Halfway to the End of Time
Embedded in the physical laws of our universe is a tendency towards greater entropy with time - disorder, dissipation, chaos. But what if entropy is not simply a march toward disorder, but an engine for new forms of order? Through an exploration of the artist's body of work, this talk considers how matter - whether mud, root, circuit, or cell - emerges and adapts in an entropic universe, and how those adaptations become the seeds of memory, myth, and technology. By harnessing living microbes, primordial chemistry, and biological batteries as artistic co-creators, these explorations treat entropy as a collaborator rather than an adversary: a force that braids together the biological and the technological, the ancient and the emergent. Halfway to the end of time, we find that decay and generation are inseparable, and that every system of matter, human or otherwise, is already dreaming itself into something new.
About Laia
Laia is a student in the oceanography department at Stanford University as well as an interdisciplinary artist, originally from Toronto but based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her practice merges interactive digital media, sculpture, and living materials to uncover hidden material entanglements between nature, humans, and technology. This summer she interned at BioClub, where she worked on research for a sculpture project inspired by Japanese mermaid mythology.
About the Event
- The talk will be in English
- This is a free event, everyone is welcome!
