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ART|SCIENCE PROJECTS |
| 2007 - Blue Morph - is an interactive installation that uses nanoscale images and sounds derived from the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. Nanotechnology is changing our perception of life and this is symbolic in the Blue Morpho butterfly with the optics involved -- that beautiful blue color is not pigment at all but patterns and structure. The lamellate structure of their wing scales has been studied as a model in the development of fabrics, dye-free paints, and anti-counterfeit technology such as that used in monetary currency. Victoria Vesna and James Gimzewski in collaboration with Gil Kuno, Sarah Cross Production: Shaun Westbrook, Tyler Adams, Laura Hernandez Photo Documentation: Adam Stieg, Brenda Williams, Yuta Nakayama | |
| 2006 - Water Bowls - Four water bowls reflect different aspect of water related to our connected human condition. Some of the most common metaphors of water such as the reflection of the moon, a drop of water, sound of water and oil and water are revisited using some of the latest scientific observations as the source... Project Team: Victoria Vesna, James Gimzewski, Tyler Adams, John Houck, Osman Khan, Paul Wilinson, Anne Niemetz, John Rooney, Morrow Pettigrew | |
| 2004 - Nanomandala - The Nanomandala is an installation by media artist Victoria Vesna, in collaboration with nanoscience pioneer James Gimzewski. The installation consists of a video projected onto a disk of sand, 8 feet in diameter. Visitors can touch the sand as images are projected in evolving scale from the molecular structure of a single grain of sand - achieved my means of a scanning electron microscope (SEM)- to the recognizable image of the complete mandala, and then back again. | |
| 2004 - Cell Ghosts - This work captures the viewer moving through space with a live camera, with their image projected in particles that is stored in memory and appear later as a ghost. The person passing by also activates text. The ambient sounds are a composition of data derived from manipulating live biological cells. The piece was originally conceived site specifically for an exhibition held at the former Seodaemun prison in Seoul, Korea. Installation: Victoria Vesna, Cell composition: Jim Gimzewski, Software art: Glen Murphy. | |
| 2003 - Nano - Two UCLA professors-media and net artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscience pioneer James Gimzewski-are at the forefront of the intersection of art and science. Their groundbreaking project, 'NANO', now on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Boone Children's Gallery, presents the world of nanoscience through a participatory aesthetic experience. The exhibition, a collaboration between LACMALab and a UCLA team of nanoscience, media arts, and humanities experts, is free to the public and runs through September 6, 2004. Project team. | |
| 2003 - Zero@Wavefunction - is one of a few collaborative art and science projects of Victoria Vesna, a media artist, and James Gimzewski, a nanoscientist. Both are professors at UCLA, home to the recently formed California Nano Systems Institute (CNSI). They first started their dialogue during a conference entitled ‘from Networks to Nanosystems’ in November 2001. Soon thereafter, Gimzewski opened his lab to Victoria Vesna and together they initiated a number of projects whose goal is to make nanoscience more accessible and understandable to the broader public. At the same time they are interested engaging the audience in probing larger philosophical questions about the impact of this emerging science on the culture at large. Josh Nimoy: Software Artist, Pete Conolly: Sensor Artist, Li Xu: Web Designer |
EXHIBITIONS in collaboration with Victoria Vesna |
SELECTED ART/SCI PUBLICATIONS “Nanotechnology:
The Endgame of Materialism,” James K. Gimzewski. Leonardo 41(3), 259-264
(2008).
SELECTED ART/SCI TALKS Honoris
Causa acceptance speech, “Scanning Probe Microscopy: From Atoms to Cells,”
University of Aix-Marseille II, November 27, 2008.
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© 2007 James K. Gimzewski, UCLA, & UC Regents. |