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LINKS TO SUPPORT INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES:
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ABOUT SARAH BRADY
Sarah Rosalena Brady is an interdisciplinary artist working between art, science, and technology based in Los Angeles. She is the Assistant Professor of Computational Craft and Haptic Media at UC Santa Barbara in the Department of Art. Her work deconstructs technology with material interventions, creating new narratives for hybrid objects that speak on issues such as AI, space colonialism, and physical computation. Hybrids function between human/nonhuman, ancient/modern, handmade/autonomous to override power structures. They function between binaries, allowing for new opportunities in matter and digital futures on Earth or Space.
She was awarded the LACMA Art + Tech Lab Grant in 2019 and the Steve Wilson Fellowship from Leonardo International Society for Art, Sciences, and Technology. She has recently given talks at LACMA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, LASER, Women’s Center for Creative Work, UCLA Art Sci, UCSB MAT, and Art Institute of Chicago. Brady has an MFA from UCLA in Design Media Arts. Works have been shown at the deYoung Museum, Navel, Gray Area Art and Technology, SOMArts Cultural Center, and Ars Electronica.
Her research focuses on indigenous scholarship in STEAM as multiracial First Nations and Xicanx (Laguna Pueblo and Huichol). She is currently working with Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Museum of the American Indian on a series of works called Exit Points.
Learn More About Brady's Work Here >>
More on Instagram - @sarah_rosalena
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Exit Point
Exit Point is an exit image, a glitch, or opposite of an image. It is a textile generated by a neural network trained on images of the Blue Marble and the Black Hole, materialized through each pixel as thread. From the birth of the Jacquard loom to current space imaging technology, it does not repeat or mimic machine vision.
textile, neural network, Blue Marble image from Apollo 17, Black Hole image from Event Horizon Telescope, 2020
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Punctum
Punctum is a series of works that blend Indigenous craft and ceramic coiling with martian soil simulant. Coiling is an ancient technique used in Precolumbian pottery to build forms by laying clay coils one upon another taken from the soil. Rather than mimicking, it functions as a diverted path to automation technology employed in space colonization and terraforming Mars.
Mars Regolith Simulant (Mars-MMS2) 3D print, 2020
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Future Husk
Future Husk is a speculative exercise between the evolution of corn on Earth and Mars. It operates between ancestral memory and future ceremony, from its first domestication 8,000 years ago in Mexico to a new species for space habitats.
cast aluminum, corn 3D scan and print, core rope weaving, copper electrical wire, magnetic ferrite cores, 2019
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Reformation of 50,000 Letters
Reformation of 50,000 Letters is a resurrection of letterforms and digital afterlife. Forms are the result of a neural network trained over a million instances on world letterforms, some extinct, to examine the potential of post-human memory under colonialism. They are in a constant state of becoming to produce new esthetic modes of thinking and making, speaking and power.
carved prototyping foam, CNC milled acrylic, cast ceramic, recurrent neural network, latent space interpolation, 50,000 world letterforms, 2019
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the desert, the animist, and the virus (2018):
the desert, the animist, and the virus is an installation of kinetic 3D scans that research biopolitics between the US/Mexican border. Inspired by Elizabeth Povinelli's book, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism.
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STUDENT WORK SINCE QUARANTINE
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Oxycycler by Alexis Krasnoff
The Oxycycler is an environmentally-conscious mask that filters strong pollution and other particulates without hindering someone's ability to breathe. The mask and vest cycle the CO2 from the wearer's breaths through the plant compartments and returns clean, oxygenated air to the mask.
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DIY LED Masks by Emily Sam + Louanne Santos
Students made interactive LED masks to communicate over Zoom with color and subliminal messaging
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Surveillance Blocking Pacifier by Yoonhea Lee
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Coyotes in Two Directions (exhibition June 7, 2018):
Coyotes in Two Directions is a new body of works by Sarah Rosalena Brady. Coyotes in Two Directions examines the signifier of the trickster and shapeshifter as a symbolic metaphor to create techno-hybrid forms. Coyotes are symbolic in mythology and present in Western urban landscapes as one of the most successful animals surviving the Anthropocene. Emergent forms are employed through sculpture, automata, and 3D scans.
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LASER TALK FEATURING SARAH BRADY (JUNE 2018)
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Sound + Science Symposium 2.0 (May 2-3, 2019):
The UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab proudly announces the Sound + Science Symposium 2.0 - a decade after the first gathering in March, 2009 (Sound + Science 1.0). Join us to in a 2-day symposium with sound artists, scientists and humanists exploring all kinds of vibrations, audible and inaudible. This extraordinary event will bring together leading figures to discuss the applications and implications of such research in relation to questions of culture, politics, history, environment, art, and music.
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SOUND + SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM 2.0 LIVESTREAM (2019)
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UCLA SCI ART SUMMER INSTITUTE
IS FULL STEAM AHEAD!
We are not subscribing to the industrial, linear model based on the past -- we assume that Engineering and Math are part of Science and Technology, that Ecology is at the heart of what we need to think and learn about and believe that Mindfulness should be part of every class.
Science, Technology, Ecology, Arts and Mindfulness -- non linear quantum STEAM for the future leaders and teachers who will inherit the Earth. Our lessons are BOTTOM UP -- just like nature works and we move back and forth between analogue and digital. We start with nano and end up in space -- having fun all along the way -- as we believe PLAY and collaboration are the key.
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LEONARDO / ISAST
COVID-19 RAPID RESPONSE TOOLKIT FOR ART AND SOCIAL CONNECTING
Our friends at Leonardo are offering virtual space, creative platforms and partnership to facilitate socially connecting, even while physically distancing. This includes a curated reading list of free articles from Leonardo journal, virtual LASER programming and community resources.
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A QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT YOU, CREATIVITY, AND CULTURE DURING COVID-19
Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Issues in Science and Technology magazine and Leonardo/ISAST, have created a questionnaire to collect information about creative responses to the coronavirus pandemic. Collaboration and integrative ideas are critical now more than ever. Please help us collect information as we generate a time capsule of creative responses. Share your creative projects or add projects that have inspired you. Multiple responses can be entered by completing the questionnaire more than once. By collecting these stories, we hope to map activities and provide a marker in time of resilience through collaboration and creativity
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OPEN CALL : SUBMISSIONS
THE GREAT PAUSE PROJECT
FROM THE GREAT PAUSE PROJECT: "We are compiling a crowd-sourced story of your COVID-19 experience to share diverse perspectives of this important moment in history.
As we archive and record this period in time, you are contributing to a worldwide narrative. To tell your story, we created a platform that consists of the multiplicity of voices on this Earth. Your submission is planned to be planted on the Moon in 2022 as well as a digital repository with several time capsules distributed on Earth. Participate in 3 easy steps!
Step 1: Share your thoughts! // (9 questions)
Step 2: Take a photo from your window! // (upload here)
Step 3: Help us compile images of COVID-19 // (upload here)
Your responses will be anonymous and archived on our digital open-source platform to inform social sciences and the arts."
Learn More >>
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OPEN CALL : ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
BIOFACTION
CLOSES 30 June
Biofaction is seeking applications for new Artist in Residence programmes. Four artists will be invited to work for four to six weeks at various laboratories across Europe. The residencies will start in Fall 2020 and will conclude in May 2021. They will be held in two parts, and the exact dates will be set by taking both artist and laboratory schedules into account, and with an eye to the situation in each locale (e.g. travel, safety regulations etc.).
As an artist in residence, you will actively engage with scientists working on one of three Synthetic Biology related projects that delve into fascinating areas: plant molecular farming, new-to-nature reactions, and cell factories. We welcome applications from artists, designers, biohackers, musicians, or other cultural practitioners who want to carry out artistic work with biological media. The collaborating laboratories will make sure to provide space and personal interaction for mutual exchange with the artists. Biofaction is responsible for organising and curating the residencies. At the end of the residency programmes all works and/or their processes will be documented and compiled in form of a book, initiated by Biofaction and co-created together with the participating artists and scientists.
For each artist, a stipend of up to 7000 € is provided by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation projects MADONNA, NEWCOTIANA and SINFONIA. It covers travel, local expenses, living allowance as well as (partial) support for the production and showcasing of the artistic prototype or finished work.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY + PROCEDURE HERE! >>
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