Victoria Vesna is a media artist, professor and director of the Art|Sci center at the UCLA School of the Arts. Her work can be defined as experimental research that resides in between disciplines and technologies. She explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Currently she is collaborating with nano-scientist Jim Gimzewski to develop a series of installations that address the impact of nanoscience on culture and consciousness in an experiential manner. In 2004 they developed a large scale exhibition, NANO, that was on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for ten months. She is also interested in environmental effects on health and developing a piece called Mood Swings that explores how changes in color and sound change our chemistry. Other notable works are Bodies INCorporated, Datamining Bodies, n0time, Cellular Trans_Actions and zerowave@wavefunction. She recently completed an edited volume entitled Database Aesthetics to be published by Minnesota Press.

Victoria has exhibited her work internationally in 18 solo exhibitions, over 80 group shows, published over 20 papers and gave more than 100 invited talks in the last ten years. Since 2001 she exhibited her work in New Delhi, Beijing, Rome, Los Angeles, New York and Berlin and 14 book articles and chapters in books have appeared about her work. She is recipient of many grants, commissions and awards, including the Oscar Signorini award for best net artwork in 1998 and the Cine Golden Eagle for best scientific documentary in 1986. Vesna's work has received notice in publications such as Art in America, the Los Angeles Times, Leonardo, National Geographic, as well as Spiegel (Germany), The Irish Times (Ireland), Tema Celeste (Italy), and Veredas (Brazil).