IIC presents Pino Masnata, Futurist: A Life in Science and Art featuring Roberto Masnata with Charles Amirkhanian, Margaret Fisher and Andrew Joron
2016-08-04
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite F, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
6:30 PM, Thursday, August 4, 2016

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1. [6:30 PM] Andrew Joron: theremin performance
2. [6:34 PM] Welcome by Paolo Barlera
3. [6:40 PM] Introductory Comments by Margaret Fisher
4. [6:44 PM] Talk by Roberto Masnata, with technical assistance from Luisa Pellegrini
5. [7:26 PM] Follow-up talk by Margaret Fisher about RADIA
6. [7:34 PM] Margaret Fisher introduces Molly Bentley of Big Picture Science
7. [7:35 PM] Molly Bentley tries to relate Big Picture Science radio to RADIA
8. [7:49 PM] Round Table discussion moderated by Margaret Fisher, featuring Charles Amirkhanian, Molly Bentley, Andrew Joron, Roberto Masnata, Julia Nelson, and Danielle Simon
9. [8:28 PM] Q&A Session
   [show ends 8:48 PM; we recess for drinks and dessert]

• Charles Amirkhanian: composer, vox;
• Margaret Fisher: artist, translator, poet;
• Andrew Joron: theremin, poetry;
• Roberto Masnata: poet;
  others TBD.

My initial temptation in asking Ting whether she wanted to attend this event was to hear the theremin, although I was certainly also interested in learning more about Pino Masnata's visual poetry.

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Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2016 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2016 event list! ☸ On to the next event!