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Particle Episode 24: Andrew Pelling

Andrew is a lifelong scientist and seasoned entrepreneur recognized for his ability to transform fundamental scientific discoveries into real-world innovations. He is known for pioneering research advances in the life sciences and co-founding multiple technology, biotechnology and healthcare startups, playing pivotal roles in corporate growth, strategic investments and executive leadership. He has led the strategic development and execution of corporate R&D programs, manufacturing processes and quality system operations.

Particle Episode 23: Carlo Ventura

Join us for our 23rd episode is Dr. Carlo Ventura from Bologna, Italy, who takes us on an incredible journey through his work with vibrational healing on a deep, cellular level. Ventura guides us first through his spiritual practice - discussing the scientific necessity for consciousness and mindfulness and for positioning ourselves within the context of the physical universe. We are then given a wonderful presentation of his work and research in cellular vibrational healing bearing witness to the power of sound.

Particle Episode 22: Kathy Brew

We are so fortunate to talk with Kathy Brew, award-winning artist and film-maker, who joins us today to talk about her most recent work as Curator with the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) for the Annual Benefit: Let me Speak. This annual benefit provides funding and resources for artists facing issues of censorship and to continue to facilitate freedom of expression and creativity. Kathy and Victoria discuss the particular potency of the auction this year, as well as how the newly virtual format provides greater accessibility and expansiveness.

Particle Episode 21: George Quasha

We are humbled to be joined by George Quasha who immediately invites viewers and listeners to slow down and settle into their bodies and place and truly listen. Quasha is careful and conscious with his speech and semiotics believing in the power of language as a world-maker or world-breaker. In this regard, Quahsa speaks with "quantum awareness" understanding that, even down to the molecular level, interactions are the basis for our language and therefore our existence.

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Wednesday, 24 February 2021 - 12:00pm

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Monica C. Locascio

“We’re all part of this swirl of change [..], and it’s very human.” Join us this week for a discussion with Monica C. LoCascio in her new studio space, surrounding her MA thesis - OUR BODY IS OUR ANCHOR TO THE PRESENT, an exploration of the epigenetics of trauma through sensation and the materiality of embroidery and biomaterials. Vesna and LoCascio discuss the impetus of the work and LoCascio expresses how she found rest, reflection, and meditation in this work during the events of the past year. This important work reflects the changing tides of our world over the past year, bringing together trauma and healing, body and spirit, rest and reflection.

Monica C. LoCascio is a mixed-media artist exploring the inherent powers of the body, energetic phenomena, and non-human biomaterials in their capacity to challenge established knowledge hierarchies. Informed by her own occult ritual practice and inspired by theoretical quantum physics, somatic trauma studies and therapies, and inclusive philosophy, her work arrives as artifacts of her material and theoretical research.

LoCascio’s work has been shown at the Museum of Natural History of Vienna, The Academy of Fine Arts Krakow, CERN, the Angewandte Innovation Lab and the Biennale Sessions at the Venice Biennale 2019. She recently completed her MA in Art & Science with distinction at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna, Austria.

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Particle Episode 20: Takashi Ikegami

In this episode, Takashi joins us from Tokyo, Japan, and addresses how he interprets the global events occurring right now and how one event can shift everything. He discusses one of his interests in going beyond human perception in both spatial and temporal scales, and how it is applicable to the pandemic. Two pressing issues we face today, climate change and the virus, are both beyond our temporal perception, as climate change is on a scale of thousands of years, and in comparison, the virus is a few nanometers in length.

Particle Episode 19: Claire Farago

In this engaging episode, Claire Farago speaks with urgency about the Climate Crisis advocating that we think of ourselves relationally, to the world and people around us, and not individually. She provokes, "how do we build support for planetary citizenship?" Nudging further that art and science collaborations are critical for building this future, Claire and Victoria take a deep look through art history, discussing works and examples of how throughout time collaborations and interdisciplinary thinking has produced novel and thoughtful advances.

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Tuesday, 7 July 2020 - 2:00pm

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VICTORIA VESNA+

[July 7] [Alien] Star Dust by Victoria Vesna

Tuesday, July 7, 2020, at 2 pm PDT, 5 pm EDT, Europe: 11:00 pm CET

ONLINE @ YouTube Live

Victoria Vesna’s work has long focused on immersing her audiences in installation spaces that are meant to slow down time and take us into other dimensions. This led her to work in close collaborations with musicians, sound artists, nanoscientists, biologists, neuro-scientists and buddhist monks among others. Some examples of work in the past two decades are the NanoMandala, Water Bowls, Blue Morph, Octopus Brain Storming, Bird Song Diamond and most recently the Noise Aquarium. In this new work, together with her collaborators from the UCLA Art Sci collective and Harvestworks, she takes us on a meditative journey to outer space.

Premiering with the support of Harvestworks, this work is meant to be experienced as a guided meditation bringing to life the sensations of meteorites and micro-meteorites falling on all continents and mixing with the anthropogenic dust falling on our planet from many dimensions. Layers of sounds from inner and outer space with animations of dust and data driven by corona deaths are presented with the intent of honoring those who left their bodies without preparation and all who are suffering.

This online version was created as a meditation that is guided by the artist following the extra-terrestrial, terrestrial, and human-made dusts traveling far and wide and creating complexity that is part of an invisible reality. Most go about their daily life without being aware of ever thinking about the extraterrestrial dusts that could be on their kitchen floor, right here on earth. The alien signal is lost in the human noise and the group meditation reclaims our vision of planetary citizenship.

We are created from stardust by nuclear fusion, like our myriad siblings – animals, plants, insects, plankton, bacteria, and viruses, and we all function together in vibratory fields – bottom up just as nature and nanotechnology works. [Alien] Star Dust rains on us every day and this piece brings these particles to our attention and reminds us of our interconnected heritage in the larger cosmos. Dust knows no borders.

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Particle Episode 18: María Antonia González Valerio

In this episode we are joined by the ever-inspiring María Antonia González Valerio a philosopher and professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), who invites us to really look at and consider how we are responding to the pandemic in our institutions, in our bodies, and in our communities. María Antonia is interested in our incapacity to stop, to slow down and questions why we as humans have responded to this unprecedented circumstance with the mentality that we must continue business-as-usual. She proclaims, "Let the extraordinary be extraordinary!

Particle Episode 17: ROGER MALINA, NINA CZEGLEDY, JOEL SLAYTON MARÍA ANTONIA GONZÁLEZ VALERIO - HOSTED BY DANIELLE SIEMBIEDA AND VICTORIA VESNA

"If you create chaos in the system, that opens for change, but who can take part in that change? What if the change is in the wrong hands?"
(Danielle Siembieda)

The second edition of Post-Pandemic Provocations, hosted conjointly by Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/(ISAST) and the ArtSci Center features the incredible Provocateur cast consisting of Roger Malina, Nina Czegledy, Joel Slayton, Victoria Vesna, Danielle Siembieda and features special guest María Antonia González Valerio.

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