The Institute of the Arts and Sciences presents Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous:
Exploring the Frontiers of Knowledge and Imagination, Fostering Interdisciplinary Networking
Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that brings artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations.
This event it open to the public. Please join us in DARC 108 for refreshments at 6:45 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by:
Elliot Anderson, "Technologies of the Sublime: Representing the American Landscape in the 21st Century"
David Deamer, "Volcanoes, Mars, and meteorites: Clues to the origins of life on Earth"
Andrew T. Fisher, "Massive flows of water and heat through most of the seafloor"
Camille Utterback, "From Falling Text to Flexible Screens: Adventures in Interactive Art"
Elliot Anderson is an Associate Professor of Art at UCSC. He is an artist and engineer working in new media technologies in print, performance, and installation. Anderson's current research examines the history and contemporary perceptions and technologies of landscape. His work has been exhibited and performed widely in the U.S., Europe, Africa, and New Zealand.
David Deamer is Research Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at UCSC. Deamer's research is based on his field studies of volcanoes in Hawaii, Iceland, and Kamchatka and focuses on how volcanic environments called hydrothermal fields can promote molecular self-assembly processes related to the structure and function of primitive cells.
Andrew Fisher is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UCSC with expertise in water moving through the Earth on land and in deep sea. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, a co-Principal Investigator with the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, and founder of the Recharge Initiative.
Camille Utterback is an Assistant Professor in the Art & Art History Department at Stanford University. She is an internationally acclaimed artist whose extensive exhibit history includes more than fifty shows on four continents. Utterback's interactive installations combine innovative technology, elegant design, and surprising situations to reconnect us to our physicality, and to the world around us.
Image Credit: Elliot Anderson, Matterhorn from series Natural History, 2006