Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SETI Institute
515 N. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA 94043

February 11, 2008, 6:30-10PM

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations on art, science and technology organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST.

Please RSVP to p (at) scaruffi (dot) com to attend. Admission is free but limited.

Schedule:

6:30pm-7:00pm: Socializing/networking.

6:45-7:15pm: Amy Ione of the Diatrope Institute on “Perception, Photography, and the Art/Sci Equation”

7:30-8:00pm: Frank Pietronigro, co-founder and director of the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium, and Lowry Burgess, former Dean and Professor, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, on “I See The Earth and it is Beautiful”

8:00-8:30pm: break

8:30-9:00pm: Daniel “Cosmo Kichman” Grupp (Artist in residence at DeYoung Museum) on “Yielding to Irony: Understanding the Illusion of Importance in Art and Science.”

9:00-9:30pm: Robert Rich, Electronic and Digital Composer, on “Microtonal Music and Just Intonation”

For more information, visit: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html