The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is a research center at UCLA whose mission is to encourage university collaboration with industry and to enable the rapid commercialization of discoveries in nanosystems. CNSI members who are on the faculty at UCLA represent a multi-disciplinary team of some of the world's preeminent scientists. The work conducted at the CNSI represents world-class expertise in four targeted areas of nanosystems-related research including Energy, Environment, Health-Medicine, and Information Technology.
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 The UCLA Department of Design Media Arts (DMA) offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to media creation that fosters individual exploration and innovative thinking. Their internationally renowned faculty provides each student with a creative and intellectual foundation for constructing a unique contribution to culture. The Department of Design Media Arts is committed to educating conscientious creators by emphasizing production within the context of history and theory. |
 The Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) is a working group of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST). It promotes the advancement of artistic research and academic scholarship at the intersections of art, science, and technology. Serving practitioners, scholars, and students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEF provides a forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities. LEF is an active community of over 100 members and growing annually. |
 The Advanced Light Microscopy and Spectroscopy (ALMS) laboratories provide a unique collection of high-end, customized fluorescence microscopes, small-animal imaging devices, and fluorescent probes to perform fluorescence-based measurements at various spatial (nm to cm), temporal (ns to days) and spectral (UV-NIR ) ranges. Laurent A. Bentolila, Ph.D. Haley L. Marks, Ph.D. |
 The mission of the Beall Center is to support research, exhibitions, and public programs that explore new relationships between the arts, sciences, and engineering, and to promote new forms of creation and expression using digital technologies. The Beall Center aspires to redefine the museum/gallery experience by formulating answers to the questions of how technology can be used effectively to create new forms of interdisciplinary art, in addition to connecting artists with audiences. David Familian, former Beall Center Artistic Director, has been a long-term Art|Sci collaborator, co-hosting LASERs, and appearing in the Color, Light, Motion series. MORPHONANO was shown at the Beall Center, and the 50th Anniversary of Leonardo celebration was co-hosted with the Beall. The two centers jointly acknowledge the importance of Southern California as a site for art-technology practice. |
 The Doctoral Program in Empowerment Informatics establishes 'Empowerment Informatics' as a new branch of informatics that supplements and extends human functions and enables technology to work in harmony with people. The program has established a collaborative system in a multidisciplinary field consisting of informatics, engineering, art, psychology, neuroscience, clinical medicine, nursing science, business science, and corporate law. Professor Hiroo Iwata and Takashi Ikegami were collaborators of Victoria Vesna’s project BirdSong Diamond, It Passes Like a Thought, and Body of Knowledge: Embodied Cognition. |
 The Science Visualization Lab at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria specializes in making invisible scientific phenomena visible. The majority of those phenomena are outside the limits of human perception, therefore, the creations of the Science Visualization Lab under the leadership of Alfred Vendl are focused on the visualization of these procedures utilizing the appropriate technical equipment. UCLA Art|Sci Center presented Hox Zodiac at the 2018 Microperformativity Conference and Understanding - Art & Research Exhibition, curated by Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch, and Barbara Putz-Plecko. Professor Alfred Vendl co-produced the Noise Aquarium Project and Fluid Visualization and Sound Matters Symposium. |
 In 2004, the Interface Cultures Master programme was founded by Christa Sommerer (AT) and Laurent Mignonneau (FR / AT) at the University of Arts Linz. The program is named after Steven Johnson's book, Interface Culture. The plural in 'Interface Cultures' was chosen to highlight the multi-layered diversity of approaches and cultures that surround people working at the myriad intersections of the digital world. Recognizing the importance of this openness, Sommerer and Mignonneau - international pioneers of interactive art - developed this idea into an educational program for the art university context. In partnership with the UCLA Art|Sci Center, Interface Cultures was presented at the Ars Electronica in 2016. They developed a new course, Art, Science & Technology, an introductory course that explores how similar technologies are driving new forms of art and science. |
 The Fowler Museum at UCLA explores global arts and cultures with an emphasis on works from Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas — past and present. The Fowler enhances understanding and appreciation of the diverse peoples, cultures, and religions of the world through dynamic exhibitions, publications, and public programs, informed by interdisciplinary approaches and the perspectives of the cultures represented. Also featured is the work of international contemporary artists presented within the complex frameworks of politics, culture and social action. The Fowler Museum is a partner institution of the UCLA Art|Sci Center, and we have presented performances, installations, and sound based work, including the Atmosphere of Sound program partnered with the Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide. |
 The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis is a unique collaboration in architecture, art, and design education that links professional studio programs with one of the country's finest university art museums in the context of an internationally recognized research university. Patricia Olynyk, the Florence and Frank Bush Professor of Art and former Director of the Graduate School of Art at Sam Fox, has been a long-term Art|Sci collaborator. Working across disciplines to develop “third culture” projects, she often collaborates with scientists, humanists, programmers, architects, and engineers. Olynyk has presented at multiple Art|Sci LASERs, including co-organizing the Art + Brain workshop. |
 Biocultura supports Bio Art and Design education and creation. Biocultura's project space is located in a restored adobe home on the historic Camino Real near the Santa Fe River, and our aim is to support and connect Bio Art and Design projects and practitioners to our daily lives, histories, communities and environments through workshops, presentations and events. |
 Arte+Ciencia is a research and creation group based at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), led by philosopher and art theorist María Antonia González Valerio. The group explores the intersections of biotechnology, philosophy, ecology, and artistic practice — producing exhibitions, workshops, academic conferences, and publications including their book Through the Scope of Life (Springer, 2023). Their work operates at the convergence of ontology, aesthetics, and life sciences, engaging questions of animality, space, and posthumanism. They organize LatamFemLab, a transdisciplinary network for women in art, science, and technology across Latin America. |
 Raw Science Film Festival (RSFF) is an annual event that takes place in Los Angeles, California and brings together people across science, technology, entertainment and media to showcase best in class film from around the world. The festival was created by Raw Science Inc. founder Keri Kukral thanks to the inspiration of producer Mitchell Block. The mission of RSFF is to humanize science and bring fact-based experts to the forefront of popular culture by celebrating the best science storytelling in the world. RSFF2020 is the 6th annual event and RSFF is collaborating with Gensler and Art|Sci Center and Natural History Museum Vienna are redesign the red carpet, defining a newly accessible and focused Hollywood experience. [Alien] StarDust is the featured, interactive red-carpet exhibit and based on extraterrestrial and anthropogenic dust which falls across the Earth with no boundaries. |
 The Smart Image Content Research Center (SICRC) and the Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film (GSAIM) at Chung-Ang University, Korea. SICRC is focused on creating smart-image content that fuses creative artistic sensibility with cutting-edge technologies through research research on image technologies for use in film, animation, and interactive art, including AR, VR, 3D Video, UHD, and 360-degree imaging. GSAIM was opened in 1999 under the BrainKorea 21 (BK21) specialized graduate school support project with the goal of converging imaging engineering and visual arts. The UNESCO International Day of Light in 2026 is presented with the GSAIM lab and the UCLA Art|Sci Center, in collaboration with the Advanced Light Microscopy & Spectroscopy (ALMS) Lab at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). |
 Founded as a not-for-profit organization by artists in 1977, Harvestworks has helped generations of artists create new works using technology. Their goals are to create an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media; to create a responsive public context for the appreciation of new work by presenting and disseminating the finished works; to advance the art community’s and the public’s “agenda” for the use of technology in art; and to bring together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts collaborating in the use of electronic media. Harvestworks is a co-producing partner of the Color, Light, Motion lecture series, which is co-presented with the UCLA Art|Sci Center and the David Bermant Foundation. |
 The Getty is a global leader in the visual arts and home to the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute, the Getty Conservation Institute, and the Getty Foundation. Through its PST ART (Pacific Standard Time) initiative, the Getty convenes museums, universities, and cultural organizations across Southern California around major thematic exhibitions and scholarly research. The UCLA Art|Sci Center participated in Getty's PST ART: Art & Science Collide, where we presented Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption (2024–25), a multi-year research project co-curated by Victoria Vesna and Anuradha Vikram, which culminating in a large-scale exhibition of sound-based art. |
 The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion was established in 1986 to encourage and advocate experimental visual art which draws its form, content and working materials from late twentieth-century technology. Founded by David W. Bermant, who began to build in 1965 a collection that has become the pre-eminent private assemblage of work from this genre, the Foundation is devoted to fostering the efforts of artists working with non- traditional materials. These materials include physical sources of energy, light, and sound, which are used in works that question and extend the boundaries of the visual arts. COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION is an online series featuring media artists and scholars in dialogue about artworks from the David Bermant Collection of media and kinetic arts. The series is hosted by Victoria Vesna, in collaboration with Harvestworks. |
 Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute is one of the country's leading independent colleges of art, design, architecture, liberal arts and sciences, and information studies, offering nearly 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs from its campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Noise Aquarium, an interactive installation, was presented at Pratt Institute’s Manhattan Gallery’s exhibition “From Forces to Forms” which explored the nature of form by engaging with the potent forces and processes of nature, curated by Ellen K. Levy, a multimedia artist, scholar, and co-director of LASER. |