January 19, 2017
5-7 pm: Exhibition Opening / Reception for the artist -- Art Sci gallery, CNSI 5th floor.
7-8:30 pm: LASER with Lucie Strecker, Kalus Spiess, Stephen Nowlin, Chris O'Leary, Ryohei Nakatsu and the featured artist. Presentation space, CNSI 5th floor. Directions to Art|Sci Gallery | CNSI 5th floor
This year's Japan Cultural Envoy appointed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, international artist Naoko Tosa (Ph.D.) will join us on January 19th, 2017 for the debut of her Genesis exhibition! Genesis magnifies the intermixing of traditional Japanese pigments mobilized by viscous fluid and dry ice using cutting-edge technology to create an immersive experience out of phenomena normally invisible to the human eye.
Naoko Tosa's early artwork has been collected by Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a fellow at MIT Centre for Advanced Visual Studies established by George Keeps of Bauhaus. She is currently an information technology professor at Kyoto University.
Naoko Tosa (Ph.D.) is an international artist whose early artwork has been collected by Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a fellow at MIT Centre for Advanced Visual Studies established by George Keeps of Bauhaus. She is currently an information technology professor at Kyoto University.
Website: http://www.tosa.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Art|Sci's current artists-in-residence Lucie Strecker and Klaus Spiess present the performative installation XCurrency as a work in progress. Their artistic research explores experimental currency systems that can negotiate value through their liveness when mediated by interfaces with consumers and their affective resources.
XCurrency is based on Lucie Strecker’s and Klaus Spiess’s previous work ‘Hare’s blood+’ which reflected on artworks incorporating animal relics. The artists designed a synthetic gene from a Joseph Beuys multiple that contained hare’s blood and spliced it into living cells which were put up for auction. The bids at the auction were linked to the living and dying processes of the cells, positioning them as agents in the making of value, in line with a counter-economy envisioned by Joseph Beuys.
Whether proposing exchange by liveness within an auction or as now relating the informational virtuality of the expanded genetic alphabet of XDNA with speculation on the financial markets, the artists always propose a reciprocal qualitative dependency between currencies and their consumers.
Lucie Strecker and Klaus Spiess have been developing transdisciplinary performances and installations that address biopolitical issues for many years. A former endocrinologist, psychosomaticist and medical anthropologist, Klaus Spiess now works as an artist and associate professor at the Medical University of Vienna. Lucie Strecker is an performance artist and researcher and holds a senior postdoc position at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Performances and installations by both artists have been shown at Budascoop Kortrijk, Tanzquartier and Belvedere/21er Haus, Vienna, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, the BEALL Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, the Onassis Cultural Center Athens and the OK Center, Linz, where the duo were awarded an Honorary Mention (2015) at the Prix Ars Electronica. They have published numerous articles on their transdisciplinary performances in Performance Research, Kunstforum International, Springerin and The Lancet, among others.
Beginning at 5:35pm as part of the Embodiment and Evolution panel, Victoria and Takashi will lead a presentation discussing their Birdsong Diamond: Japan installation which took over the Large Space in Tsukuba this past January.
DAWN FAELNAR / VICTORIA VESNA / SIDDHARTH RAMAKRISHNAN
Hox Zodiac Cookbook
November 30, 2016
5:00pm
Fowler Museum
The Hox Zodiac Cookbook comes from a collaboration between Victoria Vesna and neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan, a dinner series inspired by Hox genes which codify body plans across the animal kingdoms.
FLUID SYSTEMS Exhibition Opening and LASER
November 17, 2016 | 5:00pm
Art|Sci Gallery and Presentation Room | CNSI 5th floor
UCLA Sci|Art NanoLab instructors Rita Blaik, Amisha Gadani, Mick Lorusso, Olivia Osborne, David Prince and Dan Wilkinson present their collaborations integrating living systems, the watershed, climate change and ice. Current advances in microfluidics, technologies that allow researchers to simulate and study the interactions of fluids, chemicals, and living cells, inspired the first workshops in the Sci|Art Nanolab that the show Fluid Systems is based on. In manipulating very small volumes of liquid, we can begin to understand complex phenomena from the bottom up.
Fluid Systems explores the myriad of relationships between flows on the micro and macro level. David Prince introduces to the art of making Kombucha and Kombucha caviar. Rita Blaik reveals how dissolved particles in water scatter light in unique colors and patterns, through a phenomenon known as the Tyndall effect. Capillaries of zebrafish in Oliva Osborne’s research on nanotoxicology connect with the flow of blood in our bodies, videos by Mick Lorusso of rivers and estuaries, and the melting of their collaborative ice sculptures in the gallery. Dan Wilkinson shares jostling non-Newtonian fluids with us, and Amisha Gadani shows us her experiments with the flow of fabrics and objects through water. A collective Water Canning stand, made by the Art|Sci Collective (including Mick Lorusso, Dawn Faelnar, Victoria Vesna and Judy Kim), allows participants to take a can of water home and participate in this flow of water on many levels, from the nano to the global.
Following the exhibition opening is our November edition of Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) featuring:
Martina Fröschl | Digital Artist, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Noa Pinter-Wollman | Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
Adam Hogan | Media Artist, PhD candidate at DxArts, University of Washington, Seattle
Rita Blaik, Olivia Osborne, Mick Lorusso, and Dan Wilkinson | UCLA Sci|Art Nanolab Instructors
ART + BRAIN workshop and LASER
October 18, 2016
5:00pm
Art|Sci Gallery and Presentation Room
CNSI 5th floor
This ART + BRAIN workshop by the Art|Sci Collective and Art|Sci artist in residence Patricia Olynyk (Washington University in St. Louis) explores interconnections between art and neuroscience, and features the project "Octopus Brainstorming: Empathy" with Victoria Vesna and neuroscientist Mark Cohen.
VICTORIA VESNA / CHUCK TAYLOR / ART|SCI COLLECTIVE: MICK LORUSSO, DAWN FAELNAR, OLIVIA OSBORNE
School of the Arts and Architecture Party
September 28th, 2016
Broad Arts Center courtyard and garden
Interactive installations focusing on local environmental awareness, as featured in this past summer's Current:LA Water public art biennial.
In collaboration with UCLA evolutionary biologist Charles Taylor and nanotechnology expert Olivia Osborne, the Art|Sci Collective* will introduce the region's resident bird species and talk about the preciousness of water. Experience bird song in its purest form—unsullied by the noise of daily activities—with our bird mimicking contraption. The Art|Sci Collective* also presents a sculptural installation consisting of glass jars containing water from throughout the region that sets the stage for a water awareness workshop that includes instructions for creative tasks on the topic that participants can perform and upload to waterbodies.org.
* Art|Sci Collective core members for this project are Dawn Faelnar, Claudia Jacques, Mick Lorusso, and Victoria Vesna with contributions from Judy Kim
CURRENT:LA / VICTORIA VESNA / OLIVIA OSBORNE / DAWN FAELNAR / MICK LORUSSO / CLAUDIA JACQUES / ART|SCI COLLECTIVE
As part of the CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial, the Art|Sci Collective presents a sculptural installation consisting of glass jars containing water from throughout the region that sets the stage for a water awareness workshop that includes instructions for creative tasks on the topic that participants can perform and upload to waterbodies.org. In collaboration with the Art|Sci Collective, Dr. Olivia Osborne will present her research on how silver nanoparticles in consumer products end up in water bodies/rivers affecting the aquatic environment.
WATER CANNING Sunday, July 24 and Sunday, August 7
4:00–7:00PM at Westside Neighborhood Park
2999 Clyde Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90016
About CURRENT LA:
Every two years, the CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial will focus on an issue affecting Los Angeles and other global cities to inspire civic discourse and use contemporary art to deepen connections between people. Putting a new spin on the international biennial, CURRENT:LA democratizes the way people access art by featuring temporary art projects and public programs at outdoor locations, taking art out of the museum environment and into LA's diverse neighborhoods. This citywide cultural event is presented by Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. The first presentation of the CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial in 2016 is funded by DCA and Bloomberg Philanthropies through its Public Art Challenge initiative.
