During the covid pandemic, this online program replaces both the 12
physical L.A.S.E.R.s that were planned
at Stanford University and University of San Francisco for 2020 and the
L.A.S.T. Festival that was planned for Spring 2020.
Since some of them are simply "fireside chats",
we tentatively called them the The Life Art Science Tech (L.A.S.T.) dialogues.
See previous and future speakers and their videos.
(Note: All times are California time)
- May 11 @ 6pm
Kris Paulsen (Ohio State Univ) on "Virtual Surrender: Agency and Embodiment in Artists' Virtual Reality"
Doga Cavdir (Stanford CCRMA) on "Movement-based Music-making"
Jerold Chun (Sanford Burnham Prebys) on "Our Genomically Mosaic Brain"
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Kris Paulsen (Ohio State Univ) on "Virtual Surrender: Agency and Embodiment in Artists' Virtual Reality"
After the event, the video will be posted here.
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Kris Paulsen, associate professor in Ohio State University's Department of History of Art, is a specialist in contemporary art, with a focus on time-based and computational media. Her first book, Here/There: Telepresence, Touch, and Art at the Interface (MIT Press, 2017), received the 2018 Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her work traces the history of technology in the arts from photography to new media, with a particular emphasis on telepresence, virtuality, interface studies, and early video art. Her current research addresses the logics of quantification and virtuality in contemporary art and culture, with particular attention to how they intersect with the physical, fleshy body. Other publications, on topics such as experimental television, Artificial Intelligence, automation, 1990s Net Art, photographic theory, network aesthetics, and curatorial studies have appeared in numerous journals, books and exhibition catalogs. Links to these works can be found on her website, www.kpaulsen.com.
Doga Cavdir (Stanford CCRMA) on "Movement-based Music-making"
After the event, the video will be posted here.
If you missed this dialogue, you can view it by clicking on the image:  .
Doga Buse Cavdir is an artist, designer, and researcher whose work integrates body movement and expression into music performance. Her artistic process actively engages with kinesthetic, immersive, and shared experiences for inclusivity as a way to bridge diverse abilities. Doga performs with her custom-made instruments solo, in collaboration with dancers, and in an interdisciplinary female-identifying artist group fff Her artistic work has been featured by Bay Area art initiatives such as the Center for New Music and Temescal Arts Center. She is a recipient of the 2021 DARE fellowship from Stanford University where she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
Jerold Chun (Sanford Burnham Prebys) on "Our Genomically Mosaic Brain"
After the event, the video will be posted here.
If you missed this dialogue, you can view it by clicking on the image:  .
Jerold Chun is Professor, Senior Vice President, and Director of Translational Neuroscience at Sanford Burnham Prebys (SBP) Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla, CA where he conducts basic and translational research, and oversees development of neuroscience programs having commercial and/or philanthropic potential. He received his MD and PhD (Neuroscience) degrees through the Medical Scientist Training Program at Stanford University School of Medicine with Carla Shatz. Formerly, he conducted research at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research of MIT; at UC San Diego's School of Medicine, where he became Professor of Pharmacology and Neurosciences and directed the Neurosciences Graduate Program; at Merck Research Laboratories; and at The Scripps Research Institute and as an adjunct Professor at UCSD. He has made important scientific contributions including the discovery of genomic mosaicism and somatic gene recombination in the brain. He identified the first member of the lysophospholipid receptor family that underlies multiple current medicines (e.g., to treat Multiple Sclerosis) and has contributed to understanding other diseases including hydrocephalus, schizophrenia, neuropathic pain, infertility, and fibrosis.
Photos and videos of this evening
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