On October 26th, UCLA ART SCI is hosting the LASER of LASERS -- 16 of 24 hosts from around the country and the world will be meeting and presenting their best practices -- join the network of art science collaborators! You may find the schedule below:

7:00 - 9:00 pm: LASER leadership will share best practices.
7pm: All presenters will be given 3 minutes to talk through 3 slides - 1 minute each! (PechaKucha style)

The evening event will be streamed live and archived. The event is free and open to the public. Location and parking details attached.

LIVE STREAM: https://cnsi.ucla.edu/project/october-26-2017-ucla-art-sci-laser-of-lasers/

CNSI | California NanoSystems Institute
Fifth Floor Presentation Space
570 Westwood Plaza
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095

RECEPTION + FORAGING WORKSHOP
5:00–7:00pm | UCLA Art|Sci Gallery
5th floor, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)

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.

RSVP VIA FACEBOOK > > >

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

Read more about the book and the foraging process here.




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

January 19, 2017
5-7 pm: Exhibition Opening / Reception for the artist -- Art Sci gallery, CNSI 5th floor.
7-8:30 pm: LASER with Lucie Strecker, Kalus Spiess, Stephen Nowlin, Chris O'Leary, Ryohei Nakatsu and the featured artist. Presentation space, CNSI 5th floor.
Directions to Art|Sci Gallery | CNSI 5th floor

This year's Japan Cultural Envoy appointed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, international artist Naoko Tosa (Ph.D.) will join us on January 19th, 2017 for the debut of her Genesis exhibition! Genesis magnifies the intermixing of traditional Japanese pigments mobilized by viscous fluid and dry ice using cutting-edge technology to create an immersive experience out of phenomena normally invisible to the human eye.

Naoko Tosa's early artwork has been collected by Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a fellow at MIT Centre for Advanced Visual Studies established by George Keeps of Bauhaus. She is currently an information technology professor at Kyoto University.

Naoko Tosa (Ph.D.) is an international artist whose early artwork has been collected by Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a fellow at MIT Centre for Advanced Visual Studies established by George Keeps of Bauhaus. She is currently an information technology professor at Kyoto University.
Website: http://www.tosa.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Streaming Live 7 pm PST / -8 UTC

FLUID SYSTEMS Exhibition Opening and LASER
November 17, 2016 | 5:00pm
Art|Sci Gallery and Presentation Room | CNSI 5th floor

UCLA Sci|Art NanoLab instructors Rita Blaik, Amisha Gadani, Mick Lorusso, Olivia Osborne, David Prince and Dan Wilkinson present their collaborations integrating living systems, the watershed, climate change and ice. Current advances in microfluidics, technologies that allow researchers to simulate and study the interactions of fluids, chemicals, and living cells, inspired the first workshops in the Sci|Art Nanolab that the show Fluid Systems is based on. In manipulating very small volumes of liquid, we can begin to understand complex phenomena from the bottom up.

Fluid Systems explores the myriad of relationships between flows on the micro and macro level. David Prince introduces to the art of making Kombucha and Kombucha caviar. Rita Blaik reveals how dissolved particles in water scatter light in unique colors and patterns, through a phenomenon known as the Tyndall effect. Capillaries of zebrafish in Oliva Osborne’s research on nanotoxicology connect with the flow of blood in our bodies, videos by Mick Lorusso of rivers and estuaries, and the melting of their collaborative ice sculptures in the gallery. Dan Wilkinson shares jostling non-Newtonian fluids with us, and Amisha Gadani shows us her experiments with the flow of fabrics and objects through water. A collective Water Canning stand, made by the Art|Sci Collective (including Mick Lorusso, Dawn Faelnar, Victoria Vesna and Judy Kim), allows participants to take a can of water home and participate in this flow of water on many levels, from the nano to the global.

Following the exhibition opening is our November edition of Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) featuring:
Martina Fröschl | Digital Artist, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Noa Pinter-Wollman | Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Adam Hogan | Media Artist, PhD candidate at DxArts, University of Washington, Seattle
Rita Blaik, Olivia Osborne, Mick Lorusso, and Dan Wilkinson | UCLA Sci|Art Nanolab Instructors

Image credit: Artwork by Dr. Olivia Osborne