Alvaro Azcarraga
UCLA MFA student Design Media Arts major
Jennifer Hotes
UCLA Undergraduate student Design Media Arts major
Matt Teeter
UCLA Undergraduate student- Biochemistry major
John Brumley
PhD, Human Informatics- University of Tsukuba, Japan
Nidhi Vinod
PhD, Evolutionary Biology- UCLA
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxManhattanBeach, where x = independently organized TED event. TED Talks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized. Please join us at our event.
[ALIEN] STAR DUST – SIGNAL TO NOISE
Online Meditation: Molecular Light for South America
Hosted by artist Clarissa Ribeiro from Fortaleza, Brazil
Victoria Vesna and Art Sci collective members
Wednesday, August 25th | Meditation, 9 AM - 10 AM PST
CHRISTIAN KOEBERL
ALIEN STAR DUST SOUTH AMERICA: CAMPO DEL CIELO METEORITE
On the occasion of a collective online meditation to benefit those impacted by COVID 19 in South America, Dr. Christian Koeberl introduced the background of a meteorite that crashed in Argentina -- Campo del Cielo. The craters' age is estimated as four to five thousand years. Containing iron masses, they were reported in 1576, but were already well known to local indigenous communities. Dr. Köberl is a Professor of impact research and planetary geology at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is best known for his research on meteorite impact craters. From June 2010 to May 2020 he was director general of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. He commissioned Victoria Vesna to develop a piece for the meteorite gallery at NHM in Vienna and the premiere of Alien Star Dust was on March 11, the day before the entire Europe locked down due to the pandemic. The installation was not seen by many and this piece migrated to the web as a meditation on dust caused by pollution mixed in with star dust that falls on earth every day.
INTERNATIONAL COMPLAINTS DOSSIER
OF BRAZIL’S INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
We present this International Complaints Dossier to the world, as it registers severe violations and threats hovering over the lives, bodies and territories of indigenous peoples in Brazil. We do help spreading the message of the dossier expecting this call to be heard worldwide, inviting for an online meditation to remember that this juncture needs to be fought not only by the indigenous communities, but by all those who defend human, animals, and plants rights, impacting the future of all life on Planet Earth.
Comprising less than 5% of the world's population, indigenous people protect 80% of global biodiversity
Victoria Vesna’s work has long focused on immersing her audiences in installation spaces that are meant to slow down time and take us into other dimensions. This led her to work in close collaborations with musicians, sound artists, nanoscientists, biologists, neuro-scientists and buddhist monks among others. Some examples of work in the past two decades are the NanoMandala, Water Bowls, Blue Morph, Octopus Brain Storming, Bird Song Diamond and most recently the Noise Aquarium. In this new work, together with her collaborators from the UCLA Art Sci collective and Harvestworks, she takes us on a meditative journey to outer space.
Premiering with the support of Harvestworks, this work is meant to be experienced as a guided meditation bringing to life the sensations of meteorites and micro-meteorites falling on all continents and mixing with the anthropogenic dust falling on our planet from many dimensions. Layers of sounds from inner and outer space with animations of dust and data driven by corona deaths are presented with the intent of honoring those who left their bodies without preparation and all who are suffering.
This online version was created as a meditation that is guided by the artist following the extra-terrestrial, terrestrial, and human-made dusts traveling far and wide and creating complexity that is part of an invisible reality. Most go about their daily life without being aware of ever thinking about the extraterrestrial dusts that could be on their kitchen floor, right here on earth. The alien signal is lost in the human noise and the group meditation reclaims our vision of planetary citizenship.
We are created from stardust by nuclear fusion, like our myriad siblings – animals, plants, insects, plankton, bacteria, and viruses, and we all function together in vibratory fields – bottom up just as nature and nanotechnology works. [Alien] Star Dust rains on us every day and this piece brings these particles to our attention and reminds us of our interconnected heritage in the larger cosmos. Dust knows no borders.
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...
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.
Friday, 7 September 2018 - 5:00pm to Monday, 10 September 2018 - 6:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Organizers: Dawn Faelnar + Ben Olsen
Art|Sci alumni and current grad student at Interface Cultures, Dawn Faelnar is one of the organizers of Leonardo SLAM, Sept. 7th, 9th and 10th, Ars Electronica Festival 2018, OK center Ursulinensaal, 5-6pm More info >>
The Leonardo Slam is an event for cross contamination of ideas, a short open public gathering based on the format of poetry slam, but more free-form: an individual or group may present work, words, stories, video, sound, ideas about work, work about ideas, work about work, ideas about ideas, work about nothing, ideas about music, music about performances, apples about oranges, oranges about history, history about histories, dance about architecture, et cetera.
Present or demonstrate an artwork, give a serious presentation, give a parody presentation, read a manifesto, tell an anecdote, involve the audience, improvise a song. There is no limit on the form of the presentation other than having a non negative duration and not being too long.
