Students in Antoinette LaFarge’s 2023 Programming for Artists class took part in the Art Department’s “Tenth Thursday” showcase in June. Their programmed interactive artworks were made using the software Max from Cycling ’74. Many of these students were working with programming for the first time in their lives to …
October 2017: Honors student Arthur Rodrigues showed his new sculptures and prints in Catalyst Gallery. He has been working with magnetic ferro-fluid as his key material, creating works that change over time as the ferro-fluid pathways are shaped and altered by an infrastructure of magnets. The accompanying digital prints are …
In October, EAD faculty member Simon Penny organized a two-day symposium focused on the remarkable – but almost lost – navigation and seafaring traditions of the peoples who traversed and settled one-third of the world. Participants considered the centrality of seafaring for pacific island cultures, focusing on the intersections of history, …
Fall 2017. EAD faculty member Antoinette LaFarge has a new essay on science fiction out in the MOSF Journal of Science Fiction. In “Alive in the Now: Ekphrasis in Philip K. Dick and William Gibson”, she takes a close look at how descriptions of art function in the work of …
The Beall Center for Art and Technology is currently hosting “Drawn from a Score”, an exhibition that features works developed from a written, visual or code-based score. Event scores first developed by John Cage and Fluxus artists are included, as are digital prints generated algorithmically. A highlight is a reconstruction of …
UCI’s School of the Arts has recently launched an exciting new initiative, the Institute for 21st Century Creativity, designed to support interdisciplinary practices linking art, technology and design across the entire campus. “21C” is Directed by Professor John Crawford, an intermedia artist and technology developer, It supports faculty-led and graduate-student …
February 2017: Honors student Alex Smith installed Timeless Ephemeral, an interactive video sculpture in Catalyst Gallery. Run by Max software, this haunting piece explores perception and memory, especially how we experience trauma in relation to ideological constructs. This is an expansion of a work he began in the fall EAD …
Fall 2016. Applications are now open for graduate study in the Department of Art at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) at UC Irvine. Electronic Art and Design (EAD) students in the department operate at the intersection of art, design, and technology, and are motivated to intervene in …
Fall 2016: EAD welcomes new media artists Stefani Byrd as an adjunct faculty member. Stefani works in video and interactive technologies, especially public installations that bring together media and performance. Her work is playful and thoughtful, examining aspects of contemporary culture haunted by stereotypes, miscommunication, and distorted power relationships. Her …
Fall 2016. Recent books with contributions by EAD faculty include: The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies from Oxford University Press, edited by George Lewis and Ben Piekut, with essays by Simon Penny and Antoinette LaFarge (2016) Social Media Archeology and Poetics, edited by Judy Malloy, with an essay by …