Internet Art 2&3

The first person I took notice of in the reading is Victoria Vesna. Victoria Vesna is an artist and professor at the UCLA Department of Design as well as Media Arts and Director of the Arts and Science center at the school of Arts and California Nanosystems Institute. She was trained as a painter when she was young, however her creative mind took her on the path of experimental research between "disciplines and technologies" (victoriavesna.com). Her work mainly involves long-term collaborations with composers, nano-scientists, neuro-scientists, biologists, and works with students. Victoria has exhibited her work in over 20 solo exhibitions, 70 group shows, and has been published for her works in many newspapers. One project that I viewed of hers out of a few is NANO. This project is on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Boone Children's Gallery. This project "seeks to provide a greater understanding of how art, science, culture, and technology influence each other. The various components of "nano" are designed to immerse the visitor in the radical shifts of scale and sensory modes that characterize science" (victoriavesna.com). For more information on her works, you can visit her website: victoriavesna.com

The second person I took notice of while reading is Natalie Bookchin. Natalie Bookchin received her degree of fine arts at the state University of New York in 1984. She also has her masters in photography from the school of art institute in Chicago. She now resides in L.A. where she works at the California Institute for the Arts. She works collaboratively and independently and exhibits, performs, and lectures, widely in the United States, and Europe on the Internet. Currently she is working on a project with "®™ark (RTMark) for DNAid, an initiative developed by Creative Time and dedicated to exploring the cultural and social implications of genetic research" (fondation-langlois .org). She also has many publications and articles on Internet Art, culture and theory. She is also very well known for her contributions and creations of "The Intruder."