Christiane Paul, Alex May, Tamiko Thiel and Anuradha Vikram
NFTs (Non-Fungible-Tokens) have consumed conversations since early February and have left many with contradictory feelings of excitement, confusion and, in some cases, outrage at this rapidly growing art market. NFTs at the same time have disrupted traditions in the artworld and offered potential for democratization of the art market, provided a resource for artists to show and sell work, provided a lens for carbon traceability of transactions resulting in discussions about the carbon footprint of NFTs and raised questions about archiving digital art.
In order to gain an understanding about what's going on, we are sitting down with some experts to open up a dialogue for critical conversation surrounding these contentious possibilities. Christiane Paul (Parsons School of Design/The New School) and Alex May (contemporary British media artist/University of Hertfordshire) will will provide us with history and context of NFTs and their relationship to art, discuss the challenges of digital preservation for NFTs and artists' response to the environmental impacts and how this growing market might forever change the way we look at art. After their presentations, Tamiko Thiel (Virtual and Augmented Reality media artist) and Anuradha Vikram (Writer, curator and educator) will respond to the topics up and begin the discussion.
Jen Arch, Erkki Huhtamo, Christine Johnson, Christina Ramos
A collaboration between UCLA's Art|Sci Center and Washington University’s Center for the Humanities and Medical Humanities program, Screening Contagion invites you to a series of panel discussions on four films, with faculty drawn from a variety of disciplines. This week's panel will explore a classic of world cinema: Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal (1957). How does our own pandemic moment inform how we view these films?
Patricia Olynyk; Dr. Chris Zahner, MD; Asien Caro Chacin, PhD.; Carlo Ventura; Monica C. LoCascio, MA; Bianka Hofmann
The Art|Sci Center is excited to announce the launch of a new initiative that bridges the fields of medicine and media art. The Medicine + Media Art Initiative is a multi-layered artistic and scholarly endeavor that serves as a national and international hub for the artistic exploration of contemporary medical science and biotechnology. The fellowship will act as a conduit for advancing new projects and artistic research that reimagine the medicalized body, corporality, notions of embodiment, posthumanism, and the effects of our environment on our sense of bodily presence and well-being in the world.
Join us as we welcome in the new year with a discussion about Public Art and Atmospheric Science. Within this virtual conversation with Dr. Andrea Polli, Dr. Suzanne Paulson and Emily Womack, we will learn how these concepts converge and facilitate expanding awareness about one of our most critical diminishing resources - clean air.
UCLA California NanoSystems Institute
(CNSI), 5th floor
JENNIFER MOON explores the possibilities of virtual world-building for ameliorating psychic pain and social anxiety in her 2018 body of work, “Familial Technologies.”
This exhibition is curated from a larger body of work first exhibited at Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles and includes virtual living spaces and personal avatars developed for use in Avakin Life, a virtual world game that Moon and her parents and brother used to experience family therapy sessions under self-determined circumstances in conjunction with visits to a therapist “IRL”. Moon’s family members are represented here by “player cards” that profile their avatars, screen shots of their individual dwellings in Avakin Life, and screen recordings of their ongoing weekly Avakin Life family relationship sessions.
Through the idealized, mediated virtual platform, the Moon family is able to access aspects of their emotional psyches free of the barriers that physical embodiment presents.
Stealth Drones is comprised of seven embroidery hoops hung in formation. Each hoop contains fractal patterns and ornamentation embroidered in white thread. The hoops are presented on a black velvet backdrop. At regular intervals UV lights are activated in the exhibition space. The embroideries react to the UV light and reveal a new type of information. Once the regular room lights are turned back on, this information disappears.
Please join us for our monthly LASER talk following the opening reception for Stealth Drone by Anne_Niemetz.
We are joining forces with the Fathomers to co-host a program of the National Academy of Sciences for a “Science Speed Dating” event dedicated to vibrant explorations of innovative research in 7 minutes or less,
Communication and games researcher Lonny J. Avi Brooks, AI researcher Philip Butler, aerospace systems engineer Tracy Drain, oceanographer Bethanie Edwards, robotics engineer Maynard Holliday, and theoretical physicist Clifford Johnson offer brief, energetic presentations on their research and work. Following the presentations, AFPC host Ahmed Best moderates a panel and Q&A with the speakers on the implications of their work to the shared experience of Black and Brown communities.
Friday, 18 October 2019 - 7:00pm to Friday, 1 November 2019 - 9:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Anne Niemetz +
LEONARDO ART SCIENCE EVENING RENDEZVOUS (LASER)
UCLA California NanoSystems Institute | Presentation Space (Fifth Floor)
570 Westwood Plaza, Building 114, 5th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking information for Parking Structure 8 https://map.ucla.edu/
ART EXHIBITION + LEONARDO ART SCIENCE EVENING RENDEZVOUS (LASER): CYCLING THROUGH MILANKOVITCH
Please join us for our monthly LASER talk following the opening reception for Cycling Through Milankovic by Dona Jalufka
UCLA California NanoSystems Institute | ArtSci Gallery + Presentation Space (Fifth Floor)
570 Westwood Plaza, Building 114, 5th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking information for Parking Structure 8 https://map.ucla.edu/
