Three L.A.S.E.R. talks: Images, Octavio Paz, Sound Art

The LASERs (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are a world program of night gatherings that convey artists and scientists collectively for casual shows and dialog with an viewers. This night, chaired by cultural historian Piero Scaruffi, will characteristic three talks:

– Catherine Wagner (Mills College) on “TBA”

– Victoria Shen (Media Artist) on “TBA”

– Ilan Stavans (Amherst College) on Octavio Paz

Catherine Wagner is an award-winning documentary photographer. She is Emeritus Professor of Studio Art, at Mills College at Northeastern University.  She has printed a number of monographs, together with “American Classroom”, “Art & Science: Investigating Matter”, and “Cross Sections”.
She is the recipient of main awards. Her work is included in main museum collections.

Victoria Shen is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker. Her music options analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin information, and self-built electronics. Her DIY strategy to deconstructing the ideas of “materiality, value and mass production”
each integratse and re-contextualizes the codecs of the readymade and assemblage methods. She has carried out internationally.

Ilan Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American, and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the writer of Restless Books, and a guide to the Oxford English Dictionary. His work, translated into two dozen languages, has been tailored into radio, TV, movie, and theater. His newest books are “Conversations on Dictionaries: The Universe in a Book” (Cambridge University Press), “Lamentations of Nezahualcoyotl: Nahuatl Poems” (Restless Books), and “Sabor Judio: The Jewish Mexican Cookbook” (University of North Carolina Press).

The Stanford LASERs are sponsored by the colleges of Medicine, Engineering, and Humanities & Sciences, by Continuing Studies and by Chemical Engineering.

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