ARTS based RESEARCH in TIMES of CLIMATE and SOCIAL CHANGE
The two-day symposium and exhibition on arts based research aims to envision a future in which arts and design are understood to be central to the success of every complex problem. Focus in the program will be to highlight the importance of art research and education, particularly in times of social unrest and climate change. It is through the arts that the scope of human experience around creativity, innovation, empathy, culture, and knowledge is learned, expressed, and distributed, both for the common good and the development of the individual. By highlighting collaborative research between artists, humanists, scientists and scholars at large, the symposium will attempt to demonstrate the important role of art research in academia and beyond.
“The same way a beautiful flower needs a diverse and fertile soil to grow, so does the spirit, which is nourished by offerings as diverse and fertile as soil.” Padrinho Jorge Callejo Hernandez, Habana, Cuba, January 11, 2017.
Andrea's Room is an immersive environment juxtaposing organic and scientific iconographies of the natural world that seem unseen, forgotten or discarded against established aesthetic and moral taboos associated with Yoruba syncretic religion.
Claudia Jacques, MFA, PhD, is a Brazilian-American interdisciplinary technoetic artist, designer, educator and researcher. http://claudiajacques.com
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Gerfried Stocker, director of Ars Electronica (AE), and Victoria Vesna, artist, director of the UCLA Art Sci Center, and AE jury member, present a selection of prize-winning projects from AE and discuss how artistic strategies for responding to political and societal malfeasance have changed with the massive erosion of traditional media and information hierarchies. The question now is, What are the new avenues for artists working with media, and how can they play a role to offset attacks on truth and fact?
Victoria Vesna, Alfred Vendl, Martina Fröschl, Stephan Handschuh, Thomas Schwaha, Ruth Schnell, Glenneroo
Noise Aquarium is on the finalist list!!!
Victoria Vesna, Alfred Vendl, Martina Fröschl, Stephan Handschuh, Thomas Schwaha, Ruth Schnell, Glenneroo
Screening: Jan 26, 12:30pm – 9:00pm
UNITED ARTISTS THEATRE
ACE Hotel, 929 S Broadway, Los Angeles CA
The festival honors films on science and technology worldwide. Categories include fiction and non-fiction for both students and professionals. The film screening and awards ceremony takes place January 25, 2019. #RSFF2019. photo by: glennegroovy photography https://www.rawsciencefilmfestival.tv/?fbclid=IwAR2VojOLuKb0bq4ujTtTPoCJ...
“You are a part of everything you consume: food, material goods, and energy. And everything you consume affects the world that you live in. Know how to gather good data, understand what it means, make your choices based on quality information, and take action. You are made of energy and have the power.”
This is the crux of Andrea Polli’s project Hack the Grid, which reveals how photography, digital imagery, and data visualizations can inspire community activism and political action. Polli is an artist working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. For Hack the Grid, she presents past and current projects that reveal how data visualizations create emotional impact and societal change. Polli also engages in conversations with scientists, activists, technologists, and designers in Pittsburgh, a city at the intersection of technological advancements and longstanding ecological concerns.
Hack the Grid is a project of the Hillman Photography Initiative, in which Carnegie Museum of Art invites artists to investigate contemporary social issues through photography’s measurement of light and time. In addressing the relationship between light and environmental sustainability using data visualization, Polli pushes the boundaries of photography and reveals the power of imagery to inspire citizens and change the world for the better.
Sunday, 11 November 2018 - 9:00am to Sunday, 18 November 2018 - 6:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Victoria Vesna, Joel Ong, Ioannis Bardakos, Linus Lancaster, Marta de Menezes, Robertina Sebjanic ++
The third international interdisciplinary conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" will take place in 11-13 November 2018 in Mexico City, hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Centro de Cultura Digital. Including theoretical and artwork presentations TTT2018 continues to focus: a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and about the aesthetics of liminality - as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science, b) in the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. Coordinated in partnership with the program of the FACTT 2018 - Festival Art & Science Trans-disciplinary and Trans-national the conference is co-organized by the Research and Creation Group Arte+Ciencia, UNAM (Mexico), Arte Institute (USA), Cultivamos Cultura (Portugal) besides the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University (Greece).
Art is, in so many ways, a reflection of reality, its glorification as well as its challenger, in an instinctive understanding that nothing is stable despite the effort to keep a balance between the comfort of belief and the delusion of control. Art and science interrelations are not always clear and one could have the impression that the artist seems more permeable to the influence of science than the scientist to the influence of art. Art’s playfully transgressive nature offers creative bypasses to the grammar of science and expands the dialogue with its openness to a multiplicity towards the new. Nevertheless, art – albeit its originary affinity with the taboo – is never completely liberated from moral considerations. Deeply involved into this lively discourse on the nature of the taboo, art becomes the very domain of contemporary experimentation with transgression, in order to provoke and sparkle discourse, catalyzing possible forms of transcendence.
Thursday, 13 September 2018 - 9:00am to Saturday, 15 September 2018 - 8:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Victoria Vesna + James Gimzewski
Blue Morph at SPECULUM ARTIUM in Trbovlje, Slovenia
Nanotechnology is changing our perception of life and this is symbolic in the Blue Morpho butterfly with the optics involved — that beautiful blue color is not pigment at all but patterns and structure which is what nano-photonics is centered on studying. The optics are no doubt fascinating but the real surprise is in the discovery of the way cellular change takes place in a butterfly. Sounds of metamorphosis are not gradual or even that pleasant as we would imagine it. Rather the cellular transformation happens in sudden surges that are broken up with stillness and silence. The audience is invited to experience the sounds of metamorphosis.
