Hox Zodiac is inspired by the Hox genes, which are essential to the embryonic creation of body plans of different animals in the framework of the Chinese Zodiac. Beyond our current cultural immersion that pivots on animal experimentation and industrial agriculture, we ask that you reconsider us human animals as sharing the cycles of time and space with those on the zodiac wheel. At this hybrid event, we invite you to share a meal offering for breakfast, lunch, or dinner as your animal sign, to partake in food and exchange conversations around our relationship to animals as pets, food, science experiments, and myths.
You are welcome to share what you like to EAT or offer yourself and BE EATEN.
Sign up for the monthly gatherings of animals around the table – EAT or be EATEN! We celebrate the DOG with leftovers from Thanksgiving.
Zoom Link: http:// https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99605352419
UCLA Art Sci Center presents Zeynep Abes and the outcome of her residency STEAM Imaging IV at Fraunhofer MEVIS, the video Installation MOMENTS WITHIN
Zeynep Abes, Turkish media artist and graduate of UCLA's Design Media Arts MFA program, exhibits Moments Within: Forgotten Feelings and False Memories. The video installation is the outcome of her residency »STEAM Imaging IV« at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Germany. Our identity, who we are, and what we do today are closely tied to our past or what we remember. But how trustworthy is our memory? Our recollections are fluid, subject to alteration every time they're retrieved. That is, we don't remember our past the exact
same way each time. Moments Within explores memory deteriorating over time and the change in the way we retrieve a fading past, whether with natural memory loss or patients with Alzheimer's.
Using a publicly available 7-Tesla MRI scan of a brain as a poetic and practical tool, the continuously disfigured visualizations focus on the parts of the brain that are crucial in determining the stability of memory, like the amygdala, hippocampus, and neocortex. As a one-channel video installation, Moments Within visualizes our cerebral vascular system as dreamlike landscapes in 3D space to create an immersive experience of remembering
and forgetting.
STEAM Imaging IV was hosted by Fraunhofer MEVIS in collaboration with Ars Electronica, Linz, AU, the International Fraunhofer Talent School Bremen, the School Center Walle, Bremen, DE, and the UCLA ArtSci Center, Los Angeles, US. The residency program allowed artist Zeynep Abes to engage in intensive exchange with Fraunhofer MEVIS experts to examine current methods, developments, and results of research in their works critically. A key component of the program was the shared encounter with school students and their parents from the School Center Walle.
After the opening reception on the 7th, the show will be open for viewing by appointment only.
Hox Zodiac is inspired by the Hox genes, which are essential to the embryonic creation of body plans of different animals in the framework of the Chinese Zodiac. Beyond our current cultural immersion that pivots on animal experimentation and industrial agriculture, we ask that you reconsider us human animals as sharing the cycles of time and space with those on the zodiac wheel. At this hybrid event, we invite you to share a meal offering for breakfast, lunch, or dinner as your animal sign, to partake in food and exchange conversations around our relationship to animals as pets, food, science experiments, and myths.
You are welcome to share what you like to EAT or offer yourself and BE EATEN.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2022
10am PDT, 1pm EDT, 7pm CET
FEATURED ROOSTERS:
Charles Taylor (LA)
Maša Jazbec (SL)
Bailey Connolly (CT)
Photo description:
Rooster head from at Hox Zodiac table -- the Angewandte Innovation Lab (AIL) -- opening banquet, Microperformativity conference & exhibition, 2018
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Ellen K. Levy is a multimedia artist and writer known for exploring art, science and technology interrelationships since the mid-1980s. Levy highlights them through exhibitions, educational and curatorial programs, and publications. Her graduate studies were at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston following a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in Zoology. She was President of the College Art Association (2004-2006) before earning her doctorate (2012) from the University of Plymouth (UK) on the art and neuroscience of attention. She then was Special Advisor on the Arts and Sciences at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (2012-2017). She was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Arts and Sciences at Skidmore College (1999), a position supported by the Luce Foundation, and has taught many transdisciplinary classes and workshops (e.g., at The New School, Cooper Union, Brooklyn College, Banff). She has exhibited widely in the US and abroad. Levy’s solo exhibitions include the New York and National Academy of Sciences, and she was represented by Associated American Artists and Michael Steinberg Fine Arts (NYC) until they closed in 2009. Her work has been in landmark group exhibitions overseen by Lucy Lippard and Martin Kemp and in more recent exhibitions at Cyfest held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, at Ars Electronica and ISEA. She was guest editor of Art Journal’s special issue, “Contemporary Art and the Genetic Code” (1996), the first in-depth academic publication about genomics and art and has since pursued these topics in depth. She was twice an invited participant at Robert Wilson’s Art and Consciousness Workshop (Watermill, NY). Since 2009, she and Patricia Olynyk have co-directed the NY LASER, a forum in support of Leonardo/ISAST. With Charissa Terranova, she is co-editor of D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design: From Forces to Forms (2021, Bloomsbury Press). Following the publication, attuned with pop artist Richard Hamilton who curated an exhibition devoted to Thompson’s insights in 1951 at the London ICA called "Growth and Form," she curated a related exhibition of contemporary art at Pratt Manhattan Gallery (NYC). Levy and Barbara Larson co-edit the “Science and the Arts Since 1750” book series of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Press.
Saturday, 10 December 2022 - 9:00am to Wednesday, 15 February 2023 - 6:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Victoria Vesna
ALIEN STAR DUST: Signal to Noise is a multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary project premiered on March 10, 2020, in Vienna at the meteorite gallery of the Natural History Museum. This research-based art project invites viewers to gain an intimate understanding of the importance and complexity of dust.
Every creature contains hydrogen atoms, and every material element is manufactured in stars through fusion. We, along with our myriad siblings of animals, plants, insects, plankton, bacteria, fungi, and viruses, are created from stardust by nuclear fusion. We all function together in vibratory fields from the bottom up, just as nature and nanotechnology work.
Fosun Foundation (Shanghai) is a non-profit organization launched and supported by the Fosun Group and Fosun Foundation.
The center is located in the Bund Finance Center. The building houses four floors above ground and three below. It was designed by British design firm Foster + Partners and creative director Heatherwick Studio. The architectural highlight is the facade—a golden, rotating bamboo curtain that hangs from the third floor. A visual element that combines East and West resembles an ancient Chinese crown and a Western harp. For several hours each day, the screen rotates in time with music, a “dancing building” along the bund.
ALIEN STAR DUST: Signal to Noise is a multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary project premiered on March 10, 2020, in Vienna at the meteorite gallery of the Natural History Museum. This research-based art project invites viewers to gain an intimate understanding of the importance and complexity of dust.
Every creature contains hydrogen atoms, and every material element is manufactured in stars through fusion. We, along with our myriad siblings of animals, plants, insects, plankton, bacteria, fungi, and viruses, are created from stardust by nuclear fusion. We all function together in vibratory fields from the bottom up, just as nature and nanotechnology work.
This exhibition is a part of the NTU-GDAP program. Taking the form of a biennial competition, the Nanyang Technological University Global Digital Art Prize (NTU-GDAP) is where artistry, technological innovations, and scientific interests collide. It recognizes global artists, technologists, and scientists with extraordinary creativity in digitally mediated art, design, and cultural heritage.
This panel is a part of NTU-GDAP program. Taking the form of a biennial competition, the Nanyang Technological University Global Digital Art Prize (NTU-GDAP) is where artistry, technological innovations, and scientific interests collide. It recognizes global artists, technologists, and scientists with extraordinary creativity in digitally mediated art, design, and cultural heritage.
About the UCLA SCI ART SUMMER program:
In the highly competitive Sci|Art Studio + Lab, students are immersed in science and art practices to simultaneously develop and sharpen analytical and creative skills. This program prepares students for interdisciplinary thinking before they begin their undergraduate education. During this intensive two-week program, students make connections between cutting-edge scientific research, popular culture, and contemporary arts. Through historical retrospectives, surveys of current art-science collaborations, and science fiction movie screenings, students are exposed to the interface of science, art, and culture with a focus on multidisciplinary collaborations.
ART SCI SOUND WALK AT TEDx Manhattan Beach:
The audience is invited to a guided sound walk from the North side of the Tedx Exhibition to the South side. This unique sound walk creates a connection and opens a conversation between ocean and space. All visitors will have a chance to experience a collaborative composition by Patricia Cadavid, Anna Nacher, Ivana Dama, Clarissa Ribeiro and Victoria Vesna.
Robin Gose has been a STEM educator for more than 20 years, in both classroom and museum settings. She joined the MOXI team in November 2017 during its inaugural year as Santa Barbara’s newest hands-on science museum and destination for families. In this role, she oversees the museum’s operations, finances, fundraising, outreach, and programming to ensure alignment with the organization’s mission, “to ignite learning through interactive experiences in science and creativity.” She also cultivates relationships with supporters, business and civic leaders, schools, community partners, media, and more to further promote MOXI as a world-class institution for informal science learning.
Robin came to MOXI after three years as director of education at Thinkery in Austin, Texas where she cultivated the pedagogical vision of the institution and oversaw all programming, exhibits and facilities at the latest iteration of what was once the Austin Children’s Museum. Robin’s passion is to make science fun for young learners to promote their social, cognitive, and emotional development. She values providing authentic learning experiences for children to explore the world around them, with an emphasis on making science accessible to children from diverse backgrounds.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in geography and environmental resource management from the University of Texas, Austin. Robin began her career managing summer camps at the Austin Nature and Science Center before moving to Los Angeles to oversee programs at the California Science Center. She then transitioned to teaching K-5 science at an independent school in Los Angeles. During this time, she earned a doctorate degree in educational leadership from the University of California, Los Angeles, where her academic research focused on English language learners’ experiences in science classrooms.
Robin is an active volunteer in the Santa Barbara community, serving on the boards of Visit Santa Barbara and Downtown Santa Barbara as well as the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s Education Committee. She also serves on subcommittees for the Association of Children's Museums, the Association of Science and Technology Centers, and has been a grant proposal reviewer for the Institute of Museum and Library services for almost a decade.
