Victoria Vesna



Vesna's work has moved from performance and video installations to experimental research that connects networked environments to physical public spaces. She explores how physical and ephemeral spaces affect collective behavior. Victoria is an artist fellow in an online Ph.D. program at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts (CAiiA) at the University of Wales. Currently Vesna leads an initiative called 'Online Public Spaces: Multidisciplinary Explorations of Multiuser Environments'(OPS:MEME). She is also the North American editor of Artificial Intelligence & Society and is working on a special issue 'Database Aesthetics: Issues of Organization and Category in Art'. Last year she completed production on a CD-ROM called 'Life in the Universe with Steven Hawking' (a UCSB/MetaTools co-production). Vesna's work has received notice in such prominent publications as Art in America, Artweek, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Newsweek, and the Los Angeles Times, as well as Spiegel (Germany), The Irish Times (Ireland), Tema Celeste (Italy), and Veredas (Brazil).

Victoria Vesna
UCLA, Dept. of Design
1300 Dickson Art Center
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310)825-0925
e-mail: vv@ucla.edu
http://time.arts.ucla.edu