Tāmaki Makarau, Auckland LASER talks (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous)
https://lasertalksauckland.com
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Tāmaki Makarau, Auckland LASER talks (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) are an International platform for informal conversations that bring together artists, designers, scientists, activists and communities. Our LASER presentations foreground diverse intra-sections and worldviews from tāngata whenua, citizen scientists and leading researchers in creative or scientific fields. The LASER events take place quarterly in Tāmaki Makarau as forums, panel presentations, or in Virtual Webinar forms. The talks are free and open to the public, and hosted by AUT and co-partners. The talks are co-chaired by Dr Janine Randerson and Dr Andrew Denton.
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List of Talks from 2019 – 2021
10 May, 2019
Design, Ecology, Politics: Towards the Ecocene
Presenters: Dr Joanna Boehnert (U.K Communication designer and Author) Dr Barbara Bollard and Dr Sebastian Leuzinger (directors of the Institute for Applied Ecology New Zealand (AUT).
Chaired by: Dr Janine Randerson and Dr Andrew Denton
https://www.thebigidea.nz/events/223216-design-ecology-politics-towards-the-ecocene
5 July, 2019
Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa: our ocean still in need of warriors
Presenters: Jane Chang Mi (Artist/Ocean Engineer and diver), Dr Dan Hikuroa (Earth Systems Scientist, UoA) and Dr Billie Lythberg (Sustainability Researcher and anthropologist, UoA).
Chaired by: Dr Janine Randerson and Charlotte Huddleston
https://aut.au.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=536ed251-2a67-40bf-a7c1-aa7d002e3921
13 September, 2019
AIR: the invisible and the visible
Presenters: Dr Malte Wagenfeld, (Designer, RMIT University), artist Dr Layne Waerea (artist, Vā Moana Research centre, AUT) and Jennifer Salmond, (urban meteorologist, School of Environment, UoA), and F4 Collective (artists).
Chaired by: Dr Janine Randerson and Dr Christina Houghton
https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2019/air-the-invisible-and-the-visible/auckland
30 November 2019,
Dark Matter Wonder: An Art-Science Indigenous Astronomy Panel
Presenters: Parbin-ata Carolyn Briggs (Boon Wurrung Foundation), Jeremy Mould (Australian astronomer) Lucy Bleach (Tasmania based artist), Duane Hamacher (cultural astronomy researcher), Felipe Cervera (Performance Studies Space Program, theatre researcher, Singapore).
Chaired by: Dr Janine Randerson and Dr Mick Douglas at the RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne.
6th March 2020
Tidalectic Rhythms: A Durational Performance with Te Manukanuka O Hoturoa
Presenters: Dr Marama Muru-Lanning (James Henare Research Centre, UoA), Sarah Cameron Sunde (U.S based artist, activist), Dr Nicholas Vigar (scientist and the Safeswim programme manager, Tāmaki Makarau).
Chaired by: Janine Randerson and Valance Smith, with assistance from Dr Christina Houghton.
https://aut.au.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f4000984-4afc-4d23-abdc-ab76004104a4
22 May, 2020
The Observatory Project: Revealing a Hidden Universe
Presenters: Dr Ziggy Lever, Eamon Edmundson-Wells (artists and collaborators) and Dr Tim Natusch (astrophysicist and the Deputy Director of the Institute for Radio Astronomy and Space Research (IRASR)
Chaired by: Dr Andrew Denton and Dr Janine Randerson
25 September, 2020
Immersive Experiences: Time, Place, and Identity
Presenters: Dr Maree Sheehan (Artist), Associate Professor Barbara Bollard (Director of AUT Drone Lab), and Gregory Bennett (Artist and Director of AUT Motion Capture Lab)
Chaired by: Andrew Denton and Janine Randerson
Link TBD:
December 4, 2021
Mapping movements: data, space, and place
Presenters: Dr Rachel Shearer (Artist), Associate Professor Leon Gurevitch (Astrophotographer)
Laser Chairs: Andrew Denton and Janine Randerson
Link: https://youtu.be/MR4fCTnuEP8
2 June, 2021
Time’s Strange Tissue
Presenters: Sue Jowsey, Dr Andrew Denton (artists), Dr Len Gillman (Biogeographic Scientist, Drone Lab, AUT)
Chaired by: Dr Janine Randerson
https://vimeo.com/event/1006849/videos/552660471/
Friday 30th July LASER Virtual Panel: Sensory Intermediaries: biochemistry, images and imagining at non-human scales
Date: , 4 pm – 5:30 pm (NZ Time)
Location: LASER Virtual via Zoom
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_g0jd4EqnTKOhWrgri09KPA
Presenters: Alicia Sometimes, Swaminatha Iyer, Andrea Rassell and Deirdre Feeney
Laser Chairs: Janine Randerson and Andrew Denton.
Friday 30th July LASER Virtual Panel at Ars Electronica, Linz,
Moana Digitalities: a talanoa
Date: , 4 pm – 5:30 pm (NZ Time)
Location: LASER Virtual via Zoom
Presenters: Nooroa Tapuni and Lana Lopesi
Laser Chair: Janine Randerson
https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/en/architecting-global-communities/
L. Gillman, S. Jowsey, A. Denton. “Spaulding Pond Antarctica,” Time’s Strange Tissue (2021)
Congratulations to Digital Design Major graduate Varvara Solovyeva whose animated film ‘USO’ has been selected in competition for the International Programme at the Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF 2023).
‘USO’ was Varvara’s graduating film for her Bachelor of Design in 2022. Varvara is currently undertaking her Master of Design studies at the School of Art and Design.
The ninthWavesound project, produced for Laura Marsh’s doctoral thesis, fuses feminist activism and a DJ practice to generate an installation and participatory art practice aimed at corporeal, low-frequency, sound-oriented experiences.