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ART|SCI COLLECTIVE + SONOS STUDIOS: "Brainstorming Synesthesia" Performance
January 14, 2015

In collaboration with SONOS Studios, the Art|Sci Center presented BRAINSTORMING: SYNESTHESIA in the SONOS Studios space in Los Angeles. The Art|Sci Center hosted a performance where artists, scientists, and musicians explore through cognitive synchronization how sound affects the human brain and body.

Artist and director of UCLA Art|Sci Center + Lab Victoria Vesna performed the Octopus Brainstorming session on Synesthesia with neuroscientists Mark Cohen and Don Vaughn, nanoscientist James Gimzewski, artist Mick Lorusso, and sound artists Gil Kuno, Shoshi Kanokohata and Maciej Ozog.

This performance was made possible with the support of Art|Sci Team members Marissa Clifford, Mary Tsang and Ben Ward.

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Artist and director of UCLA Art | Sci center Victoria Vesna performs the Octopus Brainstorming session on Synesthesia with neuroscientists Mark Cohen, Don Vaughn, nanoscientist James Gimzewski, artist Mick Lorusso and sound artists Gil Kuno, Shoshi Kanokohata and Maciej Ozog.

VICTORIA VESNA – UCLA Professor in department of Design Media Arts, Director of Art | Sci center. http://victoriavesna.com/

MARK COHEN -- UCLA Professor in departments of psychiatry & behavioral science, neurology, psychology, radiology and department of engineering.
http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/Faculty/mark-cohen-ph.d

JAMES GIMZEWSKI – UCLA Distinguished Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, FRS FREng, FInstP is a physicist who pioneered research on electrical contacts with single atoms and molecules and light emission using scanning tunneling microscopy. http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/gimzewski/

KUNO KANO (Japan) – The serene harmonies of traditional Japanese flute (played by Shoshi Kanokohata) are mangled by the digital glitch methodologies of distortion designer Gil Kuno.
http://www.unsound.com/

MICK LORUSSO, UCLA Art | Sci gallery – visual artist focused on energy in it’s many forms: as sustenance, movement, sensation, electricity and light. He integrates science, mysticism, ecology and community actions into his work.
http://www.micklorusso.net/

MACIEJ OZOG (Poland) -- critically explores the liminal territory between the body's physical activity and the invisible electric infrastructures of hybrid space.
http://maciejozog.333flow.com/

DON VAUGHN – PhD student in Professor Cohen’s lab researches freewill and group social dynamics using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)b and is also a DJ and drummer.
http:// http://speakeasy2014.com/don-vaughn/

With support from Art|Sci Team-members MARISSA CLIFFORD, MARY TSANG, and BEN WARD

HOX ZODIAC DINNER (BETA) Victoria Vesna and Siddarth Ramakrishnan
04 DECEMBER 2014
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY

Hox Zodiac Dinner is an on-going collaboration between Art|Sci director Victoria Vesna and neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan. Inspired by the Hox genes which codify body plans across the animal kingdoms, Hox Zodiac offered the audience a seat at the dinner table, enabling conversations on mutations, morphology, and metamorphosis, on humans in relation to animals and the food we eat, on animals feral and laboratory raised. This first-ever iteration of the participatory project aimed to heighten consciousness about our animal bodies, mutations, art, and science.

06 NOVEMBER 2014
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY

Aisen Caro Chacin, Joel Ong and the Art|Sci Collective joined the multi-year collaboration of Professor Victoria Vesna and evolutionary biologist Dr. Charles Taylor in this sound and art exhibition based on the NSF-sponsored research on Mapping Acoustic Sensor Array of Bird Communication Networks.

Secret Life of Birds built off of this idea and aimed to re-examine the bonds between humans and birds through the perspective of the birds. This ongoing project continues to see various disciplines of art and science converging to present Taylor’s research as a work of art.