Attention Bay Area readers! Join Leonardo for the next Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), June 9, 2010, at the SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA. Feature presentations include Robert Lang, "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes"; Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, "How Can Art Help Create a Sustainable World?"*; Victoria Scott and Scott Kildall, "Imaginary Gifts"; and Tom McKeag, "How Would Nature Do That?" 

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST. LASER is sponsored by Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, The University of Illinois eDREAM Institute, The University of Calabria Evolutionary Systems Group, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago Sound Department.

Admission is free but limited. Please RSVP to p@scaruffi.com

*Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison on "How Can Art Help Create a Sustainable World?"

"The Force Majeure" is a work to reflect on the oncoming effects of Global Warming from a whole systems perspective. What can culture do, specifically the artist, as a response to the loss of glaciation and the ensuing problems with rivers and droughts in a region like Tibet? This work suggests a sweeping, but possible, biological response to the 2.4 million square kilometers of the Tibetan plateau as well as to other regions of the world.