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BEATRIZ DA COSTA: "Performing the Political in Interdisciplinary Research" Lecture
06 JUNE 2008
EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER
Performing the Political in Interdisciplinary Research of Pigeons, Plants and Air Particles Beatriz da Costa was an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who worked at the intersection of contemporary art, engineering, politics, and the life sciences. Da Costa was a former collaborator of Critical Art Ensemble and co-founder of Pre-emptive Media, an arts activism and technology group. She was an Associate Professor of Arts, Computation, Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.
This event was co-sponsored by UCLA Center for Performance Studies.
SHARON DANIEL: Art + Activism Lecture
28 MAY 2008
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER
Sharon Daniel is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she teaches classes in digital media theory and practice. Her research involves collaborations with communities that focus on the use and development of information and communications technologies for social inclusion. Her role as an artist is that of “context provider” - working with communities, collecting their stories, soliciting their opinions, and building online archives to make this data available across social, cultural and economic boundaries.
Daniel’s work is based on the belief that advanced information and communications technologies can be made accessible, useful, and empowering, especially for under-served and marginalized communities, through public art. Her current research is supported by grants from the Daniel Langlois Foundation and the Creative Work Fund.
VICTORIA MARKS: Art + Activism Lecture
22 MAY 2008
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER
Victoria Marks creates dances for the stage, for film, and in community settings. Marks’ recent work has considered the politics of citizenship, as well as the representation of both virtuosity an disability. These themes are part of her ongoing commitment to locating dance-making within the sphere of political meaning. Marks is a Professor of Choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, here she has been teaching since 1995. She is a 2005 Buggenheim Fellow and has received numerous grants and fellowships, including from the Irvine Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Los Angeles City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the London Arts Board, among others.
The performance was followed by a discussion by Ronald L. Kovic.
Ronald L. Kovic, born July 4, 1940, is an anti-war activist veteran and writer who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War. He is best known as the author of the memoir “Born on the Fourth of July,” which was made into an Academy Award-winning movie directed by Oliver Stone, with Tom Cruise playing Kovic. Kovic received the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay on January 20, 1990, exactly 22 years to the day that he was shot and paralyzed in the Vietnam War.
RICHARD KRIESCHE: Lecture
29 APRIL 2008
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Richard Kriesche has been working intensively in electronic media from the early 1970’s, video, computer-multimedia, and net art. He has published in the context of art and science, and has been collaborating with engineering, publishing, energy, electronic and media industries. At the time of the talk, he was preparing a large-scale one-man show on “aesthetics of capital.” Kriesche has participated in more than 380 exhibitions world wide, including Ars Electronica and MIR_RUSSIAN SPACESTATION (first art project on the Russian spacestation MIR).
"Sun Run Sun" charts a path between environmental awareness and technological development, using sound as the medium to enhance both. The project investigates the split between the embodied experience of location and the calculated data of position, exploring the individual experience of current location technologies through a personal experience of sound. It seeks to (re)establish a sense of connectedness to one's environment, and to (re)negotiate this through an investigation into old, new, future and animal navigation using sound.
This project consists of two different parts, a sound installation and a series of portable instruments to take on a walk through the city. In the installation 'Dead Reckoning' Yolande Harris reveals the patterns of orbiting satellites coming in and out of range and inconsistencies in how GPS technology locates the self in a longitude/latitude grid. The mobile 'Satellite Sounders' transform the live satellite data directly into a sonic composition listened to on headphones as one walks through the city. Live signals from satellites in orbit, together with the performer's coordinates on earth, generate a continuously transforming electronic soundscape. Yolande Harris's soundscape questions what is inside and what is outside, what it means to be located and what it means to be lost.
About Yolande Harris:
Understanding the relations between sound, image and space through technologies of communication and navigation, has been the central focus of Yolande's work over the last ten years. She explores the intermediary role of the score, both as practical and conceptual tool, and as an open imaginary situation for communication. Her Score Spaces project employs a spatial approach to composition and has resulted in numerous audio-visual performances and installations, including the Meta-Orchestra, theoretical texts, such as Inside Out Instrument, and workshops for composers, sound artists, architects and designers. Her most recent works, Taking Soundings and Sun Run Sun, employ intuitive and scientific modes of knowing and join ancient and contemporary navigation and orientation techniques from sextants to GPS, to explore our apparently changing relation to land and sea environments in the age of satellite and mobile technologies. Yolande has a degree in music from Dartington College of Arts and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in architecture and the moving image. She has been resident researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, artistic fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and artist in residence at STEIM and the Netherlands Institute for Media Arts in Amsterdam. She has taught interaction design at the Technical University of Eindhoven, is guest lecturer at the Rietveld Academy Design Lab, and lectures on her work internationally. Her writings have been published in the Contemporary Music Review and Journal of Organised Sound.
ALEX GALLOWAY: Art + Activism Lecture
01 APRIL 2008
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER
Alexander R. Galloway is an author and programmer. He is a founding member of the software collective RSG and creator of the data surveillance engine Carnivore. The New York Times recently described his work as “conceptually sharp, visually compelling and completely attuned to the political moment.” Galloway is the author of Protocol: How Control Essays on Algorithmic Culture (Minnesota, 2006), and a new book co-authored with Eugene Thacker called The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Minnesota, 2007). He teaches at New York University.
KAREN FINLEY: Art + Activism Lecture
01 APRIL 2008
200 KAUFMAN HALL
Marie Karen Finley is a New York based artist whose raw and transgressive performances have long provoked controversy and debate. She has appeared and exhibited internationally her visual art, performances and plays. Her performances have been presented at Lincoln Center, New York City, The Guthrie, Minneapolis, American Repertory Theatre, The ICA in London, Harvard, The Steppenwolf in Chicago, and The Bobino in Paris. Her artworks are in numerous collections and museums including the Pompidou in Paris and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Finley attended the San Francisco Art Institute receiving an MFA and honorary Ph.D.. She has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim, 2 Obies, 2 Bessies, MS. Magazine Woman Of The Year, NARAL Person of the Year (which she shared with Anna Quindlen and Walter Cronkite), NYSCA and NEA Fellowships.
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