Ars Electronica Garden Los Angeles
[Alien] Star Dust: Signal to Noise – guided networked meditation
Victoria Vesna with Paul Geluso, Rhiannon Catalyst, John Brumley, Ivana Dama, Clinton Van Arman
In this workshop, we will create a rocky 3D object, fracture and shatter it, and then emit particles with forces. Learn the power and flexibility of Houdini’s Procedural and non destructive node based 3d software that excels in using both raw data and generative art.
Keynote Lecture: Tree Conservation, Genomics, and Change
Victoria Sork: UCLA Dean of Life Sciences, Director of Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Gardens
In this workshop, we will create a rocky 3D object, fracture and shatter it, and then emit particles with forces. Learn the power and flexibility of Houdini’s Procedural and non destructive node based 3d software that excels in using both raw data and generative art.
Workshop: Solidarity Through Sound and Time
Ivana Dama and Clinton Van Arnam
In this workshop, participants would have the unique chance to reconsider their ideas of what constitutes sound and music compositions. Throughout the day we are exposed to countless amounts of sounds and noises, but it is only valuable if we can isolate these specific sounds and separate their relationship from emory to their pure tonal structure.
Workshop: Pinecone Hygrometer, Seed Dispersal, and Fire Ecology
Helen Huang
In this lecture we will explore how seeding of plants respond to environmental triggers like fire and humidity changes. We will also learn some basic concepts in scientific research and how we can sense our environment through the observation of the plants around us.
Workshop: Psychobiotonic: Microbiome Anthropothagy
Clarissa Ribeiro
Imagine a fictional scenario in which you can choose one personality to ‘embody’ a time having access to encapsulated microbiome samples (mixed cultures i.e. microbial associations or communities) of donors that have specific personality types. “Transplanting the Self: microbiome anthropophagy” (2018-present) is a reflection on the limits of microbiome manipulation inviting the online audience to become ‘personality donors’ in a collaborative performance.
Workshop: Sidewalk Herbarium
Alvaro Azcarraga with Terry Huang
We will be reconnecting with our local environments by collecting and identifying plant specimens from your neighborhood/sidewalk.
Performance and Workshop: Calming the Sea - Sketch 2b
Christoph Killian, UCLA ArtSci Center Artist in Residence
We will play with multichannel near-simultaneity, exploiting transmission latencies and temporal offsets, experiencing destructive and constructive interferences, – overlapping, amplification and extinction of waves in a global disconcert.
Tour: If You Hold the Stone Hold it in Your Hand - COVID19 Data Sculptures
Clarissa Ribeiro
LIVE: Data-Driven Algorithmic Design and 4-axes CNC Carving After a short talk sharing a few aspects of the poetics focusing on algorithmic design, we invite the online audience for a lab visit and we will set up a 4-axis CNC to carve one of the data-sculptures live.
Workshop: WATERBODIES
Claudia Jacques and Victoria Vesna
This workshop will introduce you to a variety of issues around water bodies around the world. Participants will develop and add their stories and / or artwork or scientific research related to a stream, lake, sea, ocean. Communities will form around specific water bodies that will become guardians and share up to date information about the status.
Workshop: Mycelial Landscapes: How Fungi Shape the World and Take the Shape of the Future
Kaitlin Bryson
This workshop explores the incredible world of fungi from their ecology to their biochemistry and explores how these amazing organisms shape and make the world around us. We will also learn about how we can work with fungi helping them take shapes and forms for building sustainable futures. We will do a simple exercise of making mycelium hands to stretch our notions of touch and physicality during the time of the pandemic.
Workshop: Data Garden
Eli Joteva and Zeynep Abes
In this workshop you will learn the art of photogrammetry, volumetric collage and shared virtual spaces.
Workshop: Follow the Fibers: Weaving as a Method of Inquiry
Monica LoCascio, Artist and Member of ArtSci Collective
Fascia and Mycelium through the lens of Anni Albers and weaving
Workshop: Music and Quantum Mechanics
Dr. James Gimzewski
We explore the relationship between music specifically harmonic sound resonances and quantum mechanics. The Schrodinger equations which are used to describe zero point energy and energy quantization are similar to the solutions for a guitar string in one dimension called the particle in a box. In two dimensions equivalent to drum modes. The electrons in an atom are equivalent to three dimensional solutions. I also introduce quantum tunneling as leaky strings and provide examples in nanotechnology.
Workshop: Diffraction and Wave-Particle Duality and Imaging Techniques
Sam Lilak
This workshop invites you to understand the duality of nature and utilize its interactions to achieve atomic resolution. You will be introduced to scale, waves and wave-particle duality, optical microscopes and UV-Vis spectroscopy, electron microscopy and diffraction, atomic imaging and scanning probe microscopy.
Workshop: Microbial Theater
Mick Lorusso and Joel Ong
In this workshop participants will learn about the microbiome to develop their own stories about microbes, collect and observe samples using microscopy, and create short performances based on their stories and findings.
Workshop: Field Recording: Listening to Electromagnetic Radiation
John Brumley, artist, member of ArtSci Collective
We will build a small loop antenna and listen to artificial and natural sources of electromagnetic radiation. John will briefly cover aspects of Natural and Artificial EM radiation, mention artists that have explored electromagnetism in their practice, and then build rudimentary loop antennas to record and explore our EM environments.
Workshop: Houdini Software Intro
Debra Isaac
In this workshop, we will create a rocky 3D object, fracture and shatter it, and then emit particles with forces. Learn the power and flexibility of Houdini’s Procedural and non destructive node based 3d software that excels in using both raw data and generative art.
Workshop: Remote Sensing the Red Planet
Shane Houchin
Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object, area, or phenomenon without making physical contact. Typically performed by satellite or aircraft that measure the reflected or emitted electromagnetic radiation from a surface. Applications of remote sensing include, Geology, Hydrology, Agriculture, Conservation, Urban Planning, Transportation, Glaciology, Forestry, Ecology, to mention a few.
Live Program of Telluric Vibrations, UCLA Botanical Gardens – Los Angeles
Enjoy the extensive live Program of Telluric Vibrations, UCLA Botanical Gardens – Los Angeles
