July 28, 2014
UCLA Sculpture Garden

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.

More about the research project: http://artsci.ucla.edu/birds

Presented by UCLA Birdsong Project and University of Tokyo

https://birdsongdiamond.com/ucla-sculpture-garden/

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. 

$12 Parking All-Day

View the event page on Facebook HERE. 

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.
 

Learn more about the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) - Plymouth University and Federico Visi. 

May 27, 2014
5 - 7 pm
Art|Sci Gallery
CNSI 5th floor

Free admission; $12 parking all day

May 20, 2014
Art|Sci Gallery
CNSI 5th floor
6:30 - 9 pm

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.

Visit the event page HERE.

Free admission; $12 parking all day

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.

Parking $12 all day.

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.