Art | Sci

Toni Dove
Art|Sci DMA lecture
Apr 19th 2016
Tuesday 6:00pm
EDA Room 1250
Broad Art Center UCLA

Livestream: http://video.dma.ucla.edu/stream.html

Considered one of the pioneers of interactive cinema, New York-based artist Toni Dove creates unique hybrids of film, installation, experimental theater and gaming. Participants interact with video, using motion sensing and other embodied interface strategies to “perform” on-screen avatars. Major projects include: Artificial Changelings, an interactive cinema installation in which viewers navigate between two centuries, debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival, 1998, Spectropia, a feature length live-mix movie performance for two players debuted 2008 Wexner Center, Lucid Possession, a live mix video performance with multiple robotic screens and musical performers, premiered Roulette, NYC, 2013. The Dress That Eats Souls, a robotic cinema installation is currently in development and will premiere at a retrospective of Dove’s interactive work at the Ringling Museum in Fla., 2018

2000/2003 – Dove served on a Government Advisory Committee on Information Technology and Creativity, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, USA.
Grants and awards: Rockefeller Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Langlois Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, The LEF Foundation, MediaThe Foundation, and the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts from M.I.T.

25 FEBRUARY 2016

OPENING RECEPTION
5:00-7:00 pm
Art|Sci Gallery / CNSI 5th floor

LASER
5:00-9:00 pm
Presentation Room / CNSI 5th floor
Live streaming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p-Ih7x4PK0

Jean-Pierre Hébert is an independent artist interested in drawings and algorithmic art. Hébert lives and works in Santa Barbara, California. He is a pioneer in the field of digital art from the mid 70's on, merging traditional art media and techniques, personal software, plotters, devices, and custom built apparatus to create an original, extensive body of work. The early work was essentially drawings on paper, and has since evolved to embrace printmaking, installations, digital wall displays, and artist’s books.The initial obsession with precise line constructions has opened up to chance, motion, light, sound, text. The aim remains quiet beauty and peaceful meditation.

Hebert is the recipient of Pollock-Krasner Foundation and David Bermant Foundation awards, and the Siggraph Distinguished Artist award for lifetime achievements in the digital arts. He co-founded the Algorists in 1995 with Roman Verostko. His work has been exhibited extensively and has been frequently juried in the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery. It is present in several museums and institutional collections, including the digital art collections of the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University, Chicago) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). Recent shows include Technovisual: Art in the Age of Code at American Association fo the Advancement of Science –Washington DC, Art+Computer/Time at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Luminous Flux at Thoma Art Foundation –Santa fe, All-go-rhythms at Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art –Chicago.

Since 2003, he has been artist-in-residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he has organized several Algorists group shows.These shows have included pioneers like Jean-FrançoisColonna, HansDehlinger, David Em, HelamanFerguson, PaulHertz, Channa Horwitz, Robert Lang, Manfred Mohr, Vera Molnar, Casey Reas, Roman Verostko, and younger artists.

Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous
February 4, 2016 7-9pm
Presentation Space, CNSI 5th floor

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ANNA DUMITRIU (artwork pictured above) is a British artist whose work fuses craft, technology and bioscience to explore our relationship to the microbial world. She is artist-in-residence on the Modernising Medical Microbiology Project at the University of Oxford and exhibited at venues such as the V&A Museum, London and The Picasso Museum, Barcelona. She has recently undertaken a residency in the Liu Lab for Synthetic Evolution at University of California Irvine. www.normalflora.co.uk

ALEX MAY is a British artist exploring a wide range of digital technologies, most notably video projection onto physical objects (building on the technique known as video mapping or projection mapping by using his own bespoke software), also interactive installations, generative works, full-size humanoid robots, performance, and video art.
www.alexmayarts.co.uk

PRATIK SHAH earned his Ph.D. at the Center for Synthetic Biology of the University of Copenhagen, where he developed and applied a number of impressive technologies for detecting microRNAs. Pratik currently researches the biochemistry of orthogonal replication and explores its use for replicating XNA in the Liu Lab for Synthetic Evolution at University of California Irvine.

KATHY HIGH is an interdisciplinary artist working in the areas of technology, science, speculative fiction and art. She produces videos and installations posing queer and feminist inquiries into areas of medicine/bio-science, and animal/interspecies collaborations. She hosts bio/ecology+art workshops and is creating an urban nature center in North Troy (NATURE Lab) with media organization The Sanctuary for Independent Media. High is Professor of Video and New Media in the Department of Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. She teaches documentary and experimental digital video production, history and theory, as well as biological arts.
www.kathyhigh.com

AMISHA GADANI is an artist, educator and illustrator based in Los Angeles. She is interested in unique animal morphologies and adaptations; from swarming behaviors and elegant defense mechanisms, to superorganisms and animals of the deep sea. Her work ranges from unsettling beak-less bird paintings and underwater videos to her on-going series of interactive animal-inspired defensive dresses that can, for example, inflate like a blowfish when the wearer is intimidated. She has spent over four years working at the art and science focused Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco in education, exhibits and illustration; and two years working at UCLA in two biology labs as an illustrator producing over fifty scientific illustrations featured in journals and research papers and as an outreach educator using drawing and sculpture focused workshops to explain scientific concepts to local elementary school students. Her work has shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Pittsburgh, New York City, and Tokyo; has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, and Scientific American; and has been published in LIMN magazine, the journal Method Quarterly and the book "Future Fashion: Innovative Materials and Technology" by Barcelona-based maomao publications. Amisha earned a B.F.A in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007.
www.amishagadani.com

VICTORIA VESNA (artist and Director of the Art|Sci Center) presents her recent collaborative work on Birdsong Diamond Japan, created with Dr. Charles Taylor (evolutionary biologist, UCLA), Dr. Takashi Ikegami (physicist, Univ. of Tokyo), Dr. Hiroo Iwata (engineer, EMP), and EMP PhD students. Bird Song Diamond is an interactive installation based on long-term research (2011-present) allowing multifaceted, interdisciplinary perspectives — uniquely connecting the nodes of evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, spatial sound, mechatronic art and interactive technologies.

UCLA Arts VAPAE and ART/SCI invite you to a Sound Bath - a healing experience facilitated by Ossie Mair, MA, LMFT

Monday, February 1, 2016 at 6pm
EDA, 1250 Broad Art Center, UCLA

Event is free and open to the public. Participation is limited - Reservations suggested.

The OM Rhythm Circles Sound Bath Experience is a journey of pure sound and vibration. It is called a sound bath because you are bathed in the healing vibrations of Gongs, Tibetan Singing Bowls, Didgeridoos, Hand Pan, and other gentle, relaxing instruments. You are immersed in sound, allowing it to vibrate away the negativity and tension in your body and mind, replacing them with positivity, peace and harmony. And because we all respond differently to similar stimuli, so too, each person will experience the sound bath in his or her own unique way.

Due to the demands of our daily lives, the increase in stress-related disease in modern society is a fact. Stress is like an over-amping of the nervous system, and has many contributors. Many external, as well as internal influences, such as the foods we eat, people we encounter, thoughts we think, sounds we hear, environments we move within, etc., have a proven, negative effect on our well-being. Therefore, the goal in all healing, meditative, and transformational pursuits is to restore the intrinsic state of balance within our body, and if possible, to effect this change on a cellular level.

Sound & music are nutrients for the nervous system. We are constantly being vibrated, on a cellular level, by heardand unheard sound frequencies. Sound is vibration that produces resonance and rhythm in our bodies, and touches us and influences our emotions like no other source of input or expression. The vibrational nature of the gongs, bowls and other instruments, triggers all cells of the body to resonate simultaneously in a most powerful & effective way. And so too, the sound bath experience will have an incredible and profound effect on your well-being.

During the Sound Bath, you will either lie on the floor (you should plan on bringing your own yoga mat or blanket, and/or pillows), or just sit comfortably in a chair and let the sounds envelop you. Most people close their eyes and let the music take them on a gentle and transformative journey. Typically, a state of deep relaxation is achieved, and some people even fall asleep. You should dress in comfortable clothing and be prepared for an exciting new experience.

Ossie Mair, Founder and Principal Facilitator of OM RHYTHM CIRCLES, is a Certified Drum Circle Facilitator, Actor andLicensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Los Angeles, CA.

This event is co-sponsored by the Visual and Performing Arts Education Program (VAPAE), the ART/SCI Center and the Department of Design Media Arts in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

For reservations contact: VAPAE@arts.ucla.edu