Raw Science Film Festival live events are postponed until later in 2020. The festival team considers it a challenge to bring science-based technical solutions and communication strategies to ensure a safe event where filmmakers can be honored, live.
Raw Science Film Festival (RSFF) is an annual event that takes place in Los Angeles, California and brings together people across science, technology, entertainment and media to showcase best in class film from around the world. The event was initially made possible through the support of the National Academy of Sciences and The Science and Entertainment Exchange.
The festival was created by Raw Science Inc. founder Keri Kukral thanks to the inspiration of producer Mitchell Block. The mission of RSFF is to humanize science and bring fact-based experts to the forefront of popular culture by celebrating the best science storytelling in the world. The goal is to create a world class film festival for science media on par with Cannes or Sundance Film Festival, and to extend it globally.
RSFF2020 is the 6th annual event and RSFF is collaborating with Gensler and Art|Sci Center and Natural History Museum Vienna are redesign the red carpet, defining a newly accessible and focused Hollywood experience. [Alien] StarDust is the featured, interactive red-carpet exhibit and based on extraterrestrial and anthropogenic dust which falls across the Earth with no boundaries. The art exhibit was developed at the invitation of Dr. Christian Koeberl, geologist and director of Natural History Museum Vienna, home of the one of the largest meteorite collections in the world.
Linda Weintraub, Wenda Gu, Laura Parker, Jiayi Young, Iain Kerr, Vera Wittkowsky, Terence Koh.
North campus | EDA, UCLA Broad Arts
Work Out / Tune-Up / Turn On -- What’s Next? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art –
with author Linda Weintraub
Linda Weintraub, curator, author and artist will lead a series of hands on interactive actions with visiting artists and scholars, faculty and students. The day will be divided into topics based on chapters in the book, WHAT’s NEXT? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art (Intellect books). Audiences will actively participate.
6pm
Reception and book signing by Linda Weintraub at the Fowler museum RECEPTION RSVP!
Author and artist Linda Weintraub will lead a series of hands-on methods with visiting artists and scholars, faculty and students. In her approach, she re-establishes the physical organism as a tool for investigation and discovery, thus activating “sensory studies,” a growing field of academic inquiry, and “new materialism,” which is a current development in philosophy. The day will be divided into topics based on chapters in her recently published book, What’s Next?: eco materialism & contemporary art (Intellect Books). Together with guest participants, Weintraub invites her audience to consider the remarkable capacity of the human organism to discern, interpret, and apply evidence of the material and energetic environment.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Gerfried Stocker, director of Ars Electronica (AE), and Victoria Vesna, artist, director of the UCLA Art Sci Center, and AE jury member, present a selection of prize-winning projects from AE and discuss how artistic strategies for responding to political and societal malfeasance have changed with the massive erosion of traditional media and information hierarchies. The question now is, What are the new avenues for artists working with media, and how can they play a role to offset attacks on truth and fact?
Victoria Vesna, Alfred Vendl, Martina Fröschl, Stephan Handschuh, Thomas Schwaha, Ruth Schnell, Glenneroo
Noise Aquarium is on the finalist list!!!
Victoria Vesna, Alfred Vendl, Martina Fröschl, Stephan Handschuh, Thomas Schwaha, Ruth Schnell, Glenneroo
Screening: Jan 26, 12:30pm – 9:00pm
UNITED ARTISTS THEATRE
ACE Hotel, 929 S Broadway, Los Angeles CA
The festival honors films on science and technology worldwide. Categories include fiction and non-fiction for both students and professionals. The film screening and awards ceremony takes place January 25, 2019. #RSFF2019. photo by: glennegroovy photography https://www.rawsciencefilmfestival.tv/?fbclid=IwAR2VojOLuKb0bq4ujTtTPoCJ...
Sunday, 11 November 2018 - 9:00am to Sunday, 18 November 2018 - 6:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Victoria Vesna, Joel Ong, Ioannis Bardakos, Linus Lancaster, Marta de Menezes, Robertina Sebjanic ++
The third international interdisciplinary conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" will take place in 11-13 November 2018 in Mexico City, hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Centro de Cultura Digital. Including theoretical and artwork presentations TTT2018 continues to focus: a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and about the aesthetics of liminality - as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science, b) in the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. Coordinated in partnership with the program of the FACTT 2018 - Festival Art & Science Trans-disciplinary and Trans-national the conference is co-organized by the Research and Creation Group Arte+Ciencia, UNAM (Mexico), Arte Institute (USA), Cultivamos Cultura (Portugal) besides the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University (Greece).
Art is, in so many ways, a reflection of reality, its glorification as well as its challenger, in an instinctive understanding that nothing is stable despite the effort to keep a balance between the comfort of belief and the delusion of control. Art and science interrelations are not always clear and one could have the impression that the artist seems more permeable to the influence of science than the scientist to the influence of art. Art’s playfully transgressive nature offers creative bypasses to the grammar of science and expands the dialogue with its openness to a multiplicity towards the new. Nevertheless, art – albeit its originary affinity with the taboo – is never completely liberated from moral considerations. Deeply involved into this lively discourse on the nature of the taboo, art becomes the very domain of contemporary experimentation with transgression, in order to provoke and sparkle discourse, catalyzing possible forms of transcendence.
Friday, 7 September 2018 - 5:00pm to Monday, 10 September 2018 - 6:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Organizers: Dawn Faelnar + Ben Olsen
Art|Sci alumni and current grad student at Interface Cultures, Dawn Faelnar is one of the organizers of Leonardo SLAM, Sept. 7th, 9th and 10th, Ars Electronica Festival 2018, OK center Ursulinensaal, 5-6pm More info >>
The Leonardo Slam is an event for cross contamination of ideas, a short open public gathering based on the format of poetry slam, but more free-form: an individual or group may present work, words, stories, video, sound, ideas about work, work about ideas, work about work, ideas about ideas, work about nothing, ideas about music, music about performances, apples about oranges, oranges about history, history about histories, dance about architecture, et cetera.
Present or demonstrate an artwork, give a serious presentation, give a parody presentation, read a manifesto, tell an anecdote, involve the audience, improvise a song. There is no limit on the form of the presentation other than having a non negative duration and not being too long.
Thursday, 7 September 2017 - 11:45pm to Monday, 11 September 2017 - 12:15pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Victoria Vesna + Charles Taylor + Hiroo Iwata + Takashi Ikegami
Deep Space 8K features Bird Song Diamond
Victoria Vesna in collaboration with evolutionary biologist Charles Taylor, engineer Hiroo Iwata and physicist Takashi Ikegami.
Bird Song Diamond Mimic is an interactive installation that allows the audience to practice bird songs and experience its complexity as if learning a new language. The project is habitat specific and for Speculum Artium, the bird song the audience is asked to learn and mimic is of a canary in the coal mine. When the participants hear the song and are prompted to imitate the canary, a computer grades the accuracy of their mimic. The work is part of a larger virtual reality installation that is an outgrowth of a research project “Mapping the Acoustic Network of Birds” directed by an evolutionary biologist Charles Taylor. Through this work, the artist and the scientist attempt to remind and alert the public of how birds and their acoustic richness have disappeared from our daily experiences.
13:00 - 14:45
Room A
OS2 ART | SCI
Chair: Takashi Ikegami
Co-Chair: Charles Taylor
OS2-1 Art at the edge of chaos: Life, Art, Swords and Japanese Textile
Amy Taylor, Charles Taylor
OS2-2 Automated Evolutionary Production of Audio-Visual Pieces -- Can we call it Art?
Tasuo Unemi
OS2-3 The Art and Science of Artificial Life
Victoria Vesna, Takashi Ikegami, Hiroo Iwata
OS2-4 BIRD SONG DIAMOND: Call and Response and Phase Transition work
Aisen Chacin, Maša Jazbec, Itsuki Doi, Mizuki Oka et al.
