Hox Zodiac Dinner is an on-going collaboration between Victoria Vesna and neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan. Inspired by the Hox genes which codify body plans across the animal kingdoms, Hox Zodiac offers the audience a seat at the dinner table, enabling conversations on mutations, morphology, and metamorphosis, on humans in relation to animals and the food we eat, on animals feral and laboratory raised. The participatory project aims to heighten consciousness about our animal bodies, mutations, art, and science.
EVENTS ARE FREE and light refreshments are on the house. Parking is in lot 9, by the hour $12 all day. Drive up to the top of the parking structure to reach the entrance of the building.
We as human beings have taken bird songs out of our daily environment. This interactive sound+projection installation uses hyper-directional sound speakers, bird songs, and drone-footage that heighten the audience's awareness of the environment in a bird's point of view.
Featuring the work and on-going collaboration of UCLA professors Dr. Charles Taylor, Evolutionary Biology, and Dr. Victoria Vesna, Design|Media Arts, artist-inventor Aisen Caro Chacin, sound-artist Joel Ong, artist John Brumley, and Mick Lorusso + Mary Tsang from the Art|Sci collective.
Sholeh Asgary’s Qanat is an interactive sound and light installation named after the ancient Iranian underground water channel system. Asgary amplifies the resonant qualities of a traditional rug with the sound of water, as a pendulum microphone hung above picks up the amplified sounds of the rug, movements, and room tone, creating a live feedback loop. Visitors are invited to sit, lay or stand on the rug, affecting the transmission of sound throughout the gallery. The exhibition also includes a series of embossed prints that are topographical mappings created by Asgary’s breath and a video work that references water, transmission, and incommunicability. Qanat reminds us that we are all born into the comforting darkness of sound and water.
Opening on Friday, May 9: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: CNSI Lobby and Art Sci Gallery, 5th Floor of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking: Parking Structure 9
675 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Navigation: After parking, proceed to the top floor of the structure. Take the gangway along the north side of the lot, then navigate around the CNSI building to its east entrance on the 3rd floor. From there, you can access the lobby and the Art Sci Gallery on the 5th floor.
Joel Ong’s installation, In Silence …, takes a selection of anecdotal stories abstracted from interviews with individuals at medical, ecological, and socio-cultural frontlines, and “narrates” them through actors limited to non-vocal expressions. A reflecting pool reveals patterns that alternate between emergence and disappearance in synchrony with the story’s emotional valences and as cymatic visualizations of speech. The audio for these stories is accessible through a bone-conductance railing nearby, audible through touch. Ong’s work pays tribute to the resilience of these frontline communities through emotional turmoil and uncertainty that has made them feel they were in a perpetual suspension and immobility. This iteration of In Silence at the UCLA Art Sci Gallery also features two survivor testimonials from the Climate Disaster Project (https://climatedisasterproject.com/stories-archive/).
Opening on Friday, April 4: 2:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: CNSI Lobby and Art Sci Gallery, 5th Floor of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking: Parking Structure 9
675 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Navigation: After parking, proceed to the top floor of the structure. Take the gangway along the north side of the lot, then navigate around the CNSI building to its east entrance on the 3rd floor. From there, you can access the lobby and the Art Sci Gallery on the 5th floor.
Memory Garden by Iman Person is an immersive sonic installation that explores Black speculative archives through somatic memory, ethnobotany, and land extraction. Suspended glass sculptures with ceramic embellishments represent the shape of the hippocampus—the brain’s memory center. Historical and live weather data from St. Ann, Jamaica—such as humidity, air quality, and temperature—triggers layered audio throughout the gallery and the soundscape features a soft drone of 40-hertz tonal frequencies, a potential tool for improving cognitive functions in individuals with memory loss conditions. Memory Garden serves as a manifestation of the codification of language and experience by journeying peoples.
Location: CNSI Lobby and Art Sci Gallery, 5th Floor of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking: Parking Structure 9
675 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Navigation: After parking, proceed to the top floor of the structure. Take the gangway along the north side of the lot, then navigate around the CNSI building to its east entrance on the 3rd floor. From there, you can access the lobby and the Art Sci Gallery on the 5th floor.
Please join us on Friday, November 15th, 2024, for the opening reception of Robertina Šebjanič’s exhibition, “CO_SONIC 1884 KM2.”
Robertina Šebjanič’s Co_Sonic 1884 km² is an audio/visual-poetic reflection and AI-powered soundscape which explores the Ljubljanica river’s seven distinctly named sections as one integrated whole. Using the sounds and images of different lifeforms who (co)habit along the river’s path, dwelling both above and below the water, this multichannel video and sound installation tells the story of (co)existence among river environments and their human and non-human inhabitants.
Location: CNSI Lobby and Art Sci Gallery, 5th Floor of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking: Parking Structure 9
675 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Navigation: After parking, proceed to the top floor of the structure. Take the gangway along the north side of the lot, then navigate around the CNSI building to its east entrance on the 3rd floor. From there, you can access the lobby and the Art Sci Gallery on the 5th floor.
>>Video Screening Running in Parallel to the Exhibition
Location: CAP UCLA Nimoy Theater (Nimoy REEL)
The multi-channel video installation at CNSI will be complemented by single- and two-channel presentations of Co_Sonic 1884 km² at the CAP UCLA Nimoy Theater.
No RSVP required https://soundofatmosphere.com/nimoy-theater/
>>Co_Sonic 1884 km² Presentation by the Featured Artist
Date: Friday, December 6, 2024, 4 - 6 PM
Location: EDA (Experimental Digital Art)
A three-channel presentation of Co_Sonic 1884 km² with live audio will be performed by the artist, followed by a conversation on water ecology and the rights of nature with invited guests.
RSVP required
Robertina Šebjanič, Lauren Bon, Victoria Vesna, Haley Marks, Alex Hall
Co_Sonic 1884 km² is a performance and panel discussion by Robertina Šebjanič, featuring a three-channel video with live audio performed by the artist. The event explores the connections between water ecology and the rights of nature, with a panel discussion including Robertina Šebjanič, Lauren Bon, Victoria Vesna, Haley Marks, and Alex Hall. This engaging event brings together art, science, and environmental issues, inviting the audience to reflect on important topics about our planet.
Robertina Šebjanič's CO_SONIC 1884 KM2 is an audio/visual-poetic reflection and AI-powered soundscape which explores the Ljubljanica river’s seven distinctly named sections as one integrated whole. Using the sounds and images of different lifeforms who (co)habit along the river’s path, dwelling both above and below the water, this multichannel video and sound installation tells the story of (co)existence among river environments and their human and non-human inhabitants.
LOCATION
Experimental Digital Arts at Broad Art Center
240 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90095
PARKING
Parking Structure 3
215 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA 90024
NAVIGATION
Walk into the main (North) building entrance
Navigate to the elevator bay and descend to the first floor
Walk out of the double doors and turn right into Room 1250.
**UCLA Art|Sci Center Presents "Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption"**
>> Performances, exhibitions, and talks will run Sept 14, 2024, through June 7, 2025
EXHIBITION | Katie Grinnan “The Sensitives”, Amber Stucke “Talking To Plants” as a feature of "Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption"
Opening reception: October 04, 2024, 4–7 pm
Amber Stucke’s Talking to Plants is a sound art installation inspired by knowledge of how Ojibwe people talk to plants for medicine as well as by John Cage's Works of Chance Operations and Indeterminacy. Each sound piece placed onto vinyl is created in response to two questions: what is the idea of a plant and how would you talk to it? The edition of six records will alternate and play in the gallery on a set schedule.
SAVE THE DATES
12-1pm, Saturday, October 5, 2024 - Talking to Plants Listening Hours
12-1pm, Saturday, October 12, 2024 - Talking to Plants Listening Hours
12-1pm, Saturday, October 19, 2024 - Talking to Plants Listening Hours
The Sensitives are copper sculptures studded with oxidizing suckers. Each sucker is touch-sensitive (echoing the chemo-tactile nature of an octopus’ sensory system) and plays a tone when pressed. The sequence of tones derives from a fragment of an octopus’ genetic material. The iterative score generates an expanded signaling: a conversation that operates outside of, but parallel to, human syntax. Sculptures can be activated by visitors when gallery staff are present.
Location
ArtSci Gallery, 5th Floor of CNSI
570 Westwood Plaza,
Los Angeles, CA
Navigation
Walk to the top floor of the parking structure.
Take the gangway along the north side of the lot.
Navigate around the CNSI building to its East entrance (3rd floor).
>>About "Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption:"
Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption is a series of exhibitions and performances, an app, and a publication highlighting eight Art|Sci artists in residence: Sholeh Asgary, Patricia Cadavid, Bill Fontana,Yolande Harris, Anna Nacher, Joel Ong, Iman Person, and Robertina Šebjanič; along with five local artists: Katie Grinnan, Rachel Mayeri, Christina McPhee, Amber Stucke, and Nina Waisman. https://soundofatmosphere.com
OPENING RECEPTION | Bill Fontana “Silent Echoes: Notre-Dame and the Dachstein Glacier”
Bill Fontana’s Silent Echoes: Notre-Dame and the Dachstein Glacier is a duet between two sites of field recording: the melting Dachstein glacier in Austria, and the dormant bells of Notre-Dame after the 2019 fire. Together, they thread a sound sculpture that builds upon Fontana’s historic exploration of acoustic cubism through layered sound. The six-channel sound sculpture will be audible from Dickson Court adjacent to Royce Hall’s south entrance.
LOCATION:
UCLA Royce Hall, 3rd floor
10745 Dickson Ct
Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States + Google Map
Parking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at:
340 Royce Drive,
Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Guest drop is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at:
10745 Dickson Court,
Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Aaron Blaisdell, UCLA Psychology Professor and Chair of the Behavioral Neuroscience
EVENT INFO
Exhibition opening: Wednesday, April 24th, 4- 6 pm
CNSI ArtSci Gallery, 5th floor
570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
The exhibition will be on display through May 2nd, 2024
Please note that visits during workdays are by appointment only. Contact us at least a day in advance to schedule: artscicenter@gmail.com
Pigeons have provided a power house of knowledge on learning, memory, and cognition. Now, they also paint! The Blaisdell lab at UCLA has been studying pigeons making digital art using a touchscreen. The goal is to understand the "why" and the "how" of why pigeons make art. What can this tell us about human art? This exhibit features two collections from our pigeon artists. Step into the pigeon artist studio and see what they've been up to!
Dr. Blaisdell is a Psychology Professor and Chair of the Behavioral Neuroscience area at UCLA, overseeing the Comparative Cognition Lab and the Pigeon Art Project. As a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute, the UCLA Integrative Center for Learning & Memory, and the UCLA Evolutionary Medicine program, Dr. Blaisdell has an extensive academic background with a BA in Anthropology from SUNY Stony Brook, an MS in Anthropology from Kent State University, a Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience from SUNY Binghamton, and two years of NIH-funded postdoctoral training at Tufts University.
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