The UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab and the University of California Digital Arts Research Network (UCDARnet) proudly announces the Sound + Science Symposium - a trans-disciplinary exploration of scientific research and technological breakthroughs concerned with sound, hearing, and aurality. This two-day event will bring together leading figures to discuss the applications and implications of such research in relation to questions of culture, politics, history, environment, art, and music.
The symposium will take place on March 5th and March 6th from 10am-7pm at the California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium at UCLA. The symposium is free and open to the public - parking at UCLA is $9 per day.
Sound + Science is a satellite event of Scalable Relations - a series of networked exhibitions that present media artworks by faculty of the UC Digital Arts Research Network (DARnet) across UC campuses from January 9 - March 14, 2009
The UCLA Art|Sci Center+Lab announces the 2008 Symposium exploring unique perspectives on the theme BODY ART DISEASE featuring presentations, exhibitions, installations, workshops, roundtables, social gatherings and two curator’s talk/tours from the vaults of the History and Special Collections Louise Darling Biomedical Library, we hope to challenge traditional aesthetics and explore the symposium from a multitude of viewpoints.
On March 5 and 6, the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA will hold a joint symposium with the Consolidated Research Institute for Advanced Science and Medical Care (ASMeW) at Waseda University of Tokyo, Japan, on nano-scale research into biosenors, biomaterials, and nanotoxicology. Specific topics will include on-chip sensor devices for medical care and the risk assessment of engineered nanoparticles. These topics represent the research strengths of both institutions, and will be the basis for future collaborations in the biomedical area.
The symposium will be held in the auditorium of the new CNSI building at UCLA. This 188,000-square-foot facility located in the center of the campus is dedicated entirely to basic and applied nano-scale research in medicine, engineering, and the physical and life sciences.
This Symposium represents a commitment by both ASMeW and CNSI to the dissemination of their research findings to international audiences. It is also the highlight of a year long celebration marking the 125^th year of the founding of Waseda University.
Waseda University was founded in 1882 and has since become the top private university in Japan. ASMeW was established in 2004 by the Japanese government as a Super Center of Excellence to carry out cutting-edge research in the biomedical, life science, and health care fields. It incorporates the Institute for Biomedical Engineering and a Strategic Management Center for the governing of medical and science research. It will soon occupy a new research facility formally affiliated with the Tokyo Women's Medical University.
Professor Leonard H. Rome
Interim Director of CNSI, will serve as UCLA faculty sponsor for the symposium.
Symposium at The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
570 Westwood Plaza, Building 114
Nikola Tesla’s visions and inventions were at the core of the generation, transmission and use of electricity that has transformed our world. His genius and his importance to humankind is now only beginning to be fully appreciated, particularly as we become wireless and more energy conscious. Join us to hear about Tesla through the work of artists, scientists and engineers who have been inspired by his legacy.
Participants: Greg Leyh - Nevada Lightening Lab – featuring a phased pair of Tesla coils, 122 feet tall. Susan Joyce - director Fringe gallery, Los Angeles Milos Ercegovac - Professor, Computer Science Paulette Phillips - artist, Homewrecker electromagnetic sculpture Gisèle Trudel and Stéphane Claude, AElab Sparks – experimental documentary on the life of Nikola Tesla. Nina Czegledy - The Resonance project co-curated with Louise Provencher. Integratron
Organized and moderated by: Victoria Vesna, media artist, director, Art | Science Center, UCLA
Science can prove that there are billions times a billion of atoms in a grain of sand and show that if we reduced our body to a solid mass of neutrons and protons it would result to a hundredth of a thickness of a human hair. Even there, string theories question this atomistic: view.
When we go beyond the visible realm, we enter into non-materialism and yet the interpretations can still be abstracted from the human condition and remain materialistic. At the same time, this space of “nothingness” is a natural meeting place for art, science, philosophy and spirituality. Join an extraordinary meeting of the minds to ponder how this new age of global communication systems, nano and biotechnology is transforming our perception of reality.
Chuni Lobsang Jinpa Rinpoche
Lama reincarnate, Gaden Shartse Monastic College
Roy Ascott
Theoretician, artist, director, Planetary Collegium, UK
Sigi Hale
Neuroscientist, co-founder Mindful Awareness Research Center, UCLA
Barbara Fields
Director, Association for Global New Thought
James Gimzewski
Nanoscientist, Pico Lab, UCLA
Ven Lama Phuntsho
Translator, Gaden Shartse Monastic College
Organized and moderated by: Victoria Vesna
media artist, director, Art | Science Center, UCLA
The following books will be available for sale at the UCLA Ackerman Book Store:
- Ascott, R. (ed). 2006. Engineering Nature: art & Consciousness in the post-biological era. Bristol: Intellect. ISBN 184150128X
- Roy Ascott Telematic Embrace.Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness
Edited and with an Essay by Edward A. Shanken. Berkeley: University of California Press ISBN 0-520-21803-5
- The Universe in a Single Atom : The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (Hardcover) by Dalai Lama XIV
"Animals + Genetic Technologies" Lecture + Symposium
14 OCTOBER 2005
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER
Can artists be trusted to act with integrity in the uncharted waters of their enthusiastic engagement with genetic technologies? Carol Gigliotti presented key ideas from her essay, “Leonardo’s choice: the ethics of artists working with genetic technologies.” The center of her argument grew out of an increasing concern, not only about the risks of genetic technologies, in general, but also with a growing genre of art practice involving genetic technologies and animals. She is joined by artists whose work center on issues dealing with biotechnology and animals, and scientists whose research involves work with animals. This symposium resulted in a special issue in the AI & Society journal, Springer- Verlag, UK. November 14, 2005
PARTICIPANTS: Carol Gigliotti (Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, BC) / Taimie Bryant (UCLA School of Law) / Natalie Jeremijenko (Department of Visual Arts, UCSD) / Eduardo Kac (Department of Art & Technology, AIC) / Charles Taylor (Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA) / Steve Best (Department of Philosophy & Humanities, University of Texas-El Paso) / Beatriz da Costa (Departments of Studio Art, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UCI). Moderated by Victoria Vesna.
"Media + Medicine : Environment + The Mind" Lecture + Symposium
24 OCTOBER 2005
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER
This dialogue was centered on the collaboration with the Media and Medicine group, led by Ken Wells and Bowen Chung to develop a communication strategy for Hurricane Katrina survivors. Henri Lucas held a special class with this theme as the center activity for the students who contributed and exhibited their design proposals for a better communication system for the New Orleans community. This symposium was organized to help facilitate the launch of the Katrina project described below.
PARTICIPANTS: Bowen Chung (School of Medicine, UCLA) / Henri Lucas and students (Department of Design|Media Arts) / African American Community Leaders (Loretta Jones, Charlene Williams, Ron Wright, Eric Mercier).
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