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Particles Episode 34 - Richard Lowenberg

Richard Lowenberg is an artist, planner/designer, and eco-cultural activist. In this episode of Particles, Richard traces his life spent at the intersection of art and science, exploring information as a living environment. His projects span making music from the bioelectric signals of plants for the 1976 film The Secret Life of Plants, collaborating with NASA on bio-telemetry performances, and large-scale surveillance and nuclear infrastructure installation at the 1986 Venice Biennale.

Particle Episode 32: David Gere

David Gere, PhD, is the founding director of the UCLA Art & Global Health Center and is a professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, where he teaches courses in arts activism. His extensive writing and global curatorial projects address arts-based public health interventions and projects.

Particle Episode 31: Roger F. Malina

Join us for a pop-up lecture by Roger F. Malina, an astrophysicist and Distinguished Professor of Art and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas, internationally recognized for his transdisciplinary work connecting the sciences with the arts. He has served as Executive Editor of Leonardo, the journal founded by his father, Frank Malina, and has held leadership roles with NASA and the Observatoire Astronomique de Marseille Provence (CNRS).

Particle Episode 30: Siddarth Ramakrishnan

Join us for a unique session with neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan, longtime Art Sci collective member and collaborator with Victoria Vesna on the Hox Zodiac project for over 15 years.

As part of Victoria Vesna’s Honors course Biotech & Art, this in-person class will open a portion of the session to the public as an online lecture. Ramakrishnan will present ideas from his new book, The Neuroscience of Tarot, exploring how the brain processes intuition, symbolism, and insight—merging scientific inquiry with ancient archetypes.

Particle Episode 29: Gustavo Rincon

Join us for a pop-up lecture by Gustavo Alfonso Rincon, presenting a new media arts and architectural conceptual research framework that reflects on how A.I. is transforming artistic, design, and media knowledge creation. A focus on the intersection between the arts, architecture, and sciences will be explored as a new paradigm for change.

Particle Episode 27: Monica C. LoCascio

Monica C. LoCascio (b. 1984) is a transdisciplinary artist focusing on the materiality of invisible phenomena. Her works arrive as artifacts of her material and theoretical research on memory, microbiology, theoretical physics, and hierarchies of knowledge and power. She pairs fermented bio-materials, salvaged fiber, and heritage craft techniques with industrial and salvaged materials to examine the tension between the fluidity and vulnerability of the lived human experience and the systems and institutions that contrast it.

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