04.21.2022
Artist in Residence: Patricia Cadavid, Knotting the memory//Encoding the Khipu_
From a decolonial perspective, I am working on the vindication of the memory contained in the ancestral interfaces of the Andes of South America taken away by colonization and their connections with art and science. I reuse this ancient technology in new artistic processes related to sound, New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIMEs), tangible live coding, and multimedia performance.
02.10.2022
Artist in Residence: Robertina Šebjanič, Song of Trouble Worlds = Songs for Serenity
Robertina Šebjanič is an artist, whose work explores the biological, geo-political and cultural realities of aquatic environments and the impact of humanity on other organisms. Her projects call for the development of empathetic strategies aimed at recognising the rights of other (non-human) species. In her analysis of the Anthropocene and its theoretical framework, the artist uses the terms “aquatocene” and “aquaforming” to refer to the human impact on aquatic environments.
01.01.2022
Artist in Residence: Anna Nacher, Launch of the BREATH LIBRARY
This is the first of three New Year celebrations: February 1st, Lunar and March 3rd, Tibetan
10.26.2021
Artist in Residence: Sholeh Asgary
Sholeh Asgary is an interdisciplinary sound artist whose immersive works, performances, and audience participatory scores implicate the viewer-participant into future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history, through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, imaging, voice, and sound.
09.08.2021 — 09.12.2021
Ars Electronica Garden Los Angeles, Atmosphere of Sound
UCLA Art Sci Center’s garden is organized around the themes of our 2024 Getty Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA exhibition, Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption. We will present a series of artist-led sound walks and panels around the relationship between sound as a post-object art form, and our shifting relationship to the world of things as necessitated by climate change.
08.11.2021
Artist in Residence: Bill Fontana, Soundscapes
Sound Artist Bill Fontana presents, Sonic Dreamscapes 2020. An artistic research project about the quality of timelessness – a meditation at the San Francisco Bay during the COVID-19 crisis. The piece is composed of sound and visuals that explore this special period when normal reality has stopped and our sense of time has been disrupted. The artist will use the online platform to explore the phenomenon of time. Presented as part of the Inherent Uncertainty Series of online performances.
07.01.2021
Panel: Vibrations, Frequencies & Ecotistical Art Sci, with Victoria Vesna and Artist in Residence Anna Nacher
As the June / July Artist in Residence for Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption, Joel Ong will be discussing his latest work including the performance series void * ambience : Latency, which responds to the idea of the digital wilderness –the overabundance of online streams that we must filter and comprehend, and explore a common issues in everyday communication today – latency – as a compositional parameter.
03.20.2021
Artist in Residence: Anna Nacher, Breath to Flow
UCLA Art|Sci Center presents: Anna Nacher, artist in residence workshop: Breathe to Flow. The ways we, as humans, participate in the vibrational fields and flows of energy of the Planet Earth is embodied practice, even if the process often remains somewhat mysterious, unnoticed or unacknowledged. This workshop will explore how a human vocalization, which is nothing else than amplified and conscious breathing, can become a practice of inquiry into the planetary water cycle.
01.04.2021
Panel: Vibrations, Frequencies & Ecotistical Art Sci, with Victoria Vesna and Artist in Residence Anna Nacher
Artist-in-residence Yolande Harris discusses two works, From a Whale’s Back and Melt Me Into The Ocean, and focuses on the underbelly of topics such as interpreting spectrograms, editing sound files with Adobe Audition, hydrophone technology and data retrieval, and marine citizen science. We also get a glimpse into what data collection for marine animals and environments may look like.
12.21.2020
Artist in Residence: Yolande Harris, A Waterfall of Sounds that I Catch Dreaming
Can our conscious listening effect the world around us? This dreamscape pulls together a collection of moments in sounds and images of the “super bloom” of wild flowers in California, wind in Joshua Tree National Park, a visit to James Turrell’s Roden Crater, full rapids at Grand Falls on Navajo and Hopi land in Northern Arizona, the fragile crystal crunching of a lava field near Flagstaff, and the liminal spaces of the Pacific Ocean coast of the Monterey Bay. The dream begins with sounds I recorded at the pediatric intensive care unit of Stanford Children’s Hospital, a liminal space suspended in the in-between
11.30.2020
Artist in Residence: Yolande Harris, Melt Me into the Ocean
Melt Me Into The Ocean sound walk by the lighthouse in Santa Cruz California, listening to underwater sounds from the Monterey Bay. This walk is part of the Atmospheric Sound Artist in Residence for the Vibrations Matter research project on sound, environment and healing, hosted by Victoria Vesna, at the Art|Sci Center, Design Media Arts, UCLA.
11.11.2020
Artist in Residence: Bill Fontana, visit to UCLA Vibrations Matter seminar
Bill Fontana visits UCLA Design Media Arts Graduate Seminar Vibrations Matter lecture.
10.29.2020
UCLA Art|Sci and Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) Talk
Now that time zones are all mixed up, we meet during our lunch and dinner for Europe. This gathering will feature our inaugural Atmosphere of Sound artist-in-residence, BILL FONTANA (San Francisco), along with George Quasha (New York), John Beaulieu (New York), Carlo Ventura (Italy), Anna Nacher (Slovakia), and Nina Waisman (Los Angeles). We will be addressing their research and work with sound, vibration, and frequencies in relation to healing and ecology. Hosted and moderated by UCLA Art Sci director, Victoria Vesna (Los Angeles).
10.02.2020
Panel: Vibrations, Frequencies & Ecotistical Art Sci, with Victoria Vesna and Artist in Residence Anna Nacher
The online discussion accompanying Victoria Vesna’s exhibition “Noise Aquarium” in CCA LAZNIA in Gdansk/Poland (www.laznia.pl). Creators of the “Noise Aquarium” project, as well as invited artists and scientists researching on sound, sea, oceans, marine animals and plankton will participate in the panel discussion.