Co-creating experiences through sonic, visual, and embodied performance in the spaces between art, science, and technology, these performative acts undergird new infrastructures for the staging of critical discourse and playful experimentation.
“Epicurus Garden on Fire” is a choreographic VR artwork with a brain-computer interface about Brazil’s environmental crisis. LASER São Paulo
„Proximal Fields“ is an artistic tour of the microorganisms, dust specs and other invisible guests at the Fields Institute. LASER Toronto
“We Are Not Alone” is comprised of poetic interventions that invite us to meditate on our shared planet. LASER Fortaleza
“Microbes Performing in Zoom: Uncertain Co-Authors” is a hybrid live performance about the mutual decline of microbial and linguistic diversity. LASER Vienna
“Choros – Through the Shared Memory of Making Together,” is a multimodal networked performance highlighting the body as instrument and primal matter for sound making. LASER Cambridge
“Slowness 2.0” is a multimodal presentation forming a prismatic expression of slowness in the performing arts – an invitation to dwell on experience. LASER Montreal
Credits
Alexis Johnson (US), Alfonso Santarpia (CA), Amanda Kelleher (US), Andrée Martin (CA), Armando Menicacci (CA), Bruno Pucella (CA), Chris Chafe (CZ), Chrysi Nanou (US), Clarissa Ribeiro(BR), Gisèle Trudel (CA), Nina Czegledy(CA), Tania Fraga (BR)
LASER Cambridge (UK): Hosted by University of Cambridge and co-chaired by Satinder Gill, Prerona Prasad and Chryssie Nanou. Their LASER events question the separation and propagation of art and science as distinct categories of knowing and being.
LASER Fortaleza (BR): Hosted by the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), a leading institution for education and scientific production, and is chaired by Clarissa Almeida. In order to face emerging challenges in contemporary societies, the university develops problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills from a transcultural and transdisciplinary perspective.
LASER Montreal (CA): Co-chaired by Gisele Trudel and Nina Czegledy and hosted by Hexagram in collaboration with the Université du Québec à Montréal. Hexagram is an interdisciplinary network dedicated to research-creation addressing the relationships between arts, cultures and technologies.
LASER São Paulo (BR): Hosted by Atelier Tania Fraga and chaired by Tania Fraga. Atelier Tania Fraga’s vision is to create audiovisual poetics pointing to potentially symbiotic relationships between humans and semiotic machines.
LASER Toronto (CA): Organized by ArtSci Salon and The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences and is co-chaired by Roberta Buiani and Nina Czegledy. Since 2012, the ArtSci Salon has hosted public discussions, art installations, performances and workshops to facilitate the cross-pollination between science, technology, and the arts.
LASER Vienna (AT): Co-chaired by Klaus Spiess and Susanne Gahbauer and hosted by the Medical University of Vienna in partnership with the University of Applied Arts. Medical University of Vienna is one of the most traditional medical education and one of Europe’s leading research establishments in the biomedical sector.
