This Sunday, Sept. 15, The Laguna Art Museum is hosting an informal memorial for artist Beatriz da Costa with a panel featuring Donna Haraway, Alex Juhasz, and Catherine Lord. It starts at 1 pm. There is a Facebook page for the event. Before or after the memorial, you can see …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
event: Experimental Media Art Festival where: CTSA Arts Plaza + Beall Center date: Sunday, Oct. 10th, 2010, 1-8 p.m., free UCI’s Beall Center for Art + Technology opened exactly 10 years ago, with a ground-breaking show on computer games and art entitled “SHIFT-CTRL” that was co-curated by faculty members …
OSCENE 2010 Laguna Museum of Art Feb. 20—May 16, 2010 Studio Art faculty member Antoinette LaFarge is premiering a new project in the OSCENE 2010 exhibition at the Laguna Museum of Art. Hangmen Also Die, created in collaboration with director Robert Allen, is a performance-video-installation programmed in Max/MSP/Jitter that …
The international Digital Arts and Cultures conference is being held at UC Irvine this year, Dec. 12-19. Subtitled “after media: embodiment and context” it looks like being an exciting event. It’s directed by Simon Penny, a faculty member in the Studio Art and EECS departments, and it features dozens of …