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 …
The students in Antoinette LaFarge’s fall Design for Print class (Art 106c) are having an exhibition of the artist’s books they made hosted by Langson Library, thanks to Special Collections librarian Steve MacLeod, who has put up a page about the project here, with installation photos. The students’ challenge was …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …