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.
(Note: All times are California time)
- November 5 @ 6pm (November 6 in Japan)
Artists at the border of art and science
Sachiko Kodama (Visual Artist) live from Japan on "magnetic fluid sculptures"
Robert Buelteman (Cameraless Photographer) on "The Voice of the Biosphere Intruding on Human Unconsciousness"
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Sachiko Kodama (Visual Artist) on "Magnetic Fluid Sculptures"
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Sachiko Kodama is a Japanese artist who links emerging natural phenomena with plastic art to create mixed media works that reference the relationship between organic form/motion and light/sound. After graduating in Physics from the Department of Science at Hokkaido University, Sachiko enrolled in the Fine Arts program at the University of Tsukuba, where she obtained her master and PhD in Art and Design. Currently she is an associate professor of Art the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo. In 2000 Sachiko began work on a ferrofluid art project that she named "Protrude, Flow". The main expressions of her ferrofluid sculpture can be seen in the generation of organic forms and movement using ferrofluid, to present growing forms, atrophy, rhythm, composition of curved surface and light, and other texture generation. The contradictory nature of ferrofluid (hard/soft, beautiful/ugly, growth/atrophy, attraction/repulsion, and rise against gravity/fall due to gravity) can communicate similar contradictory concepts and ideas in living organisms. In 2009-10 she studied digital design techniques in New York to create new media artworks. Her work has been exhibited in major Japanese, US and European museums. In 2020, for her open studio program at the Fuchu Art Museum, she created a light-based artwork and two "magnetic fluid sculptures". The program's title, "Pulsate - Melting Vision and Melting Moment, Rhythm in Motion", reflects the manner in which the forms in the magnetic fluid and kinetic light lose their shape and melt, to swell and reappear.
Robert Buelteman (Cameraless Photographer) on "The Voice of the Biosphere Intruding on Human Unconsciousness"
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Robert Buelteman calls photography "The language of light" and has spent his life exploring the possibilities of the medium in pursuit of a more responsible relationship with the natural world. Following the publication of two monographs, The Unseen Peninsula, his tribute to the Crystal Springs Watershed on the San Francisco Peninsula in 1995 and Eighteen Days in June, published as a fund-raiser for the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in 2000, he surrendered the use of cameras, lenses, and computers in search of what might lay beyond the traditions of the medium. Working directly with large sheets of photographic film, living plants are used as a filter through which high-voltage electricity and fiber-optically-delivered light are passed. The resulting images open a window on the beauty of natural form, and were compared by the Los Angeles Times with photographs of our universe made by the Hubble Telescope. As a result of this new work, he has had over 60 solo exhibitions in the United States, Canada and Germany, and been the subject of essays published in 26 languages on 6 continents. Buelteman has also enjoyed multiple residencies at venues including Stanford University, Santa Fe Institute, Djerassi Artists Program, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. His art can be found in public and private collections worldwide.
- November 12 @ 12pm: Music from Other Worlds
Heather Spence (Marine Biologists and Composer) on "Underwater Sound Research: Music of Marine Biology"
Cheryl Leonard (Composer and Instrument Builder) on "Phantom Limbs: Composing Music Amidst the Sixth Extinction"
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Heather Spence (Marine Biologists and Composer) on "Underwater Sound Research: Music of Marine Biology"
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Heather Spence is a marine biologist and sound artist who combines science and art to harmonize human-environment interactions. Her expertise and problem solving include bringing renewable power options to ocean observing initiatives, reducing noise pollution in dolphin habitats, deciphering nocturnal behavior of marine animals, researching dolphin sleep and dreams, developing new methods of studying living decapod crustacea, innovating documentation of the MesoAmerican Reef, predicting aquatic invasive species dispersal, assisting shellfish aquaculture, and examining coselection of communicatory traits. She has designed and taught courses on animal behavior, behavioral neuroendocrinology, sensation and perception, personality, and motivation, and consulted on video games. Her Passive Acoustic Monitoring research program on the MesoAmerican Reef is featured in the award-winning microdocumentary World of Sound (https://vimeo.com/thestillsagency/worldofsound), National Geographic's television program "When Sharks Attack", and is explored in her composition for viola da gamba trio, Vale la Pena? (Is it worth it?) derived from a technical study commissioned by the Mexican government (https://vdgsa.org/pgs/music_a.html#NEWMUSIC). She composes music inspired by, and inspiring, conservation and performs internationally as a cellist and gambist. (www.HeatherSpence.net). Heather was the 2017 NAKFI fellow at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and a 2017-2019 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the US Department of Energy in the Water Power Technologies Office. She currently advises on science and acoustics at the US Department of Energy and is co-leader of the transdisciplinary Ocean Memory Project (www.oceanmemoryproject.com)
Cheryl Leonard (Composer and Instrument Builder) on "Phantom Limbs: Composing Music Amidst the Sixth Extinction"
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Cheryl E. Leonard is a composer, performer, and instrument builder whose works investigate sounds, structures, and objects from the natural world. Her projects cultivate stones, wood, water, ice, sand, shells, feathers, and bones as musical instruments, and feature one-of-a-kind sculptural instruments and field recordings from remote locales. Leonard is fascinated by subtle textures and intricacies of sounds, especially very quiet phenomena. She uses microphones to explore aural worlds within her sound sources, and develops compositions that highlight the unique voices she discovers. Her recent projects focus on climate change and extinction of species. Leonard's music has been performed worldwide and is available on multiple record labels. She has received grants from the NSF's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, New Music USA, American Composers Forum, American Music Center, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, and NYSCA. Leonard's commissions include works for SFMOMA, Kronos Quartet, Hope Mohr Dance, Illuminated Corridor, and the La Jolla Historical Society. Leonard has been awarded residencies at Kunstnarhuset Messen, Djerassi, Oberpf„lzer Ku"nstlerhaus, the Arctic Circle, Villa Montalvo, and Engine 27. She has contributed to books on music and sound art, and her instruments, recordings, and graphic scores have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the U.S. and abroad.
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