[Talk] Rocket Science for Creative Tech

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Talk Title: Rocket Science for Creative Tech

Talk Description: This talk will explore how aerospace engineering principles translate surprisingly well to building interactive art with code. Drawing from my journey from Aerospace Engineering to New Media Art, I'll walk through principles like optimization under constraints, systems thinking, and failure mode analysis. I will also break down how I applied engineering rigor in some of my art pieces like a real-time ML body segmentation (https://leff.in/projects/andWordsWillEchoInMySoul) and filling in the blank characters of Unicode (https://leff.in/projects/uniicode). I aim for the audience to leave with a new perspective on where engineering ends and art begins.

Name: Leffin

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Website (optional): https://leff.in