CNSI Building at UCLA
Art | Sci Center Gallery, 5th Floor
570 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
“Vivarium: A Place Of Life” is an installation that studies the interactions within an ecosystem, from the movement of matter and energy, to the community created by the living and nonliving organisms. This network of interactions is captured in the macroscopic and microscopic level through time, as an attempt to scale what it means to be part of a larger ecosystem: the Earth. The exhibition will be followed by the UCLA Art | Sci Center's monthly Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER).
Maru García is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist whose work is inspired to capture, understand, and express the relationship and interaction between humans and Nature. Through the intersection between art, science, and technology, her work seeks to address environmental and social issues, particularly the protection of the world’s biodiversity and ecosystems.
ECO-CENTRIC ART + SCIENCE: Prophesies and Predictions is an open-mic marathon symposium featuring artist and author in residence Linda Weintraub, nanoscientist James Gimzewski, evolutionary biologist Charles Taylor, environmentalist and author Ursula Heise, curator Sophie Lamparter, nano-toxicologist Olivia Osborne, and media art graduate students David Ertel + Symrin Chawla.
Spring artist-in-residence and author, Linda Weintraub’s forthcoming book: “WHAT’S NEXT? Eco Materialism and Contemporary Art” provides the opportunity for professors and students from multiple academic disciplines to share their predictions of the way ecology will impact the theory, practice, insight, re-evaluation, or revision in their discipline in the coming years.
Come whenever you can. Stay as long as you wish. Share your thoughts, too!
During this exciting week centered around the environment, art and science, Linda returns to the UCLA Art|Sci Center for several days of eco-centric events, including a lecture involving her forthcoming book, open workshops and a can't-miss open-mic symposium.
You are invited to an interactive exhibition by Linda Weintraub exploring Ecological Materialism and Contemporary Art, the focus of her forthcoming book. Linda will be present at the UCLA Art|Sci Gallery to meet students, introduce her new project, and guide their interactions. She will hold several hands-on workshops for blocks of 10–12 people at a time on April 19th and 20th:
19 APRIL 2017
12:00pm–1:00pm | open registration
1:00pm–2:00pm | open registration
4:00pm–5:00pm | open registration
5:00pm–6:00pm | open registration
6:00pm–7:00pm | open registration
20 APRIL 2017
12:00pm–1:00pm | open registration
1:00pm–2:00pm | open registration
4:00pm–7:00pm | reserved for UCLA Honors 177: Biotech + Art students only
Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. She has earned her reputation by making the outposts of vanguard art accessible to broad audiences. The current vanguard, she believes, is propelled by environmental consciousness that is not only the defining characteristic of contemporary manufacturing, architecture, science, ethics, politics, and philosophy, it is delineating contemporary art.
Linda Weintraub is a curator, educator, artist, and author of several popular books about contemporary art. She has earned her reputation by making the outposts of vanguard art accessible to broad audiences. The current vanguard, she believes, is propelled by environmental consciousness that is not only the defining characteristic of contemporary manufacturing, architecture, science, ethics, politics, and philosophy, it is delineating contemporary art.
VICTORIA VESNA / CHUCK TAYLOR / ART|SCI COLLECTIVE: MICK LORUSSO, DAWN FAELNAR, OLIVIA OSBORNE
School of the Arts and Architecture Party
September 28th, 2016
Broad Arts Center courtyard and garden
Interactive installations focusing on local environmental awareness, as featured in this past summer's Current:LA Water public art biennial.
In collaboration with UCLA evolutionary biologist Charles Taylor and nanotechnology expert Olivia Osborne, the Art|Sci Collective* will introduce the region's resident bird species and talk about the preciousness of water. Experience bird song in its purest form—unsullied by the noise of daily activities—with our bird mimicking contraption. The Art|Sci Collective* also presents a sculptural installation consisting of glass jars containing water from throughout the region that sets the stage for a water awareness workshop that includes instructions for creative tasks on the topic that participants can perform and upload to waterbodies.org.
* Art|Sci Collective core members for this project are Dawn Faelnar, Claudia Jacques, Mick Lorusso, and Victoria Vesna with contributions from Judy Kim
CURRENT:LA / VICTORIA VESNA / CHARLES TAYLOR / DAWN FAELNAR / MICK LORUSSO / CLAUDIA JACQUES / ART|SCI COLLECTIVE
In collaboration with UCLA evolutionary biologists and nanotechnology experts, the Art|Sci Collective will introduce the wetlands’ diverse resident bird species and life in the water at Del Rey Lagoon, as part of the CURRENT LA Public Art Biennial. Experience bird song in its purest form—unsullied by the noise of daily activities—with our bird mimicking contraption and an introduction to the wetlands' diverse resident birds!
BIRD SONG DIAMOND WETLANDS Tuesday, July 19 and Saturday, July 30
4:00–7:00PM at Del Rey Lagoon
6840 Esplanade Street, Los Angeles CA 90293
About CURRENT LA:
Every two years, the CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial will focus on an issue affecting Los Angeles and other global cities to inspire civic discourse and use contemporary art to deepen connections between people. Putting a new spin on the international biennial, CURRENT:LA democratizes the way people access art by featuring temporary art projects and public programs at outdoor locations, taking art out of the museum environment and into LA's diverse neighborhoods. This citywide cultural event is presented by Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. The first presentation of the CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial in 2016 is funded by DCA and Bloomberg Philanthropies through its Public Art Challenge initiative.
13:00 - 14:45
Room A
OS2 ART | SCI
Chair: Takashi Ikegami
Co-Chair: Charles Taylor
OS2-1 Art at the edge of chaos: Life, Art, Swords and Japanese Textile
Amy Taylor, Charles Taylor
OS2-2 Automated Evolutionary Production of Audio-Visual Pieces -- Can we call it Art?
Tasuo Unemi
OS2-3 The Art and Science of Artificial Life
Victoria Vesna, Takashi Ikegami, Hiroo Iwata
OS2-4 BIRD SONG DIAMOND: Call and Response and Phase Transition work
Aisen Chacin, Maša Jazbec, Itsuki Doi, Mizuki Oka et al.
LASER symposium featuring Anna Dumitriu (bio-artist), Alex May (digital artist) and Pratik Shah (biomedical engineer)
February 4, 2016 7-9pm
Presentation Space, CNSI 5th floor
A solo exhibition of speculative morphologies by Amisha Gadani featuring birds without beaks, uni-colored chimeras, and a series of boxfishes that may exist, may have existed, or may exist in the future. The inspiration for the paintings and drawings in this exhibition stemmed partly from Gadani's two year artist residency in both the UCLA fish-focused evolutionary biology lab of Dr. Michael Alfaro and the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics.
Bio:
Amisha Gadani is an artist, educator and illustrator based in Los Angeles. She is interested in unique animal morphologies and adaptations; from swarming behaviors and elegant defense mechanisms, to superorganisms and animals of the deep sea. Her work ranges from unsettling beak-less bird paintings and underwater videos to her on-going series of interactive animal-inspired defensive dresses that can, for example, inflate like a blowfish when the wearer is intimidated. She has spent over four years working at the art and science focused Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco in education, exhibits and illustration; and two years working at UCLA in two biology labs as an illustrator producing over fifty scientific illustrations featured in journals and research papers and as an outreach educator using drawing and sculpture focused workshops to explain scientific concepts to local elementary school students.
Her work has shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, New York City, and Tokyo; has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, and Scientific American; and has been published in LIMN magazine, the journal Method Quarterly and the book "Future Fashion: Innovative Materials and Technology" by Barcelona-based maomao publications.
Amisha earned a B.F.A in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007.
