Join us November 11, 530-730pm for a conversation with Art Sci Pioneer Victoria Vesna, Professor of Design Media Arts, UCLA. She will talk about some of her latest projects including Atomic Gold Standard, Sunflower Plasma and Art Sci Now. 

Victoria Vesna, Ph.D., is an Artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci Center. Although she was trained early on as a painter (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Belgrade, 1984), her curious mind took her on an exploratory path that resulted in work that can be defined as experimental creative research residing between disciplines and technologies. With her installations, she investigates how communication technologies affect collective behavior and perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation (PhD, CAiiA-STAR, University of Wales, 2000). Her work involves long-term collaborations with composers, nano-scientists, neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists, and she brings this experience to students. Victoria exhibits her work in numerous international exhibitions, has been published in 20+ papers, and gave 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is the North American editor of the AI & Society journal https://victoriavesna.com/about/