[Noisebridge-discuss] Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) 9 March 2009 6p SF

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http://www.leonardo.info/isast/events.html#lasermar09
9 March 2009
      Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
      Downtown campus of San Francisco State University
      San Francisco, CA

      LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations
organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

      Please RSVP to p (at) scaruffi (dot) com to attend. Admission is
free but limited.

      Schedule:
6:15pm-6:45pm: Socializing/networking.

6:45pm-7:10pm: Wayne Vitale of Gamelan Sekar Jaya on "The Planets:
Balinese Music Meets 21st Century Astronomy."

7:10pm-7:35pm: Richard Rinehart, Curator of the Berkeley Art Museum,
on "Artists and Subversive Metadata"

Information design as a form of contemporary artistic practice and how
artistic and philosophical concepts such as the "performative
utterance" operate at the edges of metadata and large-scale technology
projects like the semantic web.

7:35pm-7:50pm: BREAK

7:50pm-8:15pm: Irene Chien of Berkeley's Center for New Media on
"Embodied Gaming from Dance Dance Revolution and Wii to Biofeedback
Gaming"

8:15pm-8:45pm: Ruzena Bajcsy, Director of the Center for Information
Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), on "Digital
Choreography - The Road to Information Technology Creativity"

This LASER is sponsored by: ZKM|Center for Art and Media
More information about previous LASERS, see:
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html