LASER TALKS

LASER São Paulo - Chimeric Bodies and Machine Hauntologies December 8th 2025 - Monday afternoon/evening Local: Lupe Cotrim Auditorium, School of Communication and Arts main building - Professor Lúcio Martin Rodrigues Avenue, 443, University Town, Sao Paulo, Brazil Theme: Chimeric Bodies and Machine Hauntologies Chairs: Clarissa Ribeiro and Tania Fraga This edition of LASER Talks São Paulo gathers two remarkable voices whose practices inhabit the porous borderlands between embodiment, technology, affect, and the spectral dynamics of contemporary media ecologies: Dr. Dalila Honorato (Ionian University, Greece) and Carolina Sudati a.k.a. Translúcida Bruta (Brazil). This encounter explores a sensorial, semiotic, and ontological infrastructure for navigating emergent forms of hybrid existence—where machinic hauntologies, algorithmic phantasmagoria, and the aesthetics of the cybernetic gothic converge with visceral bodies, ritual gestures, and the politics of becoming-other. Dalila Honorato brings her long-standing research on embodiment, monstrosity, the uncanny, and the liminal tensions between phobia and paraphilia—work that has shaped international discourses through projects such as Taboo–Transgression–Transcendence in Art & Science and FEMeeting. Her perspective unveils how contemporary chimeric and hybrid forms—both biological and computational—reconfigure the thresholds of identity, intimacy, and epistemic risk in a world saturated with machinic intelligence. Carolina Sudati (Translúcida Bruta) expands this terrain through her corporeal investigations at the interface of wearable devices, ritualistic movement, and the transmutation of psycho-emotional constraints into kinetic expansion. Her performative research unfolds across vegetal hacking, mineral ecologies, neo-extractivist residues, and trance-based practices that illuminate the raw material hauntings of the post-industrial body. featured speaker' photo credits: Dalila Honorato, photo by Dalila Honorato; Translúcida Bruta: Woman–Plant–Machine Experiment, Photo by Mayra Azzi

LASER Talks São Paulo | Theme: Nosy Artificial Date: Monday, December 1st, 2025 Location: Room C6 – Computer Graphics Classroom Department of Fine Arts, Building 5 School of Communications and Arts (ECA), University of São Paulo, Brazil Chaired by: Prof. Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro Department of Fine Arts, School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo This edition of LASER Talks São Paulo, titled “Nosy Artificial”, gathers international voices from media theory, digital culture, and experimental art to explore the affective, political, and perceptual tensions at the interface between humans and machines. Rooted in the conceptual terrain of The Wrong Biennale's noisyPOPcorner – Frictious Self Embassy, the talk welcomes noise not as error but as excess - a zone of encounter where human subjectivity diffracts through code, gesture, and synthetic systems. From AI-driven generation to wearable devices, from performance studies to generative design, the dialogue centers on frictions—those dissonances where art, motion, and intelligence co-evolve. Invited Speakers: • Leonardo Foletto leofoletto Researcher and professor of digital culture and artificial intelligence at the Department of Communications and Arts (CCA), ECA/USP, Brazil leofoletto.info • Andrea Sick @andreasick2 Professor of Media and Cultural History and Theory at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK), Germany. hfk-bremen.de – Andrea Sick • Bruno Moreschi bruno_moreschi Visual artist and professor of new media at Aalto University, Finland brunomoreschi.com • Gabriel Pereira @gabrielopereira_ Researcher and professor of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands gabrielpereira.net This event is part of the Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks global network—fostering conversations across art, science, and technology.

🤩LASER Tel Aviv × Transmeet Festival 2025 LASER Tel Aviv presents the Transmeet Art & Science Festival 2025 — a three-day celebration of creative inquiry at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, bringing together artists, scientists, and thinkers to explore the fertile ground where disciplines meet, from 13–15 November. From performances and installations to talks and workshops, Transmeet illuminates the shared curiosity that drives both art and science — experimentation, wonder, and transformation. As part of the LASER Network, we continue to foster these dialogues — connecting local and international communities to co-create and reimagine what knowledge can be. → Explore the full festival programme at #transmeetfestival #lasertelaviv #artandscience #interdisciplinary #innovation #steinhardtmuseum #telaviv #sciart #lasernetwork #leonardoisast

LASER Talks São Paulo – August 7, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (BRT) Format: Online Theme: UNBOUND: Queering Logic / Beyond Busyness ⸻ “Unbound” encapsulates a refusal to conform—an invitation to move beyond binary thinking in gender, identity, and societal norms, and to release ourselves from the imperatives of productivity and rigid structures. This edition of LASER Talks São Paulo invites us to imagine new ways of living, working, and creating with authenticity, fluidity, and care. ⸻ Featured Speakers: Rafael Bresciani (Italy / Brazil) Visiting researcher and PhD candidate in Visual Art and Technological Humanism at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brescia Santa Giulia. His practice explores the boundaries of media, communication, technology, and sound to challenge dominant structures of time, labor, language, and control. In this talk, he proposes laziness as a radical, liberatory strategy—an ode to free time, free thinking, and resistance to the infrastructures that constrain our lives and dreams. Leona Machado (São Paulo, Brazil) Artist-researcher and doctoral candidate in the Visual Arts Graduate Program (PPGAV) at ECA-USP, Leona’s work explores gender, subjectivity, and machine logic through artistic and computational experiments. With a background in Art (UFF), their practice interrogates natural language processing and algorithmic thinking from a non-binary, poetic, and critical perspective—queering the very structures of logic that shape our lived realities. ⸻ This session is moderated by Clarissa Ribeiro, professor at CAP/ECA/USP and LASER São Paulo chair. Join us in this provocative conversation at the intersection of art, philosophy, computation, and resistance.

Diana Domingues (1947-2025) With deep sorrow, we honor the passing of Diana Domingues—pioneering artist, scientist, and visionary thinker in the field of Art and Technology. Diana’s legacy transcends disciplines: she opened vital spaces for women in science-art and inspired generations through her groundbreaking research and generosity of spirit. Her work illuminated the entangled energies of bodies, machines, ecologies, and dreams. As a fierce thinker and loving mentor, she gifted us worlds. May her energy remain—and in fragmenting, grow even stronger. Her presence continues as vibration, as code, as care. @diana.domingues.7127

LASER talks at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) chaired by: Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro Theme: Affective Data-Sensory June 6, 2025, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM CAP ECA USP room C6 Affective Data-Sensory gestures toward a rich terrain where information is no longer treated as inert, neutral, or abstract—but rather as felt, embodied, and entangled with perception, emotion, and relationality. In the practices of artists like Lisa Schonberg and Darya Warner, data ceases to be merely informational and becomes experiential. Lisa Schonberg and Darya Warner, our invited speakers, share a powerful intersectional practice that operates within the entangled ecologies of art, science, and activism. Their commonalities are not only methodological but philosophical, revealing a shared ethos rooted in care, multispecies co-agency, and the performativity of environmental consciousness.

✨ LASER Talks Bucharest: GENESIS | A Dialogue on Art, Science & New Beginnings Join us this Wednesday, April 9th at /SAC @ Malmaison, Bucharest for an art and science randevouz where the boundaries between art, science, identity, and creation foster an interdisciplinary dialogue. EVENT INFO 📍 Where: /SAC @ Malmaison – Calea Plevnei, 137C, Bucharest 🗓️ When: April 9th, 2025 🕖 Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM EET 🌐 More Info: 🎟️ Entry is Free | Audience participation encouraged! GENESIS isn't just a beginning—it’s a story of life, resilience, genetics, and artistic expression, featuring: 🎙️ Dr. Alexandra Cojocaru – Medical Geneticist 🎙️ Ruxandra Gubernat – Documentary Filmmaker & Researcher The speakers will explore the symbolic and scientific intersections of creation—from biology to personal journeys—hosted by Natalia Marin and Alex Radu. 💬 Photo Credit: Childless, 2024 /courtesy of Ruxandra Gubernat (RO), Maria Stanisheva (BG/FR), and Martina Scarpelli (IT/DK) #lasertalks #Genesis #sacmalmaison #ArtMeetsScience #contemporaryart #scienceandsociety #transdisciplinaryart #ArtisticExploration #sacbucharest

On View & Upcoming: Iman Person “Memory Garden″ | Patricia Cadavid “Electronic _Khipu_”

[LASER TALKS 15] 🎛️✨ How can we build approaches driven by data and interaction for a sustainable musical practice? Our guest speakers, Gabriel Vigliensoni et Marcelo M. Wanderly, will explore cutting-edge practices in musical interfaces. Discover creative AI opportunities with insights into interdisciplinary research. 📆 Tuesday, February 4, 2025 🕕 6 - 8 PM 📍 @milieux_institute , EV 11.705 🎟️ Free / Online or in-person 🗣️ In English 🔗 bio — Comment développer une approche basée sur les données et l’interaction pour une pratique musicale durable ? Nos invités, Gabriel Vigliensoni et Marcelo M. Wanderly, exploreront les pratiques de pointe en interfaces musicales. 🎛️✨ Découvrez les opportunités offertes par l’IA créative à travers des exemples de recherches interdisciplinaires. 📆 Mardi, 4 février 2025 🕕 18h - 20h 📍 @milieux_institute , EV 11.705 🎟️ Gratuit / en ligne ou en personne 🔗 bio 🗣️ En anglais @leonardoisast @lasertalks #lasertalksmontreal #interactivart #machibelearningart #electroacoustic

Link in bio / Saturday 30/11-3/5pm @cafebotanico / berlin. Laser Nomad Talks - Leonardo Art Science. Plants have inspired movies, countless poetry, or paintings among many others art forms. The realm of plants occupies way more space on earth than humans or any animal presence, and will probably be the last presence on earth when our atmosphere becomes inhabitable and hostile to any life forms. We invite @anahupe Ana Hupe (1983) is visual artist as well as Associate Researcher and Lecturer in Art History at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Germany. @maykson________ Maykson Cardoso (Brazil, 1988) is a poet, essayist, art critic and translator, and has previously worked as an independent curator. He is a PhD candidate in Visual Arts/Art History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. #artandscience @lasertalks #lasernomad #plants #gardens #permaculture @i.opener.art @cafebotanico / link in bio

💥S+T+ARTS Symposium: LASER Talks in Barcelona! Join us for two days of engaging talks, panels, and presentations at the S+T+ARTS Symposium: "Exploring the Intersections of Arts, Science, Technology, and Society as Catalysts for Change," taking place on October 29 and 30 in Barcelona! Event Information 📅 When: October 29-30 📍 Where: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Barcelona 🔗 Website: https://starts.eu/starts-symposium-about/ LEONARDO/ISAST LASER Talks: Interdisciplinary Creativity for Innovation Leonardo/ISAST LASER Talks is an international program that creates a "transdisciplinary space" by bringing together artists, scientists, humanists, and technologists for informal presentations, performances, and conversations with the wider public. The purpose of the LASERs is to encourage contribution to the cultural environment of a region by fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and community building in over 57 cities across five continents. LASER's local & global nodes build a creative infrastructure to address the world's most challenging problems and help us engineer a better future. Over the past seven decades, the discourse on the dialogues and intersections between the arts and sciences has undergone a profound transformation since the inception of the “two cultures” debate. Today, numerous publications, institutions, organisations, academic associations, and funding programmes, such as S+T+ARTS in the European context, testify to the burgeoning emphasis on transdisciplinarity. The programme includes: Keynotes ➡“The Art-Science Complex: Observations from the Field” by: Chris Salter from @zhdk.druckwerkstatt ➡“Arts, Science, Technology and Society intersections: how to navigate them in practice?” by: Nerea Calvillo from @warwickuni ➡Panels will discuss hybrid research scenarios, confronting values and measures, and tackling social and ethical challenges. ➡Poster and Audiovisual Presentations in the Open Area, where you’ll see groundbreaking projects and collaborations in action! #leonardoisast #lasertalks #starts

Critical Networked Experience an artist talk with Jonah Brucker Cohen Thursday, October 10, 2024 5:30-7:30 pm The Fields Institute for research in Mathematical Sciences Link in Bio 222 College Street