Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) Feb 2010

Description

Experience the kind of evening Silicon Valley is known for as Artists, Scientists, and Technologists all converge at the Carl Sagan Center for Life in the Universe at the Famed SETI Institute in Mountain View, California for a rendezvous to social network and explore various areas where art and science are being used in combination.

RSVP to [email protected] because space is limited.

Schedule:

6:45pm-7pm: Socializing/networking. Anyone in the audience is welcome to describe in 30 seconds what they are working on.

7-7:30pm: June Power (Altor Systems) on "A Matter of Form"

A discussion of how mathematics might provide inspiration for addressing complex management issues in distributed computer systems. The talk will be conceptual in nature and will aim to provide a glimpse into this very complex problem space.

7:30-8pm: John Edmark (Stanford Univ) on "Geometric Patterns of Change"

A number of transforming and kinetic works have been created as a result of an ongoing exploration into spatial patterns of symmetry and growth, focusing in particular on those arising out of logarithmic spiral structures, Fibonacci numbers, and the golden ratio.

8-8:30: BREAK

8:30-9pm: Carlo Sequin (U.C. Berkeley) on "Knotty Sculptures"

This presentation explores the use of simple knots as constructivist building blocks for abstract geometrical sculptures. One approach places simple n-foil knots on the n-sided faces of a Platonic or Archimedean polyhedron. Another investigation explores various generating principles for the construction of recursive knots. For instance, a simple crossing of two strands is replaced with a more complicated tangled version of two strands, and the process is then repeated recursively. A few of these designs conceived on a computer are then developed further to make actual 3D models on various rapid prototyping machines.

9-9:30pm: Gertrude Reagan (Visual Artist) on "My Life Among the Patterns"

Studying natural patterns both by drawing them and finding analogs for them in crafts materials. Patterns as metaphors for philosophic ideas.

9:30-10:00: More Socializing/Networking

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by The University of Illinois eDREAM Institute, The University of Calabria Evolutionary Systems Group, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.

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