[dms-discuss] LASER // Conversations in Art and Science, Nov 16, Thursday, 6:30pm to 8:00pm

[Bill Horn]

Dear Davis Makerspace,

   This presentation sounds interesting, it is FREE and there will be
refreshments provided.

Bill H


LASER // Conversations in Art and Science

LASER Talks 04 at UC Davis
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous - LASER Talks
Thursday, November 16, 2017 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (PST)
Davis, CA

Admission free; Reservations recommended
6:15 PM Door
6:30 PM Speaker presentations
7:15 PM Conversations followed by Rapid Fire Community Sharing
Refreshments will be provided.

Location:
UC Davis
Music Building RM 115
Davis, CA 95616


https://www.eventbrite.com/e/laser-talks-04-at-uc-davis-tickets-38266316583
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/leonardo-art-science-evening-rendezvous-laser-talks-5915747375?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=reminder_attendees_48hour_email&utm_term=orgname


The Leonardo Art, Science, Evening Rendezvous (LASER) talks at UC Davis are
evening presentations that engage the public as participants in
conversations with artists, designers, scientists, and technologists making
significant contributions to their fields. The evenings are designed to
encourage unexpected juxtapositions between seemingly unrelated projects,
facilitating the interdisciplinary conversations that engage the challenges
of the 21st century. LASER at UC Davis is co-directed by Professors Timothy
Hyde (Art Studio) and Jiayi Young (Design).


Beth Ferguson
Assistant Professor, Design, UC Davis // “The Electric Drive Solar Kiosk”
Beth Ferguson is Assistant Professor of Design at The University of
California Davis. She runs Sol Design Lab, a solar furniture design/build
company. She has collaborated with public utilities, festivals, and
universities to position solar energy as a civic and public resource. She
has engaged thousands of participants in the development of projects such
as solar charging stations, up-cycled public furniture, climate change
emoji, and Green Maps. She has received commissions from SXSW, Austin
Energy, ZER01 San Jose Biennial, TEDxPresidio, Coachella, The ZERO1
American Arts Incubator, The U.S Department of the State’s Bureau of
Educational and Cultural Affairs, and the Bay Area Maker Faire. Ferguson
will talk about her project, the Electric Drive Solar Kiosk, an innovative
combination of solar technology and public art that provides shaded
seating, LED lighting and free solar power for the public in downtown
Austin, TX.

Petr Janata
Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis
// "Musical Neurobiographies”

Petr Janata is a Professor in the Psychology Department and Center for Mind
and Brain at UC Davis. He received his B.A. from Reed College and his Ph.D.
from the University of Oregon. His research on how the human brain engages
with music has examined expectation, imagery, sensorimotor coupling,
memory, and emotion in relation to tonality, rhythm, and timbre. His work
also emphasizes the use of models of musical structure to analyze
behavioral and brain data. He is particularly interested in musical
situations that elicit strong emotional experiences, such as music-evoked
remembering or being in the groove. In 2010 he received a Fulbright
Fellowship to do research in Prague, and in the same year he received a
Guggenheim Fellowship to further his investigations of what music-evoked
autobiographical memories can tell us about the functional organization of
the human brain. http://atonal.ucdavis.edu


Michael Arcega
Assistant Professor, Department of Art, San Francisco State University //
"WORDSWORDS"

Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in
sculpture and installation. His research-based work revolves around
language and sociopolitical dynamics. Directly informed by Historic
narratives, material significance, and geography, his subject matter deals
with circumstances where power relations are unbalanced.  As a naturalized
American, his investigation of cultural markers are embedded in objects,
food, architecture, visual lexicons, and vernacular languages. Arcega’s
work has been exhibited at the Asian Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art
in San Diego, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts, the Orange County Museum of Art, The Contemporary Museum in
Honolulu, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Cue Arts Foundation, and the
Asia Society in NY, among many others. http://arcega.us/
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