Victoria Vesna Explained

Victoria Vesna
Birth Date:9 June 1959
Website:https://victoriavesna.com/
Known For:nanoart, digital art, computer art, video art
Notable Works:Zero@wavefunction (2002), Datamining Bodies (1999), and Bodies Corp 2.0 (2015)
Education:University of Wales and University of Belgrade
Birth Place:Washington D.C.
Awards:Oscar Signorini Prize

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] and defines her art practice as experimental research.

Early life and education

Victoria Vesna was born in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 1959.[6] She graduated from the High School of Art & Design in New York City, New York, in 1976. 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.[7]

Career

Teaching

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.

Awards

She received the Oscar Signorini award for best net artwork in 1998 and the CINE Golden Eagle award for best scientific documentary in 1986.[8] [9]

Artwork

Through creative research, she examines perception and identity shifts in connection with scientific innovation as well as examining bio and nanotechnology through art.[10]

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).[11]

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.”[12]

Author

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.[13]

Personal life

Formerly married to Bogdan Maglich, Vesna has two children by that marriage, which ended in divorce.

Works

Publications

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: 10.5749/j.cttts8r3.19. Women of Vision. Victoria Vesna. 2001. University of Minnesota Press. 9780816633715. NED - New. Histories in Feminist Film and Video. 9. 235–247.
  2. Colman. Alison. 2005. Constructing an Aesthetic of Web Art from a Review of Artists' Use of the World Wide Web. 20715365. Visual Arts Research. 31. 1. 13–25.
  3. Brown. Kristen. 1999. Trends in computer and technological art.. Art Criticism. 14 . 2. 94–106. ARTBibliographies Modern, ProQuest.
  4. Spector. Tami I.. 2008-07-25. Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Art. Leonardo. en. 41. 4. 348–349. 10.1162/leon.2008.41.4.348. 1530-9282. subscription.
  5. Web site: Zero@wavefunction. notime.arts.ucla.edu. 2018-03-28.
  6. Web site: Victoria Vesna - Biography. vv.arts.ucla.edu. 2020-03-27.
  7. http://dma.ucla.edu/faculty/profiles/?ID=1 UCLA faculty profile
  8. http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/en/recursos/personas/victoria-vesna Profile
  9. Web site: XXV Oscar Signorini Prize – Robotic Art – NOEMA – Technology & Society. noemalab.eu. 16 December 2008 . en-US. 2018-03-28.
  10. http://elmcip.net/person/victoria-vesna Profile
  11. http://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Victoria-Vesna/023DEA948335D5B2 Profile
  12. Isé. Claudine. 1996. Everywhere and nowhere at once: out on the web. Artweek. 27. 2. 11.
  13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41389773?seq=1 Christopher Hanson, review of Database Aesthetics in Discourse 29:1, Winter 2007, p. 189.
  14. Ridder-Vignone. Kathryn D. de. 2012-08-31. Public Engagement and the Art of Nanotechnology. Leonardo. en. 45. 5. 433–438. 10.1162/LEON_a_00440. 1530-9282. subscription.
  15. Kurtz. Glenn A.. April 1997. Victoria Vesna at the San Francisco Art Institute. Artweek. 28. 20.
  16. Web site: Virtual Concrete Essay. 2021-03-09. vv.arts.ucla.edu.
  17. Web site: NANO nanomandala. 2021-03-09. nano.arts.ucla.edu.
  18. Vesna. Victoria. 1998. Another Day in Paradise and Virtual Concrete: Installation and Telepresence Works. Leonardo. en. 31. 1. 13–19. 10.2307/1576542. 1576542. 193021182. 1530-9282. subscription.
  19. Murray. Soraya. 2009. Vesna. Victoria. Paul. Christiane. Digital Aesthetics: Two Handbooks. 25676496. Art Journal. 68. 3. 112–115.
  20. Web site: Virtually Real: Conversations on TechNoBody – Part I Anti-Utopias. anti-utopias.com. 2018-03-28.
  21. Web site: Virtually Real: Conversations on TechNoBody – Part II Anti-Utopias. anti-utopias.com. 2018-03-28.

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