This month the Leaders in Software and Art Salon is teaming up with the Arts, Culture and Technology meetup for an evening of artist talks, drinks, good times and great conversations. 

Schedule:

6:30pm - Doors and informal networking over wine and light snacks

7:30pm - Presentations begin

8:30pm-10pm - Informal networking over wine and light snacks

Speakers:

Amit Pitaru makes unusual software. Or rather, software for unusual problems. As you'll see in his talk, his work spans across a wide range of fields. This is because every 2-4 years he seek a new area to apply his skills to. Why 2-4? It is the least amount of time it takes him to learn a new field and do at least one useful thing in it. So far, his work has explored animation, music, dance, assistive technology, video games, and...

Mark Shepard is an artist, architect and researcher whose practice addresses contemporary network cultures. His current research investigates the implications of mobile and pervasive media, communication and information technologies for architecture and urbanism. Mark's work has been broadly exhibited at the likes of the Design Museum, Barcelona; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; ISEA, SIGGRAPH, Sonar Festival, and FILE.  He has an MS in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia; an MFA in Combined Media from Hunter College; and a BArch from Cornell. He coordinates the media | architecture | computing MArch+MFA dual degree program at SUNY Buffalo.

Anne Morgan Spalter created and taught the first fine art digital media courses at both the Rhode Island School of Design RISD and Brown University. Her book, The Computer in the Visual Arts (Addison Wesley 1999), has become a standard reference text used at over a hundred universities throughout the world.  She has served on committees and boards for the Digital Art Museum, Journal of Mathematics and Art, ACM SIGGRAPH, and her work has been curated into the Victoria and Albert
Museum in the UK.  She and her husband have established the largest collection of early computer art in the US.

LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Their work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. They are interested in the ways in which the human body and mind observe, process, and respond to both natural and technological environments, and in the preservation of data, signals,
and memory.