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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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Monday, 8 January 2018 -

4:00pm to 7:00pm

Exhibitors / Artists:

BIANKA HOFMANN + SABRINA HAASE + ALEXANDER KÖHN

TALK AND DEMO: STEAM IMAGING: FRAUNHOFER MEVIS ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY
BIANKA HOFMANN, SABRINA HAASE

WORKSHOP: FROM CLINICAL APPLICATION TO ARTISTIC EXPLORATION
SABRINA HAASE, ALEXANDER KÖHN

UCLA Broad Art Center EDA (Ground Floor)
240 Charles E Young Dr N
Los Angeles, CA 90095

***Note: Space for this innovative workshop is limited! Please RSVP here.

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Tuesday, 27 June 2017 - 9:00am

Exhibitors / Artists:

BRIER + COBLEY + JACQUES + LIQIAN + NICOLESCU + VIDALES

13th IASS-AIS World Congress of Semiotics
Moderated by Søren Brier and Carlos Vidales
Featuring Paul Cobley, Claudia Jacques, Zhou Liqian, Basarab Nicolescu.

VISUALIZING THE CYBERSEMIOTIC EXPERIENCE | CLAUDIA JACQUES
Advances in artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing are expanding human-computer interaction (HCI) in everyday life turning phones, TVs, cars, etc., into computer interfaces. Such changes affect how humans perceive and interact with digital information. Cybersemiotic provides a powerful framework for comprehending and interpreting changes in human experience and consciousness wrought by the digital revolution. It achieves this by enabling an understanding of humans as complex adaptive systems; consequently, anything that involves or is involved with humans becomes an integral part of the system. Through a series of visual representations the experience of these exchanges is explored under the lens of the Cybersemiotic framework and balances human user, interface, and digital information as elements within an ever-changing system, demonstrating the manner in which a change in one element affects each and every other part of the system.

CLAUDIA JACQUES DE MORAES CARDOSO is a Brazilian-American interdisciplinary artist, designer, educator and researcher of space-time aesthetics in the user-information-interface relationship through the lens of Cybersemiotics. http://claudiajacques.com

Int'l Semiotics Institute, Kaunas Univ. of Technology
Kaunas, Lithuania
http://isisemiotics.eu/iass2017/

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Thursday, 21 January 2016 - 5:00pm

Exhibitors / Artists:

AMISHA GADANI

Opening reception:
January 21, 2016 5-7pm
Art|Sci Gallery
CNSI 5th floor

Workshop
February 4, 2016 5-7pm
Art|Sci Gallery

LASER symposium featuring Anna Dumitriu (bio-artist), Alex May (digital artist) and Pratik Shah (biomedical engineer)
February 4, 2016 7-9pm
Presentation Space, CNSI 5th floor

A solo exhibition of speculative morphologies by Amisha Gadani featuring birds without beaks, uni-colored chimeras, and a series of boxfishes that may exist, may have existed, or may exist in the future. The inspiration for the paintings and drawings in this exhibition stemmed partly from Gadani's two year artist residency in both the UCLA fish-focused evolutionary biology lab of Dr. Michael Alfaro and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics.

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Amisha Gadani is an artist, educator and illustrator based in Los Angeles. She is interested in unique animal morphologies and adaptations; from swarming behaviors and elegant defense mechanisms, to superorganisms and animals of the deep sea. Her work ranges from unsettling beak-less bird paintings and underwater videos to her on-going series of interactive animal-inspired defensive dresses that can, for example, inflate like a blowfish when the wearer is intimidated. She has spent over four years working at the art and science focused Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco in education, exhibits and illustration; and two years working at UCLA in two biology labs as an illustrator producing over fifty scientific illustrations featured in journals and research papers and as an outreach educator using drawing and sculpture focused workshops to explain scientific concepts to local elementary school students.
Her work has shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, New York City, and Tokyo; has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, and Scientific American; and has been published in LIMN magazine, the journal Method Quarterly and the book "Future Fashion: Innovative Materials and Technology" by Barcelona-based maomao publications.
Amisha earned a B.F.A in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007.

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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

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Neue Galerie Luzern; Robert Harris (Roger Penrose); and NASA / WMAP Science Team (The Cosmic Microwave Background, 2010).

The 9th Swiss Biennial on Science, Technics + Aesthetics

Special Guest: Sir Roger Penrose, University of Oxford / UK

The Large, the Small and the Human Mind - Part 2

31 March-1 April 2012

12-7 PM daily

Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne

For more info, visit www.neugalu.ch/e_bienn_2012.html

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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.

Hox Morph

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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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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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