EAD faculty member Antoinette LaFarge is currently showing work in The Land Mark Show at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. The show’s major themes are human traces on the land, land use, and fractured utopian visions of nature. Three photographic panoramas from Professor LaFarge’s “Western Waters” series are …
EAD faculty member Antoinette LaFarge will be leading a Wikipedia editathon for new and experienced editors on Saturday, June 20th from noon to 5 pm at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Los Angeles. The focus of this editathon will be international women in the arts, and there will be …
EAD faculty member Antoinette LaFarge is taking part in a panel entitled “Feminist Encounters with Wikipedia” at the New School, New York, on April 1, 2015. The topic is systemic gaps in participation in editing Wikipedia, where the editor base is currently 87% male. Unsurprisingly, consistent underrepresentation is also reflected …
In April 2014, Professor Simon Penny was Labex Arts-H2H 2014 International Professor at Université Paris 8. He spent the month in residence at the Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs in Paris where he gave classes, seminars and public lectures, and taught a two week robotics workshop entittled “Code, Morphology …
Simon Penny is giving a talk at the Conférence Hybride at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifsin in Paris on April 7th.
EAD faculty member Antoinette LaFarge has published a synopsis of her 2003 Reading Frankenstein performance project in Ada, a Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology. The synopsis includes extensive script excerpts, production stills, video and audio files, and an introduction to the project (co-authored with Reading Frankenstein director Annie …
This fall, the Art Department welcomed a new faculty member in the EAD area, Assistant Professor Jesse Colin Jackson. Jesse comes to us from OCAD in Canada, where he was on the Faculty of Design. He has a master’s degree in architecture from the University of Toronto, and a B.A.Sc. …
EAD faculty member Antoinette LaFarge is a member of FemTechnet, a loose network of women involved professionally with technology, feminism, science studies, and related areas. She is part of a subgroup of members who are spending time working on Wikipedia to add missing material in their areas of expertise and …
Art Department faculty member Simon Penny has an essay in the recently published second volume of Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age (Kaliningrad, Russia: BB NCCA, 2013). The first volume, published in 2009, focused on artists’ practices and won the National Innovation Prize in Russia. The …
In mid-October, Art Department faculty member Antoinette LaFarge will be premiering a new media performance project in collaboration with New York artist Ursula Endlicher. It will take place Oct. 10, 11, 12 @ 8 pm and Oct. 12 @ 2 pm in the Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) at UC …