The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are an international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversation with an audience. This evening, chaired by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi, will feature four talks:

- Shane Denson (Stanford/ Film and Media) on "How is Human Embodiment Transformed in an Age of Algorithms?"

- Virginia San Fratello (San Jose State Univ/ Art) on "3D Printing the Future"

- Fiorenza Micheli (Stanford/ Center for Ocean Solutions) on "Harnessing the data revolution for ocean and human health"

- Tom Mullaney (Stanford/ History) on "The Audacity of Chinese Computing"

     Shane Denson is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and, by Courtesy, of German Studies and of Communication at Stanford University, where he also serves as Director of the PhD Program in Modern Thought & Literature. He is the author of Post-Cinematic Bodies (2023),Discorrelated Images (2020), and Postnaturalism: Frankenstein, Film, and the Anthropotechnical Interface (2014).

Tom Mullaney is Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University. He is the author or lead editor of 8 books, including the forthcoming The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, The Chinese Typewriter: A History (winner of the Fairbank prize), Your Computer is on Fire, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China, etc.

Virginia San Fratello is an educator, designer and creative technologist. She is the Chair of the Department of Design at San Jose State University. Her creative practice Rael San Fratello (with Ronald Rael) has received numerous awards.  San Fratello is the co-author of Printing Architecture: Innovative Recipes for 3D Printing (2018).

Fiorenza Micheli is a marine ecologist and conservation biologist conducting research and teaching at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, where she is also the co-Director of the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions.  She is a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation, a fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, and senior fellow at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment.

No RSVP required.

Detailed bios at: www.lasertalks.com

The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous), chaired by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi, are an international program of evening gatherings that bring together artists, scientists, inventors and scholars in a variety of disciplines for informal presentations and conversation with an audience.

The Stanford LASERs are co-sponsored by the deans of Humanities and Sciences, Engineering and Medicine