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.
UCLA Art | Sci Center Gallery CNSI Building
5th Floor
5-7pm
[help me know the truth] is a participatory artwork in which visitors become part of the work across the exhibition. Participants first snap a digital portrait at a small photo booth at the entrance to the show, and their images are used in the work. In the gallery, participants can choose between two slightly altered portraits to match the text label shown on digital devices. By selecting slight variations of the images over time, differing facial features emerge that reveal larger unconscious beliefs about facial features or tendencies related to culture and identity. The project uses a process called "reverse correlation" from computational neuroscience to capture these beliefs.
Victoria Vesna, in collaboration with Dr. Alfred Vendl and Martina Fröschl, of the Scientific Visualization department at the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, bring Noise Aquarium to TEDxMB. Noise Aquarium draws guests’ attention to unnatural noise in the oceans on plankton, one of the primary building blocks of the marine food chain and a crucial component of the Earth’s ecosystem. By showing disturbance through noise pressure waves, this intriguing video of accurate 3D-models is a vital resource for scientific and artistic research. Immerse yourself in the Noise Aquarium video lounge!
Thursday, 7 September 2017 - 11:45pm to Monday, 11 September 2017 - 12:15pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Victoria Vesna + Charles Taylor + Hiroo Iwata + Takashi Ikegami
Deep Space 8K features Bird Song Diamond
Victoria Vesna in collaboration with evolutionary biologist Charles Taylor, engineer Hiroo Iwata and physicist Takashi Ikegami.
Bird Song Diamond Mimic is an interactive installation that allows the audience to practice bird songs and experience its complexity as if learning a new language. The project is habitat specific and for Speculum Artium, the bird song the audience is asked to learn and mimic is of a canary in the coal mine. When the participants hear the song and are prompted to imitate the canary, a computer grades the accuracy of their mimic. The work is part of a larger virtual reality installation that is an outgrowth of a research project “Mapping the Acoustic Network of Birds” directed by an evolutionary biologist Charles Taylor. Through this work, the artist and the scientist attempt to remind and alert the public of how birds and their acoustic richness have disappeared from our daily experiences.
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.
Join us for this unique opportunity to hear the artist / scientist discuss their exhibited works resulting from their decade long collaboration. Works on view include Zero@Wavefunction, Nanomandala, Blue Morph and Brain Storming a work in progress. After the overview of the works in the gallery, you will be able to follow the Brain Storming session on Alan Turing and the Brain. Neuroscientist Mark Cohen, engineer Ramesh Jain, and artist Connie Samaras will be participating in this live discussion. The exhibition is organized by David Familian who will be moderating the session.
MORPHONANO Artist Lecture
Saturday, May 5, 2012
6pm - 8pm - at the Beall Center
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.
Prof. Diane Gromala, Founding Director of the Transforming Pain Research Group (TPRG) will be exhibiting the evolving work of this team of world-class researchers. Building on an extensive knowledge base from the fields of Pain Medicine, Interactive Art & Design, Computer Science, Neuroscience and Psychophysics, the research group is developing innovative technologies to address chronic pain, a disease that affects 1 in 5 North Americans. Technologies include meditation, biofeedback, immersive Virtual Reality, visualization, robotics and social media.
Diane Gromala is an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, where she teaches in the graduate program in Information Design and Technology at Simon Fraser University. She is an adjunct faculty member in Industrial Design and a faculty member of the transdisciplinary GVU (the Graphics Visualization and Usability Center). Dr. Gromala was one of the first artists to work with immersive virtual reality, beginning with Dancing with the Virtual Dervish. Co-created with Yacov Sharir at the Banff Centre for the Arts' Art & Virtual Environments residency, this piece has been exhibited worldwide from 1993-2004. Subsequent immersive VR work was designed for stress-reduction and pain distraction during chemotherapy. Dr. Gromala's work is currently in use in over 20 hospitals and clinics.
Exhibition Dates: September 29 — October 31, 2011
Art + Sci Gallery
California NanoSystems Institute – UCLA
Room 5419
