Victoria Vesna | |
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![]() Victoria Vesna performing Octupus Mandala at Santa Monica Glow. Photo: Brandon Choe. | |
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Education | University of Wales and University of Belgrade |
Known for | nanoart, digital art, computer art, video art |
Notable work | Zero@wavefunction (2002), Datamining Bodies (1999), and Bodies Corp 2.0 (2015) |
Awards | Oscar Signorini Prize |
Website | https://victoriavesna.com/ |
Victoria Vesna (born 1959) is a professor and digital media artist. She is known for her feminist video, computer and internet art and has been active since the early 1980s. [1] [2] [3] Along with collaborator Jim Gimzewski she is thought to have created one of the first interactive artworks related to nanotechnology (sometimes called nanoart) [4] [5] [6] and defines her art practice as experimental research. [7]
Victoria Vesna was born in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 1959. [7] She graduated from the High School of Art & Design in New York City, New York, in 1976. [7] She received a Fine Arts Diploma from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1984. In 2000, she completed her Ph.D. at CAiiA (The Centre for Advanced Studies in Interactive Arts) at the University of Wales with a thesis entitled "Networked Public Spaces: An Investigation into Virtual Embodiment" in 2000. [8]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Formerly married to Bogdan Maglich, Vesna has two children by that marriage, which ended in divorce.[ citation needed]
Victoria Vesna | |
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![]() Victoria Vesna performing Octupus Mandala at Santa Monica Glow. Photo: Brandon Choe. | |
Born | |
Education | University of Wales and University of Belgrade |
Known for | nanoart, digital art, computer art, video art |
Notable work | Zero@wavefunction (2002), Datamining Bodies (1999), and Bodies Corp 2.0 (2015) |
Awards | Oscar Signorini Prize |
Website | https://victoriavesna.com/ |
Victoria Vesna (born 1959) is a professor and digital media artist. She is known for her feminist video, computer and internet art and has been active since the early 1980s. [1] [2] [3] Along with collaborator Jim Gimzewski she is thought to have created one of the first interactive artworks related to nanotechnology (sometimes called nanoart) [4] [5] [6] and defines her art practice as experimental research. [7]
Victoria Vesna was born in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 1959. [7] She graduated from the High School of Art & Design in New York City, New York, in 1976. [7] She received a Fine Arts Diploma from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1984. In 2000, she completed her Ph.D. at CAiiA (The Centre for Advanced Studies in Interactive Arts) at the University of Wales with a thesis entitled "Networked Public Spaces: An Investigation into Virtual Embodiment" in 2000. [8]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Formerly married to Bogdan Maglich, Vesna has two children by that marriage, which ended in divorce.[ citation needed]