ART EXHIBITION + LEONARDO ART SCIENCE EVENING RENDEZVOUS (LASER): CYCLING THROUGH MILANKOVITCH
Please join us for our monthly LASER talk following the opening reception for Cycling Through Milankovic by Dona Jalufka
UCLA California NanoSystems Institute | ArtSci Gallery + Presentation Space (Fifth Floor)
570 Westwood Plaza, Building 114, 5th floor, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking information for Parking Structure 8 https://map.ucla.edu/
Saturday, 6 April 2019 - 6:00pm to Saturday, 27 April 2019 - 5:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Curated by Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch and Barbara Putz-Plecko (Angewandte)
EXHIBITION: April 6th – 27th
Opening reception, April 6th, 6 – 8pm
Location: BUILDING BRIDGES ART EXCHANGE, BBAX
Bergamot Santa Monica, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Unit F2, Santa Monica, CA 90404
In the exhibition UNDERSTANDING – ART & RESEARCH, curated by Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch and Barbara Putz-Plecko (Angewandte) 15 projects of artistic research practice, related work by the artistic researcher Margarete Jahrmann and the Angewandte Artistic Research PhD Program are presented -- all approaches challenging our established perspectives. The exhibition will enhance the understanding of possibilities of research through art in new ways and the driving force of inquiry, artistic and scientific activity. The desire and claim to contribute to the transformation of society can be viewed, examined, sensed, discussed and experienced through examples from research and teaching, science and art, design and architecture. The exhibition was newly adapted and designed for the Building Bridges Art Exchange gallery after presentations in New Zealand (Dunedin School of Art) and Singapore (Nanyang Technological University Singapore).
“The same way a beautiful flower needs a diverse and fertile soil to grow, so does the spirit, which is nourished by offerings as diverse and fertile as soil.” Padrinho Jorge Callejo Hernandez, Habana, Cuba, January 11, 2017.
Andrea's Room is an immersive environment juxtaposing organic and scientific iconographies of the natural world that seem unseen, forgotten or discarded against established aesthetic and moral taboos associated with Yoruba syncretic religion.
Claudia Jacques, MFA, PhD, is a Brazilian-American interdisciplinary technoetic artist, designer, educator and researcher. http://claudiajacques.com
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Gerfried Stocker, director of Ars Electronica (AE), and Victoria Vesna, artist, director of the UCLA Art Sci Center, and AE jury member, present a selection of prize-winning projects from AE and discuss how artistic strategies for responding to political and societal malfeasance have changed with the massive erosion of traditional media and information hierarchies. The question now is, What are the new avenues for artists working with media, and how can they play a role to offset attacks on truth and fact?
N Festival is an initiative of Arte + Ciencia (UNAM) and Bioscénica, with special support from Cultivamos Cultura (Portugal), to expose and extend the knowledge of different international organizations and collectives -mainly led by women-, working at the intersection between art, science and philosophy (in the academic and artistic fields), in a Festival format to be presented at the Digital Culture Center and the UNAM, under the theme of epigenetics and multiple spatialities.
https://centroculturadigital.mx/actividad/N-Festival-SJ3bvMSs7
Heather Dewey-Hagborg with Sri Kosuri and Soraya de Chadarevian
November 16, 2018 at 6 p.m. on campus at the Experimental Digital Arts space at the Broad Art Center. MAPS + DIRECTIONS: ARTS EDA
Heather Dewey-Hagborg's most recent short film T3511 screening followed by a conversation with the artist and guest discussants Sri Kosuri and Soraya de Chadarevian. Presented by Fathomers in collaboration with Art|Sci Center.
Guest Professors Sri Kosuri Assistant Professor at UCLA in Chemistry/Biochemistry Departments Soraya de Chadarevian Professor in the Department of History and the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA
Bio
Heather Dewey-Hagborg is a transdisciplinary artist and educator who is interested in art as research and critical practice. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places.
Heather has shown work internationally at events and venues including the World Economic Forum, the Shenzhen Urbanism and Architecture Biennale, the Van Abbemuseum, Transmediale and PS1 MOMA. Her work is held in public collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the New York Historical Society, among others, and has been widely discussed in the media, from the New York Times and the BBC to Art Forum and Wired.
Heather has a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is an artist fellow at AI Now, and an affiliate of Data & Society.
She is also a co-founder and co-curator of REFRESH, an inclusive and politically engaged collaborative platform at the intersection of Art, Science, and Technology.
“You are a part of everything you consume: food, material goods, and energy. And everything you consume affects the world that you live in. Know how to gather good data, understand what it means, make your choices based on quality information, and take action. You are made of energy and have the power.”
This is the crux of Andrea Polli’s project Hack the Grid, which reveals how photography, digital imagery, and data visualizations can inspire community activism and political action. Polli is an artist working at the intersection of art, science, and technology. For Hack the Grid, she presents past and current projects that reveal how data visualizations create emotional impact and societal change. Polli also engages in conversations with scientists, activists, technologists, and designers in Pittsburgh, a city at the intersection of technological advancements and longstanding ecological concerns.
Hack the Grid is a project of the Hillman Photography Initiative, in which Carnegie Museum of Art invites artists to investigate contemporary social issues through photography’s measurement of light and time. In addressing the relationship between light and environmental sustainability using data visualization, Polli pushes the boundaries of photography and reveals the power of imagery to inspire citizens and change the world for the better.
Thursday, 13 September 2018 - 9:00am to Saturday, 15 September 2018 - 8:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Victoria Vesna + James Gimzewski
Blue Morph at SPECULUM ARTIUM in Trbovlje, Slovenia
Nanotechnology is changing our perception of life and this is symbolic in the Blue Morpho butterfly with the optics involved — that beautiful blue color is not pigment at all but patterns and structure which is what nano-photonics is centered on studying. The optics are no doubt fascinating but the real surprise is in the discovery of the way cellular change takes place in a butterfly. Sounds of metamorphosis are not gradual or even that pleasant as we would imagine it. Rather the cellular transformation happens in sudden surges that are broken up with stillness and silence. The audience is invited to experience the sounds of metamorphosis.
Thursday, 6 September 2018 - 1:00pm to Monday, 10 September 2018 - 1:30pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Victoria Vesna (US), Alfred Vendl (AT), Martina Fröschl (AT).
Current scientific studies have shown with shocking examples that noise sources such as sonar and fracking are extremely harmful to large marine life. Noise also affects microscopic organisms such as plankton, as Victoria Vesna and her collaborators show in their interactive installation in Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Festival 2018, where Victoria Vesna transforms the Deep Space 8K into an aquarium for visitors. Read More
“Every bit of matter and energy exists in a state of blurry flux, allowing it to occupy not just two locations but an infinite number of them simultaneously.” (Roger Penrose)
This exhibition will be located at two distinct and distant geographical locations at the same time – one in Singapore and one in LA. For this occasion, a wide compendium of diverse art works will be focusing at the experimental animated artworks by Mark Chavez done in collaboration with Ina Conradi at the emergence of Media Art Nexus at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore. The future goal of the exhibition is reinforcing a holistic approach to issues of arts education and art production within Singapore and internationally.
