Past Event
Wednesday, May 16, 2018, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Guest Lecture: Nina Waisman
9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, 92093
Cost: Free
Visual Arts Presentation Lab, SME 149, Structure & Materials Engineering Building, UC San Diego Waisman’s presentation will touch on contemporary research in both human and non-human intelligences; her year in SETI Institute’s Artist in Residence Program, searching for extraterrestrial intelligence along with the experts; a 2-week thinktank on non-human intelligences that she organized combining NASA experts and artists of all kinds; her co-creation, with artists/choreographer Flora Wiegmann, of a dance language based on microbial behaviors and perceptions; and her suspicion that microbes may be way smarter than we are. http://www.visarts.ucsd.edu/events/nina-waisman-talk