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Location: California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) foyer

An event for meeting and greeting colleagues from across disciplines and geographies!

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PETER SELLARS: Guest Lecture
23 JANUARY 2007
CALIFORNIA NANOSYSTEMS INSTITUTE

Location: California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) auditorium
In collaboration with UCLA Summer Sessions

"Return to the Public Sphere! Three or Four Things to Do With a Major Research University" Cutting across disciplines, going outside the University, completes the total picture of what University life could and should be.

Peter Sellars is one of the leading theatre, opera, and television directors in the world today, having directed more than one hundred productions, large and small, across America and abroad. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize Fellowship and was awarded the Erasmus Prize at the Dutch Royal Palace for contributions to European culture. A graduate of Harvard University (where during his senior year he directed Gogol's The Inspector General and Handel's opera Orlando at the A.R.T.), he studied in Japan, China, and India before becoming Artistic Director of the Boston Shakespeare Company. His contemporary visions of Mozart's operas Cosi Fan Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni, created in collaboration with Emmanuel Music and its Artistic Director Craig Smith, were hailed in Boston and in Europe and were televised by National Public Television. At tenty-six he was made Director of the American National Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

He was Artistic Director of the 1990 and 1993 Los Angeles Festivals, and is currently a Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. Mr. Sellars has collaborated with The Wooster Group and was featured in Jean-Luc Godard's film of King Lear. He has also appeared on Bill Moyers' A World of Ideas, Miami Vice, and The Equalizer, directed a rock video for Herbie Hancock, and produced a series of radio episodes for The Museum of Contemporary Art's The Territory of Art series. His first feature film, The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez, is silent in color (starring Joan Cusack, Peter Gallagher, Ron Vawter, and Mikhail Baryshnikov).

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RICHARD CLAR: Guest Lecture
14 NOVEMBER 2007
EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER

Art, Science and Technology class, DESMA 9
Location: EDA, Broad Art center

Richard Clar is a Southern California Interdisciplinary Artist who now resides in Paris. Clar, who studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (now Cal-Arts), is an early pioneer of art-in-space and began work in this field in 1982 with a NASA approved concept for an art-payload for the U.S. Space Shuttle. Philosophical in nature, themes for Richard Clar's art-in-space projects include: space environment issues, such as orbital debris; war and peace; the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and water management on Earth. The work of Richard Clar has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and universities in the United States, Europe, and Japan. His work may be found in corporate collections such as JBL Sound and the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.

In 2001, and again in 2002, Clar coordinated the Leonardo/OLATS/IAA Space Art Workshops in Paris. Richard Clar is the Director of Art Technologies, Paris; a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA); a Board of Directors Member, Cosmica Network; Artist in Residence, Companhia Espacial Portuguesa Lda.; a Member of the SETI Permanent Study Group, and a member of the Leonardo Space Art Working Group. Clar was the Secretary of the former Art and Literature Subcommittee of the International Academy of Astronautics, and a past Member of the Executive Board, Graphic Arts Council, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Symposium

Symposium at The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
570 Westwood Plaza, Building 114

Nikola Tesla’s visions and inventions were at the core of the generation, transmission and use of electricity that has transformed our world. His genius and his importance to humankind is now only beginning to be fully appreciated, particularly as we become wireless and more energy conscious. Join us to hear about Tesla through the work of artists, scientists and engineers who have been inspired by his legacy.

Participants:
Greg Leyh - Nevada Lightening Lab – featuring a phased pair of Tesla coils, 122 feet tall.
Susan Joyce - director Fringe gallery, Los Angeles
Milos Ercegovac - Professor, Computer Science
Paulette Phillips - artist, Homewrecker electromagnetic sculpture
Gisèle Trudel and Stéphane Claude, AElab Sparks – experimental documentary on the life of Nikola Tesla.
Nina Czegledy - The Resonance project co-curated with Louise Provencher.
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Organized and moderated by: Victoria Vesna, media artist, director, Art | Science Center, UCLA

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REBECA MENDEZ + ADAM EEUWENS: "Design as a Social Force" Lecture
19 APRIL 2007
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER

Rebeca Méndez is both a designer and a fine artist. Her work in both arenas has been praised and admired for the past two decades, particularly for its visceral, challenging, and sensual appeal.
Méndez designs primarily for non-profit organizations or cultural institutions. As an artist, she crosses all boundaries, traveling to extreme places such as Iceland, Patagonia, Svalbard, and the Sahara, where she is awakened to a heightened level of perception. She considers the journey as a medium in itself, and “migration” as an essential part of her work.
The profound social ignorance in this country on the topics of immigration, magnified by irresponsible and special interest media platforms that are dominating the conversation, have made her feel unwelcome and thus have heightened the sense of activism in her work and lectures.

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STEVE KURTZ: "Art and Discipline" Lecture
05 APRIL 2007
EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER

This lecture was built upon the following premises: first, any action within the cultural landscape performed from a minoritarian position will be perceived by authority as contestational act; and second, once challenged any or all of a variety of disciplinary agents will be sent to restabilize the discourses of the status quo through the managing or silencing of resistant cultural production.
Steve Kurtz is a founding member of Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). CAE is a collective of tactical media practitioners of various specializations, including computer graphics and web design, wetware, film/video, photography, text art, book art, and performance. Formed in 1987, CAE’s focus has been on the exploration of the intersections between art, critical theory, technology, and political activism. The collective has performed and produced a wide variety of projects for an international audience at diverse venues ranging from the street, to the museum, to the Internet. Critical Art Ensemble has also written five books, and has just released its sixth work Marching Plague: Germ Warfare and Global Public Health. Kurtz is an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY, Buffalo.

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RICARDO DOMINGUEZ: "Border Disturbance Art" Lecture
07 MARCH 2007
EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER

Ricardo Dominguez is co-founder of Electronic Disturbance Theater, a group that developed virtual sit-in technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico. From 2000 to 2004, he was co-director of “The Thing,” an Internet service provider for artists and activists, and is currently a former member of the Critical Art Ensemble. He is an assistant professor in the visual arts department at the University of California, San Diego, and is a principal investigator at the new-edge technology institute Calit2, where he will be researching and developing a performance project on nanotechnology entitled *b.a.n.g lab*.
This lecture was co-presented with the UCLA Center for Performance Studies.

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