LASER: USF

  • Location: University of San Francisco, University of San Francisco 2130 Fulton Street Cowell #106 , San Francisco, California, 94117, US
  • Deadline: Jul 13 2015 at 8:30AM
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The University of San Francisco and Leonardo/ISAST invite you to the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, an evening of art and science presentations, chaired by Piero Scaruffi.

The evening includes four presentations of art/science projects, news from the audience, and time for casual socializing/networking. Free and open to the public.

Evening Schedule:

7:00-7:25: Melanie Swan (Director, Institute for Blockchain Studies) on "Bitcoin/Blockchain Technology Explained"
Swan will discuss blockchain technology, and its application well beyond cryptocurrencies, economics and markets to all venues of human information processing, collaboration and interaction, including art, health and literacy.

7:25-7:50: Margot Knight (Executive Director, Djerassi Resident Artists Program) on "Scientific Delirium Madness"
Knight will share what was learned during the inaugural Scientific Delirium Madness residency (July 2014), a retreat that linked artists and scientists for 30 days of collegial interaction and exploration. She will also discuss plans for this year's Scientific Delirium Madness 2.0.

7:50-8:10: BREAK. Before or after the break, anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections of art and science will have 30 seconds to share their work. Please present your work as a teaser so that those who are interested can seek you out during social time following the event.

8:10-8:35: Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley/Center for Intelligent Systems) on "The Long-Term Future of Artificial Intelligence"
In recent months, the news media have been full of dire warning about the risk AI poses to the human race. In his talk, Russell will address the questions: Should we be concerned? And, if so, what can we do about it?

8:35-9:00: Nicholas de Monchaux (UC Berkley/Architecture) on "Spacesuits and Cities"
Through design work, historical documents, critical speculation (and a minimum of slides), de Monchaux's presentation argues that the frontier of urban design is as much physiological as physical and remains crucially out of our predictable control.