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Leonardo Art Science Evening (LASER) of May

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Leonardo Art Science Evening (LASER) of May 9

Leonardo ISAST in collaboration with USF invites you to an evening of art and science presentations.

Please RSVP to p[at]scaruffi[dot]com. Admission is limited.

When: May 9, 2011 at 6:30pm

Where: USF campus, San Francisco
(RSVP for detailed address and directions)

What:
6:45-8:45: Presentations
# Elizabeth Jameson (Visual Artist) on “Re-Imaging the MRI”
# Kal Spelletich (Seemen) on “Machines Fires Golems Wines Aeronautics Telepresences”
# Caroline Lewis (San Jose State) and Robert Davis (Univ of London) on “Silent Running Climate Clock”
# Minna Harri (Coreographer) on “Beautiful Machine”

The webpage http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/may2011.html has links to their websites for more information.

Feel free to forward to relevant acquaintances, but please ask to RSVP in order to attend.

Past and future LASERs are listed at http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo

Thanks,

piero scaruffi
on behalf of Leonardo ISAST
www.leonardo.info

Sponsored by:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
the University of Illinois’ eDREAM Institute,
the University of Calabria’s Evolutionary Systems Group,
the School of Visual Arts Computer Art Department,
Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology,
and USF Dean’s Office of Arts and Science.

Posted by:  Ozden Sahin (LEA Co-editor and Curator)

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as artist, curator, and academic. He is a research affiliate and visiting professor at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press. He has exhibited numerous personal projects including Car Park, a public performance in the UK at the John Hansard Gallery; Who The People?, an installation artwork acquired in its entirety by the Chetham’s Library and Museum in Manchester; Sowing and Reaping, installation artworks acquired in their entirety by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Cyprus; and Hope Coming On, a site-specific choral performance he designed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the collaboration of the Boston Children’s Chorus, and realized in front of Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). In 2017, Aceti prepared a series of new artworks for an exhibition entitled Shimmer and curated by Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) at the Tobazi Mansion in Hydra, a new large choral performance titled Accursed for the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece; and Knock, Knock, Knocking a public space installation in the Mediterranean Garden Pavilion of the New Sea Waterfront of Thessaloniki.