Rita Blaik, Art|Sci fellow, IGERT clean energy fellowship recipient and doctoral student in material science, presents her ephemeral photographs that cross the boundaries on materiality. The exhibition will be followed by the North | South Mixer and the introduction of the newly formed Undergraduate Art and Science Club.
Thursday, October 25, 2012. 5-7pm
Art|Sci Gallery / CNSI 5th floor Presentation Space. Click here for a downloadable PDF map and here for an interactive campus map.
Visiting TRADE 2012 artist Victoria Vesna in collaboration with Anna Macleod + Daniel Branley, Padraig Cunningham, Bridget Dolan, Claire Duffy, Róisín Loughrey, Anne O’Neill, Kathy O’Leary, Tracy Walsh
The Art and Science of Holy Wells launches on September 17th, 4pm - 8pm
Culture Night - September 21st, 7pm -10pm
McKennas shop next to the Sheehan’s Studios - Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim.
Kaplan, a media artist and MFA student in the Design Media Arts Department at UCLA, will exhibit her piece Pollen. Noa uses computer generated models of a magnified grain of pollen, to create a large-scale three-dimensional sculpture onto which honey is drizzled, revealing complexity, symbolism and micro-macrocosms of everyday objects that surround us.
Time:
Lecture @ 2pm
Exhibition Openings: 5-7pm
Location: Lecture @ UCLA Broad Art Center, EDA, Exhibition @ CNSI Gallery
Paul Thomas gave a guest lecture on his work, New Materialities. Thomas is the Head of Painting at the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales. Paul has been working in the area of electronic arts since 1981 when he co-founded the group Media-Space. Paul’s current research interests explore the space between life and death at a nano level.
Time:
Lecture @ 2pm
Exhibition Openings: 5-7pm
Location: Lecture @ UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240, Exhibition @ CNSI Gallery
Contemporary sound art has many faces: the varying interplay of sound, space, time,
movement and form is reflected in sound sculptures, sound installations or music
performances. The perceptual linking of seeing and listening, the articulation of silence and
space, the sculptural characteristics of sound and the dissolution of the concert hall are the
aspects that turn sound art into an independent art form within fine and music. The exhibition
»Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art« presents for the first time the development of sound
art in the 20th and 21th century. For the duration of the exhibition the ZKM will be the navel
of sound art, a veritable !palace of sounds".
With works from 90 artists from which approximately 30 new productions from recent years
will be presented, the viewer gains insights into the unique sound cosmos of contemporary
art. The sound world visualizes its own exhibition architecture, and the exhibition visitor
himself becomes the generator of sounds.
Opening Friday, March 16, 2012. 7 p.m., ZKM_Foyer
Special Opening Event: Long Night of Sound Art at 10 p.m., ZKM
The ceremony of the »21st European Days of Culture in Karlsruhe« starts with a remarkable
concert of Wolfgang Rihm (free admission) at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
(Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design), which is located in the ZKM building, at 5 p.m.
Following the concert, Dr. Susanne Asche, Head of the Department of Cultural Affairs
Karlsruhe, Prof. Peter Weibel, curator and CEO of the ZKM Karlsruhe and Ms. Julia Gerlach,
the exhibition project manager, will give their opening remarks.
Victoria Vesna’s artistic work as well as her theoretical background were motivations to invite her to curate a project that will bring to CoCA Torun some of the most advanced and experimental artistic practices, but not only. The project curated by Victoria Vesna is conceived to be first and foremost an exciting collaborative experience, based on the exchange and dialogue through the creation of a social network and meta-interface that will involve artists, scientists, curators and theoreticians, journalists and other interested intellectuals. This project is developed around the theme of water, understood not only through the multiplicity of its symbolical and metaphorical meanings but also as one of the life and energy sources which today demands a serious political and social discussion.
Morphonano explores a number of artworks created by Victoria Vesna and nano-scientist James Gimzewski. Their collaborative works create an intersection of space, time and embodiment by employing a very subtle and responsive energetic exchange.
FREE ADMISSION. PUBLIC IS WELCOME.
Time:
Artists’ Reception: 6-9pm
Location: Beall Center for Art + Technology
Building 712 in the Arts Plaza of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Opening March 7
Lecture @ 2pm
Exhibition Openings: 5-7pm
Location: Lecture @ UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240, Exhibition @ CNSI Gallery
Exposure is an exhibition of work by Mike Phillips, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts, School of Art & Media at Plymouth University. Mike Phillips is director of i-DAT, a Principal Supervisor for the Planetary Collegium and a supervisor of the Transtechnology Research Groups. His R&D orbits digital architectures and transmedia publishing, and is manifest in a series of ‘Operating Systems’ to dynamically manifest ‘data’ as experience in order to enhance perspectives on a complex world. The year that Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy protection was the same year Fujifilm moved from film production to beauty products1. This did not just mark a technological shift from film grain to nanoparticles but also a massive cultural shift - a shift from capturing the face on film to the embedding of ‘film’ in the face. The thing that once froze the face in an eternal youthful smile is now the anti-aging nanoparticle that preserves the face we wear. Barthes described the face on film as representing “a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced”2. Now this absolute state is closer to hand and we will walk around wearing our old photo albums as our face, peeling away the frames like layers of dead skin. Our essence, like Garbo’s, will not degrade or deteriorate. ‘Viewed as a transition’ Exposure explores the deterioration of the flesh through the temporality of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). From the 60th of a second exposure of the Kodak Brownie camera to the 20-minute scan of the AFM - the closer the subject the longer the ‘exposure’. Incorporating data from an AFM scan of a basal cell carcinoma Exposure explores the convergence of ideologies constructed around imaging technologies. Through a subtle interaction the viewer conjures up a dynamic data/image of a skin cancer - over exposed to the sun - or the intense light of the camera flashgun.
Lecture @ 2pm
Exhibition Openings: 5-7pm
Location: Lecture @ UCLA Broad Art Center, room 5240, Exhibition @ CNSI Gallery
Dark Skies is a work by Patricia Olynyk in Collaboration with Axi:Ome and Christopher Ottinger.
Dark Skies is a multi channel projection on CNC routed tiles inspired by the concept of biomimicry. The surfaces of the tiles themselves are based loosely on the shape and topography a wildmouse tastebud. The installation also includes an evocative soundscape, drawn primarily from field recordings captured at twilight in the Rocky Mountains during high summer. "Dark Skies" is an astronomical reference, referring to remote places free of hazy city light that allow for an extended view into deep space and time. This insight offers not only a unique perceptual and psychological experience but the promise of new discovery.
Patricia Olynyk is an artist whose prints and installations frequently employ microscopy and biomedical imaging technologies to explore the intersections between art and the life sciences. Currently she is Chair of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF). Exhibition opening to follow the lecture.
Eric Parren (1983, NL/US) is a transdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied at the Interfaculty ArtScience of the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague where he received his BFA in 2009. Currently he is pursuing an MFA at the Design | Media Arts department of the University of California Los Angeles. His main focus is on live audiovisuals, generative art, artificial intelligence, bio-inspired art and human computer interaction. A special field of interest is evolutionary systems and their creative possibilities. He is part of the art collective Macular and he is the founder and co-host of the La Force Sauvage internet radio-show.
