Co – Hosted with Santinder Gill; a Leonardo LASER Talk between University of Cambridge and UCLA, in discussion with artists on critical questions of access, agency, and equity in relation to AI and its impact on the art ecosystem!
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Bardo Songs at UCLA Fowler Museum
Bardo Songs: Meditation & Illumination on the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Beyond grateful to have created accompanying visualizations for this performance by Internationally acclaimed Tibetan singer/songwriter Tenzin Choegyal, who was joined by award-winning composer Simone Giuliani on piano and actor, musician, and dancer Tsering Dorjee Bawa, performing the rare Black Hat masked ritual dance. Narrated by Christiana Polites.
Bardo Songs at Pureland Farms in Topanga Canyon
Honored to have provided my visuals to an epic musical experience: Bardo Songs – Meditation & Illumination on the Tibetan Book of the Dead also understood as the in between state and listening. Tibetan master performers — singer/songwriter Tenzin Choegyal, performer Tsering Dorjee Bawa (Black Hat Dancer), along with composer Simone Giuliani, narrator Christiana Polites (director of Pure Land Farms).





Narratives Of Engagement
Enjoyed being part of this excellent Masters thesis defense — “NARRATIVES OF ENGAGEMENT at the intersection of documentary and media art” by Vanessa Vozzo at Interface Cultures, Linz. Joined by Manuela Naveau as chair, Davide on committee and Fabricio helped moderate and her daughter came to witness.



Doors To Hidden Worlds
Attended the Doors to Hidden Worlds Book Presentation.


ENFOLD
Symposium, Burroughs Wellcome Fund Headquarters, Research Triangle Park, NC, September 21-22
Lecture: What Science can do for Art
ENFOLD SciArt conference, Art-Science Institute for Transformative Creativity, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, North Carolina
Fourth State of Water: from micro to macro
Keynote at Leonardo LASER Linz – Danube Songs Vol. III with Catarina Reis, Federico Ciriolo, Gebhard Sengmüller, Herwig Turk, Nicholas B. Torretta (Nico), Dr. Paul Thomas, moderated by Christa Sommerer & Fabricio Lamoncha.
https://kunstaspekte.art/event/the-fourth-state-of-water-from-micro-2012-03?hl=en
The Next Renaissance
Panel Chair: Lucia Ronchetti (IT), John Palmesino (IT), Rachel Armstrong (IE), Alistair Hudson (GB), Charles Landry, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/events/next-renaissance-launch/
[Alien] Star Dust: signal to noise in Beijing
[Alien] Star Dust: signal to noise, Cosmological Elements at the Times Art Museum (Beijing), July 21 – November 15.