Lecturers of The Lorimer Series
Katie Northlich is a four time New York Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion, and she is the current reigning Two-Time National Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion. Her solo show, *Character Forum: A Thesis, was recently in New York Magazine as a pick of the week. She toured Europe with a Commedia D'elle Arte troupe, and she is a private solo instructor and a commissioned monologue writer. Princeton Repertory: Twelfth Night, And Then Like Ophelia; The York Theatre: Arturo’s Window; Genesius Guild: Revolution. UC Irvine: BA, Drama. www.katienorthlich.com
Dr. Julia Nayhem
Tonight, please come with questions for Dr. Julia Nayhem, renowned Sexual Behavioral Therapist. She will answer any and all questions you may have. ANY questions you may have.
Severine Feist is a nonfiction erotica writer and experiential therapist, having researched and explored subjects of deviancy while working in the sex industry for many years. She is absorbed and fascinated by the abstract realism of words, an id-exhibitionist who will expose her psyche after trespassing your personal space. Through her writing, Ms. Feist hopes one day to stick a crowbar into the minds of the general public. Armed only with her laptop and perverse sense of humor, she patriotically pledges to uphold her favorite aphorism: ‘If you can’t join them, beat some sense in to them. And if you can’t do that, beat them senseless.’ (Please note: Ms. Feist would like to make clear that she is a non-violent individual, and would never hurt anyone non-consensually.)
Visit her site at www.severinefeist.com
Deviant Sea
Ms. Feist talks about the experiences she and others have had while working in the sex industry, how they relate to sexuality, to commerce, to interpersonal relationships and to general interactions with society. Questions on the subject of D/s play (domination and submission) in both the commercial and lifestyle arenas (her current favorite topic) will be taken and discussed.
D. Robert Wolcheck has been working with statistics for six years, namely social stats for Interactive, Inc., a small education research and evaluation firm. He has been involved with projects for State agencies and private companies, evaluating student performance and test scores from Alabama to Japan. Outside of the home office, he works as a photographer (http://drobertwolcheck.com) and occasionally acts (http://noteaproductions.com).
Not Always Bullshit: A Simple Explanation of Statistics
A non-mathematician attempts to explain the basics of statistics and how they're used so that we can learn to trust them while retaining a healthy skepticism.
The Bitter Poet has performed his show, “Angst & Burlesque” at PS122 'Schoolhouse Rocks', The P.I.T., The Brick Theater 'Hell Festival', The Lucky Cat , Arlene Grocery, Rapture Café and many others. As a solo act, The Bitter Poet is a regular at Stage Left’s Forbidden Kiss Erotica Night, and in other variety shows at venues like: Theatre For The New City, Mo Pitkin’s, Bowery Poetry Club, Galapagos Art Space and others. Coming up, on January 23rd & 30th, The Bitter Poet will perform at the legendary downtown theatre, Dixon Place. Go to myspace.com/thebitterpoet and thebitterpoet.com for more info.
The Bitter Poet
"like a cross between The Doors and Richard Pryor..." rants through his poems of bad romance and lost love.
Troy Tyler is, for lack of a better description, an entrepreneur. Profiling him in an article entitled "Soul Proprietor", the business magazine Fast Company declared, "Bouncing is what Tyler does, like a Superball, as if his insistent energy isn't quite contained by a standard-issue mortal frame." Troy left his boyhood ranch in Colorado first to work on Wall Street, then in a Japanese autoplant, and finally in "technology-enabled media". He led the web developer Avalanche Systems -- later a part of RazorFish, started the mobile phone content provider SmartRay, and is currently working on both content creation and product invention. A student of science, economics, design, and acting, Troy is always asking, "Where's the Heat?!"
Cheap Energy Smackdown! Physics vs. Economics
While global warming gets the headlines, the smart money is worried about "Peak Oil", that point beyond which each year sees less and less black gunk gushing forth. While economists assert, "The market will provide.", the scientists taunt, "You can't get somthin' for nuthin'!" What are these two camps shouting about? What might the world look like as we exhaust a once-a-planet endowment of fossil fuel?
Dr. Andrea Kondracke is a Johns Hopkins SOM graduate, board certified psychiatrist, and internist who specializes in the medical care of mentally ill patients. She works at Bellevue Medical Center, NYC.
WTF Is Wrong With Brit, Tom, and Michael
Yeah, they're weird. What in the word is going on in their heads? A psychiatrist and internist at Bellevue gives us her professional opinion.
Robin Reed is an actor, director, writer and producer who has performed and produced in New York, San Francisco and London. She is an original member of Piper McKenzie Productions’ Bizarre Science Fantasy series at the Brick in Brooklyn, where she works regularly. You can hear her voice on radio and television spots for CNN, HGTV and Oxygen as well as bookstore owner Ms. Libri on the PBS animated series Word Girl. She also writes reviews for nytheatre.com has an inordinate number of freelance-y dayjobs.
The Crush Project
The Crush Project was born out of a voyeuristic obsession with Craigslist and a fondness for the art project/book series Post Secret. It features some of the New York indie theater scene's greatest artists voicing dramatic readings of Craigslist's Missed Connections. http://cardium.org/crushblog/
Alec Cove is a New York City based software engineer, web developer, and artist. His areas of interest include computational aesthetics, artificial life, and physically based modeling. He is the author of the open source physics engines APE and Flade, the latter of which was nominated for a Flash Forward technical merit award in 2006. His development abilities span most platforms, frameworks, and languages, and in particular include Flash, Flex, Actionscript, Java/J2EE, C#/.NET, and PHP. Prior to returning to consulting in 2007, he was Director of Technology at RDAI in New York. Past clients have included Sony, Toyota, Cingular, Citibank, AOL, Saatchi & Saatchi, SciFi Channel, Starwood Hotels, PBS, Nivea, and Nestle. He is the co-author of 'Professional PHP5' from Wrox Press.
Beautiful Algorithms: Design from Nature and Mathematics
What is the deeper mathematical essence of our visible world? Throughout nature and technology--and places where they overlap--there are algorithmic systems that generate beauty. They appear in countless and surprising places: seashells, music, flowers, chemical reactions, art, and mathematics itself. This presentation is a survey of the images and animations created by these systems.
Marlene Nichols is a writer/performer and at any given time at least one of her multiple personalities is appearing at such venues as the Liar Show, D-Lounge, Bowery Poetry Club, Rubin Museums of Art, and Stage Left Studios. She received a 2006 Fantasy Fountain Fund grant to write in Paris giving readings at Cafe Universel and Shakespeare & Company. Her past one-woman shows include "A Southern Girl's Tireswing Blues", "Pretty" and "Stand Me Up And Dress Me." Several of her character monologues have been commissioned by The Winter Harbor Theatre in Portland, Maine and performed at the Culture Project's Impact Festival. Her latest show, "Seeing Voices" will premiere March 27th and 28th at Stage Left Studio in New York City.
Seeing Voices
A monologue about how we struggle with the voices in our heads.
Maren Connary tends to play both sides of the fence. As an artist trained in art direction, design and photography she strives for creative, honest, free expression while hiding under the guise of middle management in a massive medical device firm. With a scientist and landscape architect as parents, an MBA, and 14 years of living abroad, Maren has naturally gravitated to global medical marketing. For fun she keeps an eye on technology macro-trends and constantly challenges corporate ethics...
Should we merge with our machines?
About 25 years ago, medical science embarked on an exponential track of technological development driven by unprecedented double-digit profits. Biotechnology emerged with Genentech’s massive 1980 IPO, while blockbuster drugs ($1B+ sales) became household names and research into medical devices surged. With certain limitations, we now have devices that can be implanted into our heads that enable the deaf to hear, the blind to see and Parkinson’s sufferers to move at will. As firms continue to improve the technologies and expand the applications into cognitive enhancements, can and should we opt for the upgrades?
Michael Hines is the founder of The Lorimer Series and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Time.
I'll explore the nature of Time through physics, cosmology, mythology, and psychology.
Previous Topic: You Are Here.
What will life be like 5, 10, 100 billion years into the future? What are the outer limits of our survivability as a species? How "vast" is the vastness of space? Why should I care?
I've only got 20 minutes. So that should just about cover it.
Will Schenk is a world traveller, pilot, electronic tinkerer, amateur photographer and software hacker. He's worked at the Java Development Center at Sun Microsystems, we worked on projects ranging from e-commerce sites in New York City to health care information systems for the Ministry of Health in Malaysia. He was not-so-recently the Director of Software Engineering at Jones Apparel Group. Before that he spent time volunteering putting that technology knowledge to work at a large hospital in southern India. The last 2 years have traveling through Italy and studying what catches his fancy, which has been a combination of electronics, large scale database systems, data mining, and piloting. He currently has way too many books. He blogs at sublimeguile.com
No Dilettantes: When Actions have Consequences
We all make decisions everyday that effect our health; going to the gym or not, eating enough vegetables, getting enough rest, having that second drink. You know that these are bad for you in some vague way, but what's the real penalty? Being hung-over at work doesn't fundamentally matter. What happens if it did matter? What happens if the penalty were death? We'll talk a little bit about the process that pilots, flight instructors, and the FAA use to cope with the limits of human physiology and psychology, how wisdom is captured from mistakes in a systematic way, and how to cope with such complicated systems.
David Kovner is a partner at a $1B hedge fund and serves as the Director of Research. David focuses his investments on event-driven situations in the US and Europe, going long or short securities ranging from straight stocks, options and bonds to structured credit vehicles and default swaps. David was previously a senior investment analyst at Satellite Asset Management where he focused on special situations opportunities in corporate credit. Prior to joining Satellite in October 2002, Mr. Kovner was a senior investment analyst with Och Ziff Capital Management from 2000 – 2002. Mr. Kovner began his investing career as an analyst and Vice President on ING Barings’ proprietary North American distressed securities and merger arbitrage desk. Before earning his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Mr. Kovner held political positions in Washington, DC. While there, he was appointed by the White House to the U.S. Department of Energy where he helped develop policies affecting electric utilities and independent power producers. David grew up in Norfolk, VA, and currently resides in Manhattan. David also received his undergraduate degree in economics from Duke University.
Where Is That Beautiful House? Where Is That Large Automobile? Where Does That Highway Go To?*
Think the bank is the best place for your money? Think owning a house puts you closer to the American dream? I'm going to show you how Wall Street has taken your savings and the keys to your house and lent it to liars and thieves. Everybody wants to clean up street crime - just as long as it isn't the crime on Wall St.**
While we're at it, we're going to talk about how to make a little on the side while the rest of the country slides into financial Armageddon.
*Thanks, David Byrne! **Thanks, George Carlin!