" at a Stanford LASER (program of this evening)
Zadeh, Reza: Reza Zadeh (Stanford Institute for Computational Mathematics) on "Computer Vision Made Simple" at a San Francisco LASER (program of this evening)
Zadeh, Reza: Reza Zadeh (Stanford Institute for Computational Mathematics) on "Computer Vision Made Simple" 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)
Zhang, Alice: Alice Yuan Zhang (Media Artist) on "The Need for Intergenerational Tech" at a Stanford LASER ( program of the evening)
Zhang, Caterina: Caterina Zhang (Media Artist, China) on "Multi-dimentional representation of Oriental Art" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Zhang, Stella: Visual artist Stella Zhang
Zoi, Catherine Radford: Cathy Zoi (Stanford) on "Human Ingenuity, the Renewable Resource that Really Can Halt the Climate Crisis" at a Stanford LASER (program of that evening)
Zolotovsky, Katia: at a Stanford LASER Katia Zolotovsky (RISD) on "Spatial design with Engineered Living Materials" (program of that evening)

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