Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Neuroscientist and Former UCLA Postdoctoral Researcher

This past week we were privileged to welcome Siddharth Ramakrishnan, a fellow and former instructor of UCLA SCI ART Institute and a current neuroscientist at University of Puget Sound, as a visiting lecturer at the UCLA ArtSci Center. His research interests span the field of developmental biology, neuroendocrinology and sensory-motor integration. As a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA (2006-2009...

"Pigeon Art Studio" - Professor Aaron Blaisdell's Exhibition at UCLA CNSI ARTSCI Gallery

“Pigeon Art Studio”
April 24 - May 2, 2024 at the ArtSci Gallery on the CNSI 5th floor.
To view the exhibit please email: artscicenter@gmail.com

Pigeons have provided a power house of knowledge on learning, memory, and cognition. Now, they also paint! The Blaisdell lab at UCLA has been studying pigeons making digital art using a...

LASER Talk: Animal Consciousness & Creativity

Featured speaker: Aaron Blaisdell
Responder: Siddharth Ramakrishnan
Chaired by Victoria Vesna
This LASER is connected to the exhibition opening at the UCLA ArtSci gallery at CNSI – developed by Professor Aaron Blaisdell with his research students at the Comparative Cognition Lab at UCLA.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION: https://artsci....

Dr. Hannah Landecker’s exhibition at CNSI ArtSci Gallery

“Hot Cling, Shear Magic, and the Mouthfeel of Capitalism: Images From the History of Ultra Processed Foods”
April 10 - 17 at the ArtSci Gallery on the CNSI 5th floor. LINK to directions

In a set of advertisements exhumed from back issues of industry trade journals in food engineering from the 1960s through the 1990s, this exhibit explores the values and the chemistry of an...

LASER Talk: ULTRA PROCESSED HEALTH

Featured speaker: Hannah Landecker
Responder Patricia Olynyk
Chaired by Victoria Vesna
This LASER is connected to the exhibition opening at the UCLA ArtSci gallery at CNSI – developed by Professor Hannah Landecker with her students: "Hot Cling, Shear Magic, and the Mouthfeel of Capitalism:
Images From the History of Ultra Processed Foods"
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:...

Patricia Olynyk, Fellow of Medicine & Media Arts initiative

In the second week of April, we were privileged to welcome Patricia Olynyk, a fellow of the UCLA Art Sci Medicine & Media Arts initiative, as a visiting lecturer at the UCLA ArtSci Center. Olynyk's multifaceted artistic practice, which includes photography, printmaking, video, and installations, scrutinizes themes related to science and technology, as well as the influence of social systems...