Victoria Vesna

Victoria Vesna

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2026

2026

May 9 LightFest 3.0: AI Tools for Microscopy in Medicine and Media Arts | UNESCO International Day of Light at UCLA
March 26 Art Sci Now comes to Jersey Art Book Fair
March 13 Getting ready to premiere ATOMIC GOLD STANDARD performance
March 7 ATOMIC GOLD STANDARD premiere at the Performing Festival, Cantazaro, Italy
February 18 CAA 2026 Distinguished Teaching of Art Award
February 14 Medicine Buddha Nanomandala at Pure Land Farms and CNSI Microscopy Lab
February 13 Honoring the Spirit of the Fire Horse
January 5 Hox Zodiac @ Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts (SIVA)
January 5 Western Stardust: Soft launch, Santa Clarita, CA
January 4 [ALIEN] STAR DUST: signal to noise — Of the Earth: Earthly Technologies to Computational Biologies. Diriyah Art Futures, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 

2025

October 7 Brave New Works: AI and Tech in the Hands of Artists
October 4 FEAST III: Foto Fungi Futurism
September 25 Performance Reflection: Solar Maximum & Sunflower Plasma
July 30 [ALIEN] STAR DUST Meditation
July 25 SOLAR MAXIMUM & [ALIEN] STAR Dust at Woodstockhausen East Music Festival
July 19 FEAST II: Let the Plants Carry Us
July 16 Upstate NY Art Weekend!
July 11 [ALIEN] Star Dust & [SUN] Flower Plasma at Birdsong Farm
June 26 [ALIEN] START DUST – Meditation
June 21 FEAST 1 – Highlight Reel
June 18 Art Sci in the Hudson Valley June &. July
June 12 FEAST I: We Feast on Crumbs
June 10 Vibrations Matter New Episode with Sholeh Asgary
June 8 Vibrations Matter Episode with Anna Nacher
June 6 [ALIEN] Star Dust 1 Minute Meditation – China
May 24 Sunflower Plasma with Haley Marks & Walter Gekelman
May 14 “Mirroring the Other” – Lecture and workshop by Siddharth Ramakrishnan in my Honors class!
May 10 Hosting Color, Light, Motion
May 5 [ALIEN] Star Dust Meditation – Antarctica
May 1 Vibrations Matter with Sound Artist Paul DeMarinis – Reel
May 1 Vibrations Matter with Sound Artist Paul Demarinis – Reel
April 25 Vibrations Matter Reel with Artist Joel Ong
April 21 Vibrations Matter with Music Producer Simone Giuliani – Reel

2024

September 6 [SUN]Flower Plasma premiere in Elements! An Art and Tech Exhibition
February 15 Noise Aquarium travels with Our Time on Earth Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

2023

November 30 AnotherAI.art: Decolonising art ecosystem | Part II
October 25 Bardo Songs at UCLA Fowler Museum
October 23 Bardo Songs at Pureland Farms in Topanga Canyon
October 9 Narratives Of Engagement
October 2 Doors To Hidden Worlds
September 8 Fourth State of Water: from micro to macro
September 8 The Next Renaissance
July 21 [Alien] Star Dust travels with the COSMOLOGICAL ELEMENTS exhibition
July 12 “Vibrations Matter: art & science of deep listening”
June 14 Noise Aquarium travels to Quebec with Our Time on Earth Exhibition
June 6 Curating and Hosting UCLA Health
June 4 BIRD SONG DIAMOND
June 3 COLOR LIGHT MOTION, Ep. 20
May 31 AnotherAI.art: Decolonizing Art Ecosystem
May 29 Thinking Atoms
May 26 Alter(acciòn) 2.0 at MEIAC Museo
May 10 Vibratory Fields
May 8 Color, Light, Motion
May 5 COSMOLOGICAL ELEMENTS
April 27 COSMOLOGICAL ELEMENTS
April 26 Talk + Class visit
April 23 Octopus Mandala: butterfly effect
April 21 Neuro Spirituality Retreat at Puget University
April 20 COSMOLOGICAL ELEMENTS
April 18 Hox Zodiac Cards are in!
April 9 Happy Easter with Hox
April 7 Psychedelia and Computing at UC Berkeley
March 18 COLOR LIGHT MOTION Ep. 18
March 2 SHUTZ Lecture Series
February 25 HOX at UTD Gallery
February 16 COLOR LIGHT MOTION Ep. 17
February 16 “Art as Social Practice”
February 8 Hox Zodiac Fiat Lux class

2022

December 13 Lecture
December 13 Pre-recording of the Opening Panel for the Cosmological Events, Fuson foundation, Shanghai
December 12 [Alien] Star Dust: signal to noise is awarded a commendation prize from NTU’s Global Digital Art Prize 2022 in Singapore!
December 10 [ALIEN] STAR DUST is part of COSMOLOGICAL ELEMENTS
November 12 Lecture
September 26 COSMIC NOMAD panel: 7th Transdiciplinary conference on Imaging at the Intersection of Art, Science & Culture
September 26 COSMIC NOMAD SOUND WALK
September 25 COSMIC NOMAD
September 23 [Alien] Star Dust meets Plankton
September 21 Galapagos Art & Science journey — AMAZING experience!
August 10 COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION
June 28 Deep Ecology in the Cognitive Capitalocene
June 22 NaturArchy
May 30 COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION
May 28 COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION
May 26 Noise Aquarium at MEIAC
May 20 COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION
May 12  “This Mortal Plastic”
April 21 “Neuroaesthetics in Cognitive Capitalism”
April 20 DESMA 9
April 16 Forces to Forms Panel
April 2 Laws of Nature
February 24 Lecture, February 23 at Pratt now online
February 9 Particle episode: First View inside and Atom
February 2 USHERED IN THE YEAR OF THE WATER TIGER WITH FRIENDS & STUDENTS TOO!
January 14 Planning for Noise Aquarium at the Barbican, London
January 14 Class microscope zoom collage
January 6 IS BCI FUTURE of THOUGHT?
January 5 S.T.E.A.M. reconfigured pedagogy
January 5 Noise Aquarium in Poland –
January 3 working on Noise Aquarium version 3.0
January 2 01-02-2022
January 1 01-01-2022

2021

December 15 HOX ZODIAC: honoring the Rabbit!
November 25 Online Meditation & Exhibition: Molecular Light for Russia
November 18 Episode 7: Color, Light, Motion – Featuring James Wines
October 26 Art|Sci Center: October Artist in Residence Featuring Sholeh Asgary
October 21 Art Sci: Post Reductionist Scientists
October 13 ARTECH21
October 2 Color, Light, Motion. Episode 6: Sally Weber
September 27 Fantastic Voyage and Scales of Wonder
September 26 Episode 6: Color, Light, Motion – Featuring Sally Weber
September 16 POM Berlin 2021
September 12 Ars Electronica | Vibrations Matter Day 5
September 10 Ars Electronica | The Sound of Clouds and other Sonic Memories Joel Ong
September 9 Ars Electronica | Vibrations Matter Day 2
September 4 Color, Light, Motion – Featuring John Hood
September 2 Press conference: Ars Electronica Gardens around the world
September 1 ARS Electronica 2021
August 25 [Alien] Star Dust: signal to noise meditation for South America
August 21 Curating Noise
August 19 LASER- Medicine + Media Arts “EXPLORING THE TISSUE OF EXISTENCE”
August 18 LASER talk tomorrow August 19, 2021 9AM PST! “EXPLORING THE TISSUE OF EXISTENCE”
August 6 Final Presentation Sci Art 2021
July 24 RAT Feature!
July 16 Spectacular Bodies
July 8 Aesthetics and Ethics in the Digital Age
July 3 THE POWER OF THE INVISIBLE AND INAUDIBLE
June 30 ARTIST TALK FEATURING ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: JOEL ONG
June 16 Panel Discussion – Neuroscience and Art: Exploring Mind Control
May 26 UCLA ART SCI – Value(s) of NFT-ART
May 23 Space and Art with Richelle Gribble
May 21 SUNY Ulster Children’s Center Virtual Art Show/Silent Auction
May 10 NEUROSCI & ART – Siddharth Ramakrishnan
May 2 Biotech and Art with Marta de Menezes
April 22 APRIL 24, Color, Light, Motion featuring Christiane Paul
April 16 Medicine and Art with Patricia Olynyk – DESMA 9
April 12 Robotics and Art with Maša Jazbec – DESMA 9
April 5 MATH & ART Kate McKinnon
March 28 Vibration Matters – Yangchenma Arts & Music
March 27 Color, Light, Motion with David Familian and Karen Moss
March 18 Spring Equinox workshop: Breathe to Flow with Anna Nacher
March 16 The Art & Science of Deep Listening – Yangchenma Arts & Music
March 7 Sci Art Studio+Lab
March 3 SciArt Lab + Studio 2020 recap | UCLA Sci|Art Lab+Studio
February 27 Color, Light, Motion. Episode 1: Erkki Huhtamo
February 26 Pop-up Studio Tour with Warren Neidich
February 25 Exhibition
February 23 BeoAir Panel
February 13 2021 Tibetan New Year
February 8 Tibetan Losar Festival
February 4 Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
January 27 Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption
January 21 Art and Atmospheric Science with Andrea Polli, Suzanne Paulson and Emily Womack

2020

December 22 Takashi Ikegami sharing star dust from Tokyo!
December 22 Clarissa sharing star dust from Fortaleza!
December 22 We had an amazing, magical jam at dawn in the Integratron.
December 21 Setting up! #alienstardust
December 20 Integratron getting ready for the big moment!
December 19 Alien Star Dust Features
December 16 Virtual Concrete Destruction
December 14 Alien Star Dust
December 12 Alien Star Dust: signal to noise collective art + sci meditation from the Integratron is on 21.12.20!
December 10 Talk on Alien Star Dust to Art students, Prague
December 8 Excited to participate in this great event – in my sleep!
December 5 Dialogue witht John DiLeva Halpern about art and activism
December 4 Visiting Artist Lecture
December 2 Excited about ALIEN STAR DUST
December 1 Saying goodbye to the Bermant foundation’s collection.
November 29 Hox Zodiac booklets arrived!!!
November 29 Linda Weintraub hosted on of the first Hox Zodiac dinners..
November 28 Nov 28 Hox Zodiac Gathering
November 19 Nov 19 LASER
November 10 Support the National Coalition Against Censorship Benefit Auction!
October 29
October 16 Planning Alien Star Dust @ the Integratron!
October 1 LASER Cambridge live
September 30 Join me and Monica LoCascio @ SURATÓMICA festival!
September 30 So happy to share frequencies with Anna Nacher!
September 10 Telluric Vibrations Updates!
September 10 Clarissa Ribeiro LIVE NOW!“Transplanting the Self: microbiome anthropophagy”
August 7 Closing Ceremony Sci Art Summer Institute 2020 successfully ended!
July 25 Alien Star Dust Meditation
July 14 [Alien] Star Dust @ Future/Beyond Festival
July 7 Setting up for the [Alien] Star Dust meditation
June 29 Cosmic Labyrinth
June 15 Sound series in collaboration with Harvestworks NY
June 4 “STEAM — it is Science, Technology, Ecology, Art, Mindfulness
May 28 ART SCI PARTICLES
May 16 Sci Art Summer Institute 2020 Online
April 22 RADIO BELGRADE Interview 2, 97,6 FM
April 22 Hox Zodiac Virtual Dinner around the Globe to celebrate Earth Day!
April 20 Interview with Brian Hardin: “Creating our Future through Art and Science”
April 13 EPISODE 5: POST PANDEMIC PROVOCATIONS
April 6 Arshake Interview
March 9 Star dust hunting on the roof of the Natural History Museum, Vienna – with meteorite expert Dr. Ludovic Ferrière. Joined by Daniela Brill and Monica LoCascio.
March 5 Ars Electronica Students analyzing Dust
February 29 Preparation for Alien Star Dust
February 24 Nanomandala at Pure Lands
February 23 Ludovic Ferrier – Meteorite Curator
February 20 NanoMandala at Pure Land Farms – Tibetan New Year
February 1 MindShare LA
January 15 Meteorite Hunt continues…
January 14 Hunting for Micro Meteorites
January 9 Jennifer Moon @ LASER

2019

December 5 December LASER – Stealth Drones
November 30 QUORUM
November 9 Talk “Art in the Time of Climate Change” at the Laguna Art Museum
November 8 LASER Insights
November 5 Talk at the Art & Science Conference Beijing
November 1 Bird Song Diamond Mexico in Taboo Transgression Transcendence Magazine 2018
October 23 Bird Song Diamond at Tsinghua University
October 19 Talk 500 Years of Leonardo
October 16 Getting ready for 500 years Leonardo
September 13 Exhausting and exhilarating working with a group of fabulous students at the École Polytechnique for Useful Fictions symposium! Alien (Star)Dust!!!
September 10 Workshop at the École Polytechnique
September 9 Residency at École Polytechnique
September 5 40 Years of Ars Electronica
September 4 Noise Aquarium in Switzerland!
September 4 Mentoring @ Ars Electronica
September 1 Noise Aquarium in Gais, Switzerland
August 30 Setting up in Gais
August 29 Noise Aquarium in Gais, Switzerland
August 28 Video of Noise Aquarium in Pula, Croatia
August 28 Noise Aquarium at the Historical and Maritime Museum of Istria, Croatia
August 28 Noise Aquarium in Museum Istre Croatia
August 26 Noise Aquarium at the Historical Maritime Museum in Pula, Preparation
August 4 ArtSci Summer Institute
August 1 Sci Art students at SIGGRAPH 2019!
July 29 Sci Art Summer Institute
July 29 Siggraph 2019 & Noise Aquarium
July 11 AIL Exhibition – Noise Aquarium
July 1 Noise Aquarium Surprise Cake
July 1 Conversations at SIGGRAPH 2019
July 1 Noise Aquarium Documentary
April 4 YouTube Video UCLA California Nanosytems Institute (CSNI)
March 3 First Hox Zodiac Dinner in 2019!
February 26 Moma Talk – “From Hacking to Fact Checking”
February 13 LASER night – Jocelyn Ho
February 12 Jocelyn Ho performs “Women’s Labor”
February 11 LASER Talk at CNSI
February 11 Laser Night – UCLA
February 8 “Community of People with No Time” – Article by Victoria Vesna
February 7 Last day in Japan

2018

December 13 Hox Zodiac Microperformativity Dinner
December 5 Video of Noise Aquarium @ Deep Space, Ars Electronica 2018
November 15 LASER Talk Livestream with Andrea Polli, Paul Weiss, Victoria Vesna
November 12 TTT Conference Centro de Cultura Digital in Mexico
November 10 N Festival 2018 Mexico City
November 10 Bird Song Diamond Mexico opens @ CCD
November 3 Art Sci team @ TedX today!
October 15 First session of the INL summit – opens with panel Science not Fiction!
October 14 #Nfestival 2018 coming up
October 12 Hox Zodiac in Lisbon!
October 11 Conference at the Filosofia da Ciência, Tecnologia, Arte e Sociedade
October 10 Noise Aquarium featured on Curator’s Blog
October 9 Talk at the Facultade de Belas Artes, Portugal
October 8 Drama in Deep Space
September 19 Interview with David Buovski – in Slovenian 🙂
September 14 Noise Aquarium & Paseo Project, New Mexico
September 13 #speculumartium2018 #STEAM #slovenia
September 12 Our Place in Space
September 12 GlobArt Talk at the Natural History Museum, Vienna
September 11 Leonardo Slam
September 11 Blue Morph featured on Speculum Artium 2018
September 10 Ars Electronica Linz 2018
September 4 Last bugs being worked out by Glenn before we go test and live!
September 3 Noise Aquarium featured on Ars Electronica
August 18 Preparation for Noise Aquarium Installation at Paseo
August 5 Vibrant Matter Exhibition
August 1 This is day 1 of NanoLab!
July 29 UCLA SciArt NanoLab team gathering before we start on Monday!
July 20 Summer Laser – Video
July 11 ALife Art Award Jury
July 11 Noise Aquarium Photoshoot
July 9 Taking Down Hox Zodiac!
July 8 Last Hox Zodiac Dinner at Building Bridges
July 5 12 States of Hox Zodiac – Animation by Mark Chavez and Ina Conradi
June 26 Jim’s Nano and Micro Plastic Lecture
June 16 First day of FEM Meeting 2018
June 10 CIPN Talk in Cambridge
June 4 Another beautiful day in the HOX Zodiac Show
June 3 Kids and Hox Zodiac
June 1 Art Table So Cal at BBAX for their Hox Zodiac Dinner
May 30 Final Fiat Lux Class
May 29 Noise Aquarium
May 29 Nine Tomorrows #digitalart Exhibition
May 29 More impressions of Hox Zodiac
May 26 Hox Zodiac Opening at Building Bridges Art Exchange
May 24 It passes like a thought – Beall Center for Art+Technology UC Irvine
May 14 Working on Hox Zodiac
May 13 What’s hot in LA?
May 9 Media Art Nexus NTU
April 23 Paper made from Rabbit Poop?
April 15 Andrea Polli’s Biocultura
April 14 LASER on Art & Biodiversity by Andrea Polli
April 14 HOX Zodiac at the New Mexico History Museum in SantaFe
April 5 Anechoic chamber with Bill Fontana
March 28 Takashi Ikegami – ALIFE 2018 Tokyo
March 27 LASER SantaFe featured in Los Alamos Daily Post
March 15 Finals with the Bio/Nanotech + Design Class
March 12 Prix Ars Electronica 2018
March 8 International Women’s Day at UCLA
March 4 Lecture Sam Fox School
March 1 Opening of PreExisting Conditions
March 1 Indigo dying Workshop
March 1 Bird Song Diamond MIMIC @ the Beall Center
February 13 Bermant Foundation
February 10 AWMAT 2018 Conference
February 7 Talk at UCSB
January 19 Bread – An Art in itself
January 16 Octopus BrainStorming @ the LA Art Show was a hit!
January 9 LA Artfair
January 9 Octopus BrainStorming write-up
January 4 VOXEL Workshop

2017

October 20 Synaesthesia symposium
September 23 Octopus BrainStorming @ Speculum Artium
July 4 Fluid Visualization and Sound Matters
April 6 Visiting the Pula Aquarium site
April 6 Bird Song Mimic Jury selection: Japan Media Arts festival
March 17 Bodies INCorporated (1996) revived / archived by Rhizome!
February 17 Bodies Corp 2.0 launches at the Beall gallery

2016

December 3 Presenting in the Bodies of Knowledge conference, Friday, December 9th
December 3 HOX ZODIAC at the Fowler museum
November 4 HOX ZODIAC WORKSHOP at the Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
November 3 LASER Zürich
October 30 Keynote lecture
October 30 LASERZurich: Complexity – from particle physics to musical interfaces
October 25 Now getting ready for Showroom Z + N ° 6: Collaborations
October 25 Arts and Business: Building a Common Ground for Understanding Society.
October 17 Featured artist in Cybernetics & Human Knowing!
October 16 Octopus background video for the Brain Storming
October 16 Octopus Brain Storming @ UCLA Luskin center
September 18 Bird Song Mimic in Serra sculpture 🙂
September 10 Moderating Ars Electronica Prix Forum: Interactive Art + winners
August 12 Bird Song Diamond Report from EMP
July 2 Interview on CLOT magazine, London
July 1 ART is (speaking portraits) by George Quasha
June 25 BIRD SONG MIMIC workshop
June 23 NY Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous @ Ellen Levy’s
June 15 HOX ZODIAC lunch for the UCLA Staff
June 2 MORPHO NANO catalog finally published!
April 9 Photos from Hox Zodiac workshop
April 5 WORKSHOP: Performing the Animal Self / Ingesting Cultural Hybridity: Hox Zodiac reception
March 13 Ars Electronica interview just published
March 10 Presenting Bird Song Diamond at IPAM today!
March 4 Hox Zodiac at the Slater Museum of Natural History, University of Puget Sound
February 25 Art Sci retreat and visit to Jean-Pierre Herve’s studio
February 14 Interview with Kathy High — almost 30 years ago!
January 29 EMP good bye dinner!
January 28 BIRD SONG DIAMOND Japan documentation videos
January 27 From the dinner table to Virtual Reality to ceramics
January 22 Testing Bird Song Diamond Japan in Large Space
January 21 Panel with Takashi Ikegami @ AROB: Art & Artificial Life (January 21, 2016)
January 21 BIRD SONG DIAMOND JAPAN @ Large Space, Empowerment Studios
January 21 Demo: Bird Song Diamond mobile @ AROB (January 21, 2016)
January 5 Lecture at China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

2015

December 29 Lecture: School of Creative Media, Hong Kong (Jan 14, 2016)
December 19 Panel at Takamatsu media arts festival
December 19 Hox Zodiac Japan: Tsukuba
March 26 Setting up NanoMandala at Gerald Peters gallery, Santa Fe
March 19 Insomniac write-up of Brainstorming: Synesthesia at SONOS
March 19 TechNoBody Panel: 3/19/15 — Pelham Arts center
February 15 Molecular Cuisine: Politics of Taste. Workshop with Suzanne Anker
January 10 Getting ready for the Brainstorming Octopus: Synesthesia 1/14 @ SONOS
January 10 Art Sci retreat @ the Bermant foundation ranch in Santa Ynez, CA.

2014

December 6 HOX Zodiac beta dinner @ UCLA Art Sci center

2013

September 6 Margaut Gastard at the Grande Roue in Marseille
September 6 Blue Morph at Musée d”Histoire Naturelle in Marseille extended to January!
August 22 Octopus Mandala Glow
July 27 Blue Morph at the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Palais Longchamp
January 26 hosted first LASER (Leonardo Art Science Rendezvous)!

2009

December 15 Context Providers finally going to be published!
July 11 Nano Lab summer institute
May 13 Roy Ascott Symposium
March 5 Sound + Science symposium opens
February 26 LEF meeting at Art | Sci center
February 7 Art Sci Open Salon: Siddharth Ramakrishnan
February 7 Thinking Gender graduate conference @ ucla
January 30 Future of Media Arts, Science & Technology at UCSB
January 30 UC DARnet: Sharon Daniel
January 22 UC DARnet panel
January 8 UC DARnet exhibition
January 3 Ushering in 2009 with Good Vibrations

2008

December 18 University in Exile
December 18 Snow in Joshua Tree!
December 17 Break?

1992

July 30 Siggraph 1992 Publication

1988

January 1 New Images in American Art ’88 

1985

January 1 Collaborations