λ | ω | h2o

~ waves

~ frequencies

~ water

Up to 60%of the human body is water, the brain is composed of 70% water, and the lungs are nearly 90% water. About 83% of our blood is water, which helps digest our food, transport waste, and control body temperature. Each day humans must replace 2.4 liters of water, some through drinking and the rest taken by the body from the foods eaten.

Available fresh water amounts to less than half of 1% of all the water on Earth. The rest is seawater or polar ice. Fresh water is renewable only by rainfall.

Global consumption of water is doubling every 20 years - more than twice the rate of human population growth. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people on Earth already lack access to fresh drinking water.

If current trends persist, by 2025 the demand for fresh water will rise by 56 percent and as many as two-thirds of the world's population will be living with serious water shortages or absolute water scarcity.

Ganges: Holy River of Pollution: raw sewage, rotting carcasses, unburnt and partially burnt human and animal corpses, industrial toxic waste, fertilizers and pesticides that infect the river

WATER BOWLS: moon~drop~sound~oil

Premiering at the New Media festival inBeijing, June 10th

Water Technology Research (WaTeR)

Center at LA

Develop new and economical alternative sourcesOf potable, irrigation and consumptive water uses

www.watercenter.ucla.edu

MOON

Work in progress: moon

Mutant bacteria

DROP

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

Gold atoms

Electron standing wavesAtoms make waves

J. Polchinski M Theory Cosmology

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

10 mYeast and Fibroblast CellsMake tiny Sound Waves

life is mainly nothingin side the atomsis empty space

Cell sonics: yeast in water

Standing Waves: Fiber Optic Interferometer

Modes 1-d and 2-d

Dark side of the cell

SOLITONS

Wave of Translation

The wavefunction expands

• In a hundred years we have increased the amount of electromagnetic signals on the planets surface 100 million times

• Electro-pollution is invisible – the smog of human tele-communication

SOUND

"water will be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th."

Who owns water and how much they are able to charge for it will become the question of the century. The privatization of water is already a $400-billion-a-year business. Fortune Magazine

OIL

Work in progress

Collaborators

• Tyler Adams: sound

• John Houck: moon

• Eric Hoek: nano filtration animation

• Osman Khan: oil

• Paul Wilkinson: oil

• Anne Niemetz: documentation

• Ted Chung: construction

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 address ethical, social and environmental issues of contemporary scientific innovations and artistic projects that respond to cutting-edge

inventions and research.

 

http://artsci.ucla.edu