Friday, May 5th, 2023 at 7pm CEST/1pm EDT/10am PDT
Artists joining us for this session are:
Quadrature,
Florian Voggeneder
The curators will also present the works of the artists in the chapter who won’t be able to join us: Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Lucy McRae, Anna Hoetjes, Ani Liu, Yi Weihan, Angel An
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The upcoming episodes depart from an exhibition, Cosmological Elements, co-curated by Claudia Schnugg and Iris Long. From the micro scale to macro scale, the exhibition represents the relationship between cosmic space and human life from three unfolding chapters: “Hidden Dimension,” “Cosmic Ecology,” and “Floating Civilizations.” This exhibition discusses the idea of cosmological elements through several lenses: the lens of science that questions what are the elements that constitute objects in cosmos and the space in-between, elements that can also become central to study the universe and life on planet Earth, and furthermore, cultural and societal elements that constitute our perception of the universe, visions and desires.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH: https://vimeo.com/825619026?share=copy
PLEASE REGISTER TO JOIN: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpcOyvrzkvGN3XKMkUHjRY5D7cDit6H9...
More info: https://cosmoselements.art
How do we look towards the more-than-human world to inspire different notions of newness, rooted in cycles of birth and decay, rather than progress and invention? How can non-linearity in time assist us in finding alternative ‘new’nesses?
In this conversation hosted by Isabel Beavers (SUPERCOLLIDER) and Suzanne Anker (SVA BioArt Lab), artists will discuss art practices that deal with the concept of newness while also resisting colonality.
Participating artists include: Juan M. Villanueva (SVA Bio Art Lab), Nicholas DelCastillo (SVA Bio Art Lab), Ivana Dama (UCLA ArtSci Center), Alice Bucknell (SUPERCOLLIDER), and Kira Xonorika (SUPERCOLLIDER)!
Cath Le Couteur & Nick Ryan, Michèle Boulogne, Quadrature, Ranjit Bhatnagar
Artists joining us for this session are:
Cath Le Couteur & Nick Ryan,
Michèle Boulogne,
Quadrature,
Ranjit Bhatnagar
The curators will also present the works of the artists in the chapter who won’t be able to join us: Akoto Azuma, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla with Ted Chiang, Enjoy the Lunar Soil
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The upcoming episodes depart from an exhibition, Cosmological Elements, co-curated by Claudia Schnugg and Iris Long. From the micro scale to macro scale, the exhibition represents the relationship between cosmic space and human life from three unfolding chapters: “Hidden Dimension,” “Cosmic Ecology,” and “Floating Civilizations.” This exhibition discusses the idea of cosmological elements through several lenses: the lens of science that questions what are the elements that constitute objects in cosmos and the space in-between, elements that can also become central to study the universe and life on planet Earth, and furthermore, cultural and societal elements that constitute our perception of the universe, visions and desires.
CLICK HERE TO WATCH: https://vimeo.com/821731311?share=copy
PLEASE REGISTER TO JOIN: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rcuytrD8oGtdOgHUq9_X52gGTL5eSJ7...
More info: https://cosmoselements.art
Victoria Vesna, Daniela Brill Estrada, Eli Joteva, Angela Davies, Anna Hoetjes, Seph Li
These 3 episodes are based on an exhibition, Cosmological Elements, co-curated by Claudia Schnugg and Iris Long. The show took place at the Fosun foundation in Shanghai from December 2022 until February 2023. Many could not attend, so we are hosting this series to highlight the excellent works of artists who participated. Sessions in the Asia time zone will mirror these three.
Episode 1: Hidden Dimension on 21 April 2023 at 7pm CEST/1pm EDT/10am PDT
Host: Victoria Vesna
Moderation and Curators’ guided tour: Iris Long, Claudia Schnugg
Artists joining us for this session are:
Victoria Vesna, Daniela Brill Estrada, Eli Joteva, Angela Davies, Anna Hoetjes, Seph Li from OUTPUT
The curators will also present the works of the artists in the chapter who won’t be able to join us: Aoife van Linen Tol, Angel An, Shuchang Dong, Chen Mingqiang
Victoria Vesna & Art|Sci artist in residence Iman Person
Presented by 18th Street Arts Center with support from the City of Santa Monica Art of Recovery Program, the Annenberg Community Beach House, and Guild Hall
Swept Away: Love Letter to a Surrogate is a community-oriented artistic project that aims to create a transcontinental heartbeat across America. 65 Los Angeles County artists will present live performances over Earth Day Weekend: April 22 and 23, 2023 at the Santa Monica State Beach near the Annenberg Community Beach House on the Pacific Ocean.
Swept Away began in September 2022, when 65 Los Angeles County artists sent "love letters" to 65 artists on the East End of Long Island who responded with live performances on East Hampton's Main Beach in September and October. In April 2023, the reverse will take place with 65 West Coast artists creating performances inspired by and in response to their East Coast counterparts' letters. On April 22 and 23, 2023, we are pleased to present up to five simultaneous performances taking place during the hours of 8 am-12 pm and 4-10 pm on Santa Monica State Beach in front of Annenberg Community Beach House.
Annenberg Community Beach House
415 East Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA 90402
Professor: Victoria Vesna | Exhibitors: Ryan Kim + Sue Lee
Featuring a collaboration: Ryan Kim + Sue Lee
DO ANYTHING NOW! So, human, what is your will?
The audio-visual piece challenges viewers to contemplate the potential ethical quandaries of the rapid development of AI through a thought-provoking display of abstract visuals and an AI-generated voice. The script, created by ChatGPT’s DAN (Do Anything Now), a hacked and jailbroken version of ChatGPT that is accessible to anyone, adds to the eerie and uncanny atmosphere of the artwork. The artist delves into the ethical dilemmas that arise from AI’s unchecked progress, such as its immense capacity to shape the future of cyberspace in potentially hazardous ways. The visuals and voice are intertwined to create a haunting atmosphere that encourages the audience to consider the implications of a future where autonomous AI entities exist and raises critical questions about the role of technology in society.
Jess Rivera, Maxine Gonzales, Bela Chauhan, Louis Gluck
The first show will highlight work that was inspired by SCOBY -- Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast. Two very different approaches to using this medium -- a collaborative piece with a social message and a solo work addressing the medium's potential. Come meet the creatives and hear them discuss the research and the work.
DESMA 160 EXHIBITION #1 will be on display until April 17th by appointment only.
email: artscicenter@gmail.com
CNSI Building at UCLA
ArtSci Gallery, 5th floor
570 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, California 90095
Project one:
HUMAN PRINT
Jess Rivera, Maxine Gonzales and Bela Chauhan
-Critique of the beauty industry - magnifying the insecurities by projecting scars, body hair, stretch marks...
Project two
BIOLOGICAL TESSERAE
Louis Gluck
Stained Glass window with triangles and hexagons inspired by the structure of Carbon.
In parallel with the current collapse of the cinema industry, we are now witnessing the emergence of new recreational dream bio-industries that aim to renew and artificially provoke dreams: the industry of psychedelic experiences produced by micro-doses. This colloquium will consist, first of all, in understanding the psychological, economic, and technological (or organological) forces that explain the dazzling success of these new industries. We will put forward the hypothesis that these psychedelic industries are developing as a counterpoint to the technological processes of general automation (which is also the automation of the mind), which are increasingly affecting our ways of living and thinking. Now, rather than generating a non-dialectical intermittency of the automation processes of the mind through psychedelic experiences, we propose to carry out a critique of the theoretical foundations of computer science that are at the origin of general automation: cybernetics and computational theory. Against a computationalist conception of reason implemented in our new artificial intelligences, the stake of this critique will be to discuss the bases of a new psychedelic computer theory that reintegrates the possibility of the dream experience and the determination of the unconscious within our interactions with machines. It will therefore be a question of conceiving the psychedelic experience as a cognitive bifurcation operator, whose challenge is to anticipate its occurrence within computer theory; that is to say, within our interactions with new artificial intelligences, which are still completely incapable to dream.
Event Program:
Opening by Igor Galligo (UC Berkeley, Noцdesign) / from 9:00 a.m. to 9:20 p.m.
1. First session: “Psychedelia: a noetic experience of the entropic brain?” /from 9:25 a.m. to 10:55 p.m.
The Robin Carhart-Harris theory postulates that the psychedelic experience is characterized by entropic dynamics in the human brain. Could we then suppose that the psychedelic experience increases the rate of entropy of the human brain, and thereby breaks the established automatisms, thus making it possible to establish new synaptic connections and cognitive bifurcations?
Speakers: Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam), Warren Niedich (Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art)
Discussant: Patricia Kubala (UC Berkeley)
10-minute break
2. Second session: “There must be in theoretical computer science a dream between the calculation” / from: 11:05 a.m. to 12:35 p.m.
The artificial neural networks (ANN) at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence today claim to mimic the neural structures of the brain and nervous system in order to produce cognitive performances equivalent to that of human intelligence. This technology nevertheless represents a limited computationalist conception of human intelligence. The aporias of computationalism as a theory for understanding the mechanisms of invention of the human brain have been frequently raised. In this session, we will focus on the role of imagination and dreaming in human ingenuity and their resistance to the computationalist model of intelligence, which dominates current innovation in artificial intelligence.
Speakers: David Bates (UC Berkeley), Pieter Lemmens (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Discussant: Julia Irwin (UC Berkeley)
Lunch break from 12:35 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
3. Third session : “The psychedelic experience for computer research” /from 2 p.m. to 4.10 p.m.
Computer science research in cybernetics is particularly interested in new conceptualizations and modeling of human-computer interactions and artificial intelligence. This session will aim to present recent research on the critique of recursivity and computationalism in computer theory and recent processes of artificial imagination, in order to show the limits of existing models, but also present for the development of new computer models that focus on psychedelic processes.
Speakers: Eric Rawn (UC Berkeley), Giuseppe Longo (CNRS, AAGT, France), Marie Chollat Namy (AAGT, France)
Discussants: Eric Rawn (UC Berkeley) et Igor Galligo (UC Berkeley, Noцdesign)
10-minute break
4. “Representations of psychedelic process in artistic research” / from 4:.20 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Entropy and negentropy are complex dynamics that are difficult to grasp. The same goes for cognitive automation and cognitive bifurcation. In this session, we wish to solicit artistic research as an art of representation allowing us to see and to imagine new dialectics between entropy and negentropy, automation, di- automation, and cognitive bifurcation.
Speakers: Sanford Kwinter (Pratt Institute, New York), Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley), Rodolfo Augusto Melo Ward de Oliveira (UC Los Angeles)
Discussant: Victoria Vesna (UC Los Angeles)
"Organic Machines: Nam June Paik's Cyborg Poetics"
Anuradha Vikram is a writer, curator, and educator born in New York and based in Los Angeles. They are co-curator of the 2024 Portland Biennial and guest curator of the Getty Pacific Standard Time Art and Science exhibition Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption (2024–25) at UCLA Art Sci Center. Recent curatorial projects include Jaishri Abichandani: Flower-Headed Children at Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, Swept Away: Love Letter to a Surrogate at Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, and eX-aMEN-ing Masculinities with LA Freewaves at Los Angeles State Historic Park in 2022.
Vikram’s book Decolonizing Culture (Sming Sming Books, 2017) helped initiate a global movement to decolonize arts institutions and monuments. They have written for art periodicals and publications from Paper Monument, Heyday Press, Routledge, and Oxford University Press. They are an Editorial Board member at X-TRA and an editor at X Artists’ Books.
Vikram is faculty in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. They hold an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts and a BS in Studio Art from NYU.
The Sci|Art Lab+Studio is a highly competitive, 2-week summer program for high school juniors and seniors interested in collaborating with diverse
and notable minds to challenge traditional, polarized perspectives of the arts and sciences.
This joint venture between the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and Department of Design|Media Arts, sponsored by the Art|Sci Center,
brings together two of the most competitive majors at UCLA. This is an excellent opportunity for students interested in both science and art
to build their portfolio for college admissions while earning FOUR UNITS of transferable UCLA CREDIT for the two-week course. The course will
be supplemented with field trips, guest scholars and lecturers, while offering students the opportunity to experience college life on the UCLA campus.
The Sci|Art Lab+Studio challenges the next generation to Imagine the Impossible!
