Bio-Artist KATHY HIGH will give a public presentation on her creative work in the emerging field of biological art, a field referred to as "bioart". She will introduce her influences and her interests and amazement with bio-art history.
Kathy High is an internationally recognized, award winning interdisciplinary artist from New York currently working with living systems, animals, and biology and art. She produces videos, sculptures and installations around issues of gender and technology, pursues queer and feminist inquiries into areas of bio-science, science fiction, and animal studies.
Her works have been shown in festivals, galleries and museums nationally and abroad, including the Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center and Exit Art (NYC), the Science Gallery, (Dublin), NGBK, (Berlin), MASS MoCA (North Adams), Videotage Art Space and Para-Site Gallery (Hong Kong), Festival Transitio_MX (Mexico), among others. She has received awards for her works including grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2010), the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts.
She has had artist residencies with SymbioticA, art and science residency at the University of Western Australia (2009-20), the Bioart Society of Finland, Helsinki and Kilpisjarvi, Finland (2013) and in Hong Kong with the Asian Arts Council (2005).
Her UCLA exhibition opening April 16 is Waste Matters: You Are My Future and explores immune systems as autopoiesis, capable of maintaining themselves, looking at research in fecal microbial transplants and gut biomes to better understand the important function of bacteria in our bodies. This project looks at the metaphor of interspecies love, immunology and bacteria as players.
Iain Kerr presents EATING PLACE, an Urban Foraging Workshop
5 -7 pm | Thursday, March 12th
7-9 pm | LASER
UCLA Art|Sci Gallery
5th Floor, California nanoSystems Institute
A workshop led by visiting artist Iain Kerr, of SPURSE Design Consultancy, EATING PLACE is an initiative to foster large scale social and ecological transformation by developing alternative practices of place, the commons, multi-species actions, and urbanism. EATING PLACE begins by understanding place as a mode of being-of-a-world and not simply a geographic location. This being-of-a-world necessarily extends beyond us to include the very active participation of plants, animals, histories, technologies, ideas, other worlds and practices in a collective act of cosmological place co-making.
Iain Kerr is a socio-ecological systems designer, and founding member of the transdisciplinary research and design collaborative SPURSE. Their work has been at the forefront of experimental ecological research and design for over the last decade. While developing ground breaking practices, projects and events at the intersections of art, design, ecology and urbanism they have collaborated with communities from the high arctic to the inner cities in Bolivia (via projects ranging from restaurants, to wetlands to micro-biology laboratories) to effect real change. In addition to working with SPURSE and co-directing SPURSE’s Emergent Futures Lab, Iain holds faculty appointments at the University of Maine (Associate Professor of Critical Engagements), and Montclair State University (Director of Creative Practices, Feliciano Center). He teaches, lectures and gives workshops widely (including Harvard University, Columbia University, Parsons, University of Maine, CCA, and RISDI). His work, and that of SPURSE, has been exhibited internationally (Whitney Museum of Art, The Guggenheim. Grand Arts, CAFK+A, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Mass MoCA) and published in a number of books and journals including: The Interventionists, The Object of Labor, Experimental Geography, The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Surface, ID, NY Times, Elle, Teme Celeste, Art Papers, Monitor, Interior Design, and Art Journal.
SPURSE is a creative design consultancy that focuses on social, ecological and ethical transformation. It works to empower communities, institutions, infrastructures, and ecologies with tools and adaptive solutions for system-wide change. Drawing upon the diverse backgrounds of its members that spans the fields of science, art, and design, they utilize unique immersive methods to co-produce new ecologies, urban environments, public art, experimental visioning, strategic development, alternative educational models, and expanded configurations of the commons.
MOLECULAR CUISINE: THE POLITICS OF TASTE (DINNER)
13 FEBRUARY 2015
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, NEW YORK
Molecular Cuisine: the Politics of Taste was an interdisciplinary conference focusing on desire’s palette. Investigating the importance of taste from the perspectives of the culinary arts, sociology, art history and theory, anthropology, as well as the cognitive, material and biological sciences, the symposium targeted intersections between taste and value. While taste is the key concept in new cooking technologies, it also connects to our passions, predilections and taboos. Researchers from the scientific and cultural spheres asked the questions on why we enjoy certain foods and not others, why we prefer certain styles and not others. By involving multiple discourses which emphasize the senses, emotions and sensory assets, the concept of taste—which is traditionally one pertaining to the fine arts or humanities—developed a renewed relevance in current cultural debates.
In collaboration with SONOS Studios, the Art|Sci Center presented BRAINSTORMING: SYNESTHESIA in the SONOS Studios space in Los Angeles. The Art|Sci Center hosted a performance where artists, scientists, and musicians explore through cognitive synchronization how sound affects the human brain and body.
Artist and director of UCLA Art|Sci Center + Lab Victoria Vesna performed the Octopus Brainstorming session on Synesthesia with neuroscientists Mark Cohen and Don Vaughn, nanoscientist James Gimzewski, artist Mick Lorusso, and sound artists Gil Kuno, Shoshi Kanokohata and Maciej Ozog.
This performance was made possible with the support of Art|Sci Team members Marissa Clifford, Mary Tsang and Ben Ward.
MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Artist and director of UCLA Art | Sci center Victoria Vesna performs the Octopus Brainstorming session on Synesthesia with neuroscientists Mark Cohen, Don Vaughn, nanoscientist James Gimzewski, artist Mick Lorusso and sound artists Gil Kuno, Shoshi Kanokohata and Maciej Ozog.
VICTORIA VESNA – UCLA Professor in department of Design Media Arts, Director of Art | Sci center. http://victoriavesna.com/
JAMES GIMZEWSKI – UCLA Distinguished Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry, FRS FREng, FInstP is a physicist who pioneered research on electrical contacts with single atoms and molecules and light emission using scanning tunneling microscopy. http://www.chem.ucla.edu/dept/Faculty/gimzewski/
KUNO KANO (Japan) – The serene harmonies of traditional Japanese flute (played by Shoshi Kanokohata) are mangled by the digital glitch methodologies of distortion designer Gil Kuno. http://www.unsound.com/
MICK LORUSSO, UCLA Art | Sci gallery – visual artist focused on energy in it’s many forms: as sustenance, movement, sensation, electricity and light. He integrates science, mysticism, ecology and community actions into his work. http://www.micklorusso.net/
MACIEJ OZOG (Poland) -- critically explores the liminal territory between the body's physical activity and the invisible electric infrastructures of hybrid space. http://maciejozog.333flow.com/
DON VAUGHN – PhD student in Professor Cohen’s lab researches freewill and group social dynamics using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)b and is also a DJ and drummer.
http:// http://speakeasy2014.com/don-vaughn/
With support from Art|Sci Team-members MARISSA CLIFFORD, MARY TSANG, and BEN WARD
January 2015 marks the anniversary of the Art|Sci Center’s founding 10 years ago, and the launch of our year-long celebration. Join the Art|Sci Collective in looking back through the prolific decade and looking forward to the next. Sketches for future projects intermingle with presentations from memorable Art|Sci exhibitors, constructing a dynamic picture of the center’s continuing quest to promote “the third culture” between art and science.
In celebration of the Art|Sci Center's 10 years of promoting collaborative, interdisciplinary exhibitions, lectures, installations, and curricula, this LASER will feature presentations from Art|Sci affiliates of years past and years future. Presenters include sound artist Maciej Ozog, Professor of Biological Chemistry Dr. Lenny Rome (UCLA), Executive Director of the UCLA Confucius Institute Susan Jane, Professor of Arts Activisim Dr.David Gere (UCLA), Curator and Co-founder of Mindshare LA Dougie Campbell, and artist and lecturer Jim Barry (CalTech).
Opening reception: Feb 19, 5-7pm
followed by LASER 7-9pm
UCLA Art|Sci Gallery, CNSI
runs until March 18, 2015
(viewings by appointment only)
A project developed by Mick Lorusso in conversation and collaboration with UCLA Art|Sci Collective, Alia Ghoneum, Dr. James Gimzewski, Dr. Dean Ho, Clarissa Ribeiro, Dr. Benjamín Domínguez and Dr. Yolanda Olvera (UNAM, Mexico), friends and family.
Researchers at UCLA, including Dr. Dean Ho and Jim Gimzewski, have shown that diamonds small enough to enter living cells, nanodiamonds, could be instrumental in curing cancer, improving the immune system of the elderly, and helping to heal wounds after surgery. Extending scientific research into a realm of imagination and belief, the exhibit "Museum of Endoluminosity" also suggests imagery that people might use for visualization during physical illness and psychological distress.
Event is FREE and open to the public. Check out the event on Facebook.
Art|Sci Gallery / CNSI 5th floor Presentation Space. Clickherefor a downloadable PDF map andherefor an interactive campus map.
HOX ZODIAC DINNER (BETA) Victoria Vesna and Siddarth Ramakrishnan
04 DECEMBER 2014
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY
Hox Zodiac Dinner is an on-going collaboration between Art|Sci director Victoria Vesna and neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan. Inspired by the Hox genes which codify body plans across the animal kingdoms, Hox Zodiac offered the audience a seat at the dinner table, enabling conversations on mutations, morphology, and metamorphosis, on humans in relation to animals and the food we eat, on animals feral and laboratory raised. This first-ever iteration of the participatory project aimed to heighten consciousness about our animal bodies, mutations, art, and science.
Thursday, 13 November 2014 - 10:00am to Friday, 14 November 2014 - 5:00pm
Art + the Brain: Stories and Structures symposium
Co-organized by Patricia Olynyk (Washington University, St. Louis) and Victoria Vesna (University of California, Los Angeles), Art + the Brain: Stories and Structures explored the complex histories, practices, and interconnections between art, architecture, medicine and neuroscience with the human brain as a central focus.
From the metaphorical potency of anatomical art to stories that probe decision circuits and mirror neurons in monkeys, to revolutionary biological visualizations of the dynamics of cellular and sub-cellular structures, . six speakers from Washington University’s Art|Sci Fellows Program joined faculty and students from UCLA for a lively exchange of ideas over the course of a one and a half day symposium.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Art|Sci Center + Lab and Washington University’s Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurship and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, presenters include:
Sung Ho Kim / Ron Leax / Rebecca Messbarger / Kathy Miller / Patricia Olynyk / Larry Snyder / Mark Cohen / Jim Gimzewski / Victoria Vesna
Aisen Caro Chacin, Joel Ong and Art|Sci Collective
06 NOVEMBER 2014
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY
Aisen Caro Chacin, Joel Ong and the Art|Sci Collective joined the multi-year collaboration of Professor Victoria Vesna and evolutionary biologist Dr. Charles Taylor in this sound and art exhibition based on the NSF-sponsored research on Mapping Acoustic Sensor Array of Bird Communication Networks.
Secret Life of Birds built off of this idea and aimed to re-examine the bonds between humans and birds through the perspective of the birds. This ongoing project continues to see various disciplines of art and science converging to present Taylor’s research as a work of art.
listening to the distance: visionary theories of art technology
October 31, 2014, 4:00 pm »
Historian/theorist Dr. Edward Shanken and artist/researcher Dr.Yolande Harris collaborate to bring their lecture-performance-seminar to the Art|Sci center. Together, they will share complementary and contrasting perspectives on current experimental art practices, addressing ideas of techno-intuition and sonic consciousness, of the potential of transdisciplinary research to generate innovation and the intersections between art, theory, and contemporary social practices.
Tea & Cookies provided.
LOCATION TBD
Art|Sci center, Room 5250
Broad Art Center
240 Charles E Young Drive
Los Angeles CA 90095
+ Parking is $12 all day, and is available in structure 3, adjacent to the building. For more information, call 310.794.2118 .
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