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Victoria Vesna is an artist, professor and Chair of the Department of Design | Media Arts 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 effect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. She is co-director with Jim Gimzewski and Katherine Hayles of SINAPSE, a non-center that promotes transdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Her most recent commissioned project, "n0time http://notime.arts.ucla.edu/" (Building a Community of People with No Time) was part of a traveling exhibition, 'telematic connections: the virtual embrace'. Other recent works are Bodies INCorporated http://www.bodiesinc.ucla.edu/, a large networked collaborative project and Datamining Bodies http://notime.arts.ucla.edu/mining. Currently she is developing a new work 'zero@wavefunctions: nano dreams & nightmares'.

Victoria has exhibited her work in 16 solo exhibitions, over 70 group shows, published 20 papers and gave over 100 invited talks in the last ten years. 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, as well as Spiegel (Germany), The Irish Times (Ireland), Tema Celeste (Italy), and Veredas (Brazil).

 


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