Presenters
Joe Betts-LacroixBAASICS.2 The Future
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Joe Betts-LaCroix received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard and MIT, and did a research fellowship at Caltech on electron tunneling in redox proteins such as cytochrome and hemoglobin, which was published in Science. He then founded, OQO, a startup that employed 110 people and was in Guinness World Records for smallest PC. More recently Joe spent two years working with Halcyon Molecular to develop better gene-sequencing methods, which used DNA threading and electron microscopy. A prolific inventor, he holds scores of patents, and enjoys buying and selling them in his spare time. Presently Joe is in the early stages of starting a new biotech incubator near Palo Alto, CA. halcyonmolecular.com
Jamais CascioBAASICS.2 The Future
Ready or Not…
Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as one of their Top 100 Global Thinkers, Jamais Cascio specializes in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and Foreign Policy, among others, and he has been featured in a variety of future-oriented television programs. Cascio speaks about future possibilities around the world, at venues including the National Academy of Sciences and TED. Cascio is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future. In 2003, he co-founded the award-winning environmental website WorldChanging.com, and now blogs at Open the Future. openthefuture.com
EarplayBAASICS.2 The Future
Melt me so with thy delicious numbers: Earplayer Ellen Ruth Rose, violist with Edmund Campion, composer
Founded in 1985 by a consortium of composers and musicians, Earplay (earplay.org) is dedicated to the performance of new chamber music. Earplay has performed over 400 works in its 27-year history, including over 110 world premieres and more than 50 new works commissioned by the ensemble. In addition to its flagship concert series in San Francisco, Earplay collaborates in multi‐disciplinary projects, including Aurora Theatre Company’s recent groundbreaking production of The Soldier’s Tale, and administers the annual Aird Competition for composers. Its major sponsors include San Francisco Grants for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and a variety of regional and national foundations. Earplay is a two-time winner of the ASCAP/Chamber Music America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music. Composer Edmund Campion is currently Professor of Music Composition at UC Berkeley and Co-Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies.http://edmundcampion.com/
http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/
www.earplay.org
Scott KildallBAASICS.2 The Future
Tweets in Space
Scott Kildall is cross-disciplinary artist working with networks, media and performance. He gathers material from the public realm to perform interventions into various concepts of space: outer space, virtual space and inner (brain) space. Kildall currently resides in San Francisco.
Leila MadroneBAASICS.2 The Future
Robots from Water, Music from Light
Leila Madrone is an inventor and artist who explores the intersection of robotics and art. She currently works and plays at Otherlab on origami inspired robotics for renewable energy. She cofounded Ensemble Robot, a group dedicating to designing and building interactive musical robots, and she was a lead on NASA’s GigaPan project creating large-scale interactive panoramas and the robotics for creating them.
Conrad M Meyers IIBAASICS.2 The Future
Bad Predictors
Bad Predictors
Conrad M. Meyers II is an artist and educator who creates fictive biological puzzles that include video, sculpture and sound-based installations. His art projects have been shown recently at Queens Nails Projects in San Francisco and Krowswork in Oakland. In 2011, he cofounded Aggregate Space, an Oakland gallery, screening facility, fabrication shop, and design studio.
Aaron SaenzBAASICS.2 The Future
I For One Welcome Our New Overlords
I For One Welcome Our New Overlords
Aaron Saenz is a former physicist, an improvisational actor, and a tech journalist. He currently writes for SingularityHub.com covering everything from crowd-sourced holographic Japanese pop stars to open source research robotics. He’s also the host of Singularity Hub’s Accelerated Tech News, a new video recap of the week’s top stories in science and technology. Follow his work on Twitter: @adsaenz
singularityhub.com/about
singularityhub.com/about
Kal SpelletichBAASICS.2 The Future
Interfacing humans and machines into hybrid systems via fear play and technology
Kal scours junkyards and dumpsters for industrial items whose technology can be reapplied. Kal teaches, lectures and exhibits all over the world. His latest work involves experimenting with bio-morphic inputs that trigger machines and robots to provide viewers with a direct real-life experience. He believes in Frankenstein monster’s haunted words to its maker: “You are my creator, but I am your master.”
Interfacing humans and machines into hybrid systems via fear play and technology
Kal scours junkyards and dumpsters for industrial items whose technology can be reapplied. Kal teaches, lectures and exhibits all over the world. His latest work involves experimenting with bio-morphic inputs that trigger machines and robots to provide viewers with a direct real-life experience. He believes in Frankenstein monster’s haunted words to its maker: “You are my creator, but I am your master.”
Chris BlackBAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Extinction Burst (last dance, last chance: A reanimation of lost movement)
Choreographer Chris Black co-founded POTRZEBIE Dance Project in San Francisco in 1993 and since that time has presented over 25 new dances. Chris was a resident artist at the California Academy of Sciences, where she developed Extinction Burst, a site-specific dance whose goal was to bring a kinetic memory of extinct animals into the present. It premiered at the California Academy of Sciences in September 2011.
Extinction Burst (last dance, last chance: A reanimation of lost movement)
Choreographer Chris Black co-founded POTRZEBIE Dance Project in San Francisco in 1993 and since that time has presented over 25 new dances. Chris was a resident artist at the California Academy of Sciences, where she developed Extinction Burst, a site-specific dance whose goal was to bring a kinetic memory of extinct animals into the present. It premiered at the California Academy of Sciences in September 2011.
Karl CroninBAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Kinetic Empathy
Karl is an artist, composer, and choreographer. He is currently working on what he calls the Somatic Natural History Archive (SNHA), an art practice and public resource. Begun in 2009, it documents his encounters with 10,000 plants and animals. The SNHA will take roughly 50 years to complete.
Kinetic Empathy
Karl is an artist, composer, and choreographer. He is currently working on what he calls the Somatic Natural History Archive (SNHA), an art practice and public resource. Begun in 2009, it documents his encounters with 10,000 plants and animals. The SNHA will take roughly 50 years to complete.
Jeremiah Jenkins
BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
The Hunt
Jeremiah Jenkins is a sculptor and performance artist born in Tennessee and currently based in Oakland. His most recent works are commentaries on contemporary American culture. Recent exhibitions include shows at Hatch and Evergold Galleries.
www.jeremiahjenkinsart.com
Brian Null, Ph.D.BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Examination of Animals, Examination of Self
Brian has a passion for creating novel ways of perceiving nature. These have driven his scientific and artistic endeavors into many realms, including analysis of mRNA transcript levels during metamorphosis, performance dance, urban livestock husbandry, rural human herding, and magnetic resonance imaging of living Drosophilia. He is co-founder of Protean Research.
www.proteanresearch.com
www.imaginables.org
Examination of Animals, Examination of Self
Brian has a passion for creating novel ways of perceiving nature. These have driven his scientific and artistic endeavors into many realms, including analysis of mRNA transcript levels during metamorphosis, performance dance, urban livestock husbandry, rural human herding, and magnetic resonance imaging of living Drosophilia. He is co-founder of Protean Research.
www.proteanresearch.com
www.imaginables.org
Georgeann O’Brien, Ph.D.BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Direct Observation of Sensory Neuron Regeneration in Live Zebrafish
Georgeann O’Brien received her Ph.D. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCLA. She is currently a post-doc at UC Berkeley and in training to manifest her destiny of populating Mars.
Direct Observation of Sensory Neuron Regeneration in Live Zebrafish
Georgeann O’Brien received her Ph.D. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from UCLA. She is currently a post-doc at UC Berkeley and in training to manifest her destiny of populating Mars.
Christopher ReigerBAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Introducing the Endangered Species Print Project
Christopher is an artist, writer, and curator currently based in San Francisco. Essays and tidbits on art, ecology, and natural history can be read at his long-running blog, Hungry Hyaena.
Introducing the Endangered Species Print Project
Christopher is an artist, writer, and curator currently based in San Francisco. Essays and tidbits on art, ecology, and natural history can be read at his long-running blog, Hungry Hyaena.
Philip RossBAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Eating Bugs for Fun and Profit
For the past fifteen years, Ross has been making research-based artworks that place natural systems within a frame of social and historic contexts. He has founded and directed CRITTER, a salon for the natural sciences in San Francisco. His diverse projects stem from a fascination with the interrelationships between human beings, technology, and the greater living environment.
www.philross.org
Eating Bugs for Fun and Profit
For the past fifteen years, Ross has been making research-based artworks that place natural systems within a frame of social and historic contexts. He has founded and directed CRITTER, a salon for the natural sciences in San Francisco. His diverse projects stem from a fascination with the interrelationships between human beings, technology, and the greater living environment.
www.philross.org
Jon Sack, Ph.D.BAASICS.1 A Live Animal
Bioelectric Venom
Jon Sack is obsessed with designing intelligent drugs to alter the shape of our cellular electrical signals. He believes the way to do this is to mutate and further evolve the molecules animals generate to chemically defend themselves and envenomate prey. Jon is a founder of Protean Research, a scientific collective in Palo Alto, and is Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis.
www.proteanresearch.com
Bioelectric Venom
Jon Sack is obsessed with designing intelligent drugs to alter the shape of our cellular electrical signals. He believes the way to do this is to mutate and further evolve the molecules animals generate to chemically defend themselves and envenomate prey. Jon is a founder of Protean Research, a scientific collective in Palo Alto, and is Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis.
www.proteanresearch.com
