VICTORIA VESNA

Bird Song Mimic is selected by a jury for the Japan Media Arts festival this September.

Bodies INC 2.0

January 28 – May 13th Bodies INC 2.0 exhibition at the Beall center for Art & Technology..

Bodies INC (1996) is archived by Rhizome, New Museum.

Bodies Corp 2.0 launches at the Beall gallery!

2016

NEWS

Paper I co-wrote with Claudia Schnugg was published in new book — Arts and Business: Building a Common Ground for Understanding Society (Routledge press).

My work was featured on the cover and throughout the Cybernetics & Human Knowing journal!

Participating in a panel with a talk on Bird Song Diamond (co-authored with Takashi Ikegami): Embodiement & Evolution at the BODIES of KNOWLEDGE conference, UCI. Others on panel: Jondi Keane, Margaret Wertheim, Christine Wertheim. December 9th, 4:30pm, School of the Arts at UCI

Hox Zodiac book launch: UCLA Fowler Museum, November 30th, 7pm.

LASER Zürich: Complexity — from particle physics to music. November 1, 2016, 18.00, Hardturmstrasse 169, CH-8005 Zurich.

Workshop: Hox Zodiac Lunch. Collaborations Symposium, Zürich University of the Arts, November 4, 1:30pm.

Keynote lecture: Art Sci collaborations: Being in Between. Collaborations Symposium, Zürich University of the Arts, November 4, 10am.

Faculty lecture, EDA, UCLA School of the Arts, October 17th, noon – 1:00pm.

Collaborative Research Summit, Futures in Motion. Hosted by USC Kaufman and the USC School of Cinematic Arts, by-invitation-only event, October 13-16

Octopus Brain Storming (in collaboration with neuroscientist Mark Cohen): UCLA Luskin conference center grand opening, October 7th, 1:30-3:00pm.

Bird Song Mimic: UCLA School of the Arts celebration, UCLA Sculpture Garden, September 28th.

NEWS: Awarded Awarded UCLA Faculty Research Grant/Trans-disciplinary Seed Grant, 2016/2017 for further development of the BRAIN STORMING project in collaboration with neuroscientist Mark Cohen.

ARS ELECTRONICA: Radical Atoms festival:

Ars Electronica Campus Educators Forum -- University of Art and Design Linz, Kollegiumgasse 2, Audimax, September 8th.

Future Innovators Summit: Mentor Breakfast, Location: Post City, FIS Tables in the STARTS Labs Hall. Group: Future Humanity. September 10, 10:00-11:30am (SOURCE)

PRIX FORUM INTERACTIVE ART+
As I was on the jury for Interactive Art +, I was asked to moderate the panel with the winners: Mathias Jud/Christoph Wachter (CH) (Can you hear me?); Frank Kolkman (NL) (Opensurgery) and I will talk for Ann-Katrin Krenz about theParasitic Symbiotic project. Ursulinensaal, OÖK Kulturquartier, September 10th.

Panel discussion on sound / vibrations, with Jim Gimzewski in connection to Robertina Šebjanič and Miha Ciglar’s installation “Subaquatic Soundscapes”. Mladi Levi festival. The Old Power Station – Elektro Ljubljana. August 26th. SOURCE

Lecture: Mensa Open Forum, Century city, Los Angeles, July 28th

SIGGRAPH –

Moderator: Art Gallery panel for exhibition curated by Jonah Brucker-Cohen. (David Chanel, Anthony Rowe, Niklas Roy).

Presentation: Bird Song Diamond Japan in Birds of Feather: Empowerment Informatics Program, Tsukuba

Presentation: Decade of UCLA Art Sci in Birds of Feather: Leonardo ISAT, July 27th

Exhibition / workshop (with Joel Ong and Chuck Taylor): "Bird Song Diamond", Harvestworks TEAM Lab Governor's Island, NY, June 25th SOURCE

Lecture (remote): Cairotronica, Egypt. May 5 SOURCE

Art + Brain and Morpho Nano catalogs finally out! SOURCE

Keynote lecture: BioArt/Design: Transdisciplinarity in Art, Science and Creativity Symposium, Nanyang University, Singapore, March 6

"Hox Zodiac Dinner", performance with Siddharth Ramakrishnan. Museum of Natural History, University of Seattle, March 4

NOVEMBER, DECEMBER 2015, JANUARY 2016

I was based in Tsukuba as a Visiting Professor at the EMP program led by Prof. and engineer Hiroo Iwata.

“Bird Song Diamond Japan”, installation – Large Space, Empowerment Informatics Program, University of Tsukuba, Japan – January 25

Panel and Demo of Bird Song Diamond mimic installation -- Artificial Life and Robotics conference (AROB), Beppu, Japan – January 21
Presenting with physicist Talashi Ikegami and PhD students Itsuki Doi, Aisen Caro Chasin, Masa Jazbec.

Lecture: Being in Between: Path of an art(scien)tist, School of Creative Media, Hong Kong, January 16th

Artist Retrospective Lecture: China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China – January 5

2015

This fall and winter I am on sabbatical. I am spending September and October in Vienna and November through January in Japan.

SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER, 2015

Artist in Residence at the
Universitat für Angewandte Kunst, WienSeptember and October, 2015

SEPTEMBER, 2015

ARS Electronica, Linz, Austria

Linking S&T&ARTS

Presenting with:
Introduction by Robert Madelin; Hiroshi Ishii (Professor MIT Media Lab/ JP/US); Christopher Lindinger (Co-Director Ars Electronica Futurelab/ AT); Christa Sommerer (Professor at University of Art & Design, Linz /AT)

Prix Forum IV - Hybrid Art

Leading panel with:
Gilberto Esparza, Akihiro Kubota, Agnes Meyer-Brandis.
September 5th, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM OK im OÖ Kulturquartier (Ursulinensaal), OK Platz

Prix Forum VI – Art & Science Round Table

Presenting with: Mónica Bello (ES), Fernando Comerón (ES), Michael Doser (AT),
Jens Hauser (DE), Jurij Krpan (SI), Nahum (MX) & Ale de la Puente (MX). Moderator:
Gerfried Stocker

OCTOBER, 2015

LECTURES

PATH of an Art(Scien)tist: Being in Between

Universitat für Angewandte Kunst, Wien (Prof. Ruth Schnell)

Expositur Sterngasse 13, 1010 Wien
October 15, 14:00 p.m. to 15:30 p.m.
SOURCE

BIRD SONG DIAMOND: Sound Matters

Art & Science department (Prof. Virgil Widrich)
Universitat für Angewandte Kunst, Wien
Hohenstaufengasse 9, 1010 Vienna
Seminar room 4th floor
October 13th, 11:30-13:00
SOURCE

PATH of an Art(Scien)tist: Being in Between

Kunst Universität, Linz (Prof. Christa Sommerer)
Interface Culture Lecture Room,
Kollegiumgasse 2, 3rd floor
October 12, 14.00 – 15:30
SOURCE

HOX ZODIAC WIEN
PUBLIC

Angewandte Innovation Lab (AIL)
Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, 1010 Wien
October 23rd, 18:00
SOURCE

PRIVATE

Angewandte Heilingekreuzerhof
October 9th 18.00 --
Participants:

Coming up: NOVEMBER

ART | SCI center 10 year retrospective BOOK Launch
November 5th, CNSI & Fowler museum
More info: SOURCE

University of Tsukuba Visiting Professor November -- January

November 13th, opening of EMP Studio / Lab
Working in the EMP lab with my PhD students

Bird Song Diamond: Harvestworks presents 2015 New York Electronic Art Festival at Fort Jay, Governor’s Island.

July 3rd – 20th. More info [LINK]

Bird Song Diamond performance at Linda Weintraub’s homestead.

July 4th. [Flickr]

Bird Song Diamond @ Times Square NYC: Times square: & Broadway between 46th & 47th streets.

An audience participatory artwork -- an acoustic version of the immersive installation at Governors Island.At the Crossroads Series. Presented in partnership with the Times Square Alliance. July 8th, noon-2pm.

Presenting with Claudia Jacques in panel: Water: adaptive management for a wicked problem

JUNE 26 2015, 9:00am–10:30am UC San Diego, Room 15 Source

Ars electronica jury for Hybrid Art.

APRIL 16th, 2015, - APRIL 19th, 2015 See interview: Source

The Art of Systems Biology and Nanoscience

MARCH 28th, 2015, 5pm
Lecture
Source

EXHIBITION - Inventory of Light

MARCH 27th, 2015, 5:30pm
Nanomandala
Source

Molecular Cuisine: Politics of Taste

CAA dinner co-organized with Suzanne Anker at SVA, NY
February 13th, 2015
Source

Bodies CORP at Pelham Art Center, New York.

JANUARY 23rd, 2015 – MARCH 21st, 2015
Bodies CORP
Source

Bodies INC, Body Practices. Gallery @ CallT2, Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego

NOVEMBER 5th, 2014 - JANUARY 5th, 2015
Source

2014

Bird Song Diamond, UCLA Art | Sci gallery

NOVEMBER 7th, 2014
Source

Hox Zodiac “dinner” , UCLA Art | Sci gallery

DECEMBER 4th, 2014

HOX ZODIAC at MOCA Taipei

NOVEMBER 25th, 2013 - JANUARY 2nd, 2014
http://artsci.ucla.edu/hox/

2013

Octopus Mandala Glow at GLOW

SEPTEMBER 28th, 2013
Octopus Mandala Glow at the GLOW festival in Santa Monica.

Blue Morph at the Musée D’Histoire Naturelle

JUNE 28th, 2013
Blue Morph will be installed at the Musée D’Histoire Naturelle at the Palais Longchamp in parallel to the Lumiéres exhibition. Marseille is the European Culture Capital this year. http://www.museum-marseille.org/

2013 is also the last year of my 3 year summer residency at l’IMéRA (Institute Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées). I plan to continue work on Sounds of Thinking in relation to Brain Storming with neuroscientist Constance Hammond.

Speaking of France, I recently found out that art historian Marie Claverie at Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne wrote a thesis on my work. See: “Victoria Vesna: Entre art, numérique et nanotechnologies”

BRAIN STORMING THE FEMALE BRAIN

APRIL 19th, 2013, 5pm
As a response to the invitation to participate in the Feminist Infrastructures and Technocultures at UC San Diego, I am organizing Brain Storming the Female Brain. To this end, I invited Mark Cohen, David Familian, Sheldon Brown along with Morana Alac and Lisa Parks and, yes, we were wearing the famous aluminum hats! https://quote.ucsd.edu/ucfemtechnet/2013/03/01/a-brain-and-foil-crowns/

Presidential Panel at Montana State University: Art of Science / Science of Art

March 26, 2013
Participated in the Presidential Panel at Montana State University: Art of Science / Science of Art moderated by the MSY President Waded Cruzado along with Dr. David Kaiser, American physicist, author and historian of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dr. Stephon Alexander, a jazz saxophonist and physicist focusing on theoretical cosmology, quantum gravity and particle physics at Dartmouth College; Dr. Gavin Parkinson, lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art and author of Surrealism, Art and Modern Science and Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology. http://www.montana.edu/caa/pfas/

Art/Science/Engineering Think Tank

March 21, 2013
Participated in Art/Science/Engineering Think Tank hosted by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) at the University of California Riverside. The event is meant to be a platform for a discussion and strategic planning for university wide policy and guidelines to engender research at the intersections of art, science and engineering.

2012

BLUE MORPH: MAGICAL MATERIALS exhibition at the Science gallery, Dublin, Ireland

September 14 -- October 14
Blue Morph will get an upgrade with a new hat that we will develop here! Website

ARTIST "TRADE" RESIDENCY: Leitrim Sculpture Center, Ireland

September 8 -- 18
Working with Anna Macleod and a group of local artists on Holy Wells at the border of Northern Ireland. We are collecting stories, water samples, imaging, mapping and coming up with a group project. Website

RESEARCH RESIDENCY: IMéRA (L’Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées)

June 1 -- September 1
This is my second year at the research Institute in Marseille. I am working toward a project that will be finalized in my final year of the 3 year residency, 2013 when Marseille is the cultural center of Europe. Also -- learning French which is the greatest challenge of all! Website

“Now! Visual Culture”

May 31 – June 2, 2012, NYU
"Feminism, Technology and Visuality"
June 2, 1:30—2:30 pm | Convenor: Lisa Cartwright (UCSD)
Participating with Alexandra Juhasz (Pfitzer College), Tara McPherson (USC), Wendy Chun (Brown), Beth Coleman (MIT), Elizabeth Friedman and Emily Zimmerman (EMPAC), Pooja Rangan, Kimberly Juanita Brown Website

TEDxChelsea 2012

June 1, 2012. 12-6:30pm
I am one of the speakers on Session 3 with Marshall Arisman, Martha Buskirk, Laura Braslow and Man Bartlett.
TEDxChelsea is sponsered by the School of Visual Arts, New York. Website

Symposium: Brain Storming Turing: Celebrating Alan Turing Centennial

May 25, 2012 | Symposium: noon – 5pm | Art Opening/Reception: 5-7 pm
UCLA Art | Sci Center @ California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)
Organized and moderated by Victoria Vesna. Website

4th State of Water Symposium

March 22 & 23, 2012
UCLA California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) auditorium.
Organized and moderated by Victoria Vesna. Website

MORPHONANO

February 2nd – May 6th, 2012
Beall Gallery of Art and Technology, UC Irvine Website

International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society

The Conference focus on a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society. I am one of the plenary speakers along, Marcus Breen, Henry Jenkins, Christiane Paul, Veronica Sanz.

NSF Grant with Charles Taylor: Acoustic Sensor Arrays for Understanding Bird Communication

Charles Taylor, Chuck, is an inspiring person and a great scientist who also happens to be a black belt. He was brave enough to put myself and Takashi Ikegami into his grant proposal and we are starting work on developing an art | sci project informed by the research on environmental and social interactions / communication of birds.
The proposal combines the knowledge and tools of engineers, linguists and biologists to decipher the structure and meaning of bird songs -- including those of American robins, thrashers and grosbeaks. This collaboration between biologists, linguists, engineers and artists will result in a much richer understanding of bird songs, and an understanding the use of computational methods to answer questions about science and nature.

2011

UC Online Instruction Pilot Project: Art, Science and Technology

Art, Science and Technology course has been selected to be part of a pilot program for launching an online program in the University of California. I am collaborating with Claudia Jacques on designing an interface.
The UC Online Instruction Pilot Project is a statewide initiative to explore the use of online courses in UC’s undergraduate curriculum. This project involves many different components, including research and evaluation, technology, and course development. UC OIPP Website

Lecture: SIVA

December 6th
Website

Special Lecture: "Vibration Matters"

November 25th, 18:00
Takashi Ikegami Lab, University of Tokyo, Japan Website

Speaker: Art Symposium, Microwave Festival

November 4th
Website

Panel: New Generation of Scientists Speak

November 3rd
Organized and led panel with Adam Stieg, Romie Littrell and Siddharth Ramakrishnan Website

Microwave International New Media Arts Festival ALCHEMY

October 29th - Nov 26th
Hong Kong has been an amazing experience for me – I found myself in the Microwave festival overlapping with the grand opening of the School of Creative Media where I happen to be a Visiting Professor. I was invited here because they are starting a bachelors degree in art and science which made it possible to bring out Siddharth Ramakrishnan and Romie Littrell. It just so happened that at the very same time Adam Stieg was attending a conference on NanoMedicine in Shenzen which is an hour away from Hong Kong. So, in addition to having our work shown in the festival, I organized a panel on the New Generation of Scientists at the School of Creative Media. Many kudos to Jeffrey Shaw who supported this and Hector Rodriguez too. Website

HOX ZODIAC Website

SNIFFING BOOTH Website

Speaker: Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre Grand Opening Festival

October 29th
School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong Website

BLUE MORPH / WATER BOWLS / Art Sci collaborations: HOX ZODIAC / SNIFFING BOOTH

A strange overlap of time and place in exhibitions – my work was shown in three churches in the past few months. At one point, BLUE MORPH was in St John the Divine in Gdansk, Poland and St Cornelius chapel at Governor’s Island in New York. The overlap lasted three days. Then, BLUE MORPH at Governor’s island overlapped with Water Bowls at the cathedral of St John the Divine – for three days. I am not sure what all this means, but I am humbled to see the work in spiritual context as this is my deep conviction – art, science and spirituality need to come together in ways that empower people who partake in the experience of the space created.

Water Bowls – St John the Divine

September 29th - March 15th, 2012
Value of Water: Sustaining a Green Planet, group exhibition, The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, NY Website

Speaker: HOX ZODIAC: Metamorphosis of a Human Animal

August 26th
Transcultural Tendencies | Transmedial Transactions Conference. Planetary Collegium CAiiA Hub in University of Plymouth, UK + Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Website

Online lecture: "Studies in Material Thinking (SMT)": Experimental Arts Conference

August 20th
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

BLUE MORPH

May 28th – September 25th
New York Electronic Art Festival / St Cornelius chapel, Governors Island New York City

Lecture: Towards the Third Culture. The co-existence of Art, Science and Technology

May 24th
International Conference, Gdańsk 23–25 May, 2011 Website

BLUE MORPH

May 22nd – June 5th
Baltic Sea International Cultural Centre/ St. John's Cathedral, Gdansk, Poland Website

Plenary lecture: Sixth International Conference on the Arts in Society

May 10th
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin, Germany Website

Exhibition of student’s work from Parsons Hybrid Worlds: nano_bio + art class

May 9 – 30th
Art | Sci gallery, CNSI Website

BLUE MORPH photos

April 11 – 25th
Galerie les Singuliers, Paris, France

Lecture with James Gimzewski

April 12th 7:30pm
Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies, iEAR, RPI Website

BLUE MORPH

March 31-April 12th
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Website

New School Water Dis(Courses)

March 28th - April 1st Website

Context Providers book launch

March 23rd 6-7:30pm
Lang cafeteria, New School, NY Website

ART, SCI + TECH CLASS PRESENTATIONS

March 16th 3-6pm
Fowler auditorium, UCLA

SPACESHIP EARTH

March 4th - May 22nd
Fuller exhibition CoCA Website

ZEROWAVE

March 4th – May 18th
Contemporary Arts Center, Torun, Poland