LASER:
October 2, 2014 7pm
Art|Sci Gallery
CNSI 5th floor
From the work of artist Jason Fahrion, who raises silkworms in his garage on local mulberry leaves, to UCLA iGEM's quest for genetically modifying bacteria to produce fluorescent silk, a cabinet of curiosities at the Art|Sci Gallery weaves a story of silk, and of the biological factories that humans have carefully cultivated to manufacture it.
EVENTS ARE FREE and light refreshments are on the house. Parking is in lot 9, by the hour $12 all day. Drive up to the top of the parking structure to reach the entrance of the building.
UCLA Art | Sci center Director and Professor in the Department of Design | Media Arts, Victoria Vesna has joined the Empowerment Informatics Program (EMP) with Dr. Hiroo Iwata from University of Tokyo.
An acoustic construction: hyper sound speakers amplify and present sounds from nature.
UCLA Professors Charles Taylor, Evolutionary Biology and Victoria Vesna, Design | Media Arts present the work of Professor Takashi Ikegami and his students Atsushi Masumori, Itzuki Doi, and Norihiro Maruyama. This is one aspect of a multi-year transdisciplinary collaborative project “Mapping the Acoustic Communication Networks of Birds” funded by NSF and will be presented at the upcoming Artificial Life conference in New York.
In this installation the participant/viewer experience sound that can be directed to give a 3D experience and “view” the soundscape from different angles and reflections — similar to the reflections/refraction of light seen through diamonds. Highly directional hyper sound speakers and motion sensors create immersive, targeted soundscape patterns in some ways richer than those which occur naturally. By moving around the viewer can view and review their sound environment with a heightened awareness. We anticipate that Birdsong Diamond will leave viewers with new questions about their soundscape environment.
Performing Quantum Entanglement: Subtle Apparatuses for Extrasensory Affectiveness
Clarissa Ribeiro
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 5th | 5-7 p.m.
Art|Sci Gallery, 5th Floor CNSI
What does it mean to be entangled? In this experimental work, composed of three interactive video installations, Ribeiro invites us to think about ourselves and our affective dimension from a semi-material and non-local perspective.
Unfolding | Clusters: A Music and Visual Media Model of ALS Pathophysiology
Frederico Visi + Giovanni Dothel in collaboration with Duncan Williams
Opening Reception: 5 pm, June 3rd
Art|Sci Gallery, Room 5419, CNSI
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common of the five motor neuron diseases, it is characterized by progressive degeneration of the upper and lower motor neurons of the spinal cord.
This interdisciplinary project presents a way of employing music and immersive media in order to illustrate the biomolecular processes behind the progress of ALS and thus help raise awareness in the greater public.
This work is an international collaboration between the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, the Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Università di Bologna, Italy, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research, Plymouth University, UK.
Supported by the Santander Postgraduate Internationalisation Scholarship.
CREATIVE MINDS, a student-run organization affiliated with UCLA Arts+Healing, brings arts and drama therapy to homeless youth and others in need in communities throughout West LA.
Director Victoria Vesna opened her honors class, Biotech & Art to visitors for a workshop led by visiting artist Jason Fahrion, who presented his art projects with insects as biological factories.
Students and visiting scholars examined the silkworm life cycle and look at potential medical and artistic applications of the substances that silkworms produce along with the silk. They also learned about Fahrion’s work with honeybees and the local production of honey.
Opening reception:
April 17, 2014 5-7 pm
Art|Sci Gallery and Presentation Space
CNSI 5th floor
“those that from a distance look like flies”
This exhibition is generously supported by the Swedish Museum of Natural History and the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts. All events sponsored by the David Bermant Foundation.
MICK LORUSSO+ALIA GHONEUM Workshop: Nanodiamonds in the Treatment of Cancer
Thursday, April 10th // 4-6:50 p.m.
Broad Art Center, Room 5240
In this workshop participants learn about recent research on nanodiamonds in the treatment of cancer. They will create scaled-up simulations of experiments that Alia Ghoneum has conducted with nanodiamonds on metastatic cells.
