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 …
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 …
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 students of S.A. 106A Programming for Artists are holding a public end-of-year project showing on the evening of June 6th, 2013, from 6 to 8 pm in Room 2200 (the Game Lab) on the second floor of the ACT Building. All are invited to see this exciting range of …