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Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name curated by Christiane Paul (Adjunct Curator of New Media at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), for the opening of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center, UCLA, School of Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA. Pages 12–13, 82–89, 107.
The exhibition featured work by faculty members Rebecca Allen, Robert Israel, Rebeca Méndez, Vasa Mihich, Christian Moeller, C.E.B. Reas, Jennifer Steinkamp and Victoria Vesna (chair). Faculty who teach theory in the department—Erkki Huhtamo and Katherine Hayles—contributed essays to the catalogue.
‘The works brought together in Second Natures construct a multifaceted picture of representations of nature—a picture that is very much of its time and informed by the current [social and cultural] climate,’ curator Christiane Paul said. The age of digital technologies has brought about profound changes in the depiction of nature: a shift towards a ‘second nature’ that is increasingly bound to mediation, data representation and simulation. The exhibited works, which range from interactive installation and software art to sculpture and painting, either simulate natural elements and organic structures or operate on an inherent tension between nature and design. Nature appears as processed—both in the sense of natural resources and medium—as designed, simulated, technologically connected and filtered through human perception, or as an imaginary space.
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