LASER Toronto: The Anthropocene Cookbook

Chaired by Roberta Buiani and Nina Czegledy

Guest Speakers: Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie authors of The Anthropocene Cookbook.

How to survive in the age of catastrophes https://anthropocenecookbook.com/

EVENT INFO

When: Oct 16 at 3:30 EST, Find your timezone here

Where: Glendon Campus, rm YH190 (the studio next to the Glendon Theatre)

Online: Register via ZOOM

Website: https://artscisalon.com/coms4208/2023/10/01/cookbook/

During this event, Zane Cerpina and Stahl Stenslie will present the general concepts behind their book, focusing on aspects pertaining to sustainable consumption and waste. To match the topic of their talk, attendees will be presented with futuristic snacks and will be encouraged to discuss food alternatives and new networks of solidarity to fight “food desertification”.

This is a Hybrid event: our guests will join us on zoom. For Those in Toronto, they can join us in person at Glendon Campus, rm YH190 (the studio next to the Glendon Theatre) for a more intimate community experience and some anthropocene snacks.

SPEAKERS BIOS

Zane Cerpina is a multicultural and interdisciplinary female author, curator, artist, and designer working with the complexity of socio-political and environmental issues in contemporary society and in the age of the Anthropocene. Cerpina earned her master’s degree in design from AHO – The Oslo School of Architecture and Design and a bachelor’s degree in Art and Technology from Aalborg University. She resides in Oslo and is a project manager/curator at TEKS (Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre). She is also a co-founder and editor of EE: Experimental Emerging Art Journal. From 2015 to 2019, Cerpina was a creative manager and editor at PNEK (Production Network for Electronic Art, Norway).

Stahl Stenslie works as an artist, curator and researcher specializing in experimental media art and interaction experiences. His aesthetic focus is on art and artistic expressions that challenge ordinary ways of perceiving the world. Through his practice he asks the questions we tend to avoid – or where the answers lie in the shadows of existence. Keywords of his practice are somaesthetics, unstable media, transgression and numinousness. The technological focus in his works is on the art of the recently possible – such as i) panhaptic communication on Smartphones, ii) somatic and immersive soundspaces, and iii) design of functional and lethal artguns, 3D printed in low-cost plastic material.He has a PhD on Touch and Technologies from The School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway. Currently he heads the R&D department at Arts for Young Audiences Norway.

SPONSORS:

ArtSci Salon thanks the Fields Institute and the Ontario Brain Institute​​​​​​​

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