Anne Niemetz is a media artist and designer working in the fields of wearable technology, interactive installation and audio-visual design. She is particularly fascinated by the convergence of art, science, design and technology, and she pursues collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects.
Anne holds a Media Arts degree from the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe, with a focus in digital media and interactive sound installation, and an MFA in Design|Media Arts from the University of California Los Angeles. Since 2007 she’s been living and working in New Zealand, where she holds the position of Senior Lecturer in the Media Design programme at Victoria University of Wellington.
Location: UCLA Broad Art Center, EDA (Experimental Digital Arts)
240 Charles E Young Dr N,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
EDA (Experimental Digital Arts) is located in room 1250 adjacent to the main entrance of the Broad Arts Center at UCLA.
Parking is available in Lot 3, across the street from the Broad Art Center.
Visitors may use the “Pay by Plate” option in Lot 3 to purchase short-term daily parking permits.
For more parking information please call: 310-825-9007.
The Broad Arts Center is easily reachable by several Los Angeles County public bus lines, including the Metro Rapid, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, and the Culver City Bus. For a list of specific transit providers and routes, please visit the Public Transit at UCLA.
'In the Belly of the Beast - Southern California Art, Technology, Science and Society Nexus- A Historical Landscape'
Marko Peljhan is a distinguished artist, researcher, and professor whose work spans the fields of art, technology, and science. Born in 1969 in Slovenia, he has significantly contributed to new media art through his innovative projects and research. Peljhan co-founded the arts and technology organization Projekt Atol in 1992 and played a crucial role in establishing the Ljubljana-based new-media laboratory Ljudmila a year later.
One of his most notable projects is Makrolab, an autonomous communications and research laboratory focused on weather, climate, telecommunications and migrations research, First presented at Documenta X in Kassel in 1997. Makrolab has since operated in various locations around the world, including Western Australia, Venetian Lagoon and the Scottish Highlands. Peljhan's work often addresses themes of surveillance, geopolitics, and environmental issues. Among others he co-founded the Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation in 2002 and in 2008 with fellow artist and colleague Matthew Biederman the Arctic Perspective Initiative. He is the recipient of many prizes for his work, including the 2001 Golden Nica Prize at Ars Electronica with Carsten Nicolai and his work has been exhibited internationally at multiple biennales (Venice, Lyon, Istanbul, Gwangju, Johannesburg, Moscow…) exhibitions and festivals, such as documenta, ISEA, Ars Electronica and museums and art institutions worldwide YCAM, ICC-NT, PS.1. MOMA, GARAGE...). In 2019 he was the representative of the Republic of Slovenia at the Venice Biennale with the work "Here we go again...SYSTEM-317".
Since 2002, Peljhan also serves as professor and director of the Systemics Lab located in the California Nano Systems Institute at UCSB, he was co-director of the UC Wide Institute for Research in the Arts from 2008-2014 and from 2017-2022 he served as Chair of the Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program at the University of California Santa Barbara. He also served as the coordinator of international cooperation for SPACE-SI Slovenian Centre for Space Sciences and Technologies and helped to conceive and launch the first Slovenian remote sensing satellite, NEMO-HD in 2020. He is also editor at large of the music label rx:tx and is known to operate in the radio spectrum as S54MX.
Join Santiago Torres, a former postdoctoral scholar in UCLA's Physics and Astronomy Department and a member of the ArtSci Collective, for a great lecture on astrophysics, sound, and art.
Santiago Torres is an astrophysicist passionate about the art of making science and the science of making art. His research delves into the dynamical interactions of celestial bodies, from stars to planets and comets, through the stellar life cycle and beyond. Parallel to his research, he explores the intersection between science, art, and society, and he is the founder of the {ScienceArt:Collective}, a space to connect scientists and artists. He is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow | IST-BRIDGE Fellow at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and an ArtSci Fellow at the ArtSci Center at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
Location: UCLA Broad Art Center, EDA (Experimental Digital Arts)
240 Charles E Young Dr N,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
EDA (Experimental Digital Arts) is located in room 1250 adjacent to the main entrance of the Broad Arts Center at UCLA.
Parking is available in Lot 3, across the street from the Broad Art Center.
Visitors may use the “Pay by Plate” option in Lot 3 to purchase short-term daily parking permits.
For more parking information please call: 310-825-9007.
The Broad Arts Center is easily reachable by several Los Angeles County public bus lines, including the Metro Rapid, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, and the Culver City Bus. For a list of specific transit providers and routes, please visit the Public Transit at UCLA.
Ryszard W. Kluszczynski is professor of media, cultural, and art studies, Chair of the Department of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Lodz, Poland. Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. He investigates the issues of new media arts and cyberculture, contemporary art theory and practices, avant-gardes and transdisciplinary cultural transformations, and recent interactions between art, science, technology and politics.
Artistic Director of Art + Science Meeting Program in the Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdansk (2011-). Curator of numerous exhibitions within the Program. Co-curator of travelling international exhibition United States of Europe (2011-2013). Curator of the Second International Biennale of Contemporary Art “Mediations”, Poznan 2010. Chief Curator of Film, Video and Multimedia Arts in the Centre for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (1990-2001).
Selected recent book publications:
Tsaibernetics: Transgenerational Cybernetic Art (2023);
Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Ecology. Victoria Vesna and Art in the World of Anthropocene (2020);
Beyond Borders: Processed Body – Expanded Brain – Distributed Agency (2019);
Augmenting the World. Masaki Fujihata and Hybrid Space-Time Art (2017);
Human Traits. Patrick Tresset and the Art of Creative Machines (2016);
Guy Ben-Ary: Nervoplastica. Bio-robotic Art and its Cultural Contexts (2015);
Selected recent articles and chapters:
Embodiment – Immersion – Interaction. The Art of Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau as a Living System. In Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau: The Artwork as a Living System 1992-2022. Eds. Karin Ohlenschläger, Peter Weibel, and Alfred Weidinger. The MIT Press 2023.
The History of Institutional SciArt Initiatives: An Overview of Global Tendencies. In Studiotopia. Eds. Kurt De Boodt, Emma Dumartheray, Alexia Mangelinckx, Ramona Van Gansbeke, Erich Weiss. Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts and Gluon, Brussels 2022.
The Work of Art as a Collection. Violence, Death and Loss in the Art of Luz María Sánchez. “Art Inquiry” 2021, vol. XXIII.
Praise of Darkness. Some extracts from reflections on the forms of the light presence in contemporary artistic practices. In Light as a Creative Tool. Ed. Robert Sochacki, ASP Gdańsk 2021.
Sculpting Time: The Art of Collective Memory. In Shifting Interfaces. An Anthology of Presence, Empathy, and Agency in 21st Century Media Arts. Ed. Hava Aldouby, Leuven University Press, 2020.
Visual Revolutions: From Electronic to Living Imagery, “Art Inquiry” 2020, vol. XXII.
From the Collection of Personal Memories to Collective Memory. Notes on the Archiving Trend in New Media Art. “Time of Culture” 2019, No. 2.
On the Languages of Media and Postmedia Art. In Media Education as a Challenge. Ed. Slawomir Ratajski. Academy of Fine Art and UNESCO Committee in Poland, Warsaw 2019.
Hear Joel Ong discuss his recent artistic research into breath, wind, and the ‘frozen sound’ contained within objects. Ong’s project, In Silence, feeds spoken audio recordings into a transductive pool of water, revealing the patterns of connection between community members in cymatic vibration waves. Ong is scheduled to exhibit in our forthcoming Getty PST exhibition, Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption, scheduled to open in September of 2024.
UCLA Broad Art Center, 5pm
Joel Ong is a media artist whose works connect scientific and artistic approaches to the environment, particularly with respect to sound and physical space. Ong’s work explores the way objects and spaces can function as repositories of ‘frozen sound’, and in elucidating these, he is interested in creating what systems theorist Jack Burnham (1968) refers to as “art (that) does not reside in material entities, but in relations between people and between people and the components of their environment”. A serial collaborator, Ong is invested in the broader scope of Art-Science collaborations and is engaged constantly in the discourses and processes that facilitate viewing these two polemical disciplines on similar ground. His graduate interdisciplinary work in nanotechnology and sound was conducted at SymbioticA, the Center of Excellence for Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia. Ong is currently Assistant Professor at the department of Computational Arts at York University in Toronto.
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Location: UCLA Broad Art Center, EDA (Experimental Digital Arts)
240 Charles E Young Dr N,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
EDA (Experimental Digital Arts) is located in room 1250 adjacent to the main entrance of the Broad Arts Center at UCLA.
Parking is available in Lot 3, across the street from the Broad Art Center.
Visitors may use the “Pay by Plate” option in Lot 3 to purchase short-term daily parking permits.
For more parking information please call: 310-825-9007.
The Broad Arts Center is easily reachable by several Los Angeles County public bus lines, including the Metro Rapid, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, and the Culver City Bus. For a list of specific transit providers and routes, please visit the Public Transit at UCLA.
This LASER is connected to the exhibition opening of Pigeon Art Studio & Animal Creativity at the UCLA Art Sc gallery at CNSI – developed by Aaron Blaisdell, UCLA Psychology Professor and Chair of the Behavioral Neuroscience. His lab at UCLA presents an exhibit featuring pigeons creating digital art, exploring the reasons and processes behind it, and inviting insights into human artistry.
Guest responder is neuroscientist and sci artist Siddharth Ramakrishan who will discuss animal consciousness in labs.
Chaired by: Victoria Vesna
ON SITE at UCLA ArtSci Gallery
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.
Siddharth Ramakrishnan, PhD., a Neuroscientist, is an Assistant Professor of Biology and the Jennie M. Caruthers Chair in Neuroscience at the University of Puget Sound. His research interests span the field of developmental biology, neuroendocrinology and sensory-motor integration. He is a recent recipient of the NSF CAREER award for early career scientists to explore modulation of the reproductive axis in the brain by endocrine disruptors. As a research scientist at Columbia University, he designed microchips to record from brain cells and used proteins to create bio-batteries and biosensors. As a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA (2006-2009) he studied the development and physiology of reproductive neurons in the zebrafish brain. His previous research addressed pattern-generating networks in snails and how they were modulated to elicit various behaviors.
Ivana Dama is a sound artist whose work explores the connection between sound, memory, and human experience. Her work includes audiovisual installation, robotics, and musical performance. Often her projects are influenced by her experience growing up in post-communist Belgrade during the time of the bombings. The memory of the sounds and vibrations of destruction has led her to work with air and sound as a primary medium.
More info: https://www.ivanadama.com
Time: 3pm PDT
Location: UCLA Broad Art Center, EDA (Experimental Digital Arts)
240 Charles E Young Dr N,
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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EDA (Experimental Digital Arts) is located in room 1250 adjacent to the main entrance of the Broad Arts Center at UCLA.
Parking is available in Lot 3, across the street from the Broad Art Center.
Visitors may use the “Pay by Plate” option in Lot 3 to purchase short-term daily parking permits.
For more parking information please call: 310-825-9007.
The Broad Arts Center is easily reachable by several Los Angeles County public bus lines, including the Metro Rapid, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, and the Culver City Bus. For a list of specific transit providers and routes, please visit the Public Transit at UCLA.
Are the experiences of performing live virtually and in analog mutually substitutable? What is lost as a result of mediation? What is gained? How performers can take advantage of the tele-interaction? These and other questions arise for anyone who attempts to be creative with other people remotely in live format. Yet, while taking advantage of the possibility to easily connect with people all over the globe to compose and perform, most of us are missing the “authentic” in-person experience. What is the authenticity that makes the analog performance more rewarding and satisfactory than the remote? Is there a way to turn mediation to our advantage?
Rather than looking down to the past technology as obsolete, we propose to look at what teleperformance was like in the pre-Zoom era. 30 years ago the possibility to jam live across time and space was a cutting-edge practice that required days of preparation and hours of set up as well as embracing the risk that something would not work. Yet, there’s something to learn from the past practice when technology wasn’t commodified/instantaneously available to a general user.
The video-phone technology (Galloway & Rabinowitz) and computerized instruments with remote control (Yamaha Disclavier) were the key elements of a teleperformance. Watching the ’92 improvisation of two pioneers of experimental music, Terry Riley (Nice, France) and David Rosenboom (Electronic Cafe International, Santa Monica), across time and space we aspire to understand how performers navigated telepresence decades ago and how it impacted their creative practice. The ultimate question concerns the tension between art-making, associated with feeling/affective experience, and disembodying technology, which requires rationality and precision. Is there a way to get around these dichotomies?
Attendees are invited to join an introductory lecture followed by the screening of not previously publicly available recording of the 1992 teleimprovisation, and share their impressions of jamming in the pre-Zoom era.
This event is taking place as a part of Victoria Vesna’s Spring ’24 class “Introduction to Art, Science, and Technology.” Arranged by the Art|Sci Center at UCLA, the event is open to public and will be live streamed.
EDA (Experimental Digital Arts) is located in room 1250 adjacent to the main entrance of the Broad Arts Center at UCLA.
Parking is available in Lot 3, across the street from the Broad Art Center.
Visitors may use the “Pay by Plate” option in Lot 3 to purchase short-term daily parking permits.
For more parking information please call: 310-825-9007.
The Broad Arts Center is easily reachable by several Los Angeles County public bus lines, including the Metro Rapid, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, and the Culver City Bus. For a list of specific transit providers and routes, please visit the Public Transit at UCLA.
April 11th, 2024
3:00-6:00 PM PDT
UCLA Broad Art Center
Join the Art|Sci Center in learning about Yolande Harris’ artistic research conducted with Dr. Ari Friedlaender of UCSC. Harris incorporates underwater field recordings of whale vibrations, and realizes her work in glass, bronze, and multi-media forms. She will exhibit in our forthcoming exhibition, Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption, scheduled to open in September of 2024 in partnership with the 2024 Getty PST initiative.
featuring Hannah Landecker
responder Patricia Olynyk
Chaired by Victoria Vesna
Location: UCLA CNSI, 5th Floor, Presentation Room
This LASER is connected to the exhibition opening at the UCLA ArtSci gallery at CNSI – developed by Professor Hannah Landecker with her students: "Hot Cling, Shear Magic, and the Mouthfeel of Capitalism:
Images From the History of Ultra Processed Foods" ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: http://artsci.ucla.edu/node/1709
Guest responder is artist Patricia Olynyk, who is a fellow of the UCLA Art Sci Medicine & Media Arts initiative: https://medicineandmediaarts.com
Hannah Landecker, with a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from MIT and a B.Sc. in Cell and Developmental Biology from the University of British Columbia, uses the tools of history and social science to study contemporary developments in the life sciences, and their historical taproots in the twentieth century. She has taught and researched in the fields of history of science, anthropology and sociology. At UCLA she is cross-appointed between the Institute for Society and Genetics, and the Sociology Department. She is currently working on a book called “American Metabolism,” which looks at transformations to the metabolic sciences wrought by the rise of epigenetics, microbiomics, cell signaling and hormone biology.
MORE INFO https://soc.ucla.edu/person/hannah-landecker/
Patricia Olynyk is an artist, writer, and educator whose work explores science and technology-related themes and the ways in which social systems and institutional structures shape our understanding of our place in the world. She is the former director of Washington University’s Graduate School of Art and the Florence and Frank Bush Professor in Art. She holds a courtesy appointment in WashU’s School of Medicine and fellowships in the Institute for Public Health and Living Earth Collaborative, both interdisciplinary hubs that facilitate research across a wide range of fields.
MORE INFO https://patriciaolynyk.com
