CHAIRED BY: Profa. Dra. Clarissa Ribeiro

The frontiers between the virtual and the real are each time more blurred thanks to accessible technologies including devices and applications for Augmented and Virtual reality. This March the LASER talks Fortaleza invites you to explore AR superposed worlds that can include images, animations, graphics, sounds, texts, considering that their presence becomes part of our daily experience deeply transforming the ways we interact, learn, work, create.

Exhibition at the LIP gallery (Lab for Innovation and Prototyping), 
March 16th 2018, 6pm to 8pm
Entrancer: Be Sicklecell be a hero, by Clarissa Ribeiro, in a collaboration with Herbert Rocha, Daniel Valente, Candice Ribeiro and Stavros Didakis

Featured artists and speakers:

Marina Lima is an Architect and Designer, Ph.D. candidate at the Graz University of Technology, Austria. With a B.A. in Architecture by the Federal University of Ceará and a Master in Urban Planning by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in her professional practice she has always experimented with new technologies participating in multicultural and multidisciplinary teams. As a researcher she is interested in using information and communication technologies as tools for architectural and urban design.

Ana Patrícia Alcântara, Doctor of Clinical Dentistry (DClinDent) and Master in Dentistry (MDent), has a B.A. by the University of Fortaleza, and is a specialist in Periodontology by the Academy of Dentistry of Ceara (ACO). Dr. Alacântara is a professor at the Department ofDentistry, University of Fortaleza, running research projects related to aesthetics in dentistry focusing on the integration of digital technologies such as AR in the build of didactic strategies.

Clarissa Ribeiro, chair of the LASER talks Fortaleza, PhD, MArch, B.Arch, Former Fulbright Scholar, Director of the Lab for Innovation and Prototyping (LIP), coordinates the CrossLab research group and is a Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Fortaleza.

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LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks is Leonardo's international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations. LASER Talks were founded in 2008 by Bay Area LASER Chair Piero Scaruffi and are in over 30 cities around the world. To learn more about how our LASER Hosts and to visit a LASER near you please visit our website. 

The mission of the LASERs is to provide the general public with a snapshot of the cultural environment of a region and to foster interdisciplinary networking.