Anuradha Vikram
KNOWLEDGE HACKING
September 15-October 9, 2010
Reception: Wednesday, September 15, 4-7 PM
Art/Science Panel: Friday, September 24, 2-3 PM
Featured projects:
WonderariumYvette Molina and Sarah Filley
with Chris Carmichael, UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
and Louis Rawlings, Digital Media Engineer
NEW! Mobile Plant Ambassador Workshop at CA Academy of SciencesLimbique
Pinar Yoldas, UCLA Art/Sci Lab and David J. Paulsen, Duke University Psychology & Neuroscience
Energy Harvesting as Public Art
Stephen Wilson and Michael Shiloh, SFSU Conceptual & Information Arts Program
Liwei Lin and Hanbing Wu, UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering
with Sean Bennett, Lauren Bjelde, Andrew Bramer, Judy Aime' Castro, Matthew A. Dalton, Taylor Fitzgerald, Amber Lee, Jake Rogers and Stephanie Sherriff
The Worth Ryder Gallery is pleased to announce the first exhibition of our Fall 2010 season. Knowledge Hacking is an experimental research and exhibition project organized by the Department of Art Practice, UC Berkeley, and the Berkeley Center for New Media, as a parallel program with ZER01: The Art and Technology Network. Knowledge Hacking invites artists to use the university research environment as raw material for their work. The three projects selected demonstrate a range of ways in which scientists and artists might share their expertise, to better investigate how we understand and engage with our world. Wonderarium is a proposal for a large-scale floating terrarium in Oakland’s Lake Merritt (planned for 2012), for which the artists are developing a small-scale prototype and innovating techniques for plant cultivation under extreme conditions. Energy Harvesting as Public Art includes wearable objects, which incorporate nascent technologies in development at UC Berkeley to harness and make visible the kinetic energy of human movement. Limbique aims to facilitate the development of a three-dimensional, topographical understanding of the brain's neural architecture, visualizing cognitive activity in three dimensions to create the framework upon which a deeper knowledge of neural function and regional intercommunication can be built. The UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice, Berkeley Center for New Media and our campus partners support these projects by facilitating access to space and equipment, and providing a modest budget for the initial development phase.
Images: (L-R) Pinar Yoldas (with David J. Paulsen), Limbique, 2010. Laser-cut acrylic. 1.5x scale. Installed dimensions variable.
Stephen Wilson et. al., Energy Harvesting as Public Art, 2010. Concept sketch.
Sarah Filley and Yvette Molina, Wonderarium (prototype), 2010. Acrylic and live plants. 27" diameter.
