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 Victoria Vesna (born 1959) is a professor and digital media artist.

Early life and education
Victoria Vesna was born in Washington D.C. She received a Fine Arts Diploma from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1984 and in 2000 completed her Ph.D. at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Interactive Arts, University of Wales.

Career
Victoria Vesna is currently chair of the Department of Design|Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture as well as director of UCLA Art|Sci Center and the UC Digital Arts Research Network. She received the Oscar Signorini award for best net artwork in 1998 and the Cine Golden Eagle award for best scientific documentary in 1986. Her work explores communication technologies. Through creative research, she examines perception and identity shifts in connection to scientific innovation as well as examining bio and nano technology through art.

Works

 * Octopus Mandala Glow (2013), in collaboration with Ray Zimmerman, Dawn Faelnar, Mike Datz, Peter Rand, Steven Amrhein, and others
 * ACOUSTIC NETWORKS OF BIRDS (2012), in collaboration with biologist Charles Taylor and physicist Takashi Ikegami
 * Blue Morph (2007) in collaboration with nanoscientist James Gimzewski
 * Datamining Bodies (2004) in collaboration with Gerald de Jong and David Beaudry
 * Zero@wavefunction (2002) in collaboration with nanoscientist James Gimzewski

Publications

 * Database aesthetics: Art in the age of information overflow (2007), University Of Minnesota Press.

Exhibitions

 * Spaceship Earth: Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Torun (2011)
 * MORPHONANO: Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, California (2012)