Victoria Vesna

Victoria Vesna

Panels, Workshops, Symposiums

1981 2026
2026

2025

November 7 Meta+ International Conference, Chung-Ang University International Metaverse Festival (CIMF), South Korea
September 6 Future of Future of Art Science Research, Ars Electronica
September 5 Creating Rapid Response Learning Environments, Ars Electronica

2023

November 1 UCLA dataX Workshop, James West Alumni Center, November 1
September 8 Panel Chair: The Next Renaissance: Lucia Ronchetti (IT), John Palmesino (IT), Rachel Armstrong (IE), Alistair Hudson (GB), Charles Landry, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, September 8
July 12 “Vibrations Matter: art & science of deep listening”, LASER (Leonardo Art Science Rendezvous), hosted by Piero Scaruffi and Tami Spector, UC San Francisco, July 12
June 6 Curator & Host: Dr. Ken Wells, UCLA Health psychiatrist and researcher and Dr. Elyn Saks, June 6
June 4 Talk: “BIRD SONG DIAMOND in Beyond Human-non-Human: Ecologies-as-Cosmologies”, XenoPais festival, Foro Académico Internacional de Diseño y Creación, Bogota, Columbia, June 4
May 31 Host: “AnotherAI.art: Decolonizing Art Ecosystem, Satinder Gill”, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, Amir Baradaran, May 31
May 29 Moderator: Thinking Atoms; a dialogue between nanoscientist James Gimzewski and physicist Franz Giessebl, May 29
May 10 Host: Vibratory Fields: Artists as Neural Orchestrators, Cartographers, Translators, Cristina Albu, May 10
April 26 Host: Marta De Menezes talk + class visit “Art & Immunology: A Lifelong Relationship”, April 26
April 21 Retreat: Neuro Spirituality at University of Puget Sound, Dr. Siddharth Ramakrishnan, April 21
April 7 Discussant: Psychedelia and Computing: How to Bifurcate Cybernetics, organized by Igor Galligo, Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society, UC Berkeley, April 7
March 2 Artist Talk: Planetary Consciousness: Art, Embodied Presence, and Ecology organized and hosted by Cristina Albu as part of the Shutzlecture series. Sharing space with J. Antoni and K., March 2
February 16 “Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change”, CAA, 111th Conference, NY, February 16
January 1 Curator and Host: COSMOLOGICAL EVENTS
January 1 Curator and Host: COLOR LIGHT MOTION: sponsored by the David Bermant foundation.
January 1 Roundtable: [ALIEN] STAR DUST – molecular dust for South America, Design, Arte & Tecnologia, with Clarissa Ribeiro, Monica Tavares, Juliana Henno, Rodolfo Ward

2022

November 27 Host: HOX ZODIAC honoring the Dog 狗 – Guests: Annick Bureaud, Maria Jost, Adrian Martinez Tobon, Gustavo Alfonso Rincon, November 27
October 23 Host: HOX ZODIAC honoring the Rooster 鸡 – Guests: Mick Lorusso, Bailey Connolly, Maša Jazbec, Charles Taylor, October 23
September 11 Host: HOX ZODIAC honoring the Monkey 猴 – Guests: Cristina Albu, Mana Salehi, Girija Hariharan, September 11
September 10 Host: HOX ZODIAC gathering – Hosts: Linda Weintraub & Victoria Vesna, Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY, September 10
August 13 Host: HOX ZODIAC honoring the Sheep 羊 – Guests: Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Ellen K. Levy, Janis Wilkins, August 13
June 22 Keynote: NaturArchy, Joint Research Center, Ispra, Italy, June 22
June 5 Host: HOX ZODIAC honoring the Horse 马 – Guests: Aleksa Mara, Maryam Razi, Linda Weintraub, Petia Morozov, June 5
May 12 Host: “This Mortal Plastic” screening and dialogue with director Jess Irish, May 12
April 22 Host: HOX ZODIAC honoring the Snake 蛇 on EARTH day – Guests: Carolyn CC Hart, Amir Baradaran, Lucie Strecker, April 22
April 21 Co-organizer: “Neuroaesthetics in Cognitive Capitalism” symposium (by Warren Niedich), April 21-23
April 16 Co-organized Panels: Forces to Forms exhibition at Pratt galley: Laws of Nature, 4/2; Morphogenesis and Self-Organization; Repairing Nature, April 16
March 20 Host: HOX ZODIAC honoring the Dragon 龙 on Nowruz – Clarissa Ribeiro, Kathy Brew, Alyce DeMarais – March 20
January 1 Intro to Art, Science & Technology class – guest lecture, Daniel Jay, Neuroscience + Art
January 1 Curator and Host: COLOR LIGHT MOTION: sponsored by the David Bermant foundation
January 1 Panel: Sonic Allegories and Bird Song Diamond with Robertina Šebjanić and Lena Ortega Računalniški muzej / Slovenian Computer History Museum, Ljubljana
January 1 Organized Panel: COSMIC NOMAD, The Seventh Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference, Nomadic Image Conference, Naryn Campus of the University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan

2021

October 21 Hosting panel with Anuradha Vikram — Art Sci: Post Reductionist Scientists: What are the benefits and challenges for scientists collaborating with artists? Intersections 2021 – NAS: National Academy of Sciences / Getty, October 21
October 2 Hosting panel: COLOR LIGHT MOTION: featuring artist Sally Weber, October 2
September 12 Ars Electronica | Vibrations Matter Day 5, September 12
August 21 Curating Noise SFSIA, Curating Noise – Talk with Anuradha Vikram, August 21
August 19 Co-hosting with Patricia Olynyk, LASER- Medicine + Media Arts “EXPLORING THE TISSUE OF EXISTENCE”, August 19
July 16 Co-hosting with Patricia Olynyk, LASER as part of the Medicine + Media Arts initiative: The Spectacular Body. With Patricia Olynyk (co-host) Stelarc, Piroska Kopar, Rebecca Messbarger, Siddharth Ramakrishnan, July 16
July 8 Aesthetics and Ethics in the Digital Age, Open University, UK Talk, July 8
June 12 Hosting Color, Light, Motion panel, Episode 4 featuring Anne Niemetz, June 12
March 27 Hosting Color, Light, Motion panel, Episode 2 Featuring David Familian and Karen Moss, March 27
March 25 Hosting with Satinder Gill, Chrysi Nanou and Prerona Prasad, LASER, Cambridge, UK, March 25
March 20 Hosting Anna Nacher workshop: Breathe to Flow, March 20
March 16 Vibrations Matter: the Art & Science of Deep Listening Introductory talk – Yangchenma Arts, March 16
February 18 The Benton Museum of Art: Art and Science as Storytelling, February 18
February 4 Co-hosting with Patircia Olynyk, LASER: Medicine + Media Arts Talk introducing the Medicine + Media Arts initiative and Advisory Board, February 4
January 21 LASER: Art and Atmospheric Science A discussion about Public Art and Atmospheric Science with Dr. Andrea Polli, Dr. Suzanne Paulson and Emily Womack, January 21

2020

November 23 Panel organizer: UCLA LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) “How to Spend the Afterlife” a discussion between Carolyn Campbell and Michael Webb, November 23
October 29 Panel organizer: UCLA LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) “Ecology of Sound” featuring Bill Fontana, George Quasha, Nina Waisman, Anna Nacher John Bealieu, and Carlo Ventura, October 29
October 2 Panel: VIBRATIONS, FREQUENCIES & ECOTISTICAL ART SCI, Anna Nacher, Martina Fröschl, Robertina Šebjanič, Yolande Harris and Ari Frieadlander, Contemporary Centre Laznia, October 2
September 12 Panel co-chair: AI x Humanity, panel co-chair with Rasha Abdul-Rahim, Adam Harvey, Nye Thomson, Ars Electronica Kepler’s Gardens, September 12
September 12 Panel: LASER: Cyland Saint Petersburg, Space and Chaos, Ars Electronica In Kepler’s Gardens, September 12
September 12 Panel: Invisible Entanglements with Cristina Albu, Ars Electronica: In Kepler’s Gardens / Telluric Vibrations, September 12
September 10 Panel: Decolonizing AI, Ars Electronica In Kepler’s Gardens, September 10
September 10 Panel: Leonardo / ISAST: Nano Provocations, Ars Electronica In Kepler’s Gardens, September 10
January 9 Panel co-organizer: UCLA LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous), Jennifer Moon, Lauren McCarthy, Refik Anadol and Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, January 9

2019

May 2 Organizer / curator: Sound + Science 2.0 symposium, UCLA CNSI, May 2-3

2018

November 3 Artist talk / panel – Art & Nature, Laguna Art Museum, November 3
October 16 Panel: INL Science & the Arts– Summit: Nanotechnology: Enabler of a new economy, INL, Braga, Portugal, October 16
September 13 Panel: Challenges of Intermedia Education, Speculum Artium festival, Trbovlje, Slovenia, September 13
September 12 Artist talk and panel: GLOBART, Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Austria, September 12
June 14 Panel: Future Fest Forward: AI & Creativity, NESTA, London, UK, June 14

2017

October 19 Organizer: Synaesthesia: what is the taste of color blue? Symposium and exhibition, UCLA CNSI, October 19
September 9 Moderator, Panel: Feminist Climate Change: Beyond the Binary, Ursunensaal, Linz, September 9
September 7 Panel: Campus Educators Forum, AES and University of Art & Design, Linz, September 7
January 1 Panel: The Practice of Art & Science, PostCity conference stage, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

2016

November 4 Hox Zodiac Lunch. Collaborations Symposium, Zürich University of the Arts, November 4
September 10 Panel: Presenting Prix Forum: Interactive Art + winners, OÖK Kulturquartier, Linz, Austria. September 10
August 26 Panel: Vibrations Matter. Mladi Levi festival, Old Power station, Ljubljana, Slovenia. August 26
July 19 Bird Song Mimic: NY > LA bird communication. Harvestworks, Del Ray Lagoon, LA (LA Currents Biennial), July 19
June 25 Bird Song Mimic: Exhibition and workshop (with Chuck Taylor and Joel Ong). TEAM Lab, Harvestworks, Governor’s Island, NY, June 25
April 4 Workshop: “Performing the Animal”. (Professor Ruth Schnell’s class), Angewandte – University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, April 4-5
January 21 AROB: 21st International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics conference, Bird Song Diamond mimic demo. Beppu, Japan, January 21

2015

February 13 2015 Workshop / Dinner: Molecular Cuisine: Politics of Taste. Workshop with Suzanne Anker in conjunction with Leonardo Education Forum (LEAF) for the College Art Association (CAA), School of Visual Arts, New York, February 13

2014

February 7 Panel: “Sense Data” w/ Mark Hansen (Duke), Aesthetics of Information Symposium, School of Architecture, Princeton University, February 7

2013

November 11 Book Launch & Symposium: Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media. Harvestworks, New York. November 11
April 19 Panel: Art of Science, Science of Art, Montana State University, March 26 Performance: Brain Storming the Female Brain, Feminist Infrastructures and Technocultures. UC San Diego, April 19
January 13 “Water is in the Air” Proceedings and Video Recordings, Synergetica Lab. January 13

2012

May 25 Organized symposium: Brain Storming Turing: celebrating the Alan Turing centennial. UCLA, CNSI, May 25
February 23 Panel: “Momentum: Women/Art/Technology,” Rutgers Institute for Women and Art. February 23
February 9 Panel: “Dialogues in Art & Architecture, Then, Now and Beyond”, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla, February 9
January 1 LEONARDO/OLATS – IMRA Workshop: Water is in the Air, IMERA, Marseilles.

2011

November 3 Organized panel: New Generation of Scientists Speak, School of Creative Media, Hong Kong, November 3
June 29 “Vibrations Matter” Workshop. New York Electronic Arts Festival, June 29
May 1 University of Barcelona, Department of Fine Arts: Art Making Creative Research Process. May
January 1 Path of an Art(scient)ist: Follow Your Heart, June. Imarte, University of Barcelona

2010

October 25 Workshop, ACM Multimedia conference, Florence, Italy, October 25
October 2 Workshop, Santa Monica center of the Arts, Barcelona, Spain. October 2
June 18 Panel, New Media/New Terrain: Pioneering a PhD in Creative Research Workshop, Vienna Academy of Applied Arts, Art | Sci graduate workshop, June 18
March 4 Symposium #6: Sonification (What, Where, How, Why), LOCUS SONUS audio in art, Ecole Superieure d’Art d’Aix en Provence. March 4-5
February 12 New Media Caucus, CAA Conference, Chicago, February 12
January 1 Lecture+Workshop: “Art & Science Collaborations: Being in Between,” Art & Science, University of Applied Arts, Vienna

2009

March 5 SOUND + SCIENCE symposium, March 5-6

2007

August 21 Plenary panel, “Intersections of Art, Education and Technology.” Second International Conference on the Arts in Society, University of Kassel, Germany, Aug 21-24
June 8 Workshop, “Tesla: Visions + Inspirations.” UCLA Art | Sci Center and Lab, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), Los Angeles. June 8
June 3 Panel, “Women of Vision” Screening, UCLA Hammer Museum, June 3
May 18 Conference panel, “State of the Arts” Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive and the UCIRA, UC Berkeley, CA, May 18
February 17 Panel Chair. “Ecology and Ethics of Art | Science Projects.” 95th CAA Conference, New York. February 17

2006

February 10 ARCO ‘06 ARTE CONTEMPORANEO: Victoria Vesna participates on the panel “The Era of Posthuman Engineering” on Friday, within the 4th International Contemporary Art Experts Forum, February 10

2005

February 17 “Eco-Tistical Art.” 93rd CAA, Conference, Atlanta, Georgia. February 17

2004

May 6 Victoria Vesna & Randall Packer Workshop, Art Center Nabi Theater, May 6

1996

June 1 Panel: “Nurturing the Imagination: Nation under Siege”. Santa Barbara City College. June.