Morten Søndergaard is a researcher working in media art, media art awareness, technology and art. His current projects include explorations on BIOTOPIA - Art in the Wet Zone, research on sound and culture, and history and theory of sound and media art. Aalborg University, Copenhagen Institute of Technology.
Location: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Auditorium
Marko Peljhan is active in numerous arts and technology communities. His ongoing mobile laboratory project Makrolab, focusing on telecommunications, migrations and weather systems, finds an intersection between art and science, as do his microgravity and space art experiments in the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre. Associate Professor, UCSB, Co-Driector UCIRA.
Location: California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Auditorium
North | South social mixers are quarterly gatherings of faculty, staff and students from north and south campus for networking and interaction. Come meet and greet colleagues from the other side of campus!
Lecture by media artist developing new technologies and interaction design that may improve the lives of people who live with long-term chronic pain. Simon Fraser University. [Art | Sci fall 2011 artist in residence]
Location: EDA, Broad Art center.
Diane Gromala teaches in the graduate Information Design and Technology program at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her work pushes art beyond the traditional canvas and computer graphics domains into Virtual Reality and Physiological Computing. She is the founding director of the multidisciplinary Transforming Pain Research Group exploring the silent epidemic of chronic pain.
Lecture and showing of material science and visualization by award winning chemist and documentary director and filmmaker. University of Applied Arts, Vienna.
Location: Fowler A103B
Alfred Vendl is a specialist in making hidden scientific phenomena visible. He works at micro-and nano-scale, bringing invisible procedures to human perception through film. His cinematography in the series "Nature Tech" won a 2008 EMMY Award.
Exhibition “Genesis” by artist in residence in the department of Design | Media Arts. Fulbright scholar, Ukraine.
Artist Lecture at 2:00pm in Fowler Museum, A103B Exhibition Opening at 6:00pm in EDA, Broad Arts Center
Location: EDA, Broad Art center.
Oksana Chepelyk, a Design | Media Arts Fulbright visiting artist, presents Genesis, a multi-part video and photography installation that examines the genetic currency of the nation. A real-time data stream monitoring newborn births creates an infant data base, triggering visual changes on projected images of children around the world. Each act of childbirth adds up to the collective image of a newborn baby.
Patricia Olynyk's work investigates the tenuous relationships between art, culture, science, and the environment. Often using microscopy and biomedical imaging technologies, her work calls on viewers to expand their awareness of the worlds they inhabit - whether those worlds are their own bodies or the spaces that surround them.
An afternoon of innovative work showcasing art|science collaborations at UCLA, presented to the International Fulbright Science & Technology Conference scholars.
Introduction by: Victoria Vesna, artist | James Gimzewski, scientist | Paul Weiss, CNSI Director
Featuring presentations of Art|Sci work by: Mattia Casalegno, Romie Littrell, Silvia Rigon, Johanna Reed, Jiacong Yan, and Pinar Yoldas
3 – 5 pm Welcoming
International Fulbright Science & Technology conference attendees
5 – 7 pm Social mixer with molecular cocktails by Johanna Reed and Jiacong Yan, music by Odo
Co-sponsored by The Center for Society and Genetics
Victoria Vesna is a media artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci center at the School of the Arts and California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI). She is currently a Visiting Professor and Director of Research at Parsons Art, Media + Technology, the New School for Design in New York and a senior researcher at IMéRA – Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées in Marseille, France and Artist in Residence at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bristol. Her work can be defined as experimental creative research that resides between disciplines and technologies. With her installations she explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Victoria has exhibited her work in over twenty solo exhibitions, more than seventy group shows, has been published in excess of twenty papers and gave 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is the North American editor of AI & Society and in 2007 published an edited volume, Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow, Minnesota Press. In Press is Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts. Edited with Christiane Paul and Margot Lovejoy. Intellect Press, 2011.
James Gimzewski
Science Director, Art|Sci Center, UCLA
Dr. Gimzewski is a professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles and member of the California NanoSystems Institute. Prior 2001, he was a group leader at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in nanoscale science and technology for more than 18 years. He pioneered research on mechano-electrical contacts imaging with single atoms and molecules using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM. His accomplishments include the STM-tip fabrication of molecular superstructures, the discovery of single molecule rotors and development of micro-nanomechanical sensors to convert biochemical recognition into Nanomechanics. His current interests are in the nanomechanics and elasticity of cells and bacteria in collaboration with the UCLA Medical and Dental Schools. His projects range from miniature nuclear fusion devices using pyroelectric crystals to single molecule DNA profiling. He is involved with Victoria Vesna in many art-science installations exhibited in museums worldwide. As scientific-director of the UCLA Art|Sci Center, Dr. Gimzewski promulgates the fusion of artistic creation and scientific innovation.
Mattia Casalegno
Artist
Department of Design Media Arts, Art|Sci Center, UCLA
He’s a multidsciplinary artist born in Naples, Italy, and currently based in Los Angeles, CA. He often collaborates with designers, architects, neurologists, and musicians producing works that span architectural video-installations, immersive environments, live media performances and interactive systems. His works and performances have been shown in events such as RomaEuropa Festival, Netmage and Sant’Arcangelo dei Teatri in Italy, Mutek in Canada, Optronica in UK, OFFF in Spain, Cimatics Belgium, AVIT in Germany.
mattiacasalegno.net
Romie Littrell
Scientist
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Art|Sci Center, UCLA Romie Littrell is a graduate student in the Biomedical Engineering Dept. at UCLA. He received his BA in Molecular and Cell Biology in 2003 from UC Berkeley. Since then he has engaged in a wide array of biological research including maize genetics, cornea tissue engineering, microfluidic bioreactors, and cell-chip interfaces. His current research focuses on creating hybrid electronic/microfluidic tools for abstracting biological techniques to facilitate education and empower those in unrelated fields to perform advanced biology. Romie is also very interested in synthetic biology, is a member of DIY bio, and was a grad advisor to the 2007 MIT iGEM team. He currently collaborates with UCLA's Department of Design Media Arts and MIT's Media Lab for the former.
Silvia Rigon
Artist
Alumni, Department of Design Media Arts, Art|Sci Center, UCLA, Disney
Silvia Rigon is an Italian visual artist and designer. She has a background in Painting from the Venezia Academy of Fine Arts, and an MFA from the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA. Silvia’s artistic investigation in the field of digital media concerns sensorial design in the context of an interactive experience of art. The content of her pieces often refers to the notion of “monstrosity,” especially manifested in historical iconography and myths, as a way of unveiling the ambivalence and paradoxes underling our perception of the time in which we live.
silviarigon.com
Johanna Reed
Artist
Alumni, Department of Design Media Arts, Art|Sci Center, UCLA
Johanna Reed is an artist in Los Angeles. She’s written plays, made a wearable head extension to test the hypothesis “would you think bigger thoughts if you had a bigger head?”, and started work on a food opera.
johannareed.net
Jiacong Yan
Artist
Alumni, Department of Design Media Arts, Art|Sci Center, UCLA
Jay was born. Thank god.
jay-yan.com
Pinar Yoldas
Artist
Duke University
Alumni, Department of Design Media Arts, Art|Sci Center, UCLA Pinar Yoldas is an LA-based interface designer, artist and educator. She received her BArch from Middle East Technical University with high honors, her MA in Visual Communication Design from Istanbul Bilgi University, her MS in information technologies from Istanbul Bilgi University and (finally) her MFA from UCLA's Design Media Arts department where she was the recipient of Eugene Wurzel Memorial Scholarship and Clifton Webb Scholarship from the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA. So far, Pinar has exhibited in Los Angeles, Istanbul, Frankfurt and Bologna. Her work is a reflection of her interests in design, architecture, neuroscience, evolution, gender studies and science fiction. Pinar is currently a visiting artist at Duke University where she teaches studio classes and collaborates with Dr. Kevin LaBar's lab on neuroscience of emotions.
Location: CNSI Gallery on the 5th Floor Beginning June 28, 2010 Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 am - 4 pm
social sqncr is an interactive audio-visual installation that aims to make people more aware of the act of creating their public identity.
To create their ‘identity’, participants use their bodies to physically interact with a pseudo-musical instrument projected in a physical space to create virtual musical creatures based on their movements. The instrument consists of eight zones that participants interact with which influence the shape, movement, and aural properties of the resulting entity.
Once complete, the system captures an image of the participant to attach to the creature which is then set free into an eco-system inhabited by similar entities. The entities react to one another, much like human beings in a social network. Participants can cause environmental disturbances by physically interacting with the projection.
The physical movements required of participants ensures a high level of investment in the process, causing a heightened awareness of their creation, and thus themselves. Watching their entity interact with other entities is a reflection of their own interaction in their social networks.
Bio:
Bruce Drummond and Nick Hardeman are both recent graduates from the MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons, in New York. They experiment with new technologies to produce immersive, interactive audio visual experiences.
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
Art | Sci gallery
570 Westwood Plaza (5th floor)
Students from Professor Victoria Vesna’s 2010 graduate seminars Data + Flesh, Department of Design | Media Arts, UCLA + Hybrid Worlds: Nano_Biotech + Art Parsons The New School for Design in New York and UCLA Honors class Biotech + Art exhibit their concepts / proposals / presentations of objects, performances / art installations -- all responding to how we are changing our bodies, the food we consume,the animals we breed & the environment we inhabit.
co-sponsored by UCLA Center for Society and Genetics
supported by Leonardo ISAST + UCIRA + Parsons AMT
May 14 - June 7, 2010.Open Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Parking is $10 all day, and is available near CNSI in structure 9, adjacent to the building. For more information, call 1.310.794.2118.
3 – 5 pm Welcoming
