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)
^"Victoria Vesna". Women of Vision. Histories in Feminist Film and Video. Vol. 9 (NED - New ed.). University of Minnesota Press. 2001. pp. 235–247. ISBN9780816633715. JSTOR10.5749/j.cttts8r3.19.
^Colman, Alison (2005). "Constructing an Aesthetic of Web Art from a Review of Artists' Use of the World Wide Web". Visual Arts Research. 31 (1): 13–25. JSTOR20715365.