dear all if anyone is in Houston, TX or thereabouts, please join us on Sunday, Feb 10, 4pm - 6pm: New cross-disciplinary talk series “LASER” comes to Houston.
LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks is Leonardo's international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations. The mission of the LASERs is to provide the general public with a snapshot of the cultural environment of a region and to foster interdisciplinary networking. Christopher Zahner >From Aerospace Engineering to Coagulation Pathology Johannes Birringer Kimospheres: Constructing Realities Kate Kerr Speech Pathology by Day, Ghost Hunter by Night register here: https://www.leonardo.info/civicrm/event/info?id=286&reset=1 Houston welcomes LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) the Leonardo/ISAST's international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience: 1. From Aerospace Engineering to Coagulation Pathology Dr. Zahner's basic research has focused on medical devices and resulted in hardware development, grants, and patents in the fields of balance, acoustics, sample processing, and microbial growth, along with prototype hardware in sample tracking and hand hygiene. His clinical research is focused on diagnostic error using the diagnostic management team and mobile app development. Prior to medical school, he was a mechanical engineer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the International Space Station (ISS) specializing in Environmental Control and Life Support (ECLS) systems and was the lead engineer for the Waste and Hygiene Compartment (WHC). He received a Mechanical Engineering MS from the University of Florida in 2005, an MD from Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in 2015 with a CP in Pathology from University of Texas Medical Branch in 2018, where he is currently Assistant Professor. 2. Kimospheres: Constructing Realities / Johannes Birringer ( DAP-Lab, London | AlienNation Co., Houston) After brief look back at historical precedents, Johannes introduces concepts of the material affects of choreosonic architectures, discussing the design of wearables used in immersive performative environments – here called “kinetic atmospheres” (kimospheres) – which are conceived as formative, not built or constructed in a stable form but responsive to movers, wearables or, even, are wearable themselves. Basing its exploration of such interactive environments for wearable performance in recent installations of the DAP-Lab, the talk sketches ideas for extended choreography and role-play within such kimospheres, also delving into more speculative developments of how bodies and wearables come to affect, and be affected by, kinetic, sonic and VR interfaces – in the sense in which the composer Xenakis had envisioned reverberant multimedia architectures and spatial intensities to be live instruments, not static objects or envelopes. 3. Kate Kerr by day is a Speech Language Pathologist who has over 25 years on healthcare services. She received her Bachelors from University of Wisconsin Eau Claire and Master's Degree from the University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh. Her work has taken her all along the coast from California to Florida and now to Galveston Texas. She has a passion for speech pathology and bringing innovation to her field. By night, Kate Kerr is an entrepreneur and ghost hunter. She is venturing into a new business in Galveston called The Galveston Experience Company which will showcase her ghost hunting adventures. Kate's mind is always busy thinking about what can be done next and she is here to tell you how she does it all. This talk will focus on bringing ideas into action. Whether they are large scale ideas or small. During this talk, you will hear how Kate Kerr has taken ideas in the world of speech pathology and in the entertainment industry and is working to turn those ideas into reality. +++++++ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
