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UCLA ArtSci Center The UCLA Art | Sci center is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving “Third Culture” by

The Art | Sci center is dedicated to pursuing and promoting the evolving “Third Culture” by facilitating the infinite potential of collaborations between (media) arts and (bio/nano) sciences.

This week, Art|Sci Collective will be at Ars Electronica Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria! Among numerous exhibitions, p...
09/08/2026

This week, Art|Sci Collective will be at Ars Electronica Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria! Among numerous exhibitions, performances, concerts, and conferences, Art|Sci will participate in a panel and a workshop about ecofeminism and media art archive.

9/10 5-6PM: ECOfem Media Art Stammtisch

Join the conversation chaired by Jill Scott, Christa Sommerer Christa Sommerer, Claudia Schnugg , and Victoria Vesna Victoria Vesna, distinguished contributors to Transdiscourse 3: Women in Art, Science, and Body Politics. This event will encourage an in-depth public conversation about ecology, outdated political paradigms and contribute to a deeper conversation about the kind of future we wish to create.

9/10 11AM-1PM: Media Art Practice: collaborate, conserve, context, and intentionality

This workshop is led by Paul Thomas Paul Thomas, the editor of Encyclopedia of New Media Art, Volume II in collaboration with NEWART 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗧 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 . With Victoria Vesna, Mike Philips , Christa Sommerer Christa Sommerer, Laurent Migonneau, Jamie de los Ríos, this short provocation is presented to help create a dynamic community discussion with the goal of generating ideas for sustainable media art practices.

From the Archives 01: Water Bowls (2006) by Victoria Vesna Victoria Vesna The installation is composed of four large tra...
07/08/2026

From the Archives 01: Water Bowls (2006) by Victoria Vesna Victoria Vesna

The installation is composed of four large transparent bowls, above knee-height, with interactive projections. The work is networked, welcoming visitors both in the physical space and online. The four bowls, “Drop”, “Moon”, “Sound”, and “Oil” are all half full except the “Oil” bowl that is filled to the rim.

Water Bowls was exhibited internationally at the Millennium Museum (Beijing), Laboral Gallery (Spain) LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial , the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine (New York), Microwave International New Media Arts Festival Microwave New Media Arts Fest (Hong Kong), and the 4th State of Water Symposium at UCLA. 

Visit the Water Bowls website: https://waterbowls.victoriavesna.com/ 

Recently, Water Bowls was featured in HydroArts , a cross-disciplinary research team investigating the aquatic turn (Le Mans Université, France).

Visit the HydroArts website: https://www.hydroarts.org/water-bowls/

From the Archives 01: Water Bowls (2006) by Victoria Vesna Victoria Vesna (https://www.instagram.com/victoriavesna/ #)Th...
07/08/2026

From the Archives 01: Water Bowls (2006) by Victoria Vesna Victoria Vesna (https://www.instagram.com/victoriavesna/ #)

The installation is composed of four large transparent bowls, above knee-height, with interactive projections. The work is networked, welcoming visitors both in the physical space and online. The four bowls, “Drop”, “Moon”, “Sound”, and “Oil” are all half full except the “Oil” bowl that is filled to the rim.

Water Bowls was exhibited internationally at the Millennium Museum (Beijing), Laboral Gallery (Spain) LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial , the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine (New York), Microwave International New Media Arts Festival Microwave New Media Arts Fest (Hong Kong), and the 4th State of Water Symposium at UCLA. 

Visit the Water Bowls website: https://waterbowls.victoriavesna.com/ 

Recently, Water Bowls was featured in HydroArts , a cross-disciplinary research team investigating the aquatic turn (Le Mans Université, France).

Visit the HydroArts website: https://www.hydroarts.org/water-bowls/

Color Light Motion Ep. 31-Curating Immersive Worlds: AI Visions, Spatial Narrative, and Speculative Media ArchitecturesS...
05/28/2026

Color Light Motion Ep. 31-Curating Immersive Worlds: AI Visions, Spatial Narrative, and Speculative Media Architectures

Saturday, May 30 at 10:00 am
Online lecture

Join us this Saturday as Gustavo Alfonso Rincon .alfonso.rincon leads us through the evolving landscape of immersive virtual environments, speculative media architectures, and computational worldmaking. From the AlloSphere Research Facility to ACM SIGGRAPH exhibitions and global Digital Futures dialogues, his work reframes immersive design as both a research instrument and a cultural lens, offering a glimpse into the artistic, technological, and social forces shaping how we build and imagine new media worlds. 

The presentation will be followed by:
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, whose pioneering work with the AlloSphere continues to redefine immersive scientific and artistic exploration.
Kon Hyong Kim, a media artist and VR researcher advancing large‑scale projection systems and real‑time interactive environments
Joshua Dickinson, a computational artist and technologist expanding creative possibility through generative AI and human-machine interaction.

Register today-Link in Bio

Image 1: Dustin Shuler, DANCE. 12 CARS, STEEL,. 2007 (David Bermant Collection)

Image 2: James Wines, HIGHWAY ‘86 MODEL, 1986 (David Bermant Collection)

After the LightFest 3.0, two full days of art, science, and spiritual medicine practices, the Art Sci team and the Smart...
05/28/2026

After the LightFest 3.0, two full days of art, science, and spiritual medicine practices, the Art Sci team and the Smart Image group from Korea led by Sanglim Han took a field trip to UC Santa Barbara to visit the Allosphere designed by composer JoAnne Kuchera-Morin.

Thank you to the Allosphere team for an immersive experience!

Gustavo Alfonso Rincon .alfonso.rincon from the Allosphere is our next featured speaker for the Color Light Motion series this coming Saturday, May 30 at 10 am. The presentation will also have guests JoAnn Kuchera-Morin and Hon Hyong Kim from the Allosphere.

🔗 Register for the event in the bio!

The AlloSphere (three stories, 26 projectors, & 54.1 Channels of sound.) is a large-scale instrument created as an environment to deliver rich, coherent, interactive, high-resolution 3D video and audio streams from massive scientific datasets is a complex computational and systems engineering task that continues to involve faculty across a variety of disciplines.

After the LightFest 3.0, two full days of art, science, and spiritual medicine practices, the Art Sci team and the Smart...
05/28/2026

After the LightFest 3.0, two full days of art, science, and spiritual medicine practices, the Art Sci team and the Smart Image group from Korea led by Sanglim Han took a field trip to UC Santa Barbara to visit the Allosphere designed by composer JoAnne Kuchera-Morin.

Thank you to the Allosphere team for an immersive experience!

This coming Saturday, May 30 at 10 am, Gustavo Alfonso Rincon .alfonso.rincon from the Allosphere is our next featured speaker for the Color Light Motion series. The presentation will also have guests JoAnn Kuchera-Morin and Hon Hyong Kim from the Allosphere.

🔗 Register for the event in the bio!

The AlloSphere (three stories, 26 projectors, & 54.1 Channels of sound.) is a large-scale instrument created as an environment to deliver rich, coherent, interactive, high-resolution 3D video and audio streams from massive scientific datasets is a complex computational and systems engineering task that continues to involve faculty across a variety of disciplines.

UNESCO International Day of Light: Day 2, Part 2Tibetan Art as HealingLobsang Tsering led Tibetan Art as Healing: Sand ...
05/28/2026

UNESCO International Day of Light: Day 2, Part 2
Tibetan Art as Healing

Lobsang Tsering led Tibetan Art as Healing: Sand Mandala, guiding participants through the principles behind mandala creation, including balance, symmetry, flow, and the Buddhist understanding of impermanence and emptiness.

Throughout the workshop, the Tibetan monks of the Gaden Shartse Phukhang Sacred Harmony World Peace Tour worked alongside the group, completing the Medicine Buddha sand mandala, a piece created over two days with extraordinary care and intention.

The day concluded with the dispersal of all the mandalas, honoring the practice of release. The center of the Medicine Buddha mandala was brought back to CNSI for continued imaging work, carrying the collaboration forward across scales.

If you missed us, check out the presentations- Link in Bio🔗

LightFest 3.0: Day 2, Part 1Medicine Buddha NanoMandala: Art, Science, Sustainability, and HealingDay 2 began with a pow...
05/28/2026

LightFest 3.0: Day 2, Part 1
Medicine Buddha NanoMandala: Art, Science, Sustainability, and Healing

Day 2 began with a powerful keynote by Lauren Bon of Metabolic Studio, who presented “Releasing: How a Sand Mandala Might Teach Infrastructure to Behave Like a Watershed.”

Christiana Polites .poli , director of Pure Land Farms introduced the foundations of Tibetan Medicine and created a perfect bridge into the hands‑on workshop that followed.

The program continued with a NanoMandala session featuring Haley Marks , Victoria Vesna , and Sanglim Han , who shared the research, imaging processes, and collaborative methodologies behind the NanoMandala.

To close the morning, Lobsang Tsering led a meditation that returned us to the heart of the project, offering a moment of reflection before a lunch break at the UCLA Botanical Gardens.

 If you missed us, check out the presentations- Link in Bio🔗

UNESCO International Day of Light - Day 1, Session 2The Tibetan monks of the Gaden Shartse Phukhang Sacred Harmony World...
05/27/2026

UNESCO International Day of Light - Day 1, Session 2

The Tibetan monks of the Gaden Shartse Phukhang Sacred Harmony World Peace Tour throughout the day were creating a new Medicine Buddha sand mandala. This mandala continued the lineage of the original design that inspired the Nanomandala project and remained in the space throughout the presentations for ongoing imaging work.

The session opened with Stamatis Hamouzas, MFA graduate student, and Haley Marks , microscopist and bioengineer, who presented the process and challenges of working across scales. They were joined by Victoria Vesna , Sanglim Han , and Lobsang Tsering , sharing insights into their collaborative work on the Medicine Buddha NanoMandala.

Lobsang Tsering then offered a talk followed by a guided meditation titled Inner Microscope. The day concluded with the ceremonial dispersal of the mandala center, used for imaging, during the evening reception at the fountain in the Fowler Museum courtyard.

If you missed us, check out the presentations- Link in Bio 🔗

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