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Presented by the UCLA Art Sci center in collaboration with the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, or Die Angewandte).

The two-day symposium and exhibition on arts based research aims to envision a future in which arts and design are understood to be central to the success of every complex problem. Focus in the program will be to highlight the importance of art research and education, particularly in times of social unrest and climate change. It is through the arts that the scope of human experience around creativity, innovation, empathy, culture, and knowledge is learned, expressed, and distributed, both for the common good and the development of the individual. By highlighting collaborative research between artists, humanists, scientists and scholars at large, the symposium will attempt to demonstrate the important role of art research in academia and beyond.

SYMPOSIUM

April 4^th—UCLA south campus

ARTS based RESEARCH in times of CLIMATE & SOCIAL CHANGE

California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)

WORKSHOP

April 5^th – UCLA north campus

WHAT’S NEXT? Eco Materialism & Contemporary Art

EDA, Broad Arts center

Book signing: UCLA Fowler museum

EXHIBITION of the Angewandte

April 6^th – UNDERSTANDING – ART & RESEARCH

Building Bridges Art Exchange gallery

Bergamot Station, Santa Monica

Introduced and moderated by Victoria Vesna, UCLA Art Sci center, department of Design Media Arts.

Confirmed participants: Gerald Bast, Cornelia Bast, Amir Baradaran, Marisa Caichiolo, Ina Conradi, Alexander Damianisch, Wenda Gu, Gabriel Harp, Allison Leigh Holt, Dalila Honorato, Margarete Jahrmann, Iain Kerr, Terence Koh, Greg Lynn, Victoria Marks, Laura Parker, Ingeborg Reichle, Ruth Schnell, Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Jiayi Young, María Antonia González Valerio, Linda Weintraub, Vera Wittkowsky, Dajuin Yao.