LASER
19 Jul 2018 - 7:00pm
CNSI Building at UCLA | Presentation Space (Fifth Floor)
Please join us for our monthly LASER talk following the opening reception for Andrea Polli Hacking the Grid.
Andrea Polli’s project Hacking the Grid, 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. Read more: https://cmoa.org/publication/hack-the-grid/
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.
Hack the Grid documents a series of large-scale light installations produced in Pittsburgh by New Mexico–based environmental artist Andrea Polli (born 1968), using the city’s long history of energy and industry to interrogate issues from particulate pollution to wind power.
Text by Andrea Polli. Essay by Philip R.S. Johnson.
Sunday, 11 November 2018 - 9:00am to Sunday, 18 November 2018 - 6:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Victoria Vesna, Joel Ong, Ioannis Bardakos, Linus Lancaster, Marta de Menezes, Robertina Sebjanic ++
The third international interdisciplinary conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" will take place in 11-13 November 2018 in Mexico City, hosted by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and the Centro de Cultura Digital. Including theoretical and artwork presentations TTT2018 continues to focus: a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and about the aesthetics of liminality - as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science, b) in the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art. Coordinated in partnership with the program of the FACTT 2018 - Festival Art & Science Trans-disciplinary and Trans-national the conference is co-organized by the Research and Creation Group Arte+Ciencia, UNAM (Mexico), Arte Institute (USA), Cultivamos Cultura (Portugal) besides the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University (Greece).
Art is, in so many ways, a reflection of reality, its glorification as well as its challenger, in an instinctive understanding that nothing is stable despite the effort to keep a balance between the comfort of belief and the delusion of control. Art and science interrelations are not always clear and one could have the impression that the artist seems more permeable to the influence of science than the scientist to the influence of art. Art’s playfully transgressive nature offers creative bypasses to the grammar of science and expands the dialogue with its openness to a multiplicity towards the new. Nevertheless, art – albeit its originary affinity with the taboo – is never completely liberated from moral considerations. Deeply involved into this lively discourse on the nature of the taboo, art becomes the very domain of contemporary experimentation with transgression, in order to provoke and sparkle discourse, catalyzing possible forms of transcendence.
Chair: Luis Miguel Girão, James Gimzewski & Victoria Vesna
INL Summit, Braga, Portugal:
Nanotechnology: An enabler of a New Economy
Session 4: Science and Arts!
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
2:16 PM 3:45 PM
What does science gain from interaction and engagement with the arts? How has engagement with the arts or an artist led to innovation, breakthroughs, and insights in science? From distinct "aha moments" to the simple gaining of a fresh perspective, how has art influenced science?
Both artists and scientists act on their curiosity by identifying an inquiry and taking steps to discover or express the unknown. Join our cohort of experts in discussing the intersections of art and science.
Chair: Luis Miguel Girão, Technical Expert at the European Commission, Belgium
James Gimzewski, Prof. and Director of CNSI Core Lab, UCLA, USA
Victoria Vesna, Prof. | Department of Design and Media Arts, UCLA, USA
