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Saturday, 5 September 2026 - 10:00am
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Patricia Olynyk

Patricia Olynyk is an artist, writer, and educator whose work explores science and technology-related themes and the ways in which social systems and institutional structures shape our understanding of the world. In 2007, she was appointed inaugural director of the unified Graduate School of Art and Florence and Frank Bush Professor of Art in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University. She is Producer of the Creative Disturbance Podcast Series, Emergent Habitability, a program that explores the dynamic entanglement of humans, technologies, and cultural systems.

Olynyk also co-chairs the Leonardo NY LASER Talks program in New York with Ellen K. Levy. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and museums internationally, including the Los Angeles Biennial, The Brooklyn Museum, Venice Design 2018 at Palazzo Michiel dalle Colonne, the Saitama Modern Art Museum, Ars Electronica, Linz, Vienna Art Week, and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Her writing is included in Public Journal (York University), The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture (Routledge Press), Technoetic Arts (Intellect Press), Leonardo Journal (MIT Press), the Angewandte Book Series (DeGruyter), Bio/Matter/Techno Synthetics (Actar Press), and Visions of Scale (Bloomsbury).

Following the talk, we will be joined by special guests: Meredith Tromble, Hannah Star Rogers, and Carl Craver.


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BIOFICTION: Science/Art/Film Festival in Vienna, Austria

Submitted by marissa on 20 October 2014 - 11:47am

BIO*FICTION: Science.Art.Film Festival

The Synthetic Biology Festival: October 23-25, 2014 // Vienna, Austria

BIO*FICTION explores the emerging field of synthetic biology from different disciplinary angles including science and engineering, social science, cultural studies, amateur biology, film makers, artists and designers. The festival hosts presentations, panel discussions, do-it biology demos, performances, art work and film screenings, particularly of short films on any aspect of synthetic biology.

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Friday, 14 February 2014 - 5:00pm

Lita Albuquerque is an internationally renowned installation, environmental artist, painter and sculptor. She has developed a visual language that brings the realities of time and space to a human scale and is acclaimed for her ephemeral and permanent art works executed in the landscape and public sites.

Location: EDA

Sponsored by Art|Sci.

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FEAST

FEAST (Fostering Ecocentric Art & Science Together) is a multipart initiative, consisting of a series of public conversations led by artists Victoria Vesna and Ellen Levy that is hosted by CPW. Renowned ecoartists and scientists who are deeply rooted in community-engaged practice interact with the public. They define and explore the urgent entanglements of environmental and human health through photographic and media arts.

Project Website: https://feastforchange.com/

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Patricia Cadavid’s Electronic _Khipu_ is an instrument for interaction and experimental sound generation operated by weaving knots with conductive rubber cords into which sound compositions are encoded. This instrument is based on an Andean quipu, the ancient textile “computer” used for the processing, encryption, and transmission of information in knots and cords of cotton and wool. KHIPUMANCY is a Performance Documentation Video that documents the performance of KHIPUMANCY, presented at the Ars Electronica Festival in 2021. In this collaborative performance, Patricia Cadavid and Paola Torres Núñez del Prado explore the interplay between tradition and technology, performing with their respective khipus: the Electronic_Khipu and the ML: Knot() Khipu. Together, they reimagine the Andean khipu as instruments of sound, storytelling, and cultural resilience.

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Joel Ong’s installation, In Silence …, takes a selection of anecdotal stories abstracted from interviews with individuals at medical, ecological, and socio-cultural frontlines, and “narrates” them through actors limited to non-vocal expressions. A reflecting pool reveals patterns that alternate between emergence and disappearance in synchrony with the story’s emotional valences and as cymatic visualizations of speech. The audio for these stories is accessible through a bone-conductance railing nearby, audible through touch. Ong’s work pays tribute to the resilience of these frontline communities through emotional turmoil and uncertainty that has made them feel they were in a perpetual suspension and immobility. This iteration of In Silence at the UCLA Art Sci Gallery also features two survivor testimonials from the Climate Disaster Project.

Apr 04 – May 02, 2025

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Sholeh Asgary’s Qanat is an interactive sound and light installation named after the ancient Iranian underground water channel system. Asgary amplifies the resonant qualities of a traditional rug with the sound of water, as a pendulum microphone hung above picks up the amplified sounds of the rug, movements, and room tone, creating a live feedback loop. Visitors are invited to sit, lay or stand on the rug, affecting the transmission of sound throughout the gallery. The exhibition also includes a series of embossed prints that are topographical mappings created by Asgary’s breath and a video work that references water, transmission, and incommunicability. Qanat reminds us that we are all born into the comforting darkness of sound and water.

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MAY 09 - JUN 06, 2025

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This spring, the UCLA Art|Sci Center proudly presented Sound + Science 3.0, the third installment of its trailblazing symposium series, following editions in 2009 and 2019.

Taking place in person on May 1–2, 2025, the symposium was hosted across three iconic UCLA locations: the Fowler Museum, the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), and the Botanical Gardens.

Held in conjunction with 20 years of the Art|Sci Center and the Center’s exhibition in Getty’s region-wide initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Arts in Times of Climate Disruption, this year’s event brought together leading artists, scientists, and scholars to explore the dynamic intersections of sound, science, and environmental change.

On view were two works: In Silence… by Joel Ong at the CNSI Art|Sci Gallery, and Electronic Khipu by Patricia Cadavid at the Fowler Museum. Additionally, the Art|Sci Center launched Leonardo (MIT Press) Volume 58, Issue 2, spotlighting a special theme on Acoustics — a collection of critical discourse on sonic research and artistic experimentation.

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