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. See the program for the whole international series and the dates for the Bay Area.
Chaired by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi.
Send an email to "scaruffi at stanford dot edu" if you want to be added to the mailing list for the LASERs.
Where: on Zoom.
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Program (the order of the speakers might change):
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Christina Hiromi Hobbs (Stanford Arts) on "Collective Histories of the Asian American Women Artists Association"
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Kurt Behrendt (Art Historian) on "The Mandalic Aesthetic"
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Maya Man (Internet Artist) on "Chance Encounters: Internet Art, Algorithms, and Authenticity"
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Bios:
- Kurt Behrendt worked as an Associate Curator in the Department of Asian Art, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2006-2025 before retiring. He has done more than a dozen exhibitions including Buddhism along the Silk Road (2012), Tibet and India: Buddhist Traditions and Transformations (2014), Bodhisattvas of Wisdom, Compassion and Power (2021), and most recently Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet (2024). He has published widely on the Buddhist art and architecture of the India sub-continent. Before coming to the Met, he taught graduate and undergraduate courses on South Asian art at Temple University. Ongoing field research in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Southeast Asia and Japan provides a foundation for his exhibitions and publications. His 1997 Ph.D. from U.C.L.A. focused on the Buddhist Architecture of Gandhara.
- Christina Hiromi Hobbs is an independent curator and a PhD candidate in the Art & Art History department at Stanford University. She focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Asian diaspora and issues of racial formation and memorialization within twentieth century craft and photography. Her recent projects include curating the exhibition "In the Presence Of: Collective Histories of the Asian American Women Artists Association" at Berkeley Art Center (2024) and co-curating "No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration" at the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York (2022). She has held research and curatorial positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Modern Art Museum of Shanghai, and The Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust.
- Maya Man is an artist focused on contemporary identity culture on the Internet. Her websites, generative series, and installations examine dominant narratives around femininity, authenticity, and the online performance of the self. She is the creator of the browser extension Glance Back and the Art Blocks curated collection FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT. She has exhibited internationally at bitforms, NYC; SOOT, Tokyo; Verse, London; HEK, Basel; and the online platform Feral File. She has been invited to speak about her work at The New Museum, NYC; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and MOCA, Los Angeles. Her artwork has been featured in Art in America, Document, Vogue, Dazed, among other publications. She currently runs a DIY space out of her studio in Soho called HEART. She is online at mayaontheinter.net.
- Piero Scaruffi is a cultural historian who has lectured in three continents and published several books on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, the latest one being "The Nature of Consciousness" (2006). He pioneered Internet applications in the early 1980s and the use of the World-Wide Web for cultural purposes in the mid 1990s. His poetry has been awarded several national prizes in Italy and the USA. His latest book of poems and meditations is "Synthesis" (2009). As a music historian, he has published ten books, the latest ones being "A History of Rock and Dance Music" (2009) and "A History of Jazz Music" (2007). His latest book of history is "A History of Silicon Valley" (2011). The first volume of his free ebook "A Visual History of the Visual Arts" appeared in 2012. His latest book is "Intelligence is not Artificial" (2013). He has also written extensively about cinema and literature. He founded the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) in 2008. Since 2015 he has been commuting between California and China, where several of his books have been translated.
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