Donovan Keith (science animator)
Caitlin Berrigan (visual artist)
Peter Tjeerdsma (experience architect)
Noa Kaplan (artist and lecturer, UCLA Design|Media Arts)
Maite Zubiaurre (author)
Hans Barnard MD, PhD (adjunct assistant professor NELC, assistant researcher Cotsen Institute of Archaeology)
Richard Hedley (PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department)
Fabian Wagmister (Director Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance; Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, UCLA)
Brent Bushnell (CEO, Two Bit Circus)
Marina deBris (environmental artivist)
Christina Agapakis (postdoctoral researcher, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, UCLA)
Everyone invited will introduce their work in 4-minute pecha-kucha style presentation. This is followed by drinks and food / socializing and making new connections.
Are you working on a cool project? We invite you to submit your name for this LASER! Send your title and 3-5 images to artscicenter@gmail.com
Mark Cohen (UCLA Neuroscience)
Stephen Nowlin (Art Center College of Design)
Aaron Thomen (Creator of MindMIDI)
Adam Steig (UCLA Nano Pico Characterization Facility)
Gerald Buckberg, MD (Distinguished Professor of Cardiac Surgery)
Anne Andrews (UCLA Neuroscience)
Paul Weiss (UCLA CNSI)
Laurent Bentolila (Scientific Director, Advanced Light Microscopy/Spectroscopy Laboratory)
Gottfried Haider (independent artist)
Don Estes (Director, Psiometric Science Inc. (PSI) (Inventor-Author-Lecturer-Director))
James K. Gimzewski (UCLA Chemistry, "Duality" exhibition)
Everyone invited will introduce their work in 4-minute pecha-kucha style presentation. This is followed by drinks and food / socializing and making new connections.
Are you working on a cool project? We invite you to submit your name for this LASER! Send your title and 3-5 images to artscicenter@gmail.com
Duality is an Art|Sci manifestation of complexity emerging from a tiny network of billions of tiny self assembled, self-organized, non-linear connections that materialize in time and space through holistic processes and which are a kinesthetic visualization of wandering in and out of the fuzzy borders of chaos and order. We use a real network, where the creator has given permission to its expanding and collapsing spatio-temporal morphogenic and often catastrophic dynamics.
This project represents the transition in science and art from giving up on the clock to embrace a cloud in terms of Karl Popper’s important statement “we live in a universe not of clocks but of clouds.” In the laboratory we build electro-ionic clouds. In the gallery we let them self create images songs and dance for this Art|Sci exhibition entitled Duality. It is the duality of the dark space between the known and unknown, determinism and surprise, mathematical form and fuzziness from which the atoms, electrons and ions speak to the visitors without censorship.
Microbes are often synonymous with rot, decay, infection, and disease. When microbes are made visible—or worse, smellable—it signals danger, a situation best avoided. But microbes are unavoidable, essential as part of the ecology of the healthy human body and the global dynamics of biogeochemical cycles. The growing realization of microbial usefulness and diversity is changing our relationship to microorganisms from one of fear, isolation, and sterilization, to a more ecological understanding of symbiotic exchange. Bacterial Encounters is an exploration of nature and culture from a microbiological perspective, capturing the microbial ecology and the living diversity thriving after the death of the Salton Sea. Through culturing such microbes, we make visible the ecologies that make up our world.
Sci|Eye Apparatus is an experimentation in images, sound, and space, as we shape them with our tools. The Apparatus takes us through different scales, states, and dimensions. The intention is to help us imagine the invisible with composed aural atmospheres.
Blanka Buic studied music and economics, takes pictures and shoots videos for a living, and started exploring scientifically-inspired perception when she joined the Art | Sci center in 2009.
Soundscapes were created by Günther Jones, inspired by both natural and man-made rhythmic sounds that have their own kind of music.
Art|Sci Gallery / CNSI 5419. Click here for a downloadable PDF map and here for an interactive campus map.
Ruby Carat (Cold Fusion Now)
Blanka Earhart (independent media artist and author)
Douglas Campbell (Founder, ProjectFresh)
Adeline Ducker (Dog Nose Knows board game design / graphics)
Alex Groff (independent game and web designer)
Alison Lipman (co-founder of SELVA International)
Mathias Dörfelt (graduate student, Design | Media Arts)
Zac Harlow (graduate student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Nicholas Hanna (graduate artist)
Everyone invited will introduce their work in 4-minute pecha-kucha style presentation. This is followed by drinks and food / socializing and making new connections.
Are you working on a cool project? We invite you to submit your name for this LASER! Send your title and 3-5 images to artscicenter@gmail.com
This Valentine's Day in Victoria Vesna's honors class -- Biotech + Art -- we'll explore with Christina Agapakis the history, biology, and chemistry of aphrodisiacs, from medieval nutritional handbooks to modern biochemistry. How do foods influence our moods and stimulate our senses? Are oysters romantic placebos or vectors for arousing micronutrients? Exploring aphrodisiacs can tell us a lot about how we understand nutrition and health as well as the aesthetic and chemical experience of foods.
RSVP essential!
Broad Art Center 240 Charles E. Young Drive, Room 5240 Los Angeles, CA 90095
5-7pm
Parking is $11 all day, and is available in structure 3, adjacent to the building. For more information, call 310.825.9007.
In this workshop we’ll explore the genetic basis of taste perception, specifically the inherited ability to taste a bitter chemical. Throughout the process we will examine the tools and techniques used by genetics labs and, increasingly, hobbyists and biohackers. By physically testing ourselves for this particular genotype we can gain the skills to analyze all of our genes, increasing our ownership of our personal data and a new way to explore life in general.
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
5-7pm
Broad Art Center
240 Charles E. Young Drive, Room 5240
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking is $11 all day, and is available in structure 3, adjacent to the building. For more information, call 310.825.9007.
