DATA BURIAL: IN LIVING DUNES
SYMRIN CHAWLA + DAVID ERTEL
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6:00–7:00pm | Exhibition
CNSI Lobby, California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA
7:00–9:00pm | Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
5th Floor Presentation Space, California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA
Design|Media Arts graduate students Symrin Chawla and David Ertel present their collaborative work in Data Burial: In Living Dunes, an installation and vision system that tests the limits of privacy and the site-specificity of networked data. A camera installed in remote desert location sends images and metadata to the cloud in real time, dramatizing the entropy of data and matter in the face of natural forces.
The piece will be complete when the camera is buried by the dunes and loses both solar power and its cellular data signal.
Following the opening reception, invited interdisciplinary speakers present their work pecha kucha style. Afterwards, socializing and a gathering of minds ensue. Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is Leonardo/ISAST's international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations.
LASER Speakers:
Tamira Elul
Associate Professor, Touro University California and Visiting Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Holds a PhD in biophysics and research on morphogenesis in the developing nervous system.
https://vimeopro.com/amidotorg/journal-biocommunication/video/206229536
https://vimeopro.com/amidotorg/journal-biocommunication/video/206229620
http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/jbc/article/view/7314/5837
Stefanie Volland
Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute
Claudia Schnugg
Dr. Claudia Schnugg is an independent researcher in intersections of art and aesthetics with science, technology, and business, and producer of art and science collaboration.Claudia produces media art projects as well as art and science programs. She also holds workshops, runs research projects, and gives talks about developments on the intersection of art, science, technology, and business.
Behnaz Farahi
Behnaz Farahi is an architect and interaction designer whose work explores the potential of interactive environments and their relationship to the human body.
Hans Barnard
Hans Barnard MD PhD is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures as well as Assistant Researcher at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. As an archaeological surveyor, photographer and ceramic analyst he has worked on sites in Armenia, Chile, Egypt, Iceland, Panama, Peru, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. He is currently involved in a project studying the interaction of the Tiwanaku and Wari polities with the local population in Vitor Valley (Peru) and a research project into the agricultural development over time in the Fayum Oasis (Egypt).
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