"Sun Run Sun" charts a path between environmental awareness and technological development, using sound as the medium to enhance both. The project investigates the split between the embodied experience of location and the calculated data of position, exploring the individual experience of current location technologies through a personal experience of sound. It seeks to (re)establish a sense of connectedness to one's environment, and to (re)negotiate this through an investigation into old, new, future and animal navigation using sound.
This project consists of two different parts, a sound installation and a series of portable instruments to take on a walk through the city. In the installation 'Dead Reckoning' Yolande Harris reveals the patterns of orbiting satellites coming in and out of range and inconsistencies in how GPS technology locates the self in a longitude/latitude grid. The mobile 'Satellite Sounders' transform the live satellite data directly into a sonic composition listened to on headphones as one walks through the city. Live signals from satellites in orbit, together with the performer's coordinates on earth, generate a continuously transforming electronic soundscape. Yolande Harris's soundscape questions what is inside and what is outside, what it means to be located and what it means to be lost.
About Yolande Harris:
Understanding the relations between sound, image and space through technologies of communication and navigation, has been the central focus of Yolande's work over the last ten years. She explores the intermediary role of the score, both as practical and conceptual tool, and as an open imaginary situation for communication. Her Score Spaces project employs a spatial approach to composition and has resulted in numerous audio-visual performances and installations, including the Meta-Orchestra, theoretical texts, such as Inside Out Instrument, and workshops for composers, sound artists, architects and designers. Her most recent works, Taking Soundings and Sun Run Sun, employ intuitive and scientific modes of knowing and join ancient and contemporary navigation and orientation techniques from sextants to GPS, to explore our apparently changing relation to land and sea environments in the age of satellite and mobile technologies. Yolande has a degree in music from Dartington College of Arts and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in architecture and the moving image. She has been resident researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, artistic fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and artist in residence at STEIM and the Netherlands Institute for Media Arts in Amsterdam. She has taught interaction design at the Technical University of Eindhoven, is guest lecturer at the Rietveld Academy Design Lab, and lectures on her work internationally. Her writings have been published in the Contemporary Music Review and Journal of Organised Sound.
ALEX GALLOWAY: Art + Activism Lecture
01 APRIL 2008
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER
Alexander R. Galloway is an author and programmer. He is a founding member of the software collective RSG and creator of the data surveillance engine Carnivore. The New York Times recently described his work as “conceptually sharp, visually compelling and completely attuned to the political moment.” Galloway is the author of Protocol: How Control Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006), and a new book co-authored with Eugene Thacker called The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Minnesota, 2007). He teaches at New York University.
KAREN FINLEY: Art + Activism Lecture
01 APRIL 2008
200 KAUFMAN HALL
Marie Karen Finley is a New York based artist whose raw and transgressive performances have long provoked controversy and debate. She has appeared and exhibited internationally her visual art, performances and plays. Her performances have been presented at Lincoln Center, New York City, The Guthrie, Minneapolis, American Repertory Theatre, The ICA in London, Harvard, The Steppenwolf in Chicago, and The Bobino in Paris. Her artworks are in numerous collections and museums including the Pompidou in Paris and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Finley attended the San Francisco Art Institute receiving an MFA and honorary Ph.D.. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim, 2 Obies, 2 Bessies, MS. Magazine Woman Of The Year, NARAL Person of the Year (which she shared with Anna Quindlen and Walter Cronkite), NYSCA and NEA Fellowships.
DJ and Refreshments
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Sponsored by Art | Sci Center, California Nanosystems Institute and Summer Programs
PAVEL SMETANA: "Brainwaves & Biofeedback" Lecture
29 FEBRUARY 2008
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER
Pavel Smetana essentially started out with exhibitions of his paintings—gradually refocusing his artistic work towards video and computer installations. This led to the programming and developing of the “Room of Desires” installation in 1993–1995. At the time of his Art|Sci guest lecture, Smetana was working on the final stage of his then new project, “The Mirror,” centered on the blending of art and new technologies.
PHILIP BEESLEY: "Hylozoic Soil" Lecture
18 FEBRUARY 2008
EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER
Philip Beesley practices digital media art and experimental architecture in Toronto. His work in the last two decades has focused on field oriented distributed sculpture and landscape installations. In parallel with his sculpture practice he teaches architecture at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge, Ontario and is co-director of Waterloo’s Integrated Centre for Manufacturing, Visualization and Design, a facility combining high-performance computing, advanced visualization and digital fabrication.
Norman Klein is a cultural critic, urban and media historian, as well as a novelist. His books include “The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory,” “Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon,” and the data/cinematic novel, “Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-86” (DVD-ROM with book), His latest book is “The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects.”
His essays appear in anthologies, museum catalogs, newspapers, scholarly journals, on the WEB-- symptoms of a polymath's career, from European cultural history to animation and architectural studies, to LA studies, to fiction, media design and documentary film. His work (including museum shows) centers on the relationship between collective memory and power, from special effects to cinema to digital theory, usually set in urban spaces; and often on the thin line between fact and fiction; about erasure, forgetting, scripted spaces, the social imaginary.
Under Surveillance: Transparency, Visibility, war and fame
By Marie Sester
Location: EDA, Broad Art Center, room 1250
Marie Sester is a media artist currently based in Los Angeles. Born in France, she began her career as an architect. Her interest, however, shifted from how to build structures to how place, cultural values, and political ideas are intertwined and affect our understanding of the world. Her work particularly questions the societal perspective of the West.
In her work she intends to reveal the ambiguity of the cultural representation dedicated to the new technologies/entertainment/information/consumables/politics, and the values and cultural codes that underlie them.
The work is concerned with issues of surveillance and subjection, but it's not making a statement about surveillance and subjection or manipulation, it intentionally stays on the edges between playful and scary to reveal the underlying perversion.
Her installation work has exhibited internationally. She had recently residencies at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Japan; Eyebeam, New York, and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and has received grants including from the Creative Capital Foundation, New York); New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA), LEF Foundation), and Franklin Furnace Fund. Her work is mentioned in several academic books and more to come in 2008.
*All lectures are free and take place in the EDA, room 1250 Broad Art Center.
Light refreshments will be provided.
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Winter Art + Activism Lecture series begins with Adam Zaretsky who will lead a biotech workshop
Lecture "On Mutaphobia" by Adam Zaretsky
4:00pm EDA(Eli Broad Arts center)
6:00pm, BioArt workshop, CNSI Pico Lab.
Adam Zaretsky is a Vivoartist working in Biology and Art Wet Lab Practice. This involves biological lab immersion as a process towards inspired artistic projects. His personal research interests revolve around life, living systems, exploration into the mysteries of life and interrogating varied cultural definitions that stratify life's popular categorizations. He also focuses on legal, ethical and social implications of some of the newer biotechnological materials and methods: Molecular Biology, ART [Assisted Reproductive Technology] and Transgenic Protocols. Zaretsky also teaches Vivoarts: Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human Relations, Live Art and Gastronomy. A major focus is on artistic uses and the social implications of molecular biology, tissue culture, genomics and developmental biology. Adam Zaretsky has been published in Nature Magazine, Red Herring, Leonardo, The Washington Post and Johnny's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader. He has spoken at Harvard, NYU, CAA and SCIARC.
-- While working in an MIT lab, Adam Zaretsky once spent two days playing a recording of the hits of singer Engelbert Humperdinck to a petri dish full of E. coli bacteria. The organisms’ antibiotic production increased, and he concluded that humans aren’t the only clusters of cells agitated by the continual “loud, awful lounge music.” He dubbed it “the Humperdinck effect.”
CNSI: The Driving Force for California Nanotechnology
Conference and Grand Opening
Discover how Leading Technology Companies Collaborate with Academic Researchers
at CNSI to bring Nano-Scale Technologies into the Marketplace.
Abraxis BioScience Inc. - Patrick Soon-Shiong
BASF - Ulrich Müller
Hewlett-Packard - Stan Williams
Intel - Paolo Gargini
FEI - Don Kania
Opening Remarks by CNSI Interim Director, Leonard H. Rome
Conference Sessions 8:00am - 4:00pm
Grand Opening Ceremony and Reception 4:00 - 7:00pm
Dedication Ceremony Speakers:
Gene Block, Chancellor of UCLA
Gray Davis, Former Governor of California
Anthony Portantino, Assemblymember, 44th Assembly District, CA
David Crane, Special Advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger for Jobs and Economic Growth
Rafael Viñoly, Founder, Rafael Viñoly Architects
His essays appear in anthologies, museum catalogs, newspapers, scholarly journals, on the WEB-- symptoms of a polymath's career, from European cultural history to animation and architectural studies, to LA studies, to fiction, media design and documentary film. His work (including museum shows) centers on the relationship between collective memory and power, from special effects to cinema to digital theory, usually set in urban spaces; and often on the thin line between fact and fiction; about erasure, forgetting, scripted spaces, the social imaginary.
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