The highlight of the AMI conference (for me) was having the co-curator of the Guggenheim's "Art of the Motorcycle" show attend the conference. He's shown here with a Suzuki Katana. I used to own a model like this.

He's also a professor of optics, and his latest adventure is with David Hockney They discovered that Renaissance painters used a camera obscura literally a century before "optics" became a widespread science.