LASER STANFORD

CHAIRED BY: Piero Scaruffi

EVENT INFO (Hybrid)

When: 7pm PST Find your timezone here

Where: Stanford University, LiKaShing building - Room LK308
There should be ample parking in the structure on corner of Campus Drive West and Roth Way. Parking is mostly free at Stanford after 6pm.
Online: If you cannot attend in person, you can watch it on Zoom, register here - Note that the quality of the stream will be approximate. We do our best but there are physical limitations in the classroom.

Program:

Alice Yuan Zhang (Media Artist) on "The Need for Intergenerational Tech" Toward a cyclical framework of sowing code as seed, maintenance as recipe, and just relations as networked infrastructure.Read more

Jennifer Dionne (Stanford University) on "Life-speed reads of biological bits with Silicon photonics" In-situ, highly miniaturized sensors based on silicon photonic chips. Read more

Adegboyega Mabogunje (Stanford/ Design) on "Accelerating Innovation: Children, Women, Sex, and Bombs" The primary drivers of innovation acceleration can be grouped under four categories. Read more

Discussions, networking: You can mingle with the speakers and the audience

Bios

• Adegboyega Mabogunje is an engineering-design scientist at the Center for Design Research in Stanford University, where he explores the interplay between the activities of designing, learning, engineering, innovation, and capital formation. He conducts empirical studies of design teams using Video Interaction Analysis, Immersive Virtual Reality and Computer Simulation to identify formative performance metrics which are then used to guide the development of practices for accelerating the rate of innovation and capital formation. He has done field observation in Nigeria, India, Missouri, and California.
• Jennifer Dionne is a sculptor of light at the nanoscale. She develops optical methods to detect and direct molecules, emphasizing critical challenges in global health and sustainability. As a Professor of Materials Science and of Radiology at Stanford, and a Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, her research has developed culture-free methods to detect pathogens and their antibiotic susceptibility; methods to image and direct photo-chemical reactions with atomic-scale resolution; and materials that enable direct visualization of cellular forces. She is also co-founder of Pumpkinseed – a company dedicated to improving personal and planetary health through protein sequencing. She frequently collaborates with visual and performing artists to convey the beauty of science to the broader public. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards. She is also Senior Associate Vice Provost of Research Platforms at Stanford University, and Director of the Department of Energy's "Photonics at Thermodynamic Limits" Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC).
• Piero Scaruffi is a cultural historian who has lectured in three continents and published several books on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, the latest one being ''The Nature of Conscioussness'' (2006). He pioneered Internet applications in the early 1980s and the use of the World-Wide Web for cultural purposes in the mid 1990s. His poetry has been awarded several national prizes in Italy and the USA. His latest book of poems and meditation is ''Synthesis'' (2009). As a music historian, he has published ten books, the latest ones being ''A History of Rock and Dance Music'' (2009) and ''A History of Jazz Music'' (2007). His latest book of history is ''A History of Silicon Valley'' (2011) The first volume of his free ebook ''A Visual History of the Visual Arts'' appeared in 2012. His latest book is ''Intelligence is not Artificial'' (2013). He has also written extensively about cinema and literature. He founded the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) in 2008. Since 2015 he has been commuting between California and China, where several of his books have been translated.
• Alice Yuan Zhang(b. Dalian, China) is a media artist, researcher, and educator based between Berlin and Los Angeles. Her transdisciplinary practice operates on cyclical and intergenerational time. Along the peripheries of colonialist imagination, she works to bring technology down to earth by devising collective experiments in ancestral remembering, interspecies pedagogy, and networked solidarity. Alice is a founding steward of virtual care lab, 2022 DWeb fellow, recent research resident at 0x Salon, Creative Wildfire artist, resident artist at CultureHub, and community member of NAVEL and Trust. She has taught Media Studies for Performance at Sarah Lawrence College, facilitated a study group on Digital Matterealities, and hosted lectures, workshops, and other learning engagements across academic institutions including CalArts, Harvard, Duke, NYU ITP, and University of Toronto, arts institutions such as Goethe-Institute, Iowa PS1, and MAK Center, and independent cultural initiatives like SFPC, Tiny Tech Zines, SOFTER, and M20.

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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