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Victoria Vesna is a media artist and professor at the Department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts. She is also director of the recently established UCLA Art | Sci Center and Lab and the UC Digital Arts Research Network. Her work can be defined as experimental creative research that resides between disciplines and technologies. She explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Her most recent installations - Blue Morph, Mood Swings and Water Bowls - all aim to raise consciousness around the issues of our relationship to natural systems. Other notable works are Bodies INCorporated, Data mining Bodies, n0time and Cellular Trans_Actions.

Victoria has exhibited her work in 18 solo exhibitions, over 70 group shows, published 20+ papers and gave 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is the recipient of many grants, commissions and awards, including the Oscar Signorini award for best net artwork in 1998 and the Cine Golden Eagle for best scientific documentary in 1986. Vesna's work has received notice in numerous publications such as Art in America, National Geographic, the Los Angeles Times, Spiegel (Germany), The Irish Times (Ireland), Tema Celeste (Italy), and Veredas (Brazil) and appears in a number of book chapters on media arts. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wales, is the North American editor of AI & Society, and is the author of Database Aesthetics.

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