Link: Please note that these are two separate events.
Tuesday, Nov. 13 6 p.m. Design | Media Arts Lecture Suzanne Anker EDA (Room 1250), Broad Art Center Thursday, Nov. 15 5 p.m. Art | Sci Exhibition
Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Her works include digital sculpture, installations and large-scale photography.
EDA (Map)
Broad Art Center
240 Charles E. Young Drive, Room 1250
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Art|Sci Gallery / CNSI 5th floor Presentation Space. Click here for a downloadable PDF map and here for an interactive campus map.
Brazilian-born multimedia artist Josely Carvalho lives and works in New York City and Rio de Janeiro.
Lecture will take place at Broad Art Center, room 5240
Afterwards, join us for a play test of the newly designed DOG NOSE KNOWS card game conceptualized by Victoria Vesna and neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan, graphics / game design by Adeline Drucker (DMA Game Lab).
November 1, 2012, 5:00 pm
Broad Art Center
240 Charles E. Young Drive, Room 5240
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking is $11 all day, and is available in structure 3, adjacent to the building. For more information, call 310.825.9007.
Launch of card game conceptualized by Victoria Vesna and neuroscientist Siddharth Ramakrishnan, graphics / game design by Adeline Drucker (DMA Game Lab).
Reception and introduction to project: Friday, November 9th – 6-8pm Game testing workshop: Saturday, November 10th – 3-6pm
Harvestworks 596 Broadway, #602 | New York, NY 10012 | Phone: 212-431-1130
Build-Your-Own Bioreactor was a hands on workshop where participants learned how to build their own green algae bioreactor. They built contraptions that boost algae growth using simple, and mainly recycled and re-used materials such as aeration systems, lights and glassware.
Accompanying the workshop was a lecture on Biomodd, a multifaceted socially engaged art installation that finds meaningful relationships between biology, computers and people. On the most basic level, Biomodd creates symbiotic relationships between plants and computers, and ignites conversations among the community around them. The first version of Biomodd started in Athens, Ohio in 2007, and has since travelled to the Philippines, Slovenia, New Zealand, Belgium and the Netherlands. In each location the project got its own unique outcome. A new version is currently being developed by an international community at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, NY.
Victoria Vesna spent the last two years commuting in between LA, New York, Hong Kong, Bristol and Marseille developing new projects and exhibitions. In this talk she will describe what she has been up to with butterflies, water, dogs and most recently -- birds.
November 5, 2012, 12:15 pm
EDA (Map)
Broad Art Center
240 Charles E. Young Drive, Room 1250
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Parking is $11 all day, and is available in structure 3, adjacent to the building. For more information, call 310.825.9007.
Rita Blaik, Art|Sci fellow, IGERT clean energy fellowship recipient and doctoral student in material science, presents her ephemeral photographs that cross the boundaries on materiality. The exhibition will be followed by the North | South Mixer and the introduction of the newly formed Undergraduate Art and Science Club.
Thursday, October 25, 2012. 5-7pm
Art|Sci Gallery / CNSI 5th floor Presentation Space. Click here for a downloadable PDF map and here for an interactive campus map.
Blue Morph is an interactive installation in Science Gallery's upcoming MAGICAL MATERIALS exhibition that uses nanoscale images and sounds derived from the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly.
A collaboration between media artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscientist Jame Gimzewki, Blue Morph takes its name from the Blue Morpho butterfly, whose blue colour is not a result of pigmentation, but actually patterns and structures on a nanoscale. The extremely fine lamellated scale covering the Morpho's wings reflect incident light repeatedly at successive layers, leading to interference effects that depend on both the wavelength and the angle of observance. The interference of light due to multiple reflection within the highly uniform structural arrangement of the scale gives the butterfly its fantastic colour.
The new show MAGICAL MATERIALS launches with a members-only preview party at 6pm on September 14th at Science Gallery. If you would like to join us for a first glimpse at this collection of the world's most peculiar and spectacular materials, become a Science Gallery member today and your name will automatically be added to the guestlist.
Brainstorming Turing: Celebrating Alan Turing + 25 Years of AI and Society Journal
100 years have passed since Alan Turing was born and we celebrate this historically important individual together with many organizations around the world. We look to show his eccentric creativity in addition to reminding all of the huge contribution he made to computation and artificial intelligence. Short talks by computer / neuro / nano scientists and humanists are accompanied by artists inspired by Turing’s legacy and persona. Additionally, students from UCLA will participate with their ideas of how Turing informs and inspires their work and lives in this time when social networking, robotics and automatic brains are part of daily life.
2012 also marks 25 years since the establishment of AI & Society journal that owes its formation to Turing’s legacy. The Art | Sci center is partnering with this interdisciplinary publication to honor Turing and all those who have contributed over the years. A special issue based on the symposium is planned.
Genetics + Aging Symposium
Hosted and organized by the Institute for Society and Genetics.
How do we age? Why do we age? Can we extend life greatly, or indefinitely? Scientists approach aging as a biological fact, or a technical problem to be solved; artists approach it as something moral and aesthetic, or as a crucial or inevitable dimension of society. Both disciplines are concerned with the genetic inputs for and the physical manifestation of aging. Here we plumb the intersection of biological science and artistic production to explore the “Art of Aging”– including both the artistic and scientific representations of growing older, and the process of adapting gracefully to aging as individuals and as a society.
The two-day symposium pursues our questions with a Friday evening (May 11) panel bringing leading scientists, artists, and historians together in discussion, and a Saturday (May 12) festival where attendees can explore over a dozen interactive artworks, presentations, and exhibits. This event also features an exhibition by Kathy Brew entitled "Going Gray", which opens on May 10. Going Gray looks at the seemingly frivolous aspect of dying/not dying one’s hair to explore questions about aging and current cultural attitudes towards the graying of America. The exhibition includes video clips from a documentary in-progress, photographs, and mixed media.
Time:
All day
Location: California NanoSystems Institute @ UCLA
This event is free and open to the public. For more information and to register, please click here.
Join us for this unique opportunity to hear the artist / scientist discuss their exhibited works resulting from their decade long collaboration. Works on view include Zero@Wavefunction, Nanomandala, Blue Morph and Brain Storming a work in progress. After the overview of the works in the gallery, you will be able to follow the Brain Storming session on Alan Turing and the Brain. Neuroscientist Mark Cohen, engineer Ramesh Jain, and artist Connie Samaras will be participating in this live discussion. The exhibition is organized by David Familian who will be moderating the session.
MORPHONANO Artist Lecture
Saturday, May 5, 2012
6pm - 8pm - at the Beall Center
