CNSI Building at UCLA
Art | Sci Center Gallery, 5th Floor
570 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
“Vivarium: A Place Of Life” is an installation that studies the interactions within an ecosystem, from the movement of matter and energy, to the community created by the living and nonliving organisms. This network of interactions is captured in the macroscopic and microscopic level through time, as an attempt to scale what it means to be part of a larger ecosystem: the Earth. The exhibition will be followed by the UCLA Art | Sci Center's monthly Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER).
Maru García is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist whose work is inspired to capture, understand, and express the relationship and interaction between humans and Nature. Through the intersection between art, science, and technology, her work seeks to address environmental and social issues, particularly the protection of the world’s biodiversity and ecosystems.
During this exciting week centered around the environment, art and science, Linda returns to the UCLA Art|Sci Center for several days of eco-centric events, including a lecture involving her forthcoming book, open workshops and a can't-miss open-mic symposium.
You are invited to an interactive exhibition by Linda Weintraub exploring Ecological Materialism and Contemporary Art, the focus of her forthcoming book. Linda will be present at the UCLA Art|Sci Gallery to meet students, introduce her new project, and guide their interactions. She will hold several hands-on workshops for blocks of 10–12 people at a time on April 19th and 20th:
19 APRIL 2017
12:00pm–1:00pm | open registration
1:00pm–2:00pm | open registration
4:00pm–5:00pm | open registration
5:00pm–6:00pm | open registration
6:00pm–7:00pm | open registration
20 APRIL 2017
12:00pm–1:00pm | open registration
1:00pm–2:00pm | open registration
4:00pm–7:00pm | reserved for UCLA Honors 177: Biotech + Art students only
Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. She has earned her reputation by making the outposts of vanguard art accessible to broad audiences. The current vanguard, she believes, is propelled by environmental consciousness that is not only the defining characteristic of contemporary manufacturing, architecture, science, ethics, politics, and philosophy, it is delineating contemporary art.
LEONARDO ART SCIENCE EVENING RENDEZVOUS
7:00–9:00pm | Presentation Space
5th Floor, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
Featuring keynote speakers Iain Kerr & Petia Morozov, Mary Flanagan, Mary Tsang, and Daniel Landau.
Eat Your Sidewalk is a ground-breaking, category-defying foraging cookbook!
"It is a manifesto and a call to action. We want to inspire you to find wonder and ecological possibilities directly underfoot. We want to launch a sidewalk-to-table revolution that changes our cities and gives us a new sense of community and place." —SPURSE
Ian Kerr
Location: Montclair, NJ; Detroit, MI;
Core Practices: Systems Analysis & Design, Ecological Design, Workshop Facilitator, Innovation and Creativity, Foraging + Commons Facilitator, Foodways, Commons Facilitator
Petia Morozov
Location: Montclair, NJ; New York City, NY
Core Practices: Urban Ecosystem Designer, Socio-Eco Change Facilitator, Architecture, Urbanism
January 19, 2017
5-7 pm: Exhibition Opening / Reception for the artist -- Art Sci gallery, CNSI 5th floor.
7-8:30 pm: LASER with Lucie Strecker, Kalus Spiess, Stephen Nowlin, Chris O'Leary, Ryohei Nakatsu and the featured artist. Presentation space, CNSI 5th floor. Directions to Art|Sci Gallery | CNSI 5th floor
This year's Japan Cultural Envoy appointed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, international artist Naoko Tosa (Ph.D.) will join us on January 19th, 2017 for the debut of her Genesis exhibition! Genesis magnifies the intermixing of traditional Japanese pigments mobilized by viscous fluid and dry ice using cutting-edge technology to create an immersive experience out of phenomena normally invisible to the human eye.
Naoko Tosa's early artwork has been collected by Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a fellow at MIT Centre for Advanced Visual Studies established by George Keeps of Bauhaus. She is currently an information technology professor at Kyoto University.
Naoko Tosa (Ph.D.) is an international artist whose early artwork has been collected by Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a fellow at MIT Centre for Advanced Visual Studies established by George Keeps of Bauhaus. She is currently an information technology professor at Kyoto University.
Website: http://www.tosa.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Art|Sci's current artists-in-residence Lucie Strecker and Klaus Spiess present the performative installation XCurrency as a work in progress. Their artistic research explores experimental currency systems that can negotiate value through their liveness when mediated by interfaces with consumers and their affective resources.
XCurrency is based on Lucie Strecker’s and Klaus Spiess’s previous work ‘Hare’s blood+’ which reflected on artworks incorporating animal relics. The artists designed a synthetic gene from a Joseph Beuys multiple that contained hare’s blood and spliced it into living cells which were put up for auction. The bids at the auction were linked to the living and dying processes of the cells, positioning them as agents in the making of value, in line with a counter-economy envisioned by Joseph Beuys.
Whether proposing exchange by liveness within an auction or as now relating the informational virtuality of the expanded genetic alphabet of XDNA with speculation on the financial markets, the artists always propose a reciprocal qualitative dependency between currencies and their consumers.
Lucie Strecker and Klaus Spiess have been developing transdisciplinary performances and installations that address biopolitical issues for many years. A former endocrinologist, psychosomaticist and medical anthropologist, Klaus Spiess now works as an artist and associate professor at the Medical University of Vienna. Lucie Strecker is an performance artist and researcher and holds a senior postdoc position at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Performances and installations by both artists have been shown at Budascoop Kortrijk, Tanzquartier and Belvedere/21er Haus, Vienna, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the BEALL Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, the Onassis Cultural Center Athens and the OK Center, Linz, where the duo were awarded an Honorary Mention (2015) at the Prix Ars Electronica. They have published numerous articles on their transdisciplinary performances in Performance Research, Kunstforum International, Springerin and The Lancet, among others.
FLUID SYSTEMS Exhibition Opening and LASER
November 17, 2016 | 5:00pm
Art|Sci Gallery and Presentation Room | CNSI 5th floor
UCLA Sci|Art NanoLab instructors Rita Blaik, Amisha Gadani, Mick Lorusso, Olivia Osborne, David Prince and Dan Wilkinson present their collaborations integrating living systems, the watershed, climate change and ice. Current advances in microfluidics, technologies that allow researchers to simulate and study the interactions of fluids, chemicals, and living cells, inspired the first workshops in the Sci|Art Nanolab that the show Fluid Systems is based on. In manipulating very small volumes of liquid, we can begin to understand complex phenomena from the bottom up.
Fluid Systems explores the myriad of relationships between flows on the micro and macro level. David Prince introduces to the art of making Kombucha and Kombucha caviar. Rita Blaik reveals how dissolved particles in water scatter light in unique colors and patterns, through a phenomenon known as the Tyndall effect. Capillaries of zebrafish in Oliva Osborne’s research on nanotoxicology connect with the flow of blood in our bodies, videos by Mick Lorusso of rivers and estuaries, and the melting of their collaborative ice sculptures in the gallery. Dan Wilkinson shares jostling non-Newtonian fluids with us, and Amisha Gadani shows us her experiments with the flow of fabrics and objects through water. A collective Water Canning stand, made by the Art|Sci Collective (including Mick Lorusso, Dawn Faelnar, Victoria Vesna and Judy Kim), allows participants to take a can of water home and participate in this flow of water on many levels, from the nano to the global.
Following the exhibition opening is our November edition of Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) featuring:
Martina Fröschl | Digital Artist, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Noa Pinter-Wollman | Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Adam Hogan | Media Artist, PhD candidate at DxArts, University of Washington, Seattle
Rita Blaik, Olivia Osborne, Mick Lorusso, and Dan Wilkinson | UCLA Sci|Art Nanolab Instructors
Following the reception is UCLA Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous, FOURTH STATE OF MATTER
featuring talks by UCLA plasma physicist, Walter Gekelman, the Art|Sci Collective,
physicist & IPAM research fellow Ana Jofre, and visual artist Megan Lindeman.
19 May 2016 | 6:00PM–8:00PM
Presentation Space | 5th Floor CNSI
For more than two decades, media artist and designer Anne Niemetz has been working in the areas of audio-visual design, interactive installation and wearable technology. Her newest work, Drone Sweet Drone, an installation of an embroidered drone swarm using Arduino technology, is a combination of these interests. By fusing the traditional with the technologically advanced, Drone Sweet Drone, asks us to consider the ordinary and extraordinary ways that drones affect our everyday lives.
Toni Dove will demo interactive elements from several projects using video motion sensing to control projected video. Followed by a Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous.
BIO
Considered one of the pioneers of interactive cinema, New York-based artist Toni Dove creates unique hybrids of film, installation, experimental theater and gaming. Participants interact with video, using motion sensing and other embodied interface strategies to “perform” on-screen avatars. Major projects include: Artificial Changelings, an interactive cinema installation in which viewers navigate between two centuries, debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival, 1998, Spectropia, a feature length live-mix movie performance for two players debuted 2008 Wexner Center, Lucid Possession, a live mix video performance with multiple robotic screens and musical performers, premiered Roulette, NYC, 2013. The Dress That Eats Souls, a robotic cinema installation is currently in development and will premiere at a retrospective of Dove’s interactive work at the Ringling Museum in Fla., 2018
2000/2003 – Dove served on a Government Advisory Committee on Information Technology and Creativity, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, USA.
Grants and awards: Rockefeller Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The LEF Foundation, MediaThe Foundation, and the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from M.I.T.
DEMO
Dove will demo interactive elements from several projects using video motion sensing to control projected video. Participants will move a characters body onscreen with their own movement, experience a video puppet that lip-synchs live to their voice, and explore the interactive narrative vocabulary of an installation that allows them to navigate between two characters - one in the 19th century and one in the future.
Jean-Pierre Hébert is an independent artist interested in drawings and algorithmic art. Hébert lives and works in Santa Barbara, California. He is a pioneer in the field of digital art from the mid 70's on, merging traditional art media and techniques, personal software, plotters, devices, and custom built apparatus to create an original, extensive body of work. The early work was essentially drawings on paper, and has since evolved to embrace printmaking, installations, digital wall displays, and artist’s books.The initial obsession with precise line constructions has opened up to chance, motion, light, sound, text. The aim remains quiet beauty and peaceful meditation.
Hebert is the recipient of Pollock-Krasner Foundation and David Bermant Foundation awards, and the Siggraph Distinguished Artist award for lifetime achievements in the digital arts. He co-founded the Algorists in 1995 with Roman Verostko. His work has been exhibited extensively and has been frequently juried in the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery. It is present in several museums and institutional collections, including the digital art collections of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University, Chicago) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). Recent shows include Technovisual: Art in the Age of Code at American Association fo the Advancement of Science –Washington DC, Art+Computer/Time at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Luminous Flux at Thoma Art Foundation –Santa fe, All-go-rhythms at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art –Chicago.
Since 2003, he has been artist-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he has organized several Algorists group shows.These shows have included pioneers like Jean-FrançoisColonna, HansDehlinger, David Em, HelamanFerguson, PaulHertz, Channa Horwitz, Robert Lang, Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, Casey Reas, Roman Verostko, and younger artists.
