The Sound + Science Symposium is a 2-day symposium with sound artists, scientists and humanists exploring all kinds of vibrations, audible and inaudible. This extraordinary event brings together leading figures to discuss the applications and implications of such research in relation to questions of culture, politics, history, environment, art, and music.
UCLA Art Sci partners with Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST) to host LASER, the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous. We have hosted lectures, workshops, symposiums, and exhibitions as a part of LASER.
COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION is an online series that brings together artists, curators and scholars in conversation around works from the David Bermant Collection of media and kinetic arts. Featured presenters explore selected artworks within their historical and cultural context, drawing connections to their own practice and perspectives. The series is sponsored by the David Bermant foundation and produced in collaboration with Harvestworks NY.
The Medicine + Media Art Initiative is a multi-layered artistic and scholarly endeavor that serves as a national and international hub for the artistic exploration of contemporary medical science and biotechnology. The fellowship will act as a conduit for advancing new projects and artistic research that reimagine the medicalized body, corporality, notions of embodiment, posthumanism, and the effects of our environment on our sense of bodily presence and well-being in the world.
“Atmosphere of Sound” is a multi-year research project culminating in a large-scale exhibition of sound-based art. UCLA Art | Sci Center proposes to explore the relationship between sound as a post-object art form, and our shifting relationship to the world of things as necessitated by climate change. The culminating exhibition, hosted by UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, will present sound and moving image artworks that respond to climate change as the condition of our times.
