Victory Vesna speaks of Creating Our Future through Art and Science - Brian David Hardin - KnewWays

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 (North campus) and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) (South campus). Although she was trained early on as a painter (Faculty of Fine arts, University of Belgrade, 1984), her curious mind took her on an exploratory path that resulted in work can be defined as experimental creative research residing between disciplines and technologies. With her installations she investigates how communication technologies affect collective behavior and perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation (PhD, CAiiA_STAR, University of Wales, 2000). Her work involves long-term collaborations with composers, nano-scientists, neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists and she brings this experience to students. Victoria has exhibited her work in 20+ solo exhibitions, 70+ group shows, has been published in 20+ papers and gave 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is the North American editor of AI & Society journal (Springer Verlag, UK) and in 2007 published an edited volume - Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow (Minnesota Press) and another in 2011 -- Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts. (co-edited with Christiane Paul and Margot Lovejoy) Intellect Ltd, 2011. Currently she is working on a series Art Science & Technology based on her online lecture class.
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HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, IS A New Paradigm Evolution in Consciousness. As a kid, I hated the rigid way that we were “taught”… all head, no heart… not creative enough for me… so now, I create from my heart, not my head… my secret… don’t think… follow your intuition… feel and “play” the music… I just make it feel good… it is the “feeling” that we remember. It is never too late to follow your dreams… don’t waste your life… do what you love… no regrets. I believe that “Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” True success is just happiness, and we can decide to be happy… happiness is a choice and a “practice”… it takes “practice”.
I recommend “Love and Kindness” as a religion for all… “Do Unto Others”… the “Golden Rule”. Seek Joy and Happiness by innocently sharing your gifts with LOVE and Gratitude but without fears. Love is the only thing that is real.
Let’s dedicate ourselves to the following:
ETHICS ARE OVERCOMING POWER… so let go of our old ways and embrace change. Recognize the need for CHANGE within our environments, ourselves and all parts of our lives and give up resistance to the change. Removing the old patterns and unwholesome things in the way of making these changes. Stepping out in FAITH. “Be the change that we want to see.”
Exhibit Unconditional LOVE for ourselves… and then all other beings as equals… including mother earth. “Love one another.”
Be in JOY and happiness… spread your joy in service to others… “do unto others, as we would have done to ourselves”… “you get what you give”.
Remain in WONDERMENT with Innocence… lose your judgments of the world and be more present in the moment… the way we operated as a child… following our INTUITION and our HEARTS… not our MIND… staying in the “NOW”. Be present in the moment… not the past and the future. “There is only NOW.”
Become FEARLESS… recognize that all of our “problems” are really just “opportunities” to grow and learn new lessons. This means that we give thanks for our recent “problems” and commit to not repeating the same action again. “It’s all good!” We GROW… we LEARN… we LIVE… we ENLIGHTEN ourselves by dropping our “heavy” old patterns and embracing a new way of being in the flow of nature. We act “natural”, not “normal”… we follow our INTUITION. And we give appreciation for ALL lessons. All crisis is really just and opportunity to grow.
Being APPRECIATIVE of our lives and our relationships… both “good” and “bad”… they all just help us to grow and teach us new lessons. Appreciation goes beyond Gratitude because it implies the desire to pay it back (or forward) with interest so that it “appreciates” like an investment.
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