The CNSI Gallery hosts an exhibition of photographs from "After the Storm" and "40 Days and 40 Nights."
After the Storm is a feature-length documentary that follows the production of a musical and the story of each young actor's life experiences following Hurricane Katrina. Director Hilla Medalia and stills photographer Donn Young will be at the exhibit opening, which follows the premiere of the film at the L.A. Film Festival June 21 at the Mann Festival Theater in Westwood. The exhibit will remain on display through July 5.
40 Days and 40 Nights is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to increasing awareness of human rights issues through the collaborative work of researchers, practitioners and artists. The organization brings together members of communities who can address complex human rights issues through a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach, and in 2008 we collaborated with numerous partners to develop the largest and most well-attended exhibition in the history of the Louisiana, “40 Days and 40 Nights,” an exhibit of more than 100 artists whose work tells the story of the rebuilding of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. Donn Young, the executive director of the nonprofit 40 Days, documented the making of “After the Storm” – a film that documents the experiences of New York theater producers and actors who came to New Orleans after the storm to help local youth rebuild their lives through their experiences on stage. In the process, they helped rebuild St. Mark’s Community Center, which provides youth activities in a low-income area. We seek to exhibit documentary photography from this project and related pieces from the “40 Days and 40 Nights” exhibition.
Join a group of artists from New York visiting Los Angeles for an exhibition downtown at the Outpost for Contemporary Art.
A discussion on participatory mapping with Lucy Hg from The League of Imaginary Scientists, media artists Andrea Polli and Chuck Varga, and xtine.
X, Y, Z, and U is an exhibition and series of discussions and workshops featuring the mapping projects of artists whose creative practices resemble field research and scientists who use DIY tactics and creative visualization to map scientific information. The exhibition and related community-based activities are scheduled throughout June at Outpost for Contemporary Art, and organized in partnership with apexart and The League of Imaginary Scientists.
Ecological concepts of continuity and interdependence are renegade forces. They not only transform existing patterns of material consumption and production, they destabilize social values and disrupt aesthetic conventions. Even the notion of beauty is overhauled by the ecological mandate to embrace all aspects of the life cycle – decay as well as growth. Artists who demonstrate radical beauty are renegade aestheticists. They demonstrate that the greening of society depends as much upon revising human values as reforming human behaviors.
Opening Reception
June 5th, 5.30 - 7:00 pm
UCLA California NanoScience Institute
C(N)SI, Art|Sci Lab suite 5419
GAUTAM RANGAN
(DMA MFA Class of 2010) uses animation and imagery to investigate ideas found in nature. He has created animations for 11 different faculty at UC Berkeley, the Discovery Science channel, and the Connecticut Science Center opening in 2009.
Most recently Gautam worked on a series of short games to help with physical therapy for Parkinson’s patients at the Baker Fitness Center at UCSF.
Location: Art | Sci gallery at the California Nanosystems Institute
The Antmaster is an experiment in hybridizing Dynamic Media (projections) with Static Media (paintings.) Digitally projected images of live ants are superimposed onto painted surfaces to achieve a new amalgam of motion and still images. In addition, nanosounds of ants moving and communicating were recorded in a nanoscience lab to act as a soundtrack to the pieces.
GIL KUNO
Through experiments in sound and re-envisioning experiences common within everyday life, Gil's aim is to push people away from paradigmatic thinking. He takes a whimsical approach in subverting common perceptions of reality. By exaggerating perception and derailing reality, Gil redefines the familiarity we associate with the organic and social processes that surround us.
Gil has exhibited/performed at: The National Art Center Tokyo, The Hammer Museum (L.A.), Fuji Rock Festival (Naeba, Japan), Laforet Harajuku (Tokyo), The Melkweg (Amsterdam), Schouwburg (Rotterdam), The Sprawl (London), Liquid Room (Tokyo), Womb (Tokyo), Milk (Tokyo), New Wight Gallery (L.A.), Code (Shinjuku, Tokyo), Core (Roppongi, Tokyo), Warp (Tokyo), Heaven's Door (Tokyo), Rockets (Osaka), Loft (Tokyo), among others.
NATALIE JEREMIJENKO: "Climate Crisis, Food Crisis or Crisis of Agency?" Lecture
05 MAY 2009
EDA, BROAD ART CENTER
Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist, inventor, and engineer with the mission to reclaim technology from idealized, abstract concepts and to apply it to the messy complexities of the real world, often with disquieting results.
Co-hosted with the Department of Design|Media Arts, “Climate Crisis, Food Crisis or Crisis of Agency?” discussed the technological opportunities for structuring participation in the contemporary environmental movement.
UCLA ART | SCI Center + Lab in collaboration with CNSI and the School of Architecture and Urban Design happy hour crew, cordially invite you to attend the quarterly North South Mixer. We serve cocktails, light refreshment and music.
No agenda - just come and meet and greet colleagues from across disciplines and geographies
Magnetic Resonance And its use in Diagnostics Of Human Brain Disorders
Dr. Madan Kaila and Dr. Rakhi Kaila
Location: Broad Art Center, Studio 5250
The Physics behind Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy(MRS), and it's application to visualise certain brain disorders, including Brain Tumors, Brain abscess and other Human Brain disease.
Dr. Madan Mohan Kaila, PhD
Department of Physics
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Dr. Rakhi Kaila, MD
Department of Neuroradiology, Research
UCLA, David Geffen School Medicine
Previously at Department of Neurology at University of California, Irvine.
Up in the Air: Constraints for "Life" on Mars Sought through Atmospheric Models and Thermodynamic Calculations
Carrie Paterson and Christopher Boxe
Location: Broad Art Center, Studio 5250
The art/science collaborative team of Carrie Paterson and Christopher Boxe will discuss the challenge of creating visualization tools that also function as critical artworks to affect public discourse and understanding of science. Currently they are concentrating on modeling crucial chemistry and reaction pathways in atmospheric science, and reflecting on topics in astrobiology.
Christopher Boxe He recently completed a 3-year postdoctoral matriculation at NASA-JPL's Earth and Space Science Division and now works at JPL as an interdisciplinary research scientist.
Carrie Paterson She teaches at Cal State Fullerton in the art department's graduate studies program and gives an undergraduate course on graphic novels, comics, video games and avatars. She is guest editing a special Art & Science issue of Artillery Magazine due out in May.
Every other week we will host a guest presenter, open to all, to show works in various stages of completion, present research or curate discussions. A maximum of ten people can register to attend each open salon. Our goal is to support discussions and dynamic thinking in an informal and intimate atmosphere. We hope this will serve as a platform for artists, scientists, thinkers, and curious minds to spark discussions and unique perspectives from a diverse network of individuals across disciplines- just bring your opinions and an open-mind. To propose, please submit a short paragraph stating your work and technical needs to water@arts.ucla.edu.
Organized by Chicano Studies Research Center and Sponsored by the Art + Activism Lecture Series
Location: Broad Art Center, EDA, Room 1250
During his fifty-year career, Raphael Montañez Ortiz has created mixed-media ritual performances and installations for museums and galleries in Europe and Canada and throughout the United States, including MOCA, MoMA, and the Whitney Museum. "Primal Scream" includes two of the artist's signature pieces: a Piano Destruction and a Paper Bag concert. A central figure in the Destructivism movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mr. Ortiz began experimenting with digital media in the 1980s, and recent works include digital paintings. He is on the faculty of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Joining the artist is Monique Ortiz-Arndt, an artist and dancer who has been performing with Mr. Ortiz for fifteen years.
