LASER symposium featuring Anna Dumitriu (bio-artist), Alex May (digital artist) and Pratik Shah (biomedical engineer)
February 4, 2016 7-9pm
Presentation Space, CNSI 5th floor
A solo exhibition of speculative morphologies by Amisha Gadani featuring birds without beaks, uni-colored chimeras, and a series of boxfishes that may exist, may have existed, or may exist in the future. The inspiration for the paintings and drawings in this exhibition stemmed partly from Gadani's two year artist residency in both the UCLA fish-focused evolutionary biology lab of Dr. Michael Alfaro and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics.
Bio:
Amisha Gadani is an artist, educator and illustrator based in Los Angeles. She is interested in unique animal morphologies and adaptations; from swarming behaviors and elegant defense mechanisms, to superorganisms and animals of the deep sea. Her work ranges from unsettling beak-less bird paintings and underwater videos to her on-going series of interactive animal-inspired defensive dresses that can, for example, inflate like a blowfish when the wearer is intimidated. She has spent over four years working at the art and science focused Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco in education, exhibits and illustration; and two years working at UCLA in two biology labs as an illustrator producing over fifty scientific illustrations featured in journals and research papers and as an outreach educator using drawing and sculpture focused workshops to explain scientific concepts to local elementary school students.
Her work has shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, New York City, and Tokyo; has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, and Scientific American; and has been published in LIMN magazine, the journal Method Quarterly and the book "Future Fashion: Innovative Materials and Technology" by Barcelona-based maomao publications.
Amisha earned a B.F.A in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007.
Jason Fahrion, Fasih Ahsan with UCLA IGEM, and Mick Lorusso
October 22, 2015
Workshop | 5-7pm
UCLA Art|Sci Gallery
5th Floor, California Nanosystems Institute
Through the projects of artist Jason Fahrion, who raises silkworms in his garage on local mulberry leaves, and the experiments of UCLA iGEM to genetically engineer unique types of silk for medicine and design, Seres Makers of Silk introduces participants to the processes involved in the production and transformation of silk. We will physically examine and compare silk samples from the lab and studio, while also watching live silk worms and learning how IGEM spins synthetic silk. And by listening to data sonification of DNA sequences from different organisms including spiders and silkworms, we will consider the possibilities and difficulties in genetically engineering silk for future applications.
Robert Gero on his upcoming exhibition: "My recent research as an artist has led me to speculate on the existence of certain unique structures, infinity structures, in which there is a stable exterior and an infinitely expanding interior. A seemingly impossible structure, whose internal dimensions exceed its external ones. These structures are quantitative additions in space at the same time their movement expresses qualitative change. They both conceptually and materially transform static space into dynamic space by weaving superfluity, the void and solid together in an intimate dance.
This project is an empirical one, to actually generate infinity structures and to ground them in the math and philosophy of the infinite to create an installation of these paradoxical structures. This exhibition will include video by AME (Benjamin Lein and Kevin Mitchell) and a soundscape by Randy Greif."
Robert Gero’s work – both built and written - is grounded in the practical and theoretical intersection of art practice, philosophy and social-architectural systems. He holds an M.F.A. in sculpture and an M.A. in philosophy/aesthetics from California State University, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in philosophy (with concentrations on philosophy of art/ and art theory) from the New School for Social Research in New York.
He has exhibited nationally and internationally, selected exhibitions include The Museum of Arts and Design, Out of Hand; Materializing the Postdigital, New York, NY, the 45th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, Artist Space, New York, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, Tom Solomon’s Gallery, Los Angeles, Dorsky Gallery, New York, Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, New York Favorite Goods Gallery, Los Angeles, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, Makor Gallery, New York, UICA, Grand Rapids, Lab Gallery, New York, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA. He has recently been awarded an Art Matters grant, NY (2011).
In addition to his studio work he writes about art and curates. He is the curator of Doing and Undergoing a large-scale exhibition at Teachers College, Columbia University, 16 October – 15 December 2013, “Brought into Being: Performativity and Formative Performance” exhibition at the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, New York (2013). This follows two exhibitions he curated at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in Saint Louis titled “Killing Time” (2012). and Performativity and Performance in Contemporary Art (2011-2012). He also curated Freewaves, the work of Jennifer Steinkamp at The Santa Monica Museum of Art CA, among numerous other exhibitions. He is currently teaching at SUNY College at Old Westbury in New York.
LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous ) Featured Speakers:
FRIDA CANO (Mexico, 1982) Visual artist and curator. Creator of art project and transdisciplinary research project Arttextum in collaboration with the Subdireccion General de Promoción de Las Bellas Artes, Ministry of Culture, Education, and Sports, Madrid, Spain.
CAITLIN FOLEY and MISHA RABINOVICH, Professors at UMass Lowell, create artworks which respond to culturally relevant, yet sometimes utopic examples of sharing communities, livable ecologies, and the transmutation of waste.
PAUL C. ROSERO (Ecuador,1982) Artist whose cross-disciplinary interests include photography, experimental sound, coding with free software, bio-philosophy and performance as dj.
Start: 12 May 2015 5:00 pm
End: 14 May 2015 4:00 pm
Opening reception:
May 12, 2015
5-7pm
UCLA Art|Sci Gallery 5th Floor, California Nanosystems Institute
The UCLA Art Science Undergraduate Society is a student group that aims to create a community of creative minds from all majors. They foster the artistic and scientific development of our members by working on collaborative art pieces and showing them in a public exhibit at the end of the year. They also explore the work of other artist-scientists through our partnership with the UCLA Art|Sci Center and by going on quarterly trips to galleries and museums in Los Angeles. Students in our organization gain powerful analytical and creative skills while learning how to effectively communicate across many disciplines. In sum, the Art Science Undergraduate Society merges inspired minds from the sciences and humanities. Through lively discussion, artistic exploration, and the building of a supportive community, they have expanded the UCLA undergraduate experience.
The 2014-2015 showcase of member work focuses on the theme Movement. This theme challenged students to consider the many ways in which movement is manifested in artistic practice and how it relates to the science of kinetics. Most members’ pieces focus on motion at a conceptual level, interpreted through the movement of living things, from tracking reptile and amphibian locomotion to the mechanics of human muscles. Movement is a subject with the potential for a diversity of interpretations and wide application across the humanities, the sciences, and the arts.
Artist Kathy High presents the exhibition Waste Matters: You Are My Future, whichexplores immune systems as autopoiesis, capable of maintaining themselves, looking at research in fecal microbial transplants and gut biomes to better understand the important function of bacteria in our bodies. This project looks at the metaphor of interspecies love, immunology and bacteria as players.
KATHY HIGH (USA) is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of technology, science, speculative fiction and art. She produces videos and installations posing queer and feminist inquiries into areas of medicine/bio-science, and animal/interspecies collaborations. She hosts bio/ecology+art workshops and is creating an urban nature center in North Troy (NATURE Lab) with media organization The Sanctuary for Independent Media. High is Professor of Video and New Media in the Department of Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. She teaches documentary and experimental digital video production, history and theory, as well as biological arts.
Kathy High is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of technology, science, speculative fiction and art.
Thursday, April 14, 2015
Exhibition: KATHY HIGH
Art|Sci Gallery, 5th Floor CNSI
LASER, 7-9 pm
Visual media artist, independent media arts curator and media arts teacher Kathy High occupies the Art|Sci Gallery space with her interdisciplinary practice in the areas of technology, science, speculative fiction, and art, explored via video and installation.
Museum of Endoluminosity: Phase I Nanodiamonds and Healing
Mick Lorusso + Art|Sci Collective
Exhibition Opening 5-7 pm
Art|Sci Gallery, 5th Floor CNSI
LASER 7-9 pm
CNSI Presentation Space, 5th Floor
Researchers at UCLA, including Dr. Dean Ho and Jim Gimzewski, have shown that diamonds small enough to enter living cells, nanodiamonds, could be instrumental in curing cancer, improving the immune system of the elderly, and helping to heal wounds after surgery. Extending scientific research into a realm of imagination and belief, the exhibit "Museum of Endo-Luminosity" also suggests imagery that people might use for visualization during physical illness and psychological distress. The “Museum of Endo-Luminosity” is directed by Mick Lorusso and includes contributions and collaborations from Dr.Dean Ho and UCLArts and Healing, and the Art|Sci Collective, amongst others.
Opening reception: Feb 19, 5-7pm
followed by LASER 7-9pm
UCLA Art|Sci Gallery, CNSI
runs until March 18, 2015
(viewings by appointment only)
A project developed by Mick Lorusso in conversation and collaboration with UCLA Art|Sci Collective, Alia Ghoneum, Dr. James Gimzewski, Dr. Dean Ho, Clarissa Ribeiro, Dr. Benjamín Domínguez and Dr. Yolanda Olvera (UNAM, Mexico), friends and family.
Researchers at UCLA, including Dr. Dean Ho and Jim Gimzewski, have shown that diamonds small enough to enter living cells, nanodiamonds, could be instrumental in curing cancer, improving the immune system of the elderly, and helping to heal wounds after surgery. Extending scientific research into a realm of imagination and belief, the exhibit "Museum of Endoluminosity" also suggests imagery that people might use for visualization during physical illness and psychological distress.
Event is FREE and open to the public. Check out the event on Facebook.
Art|Sci Gallery / CNSI 5th floor Presentation Space. Clickherefor a downloadable PDF map andherefor an interactive campus map.
Aisen Caro Chacin, Joel Ong and Art|Sci Collective
06 NOVEMBER 2014
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY
Aisen Caro Chacin, Joel Ong and the Art|Sci Collective joined the multi-year collaboration of Professor Victoria Vesna and evolutionary biologist Dr. Charles Taylor in this sound and art exhibition based on the NSF-sponsored research on Mapping Acoustic Sensor Array of Bird Communication Networks.
Secret Life of Birds built off of this idea and aimed to re-examine the bonds between humans and birds through the perspective of the birds. This ongoing project continues to see various disciplines of art and science converging to present Taylor’s research as a work of art.
LASER:
October 2, 2014 7pm
Art|Sci Gallery
CNSI 5th floor
From the work of artist Jason Fahrion, who raises silkworms in his garage on local mulberry leaves, to UCLA iGEM's quest for genetically modifying bacteria to produce fluorescent silk, a cabinet of curiosities at the Art|Sci Gallery weaves a story of silk, and of the biological factories that humans have carefully cultivated to manufacture it.
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.
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