Kathy High is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of technology, science, speculative fiction and art.
Thursday, April 14, 2015
Exhibition: KATHY HIGH
Art|Sci Gallery, 5th Floor CNSI
LASER, 7-9 pm
Visual media artist, independent media arts curator and media arts teacher Kathy High occupies the Art|Sci Gallery space with her interdisciplinary practice in the areas of technology, science, speculative fiction, and art, explored via video and installation.
Museum of Endoluminosity: Phase I Nanodiamonds and Healing
Mick Lorusso + Art|Sci Collective
Exhibition Opening 5-7 pm
Art|Sci Gallery, 5th Floor CNSI
LASER 7-9 pm
CNSI Presentation Space, 5th Floor
Researchers at UCLA, including Dr. Dean Ho and Jim Gimzewski, have shown that diamonds small enough to enter living cells, nanodiamonds, could be instrumental in curing cancer, improving the immune system of the elderly, and helping to heal wounds after surgery. Extending scientific research into a realm of imagination and belief, the exhibit "Museum of Endo-Luminosity" also suggests imagery that people might use for visualization during physical illness and psychological distress. The “Museum of Endo-Luminosity” is directed by Mick Lorusso and includes contributions and collaborations from Dr.Dean Ho and UCLArts and Healing, and the Art|Sci Collective, amongst others.
In collaboration with SONOS Studios, the Art|Sci Center presented BRAINSTORMING: SYNESTHESIA in the SONOS Studios space in Los Angeles. The Art|Sci Center hosted a performance where artists, scientists, and musicians explore through cognitive synchronization how sound affects the human brain and body.
Artist and director of UCLA Art|Sci Center + Lab Victoria Vesna performed the Octopus Brainstorming session on Synesthesia with neuroscientists Mark Cohen and Don Vaughn, nanoscientist James Gimzewski, artist Mick Lorusso, and sound artists Gil Kuno, Shoshi Kanokohata and Maciej Ozog.
This performance was made possible with the support of Art|Sci Team members Marissa Clifford, Mary Tsang and Ben Ward.
MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Artist and director of UCLA Art | Sci center Victoria Vesna performs the Octopus Brainstorming session on Synesthesia with neuroscientists Mark Cohen, Don Vaughn, nanoscientist James Gimzewski, artist Mick Lorusso and sound artists Gil Kuno, Shoshi Kanokohata and Maciej Ozog.
VICTORIA VESNA – UCLA Professor in department of Design Media Arts, Director of Art | Sci center. http://victoriavesna.com/
JAMES GIMZEWSKI – UCLA Distinguished Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, FRS FREng, FInstP is a physicist who pioneered research on electrical contacts with single atoms and molecules and light emission using scanning tunneling microscopy. http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/gimzewski/
KUNO KANO (Japan) – The serene harmonies of traditional Japanese flute (played by Shoshi Kanokohata) are mangled by the digital glitch methodologies of distortion designer Gil Kuno. http://www.unsound.com/
MICK LORUSSO, UCLA Art | Sci gallery – visual artist focused on energy in it’s many forms: as sustenance, movement, sensation, electricity and light. He integrates science, mysticism, ecology and community actions into his work. http://www.micklorusso.net/
MACIEJ OZOG (Poland) -- critically explores the liminal territory between the body's physical activity and the invisible electric infrastructures of hybrid space. http://maciejozog.333flow.com/
DON VAUGHN – PhD student in Professor Cohen’s lab researches freewill and group social dynamics using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)b and is also a DJ and drummer.
http:// http://speakeasy2014.com/don-vaughn/
With support from Art|Sci Team-members MARISSA CLIFFORD, MARY TSANG, and BEN WARD
Aisen Caro Chacin, Joel Ong and Art|Sci Collective
06 NOVEMBER 2014
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY
Aisen Caro Chacin, Joel Ong and the Art|Sci Collective joined the multi-year collaboration of Professor Victoria Vesna and evolutionary biologist Dr. Charles Taylor in this sound and art exhibition based on the NSF-sponsored research on Mapping Acoustic Sensor Array of Bird Communication Networks.
Secret Life of Birds built off of this idea and aimed to re-examine the bonds between humans and birds through the perspective of the birds. This ongoing project continues to see various disciplines of art and science converging to present Taylor’s research as a work of art.
LASER:
October 2, 2014 7pm
Art|Sci Gallery
CNSI 5th floor
From the work of artist Jason Fahrion, who raises silkworms in his garage on local mulberry leaves, to UCLA iGEM's quest for genetically modifying bacteria to produce fluorescent silk, a cabinet of curiosities at the Art|Sci Gallery weaves a story of silk, and of the biological factories that humans have carefully cultivated to manufacture it.
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.
An acoustic construction: hyper sound speakers amplify and present sounds from nature.
UCLA Professors Charles Taylor, Evolutionary Biology and Victoria Vesna, Design | Media Arts present the work of Professor Takashi Ikegami and his students Atsushi Masumori, Itzuki Doi, and Norihiro Maruyama. This is one aspect of a multi-year transdisciplinary collaborative project “Mapping the Acoustic Communication Networks of Birds” funded by NSF and will be presented at the upcoming Artificial Life conference in New York.
In this installation the participant/viewer experience sound that can be directed to give a 3D experience and “view” the soundscape from different angles and reflections — similar to the reflections/refraction of light seen through diamonds. Highly directional hyper sound speakers and motion sensors create immersive, targeted soundscape patterns in some ways richer than those which occur naturally. By moving around the viewer can view and review their sound environment with a heightened awareness. We anticipate that Birdsong Diamond will leave viewers with new questions about their soundscape environment.
Performing Quantum Entanglement: Subtle Apparatuses for Extrasensory Affectiveness
Clarissa Ribeiro
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 5th | 5-7 p.m.
Art|Sci Gallery, 5th Floor CNSI
What does it mean to be entangled? In this experimental work, composed of three interactive video installations, Ribeiro invites us to think about ourselves and our affective dimension from a semi-material and non-local perspective.
Unfolding | Clusters: A Music and Visual Media Model of ALS Pathophysiology
Frederico Visi + Giovanni Dothel in collaboration with Duncan Williams
Opening Reception: 5 pm, June 3rd
Art|Sci Gallery, Room 5419, CNSI
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common of the five motor neuron diseases, it is characterized by progressive degeneration of the upper and lower motor neurons of the spinal cord.
This interdisciplinary project presents a way of employing music and immersive media in order to illustrate the biomolecular processes behind the progress of ALS and thus help raise awareness in the greater public.
This work is an international collaboration between the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, the Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Università di Bologna, Italy, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research, Plymouth University, UK.
Supported by the Santander Postgraduate Internationalisation Scholarship.
CREATIVE MINDS, a student-run organization affiliated with UCLA Arts+Healing, brings arts and drama therapy to homeless youth and others in need in communities throughout West LA.
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