ART + BRAIN workshop and LASER
October 18, 2016
5:00pm
Art|Sci Gallery and Presentation Room
CNSI 5th floor
This ART + BRAIN workshop by the Art|Sci Collective and Art|Sci artist in residence Patricia Olynyk (Washington University in St. Louis) explores interconnections between art and neuroscience, and features the project "Octopus Brainstorming: Empathy" with Victoria Vesna and neuroscientist Mark Cohen.
ART+BRAIN: A CATALOGUE OF STORIES AND STRUCTURES
From the metaphorical potency of anatomical art and stories that probe decision circuits and mirror neurons in monkeys, to revolutionary biological visualizations of the dynamics of cellular and sub-cellular structures, ART + BRAIN: Stories and Structures explores the complex histories, practices, and interconnections between art, architecture, medicine and neuroscience, with the human brain as the central focus.
// Co-organized by Patricia Olynyk (Washington University in St. Louis) and Victoria Vesna (UCLA Art|Sci Center + Lab)
MORPHO NANO
A retrospective exhibition of a decade of artworks created by media artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscientist James Gimzewski. Their collaborative works create an intersection of space, time and embodiment by employing a very subtle and responsive energetic exchange. By reversing the scale of nanotechnology to the realm of human experience, the artist and scientist create a sublime reversal of space-time. Morpho Nano featured the premiere of a new collaboration between Mark Cohen and Victoria Vesna—BRAIN STORMING.
// Organized by David Familian (Beall Center for Art + Technology at UC Irvine)
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
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.
Spring 2011 Art|Sci Artist in Residence Dr. Diane Gromala spent her time at UCLA researching the expression of pain at UCLA’s John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection in the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library.As the Founding Director of the Transforming Pain Research Group, Gromala collaborates with prominent pain physicians, a neuroscientist, a psychophysicist, artists and animators, computer scientists and engineers and interaction and sound designers.
