Bridging  Chasms

Searching for Meaningful Communication Across Disciplines



 


EVENT 3 PARTICIPANTS

Encounter 1:

Daniela Kaufer: Professor of Integrative Biology, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, and the Department of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. She says, “The overall goal of my research program is to conduct interdisciplinary multilevel research addressing fundamental questions about brain function with direct relevance to the human condition.”

Roger Reynolds: University Professor, UC San Diego, Department of Music; Pulitzer Prize for Music, 1989. Current research: conceiving and exercising computer algorithms for the real-time processing of natural sound; intermedia creations involving spoken text, instrumental music, computer-processed and spatialized sound, and imagery presented through flexible projection design strategies. Roger is the conceptual founder of Bridging Chasms and we were honored to have him participating in this event.

Encounter 2:

Massimo Mazzotti: Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science, Director, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS). He says, “I'm interested in mathematics and technology as dimensions of world-ordering processes.”

Rachel Clarke: Professor of New Media Art, Chair, Art Department, California State University, Sacramento. She says, “ Combining physical and virtual modes of making, my work is made in relation to global concerns, filtered through everyday experience.”

Encounter 3:

Anne-Marie Bonnel-Buchla: Psychology Department, UC Berkeley (retired). She says, “From Paris to Berkeley, Anne-Marie Bonnel-Buchla shares her time between the scientific study of attention and the exploration of various musical forms.”

Rachel Chen: College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She says, “My research subverts normative modes of experiencing and interacting, and surfaces the diverse modalities of those whose expressive actions are often marginalized.”