Hox Zodiac Dinner is an on-going collaboration between Victoria Vesna and neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan. Inspired by the Hox genes which codify body plans across the animal kingdoms, Hox Zodiac offers the audience a seat at the dinner table, enabling conversations on mutations, morphology, and metamorphosis, on humans in relation to animals and the food we eat, on animals feral and laboratory raised. The participatory project aims to heighten consciousness about our animal bodies, mutations, art, and science.
EVENTS ARE FREE and light refreshments are on the house. Parking is in lot 9, by the hour $12 all day. Drive up to the top of the parking structure to reach the entrance of the building.
We as human beings have taken bird songs out of our daily environment. This interactive sound+projection installation uses hyper-directional sound speakers, bird songs, and drone-footage that heighten the audience's awareness of the environment in a bird's point of view.
Featuring the work and on-going collaboration of UCLA professors Dr. Charles Taylor, Evolutionary Biology, and Dr. Victoria Vesna, Design|Media Arts, artist-inventor Aisen Caro Chacin, sound-artist Joel Ong, artist John Brumley, and Mick Lorusso + Mary Tsang from the Art|Sci collective.
Memory Garden by Iman Person is an immersive sonic installation that explores Black speculative archives through somatic memory, ethnobotany, and land extraction. Suspended glass sculptures with ceramic embellishments represent the shape of the hippocampus—the brain’s memory center. Historical and live weather data from St. Ann, Jamaica—such as humidity, air quality, and temperature—triggers layered audio throughout the gallery and the soundscape features a soft drone of 40-hertz tonal frequencies, a potential tool for improving cognitive functions in individuals with memory loss conditions. Memory Garden serves as a manifestation of the codification of language and experience by journeying peoples.
Location: CNSI Lobby and Art Sci Gallery, 5th Floor of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
570 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking: Parking Structure 9
675 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Navigation: After parking, proceed to the top floor of the structure. Take the gangway along the north side of the lot, then navigate around the CNSI building to its east entrance on the 3rd floor. From there, you can access the lobby and the Art Sci Gallery on the 5th floor.
OPENING RECEPTION | Bill Fontana “Silent Echoes: Notre-Dame and the Dachstein Glacier”
Bill Fontana’s Silent Echoes: Notre-Dame and the Dachstein Glacier is a duet between two sites of field recording: the melting Dachstein glacier in Austria, and the dormant bells of Notre-Dame after the 2019 fire. Together, they thread a sound sculpture that builds upon Fontana’s historic exploration of acoustic cubism through layered sound. The six-channel sound sculpture will be audible from Dickson Court adjacent to Royce Hall’s south entrance.
LOCATION:
UCLA Royce Hall, 3rd floor
10745 Dickson Ct
Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States + Google Map
Parking for Royce Hall is available in Parking Structure 5 located at:
340 Royce Drive,
Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Guest drop is closest at the turnaround at the front of Royce Hall located at:
10745 Dickson Court,
Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Humans are just one species among millions, coexisting in an expansive living network. Immerse yourself in installations envisioned by artists, designers, scientists, technologists and changemakers from across 12 countries. Their cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaborations open portals to a shared future, in which planet and people flourish together.
Part of PEM’s Climate + Environment Initiative, this traveling exhibition from the Barbican Centre in London celebrates the power of global creativity to transform the conversation around the climate emergency. The structures and design featured in the exhibition are sourced from biodegradable, sustainable materials to minimize carbon footprint. We invite you to imagine our ideal future world. What will it look like? How will we use the precious time we have here? Technology has brought us closer to nature than we have ever been before, and Indigenous insight continues to reconnect us to our roots. What will it take to live together in harmony?
Walk up to a table set for dinner, but imagine the guests include a fox and a wasp. Plunge into a virtual ocean with magnified plankton, and peer through the layers of a tree to experience the microscopic foundations of life.
Our Time on Earth is produced and curated by the Barbican with guest curators FranklinTill and co-produced by Musée de la civilisation, Québec City, Canada. This exhibition is made possible by Carolyn and Peter S. Lynch and The Lynch Foundation. We thank James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes, Chip and Susan Robie, and Timothy T. Hilton as supporters of the Exhibition Innovation Fund. We also recognize the generosity of the East India Marine Associates of the Peabody Essex Museum.
Share your impressions, snapshots and tales with us on social media using #OurTimeOnEarth.
This is the first iteration of a collaboration with Dr. Paul Iaizzo, the director of education in the Lillehei Heart Institute and the Visible Heart® laboratory, and Dr. Brenda Ogle, an associate professor in the Stem Cell Institute in the Department of Bioengineering. Together they learn how sculpture can inform cardiac device creation and how cardiology research can inform biologically inspired art.
Following a “Heart and Art” panel in November, 2018, Alison has made a number of temporary installations in the Target Studio and discussed her partnership with the Visible Heart and the System Regeneration laboratories on May 1, 2019. As part of the event, Alison invited artists to interact with the first prototypes generated from her experiences at both laboratories. The installation was an initial attempt at creating a touchable, physical interface for the heartbeat. The evening included performances choreographed by Chris Schlichting that offered another layer of how our actions are both spontaneous and learned. Participating dancers included Mirabai Miller, Tori Cassagranda, Marggie Ogas, Julia Bither, Hettie Stern, Rachel Clark, Nicole Stumpf, Laura Selle Virtucio, Marisol Herling, Shui Xian, and Emilia Bruno.
Alison Hiltner is a fiscal year 2019 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Friday, 7 October 2022 - 6:00pm to Sunday, 20 November 2022 - 6:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Victoria Vesna
"I am Everywhere but Nowhere"
Exhibition Venue:
Seongsan Art Hall (B1, 1F, 2F, and outdoors on the premises), 3·15 Nuri Marine Park, Chang-dong Art Village Art Center, Jinhae Black & White, and Jinhae Jungwon Rotary
Alien Star Dust : Signal to Noise
7분 23초
Single channel video, Augmented Reality (AR)
Alvaro and Sam present to you a small show. Though one deals with the ecological and botanical and the other with games and [power]fantasy, the works of both attempt to contain massive systems, ecologies, and histories within small objects. Attempting to retain in each the contingencies, nuances, complexities, and contradictions of their colossal subjects. Collected are 3 works by each artist:
In Tortilla Maps, Alvaro burns the 600 year drainage process of the Valley of Mexico [Anahuac] into the surface of hand-made tortillas. Sam’s Dust Knights transforms the coincidences and constraints of a player's home into a treacherous fantasy-land for microscopic creatures. Maize Should be Capitalized seeds 10,000 years of human/maize interaction in a plot at the UCLA Botanical Gardens. In Game Pieces 0: Rules for the Construction of the Role Playing Games interpretations of game design are illustrated through the perspective of the lowest and most numerous game piece, the pawn. In Alvaro’s newest work a science lab briefcase sprouts rows of plastic corn. And in A Modern Wargame, a 250 gigabyte video game with millions of active users is re-built through printed zines and 1 centimeter tall game pieces.
Come examine the results of these experiments.
Where to meet: We will be meeting in front of the EDA June 7th at 5pm and walking together to the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) ArtSci Gallery.
Location: Art|Sci Gallery (Room 5419), California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). In front of the Bombshelter Bistro.
Presented at Pratt Institute’s Manhattan Gallery and curated by Ellen K. Levy, a multimedia artist, scholar, and past president of the College Art Association, “From Forces to Forms” explores the nature of form by engaging with the potent forces and processes of nature. By investigating how physical laws shape living and nonliving forms alike — ideas first proposed by D’ Arcy Thompson in his classic tome “On Growth and Form” (1917) — the exhibition explores universal principles of organismic development while delving into the flux and perturbations that characterize life today.
Reflecting Pratt Institute’s commitment to interdisciplinarity, “From Forces to Forms” features works by 19 artists and designers whose practices draw from both art and science and articulate a shared commitment to creating a more sustainable world. These works consider the implications of form generation through a variety of media (from analog to digital), at different scales (from subatomic to macroscopic), and in varied contexts (from prebiotic to ecosystems).
Third Episode "Repairing Nature" will feature:
Lillian Ball
Ursula Endlicher
María Elena Gonzalez
Marta de Menezes and María Antonia Gonzalez Valerio
Christy Rupp
Victoria Vesna
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