Thursday, 2 May 2019 - 10:00am to Friday, 3 May 2019 - 6:00pm
The UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab proudly announces the Sound + Science Symposium 2.0 - a decade after the first gathering in March, 2009 (Sound + Science 1.0). Join us to in a 2-day symposium with sound artists, scientists and humanists exploring all kinds of vibrations, audible and inaudible. This extraordinary event will bring together leading figures to discuss the applications and implications of such research in relation to questions of culture, politics, history, environment, art, and music.
The symposium will take place on May 2nd and 3rd from 10am-6pm at the California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium at UCLA. The symposium is free and open to the public.
ARTS based RESEARCH in TIMES of CLIMATE and SOCIAL CHANGE
The two-day symposium and exhibition on arts based research aims to envision a future in which arts and design are understood to be central to the success of every complex problem. Focus in the program will be to highlight the importance of art research and education, particularly in times of social unrest and climate change. It is through the arts that the scope of human experience around creativity, innovation, empathy, culture, and knowledge is learned, expressed, and distributed, both for the common good and the development of the individual. By highlighting collaborative research between artists, humanists, scientists and scholars at large, the symposium will attempt to demonstrate the important role of art research in academia and beyond.
Linda Weintraub, Wenda Gu, Laura Parker, Jiayi Young, Iain Kerr, Vera Wittkowsky, Terence Koh.
North campus | EDA, UCLA Broad Arts
Work Out / Tune-Up / Turn On -- What’s Next? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art –
with author Linda Weintraub
Linda Weintraub, curator, author and artist will lead a series of hands on interactive actions with visiting artists and scholars, faculty and students. The day will be divided into topics based on chapters in the book, WHAT’s NEXT? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art (Intellect books). Audiences will actively participate.
6pm
Reception and book signing by Linda Weintraub at the Fowler museum RECEPTION RSVP!
Author and artist Linda Weintraub will lead a series of hands-on methods with visiting artists and scholars, faculty and students. In her approach, she re-establishes the physical organism as a tool for investigation and discovery, thus activating “sensory studies,” a growing field of academic inquiry, and “new materialism,” which is a current development in philosophy. The day will be divided into topics based on chapters in her recently published book, What’s Next?: eco materialism & contemporary art (Intellect Books). Together with guest participants, Weintraub invites her audience to consider the remarkable capacity of the human organism to discern, interpret, and apply evidence of the material and energetic environment.
“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?
Victoria Vesna, Alfred Vendl, Martina Fröschl, Stephan Handschuh, Thomas Schwaha, Ruth Schnell, Glenneroo
Noise Aquarium is on the finalist list!!!
Victoria Vesna, Alfred Vendl, Martina Fröschl, Stephan Handschuh, Thomas Schwaha, Ruth Schnell, Glenneroo
Screening: Jan 26, 12:30pm – 9:00pm
UNITED ARTISTS THEATRE
ACE Hotel, 929 S Broadway, Los Angeles CA
The festival honors films on science and technology worldwide. Categories include fiction and non-fiction for both students and professionals. The film screening and awards ceremony takes place January 25, 2019. #RSFF2019. photo by: glennegroovy photography https://www.rawsciencefilmfestival.tv/?fbclid=IwAR2VojOLuKb0bq4ujTtTPoCJ...
Thursday, 7 February 2019 - 9:00am to Saturday, 9 February 2019 - 5:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Branda Miller, Pamela Z, Joselyn Hu
2019 Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Technology Conference
University of California Santa Barbara, CA USA
AWMAT 2019: Impact! How women in media arts, science and technology influence the community
Impact! explores how the creative and innovative works of women in media arts and technology influence the community. New forms of artistic representation in multimedia art are highlighted through interactive installations, virtual reality and sonic arts. Emphasis will be placed on how these new forms work in conjunction with technology to shape our culture.
Keynote Presenters:
Branda Miller – Media Artist/Educator
Pamela Z – Media Artist/Performer/Composer
Jocelyn Ho in collaboration with Margaret Schedel and Matthew Blessing
Women’s Labor repurposes old domestic objects laden with functionalities traditionally pertaining to women to become new musical instruments using emerging technologies. At its heart, it is a feminist initiative to revalue traditional women’s work. Throughout the project, the public will interact with the domestic-object-turned instruments as installations and in workshops. Female-identifying composers will write new compositions with the instruments, to be feature in concert performance with works by past female composers. Domesticity is recast in a new light through public engagement and performative spectacle. The ironing instrument will be showcased in this preview.
Women’s Labor interrogates the pressing issue of gender inequality by jolting the audience’s perspective of gendered activities. Moreover, in a city such as Los Angeles with a staggering socio-economic divide, domestic activities in affluent households are often exclusively done by female house-workers from poorer families. Women’s Labor democratizes domestic activities where people from all walks of life—not only women or domestic workers—engage hands-on with these domestic-object-turned instruments. While a feminist agenda of breaking the glass ceiling in traditionally male-dominated industries is important, the validation of traditionally “feminine” skillsets and their adoption by men are equally crucial to pay equality.
Artistic director, project creator, composer, performer: Jocelyn Ho
Collaborators: Margaret Schedel (composer, technical consultant) and Matthew Blessing (technical director)
Image Credit: Jean-Baptiste Jules Trayer, "Breton seamstresses in a shop" 1854
