July Soap Box Lecture: 'Let's Really Talk About the Birds and the Bees' July 7, 2007

July's Soap Box Lecture: "Let's Really Talk About the Birds and the Bees"

This talk will show and tell two works in progress by Tiffany Shlain, Filmmaker and Founder of the Webby Awards and Ken Goldberg Artist and Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley

Bees: Tiffany's Moxie Institute is developing a new film and art installation that explores connections between honey bees, fertility, crime, Botox, bacteria, ethical codes, computer codes, genetic codes, dress codes, and an array of other elements, illuminating some surprising links between our actions in the 21st Century.

Birds: Can robots be environmentalists? Ken's Automation lab at UC Berkeley is developing networked robotic "observatories" that allow scientists and the public to remotely observe and monitor natural environments. We'll show how one of our systems is being used in the search for the elusive Ivory Billed Woodpecker.

Tiffany Shlain, http://www.tiffanyshlain.com

Ken Goldberg, http://goldberg.berkeley.edu

After the lecture, refreshments will be served up the street at 301 Bocana Gallery (@ Cortland Ave.)

For more information, please visit: http://bernalbubbles.com/soapbox.html

About Bernal Bubbles:
Bernal Bubbles is a coin laundrymat that also offers wash and fold, mailbox rentals, and free WiFi. Additionally, we have the Bubble Gallery of children's art and a "Bernal Heights Sock Exchange Board" where customers can find the lost mates to their single socks.

"Soap Box" is series of free lectures to be held on the first Saturday of every month at 10pm after the laundromat closes.

Free.

Official Website: http://bernalbubbles.com/soapbox.html