Image courtesy of SUPERCOLLIDER
CultureHub LA and SUPERCOLLIDER collaboratively host a conversation on interdisciplinary collaborations between artists and scientists. Members from both organizations' communities will share their experiences and strategies in making and thinking in art and science, as well as the process of curation and bridging alliances with science + research initiatives.
The conversation will be livestreamed on the CultureHub watch page on Wednesday, May 27th at 6pm PDT. Viewers will be encouraged to pose questions and contribute perspectives by chatting in.
This conversation is a part of Re-Fest 2020, taking place entirely online. Click here to view the full schedule and line-up of Re-Fest.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
6PM PDT
Moderators:
Richelle Gribble is a mixed media artist and Founder of SUPERCOLLIDER, a science-art gallery and platform based in Los Angeles. She is represented by JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY exhibiting worldwide. She has had solo shows in Los Angeles, New York, Japan, and international orbit around Earth etched on satellites and aboard rockets. Her work explores connectivity in a world where human impact, technology, and the environment collide.
Scarlett Kim is a Seoul-born, LA-based director, artist and curator. She is the Programs & Projects Manager of CultureHub LA. Scarlett creates performances and experiences across media, borders and platforms, with a focus on intimate exchange and participatory strategies, and often in dialogue with emerging technologies. She received her MFA in Directing from CalArts.
Participants from SUPERCOLLIDER:
Brittany Ransom is an artist and educator currently living in Long Beach, California. Ransom is currently serving as the Program Head of Sculpture/4D and Associate Professor of Sculpture + New Genres at California State University Long Beach. As a member of the faculty of the College of The Arts, she works within the sculpture area and specializes in digital fabrication technologies as well as kinetics and electronics. Ransom’s practice probes the lines between human, animal, and environmental relations while exploring emergent technologies and our complicated relationship with the environment.
Isabel Beavers is a multi-media artist and educator based in Los Angeles. Her work explores ecologies, examines environmental histories and postulates about climate futures through multimedia installation + new media. She holds an MFA from the SMFA at Tufts University and a BS from the University of Vermont. She is currently a 2019-20 Resident Artist with CultureHub LA and 2020 SciArt Ambassador with SUPERCOLLIDER Gallery.
Anastasia Prosina is an award-winning aspirational futurist, artists and practitioner in Space Architecture, the nascent field of helping people thrive in small spaces in outer space. She is the Founder & CEO at Stellar Amenities, a company with the mission of complementing space habitats with lightweight, deployable & reconfigurable elements to support wellbeing in space.
Janna Avner creates oil paintings that respond to new technologies. She cofounded a digital media platform called FEMMEBIT and her curations and paintings embrace inclusive, grass roots, and cross-disciplinary approaches to the philosophy behind art. Janna believes artists can help shape emerging technologies through cultural analyses beyond older academic pedagogies.
Emma Akmakdjian is an installation artist that collaborates with scientists to translate processes of complex ecosystems, scientific laws, and object personifications in her woven art. Her creative research draws comparisons between systems of the body and the environment to understand how we personify place and develop identity through our interactions with nonhuman nature.
Elí Joteva is a Bulgarian born visual artist and researcher working at the intersection of fine arts and science through the use of new imaging tools and biofeedback technologies. With a practice rooted in photography and new media, her work often aims to expand the intangible experience of the human and non-human body. The core of her current research explores biological and technological memory systems in relationship to imaging processes of the past and future.
Participants from CultureHub:
Eli Smith received her bachelor’s degree in Physics from SUNY Geneseo and MFAs from CalArts in Collaborative Performance and Art & Technology. Her artistic process is focused on developing new strategies for intimate engagement as part of a feminist methodology of artistic meaning-making.
Thomas Chan is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at California State University Northridge. He develops augmented reality interventions (i.e., use of holograms) to promote positive health and developmental outcomes. His work is at the intersection of public health, motivation (fun), and art & design.
Andrea Paciotto is the Director of CultureHub Europe and a Professor in the Performing Arts School of the Seoul Institute of the Arts. In 30 years working as an interdisciplinary director, producer, teacher, and curator, Andrea has collaborated with theatres, festivals, and universities around the world, including La MaMa Theatre, the Spoleto Festival of 2 Worlds, Venice Biennale, Bitef International Festival in Serbia, Welt in Basel, University of Roma 3, Maastricht Academy of Media Arts and Design, Maastricht Theater Academy, Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, among others.
Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde is a Nigerian-American artist, designer, and time-traveler living and working in New York. Okunseinde holds a BA in Visual Arts from Rutgers University and an MFA in Design + Technology from Parsons School of Design where he serves as Assistant Professor of Interaction and Media Design.
Ashley Jane Lewis is a new media artist with a focus on bio art and speculative design. Her practice explores cultures of the past, present and future through computational and analog mediums including machine learning, data weaving, microorganisms and performance. Her work has exhibited in Canada and the US, most notably on the White House website during the Obama presidency.