TEAM
Victoria Vesna, Ph.D., is an Artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci Center. 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 that 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 exhibits her work in numerous international exhibitions, has been published in 20+ papers, and gave 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is the North American editor of the 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 Vibrations Matter: the art & science of Deep Listening (Routledge, 2026).
Yonatan Rozin is a New York City-based musician, interactive technologist and web developer.
As an avid prototyper, he has worked collaboratively on a variety of creative projects. He is the lead creative developer of BodyMouth, an experimental body motion-reactive speech instrument designed by transmedia playwright Kat Mustatea, which was a finalist in the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition and the Lumen Prize’s “Interactive Immersive” category. He has worked on development teams of professional websites for institutions including NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), the Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center and UCLA’s Art|Sci Department and is passionate about offering affordable dedicated services for creative individuals and organizations.
Yonatan holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Professional Studies from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he completed a 1-year research residency and recently served as an adjunct instructor.
Soeun Bae is an artist and a researcher based in New York. She works with sculpture, technology, and performance to question what it is to be living inside of a body. Her work delves into politics of care and sexuality, exploring the dissection, mechanization, and objectification to birth a hybrid body that holds potential for optimization as it becomes altered, tested, and used. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design.
COLLABORATORS
CC Hart
https://carolyncchart.com/CC Hart is a San Francisco–based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher whose work explores synesthesia, embodied perception, and neurodivergence. Working across visual art, film, and literature, she investigates how internal sensory experiences such as pain, color, touch, and multisensory association can be translated into physical and narrative form. Hart’s projects engage questions at the intersection of neuroscience, empathy, aesthetics, and the medical humanities. Her work has been exhibited internationally in artistic and scientific contexts, and her writing has appeared in journals including Ad Anima (UC Irvine School of Medicine) and The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (Columbia University). She is a founding board member and Secretary of the International Association of Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists (IASAS).
Maryam Razi
https://maryamrazi111.myportfolio.com/Maryam Razi is a UX and visual designer with an M.S. in User Experience, an M.A. in Art Research, and a B.A. in Visual Communication. Her work focuses on improving how people navigate, understand, and interact with digital spaces. Alongside her UX practice, she designs and crafts handmade eyewear, bringing a tactile, artful approach to her broader design work.