Victoria Vesna

Victoria Vesna (born 1959) is a professor and

Victoria Vesna was the chair of the Department of Design Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture as well as director of UCLA's Art|Sci Center and the UC Digital Arts Research Network.^[8]

Awards

She received the Oscar Signorini award for best net artwork in 1998 and the CINE Golden Eagle award for best scientific documentary in 1986.^[9][10]

Artwork

Through creative research, she examines perception and identity shifts in connection with scientific innovation as well as examining bio and nanotechnology through art.^[11]

Exhibitions include Spaceship Earth at the Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń (2011) and MORPHONANO at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, California (2012).^[12]

Artweek reviewer Claudine Isé writes, “Vesna has created a number of Web-based works that examine the dichotomy between concepts of “virtual’ and ‘concrete.’ Her on-line projects include an upcoming electronic conference about the cultural production of death as well as a popular site called Bodies INCorporated, which gives visitors an opportunity to design their own ‘cyber bodies’ from a selection of organic and synthetic textures, such as water, lava, chocolate, rubber or plastic.”^[13]

Author

In Christopher Hanson's review of her book Database aesthetics: Art in the age of information overflow, he says that Vesna provides an engaging collection of essays about changing aesthetics in interactive art and its relationship to the database.^[14]

Personal life

Formerly married to Bogdan Maglich, Vesna has two children by that marriage, which ended in divorce.^{[citation needed]}

Works

• [Alien] Star Dust (since 2019)
• Noise Aquarium (since 2016)
• Brainstorming (since 2015)
• Bodies Corp 2.0 (2015)
• Octopus Mandala Glow (2013), in collaboration with Ray Zimmerman, Dawn Faelnar, Mike Datz, Peter Rand, Steven Amrhein, and others
• ACOUSTIC NETWORKS OF BIRDS (2012), in collaboration with biologist Charles Taylor and physicist Takashi Ikegami
• Quantum Tunneling (2008)
• Water Bowls (2006)
• Mood Swings (2006)
• Datamining Bodies (2004) in collaboration with Gerald de Jong and David Beaudry
• Zero@wavefunction (2002) in collaboration with nanoscientist James Gimzewski^[5][6]
• Cell Ghosts (2001)
• Building a Community of People with No Time (2001)
• Datamining Bodies (1999)
• Bodies© InCorporated (1996)^[15]
• Virtual Concrete (1995) ^[16]
• Nanomandala ^[17]
• Another Day in Paradise (1992)^[18]

Publications

• Database aesthetics: Art in the age of information overflow (2007), University Of Minnesota Press.^[19][14]
• Mel Chin-Provocative Eco-Art in Action Academic journal article from Art Journal, Vol. 65, No. 1.
• Toward a Third Culture: Being In Between Art and Electronic Media. Phaidon Press. 2008.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• MORPHONANO: Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, California (2012)*Spaceship Earth: Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun (2011)
• Hox Zodiac: Microwave International New Media Arts Festival ALCHEMY, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.(2011)
• Quantum Tunneling: Median Kunst Labor (Media Art Laboratory), Graz, Austria.(2008)
• Cell Ghosts: Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi.(2005)
• Zero@wavefunction: Biennale for Electronic Arts, Perth. John Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. (2002)

Group exhibitions

• TechNoBody, Pelham Art Center, New York, NY (2015)^[20][21]
• "Red Angel," Installation. Art & Science, Aperto '86, Venice Biennale, Italy (1986)

References