Coyotes in Two Directions
DMA | 5 p.m., UCLA CNSI Center
Coyotes in Two Directions is a new body of kinetic works by Sarah Rosalena Brady. The idea of shapeshifting is present in the oldest forms of totemism, shamanism, and extant literature and represents our desire to create new forms. Drawing on Southwest Native American philosophy, indigenous design, and post-colonial theory, Coyotes in Two Directions examines the signifier of the shapeshifter as symbolic metaphor to create techno-hybrid forms. Shapeshifting reformation aims to understand and develop new visual languages through artificial life, post-colonialism and otherness. Emergent forms are employed through sculpture, automata, 3D printed parts of endanged species.
Sarah Rosalena Brady is a multiracial artist (Laguna Pueblo, Huichol, and Mexican) working in new media, sculpture, and sound based in Los Angeles. Her work explores alternative structures using digital technologies to refigure and reimagine objects under colonization. She investigates the limits of systems (mathematical, spatial, environmental) to reveal where they break down and open up to new visual and poetic forms. Her audio work focuses on generative and kinetic sound and the relationship between repetition and environment. Her work has been presented at San Francisco Cinematheque, Gray Area Art and Technology, SOMArts Cultural Center, Fylkingen (SE), Northwest Film Forum, and the deYoung Museum. She is in the MFA Design Media Arts Program at UCLA.
Through the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture Design Media Arts Department and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), the UCLA Art|Sci Center supports visiting research scholars and artists-in-residence from around the world. Through various lectures, mixers, and symposia, artists and scientists are brought together in order to mesh these cultures and inspire individuals to think about art and science as an interrelated synergism of society.
More detailed information as available on the UCLA Art|Sci Center and design media arts department websites.
Event Date: Thursday, Jun. 7, 5–7 p.m.
Venue: UCLA CNSI Center, Art|Sci Center Gallery
Price: Free
The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is located in South Campus in the Court of Sciences.
Parking is available in Structure 9.
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