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Event 1 Blog- Laser Lecture

While the event started off with Haytham Nawar's presentation of Collective Bread Diaries, the following presentations were nothing like his, but at the same time had many similarities and parallels. This event showed us the different ways we communicate, or how much communication we miss out on.

Nawar's bread presentation helped us realize the many different things bread stands for. He told us that bread is huge in every country and most have different meanings. I was also able to understand how the drawing machines were able to learn from human expression and create its own way of art.

While Bill Fontana spoke about his studies in acoustic sounds from all over the world I was really interested in the many different places he has explored to. What really intrigued me was when he was talking about the differences of sounds and what certain sounds can tell you versus other sounds.

The most interesting and inspirational presentation of them all was the one about being deaf. It was quite interesting to see the amount of communication deaf people miss out on and how much harder it is to understand people and their stories.


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