Applications are now open for the UC Irvine Art Department’s 3-year MFA program. Electronic Art and Design (EAD) graduate students in the Department of Art at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) operate at the intersection of art, design, and technology, and are motivated to intervene in society …
Students in the Art Department’s winter 2014 Graphic Novel course at UC Irvine created graphic novellas, doing all the work from writing and artwork to final publication. The students started by choosing a myth or folktale from any world culture and then updated it in some way. In the course …
We are now accepting online applications to our M.F.A. graduate program at UC Irvine. We are a small, highly competitive program best suited for students pursuing intensive research-based practices that would benefit from the myriad of collaborative interdisciplinary opportunities offered by our tier-one research institution. We encourage prospective students interested …
After the success of the OK Go music video “This Too Shall Pass” with its big-box sized Rube Goldberg machine (now with 4 million hits), ACE alum Brett Doar has gone on to make other contraptions, the most recent being for an ad for GoldieBlox engineering toys for girls. Eric …
In Winter 2014, EAD faculty members will be teaching the following undergraduate and graduate courses in the Art Department: Arts 11 (J Jackson)* Art 133 The Graphic Novel (LaFarge) Art 110B Mechatronics II (Penny) Art 215 Seminar in Interdisciplinary Studies (Penny) In addition, the following courses that count as electives …
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 …
Simon Penny was awarded the 2013 UCI Chancellors Award for excellence in undergraduate research for his work mentoring the Therabot Project under the UROP CALIT2 Multidisciplinary Design Project (MDP) initiative. The Therabot project pursued the prototyping of an autonomous robot with wifi two way video and bed-based control to serve …
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 …