second natures UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts Faculty Exhibition for the opening of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center
Curated by Christiane Paul http://projects.design.ucla.edu/exhibitions/SecondNatures/ Exhibition Dates: September 14 - October 26, 2006 Opening Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 12 - 5 PM. Thursday, 12 - 7 PM. Closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission Free Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center 240 Charles E. Young Dr. North Los Angeles, CA 90095 Public Reception: Saturday, Sept. 30, 6 - 9 PM second natures, the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts exhibition -- curated by Christiane Paul, adjunct curator of new media arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art -- features work by faculty members Rebecca Allen, Robert Israel, Rebeca Méndez, Vasa Mihich, Christian Moeller, C.E.B. Reas, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Victoria Vesna. The exhibition is on view in the first- and second-level spaces of the new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center designed by Getty Center architect Richard Meier. The works presented in the exhibition to varying degrees all reference the concept of a "second nature." Some projects literally reflect on natural processes or depict landscapes or present a simulated nature. Others simulate natural processes in organic visual structures and use principles of artificial life and intelligence to create a programmed nature. Yet another body of works is based on principles of optics and shows how light and the eye mediate the perception of our environment. In their different approaches and media, the works included in second natures construct a multi-faceted picture of the possible meanings and connotations of nature -- a picture that is very much of its time and informed by the current cultural and political climate. Nature appears as processed, both in the sense of natural resources and the medium that represents it. It presents itself as designed, simulated, technologically connected and filtered through human perception, or as an imaginary space. The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. Faculty teaching theory in the D | MA department, Erkki Huhtamo and Katherine Hayles, contributed essays to the catalogue. Works in the exhibition: Victoria Vesna Water Bowls: moon ~ drop ~ sound ~ oil, 2006 In collaboration with: John Houck (Software Art), Tyler Adams (Sound), James Gimzewski (concept / science) Casey Reas Process 4 (Software 1), 2005. Process 4 (Image 2), 2005. Seoul B, 2004. Rebecca Allen Bush Soul #3, 1997 - 2000 Christian Moeller Heaven, 2005 Robert Israel Parsifal (staircase). Model for the stage design of Parsifal (Richard Wagner), Seattle Opera 2003. The Voyage (Philip Glass), model for stage design, The Metropolitan Opera, NYC, 1992. Oedipus, Model Proposed for Director Dialogue. Greek Satyr Play, Model Proposed for Director Dialogue. Parsifal (Richard Wagner), Photo of stage design. Rebeca Mendez Homeland, 2006 Homeland, Peace White Homeland, Low Green Homeland, Guarded Blue Homeland, Elevated Yellow Homeland, High Orange Homeland, Severe Red Jennifer Steinkamp Dervish, 2004-05 Vasa Mihich Sculpture #3108, 2005 Painting 182 N, 2003 Paintings 191 N, 194 N (2003); 207 N, 209 N, 217 N, 222 N, 223 N, 230 N, 241 N, 244 N, 251 N, 255 N (2004) ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre