Stealth Drones is comprised of seven embroidery hoops hung in formation. Each hoop contains fractal patterns and ornamentation embroidered in white thread. The hoops are presented on a black velvet backdrop. At regular intervals UV lights are activated in the exhibition space. The embroideries react to the UV light and reveal a new type of information. Once the regular room lights are turned back on, this information disappears.
Please join us for our monthly LASER talk following the opening reception for Stealth Drone by Anne_Niemetz.
We are joining forces with the Fathomers to co-host a program of the National Academy of Sciences for a “Science Speed Dating” event dedicated to vibrant explorations of innovative research in 7 minutes or less,
Communication and games researcher Lonny J. Avi Brooks, AI researcher Philip Butler, aerospace systems engineer Tracy Drain, oceanographer Bethanie Edwards, robotics engineer Maynard Holliday, and theoretical physicist Clifford Johnson offer brief, energetic presentations on their research and work. Following the presentations, AFPC host Ahmed Best moderates a panel and Q&A with the speakers on the implications of their work to the shared experience of Black and Brown communities.
ECO-CENTRIC ART + SCIENCE: Prophesies and Predictions is an open-mic marathon symposium featuring artist and author in residence Linda Weintraub, nanoscientist James Gimzewski, evolutionary biologist Charles Taylor, environmentalist and author Ursula Heise, curator Sophie Lamparter, nano-toxicologist Olivia Osborne, and media art graduate students David Ertel + Symrin Chawla.
Spring artist-in-residence and author, Linda Weintraub’s forthcoming book: “WHAT’S NEXT? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art” provides the opportunity for professors and students from multiple academic disciplines to share their predictions of the way ecology will impact the theory, practice, insight, re-evaluation, or revision in their discipline in the coming years.
Come whenever you can. Stay as long as you wish. Share your thoughts, too!
LEONARDO ART SCIENCE EVENING RENDEZVOUS
7:00–9:00pm | Presentation Space
5th Floor, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
Featuring keynote speakers Iain Kerr & Petia Morozov, Mary Flanagan, Mary Tsang, and Daniel Landau.
Eat Your Sidewalk is a ground-breaking, category-defying foraging cookbook!
"It is a manifesto and a call to action. We want to inspire you to find wonder and ecological possibilities directly underfoot. We want to launch a sidewalk-to-table revolution that changes our cities and gives us a new sense of community and place." —SPURSE
Ian Kerr
Location: Montclair, NJ; Detroit, MI;
Core Practices: Systems Analysis & Design, Ecological Design, Workshop Facilitator, Innovation and Creativity, Foraging + Commons Facilitator, Foodways, Commons Facilitator
Petia Morozov
Location: Montclair, NJ; New York City, NY
Core Practices: Urban Ecosystem Designer, Socio-Eco Change Facilitator, Architecture, Urbanism
For more than two decades, media artist and designer Anne Niemetz has been working in the areas of audio-visual design, interactive installation and wearable technology. Her newest work, Drone Sweet Drone, an installation of an embroidered drone swarm using Arduino technology, is a combination of these interests. By fusing the traditional with the technologically advanced, Drone Sweet Drone, asks us to consider the ordinary and extraordinary ways that drones affect our everyday lives.
TONI DOVE / TAYLOR AUBRY / CLARISSE BARDIOT / LAURA CECHANOWICZ / ERKKI HUHTAMO / MARCO PINTER / SHANNON WILLIS
LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous)
following an interactive demo by Toni Dove
Thursday Apr 21st 2016
7-9pm
Presentation Room,
5th floor CNSI
Video recording:
Featuring:
TONI DOVE - Featured Art|Sci Artist - Considered one of the pioneers of interactive cinema, New York-based artist Toni Dove creates unique hybrids of film, installation, experimental theater and gaming. Participants interact with video, using motion sensing and other embodied interface strategies to “perform” on-screen avatars. Major projects include: Artificial Changelings, an interactive cinema installation in which viewers navigate between two centuries, debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival, 1998, Spectropia, a feature length live-mix movie performance for two players debuted 2008 Wexner Center, Lucid Possession, a live mix video performance with multiple robotic screens and musical performers, premiered Roulette, NYC, 2013. The Dress That Eats Souls, a robotic cinema installation is currently in development and will premiere at a retrospective of Dove’s interactive work at the Ringling Museum in Fla., 2018 2000/2003 – Dove served on a Government Advisory Committee on Information Technology and Creativity, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, USA. Grants and awards: Rockefeller Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The LEF Foundation, MediaThe Foundation, and the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from M.I.T. http://www.tonidove.com/
TAYLOR AUBRY received her Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After that, she moved to sunny Los Angeles, California to research new solar cell technologies. She is currently a second year PhD student in Ben Schwartz’s lab at UCLA in the materials division. Her work focuses on improving the performance of polymer solar cells by seeking to understand the fundamental physics and property-structure relationships within these devices.
CLARISSE BARDIOT is a speaker, consultant, art director or editor in various institutions and cultural events. A PhD on Virtual Theatres , she is an associate researcher at CNRS and professor at the University of Valenciennes (laboratory Devisu). She obtained in 2005 the stock market researcher resident of the Daniel Langlois Foundation in Montreal for research on 9 Evenings, Theatre & Engineering . It contributes to international project DOCAM (Daniel Langlois Foundation - Montreal) on documentation and archiving works of art with a technological component. From 2009 to 2010, as Deputy Director of manège.mons / CCDS (Belgium), coordinates two European projects (CECN2 and Transdigital), led many projects of training and artist residencies around the arts and technologies and is the editor of the journal Patch , which creates the editorial. In 2010 she founded with Annick Bureaud Cyril Thomas and Jean-Luc Soret platform Nunc . In 2011, she created Substrate , a publishing house dedicated to contemporary creation in the form of printed and electronic publications, and in 2013 opened a gallery in Brussels. Her publications include arts and digital technologies: digital performance , Collection Basic, Leonardo / Olats June 2013; 9 Evenings, Theatre & Engineering , website of the Daniel Langlois Foundation, May 2006. It is currently developing Rekall , an open-source environment to document, analyze the creative process and simplify the recovery works.Curator, Editor, University of Valenciennes (FR). http://www.clarissebardiot.info/
LAURA CHECHANOWICZ is a PhD student in Media Arts and practice at USC. She is a mixed media artist dedicated to sound and production design, among other interests. Her training includes experience in the Los Angeles film industry and higher level education. She received her BA with honors from the University of Michigan with majors in Film & Video, Psychology and German; her MA in Film Studies from the University of Iowa; her MFA in Animation from the University of Southern California; and she began her PhD in Media Arts and Practice at USC this fall, where she worked as the Sound Lead for the Advanced Game Project Miralab this past year. As a sound designer, Laura is committed to crafting rich environments and creating emotional experiences through experimental and musical sound design. She is highly influenced not only by media and history, but also by neuroscience and psychology. http://worldbuilding.usc.edu/people/bio/laura-cechanowicz/
ERKKI HUHTAMO is a UCLA professor between the Departments of Design Media Arts, and Film, Television, and Digital Media. He holds a PhD in Cultural History from the University of Turku, Finland. He is a media archaeologist, author, and exhibition curator. At DMA his areas are the history and theory of media culture and media arts. He is internationally known as a pioneer of an emerging approach to media studies called media archaeology. It excavates forgotten, neglected and suppressed media-cultural phenomena, helping us to penetrate beyond canonized "grand narratives" of media culture. http://www.erkkihuhtamo.com/
MARCO PINTER creates artwork and performances which fuse physical kinetic form with live visualizations. He has a PhD in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University. His work integrating graphics with robotic sculpture is supported by grants from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative, and the UC Institute for Research in the Arts. He has exhibited artwork and performances at cities around the world, including Dubai, New York, Montreal, Tehran, Hong Kong, Anaheim, San Diego and Santa Barbara. Wired magazine’s online UK site published a feature on Pinter’s work that explores perception through kinetic sculpture and graphics. Pinter is a contributing author to The McGraw Hill Multimedia Handbook and The Ultimate Multimedia Handbook. He is an inventor on over 70 patents, issued and pending, in the areas of live video technology, robotics, interactivity and telepresence. http://www.marcopinter.com/
SHANNON WILLIS is a multi-disciplinary artist residing in Santa Barbara California. From very early on, her artistic family fostered her visual imagination by immersing her in a creative environment. Her work continues to evolve and push boundaries. Currently she is finishing her Masters of Fine Art at University of California Santa Barbara. She shows her expansive multi-media installations and artwork internationally, recently exhibiting a video installation during International Digital Arts Week in Paris France. Shannon's work explores the exchange between philosophy, quantum physics, spirituality, and emotions. Working with video, tactile sculptural objects, projection, and viewer interaction, as the tangible results of those converging ideas. The art work becomes an event. She creates the objects and the script, providing spaces for the viewers to become engaged, entertained, and entangled in the phenomena of being alive. http://www.artbyshannonwillis.com
Jean-Pierre Hébert is an independent artist interested in drawings and algorithmic art. Hébert lives and works in Santa Barbara, California. He is a pioneer in the field of digital art from the mid 70's on, merging traditional art media and techniques, personal software, plotters, devices, and custom built apparatus to create an original, extensive body of work. The early work was essentially drawings on paper, and has since evolved to embrace printmaking, installations, digital wall displays, and artist’s books.The initial obsession with precise line constructions has opened up to chance, motion, light, sound, text. The aim remains quiet beauty and peaceful meditation.
Hebert is the recipient of Pollock-Krasner Foundation and David Bermant Foundation awards, and the Siggraph Distinguished Artist award for lifetime achievements in the digital arts. He co-founded the Algorists in 1995 with Roman Verostko. His work has been exhibited extensively and has been frequently juried in the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery. It is present in several museums and institutional collections, including the digital art collections of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University, Chicago) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). Recent shows include Technovisual: Art in the Age of Code at American Association fo the Advancement of Science –Washington DC, Art+Computer/Time at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Luminous Flux at Thoma Art Foundation –Santa fe, All-go-rhythms at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art –Chicago.
Since 2003, he has been artist-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he has organized several Algorists group shows.These shows have included pioneers like Jean-FrançoisColonna, HansDehlinger, David Em, HelamanFerguson, PaulHertz, Channa Horwitz, Robert Lang, Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, Casey Reas, Roman Verostko, and younger artists.
Jason Fahrion, Fasih Ahsan with UCLA IGEM, and Mick Lorusso
October 22, 2015
Workshop | 5-7pm
UCLA Art|Sci Gallery
5th Floor, California Nanosystems Institute
Through the projects of artist Jason Fahrion, who raises silkworms in his garage on local mulberry leaves, and the experiments of UCLA iGEM to genetically engineer unique types of silk for medicine and design, Seres Makers of Silk introduces participants to the processes involved in the production and transformation of silk. We will physically examine and compare silk samples from the lab and studio, while also watching live silk worms and learning how IGEM spins synthetic silk. And by listening to data sonification of DNA sequences from different organisms including spiders and silkworms, we will consider the possibilities and difficulties in genetically engineering silk for future applications.
Artist Kathy High presents the exhibition Waste Matters: You Are My Future, whichexplores immune systems as autopoiesis, capable of maintaining themselves, looking at research in fecal microbial transplants and gut biomes to better understand the important function of bacteria in our bodies. This project looks at the metaphor of interspecies love, immunology and bacteria as players.
KATHY HIGH (USA) is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of technology, science, speculative fiction and art. She produces videos and installations posing queer and feminist inquiries into areas of medicine/bio-science, and animal/interspecies collaborations. She hosts bio/ecology+art workshops and is creating an urban nature center in North Troy (NATURE Lab) with media organization The Sanctuary for Independent Media. High is Professor of Video and New Media in the Department of Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. She teaches documentary and experimental digital video production, history and theory, as well as biological arts.
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.
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