Victoria Vesna
Victoria Vesna, Ph.D., is an artist and professor at the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci center at the School of the Arts and California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI). With her installations she investigates how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation (PhD, University of Wales, 2000). Her work involves long-term collaborations with composers, nano-scientists, neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists and she brings this experience to her students. She is the North American editor of AI & Society. In 2007 she published an edited volume, Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow and another in 2011, Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts.
