Exhibitions
  • West R, Margolis T, Mostafavi I, Lewis JP, Gossmann J, Hackbarth B, Horn AS, Fernald S, Schulze J, Li W, Henthorn T, Yamada T, Singh R, Chheng T, Cassey T, Lien J. (2007) ATLAS in silico, ACM SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery, (Invited exhibition / Interactive installation)

  • West R, Burke J, Mendelowitz E, Lewis, JP, Kerfled, C. (2006) ACTG to Calligraphy: Genetic Visualization for Ecce Homology. IEEE Information Visualization - Conference Compendium (Peer reviewed exhibition/Conference presentation)

  • Singh R, Schwarz N, Taesombut N, Lee D, Jeong B, Renambot L, Lin AW, West R, Otsuka H, Peltier ST, Martone ME, Nozaki K, Leigh J, Ellisman MH (2005). Real-time multi-scale brain data acquisition, assembly, and analysis using an end-to-end OptIPuter, iGrid 2005 . (conference demonstration/exhibit)

  • West R, Burke J, Kerfeld C, Mendelowitz E, Holton T, Lewis JP, Drucker E, Yan W, Lamont S, Lee D, McQuade L. (2005) Ecce Homology. Exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2005, Emerging Technologies. (Peer reviewed exhibition/Interactive installation)

  • Kosaka H, Oguri, Birnbaum, N, West R, Burke J, Kerfeld C, Mendelowitz E, Holton T., Lewis JP, Drucker E, Yan W. (2003) Muddy Robe. UCLA Fowler Museum. (Invited Performance)

  • West R, Burke J, Kerfeld C, Mendelowitz E, Holton T., Lewis JP, Drucker E, Yan W. (2003) Ecce Homology. Exhibited within From the Verandah: Art, Buddhism, Presence. UCLA Fowler Museum. (Invited Exhibition/Interactive installation.)

  • West R. (2002) The Trajectory of Forgetting. MFA Exhibition. UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles (Interactive installation.)

Public Talks
  • Science: Whatís Art Got To Do With It? Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, March 29, 2006 (Invited Lecture)

  • Blending Art and Science SXTH 20: Freshman Honors Seminar University of California, San Diego, March 2, 2005, (Invited lecture)

  • High-Dimensional Information Visualization for Ecce Homology Digital Imaging and Interactivity/ICAM 101 University of California, San Diego, February 23, 2005 (Invited lecture)

  • In silico v1.0: Ecce Homology Center for Research in Computing and the Arts/Visual Arts Department University of California, San Diego, May 4, 2004

  • Cyberspace: A Workshop on Playing, Gaming and Learning University of California, Los Angeles January 23, 2004 (Invited presenter)

  • Informatics Tools for Scientific Discovery and Collaboration University of Illinois at Chicago September 3-5, 2003, (Invited presenter)

  • Carbon Versus Silicon: Thinking Small/ Thinking Fast Banff New Media Institute, The Banff Center August 7 - 10, 2003, (Invited presenter)

  • Working with Wetware Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum, London UK Arts Catalyst, UK, June 20, 2003 (Invited presenter)

  • In Our Image: Extreme Genetics Rhizome.LA, http://rhizome.org/events/rhizome_la_may.php3 May 12, 2002, (Presenter and panel moderator)

  • Genetics and Culture s.i.n.a.p.s.e. & UCLA Design|Media Arts http://sinapse.arts.ucla.edu/genetics.htm March 8, 2002, (Panel Respondent)

News/Reviews/Press
  • Featured in: Art and Electronic Media (Themes and Movements Series)
    Edited by Edward A. Shanken, Phaidon Press, United Kingdom, in press.

  • Featured in: Art and Biotechnologies (2nd Edition)
    Edited by Ernestine Daubner and Louse Poissant, Groupe De Recherche En Arts MÈdiatiques (GRAM)
    UniversitÈ du QuÈbec ý MontrÈal Press, in press.

  • Art Thatís A BLAST
    Katharine Miller, Biomedical Computation Review ñ Stanford, CA, USA, Fall 2005 Vol. 1(2)

  • Llegan Los Artistas del Laboratorio
    Eusebio Val, La Vanguardia, Spain, August 16, 2005

  • Genetic Calligraphy
    LiveScience.com - New York, USA (LiveScience image of the day, September 30, 2005)
    http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_050930.html

  • Ecce Homology
    Aminima :: New Media Magazine, Vol.13, September 6, 2005

  • Blending The Human Genome With Art
    Stefanie Olsen, CNET News.com and NYTimes.com, July 27, 2005
    http://news.com.com/Blending+the+human+genome+with+art/2100-7337_3-5805639.html

  • The Artists in the Hazmat Suits
    Randy Kennedy, New York Times, Arts and Leisure, July 3, 2005

  • Transgenic Art
    Talk show guest on NPRís ìThe Connectionî, February 26, 2004 http://www.theconnection.org/

  • Genomic Pictograms
    Birgit Reinert, The Genome News Network, November 26, 2003
    http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/11_03/genomic_pictograms.shtml

  • Tracing Out a Scientific Discovery
    Harold Lee, The Daily Bruin, (front page story), November 10, 2003

  • Skinny Dipping in the Gene Pool
    Birgit Reinert, The Genome News Network, April 4, 2003
    http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/04_03/gene_poolart.shtml

  • Scientists Create Bonds With Artists
    Michael J. Felton and Rachel A. Petkewich, Analytical Chemistry Journal, April 1, 2003

  • Quand la gÈnÈtique devient un outil artistique
    Nicolas Ritoux, La Presse, Actuel, Vendredi 21 FÈvrier 2003, p. B1

  • Media Arts @ Science: Towards a Collaborative Culture
    Susan Martin, UCLA Arts & Architecture, Volume 6 No. 1, Fall 2002.

  • Bioscience Moves into Galleries as Bioart
    Hal Cohen, The Scientist, November 11, 2002.

  • Artists Map the Human Genome
    Charlene Roth, Artweek, V. 33 No. 8, October 2002.

  • Digital Arts: The Evolution of A Discipline
    Fernando Quintero, UC TltC, March 2002

 Ruth West
An interdisciplinary artist-researcher working with digital media and interactive technologies.
     
     
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