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ART + ACTIVISM > BRAINWAVES & BIOFEEDBACK ART + ACTIVISM > PERFORMING THE POLITICAL IN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
29 FEBRUARY 2008 06 JUNE 2008
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER
Pavel Smetana essentially started out Performing the Political in
with exhibitions of his paintings— Interdisciplinary Research of Pigeons,
gradually refocusing his artistic Plants and Air Particles Beatriz
work towards video and computer da Costa was an interdisciplinary
installations. This led to the artist and researcher who worked
programming and developing of the “Room at the intersection of contemporary
of Desires” installation in 1993–1995. art, engineering, politics, and the
At the time of his Art|Sci guest life sciences. Da Costa was a former
lecture, Smetana was working on the collaborator of Critical Art Ensemble
final stage of his then new project, and co-founder of Pre-emptive Media,
“The Mirror,” centered on the blending an arts activism and technology group.
of art and new technologies. She was an Associate Professor of
Arts, Computation, Engineering at the
University of California, Irvine.
This event was co-sponsored by UCLA
Center for Performance Studies.
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