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MFA candidate Emily Greenberg online screenings in Festival Ecrã

July 6 - July 9, 2023

Festival Ecrã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

FESTIVAL ECRÃ is an Experimental Art and Cinema event that, through experiences that question the notion and production of the moving image, seeks to stimulate audiovisual culture. By showing Films, Games, Installations, Interactive Arts, Performances and Videoart, ECRÃ encourages new formats for production and exhibitions.

MFA alum Oscar Magallanes in Reflexión

Soft Opening: July 6, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Reception: July 14, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 20 - July 28, 2023

Quad Art Gallery, Riverside CA

Art Makes a difference in our community! This exhbition is a collection of artwork originally exhibited at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Arts and Culture during the inaugural opening. Featuring Guest Curator Cosme Cardova. 

Profs. Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Monique van Genderen in Perpetual Portrait

July 8 - August 19, 2023

Vielmetter, Los Angeles CA

Focusing on artists who have made the portrait a central part of their practice, the exhibition brings together a multitude of approaches and perspectives by artists from different generations and cultural perspectives to situate our understanding of the genre into a new and complex framework.

Professor Amy Alexander in xCoAx Conference Exhibition

July 5 - July 7, 2023

Galerie Eigenheim, Weimar Germany

Deep Hysteria is a still image series that repurposes algorithmic bias in the service of unraveling a deep human bias. The people in these artworks are “AI”-generated twins that vary in gender presentation. Despite the marketing of such tools, reading emotions solely by analyzing a person’s face is a feat that neither humans nor “AI’s” can reliably do.

Asst. Professor Janelle Iglesias CaliBaja Seminar

July 11, 2023, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Zoom Registration

For the summer science and art seminar series, Iglesias presents "RE: SISTERS Las hermanas Iglesias and familial collaboration." This will be followed by a talk from Mario Alberto Mendoza Bárcenas, "Using High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) for design of aerospace technology."

Mandeville Art Gallery Nature Scene

July 1 - October 2, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Nature Scene is a program presented on the Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen featuring artworks that have been commissioned or specifically adapted for the space. It is on view daily from 7 am to 10 pm. The works use artificial intelligence, generative algorithms, 3D scanning, and more to depict the influence of technological evolution on the staging and mediation of the natural world.

Assistant Professor Memo Akten Distributed Consciousness

July, 2023 - July, 2024

ACMI, Melbourne Australia

“Distributed Consciousness” is a multi-faceted work that spans themes of biological and artificial intelligence, distributed computation, distributed cognition, cryptography, evolution, phenomenology, ecological awareness, climate change, activism, and cephalopods. The project began as an NFT collection on the eco-friendly Tezos blockchain.

MFA alum Arlene Mejorado in Mud Kin

Reception: July 14, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

July 15 - July 29, 2023

Roski Graduate Gallery, LA Arts District

A contemporary cohort of Indigenous, Latinx, and Immigrant artists and activists working in the southwestern United States are engaging with ancestral adobe structures and construction to resist artistic, cultural, and ecological assimilation. Predominant expressions of land-based art and environmental activism in the US have historically ignored Indigenous and Latinx contributions, and at the same time, acquiring critical reception or scholarly notice has been tied to the whitewashing of cultural signifiers.

UG alum Marisa DeLuca Keeper

Closing Reception: July 15, 2023, 5:00 p.m.

Backfence Society, Vista CA

Sourcing original photographs from the Oceanside Historical Society's archives and incorporating materials from the city she loves, Marisa continues her creative research into psychometry, catastrophic change, memory and psychogeography in this limited series of reliquary paintings. This event marks the closing of Marisa's Artist Occupancy at Backfence Society.

UG alumni Marisa DeLuca and Lizelle Lopez Aguilar present Artists in Solidarity 4th Annual Auction for Migrant Families

July 15 - July 30, 2023

Online Auction Site

Artists in Solidarity is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that stands with and supports migrant families and children who all deserve their chance to safely begin their American story and to be treated as human beings. The immigrant’s plight in the US remains untenable, and we raise money through art auctions to support organizations that work to bring decency, compassion, and respect to the process.

MFA alum Guillermo Estrada, Rancho Shampoo performance

July 20, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

MCASD, La Jolla CA

MCASD's ongoing partnership with Space Time (founded by UG alum Nick Lesley) responds to works on display, presenting rare artist videos and live performances. July’s collaboration responds to Celia Àlvarez Muñoz, featuring video work by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and a performance by Rancho Shampoo & the Indian Dub Orchestra (Guillermo Estrada, Rubén Alonso Tamayo, Rodo Ibarra, Julián González, David Bautista Toledo).

Professor Grant Kester book The Sovereign Self


In The Sovereign Self, Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

PhD candidate Hande Sever awarded SOMA Summer Residency


SOMA Summer is an intensive three-week residency program in Mexico for artistic inquiry that welcomes a cohort of international artists, curators, critics, and art historians interested in collaborative pedagogical models. Each SOMA Summer is organized around a different theme that provides a compelling conceptual framework for research and creative work.

Assistant Professor Janelle Iglesias Las Hermanas Iglesias

CLOSING SOON!

December 17, 2022 - July 9, 2023

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin TX

Working on opposite coasts, Sisters Lisa and Janelle Iglesias produce playful work in a variety of mediums, engaging issues such as community, feminism, and cultural hybridity. Las Hermanas’ artworks draw on their identities as the children of Dominican and Norwegian immigrants and highlight relationships between family members as well as individuals in society, tying the personal to larger cultural systems and promoting cooperation and collectivity.

Professor Monique van Genderen Paintings

June 3 - July 15, 2023

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

Her painterly language may be understood through her search to humanize abstraction, in which intersections of landscapes and organic forms convey memories and evolve over time.

San Diego Union Tribune Article

Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 in Fictions of Interdomain Routing

April 22 - July 23, 2023

Long March Space, Beijing China

Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 includes Visual Arts Professors Ricardo Dominguez & Brett Stalbaum, Literature Professor Amy Sara Carroll,MFA alumni Elle Mehrmand and micha cárdenas.

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