Joyce Cutler-Shaw is an artist of intermedia, although drawing is at the heart of her work. She considers drawing to be a primary language, a way of knowing, a mode of inquiry, and an act of empathy. She has exhibited internationally since 1972. Joyce Cutler-Shaw’s works—public installations, drawings and artists books—are represented in both Museum and Library Special Collections including the Albertina Museum in Vienna, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, The 42nd Street Library, the Klinspor Museum in Germany, the Teylers Museum in The Netherlands, and the Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell.
The UCLA Art|Sci center hosts Leonardo Art Science Rendezvoud (LASER) on November 7th, a periodical discussion forum on art science projects for artists and scientists alike. This coming month LASER will include a special sound performance by GIL KUNO and CARL Stone and is preceded by an exhibiton opening in the adjacent ART|SCI Gallery by JOSELY CARVALHO, exhibiting her work in progress DIARY of SMELLS: Shards. The artists will introduce the inspiration behind their work along with...
Barabara Drucker, Chris Kelty, Shana Koening, Ted Meyer, and Gareth Walsh.
To present your idea at the upcoming LASER on December 5th, email:
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
Project Eureka is a shapeshifting narrative that will unfold over the course of 2013. Through performance, installation, and video the project will follow the first and last designer baby, as she struggles to contribute to the future of humanity in a post-climate change world.
This iteration of Project Eureka will introduce two characters from Eureka's world.
Featuring interviews with Laurie Zoloth, PhD (Professor of Medical Humanities & Bioethics and Religion; Director of Center for Bioethics, Science and Society) and Gizmo Jon (of Slab City)
Between 7 & 8, the gallery will become a dance floor.
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
5-7pm
Art|Sci Gallery, CNSI 5419
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