Victoria Vesna
VICTORIA VESNA
UC, Los Angeles
Art|Sci: Between Blue Skies and Sobering Facts

In this talk I will go over a few recent art | science collaborations that address nanotechnology dreams and nightmares, environmental effects on mental health and water as a source of life and reflection of our collective (un)conciousness. Working in between the amazing potential and fast pace changes of new sciences and technologies and the realities of our collective existence I will discuss the challenges one faces when creating art in the world today.

About Victoria Vesna

Dr. 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 explotres how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. 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.

March 29, 2006   Location: Yahoo! Mission College, Bldg 2, Training Rooms 5 & 6
Time: 11:00am - 15:00pm
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