On Thursday, June 6th, the students of this spring’s Foundations in Media Design class are holding an exhibition of their class projects on the 3rd floor of the ACT (Art Culture Technology) building, just down the hall from the Art Department offices. The show is entitled “Six Sides” because all …
The Laguna Art Museum is featuring some of the last projects by UCI Art Department faculty member Beatriz da Costa, who died of cancer in December 2012. This exhibition, curated by Grace Kook-Anderson as the fourth in the museum’s s ex·pose series, features Beatriz’s triptych video installation Dying for the …
For the Fall Quarter 2013, the following courses have been scheduled: 65A Foundations of Media Design (Jackson) 65B Internet Art & Design (LaFarge) 106B Game Studies (Nideffer) 106C Design for Print (LaFarge) 110A Mechatronics I (Penny) In addition, the following course in the Digital Arts Minor will be offered: Arts …
EAD faculty member Simon Penny is presently in residence at the Hangar in Barcelona, Spain, teaching a graduate seminar in a masters program in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media. He will also be running a workshop on Interdisciplinary Research for EU project Soft Control later in June, a well as …
A project spearheaded by students in the school’s Digital Arts Minor has reached its goal of raising $4500 in an ambitious Kickstarter campaign. Pintour will bring audio walking tours and wayfinding guideposts to the UC Irvine campus. The large map-pin-shaped sculptures dotted around campus will serve as Pintour landmarks for …
In April, EAD faculty member Antoinette LaFarge gave a talk at the Feminist Infrastructures and Technology Conference at UC San Diego on the late Beatriz da Costa’s work. Entitled “Less Dismal Science,” it was a look at da Costa’s commitment to furthering public understanding of science and a hands-on approach …
Sadly, in December the Art department and EAD area lost faculty member Beatriz da Costa to cancer. Beatriz had gone to New York in 2010 for treatment of her cancer, and while there she began what became her final work, a series of projects—The Life Garden, Dying for the Other, …
Studio Art faculty member Simon Penny and ICS faculty member Judith Gregory are mentoring a team of UCI students who have received funding to build ‘Therabot’, a remote-controllable robot avatar designed for bedridden kids. The team leaders are Emanuel Sakzlyan and Katie Tilford (Studio Art, CTSA), and the team members …
This website focuses on courses, faculty, students, and events relating to the Electronic Art+Design area within UC Irvine’s Department of Studio Art. This site is a new migration and update of an older site; please be patient while we build it out. We’ve lost most of our older posts and …
That was the question being addressed in the school’s recent panel entitled “The Legal Side of Art Collaboration”. Taking place on May 10th, it inaugurated the Colloquium Room in the school’s new Contemporary Art Center with a survey of the legal traps that lie in wait for artists who collaborate …