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Victoria Vesna’s work has long focused on immersing her audiences in installation spaces that are meant to slow down time and take us into other dimensions. This led her to work in close collaborations with musicians, sound artists, nanoscientists, biologists, neuro-scientists and buddhist monks among others. Some examples of work in the past two decades are the NanoMandala, Water Bowls, Blue Morph, Octopus Brain Storming, Bird Song Diamond and most recently the Noise Aquarium. In this new work, together with her collaborators from the UCLA Art Sci collective and Harvestworks, she takes us on a meditative journey to outer space.

Premiering with the support of Harvestworks, this work is meant to be experienced as a guided meditation bringing to life the sensations of meteorites and micro-meteorites falling on all continents and mixing with the anthropogenic dust falling on our planet from many dimensions. Layers of sounds from inner and outer space with animations of dust and data driven by corona deaths are presented with the intent of honoring those who left their bodies without preparation and all who are suffering.

This online version was created as a meditation that is guided by the artist following the extra-terrestrial, terrestrial, and human-made dusts traveling far and wide and creating complexity that is part of an invisible reality. Most go about their daily life without being aware of ever thinking about the extraterrestrial dusts that could be on their kitchen floor, right here on earth. The alien signal is lost in the human noise and the group meditation reclaims our vision of planetary citizenship.

We are created from stardust by nuclear fusion, like our myriad siblings – animals, plants, insects, plankton, bacteria, and viruses, and we all function together in vibratory fields – bottom up just as nature and nanotechnology works. [Alien] Star Dust rains on us every day and this piece brings these particles to our attention and reminds us of our interconnected heritage in the larger cosmos. Dust knows no borders.

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Tuesday, 19 July 2016 - 4:00pm

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CURRENT:LA / VICTORIA VESNA / CHARLES TAYLOR / DAWN FAELNAR / MICK LORUSSO / CLAUDIA JACQUES / ART|SCI COLLECTIVE

In collaboration with UCLA evolutionary biologists and nanotechnology experts, the Art|Sci Collective will introduce the wetlands’ diverse resident bird species and life in the water at Del Rey Lagoon, as part of the CURRENT LA Public Art Biennial. Experience bird song in its purest form—unsullied by the noise of daily activities—with our bird mimicking contraption and an introduction to the wetlands' diverse resident birds!

BIRD SONG DIAMOND WETLANDS
Tuesday, July 19 and Saturday, July 30
4:00–7:00PM at Del Rey Lagoon
6840 Esplanade Street, Los Angeles CA 90293

About CURRENT LA:
Every two years, the CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial will focus on an issue affecting Los Angeles and other global cities to inspire civic discourse and use contemporary art to deepen connections between people. Putting a new spin on the international biennial, CURRENT:LA democratizes the way people access art by featuring temporary art projects and public programs at outdoor locations, taking art out of the museum environment and into LA's diverse neighborhoods. This citywide cultural event is presented by Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. The first presentation of the CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial in 2016 is funded by DCA and Bloomberg Philanthropies through its Public Art Challenge initiative.

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Art | Sci

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Monday, 1 February 2016 - 6:00pm

UCLA Arts VAPAE and ART/SCI invite you to a Sound Bath - a healing experience facilitated by Ossie Mair, MA, LMFT

Monday, February 1, 2016 at 6pm
EDA, 1250 Broad Art Center, UCLA

Event is free and open to the public. Participation is limited - Reservations suggested.

The OM Rhythm Circles Sound Bath Experience is a journey of pure sound and vibration. It is called a sound bath because you are bathed in the healing vibrations of Gongs, Tibetan Singing Bowls, Didgeridoos, Hand Pan, and other gentle, relaxing instruments. You are immersed in sound, allowing it to vibrate away the negativity and tension in your body and mind, replacing them with positivity, peace and harmony. And because we all respond differently to similar stimuli, so too, each person will experience the sound bath in his or her own unique way.

Due to the demands of our daily lives, the increase in stress-related disease in modern society is a fact. Stress is like an over-amping of the nervous system, and has many contributors. Many external, as well as internal influences, such as the foods we eat, people we encounter, thoughts we think, sounds we hear, environments we move within, etc., have a proven, negative effect on our well-being. Therefore, the goal in all healing, meditative, and transformational pursuits is to restore the intrinsic state of balance within our body, and if possible, to effect this change on a cellular level.

Sound & music are nutrients for the nervous system. We are constantly being vibrated, on a cellular level, by heardand unheard sound frequencies. Sound is vibration that produces resonance and rhythm in our bodies, and touches us and influences our emotions like no other source of input or expression. The vibrational nature of the gongs, bowls and other instruments, triggers all cells of the body to resonate simultaneously in a most powerful & effective way. And so too, the sound bath experience will have an incredible and profound effect on your well-being.

During the Sound Bath, you will either lie on the floor (you should plan on bringing your own yoga mat or blanket, and/or pillows), or just sit comfortably in a chair and let the sounds envelop you. Most people close their eyes and let the music take them on a gentle and transformative journey. Typically, a state of deep relaxation is achieved, and some people even fall asleep. You should dress in comfortable clothing and be prepared for an exciting new experience.

Ossie Mair, Founder and Principal Facilitator of OM RHYTHM CIRCLES, is a Certified Drum Circle Facilitator, Actor andLicensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Los Angeles, CA.

This event is co-sponsored by the Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE), the ART/SCI Center and the Department of Design Media Arts in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

For reservations contact: VAPAE@arts.ucla.edu

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Exhibition

Sound

At the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe

Contemporary sound art has many faces: the varying interplay of sound, space, time,
movement and form is reflected in sound sculptures, sound installations or music
performances. The perceptual linking of seeing and listening, the articulation of silence and
space, the sculptural characteristics of sound and the dissolution of the concert hall are the
aspects that turn sound art into an independent art form within fine and music. The exhibition
»Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art« presents for the first time the development of sound
art in the 20th and 21th century. For the duration of the exhibition the ZKM will be the navel
of sound art, a veritable !palace of sounds".

With works from 90 artists from which approximately 30 new productions from recent years
will be presented, the viewer gains insights into the unique sound cosmos of contemporary
art. The sound world visualizes its own exhibition architecture, and the exhibition visitor
himself becomes the generator of sounds.

Opening Friday, March 16, 2012. 7 p.m., ZKM_Foyer
Special Opening Event: Long Night of Sound Art at 10 p.m., ZKM

The ceremony of the »21st European Days of Culture in Karlsruhe« starts with a remarkable
concert of Wolfgang Rihm (free admission) at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
(Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design), which is located in the ZKM building, at 5 p.m.
Following the concert, Dr. Susanne Asche, Head of the Department of Cultural Affairs
Karlsruhe, Prof. Peter Weibel, curator and CEO of the ZKM Karlsruhe and Ms. Julia Gerlach,
the exhibition project manager, will give their opening remarks.

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Ongoing metamorphosis by media artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscientist James Gimzewski.

http://artsci.ucla.edu/BlueMorph

Venue: Theater DoZ, 3630-H Sagunto Street, Santa Ynez 93460
Contact: 805-688-1372

Guest: Leas Maria
Collaborators: Miu Ling Lam, Romie Littrell, Blanka Buic, Pinar Yoldas

Special thanks to Susan Hopmans and the David Bermant Foundation for their continuous support.

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Nanotechnology is changing our perception of life and this is symbolic in the Blue Morpho butterfly with the optics involved -- that beautiful blue color is not pigment at all but patterns and structure which is what nano-photonics is centered on studying. The optics are no doubt fascinating but the real surprise is in the discovery of the way cellular change takes place in a butterfly. Sounds of metamorphosis are not gradual or even that pleasant as we would imagine it. Rather the cellular transformation happens in sudden surges that are broken up with stillness and silence. The audience is invited to immerse themselves in the sounds of metamorphosis and be the performer in the piece.

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"I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!"
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, Ch.2

This interactive project is inspired by the properties of the Homeobox genes which essentially define body regions in all animals as well as humans. We seek to create and experiential space that relates the idea that we are all interconnected.

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Art | Sci Center Guest Lecture

Yolande Harris

http://www.yolandeharris.net/

"Sun Run Sun" charts a path between environmental awareness and technological development, using sound as the medium to enhance both. The project investigates the split between the embodied experience of location and the calculated data of position, exploring the individual experience of current location technologies through a personal experience of sound. It seeks to (re)establish a sense of connectedness to one's environment, and to (re)negotiate this through an investigation into old, new, future and animal navigation using sound.

This project consists of two different parts, a sound installation and a series of portable instruments to take on a walk through the city. In the installation 'Dead Reckoning' Yolande Harris reveals the patterns of orbiting satellites coming in and out of range and inconsistencies in how GPS technology locates the self in a longitude/latitude grid. The mobile 'Satellite Sounders' transform the live satellite data directly into a sonic composition listened to on headphones as one walks through the city. Live signals from satellites in orbit, together with the performer's coordinates on earth, generate a continuously transforming electronic soundscape. Yolande Harris's soundscape questions what is inside and what is outside, what it means to be located and what it means to be lost.

About Yolande Harris:

Understanding the relations between sound, image and space through technologies of communication and navigation, has been the central focus of Yolande's work over the last ten years. She explores the intermediary role of the score, both as practical and conceptual tool, and as an open imaginary situation for communication. Her Score Spaces project employs a spatial approach to composition and has resulted in numerous audio-visual performances and installations, including the Meta-Orchestra, theoretical texts, such as Inside Out Instrument, and workshops for composers, sound artists, architects and designers. Her most recent works, Taking Soundings and Sun Run Sun, employ intuitive and scientific modes of knowing and join ancient and contemporary navigation and orientation techniques from sextants to GPS, to explore our apparently changing relation to land and sea environments in the age of satellite and mobile technologies. Yolande has a degree in music from Dartington College of Arts and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in architecture and the moving image. She has been resident researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, artistic fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and artist in residence at STEIM and the Netherlands Institute for Media Arts in Amsterdam. She has taught interaction design at the Technical University of Eindhoven, is guest lecturer at the Rietveld Academy Design Lab, and lectures on her work internationally. Her writings have been published in the Contemporary Music Review and Journal of Organised Sound.

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The Blue Morph Exhibit (overnight camping optional)

The Integratron is an acoustically perfect tabernacle and energy machine sited on a powerful geomagnetic vortex m in the magical Mojave Desert

BLUE MORPH is an interactive installation that uses nanoscale images and sounds derived from the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. This is a fusion of sound, light and interactive art/science. The Integratron's sound chamber will be transformed into a place where you can experience the powerful beauty of nanotechnology and art created at UCLA by Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski. This is an evening event with optional overnight camping under the stars or inside the Integratron.

Pre-registration is required! The cost is $20 for the event, plus $35/person for optional overnight camping (9:00pm to 11am; includes a 10am sound bath!. To register or for more info, please send us an email: integratron@gmail.com, or call 760-364-3126.

Victoria Vesna is a media artist, professor and chair at the department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts. She is also director of the recently established UCLA Art|Sci center and the UC Digital Arts Research Network.

James Gimzewski, PhD, CPhys, FIoN, FInstP, FWIF, FREng, Distinguished Professor, UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry Department; Director, UCLA CNSI Nano & Pico Characterization Core Facility; Scientific Director, UCLA Art|Sci Center

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