Background
Victoria Vesna was born in Washington District of Columbia
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She received a Fine Arts Diploma from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1984 and in 2000 completed her Doctor of Philosophy at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Interactive Arts, University of Wales.
Career
Victoria Vesna is chair of the Department of Design|Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles School of the Arts and Architecture as well as director of University of California, Los Angeles"s Art|Sciences Center and the University of California Digital Arts Research Network. Through creative research, she examines perception and identity shifts in connection with scientific innovation as well as examining bio and nanotechnology through art.include Spaceship Earth at the Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun (2011) and MORPHONANO at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, California (2012). MORPHONANO (made in collaboration with nanoscientist James Gimzewski) comprised many individual works that produced an interactive art experience, based on nanotechnology, in which viewers got to touch, hear, and see elements move and change in response to the participants" presence.
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.
MORPHONANO: Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, California (2012)*Spaceship Earth: Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun (2011)
Quantum Tunneling: Median Kunst Labor (Media Art Laboratory), Graz, Austria.(2008)
Cell Ghosts: Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi.(2005)
Zerowavefunction: Biennale for Electronic Arts, Perth. John Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia.
