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March 29, 2019

Co-organized by the MIT Press Leonardo Journal, the Williamson Gallery, and Fulcrum Arts, the March 2019 LASER Talks featured five pecha-kucha style presenters in the gallery’s current exhibition, This Is Not a Selfie. LASER Talks are ongoing informal evening gatherings around topics resonating at the intersection of science, art, technology, and media.

Ian Ingram is a Los Angeles-based artist who builds mechatronic and robotic systems that borrow facets from animal morphology and behavior, from the shapes and movements of machines, and from our stories about animals. These systems are often intended to cohabitate and interact with animals in the wild. His recent work has been attempts to “. . . create a sort of messy web in the umwelts of specific non-human species and human beings by creating robotic systems that — in scale, form, behavior and gesture — make signals truly meaningful to the non-human species but often in a playful human-like narrative context. The robots use computer vision or sound signal processing to search the world for the signals of target species and then attempt to respond through similar gestural and audible signalling.”