Victoria Vesna will present “Vibrations Matter” a lecture workshop on nanotechnology and sound. Using the Blue Morph installation as the base of exploration, the artist will explore the surprising sounds of metamorphosis and cellular transformation that happens in sudden surges, broken up with stillness and silence. Her work can be defined as experimental creative research that resides between disciplines and technologies.
Victoria Vesna: Vibrations Matter Workshop
Wed, Jun 29, 2011 7pm
FREE
Location:
Harvestworks – www.harvestworks.org
596 Broadway, #602 | New York, NY 10012 | Phone: 212-431-1130
Subway: F/M/D/B Broadway/Lafayette, R Prince, 6 Bleeker
Victoria Vesna will present “Vibrations Matter” a lecture workshop on nanotechnology and sound. Using the Blue Morph installation as the base of exploration, the artist will explore the surprising sounds of metamorphosis and cellular transformation that happens in sudden surges, broken up with stillness and silence. Her work can be defined as experimental creative research that resides between disciplines and technologies. With her installations she explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation.
Her Blue Morph installation is on view on Governor’s Island from May 27 through Sep 25.
Dr. Victoria Vesna is a media artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci center at the School of the Arts and California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI). She is currently a Visiting Professor and Director of Research at Parsons Art, Media + Technology, the New School for Design in New York and a senior researcher at IMéRA – Institut Méditerranéen de Recherches Avancées in Marseille, France and Artist in Residence at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bristol. Her work can be defined as experimental creative research that resides between disciplines and technologies. With her installations she explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Victoria has exhibited her work in over twenty solo exhibitions, more than seventy group shows, has been published in excess of twenty papers and gave 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is the North American editor of AI & Society and in 2007 published an edited volume – Database Aesthetics: Art in the age of Information Overflow, Minnesota Press. Just published is a new book she co-edited with Christiane Paul and Margot Lovejoy — Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts. Edited with Intellect Press, 2011. Victoria holds a Ph.D. from the Centre of Advanced Inquiry in the Arts, University of Wales, UK.