PAVEL SMETANA: "Brainwaves & Biofeedback" Lecture
29 FEBRUARY 2008
EDA, UCLA ART|SCI CENTER
Pavel Smetana essentially started out with exhibitions of his paintings—gradually refocusing his artistic work towards video and computer installations. This led to the programming and developing of the “Room of Desires” installation in 1993–1995. At the time of his Art|Sci guest lecture, Smetana was working on the final stage of his then new project, “The Mirror,” centered on the blending of art and new technologies.
PHILIP BEESLEY: "Hylozoic Soil" Lecture
18 FEBRUARY 2008
EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER
Philip Beesley practices digital media art and experimental architecture in Toronto. His work in the last two decades has focused on field oriented distributed sculpture and landscape installations. In parallel with his sculpture practice he teaches architecture at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge, Ontario and is co-director of Waterloo’s Integrated Centre for Manufacturing, Visualization and Design, a facility combining high-performance computing, advanced visualization and digital fabrication.
Norman Klein is a cultural critic, urban and media historian, as well as a novelist. His books include “The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory,” “Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon,” and the data/cinematic novel, “Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-86” (DVD-ROM with book), His latest book is “The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects.”
His essays appear in anthologies, museum catalogs, newspapers, scholarly journals, on the WEB-- symptoms of a polymath's career, from European cultural history to animation and architectural studies, to LA studies, to fiction, media design and documentary film. His work (including museum shows) centers on the relationship between collective memory and power, from special effects to cinema to digital theory, usually set in urban spaces; and often on the thin line between fact and fiction; about erasure, forgetting, scripted spaces, the social imaginary.
Under Surveillance: Transparency, Visibility, war and fame
By Marie Sester
Location: EDA, Broad Art Center, room 1250
Marie Sester is a media artist currently based in Los Angeles. Born in France, she began her career as an architect. Her interest, however, shifted from how to build structures to how place, cultural values, and political ideas are intertwined and affect our understanding of the world. Her work particularly questions the societal perspective of the West.
In her work she intends to reveal the ambiguity of the cultural representation dedicated to the new technologies/entertainment/information/consumables/politics, and the values and cultural codes that underlie them.
The work is concerned with issues of surveillance and subjection, but it's not making a statement about surveillance and subjection or manipulation, it intentionally stays on the edges between playful and scary to reveal the underlying perversion.
Her installation work has exhibited internationally. She had recently residencies at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS), Japan; Eyebeam, New York, and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and has received grants including from the Creative Capital Foundation, New York); New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA), LEF Foundation), and Franklin Furnace Fund. Her work is mentioned in several academic books and more to come in 2008.
*All lectures are free and take place in the EDA, room 1250 Broad Art Center.
Light refreshments will be provided.
If you cannot join us in person, connect via live video streaming at http://eda.ucla.edu/
Parking is $8 all day, and is available in structure 3, adjacent to the building. Enter the campus at Hilgard Avenue and Wyton Drive and drive north on Charles E. Young drive to enter the parking structure. For more information, call 310.825.9007.
Winter Art + Activism Lecture series begins with Adam Zaretsky who will lead a biotech workshop
Lecture "On Mutaphobia" by Adam Zaretsky
4:00pm EDA(Eli Broad Arts center)
6:00pm, BioArt workshop, CNSI Pico Lab.
Adam Zaretsky is a Vivoartist working in Biology and Art Wet Lab Practice. This involves biological lab immersion as a process towards inspired artistic projects. His personal research interests revolve around life, living systems, exploration into the mysteries of life and interrogating varied cultural definitions that stratify life's popular categorizations. He also focuses on legal, ethical and social implications of some of the newer biotechnological materials and methods: Molecular Biology, ART [Assisted Reproductive Technology] and Transgenic Protocols. Zaretsky also teaches Vivoarts: Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human Relations, Live Art and Gastronomy. A major focus is on artistic uses and the social implications of molecular biology, tissue culture, genomics and developmental biology. Adam Zaretsky has been published in Nature Magazine, Red Herring, Leonardo, The Washington Post and Johnny's Unstoppable Bathroom Reader. He has spoken at Harvard, NYU, CAA and SCIARC.
-- While working in an MIT lab, Adam Zaretsky once spent two days playing a recording of the hits of singer Engelbert Humperdinck to a petri dish full of E. coli bacteria. The organisms’ antibiotic production increased, and he concluded that humans aren’t the only clusters of cells agitated by the continual “loud, awful lounge music.” He dubbed it “the Humperdinck effect.”
CNSI: The Driving Force for California Nanotechnology
Conference and Grand Opening
Discover how Leading Technology Companies Collaborate with Academic Researchers
at CNSI to bring Nano-Scale Technologies into the Marketplace.
Abraxis BioScience Inc. - Patrick Soon-Shiong
BASF - Ulrich Müller
Hewlett-Packard - Stan Williams
Intel - Paolo Gargini
FEI - Don Kania
Opening Remarks by CNSI Interim Director, Leonard H. Rome
Conference Sessions 8:00am - 4:00pm
Grand Opening Ceremony and Reception 4:00 - 7:00pm
Dedication Ceremony Speakers:
Gene Block, Chancellor of UCLA
Gray Davis, Former Governor of California
Anthony Portantino, Assemblymember, 44th Assembly District, CA
David Crane, Special Advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger for Jobs and Economic Growth
Rafael Viñoly, Founder, Rafael Viñoly Architects
PETER SELLARS: Guest Lecture
23 JANUARY 2007
CALIFORNIA NANOSYSTEMS INSTITUTE
Location: California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) auditorium
In collaboration with UCLA Summer Sessions
"Return to the Public Sphere! Three or Four Things to Do With a Major Research University" Cutting across disciplines, going outside the University, completes the total picture of what University life could and should be.
Peter Sellars is one of the leading theatre, opera, and television directors in the world today, having directed more than one hundred productions, large and small, across America and abroad. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize Fellowship and was awarded the Erasmus Prize at the Dutch Royal Palace for contributions to European culture. A graduate of Harvard University (where during his senior year he directed Gogol's The Inspector General and Handel's opera Orlando at the A.R.T.), he studied in Japan, China, and India before becoming Artistic Director of the Boston Shakespeare Company. His contemporary visions of Mozart's operas Cosi Fan Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni, created in collaboration with Emmanuel Music and its Artistic Director Craig Smith, were hailed in Boston and in Europe and were televised by National Public Television. At tenty-six he was made Director of the American National Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
He was Artistic Director of the 1990 and 1993 Los Angeles Festivals, and is currently a Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. Mr. Sellars has collaborated with The Wooster Group and was featured in Jean-Luc Godard's film of King Lear. He has also appeared on Bill Moyers' A World of Ideas, Miami Vice, and The Equalizer, directed a rock video for Herbie Hancock, and produced a series of radio episodes for The Museum of Contemporary Art's The Territory of Art series. His first feature film, The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez, is silent in color (starring Joan Cusack, Peter Gallagher, Ron Vawter, and Mikhail Baryshnikov).
RICHARD CLAR: Guest Lecture
14 NOVEMBER 2007
EDA, UCLA BROAD ART CENTER
Art, Science and Technology class, DESMA 9
Location: EDA, Broad Art center
Richard Clar is a Southern California Interdisciplinary Artist who now resides in Paris. Clar, who studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (now Cal-Arts), is an early pioneer of art-in-space and began work in this field in 1982 with a NASA approved concept for an art-payload for the U.S. Space Shuttle. Philosophical in nature, themes for Richard Clar's art-in-space projects include: space environment issues, such as orbital debris; war and peace; the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), and water management on Earth. The work of Richard Clar has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and universities in the United States, Europe, and Japan. His work may be found in corporate collections such as JBL Sound and the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.
In 2001, and again in 2002, Clar coordinated the Leonardo/OLATS/IAA Space Art Workshops in Paris. Richard Clar is the Director of Art Technologies, Paris; a Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA); a Board of Directors Member, Cosmica Network; Artist in Residence, Companhia Espacial Portuguesa Lda.; a Member of the SETI Permanent Study Group, and a member of the Leonardo Space Art Working Group. Clar was the Secretary of the former Art and Literature Subcommittee of the International Academy of Astronautics, and a past Member of the Executive Board, Graphic Arts Council, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
His essays appear in anthologies, museum catalogs, newspapers, scholarly journals, on the WEB-- symptoms of a polymath's career, from European cultural history to animation and architectural studies, to LA studies, to fiction, media design and documentary film. His work (including museum shows) centers on the relationship between collective memory and power, from special effects to cinema to digital theory, usually set in urban spaces; and often on the thin line between fact and fiction; about erasure, forgetting, scripted spaces, the social imaginary.
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