[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous meeting, San Francisco, Monday, September 8th

[Leonardo/ISAST]

Join us for another exciting Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous 
(LASER) at the downtown campus of San Francisco State University.

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
SFSU Downtown Campus, San Francisco, CA
Monday, September 8, 2008
6-10pm

LASER is a bimonthly series of lectures and presentations organized by 
Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. Space is limited. To RSVP, 
email p at scaruffi.com

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

6:45-7:15pm: Thomas Zimmerman IBM Almaden Research Center, on "Music as 
the Mother of Invention"

Many of my inventions started as input devices for musical instruments. 
The DataGlove was a means to play air guitar. The Personal Area Network 
was a means to play air drums. I shall discuss the development of input 
devices for electronic musical instruments and how they contributed to 
inventions.

7:15-7:45pm: Sharon Siskin, of WEAD

Over the past 20 years my studio art has had clear and sometimes subtle 
overlaps with science. Some recent projects make visual the detritus our 
family produces in the process of raising twin daughters. I will be 
showing documentation of a variety of recent and past gallery projects; 
from work that resulted in the creation of a garden at an AIDS hospice, 
to installations that combined reused, altered X-rays and scientific 
paraphernalia to address issues related to food and my ethnic identity, 
loss, memory and healing.

7:45-8:00pm: Break

8:00-8:20pm: Deborah Munk, of the San Francisco Dump

An overview of the Artist in Residence Program at SF Recycling & 
Disposal and will focus on a few of the 70 artists who have had 
residencies. I will also discuss recycling, the Eastern Pacific Garbage 
Patch and sustainability.

8:20-8:40pm: William Hsu and Matt Heckert of the Multimedia & 
Visualization Lab at SFSU on "Sound Machines and Computer Control"

An overview of several mechanical sound installations and performances 
they have collaborated on over a 5 year period: the 
Rotifiers/Centripetal Sound, the Fencers, and the Chainboxes.

8:40pm: Piero Scaruffi on the next Leonardo Art/Science evening

8:45-9:45pm: Discussions, more socializing