The Leonardo/ISAST LASERs are a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of the LASERs is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities around the world.
LASER Talks Rochester
Chaired by Carlos Castellanos
EVENT INFO
When: April 28, 2023 at 6-8pm (ET)
Where: Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY, USA
Speakers Bios & websites:
Eryk Salvaggio is an interdisciplinary design researcher and new media artist. His work explores emerging technologies through a critically engaged lens, testing their mythologies and narratives against their impacts on society, culture, and the environment. His work exposes ideologies embedded into technology, fusing a visual culture & media theory lens, a critique grounded in social impacts, and an early background in media activism. His work has been exhibited at Michigan State University Science Museum, the UN Internet Governance Forum, Eyebeam, CalArts, Brown University, Turbulence, The Internet Archive, and in books including Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais’ At the Edge of Art, Alex Galloway's Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, and Peter Langford’s Image & Imagination. He has presented talks, keynotes and works at the Systems Research & Design Conference (RSD10&11), the Advances in Systems Sciences and Systems Practice Conference (2022), Melbourne Design Week (2021), MIT Press (2021), the University of St. Gallen (2018), California College of the Arts (2018, 2019, 2020), the University of Maine, RightsCon (2020), and Gensler San Francisco (2017). As a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar at Brown University, he created the article on Algorithmic Bias in 2016. Eryk holds a Masters in Media and Communication from the London School of Economics and a Masters in Applied Cybernetics from the Australian National University. He earned two concurrent undergraduate degrees, in New Media and Journalism, from the University of Maine, where he was listed as visiting faculty as an undergraduate based on his early interactive, online net.art work.
Christy Tyler is Professor at the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences and Director of the Graduate Program in Environmental Science at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. Her research interests include aquatic ecology, biogeochemistry, invasion biology, wetlands, biodiversity, ecosystem function and aquatic plants. She directs the Tyler Aquatic Ecology Lab at RIT, where they explore the interactions between aquatic organisms and their environment that drive ecosystem function. Some current projects include: improving wetland restoration techniques, using remote sensing to predict vulnerability of salt marshes and using artificial intelligence to monitor invasive plants. Christy received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Cornell University, her M.S. from the University of Virginia, and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.
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The Leonardo/ISAST LASERs are a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of the LASERs is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building to over 50 cities around the world. To learn more about how our LASER Hosts and to visit a LASER near you please visit our website. @lasertalks
When
April 28th, 2023 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location
Rochester Contemporary Art Center
137 East Avenue
Rochester
New York City, 14604
United States
137 East Avenue
Rochester
New York City, 14604
United States