It's been an intense summer with so much climate / social / political disruptions and we did our best to stay positive and continue our work to make this world a better place. High School students attending the Sci Art summer institute sessions gave us hope! We had a great group on site at the UCLA campus and online and are proud of their accomplishments! Now we're excited to share some news from our collective!
- Noise Aquarium traveled to Quebec with the OUR TIME ON EARTH exhibition - at the time of horrific fires
- Alien Star Dust traveled to Beijing with the COSMOLOGICAL ELEMENTS at the same time that the city was experiencing torrential floods
- Anuradha Vikram co-curator of the Getty PST Atmosphere of Sound: sonic arts in times of climate disruption, published a book that she penned during the pandemic. She will do a reading along with Mashinka Firunts Hakopian at the LA Art Book Fair this weekend!
- Assistant Director Ivana Dama and Aleksandra Jovanić received a grant from the Hyundai ArtLab!
- Maryam Razi, designer / event coordinator has contributed as a co-author to a recently published book by the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.
- Alvaro Azcarraga created new bio works during his residency at Coalesce Center for Biological Art and had a show with Linda Weintraub at the Soil Factory!
- Rodolfo Ward presented his research at the Consulate General of Brazil!
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 the cosmos and the space in-between, elements that can also become central to study the universe and life on planet Earth. In that sense, a selection of cosmological elements also constitutes life on Earth as we humans know it. At the same time, we look at life on Earth and search for life in outer space based on several ideas that continuously built up throughout scientific and research endeavors of cultures throughout human history. Such culturally understood cosmological elements manifest in scientific studies, but also in human dreams and stories being told.
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 the cosmos and the space in-between, elements that can also become central to study the universe and life on planet Earth. In that sense, a selection of cosmological elements also constitutes life on Earth as we humans know it. At the same time, we look at life on Earth and search for life in outer space based on several ideas that continuously built up throughout scientific and research endeavors of cultures throughout human history. Such culturally understood cosmological elements manifest in scientific studies, but also in human dreams and stories being told.
Curated by the Barbican Center of London and co-produced by Musée de la civilisation
The Musée de la civilisation is partnering with London's prestigious Barbican Centre to co-produce this major international exhibition.
First presented in London in summer 2022, the exhibition will come in 2023 to the Musée de la civilisation, where it will be adapted to reflect local climate issues and solutions.
Through a dozen immersive contemporary artworks—most of which were created specially for the exhibition—Our Time on Earth focuses on the solutions to the crisis and encourages us to dream up a better world together. Biodiversity conservation, agriculture and food, energy, mobility and transportation, construction and consumption are some of the themes addressed.
Visitors of all ages and from all walks of life will feel challenged by this unique exploration that has the power to change perceptions. They will even be able to take action, right in the exhibition room, by committing to concrete steps now!
For UCLA Health psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Kenneth Wells, the inspirational true-life tale of his friend, USC professor Elyn Saks, was a perfect fit for his other job: opera composer.
Wells has written a new opera based on Saks’ acclaimed 2007 memoir, “The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness,” which details her lifelong experience with schizophrenia, from her first psychotic experiences in high school to ascending the ranks of academia at a prestigious law school. The opera, which will be performed in June at the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, is the fourth written by Wells and the second about Saks.
Dr. Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., M.P.H., received his M.D. from UCSF and his M.P.H. from UCLA. He is a psychiatrist, a Senior Scientist at RAND, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine and Professor of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health. He directs the Health Services Research Center of the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, which focuses on improving quality of care for psychiatric and neurological disorders across the lifespan.
Dr. Elyn R. Saks is associate dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner. Saks lives with schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold, published by Hyperion Books in 2007. She is also a cancer survivor.
This exciting conversation is scheduled to take place prior to the live workshop and performance dates on June 17, 23, and 25.
Claudia Schnugg is curator and artscience scholar. She holds a PhD in social and economic sciences with an additional focus on cultural sciences and media arts. Her practice is twofold: as scholar she is researching artscience collaborations by investigating effects, impact, and value of processes and the relevance of the outcome. As a curator, she supports and develops projects, programmes, and exhibitions at the intersection of art and science. Currently, she is curating projects at ESA/ESTEC, Institute of Stem Cells and Epigenetics at Helmholtz Center Munich, Science Gallery Berlin, works with Pro Helvetia, co-curator of Naturarchy Resonances IV of the SciArt Project at the European Commission’s JRC, and leads a project at Johannes Kepler University. Upcoming shows are CORALS at Science Gallery Berlin and Intersecting Realities in Timisoara.
Artists are well-placed to ask critical questions that are aware of but not constrained by the nature of AI, grappling with questions of access, agency, and equity in relation to AI and its impact on the art ecosystem, including the encoding of bias and the (digital) marginalization of various social groups, including but not limited to people of color, immigrants, and women. Such critique of AI allows for the emergence of those bodies (of knowledge) that stem from, or live through, the types of cosmologies that have been marginalized or erased through colonization but can be recentered through processes of decolonization, i.e. through a questioning of the patterns of power that shape our intellectual, political, economic and social worlds.
In 2019, Amir Baradaran was at the forefront of the AnotherAI.art: Decolonizing Art Ecosystem Summit, which united over 80 distinguished thinkers and professionals to delve into the intersections of critical discourse, art creation, and artificial intelligence. This initiative, endorsed by the New Museum, the Knight Foundation, and Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, sparked the concept of a unique issue recommended by Victoria Vesna, North American editor of AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication. The groundwork established during the summit has grown in importance given the advent of Chat GPT, presenting substantial and pressing questions that our society faces today.
Satinder Gill, the managing editor of AI & Society and Victoria Vesna are delighted to extend an invitation to Amir and contributors to the special issue for a series of intriguing dialogues.
Join us for a conversation between physicists Franz J. Gießibl, Physics dept., University of Regensburg, James Gimzewski, FRS, Distinguished Professor, CNSI, UCLA Art Science center scientific director.
In their conversation, Franz J. Gießibl and James Gimzewski will share their profound insights into the intricate world of atoms and their potential to reshape our understanding of the universe. They will focus on the fusion of art and science as well as the profound connections between the tangible and the intangible, and challenge the boundaries of human perception. "Thinking Atoms" promises to be a thought-provoking and enlightening encounter, where the microscopic mysteries of existence are brought to life through the minds of these distinguished physicists.
Wednesday, 24 May 2023 - 5:00pm to Wednesday, 31 May 2023 - 6:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Professor: Victoria Vesna | Exhibitors: Joy Yang + James Barty
'Listening to Machines' by Joy Yang and James Barty
This art installation creates sounds from the electrical signals produced by laboratory devices. You can interact with the devices to change the sounds and their visualizations in the gallery!
OPENING
ArtSci Gallery at CNSI
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023, from 5 -7pm
EXHIBITION #3 will be on display until
May 31st by appointment only
email: artscicenter@gmail.com
ArtSci Gallery, 5th floor
570 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, California 90095
Thursday, 18 May 2023 - 5:00pm to Thursday, 1 June 2023 - 5:00pm
Exhibitors / Artists:
Hyun Cho, Eunice Choi, Michael Luo, Maya Man, Krista Ramirez-Villatoro, Bobby Joe Smith III, Henrik Soederstroem, Ariel Uzal, Wiley Wiggins, Camille Wong, Bomi Yook, Tengchao Zhou
To host a TOWN HALL is to initiate a public gathering. A gathering of thoughts, feelings, and uncertainties that each of us holds dear behind our screen presence. A space for remembrance and healing while we work through conflicting ideas, moving towards some kind of future. The 2023 UCLA DMA MFA cohort invites you to this town hall, where we could exchange our divergent voices about our collective personal struggles.
To begin this TOWN HALL, our cohort presents 12 media artworks built with material forms and immaterial pixels. These works extend our invitation to contemplate on digital selves and the lethargy they carry; to explore reality/unreality where places, spaces, and histories converge; to memorialize once colonized landscapes and minds; to cherish and archive corroding memories and entangled rituals; to communicate within and without extended realities; to hold reflections in a space, cry and feel lost; and to resist our perpetual instability amidst designed precarity.
TOWN HALL opens at 5 pm on Thursday, May 18th, 2023, lasting until June 1st.
Participating Artists:
Hyun Cho, Eunice Choi, Michael Luo, Maya Man, Krista Ramirez-Villatoro, Bobby Joe Smith III, Henrik Soederstroem, Ariel Uzal, Wiley Wiggins, Camille Wong, Bomi Yook, Tengchao Zhou
New Wight Gallery
Broad Art Center, Suite 1100,
Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Public parking is available in UCLA Parking Structure 3.
