Victoria Vesna spent the last two years commuting in between LA, New York, Hong Kong, Bristol and Marseille developing new projects and exhibitions. In this talk she will describe what she has been up to with butterflies, water, dogs and most recently -- birds.
November 5, 2012, 12:15 pm
EDA (Map)
Broad Art Center
240 Charles E. Young Drive, Room 1250
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking is $11 all day, and is available in structure 3, adjacent to the building. For more information, call 310.825.9007.
Join us for this unique opportunity to hear the artist / scientist discuss their exhibited works resulting from their decade long collaboration. Works on view include Zero@Wavefunction, Nanomandala, Blue Morph and Brain Storming a work in progress. After the overview of the works in the gallery, you will be able to follow the Brain Storming session on Alan Turing and the Brain. Neuroscientist Mark Cohen, engineer Ramesh Jain, and artist Connie Samaras will be participating in this live discussion. The exhibition is organized by David Familian who will be moderating the session.
MORPHONANO Artist Lecture
Saturday, May 5, 2012
6pm - 8pm - at the Beall Center
Paul Thomas gave a guest lecture on his work, New Materialities. Thomas is the Head of Painting at the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales. Paul has been working in the area of electronic arts since 1981 when he co-founded the group Media-Space. Paul’s current research interests explore the space between life and death at a nano level.
Time:
Lecture @ 2pm
Exhibition Openings: 5-7pm
Location: Lecture @ UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240, Exhibition @ CNSI Gallery
Bio artists tamper with elemental units of living matter and are a
source of many controversial debates. The talk will attempt to ground
arguments of sceptics and supporters by positioning these considerations
within the context of fundamental life processes that are essential for
maintaining life on Earth and supportive of environmental reform.
Time: 2pm Location: Lecture @ UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240
“The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA”
Thursday, February 16th
3:30 – 5:00 pm
IPAM Lecture Hall, Portola Plaza Building
Book Summary
The wandering gene is a breast cancer mutation, BRCA1.185delAG, which is characteristic of Jews. The book is a historical and scientific investigation that ranges from ancient Palestine and the Spanish Inquisition to the modern DNA lab and the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses. At the heart of the narrative is a young Hispano woman who struggles with breast cancer until her proud and untimely death.
Copies of Jeff Wheelwright’s book will be available for purchase and the author will be present for signing
Opening March 7
Lecture @ 2pm
Exhibition Openings: 5-7pm
Location: Lecture @ UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240, Exhibition @ CNSI Gallery
Exposure is an exhibition of work by Mike Phillips, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, School of Art & Media at Plymouth University. Mike Phillips is director of i-DAT, a Principal Supervisor for the Planetary Collegium and a supervisor of the Transtechnology Research Groups. His R&D orbits digital architectures and transmedia publishing, and is manifest in a series of ‘Operating Systems’ to dynamically manifest ‘data’ as experience in order to enhance perspectives on a complex world. The year that Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection was the same year Fujifilm moved from film production to beauty products1. This did not just mark a technological shift from film grain to nanoparticles but also a massive cultural shift - a shift from capturing the face on film to the embedding of ‘film’ in the face. The thing that once froze the face in an eternal youthful smile is now the anti-aging nanoparticle that preserves the face we wear. Barthes described the face on film as representing “a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced”2. Now this absolute state is closer to hand and we will walk around wearing our old photo albums as our face, peeling away the frames like layers of dead skin. Our essence, like Garbo’s, will not degrade or deteriorate. ‘Viewed as a transition’ Exposure explores the deterioration of the flesh through the temporality of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). From the 60th of a second exposure of the Kodak Brownie camera to the 20-minute scan of the AFM - the closer the subject the longer the ‘exposure’. Incorporating data from an AFM scan of a basal cell carcinoma Exposure explores the convergence of ideologies constructed around imaging technologies. Through a subtle interaction the viewer conjures up a dynamic data/image of a skin cancer - over exposed to the sun - or the intense light of the camera flashgun.
Lecture @ 2pm
Exhibition Openings: 5-7pm
Location: Lecture @ UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240, Exhibition @ CNSI Gallery
Dark Skies is a work by Patricia Olynyk in Collaboration with Axi:Ome and Christopher Ottinger.
Dark Skies is a multi channel projection on CNC routed tiles inspired by the concept of biomimicry. The surfaces of the tiles themselves are based loosely on the shape and topography a wildmouse tastebud. The installation also includes an evocative soundscape, drawn primarily from field recordings captured at twilight in the Rocky Mountains during high summer. "Dark Skies" is an astronomical reference, referring to remote places free of hazy city light that allow for an extended view into deep space and time. This insight offers not only a unique perceptual and psychological experience but the promise of new discovery.
Patricia Olynyk is an artist whose prints and installations frequently employ microscopy and biomedical imaging technologies to explore the intersections between art and the life sciences. Currently she is Chair of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF). Exhibition opening to follow the lecture.
Amisha Gadani is a Los Angeles artist interested in curious creatures and their unique adaptations. She is an artist in resident at the Alfaro Lab and the Center for Society and Genetics at UCLA.
Time:
Lecture @ 2pm
Location: UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240
Robert Bilder Lecture (hosted by Prof. Barbara Drucker, Dept. of Art)
Dr. Bilder is a Clinical Neuropsychologist who has been actively engaged for over 20 years in research on the neuroanatomic and neuropsychological bases of major mental illnesses. Dr. Bilder’s current research focuses on transdisciplinary and translational research. Among other prominent positions, he directs the Tennenbaum Center for the Biology of Creativity.
