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GENETIC SEED BANK                                                                                                                                                      WAVES

13 NOVEMBER 2012                                                                                                                                             26 NOVEMBER 2012
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY                                                                                                                            CNSI PRESENTATION SPACE

Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and                                                                                             First interested in pattern formation
theorist working at the intersection                                                                                             through his experimental work on
of art and the biological sciences.                                                                                              Rayleigh-Bénard convection during his
Her works include digital sculpture,                                                                                             Ph.D., Patrice le Gal was, back then,
installations and large-scale                                                                                                    especially interested in the formation
photography. Her project, Genetic Seed                                                                                           and the interaction of Von Karman wakes
Bank, demonstrates the recuperative                                                                                              and also in the instabilities of the
and adaptive power of nature and the                                                                                             Ekman boundary layer over rotating
potential for organic materials as a                                                                                             disks.
medium for artistic expression.
                                                                                                                                 Le Gal has published more than 70
                                                                                                                                 research articles in fluid mechanics: on
                                                                                                                                 convective patterns, wakes, turbulence,
                                                                                                                                 rotating boundary layer instabilities,
                                                                                                                                 plankton bioluminescence and more
                                                                                                                                 recently on the elliptic instability.
                                                                                                                                 He is currently involved in experiments
                                                                                                                                 on stratified and rotating flows:
                                                                                                                                 strato-rotational instability, internal
                                                                                                                                 wave generation, wave breaking, vortex
                                                                                                                                 formation. All of these flows have
                                                                                                                                 applications in geo and astrophysics.

                                                                                                                                 Recently he developed several artscience
                                                                                                                                 projects in collaboration with Javiera
                                                                                                                                 Tejerina-Risso who is a video artist.
                                                                                                                                 In this talk he talked about the WAVES
                                                                                                                                 project they worked on together—an art-
                                                                                                                                 science project aimed to install videos,
                                                                                                                                 images and multimedia performances based
                                                                                                                                 on the visualization of water surface
                                                                                                                                 waves.

ARTIST ART+ACTIVISM COLLABORATION COMMUNITY EDUCATION LECTURE PUBLICATION RESEARCH RESIDENCY ROBOTICS MIXER SYMPOSIUM ||||       ARTIST ART+ACTIVISM COLLABORATION COMMUNITY EDUCATION LECTURE PUBLICATION RESEARCH RESIDENCY ROBOTICS MIXER SYMPOSIUM ||||
     || SPRING SUMMER FALL WINTER ||||| 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 ||||| UCLA CNSI DMA BEYOND |||||  ||||| SPRING SUMMER FALL WINTER ||||| 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 ||||| UCLA CNSI DMA BEYOND ||
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