The olfactory sense, though often forgotten, is a powerful connector to memory and emotions. Diary of Smells: Shards (Estilhaços) is an on-going multi-sensorial interactive & interdisciplinary project comprised of various stages of smell production, photographs and sound design.
Josely Caravalho, a Brazilian multi-media artist lives in New York and Rio de Janeiro. Over the past three decades, she has assembled a body of work in a wide range of media that gives eloquent voice to matters of memory, identity and social justice while consistently challenging the boundaries between artist and audience and between politics and art. She received her BA from Washington University, St. Louis and has taught at the School of Architecture, National University of Mexico and SUNY at Purchase. She is founder and director of The Silkscreen Project, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery in New York City.
Dow Jones: A Solfége Economy was a real-time singing portrait of the US stock market, and by extension, the U.S. economy. Each business day, millions of publicly owned company stocks and shares are bought, sold and exchanged in a perpetual cycle for capital gain. Dow Jones interpreted the resulting fluctuations in share values to create a continuous sound of economic highs and lows.
GERALD BUCKBERG: "Cardiac Dance" Lecture
09 OCTOBER 2013
CNSI AUDITORIUM
CARDIAC DANCE is based on the twisting, pulsing rhythms of the human heart in motion. Through the work of two cardiologists—Dr. Francisco Torrent-Guasp and Dr. Gerald Buckberg—a new approach to dealing with congestive heart failure has been developed. What you will see on stage is their attempt to show this revolutionary concept through dance, music and media.
Octopus Mandala Glow (OMG) was a public artwork and performance premiered on September 28th 2014 at Santa Monica’s Glow Festival on the famous Pacific Wheel. OMG was created by Art|Sci Director Victoria Vesna, who was invited to be the keynote artist of the festival, together with the Art|Sci Collective Team: Ray Zimmerman / Dawn Faelnar /Mike Datz / Peter Rand / Steven Amrhein / Lindy Ransom.
The vision was to spread the project beyond the Pacific Wheel and on to other ferris wheels with the slogan “Occupy Your Wheel,” in order to create a global chorus and spread the joy.
Echo & Narcissus was an installation that explores this ancient myth as a metaphor for the interaction between two individuals who cannot communicate. An interactive visual projection on water and multi-channel soundtrack of Echo’s voice used counterpoint to produce a series of visual and sonic relationships.
As one looked into the water one would see an image of their own face gradually materializing, dematerializing, disappearing, then reappearing once again. Echo’s voice permeates the space, moving throughout the gallery creating a haunting affect.
Echo & Narcissus is directed and produced by artist/curator David Familian, who is artistic director of the Beall Center for Art + Technology at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts in UC Irvine. His collaborating team included actor Marie Chambers (voice of Echo), media artist Eric Parren (programmer of the interactive elements) and author Terry Wolverton (writer of the Echo’s monologue).
Fallen Fruit presents a set of their Public Fruit Maps paired with their 2010 video, “The Loneliest Fruit in the World.” The maps are one of the collaboration’s signature projects: mapping all the fruit trees that grow in or over public space in neighborhoods around the world to which they are invited. The maps are hand-drawn and distributed free of copyright; they serve as guides for foraging but more importantly as visionary representations of what we hope to see: alternative urban spaces that engender new forms of sharing and thereby create new public experiences. “The Loneliest Fruit in the World” addresses a different kind of public fruit, berries that grow wild in the Arctic. The lingonberry, the salmonberry and the blueberry grow without any human involvement, and for a few short weeks become the site of intense activity as people flock to pick them on all public land. Shot in a residency in Tromsø, Norway, 200 miles above the Arctic Circle, the video follows a group of Norwegians through a beautiful, spare landscape; while picking, they negotiate the relation between solitude, gleaning and company.
ARTIST BIO: Fallen Fruit is a long-term art collaboration that began by mapping fruit trees growing on or over public property in Los Angeles. The collaboration has expanded to include serialized public projects, site-specific installations and happenings in various cities around the world. By always working with fruit as a material or media, the catalogue of projects and works reimagine public interactions with the margins of urban space, systems of community and narrative real-time experience. From participatory performances such as Public Fruit Jams and Fruit Meditations, to ongoing indexical work such as Public Fruit Maps and curated exhibitions that reorganize the social and historical complexities of museums and archives by re-installing their collections through syntactical relationships of fruit as subject, the three artists of Fallen Fruit — David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young — deploy fruit as a lens through which to see the world.
Donovan Keith (science animator)
Caitlin Berrigan (visual artist)
Peter Tjeerdsma (experience architect)
Noa Kaplan (artist and lecturer, UCLA Design|Media Arts)
Maite Zubiaurre (author)
Hans Barnard MD, PhD (adjunct assistant professor NELC, assistant researcher Cotsen Institute of Archaeology)
Richard Hedley (PhD Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department)
Fabian Wagmister (Director Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance; Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, UCLA)
Brent Bushnell (CEO, Two Bit Circus)
Marina deBris (environmental artivist)
Christina Agapakis (postdoctoral researcher, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, UCLA)
Everyone invited will introduce their work in 4-minute pecha-kucha style presentation. This is followed by drinks and food / socializing and making new connections.
Are you working on a cool project? We invite you to submit your name for this LASER! Send your title and 3-5 images to artscicenter@gmail.com
Mark Cohen (UCLA Neuroscience)
Stephen Nowlin (Art Center College of Design)
Aaron Thomen (Creator of MindMIDI)
Adam Steig (UCLA Nano Pico Characterization Facility)
Gerald Buckberg, MD (Distinguished Professor of Cardiac Surgery)
Anne Andrews (UCLA Neuroscience)
Paul Weiss (UCLA CNSI)
Laurent Bentolila (Scientific Director, Advanced Light Microscopy/Spectroscopy Laboratory)
Gottfried Haider (independent artist)
Don Estes (Director, Psiometric Science Inc. (PSI) (Inventor-Author-Lecturer-Director))
James K. Gimzewski (UCLA Chemistry, "Duality" exhibition)
Everyone invited will introduce their work in 4-minute pecha-kucha style presentation. This is followed by drinks and food / socializing and making new connections.
Are you working on a cool project? We invite you to submit your name for this LASER! Send your title and 3-5 images to artscicenter@gmail.com
Duality is an Art|Sci manifestation of complexity emerging from a tiny network of billions of tiny self assembled, self-organized, non-linear connections that materialize in time and space through holistic processes and which are a kinesthetic visualization of wandering in and out of the fuzzy borders of chaos and order. We use a real network, where the creator has given permission to its expanding and collapsing spatio-temporal morphogenic and often catastrophic dynamics.
This project represents the transition in science and art from giving up on the clock to embrace a cloud in terms of Karl Popper’s important statement “we live in a universe not of clocks but of clouds.” In the laboratory we build electro-ionic clouds. In the gallery we let them self create images songs and dance for this Art|Sci exhibition entitled Duality. It is the duality of the dark space between the known and unknown, determinism and surprise, mathematical form and fuzziness from which the atoms, electrons and ions speak to the visitors without censorship.
Microbes are often synonymous with rot, decay, infection, and disease. When microbes are made visible—or worse, smellable—it signals danger, a situation best avoided. But microbes are unavoidable, essential as part of the ecology of the healthy human body and the global dynamics of biogeochemical cycles. The growing realization of microbial usefulness and diversity is changing our relationship to microorganisms from one of fear, isolation, and sterilization, to a more ecological understanding of symbiotic exchange. Bacterial Encounters is an exploration of nature and culture from a microbiological perspective, capturing the microbial ecology and the living diversity thriving after the death of the Salton Sea. Through culturing such microbes, we make visible the ecologies that make up our world.
