Sumi-e Artist and Stanford Alum, Drue Kataoka will speak about the intersection of her work with other disciplines.
Who is Drue?
Tokyo born Stanford alumnus Drue Kataoka has gained international acclaim for her ! paintings using the 2000 year-old art form of Sumi-e (Japanese brush painting), and is also a flutist trained in classical and jazz traditions, and an accomplished poet. Her 27 limited edition commemorative prints are archived in Stanford University Libraries Dept. of Special Collections. Drue challenges the artistic canon and re-defines Sumi-e's
frontiers--at the edge of the Pacific Rim. Her brush draws on an ancient tradition steeped in a canon of landscape forms to reach out to past, present and future. Re-defining its subject matter but remaining true to the demanding technique�her brush paints the contemporary landscape of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area where the artistic impulse resonates with the intensity of a shifting tectonic plate. Re-imagining the cultural crossroads her brush leaves white spac! e and summons the collector to plumb the depths of their memory, experience, and riminiscence.
Xiaoshan, Ph.D. Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering
The objective of this research is to study human individual and social behavior for emergency exit in buildings and facilities. There have been numerous reports regarding overcrowding and crushing incidents during emergency situatio! n. In case of crowd disasters, one observation is that most victims were killed by the so called "nonadaptive" behaviors of the crowd, rather than the actual cause (such as fire). There has been a wide variety of computational tools for the simulation and design of exits. However, due to the scarcity of behavioral data, these tools rely heavily on the assumptions about human individual and social behaviors. Many of these assumptions have been found inconsistent or incorrect. This proposed study will aim to investigate nonadaptive crowd behaviors from the perspectives of human and social interactions and to incorporate such behavior in a dynamic computational model suitable for emergency exit and egress analysis.