This first LASERZURICH will feature three renowned artists and scientists that will cross pollinate their research and creativity by presenting their own work. The following will be speaking from 18.00 to 20.00: Alina Mnatsakanian,Alessandro Giusti and Daniel Bisig. This talk will be moderated by Prof. Dr. Jill Scott.
Alina Mnatsakanian
…is a transmedia conceptual artist who lives and works in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and is interested in robotics. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Université de Paris 8, and a master’s degree in Visual Arts from California State University, Los Angeles. She has exhibited in the United States, Canada, Europe, Switzerland and Armenia; she has received awards from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Swiss Artists in Labs and California Council for the Humanities. She has been artist-in-residence at The Grand Central Art Center of Santa Ana, California, and at Art, the Cultural Studies Laboratory of Yerevan, Armenia.
www.alinamn.com
Alessandro Giusti
…is researcher at Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA, USI-SUPSI) in Lugano (Switzerland). In this talk he will be talking alongside Alina Mnatsakanian about his own research on machine learning and visual perception for mobile robots.
www.leet.it
Daniel Bisig
…holds a Master’s and PhD degree in Natural Sciences. He has worked as a researcher in the fields of Molecular Biology and Artificial Life. He currently holds a position as a research associate at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology ICST of the Zurich University of the Arts. Formally, he was senior researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Lab in Zurich and is still active as a scientist. As an artist, he has realized several algorithmic films, interactive installations and audiovisual performances, some of them in collaboration with musicians and choreographers. He will talk about the derivation of generative algorithms and how interaction techniques from biomimetic simulations are an essential part of his work.
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