Victoria Vesna

2008

Keynote roundtable: "Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe." Whitney Museum of American Art, Sep 12-13.

2007

"epicenter07", UC system-wide Art Research Exchange, UC Riverside, Jan 26-27.
Plenary talk with James Gimzewski, MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences International Conference. Prague, Municipal Library, 8 - 10 November 2007.
"Ecology and Ethics of Art | Science Projects." 95th CAA Conference, New York. Feb 17.
Plenary panel, "Intersections of Art, Education and Technology." Second International Conference on the Arts in Society, University of Kassel, Germany, July 21-24.
Artist talk, "Art | Science Collaborations: Between Blue Skies and Sobering Facts," 'Inward Eye' Series, Fromm Institute, San Francisco, May 2.
Plenary talk with David Peat, "(in)tangibles: nanoperception and quantum world," NOW, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona, Mar 24.
Plenary talk with James Gimzewski, Planetary Collegium, Montreal 2007 Summit, Montreal, Apr 19 - 22.
Panel, "Women of Vision" Screening, UCLA Hammer Museum, June 3.
Artist talk, "Art | Science Collaborations: Being in Between," Alfred School of Art & Design, Feb 19.
Art|Science talk with James Gimzewski. "Nanoscience Through Media Arts," Science in the Cafe event, Singapore Science Centre, Jan 4.
Art & Science & Media Art Education, debate co-moderated with Nina Czegledy, Mutamorphosis: Challe

2006

Lecture at the UCLA AstroBiology Society Meeting. Nov 29
Lecture at The 2nd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Nov 11.
Zero@Wavefunction at The 2nd Art & Science International Exhibition & Symposium, Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Nov 11 - 25
Water Bowls at Second Natures, Opening of the Broad Art Center, UCLA. Sept 13 - Oct 26.
Mood Swings at Cyberfem. Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castellon (EACC), Castellon, Spain. July 7 - September 17.
Water Bowls at the 3rd Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition and Symposium. July 21 - 30.
Zero@Wavefunction at the Seeing Gallery Exploratorium San Francisco. Opening June 29th. [archived announcement]
UCIRA State of the Arts conference, Art/Science/Technology panel. May 20.
Nanomandala in Approaching Reality’s Borders. Art, Science and Technology. Museum of Contemporary Art Sannio (ARCOS), Benevento, Italy. May 16 - 30.
THINKING ATOMS: UCLA Art | Sci Center polylogue. April 19. 6:00pm [Video]
Yahoo! Research Distinguished Lecture Series at Silicon Valley campus. March 29. [archived]
INFORMATION EXCHANGE: UC DARNet Annual System-Wide Gathering. March 3 & 4.
ARCO ‘06 ARTE CONTEMPORANEO: Victoria Vesna participates on the panel "The Era of Posthuman Engineering" on Friday, February 10th, within the 4th International Contemporary Art Experts Forum.
CAA / LEONARDO SESSIONS: Leonardo/ISAST Mentoring Roundtable Panel. February 22.

2005

UCLA Art | Sci center presents: Genetic Technologies & Animals
November 14. 6:00 pm [Video]
UCLA Art|Sci center presents: Media and Medicine: Environment and the Mind
October 24. 6:00 pm [Video]
Tuesday lunchtime lecture series: Current creative research of UCLA D|MA faculty. [Video]. October 4.
"Mood Swings" Exhibition: Ladyfest Berlin. Galerie Tristesse, Kreuzberg, Berlin. August 5 -13
"Nanomandala", NOTT MEMORIAL, New York. April 11 - April 24.
"Nanomandala", Stefania Miscetti Studio, Rome, Italy. March 30 - April 30.
UCLA Astrobiology Society lecture. Los Angeles, CA. February 8th
"Mood Swings" Exhibition: Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women's Health in Contemporary Art. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, University of Washington, St. Louis. January 21- April 24
050505 > Zoning and Grinding > New Transitions, UC Berkeley. April 5.
Art Highlights 3: Show & Display, MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma). March 23.
Artist talk with Jim Gimzewski. "The making of Nano Mandala". Location 1 Gallery. NY, NY. January 26th
Artist talk: School of Visual Arts, New York. January 26th
Artist talk: "Ghosts in the Cell". Arts Encounters class with Robert Israel. UCLA. January 21st

2004

"Nanomandala", LOCATION ONE GALLERY, New York. December 16, 2004- January 29, 2005
Lecture: Science & Visualization. IGERT, UCLA. May 27th
Artist talk. "Mind Shifting and Fluid Bodies: From Networks to Nanosystems". Art Center, Nabi. Seoul, Korea. May 5.
"Cell Ghosts" Crash & Flow, Seoul Shinchon Art Festival, Seoul, Korea
Artist talk. "We Live in a Molecular World". RISD: Bill Seaman's class. April 6th
CAA: "Administrators who maintain a significant art practice". Seattle. February 19th
"NANO". In collaboration with James Gimzewski. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA Lab.
"Balkan Ghosts". The Art of the Mediterranean. MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy.
"Cellular Trans-Actions". Performance. November 10. The Lab, San Francisco.
Artist talk: "Arts Encounters" class with Robert Israel. UCLA. January 21

2003

Artist talk. University of Technology, Sydney. August 19th.
Keynote: "The NanoMeme Syndrome". With Jim Gimzewski. Nano All Around Us: NanoExpo. University of Wisconsin, Madison. May 31.
Featured Speaker:"Using text narratives in networked installations" Discovering Digital Dimensions--3-D @ · Purdue University. May 24.
"From Bodies to Networks to Nanosystems and Back". Interdisciplinary Talks in the Arts and Humanities at UCLA, Royca Hall. April 2.
"Technophilia: Lecture Series" Visiting Artists Program. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. IL. February 26-28
Artist talk. "Contemporary Issues/ Contemporary Practice" class with John Divola. Feb 25. UC Riverside.
"Zero@Wavefunction; nano dreams & nightmares. With Dr. James Gimzewski. Visualization Portal, UCLA. January 29.
"Database Aesthetics", Information Sciences, UCLA. Elizabeth Cohen's class. January 27th
Artist talk: "Arts Encounters" class with Robert Israel. UCLA. January 13.
"From Bodies to Networks to Nanosystems and Back". UC San Diego.

2002

"Technophilia: Lecture Series" Visiting Artists Program. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. IL. February 26-28.
"The Second International Symposium on Nanoarchetectonics Using Suprainteractions (NASI 2)." Artist Presentation. UCLA International Tom Bradley Hall. Los Angeles, CA. March 26-28.
Keynote: "Teaching in Digital Domain" Forum for BEAP 2002 Biennale for Electronic Arts Perth. John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology. August 9.
"From Bodies to Networks to Nanosystems and Back". Annual Jillian Bradshaw Memorial Lecture for 2002. John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology. August 10.
Artist talk. University of Technology, Sydney. August 19th.
"What Unifies Art and Science" Closer to the Truth Episode: Rountable Interview. KCET. Los Angeles Public Broadcasting. CA. Airdate scheduled for Fall 2003.
"Mind Shifting and Future Bodies: From Networks to Nanosystems". Art & Technology Lectures. UC Berkeley. October 21.
"Women Beyond Borders: The Art of Building Community". UCSB Art Museum. Fall 2002.
"Zero@Wavefunction: nano dreams & nightmares" with Dr. James Gimzewski. ArtSci conference: New Dimensions in Collaboration. CUNY Graduate School, New York.
"Artmedia, from Aesthetic of Communication to Net Art: Artmedia VIII Symposium". Centre Francais du Commerce Exterieur. Paris. France. November 29-December 1.
Gesture and Dialogue Seminar Series -- Standford University (Center for the Study of Language and Information), October 23.

2001

"Gesture and Dialogue Seminar Series” Center for the Study of Language and Information. Stanford University. Fall.
cast 01 // Living in Mixed Realities_>” netzspannung.org Conference. Schloss Birlinghoven, Bonn, Germany. September 21-22.
“Siggraph 2001: Explore Interaction and Digital Images”. Conference and Exhibition. Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA. August 12-17.
Extreme Perameters: new dimensions of interactivity”. CaiiA-STAR Symposium. L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Monteserrat, France, July 11-12.
"notime” Presentation. Salon @ Annenberg, USC. Los Angeles, CA. May 31.
"Bodies of Text, Bodies of Subject: Disturbing Metaphoric Metaphoric Networks in New Media.” Center for Women’s Studies, UCLA. April 24.
"Design of Networked Public Spaces”. Department of Graphic Design. North Carolina State University. March 19.
Virtual Femininity: Dialogues on Body Politics. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. February 24.

2000

"Presentation: Department of Fine Arts, Amherst College, Massachusetts. November 9.
Artist in Residence Presentation: Walker Art Center. September 21.
Keynote: "Building a Community of People with No Time". 3rd International Digital Arts & Culture Conference Bergen, Norway. August 3rd.
Speaker: “Anticipating Design Science: Towards a Third Culture”. The Design Science Forum. The Buckminster Fuller Insitute. July 23.
Presentation: “What is net art???” Association of Art Museum Directors Meeting Brown Palace Hotel, Denver. June 3.
Paper: "Building a Community of People with No Time". Monomedia Conference. Berlin, Germany. May 12th.
Presentation: Towards a Science of Consciousness conference, Tuscon, Arizona. April 10-15.Workshop organized with Roy Ascott: “Distributed Self”. Towards a Science of Consciousness conference, Tuscon, Arizona. April 8.
Presentation; Return to Wonder "Return to Wonder: Rethinking Museum Display in an Age of Didacticism,"UCSB.
Presentation, workshop: Symposium on Critical Issues in Net Art, UC Berkeley. February 16-19.
Presentation: CARTAH, Washington State University. February 12.

1999

Navigating Intelligence, Senior Artist. The Banff Centre for the Arts, Sept 9 – 12.
Invenção : Thinking the Next Millennium, São Paulo, Brazil. August.
Conference: CENIC '99: Monterey, California. May 6-7.
Workshops: "Microcosms" Fellow at the Humanities Research Center, UCI. Conceived, organized and directed by Bruce Robertson and Mark Meadow. Dept. of History of Art & Architecture, UCSB. Winter, Spring.
Guest Speaker: Digital Code/Cultural Patterns: Digital Photography, CD-ROM and Web Art at the End of the Millenium. University of Texas at Dallas. UT Dallas Conference Center. March 26 - April 24, 1999. (http://www.utdallas.edu/~waligore/digital/code.html)
Guest Speaker and Exhibition: Femme Totale. Media Festival. Dortmund, Germany, March 12.
Digital Code/ Cultural Patterns. The University of Dallas Texas. April.
Video and Discussion: Women of Vision. Video by Alexandra Juhasz. Discussion after screening with Constance Penley and Valerie Soe. Multicultural Center Theater, UCSB. February 18. (http://bernard.pitzer.edu/~ajuhasz/wov/wov.htm
Paper: Art and Science Collaborations. Cooper Union. New York.

1998

Beyond the Millennium: Redefining the Arts in the 21st Century. The Governor's Conference on the Arts. California arts Council. Dec. 8.
Paper: "The Y2K Project: Building a Community of People with No Time". Futuros Emergentes Symposium: Art in the Post-Biological Era. Centre Cultural la Beneficencia. Valencia, Spain Dec. 4-5.
Discussion: Conversations with the Artists. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Barnsdall Art Park. Oct. 16.
Discussion: Discussion on the Pierre Molinier exhibition. Santa Monica Museum of art. Sept. 11.
Paper: "Consciousness of Time as Commodity: The Art of Attention Economies". Consciousness Reframed conference. University of Wales, UK. August.
Symposium: "The Architecture of Consciousness". Port Eliot House in St. Germans, Cornwall University of Plymouth's Robbins Conference Centre (http://caiia-star.newport.plymouth.ac.uk/PRODUCTION/ INTERSTICES/index.html). August 23-25.
Presentation: "OPS:MEME: Building Communities of People with no Time". Australian Film Commission Multimedia Conference, Being Connected: The Studio in a Networked Age. Melbourne, Australia. July.
Presentation: "History of Computer Art". Cinema Rex. Belgrade Yugoslavia. July 28. (http://www.rex.opennet.org)
Presentation: School of Visual Arts, Grahame Weinbren's graduate seminar. April. Co-organizer: UC Digital conference and workshop. UCSD. May.
Presentation: "Bodies as Databases". Computing Culture, UCSD. May.
Presentation: UCSC, Sharon Daniel's undergraduate class in digital media. May.
Paper: "Networked Art Marketplace: Defining a New Field". New Millennium, New Humanities. Stonybrook, NY. March.
Presentation: UCLA, Rebecca Allen's class. March.
Conference: Consciousness Reframed II. University of Wales, Newport www.caiia-star.newport.plymouth.ac.uk.

1997

Speaker: "CAiiA show & Tell Plymouth". CAiiA. University of Wales College, Newport. December 4.
Presentation: "History of Art & Computing". CHCI conference: Visualizing Culture. November.
Panel: Cross Genres, Collaborations and Unexpected Presentations. Actor's Gang. Los Angeles. November.
Event: Global Bodies. Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) Mediemusuem opening. Online participant via CU-See Me. October.
Paper: International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) '97, Chicago, IL. September. Presentation: Dept. of Psychology, UCSB. October.
Presentation: Department of Psychology, UCSB. Class of Mary Hegarty. Oct. 29.
Participant: "California Futures". The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center of the UCSB, Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization. Sept 27-Oct 11.
Paper: "Avatars on the World Wide Web: Marketing the Descent". Fleshfactor, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. September. and at the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) '97, Chicago, IL. September.
Participant: "Clone Pary HQ at Linz". TNC network. http://www.tnc.net/cloneparty/diary/diary2.html Sept 9.
Paper: "Marketplace: Building a World of Agents and Avatars or Information Personae?" . University of Wales, UK, Consciousness Reframed conference. July.
Talk: "Dublin Bodies". Arthouse. Dublin, Ireland. June 23.
Workshop: Human Dimensions in Knowledge Networking. NSF sponsored. June 19-29.
Seminar: Department of English. Progtram in Human Values and Public Life. May 16-17.
Presentation: College of Creative Studies, UCSB. Roger Freedman's class. May.
Presentation: UCB. Lecture series on Contemporary art. May.
Presentation: University of Maryland, Baltimore. Bill seaman's class. April. Department of English. May.
Presentation: "Bodies INCorporated". Sensing the Future. ArtHouse, Dublin, Ireland. April.
Paper: "History 0f Art & Computing: Problems in Orgnaization of Logic and Memory". CADE conference, University of Derby, UK. April.
Presentation: "Media Creation: Art/Technology Seminar". Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology. Department of Music, UCSB. March 13.
Presentation: Mills College, Oakland. Chris Robbin's class. March 11.
Conference: All-University Conference on Teaching and the Present and Future of the University. March 25, 26.
Guest Speaker: Department of Sociology, UCSB. March.
Presentation: Software/multimedia mini-technical review. UCSB Corwin Pavilion, College of Engineering, UCSB. Feb. 19-21.
Paper: "Incorporated Avatars: Organizational Contradictions in Cyberspace". Imagina. Prix Pixel-INA. Monte Carlo, Monaco. February.
Speaker: Department of Sociology, UCSB. Jan.

1996

"Life in the Universe". Workshop in Research Linking the Sciences and the Humanities. Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB. December 11.
Presentation: "Bodies INCorporated". Diverse Works and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. November.
Organizer/Presenter: "Webbed Spaces - Between Exhibition and Networks". Co-organized with Perry Hoberman. SIGGRAPH '96. August. and at ISEA '96. September.
Artist Talk: "Bodies (c) INCorporated". Mary Craig Auditorium. Santa Barbara Museum of Art. August 17.
"Online Public spaces: Epistemological Explorations of Site". CAiiA. University of Wales College, Newport. July 23.
Keynote: " Under Re-Construction: Bodies INCorporated". Veiled Histories. San Francisco Art Institute. July 8-12.
Presentation: "Life in the Universe". Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB. May 12.
Presentation: "Terminal Identity: the Artist" Terminals: the Cultural Production of Death. UCSB. March.
Paper: "Pedagogy in the Land of the Lost Paradigm" From Medieval Manuscript to CD-ROM. UCSB. February.

1995

Presentation: "History of Art and Computing". Deptartment of History of Art & Archtitecture, UCSB.
Presentation: "Virtual Concrete". International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA)'95. Montreal, Canada.
Presentation: "Remember Yugoslavia". Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA.
Presentation: "Art Without Borders: World-Building in the Electronic Environment". co-organized with Robert Nideffer. 21st Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics & the Arts. UCSB.
Presentation: "Art Studio Web page at UC Santa Barbara". Women's Board Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.
Presentation: "Art Studio Web page at UC Santa Barbara". RAIN - Women's Internet Council, Santa Barbara, CA.
Artist Talk: "Virtual Concrete". Huntington Beach art Center, Huntington Beach, CA.
Workshop: "The World & the Internet". Huntington Beach art Center, Huntington Beach, CA.
Presentation: "Computers & the Intuitive Edge". IHC New Faculty Lecture Series, UCSB.
Paper: "Interface Design and Interactive Structure". Digital Input and Output. Digi-Debate. American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
Presentation: "Artist & Activist CD-ROM Conference". Freewaves. USC.

1994

Presentation: "Gender and Public Space Art and Space". Sculpture Biennial '94, International Sculpture Conference, International Sculpture Center, San Francisco, CA.
Presentation: East meets West: Sources of Computer Arts within the Context of Cultural Traditions. International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA)'94. St. Petersburg, Russia.
Presentation: “Rambona”. Gender and Public Space.
International Sculpture Conference. San Francisco, CA.
Paper: "The Wild West and the Frontier of Cyberspace"
International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA)’94. Helsinki, Finland.

1992

Presentation: Long Beach Museum of Art, CA. Organizer: International Painting Interactive. SIGGRAPH '92 Art Exhibit, Chicago, ILL.