Thursday, 13 November 2014 - 10:00am to Friday, 14 November 2014 - 5:00pm
Art + the Brain: Stories and Structures symposium
Co-organized by Patricia Olynyk (Washington University, St. Louis) and Victoria Vesna (University of California, Los Angeles), Art + the Brain: Stories and Structures explored the complex histories, practices, and interconnections between art, architecture, medicine and neuroscience with the human brain as a central focus.
From the metaphorical potency of anatomical art to stories that probe decision circuits and mirror neurons in monkeys, to revolutionary biological visualizations of the dynamics of cellular and sub-cellular structures, . six speakers from Washington University’s Art|Sci Fellows Program joined faculty and students from UCLA for a lively exchange of ideas over the course of a one and a half day symposium.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Art|Sci Center + Lab and Washington University’s Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurship and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, presenters include:
Sung Ho Kim / Ron Leax / Rebecca Messbarger / Kathy Miller / Patricia Olynyk / Larry Snyder / Mark Cohen / Jim Gimzewski / Victoria Vesna
Aisen Caro Chacin, Joel Ong and Art|Sci Collective
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.
Joyce Cutler-Shaw is an artist of intermedia, although drawing is at the heart of her work. She considers drawing to be a primary language, a way of knowing, a mode of inquiry, and an act of empathy. She has exhibited internationally since 1972. Joyce Cutler-Shaw’s works—public installations, drawings and artists books—are represented in both Museum and Library Special Collections including the Albertina Museum in Vienna, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The 42nd Street Library, the Klinspor Museum in Germany, the Teylers Museum in The Netherlands, and the Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell.
The olfactory sense, though often forgotten, is a powerful connector to memory and emotions. Diary of Smells: Shards (Estilhaços) is an on-going multi-sensorial interactive & interdisciplinary project comprised of various stages of smell production, photographs and sound design.
Josely Caravalho, a Brazilian multi-media artist lives in New York and Rio de Janeiro. Over the past three decades, she has assembled a body of work in a wide range of media that gives eloquent voice to matters of memory, identity and social justice while consistently challenging the boundaries between artist and audience and between politics and art. She received her BA from Washington University, St. Louis and has taught at the School of Architecture, National University of Mexico and SUNY at Purchase. She is founder and director of The Silkscreen Project, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery in New York City.
GERALD BUCKBERG: "Cardiac Dance" Lecture
09 OCTOBER 2013
CNSI AUDITORIUM
CARDIAC DANCE is based on the twisting, pulsing rhythms of the human heart in motion. Through the work of two cardiologists—Dr. Francisco Torrent-Guasp and Dr. Gerald Buckberg—a new approach to dealing with congestive heart failure has been developed. What you will see on stage is their attempt to show this revolutionary concept through dance, music and media.
Duality is an Art|Sci manifestation of complexity emerging from a tiny network of billions of tiny self assembled, self-organized, non-linear connections that materialize in time and space through holistic processes and which are a kinesthetic visualization of wandering in and out of the fuzzy borders of chaos and order. We use a real network, where the creator has given permission to its expanding and collapsing spatio-temporal morphogenic and often catastrophic dynamics.
This project represents the transition in science and art from giving up on the clock to embrace a cloud in terms of Karl Popper’s important statement “we live in a universe not of clocks but of clouds.” In the laboratory we build electro-ionic clouds. In the gallery we let them self create images songs and dance for this Art|Sci exhibition entitled Duality. It is the duality of the dark space between the known and unknown, determinism and surprise, mathematical form and fuzziness from which the atoms, electrons and ions speak to the visitors without censorship.
