[ExI] Fwd: The second LAST festival - San Francisco - Oct 23-25

[Michael Roberts]

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Dear friends of the L.A.S.E.R.s and of art/science/tech intersections:

The second LAST festival (LAST=Life Art Science Tech) will take place
in San Francisco on Oct 23-25th during the city-wide Bay Area Science Festival.
Website: http://www.lastfestival.com
Mixing interactive/participatory/digital art and science talks (Neuroscience,
Ebola, Nanotech, Singularity, Space Exploration - see below).

Hard to summarize everything but in a nutshell:

> Thursday from 6pm till 10pm: Opening party of the Art Exhibition
 * Adam Carlin & Erich Richter: "Some Thing Grounded"
 * Carlos Castellanos: "Mobile Bioenergy Lab"
 * Gene Felice & David Kant: "Coactive Systems"
 * Peter Foucault: "Attraction/Repulsion"
 * Emily Martinez: "AntiApocalypse"
 * OpenLab (Sean McGowen, Ian Ayyad, Richard Vallejos, Joel Horne) :
"BioSensing Garden"
 * SonicSENSE (Jennifer Parker & Barney Haynes): "SoundPool"
 * Erich Richter: "Chant"
 Curated by Lily Alexander.

> Friday from 6pm till 10pm: Art Exhibition
> Friday at 7:30pm: A rare live performance by legendary and reclusive sound
artist Laetitia
Sonami

> Saturday from 11am till 2pm: Art Exhibition

> Saturday from 2pm till 6pm: the Symposium!
 2:00pm - Space Exploration and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life:
Chris  McKay, Planetary Scientist at NASA Ames
 2:45pm - The state of Neuroscience: Bruno Olshausen, Director of the
Redwood  Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
 3:30pm - The state of Nanotechnology: Christine Peterson, Cofounder
of the  Foresight Institute
 4:15pm - Infectious Diseases/ The Ebola epidemics: Charles Chiu,
Professor of  Infectious Diseases at UCSF School of Medicine
 5:00pm - Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity: Piero Scaruffi
(Cultural  Historian, Cognitive Scientist, Author)
 Sponsored by Leonardo ISAST.

> Saturday from 6pm till 8pm: Closing party of the Art Exhibition

Free and open to everybody.

Please register if you want to attend the symposium on Oct 25th so we
know how  many people to expect:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/life-art-science-tech-last-festival-tickets-13774801803

Please register if you plan to attend Laetitia Sonami's performance on Oct 24th:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/laetitia-sonamis-performance-tickets-13774908121

And spread the word!

Venue: The Lab, 2948 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Website: http://www.lastfestival.com