Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks are a program of international gatherings that bring artists, scientists, humanists and technologists together for informal presentations, performances and conversations with the wider public. The mission of LASER is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and opportunities for community building. Aalto University became a LASER Talks host in 2020.
Is artificial intelligence simply a tool, or does it possess creative capabilities? Watch the recording.
Future visions and concrete steps towards the sufficiency paradigm in fashion
To address the existential challenges we face today, we require truly transformative and border-crossing collaboration. But how can we achieve this? Watch the video recording of our afterwork event.
Invite your friend or colleague to our casual get-together featuring inspiring talks on current research, accompanied by relaxed conversations over food, refreshments, and music on June 7, 2023.
LASER Talks are an initiative launched by Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. Aalto University joined the list of LASER Talks hosts in 2020, and the January event will be the first-ever held in Finland.
Images: Aalto LASER Community event on September 9th, 2021 co-organised with Aalto Networking Platform. Photos by Aman Askarizadmasouleh. Design Factory, Otaniemi
Laura Beloff, Professor of Visual Culture and Artistic Practices
Pia Fricker, Professor of Practice, Computational Methodologies in Landscape Architecture and Urbanism
Partners:
Aalto University | https://www.aalto.fi/en
Leonardo/ISAST | https://leonardo.info/laser-talks
A provocative approach to art & science with algorithms, robotics and embedded politics
What if the evolution chain, once pictured as a line, was instead a circle, now caught at the moment when reaching its point of origin?
Join us for presentations and an interactive discussion about the transformation of the Arctic imposed by climate change on geopolitical and environmental levels with the artist Kaisu Koivisto, researcher in Arctic identities and politics Ingrid A.Medby, designer and doctoral researcher Emilia Tikka, and Jukka Tuhkuri, professor of ice mechanics at Aalto University.
Under the theme ‘Adaptation and Space’ this LASER Talk at Aalto University will intersect different practices and discourses as heterogeneous but complementary articulations of ‘space’, that address, operate on and contribute, in different ways and capacities, to the transformation of the contemporary environment and its challenges: the social, the infrastructural, the technological, the sensory, the virtual, the built and the unbuilt.
In what ways are we (humans) as a species able to adapt to the changes in our habitat and environment? And what does that imply?
January 28th, 2021 | 18:00–20:00 (Finland)
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April 29th, 2021 | 18:00–20:00 (Finland)
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