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.
Friday, 7 September 2018 - 5:00pm to Monday, 10 September 2018 - 6:00pm
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Organizers: Dawn Faelnar + Ben Olsen
Art|Sci alumni and current grad student at Interface Cultures, Dawn Faelnar is one of the organizers of Leonardo SLAM, Sept. 7th, 9th and 10th, Ars Electronica Festival 2018, OK center Ursulinensaal, 5-6pm More info >>
The Leonardo Slam is an event for cross contamination of ideas, a short open public gathering based on the format of poetry slam, but more free-form: an individual or group may present work, words, stories, video, sound, ideas about work, work about ideas, work about work, ideas about ideas, work about nothing, ideas about music, music about performances, apples about oranges, oranges about history, history about histories, dance about architecture, et cetera.
Present or demonstrate an artwork, give a serious presentation, give a parody presentation, read a manifesto, tell an anecdote, involve the audience, improvise a song. There is no limit on the form of the presentation other than having a non negative duration and not being too long.
Chair: Michael Doser + Speakers: Hiroshi Ishii + Matthew Fuller + Ulrike Felt + Eveline Wandl-Vogt + Jim Gimzewski
ERROR – The Art of Imperfection Conference
The Academy of Error sets the counterweight to Friday’s Error conference. It is a celebration of errors, mistakes, and failures. It seeks to reveal the potential that lies in committing errors, turning the unexpected experience of failing into a productive and constructive part of our processes. It shifts the reflection on the act of erring from an outward perspective to a more personal level. Professionals from different fields of science will give insight into the handling of errors in their respective disciplines.
Chair: Michael Doser (AT/CH)
Speakers: Hiroshi Ishii (JP/US), Matthew Fuller (GB), Ulrike Felt (AZ), Eveline Wandl-Vogt (AT), Jim Gimzewski (GB/US) Read More
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
Monday, 30 July 2018 - 9:00pm to Friday, 10 August 2018 - 2:00pm
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Live Streaming 8/10/18
July 30 – August 10
The Sci|Art NanoLab is a highly competitive, 2-week summer program for high school juniors and seniors interested in collaborating with diverse and notable minds to challenge traditional, polarized perspectives of the arts and sciences.
This joint venture between the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and Department of Design|Media Arts, sponsored by the Art|Sci Center, brings together two of the most competitive majors at UCLA. This is an excellent opportunity for students interested in both science and art to build their portfolio for college admissions while earning FOUR UNITS of transferable UCLA CREDIT for the two-week course. The course will be supplemented with field trips, guest scholars and lecturers, while offering students the opportunity to experience college life on the UCLA campus.
The Sci|Art NanoLab challenges the next generation to Imagine the Impossible!
Please join us for our monthly LASER talk following the opening reception for Mark Chavez + Ina Conradi's The Double-Slit Experiment.
Victor Acevedo, whose career spans 40 years, is an artist best known for his digital work involving printmaking, photography and visual music. He is currently exploring the integration of real-time video work flows in his studio production. Acevedo grew up in Los Angeles and attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena 1979-81. After moving to New York City in 1995, he worked as an adjunct Professor at the School of Visual Arts from 1997 through 2008 in both the BFA and MFA Computer Art Departments. His work has been featured in many (Digital) art history books; most notably “Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation” (Tom Sito, MIT Press, 2013); “From Technological to Virtual Art” (Frank Popper, MIT Press 2007); “Art of the Digital Age” (Bruce Wands, Thames and Hudson, 2006) Acevedo Media
J-Walt has long been creating live fantastic visions with his Spontaneous Fantasia performances. Now he takes a step deeper into his creations of could-be worlds. Part science-fiction, part fantasy, J-Walt’s Lucid Dreamscapes brings us visions of possible futures and alternate realities. Lucid Dreamscapes
Eddy Vajarkitpongse is a creative technologist developing non-traditional audiovisual experiences for brands and artists. He is the CEO and an artist at yaknowlike studios, a full service experiential creative agency based in Los Angeles fusing cognitive research, technology, and art. He also serves as the director of LAVA. Founded in 2003, LAVA is a community of video artists working primarily in the field of immersive experiential video art. yaknowlike studios | LAVA
Agnes Stauber is the Creative Director of Digital Media at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She is an experienced media producer for museums (Interpretive Media, Educational Videos, Website, Mobile Application, Social Media) and has worked with institutions such as LACMA, the UCLA Fowler Museum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Agnes Stauber
Haytham Nawar is an artist, designer, and researcher who currently lives and works in Cairo. He is Assistant Professor and Director of the Graphic Design program, Department of the Arts at the American University in Cairo. He is the founder and director of the Cairotronica, Cairo Electronic, and New Media Arts Festival. Nawar received his Ph.D. from the Planetary Collegium, Center for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts, School of Art and Media - University of Plymouth. He holds a Masters of Advanced Studies ZFH in Spatial Design, Institute of Design & Technology, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland and an MFA in New Media and BFA in Printmaking from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Cairo, Egypt. He is a Fulbright alumni. Since 1999, he has participated in several international exhibitions, biennales, and triennials, the latest of which was Venice Biennial in 2015. Nawar won awards and acquisitions nationally and internationally in Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Portugal, Kuwait, Spain, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Syria, UAE and the United States.
Ina and Mark have been collaborating on numerous art and new media projects for the last 20 years, most recently awarded by the Hollywood Advanced Imaging Society’s 2018 Lumiere Award for the best 3D Short Animation. Their ongoing project Media Art Nexus (MAN) is supported by the Singapore’s NTU Museum’s Public Art Initiative. Animation industry veteran and founding faculty at NTU School of Art, Design and Media, Mark is based in Singapore and Los Angeles, founder of Giant Monster Pte Ltd. Ina is Associate Professor at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore. They both hold a Master’s of Fine Art from UCLA. Ina and Mark are currently Artists in Residence at the UCLA Art|Sci Center. While here, they have premiered a new collaborative piece 12 States of Zodiac together with Victoria Vesna + Siddharth Ramakrishnan + Marisa Caichiolo for occasion of the Hox Zodiac exhibition at Building Bridges gallery in Santa Monica, CA. Ina Conradi | Giant Monster
LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks is Leonardo's international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations. LASER Talks were founded in 2008 by Bay Area LASER Chair Piero Scaruffi and are in over 20 cities around the world.
“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.
Coyotes in Two Directions is a new body of works by Sarah Rosalena Brady. Coyotes in Two Directions examines the signifier of the trickster and shapeshifter as a symbolic metaphor to create techno-hybrid forms. Coyotes are symbolic in mythology and present in Western urban landscapes as one of the most successful animals surviving the Anthropocene. Emergent forms are employed through sculpture, automata, and 3D scans.
Please join us for our monthly LASER talk following the opening reception of Sarah Rosalena Brady's "Coyotes in Two Directions."
+ Appelusa is a world champion artistic roller skater, certified coach and choreographer, as well as an accomplished actor, voice-over artist, photographer, mixed media, and performance artist. As a visual artist, she strives to depict how being a poly synesthete affects her perception of daily life by combining technology, movement, and mixed media.
+ "Los Angeles-based artist Daniel R. Small assumes the roles of curator and collector—among other guises—to investigate the systems of knowledge and representation by which we know the past. Starting in 2012, the artist participated in several archeological excavations in the dunes of Guadalupe, California, on the site where Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 biblical epic, The Ten Commandments, was filmed—with the American desert standing in for ancient Egypt." -from Bomb Magazine
+ Daniel Krasofski's passion for scent started at the age of five, while on a family holiday in Bermuda. Touring the islands’ perfumery, he witnessed the classic floral-essence extraction method called enfleurage, instilling in him a deep connection with nature and scent. LABdk
+ Sarah Rosalena Brady is an interdisciplinary artist working in new media, sculpture, and sound based in Los Angeles. Her work explores alternative structures using digital technologies and computation to refigure objects under colonization.
"Sonata Machine, Sewnata Machine, I will be the Maestro of my own fate” is a live concert performance by Nicole Cooke. Performing in drag as a classical musician, Cooke will “play” a converted Singer sewing machine as the principle musical instrument.
