On November 20, 02015, our Executive Director Alexander Rose is helping organize a free “Long Conversation” about the history of robots with UC Berkeley’s Ken Goldberg at “Friday Nights at the DeYoung”.
The event starts at 6:30, with doors at 6:00pm in the Koret Auditorium of the De Young Museum.
A “Long Conversation” is a relay style speaking event. In this case, it is a 2 hour relay of 10 minute public conversations between 11 pairs of speakers who will be speaking on “100 Years of Robot Art and Science in the Bay Area”. The conversation is part of a larger exhibit honoring the 100 year anniversary of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The participants of this conversation include:
- Josette Melchor (Grey Area Foundation for the Arts)
- Dorothy R. Santos (writer, curator)
- Tim Roseborough (artist, musician, former Kimball Artist-in-Residence)
- John Markoff (author of Machines of Loving Grace)
- Karen Marcelo (dorkbotSF)
- David Pescovitz (Institute for the Future)
- Catharine Clark (Catharine Clark Gallery)
- Alexander Rose (director, Long Now Foundation)
- Pieter Abbeel (professor, Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley)
- Terry Winograd (Computer Science department, Stanford Univeristy)
- Kal Spelletich (Seeman)
- Artist Jenny Odell, who will be providing live images (VJing)
Friday Nights at the de Young are after-hours art happenings that include a mix of live music, dance and theater performances, film screenings, panel discussions, lectures, artist demonstrations, hands-on art activities, and exhibition tours. Local artists conduct drop-in workshops, debut new commissions, display their art in the Kimball Education Gallery, and take part in conversations about the creative process. The café offers a delicious prix-fixe menu and specialty cocktails, and the Hamon Tower observation level is open until 8 pm. Artists-in-Residence, curators, scholars, and arts educators play active roles in making Friday Nights an engaging museum experience.
We hope to see you there.
