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Victoria Vesna

James K. Gimzewski

Art|Sci CenterUCLA

THE MISSION OF THE ART | SCI CENTERTo pursue, facilitate and promote research and programs that demonstrate the potential of media arts and science collaborations. Media artists and scientists from the home campus, UCLA, from the UC system, the national and international communities will approach the center's intention to

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Strident disharmony in thesymphony of classical mechanics

yet strangely familiar – played as it were

on the same instrument.Erwin Schrödinger: wave mechanics

Molecular communication through stochastic synchronization induced by

exracellular fluctuations

Standing Waves: Fiber Optic Interferometer

Observation of Nanoscale Dynamics in Cantilever

Jason Reed1, Paul Wilkinson1, Joanna Schmit2, William Klug3 and J. K. Gimzewski11Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles CA 900952Veeco Metrology, Tucson AZ 857063Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCLA, Los Angeles CA 90095

Modes 1-d and 2-d

``I was observing the motion of a boat which was rapidly drawn along a narrow channel by a pair of horses, when the boat suddenly stopped - not so the mass of water in the channel which it had put in motion; it accumulated round the prow of the vessel in a state of violent agitation, then suddenly leaving it behind, rolled forward with great velocity, assuming the form of a large solitary elevation, a rounded, smooth and well-defined heap of water, which continued its course along the channel apparently without change of form or diminution of speed. I followed it on horseback, and overtook it still rolling on at a rate of some eight or nine miles an hour, preserving its original figure some thirty feet long and a foot to a foot and a half in height. Its height gradually diminished, and after a chase of one or two miles I lost it in the windings of the channel. Such, in the month of August 1834, was my first chance interview with that singular and beautiful phenomenon which I have called the Wave of Translation'' John Scott Russell, Union Canal at Hermiston

SOLITONS

frequencyThe pitch

Many chakras

Play their tune

Like a sitar

Or like the screech

Of brakes

Like a sutra

Or monks chanting

J. Polchinski M Theory Cosmology

In string theory, each fundamental particle is created in some sense by different patterns of vibration of the strings

wave

Between the silence

Of the wave crashing

The split second of inner silence

Of NoHeart beat

On the crest

A second can last eternity

Silence before a storm

Cell sonics: yeast in water

Temperature Dependence

26°Cf = 1.092 kHz

30°Cf = 1.634 kHz

22°Cf = 0.873 kHz

Ln[v] = Ln[v0] – Ea/RT

Ea = 58 kJ/mol

Motors : Ea = 50-100 kJ/mol

Pelling, A. E., Sehati, S., Gralla, E. B., Valentine, J. S., and Gimzewski, J. K. Science. 305, 1147 (2004)

waterFlowWavesThirstOur bodyThis planetA great illusionMultifariously waveLifeRiver of change

Dynamic mechanical oscillations during Metamorphosis of the monarch butterfly

(Danaus plexippus))

Andrew E. Pelling, Paul R. Wilkinson, Richard StringerJames K. Gimzewski

London Center for Nanotechnology and Department of Medicine, Rayne Building, University College London, London, United Kingdom.

Department of Math, Science and Allied Health, Harrisburg Area Community College, Lancaster, PA

Color Changes with % Development

8 Tesla MRI

Water constitutes about two thirds of the human body weight, and this

water content explains is what magnetic resonance images

Optical Beam Deflection system with Split photodiode and Micro-mirrors mounted on chrysalis

spectral analysis of bursts (burst fraction,bf )

burst characteristics

Sonograms

Butterflies flying in the rain

No words

Just sounds of cold rain

Watching butterflies

Drop and die

Such a beautiful dance

http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/waterbowls/

Artist / Scientist: Victoria Vesna / James Gimzewski

In collaboration with: Tyler Adams, John Houk, Eric Hoek, Osman Khan, Paul Wilkinson, CK Lin, Anne Niemetz