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Stanford Seminar - "Did you hear the one about the engineer that walked into an art gallery?"

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EE380: Computer Systems Colloquium Seminar
"Did you hear the one about the engineer that walked into an art gallery?"
Speaker: Mark Paulene, Survival Research Laboratories

A serious discussion of the role of the engineer as an art world serf in a world of dwindling practical applications.

Curator's Notes:

Mark designs and builds big robotic beasts which fight. His world is filled with exotic robotic beasts spitting fire and smelling of overheated metal. Few can resist finding joy in the battle.

Mark Pauline has recently been discovered by the art community. See his show notice which appeared in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/arts/design/mark-pauline-survival-research-laboratories.html?_r=0 

About the Speaker:

Mark Pauline is a performance artist who builds festival robots through his production company, Survival Research Labs.

For more information about this seminar and its speaker, you can visit https://ee380.stanford.edu/Abstracts/180425.html

Support for the Stanford Colloquium on Computer Systems Seminar Series provided by the Stanford Computer Forum.

Colloquium on Computer Systems Seminar Series (EE380) presents the current research in design, implementation, analysis, and use of computer systems. Topics range from integrated circuits to operating systems and programming languages. It is free and open to the public, with new lectures each week.

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