Victoria Vesna is a media artist, professor and chair of the department of Design | Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts. Her work can be defined as experimental research that resides in between disciplines and technologies. She explores how communication technologies affect collective behavior and how perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation. Currently she is co-director of SINAPSE, a center that promotes transdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Recently they have been commissioned by LACMAlab to develop a series of installations that address the impact of nanoscience on culture and consciousness in an experiential manner. Other notable works are Bodies INCorporated, Datamining Bodies, n0time, Cellular Trans_Actions and zerowave @function. Currently she is completing an edited volume entitled Database Aesthetics to be published by Minnesota Press. Dr. Vesna has exhibited her work in 16 solo exhibitions, over 70 group shows, published 20 papers and gave over 100 invited talks in the last ten years. She is recipient of many grants, commissions and awards, including the Oscar Signorini award for best net artwork in 1998 and the Cine Golden Eagle for best scientific documentary in 1986. Her work has received notice in publications such as Art in America, the Los Angeles Times, as well as Spiegel (Germany), The Irish Times (Ireland), Tema Celeste (Italy), and Veredas (Brazil).