COMING UP

VIS 141A exhibition MPifun -n 48 -arrowup catsmeow -finalrealfile finalbackup.py

March 19, 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Mandeville B-114 and B-116, UC San Diego

Animation and Data Visualization Showcase of VIS 141A work Winter 2025. The course introduces external APIs currently of interest in the arts, extending a common programming language such as C, C++, Python, or Java, and the basics of TCP/IP networking. Students gain API fluency through planning and coding software or software mediated art projects.

VIS 161 class exhibition Eventual Vectors

March 18-20, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Juliana Amaya, Amara Bhatia, Kaylee Bradshaw, Chanta Chea, Sarah Chung, Emma Denton, Sonia Klein, Audrey Legaspi, Kieli Leon, Sydney Nunnemaker, So Rivera, Rania Shamji, Ember Sierra, Isabella Vargas, Shruthi Venkatesh, Ajjon Zimmerman. "Systems + Networks @ Scale" introduces students to the study and design of complex systems and networks at diverse scales, from the nanometric to the planetary (and perhaps beyond).

MFA alum Emily Greenberg radio interview for book Alternative Facts

March 20, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

KPBS Midday Edition 89.5 FM

Tune in this Thursday from 12-1 to hear Emily Greenberg discuss her book Alternative Facts on Midday Edition with KPBS Arts Reporter Julia Dixon Evans.

Professor Jessica D'Elena-Tweed talk “The Obstacle is In the Way”

March 20, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

D'Elena-Tweed presents this talk titled “The Obstacle is In the Way: Pedagogy as Transparency and Mythos Reformation” for the Teaching Artists series. Teaching Artists offers participants professional experience via curriculum development, analysis, skill-sharing, and critical discussion surrounding arts education.

Professor Amy Alexander talk for AI and Artistic Autonomy

March 21, 9:00 a.m.

Online & Free, Register Here

Amy Alexander will be a panelist on this ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee SPARKS session. She'll be presenting a short talk entitled "Addressing Bias and Transparency in Commercial Generative AI models: Recent histories as templates for going forward."

BA alum Nick Lesley Necking performance Smoke Show with Professor Michael Trigilio

March 21, 7:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Bread & Salt, San Diego, CA

Necking has been a free-punk improvising collective since 2004. For this event presented by Project [BLANK], they’ve invited like-minded collaborators, including past members, to participate in a series of stunts that break Necking into its composite parts and themes. This five chapter essay will cite influences lofty and lowly, using the language of some of our best misfits!

MFA alum Emily Greenberg book signing for Alternative Facts

March 23, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Warwick's, La Jolla, CA

As part of their ongoing Weekends with Locals Program, Warwick's will be hosting Emily Greenberg, author of Alternative Facts: Stories, for a book signing on Sunday, March 23rd from 1:00pm to 3:00pm.

Mendi + Keith Obadike talk & opening of The Skeuomorph

April 3, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Gallery QI, Atkinson Hall Auditorium, UC San Diego

Mendi + Keith Obadike are artists, composers, and writers. Their works sit at the intersection of art, music, and language and draw upon histories of experimental media art and performance. Rooted in African-American freedom struggles and Igbo cosmology, The Skeuomorph unfolds as a poetic meditation on technological agency and the myths we encode in our machines.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim interview Thinking Outside the Boundary of "Art"

Public Public

Korean socially engaged art journal, Public Public (https://maily.so/publicpublic), interviewed Jae Hwan Lim about his journey as a socially engaged artist/researcher and the editorial collective of the FIELD Journal.

 

Professor Grant Kester book awarded 2025 Franklin Jewitt Mather Award 

College Art Association

Kester's book Beyond the Sovereign Self (Duke University Press, 2024) received the award at the 2025 College Art Association conference. The Frank Jewett Mather Award, first presented in 1963 for art journalism, is named in honor of the art critic, teacher, and scholar who was affiliated with Princeton University until his death in 1953.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Border Craft

March 1 - June 15, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Border Craft is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists employing craft practices to address the geopolitical realities of borderland regions. The works on view serve as a feminist and critical counterpoint to dehumanizing systems designed to divide people and cultures. The exhibition includes MFA alum Isidro Pérez García and Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga.

Professor Memo Akten, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alumni Ash Eliza Smith, Robert Twomey in Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen

October 4, 2024 - Ongoing

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries.

CLOSING SOON

Professor Danielle Dean in The Intimacies Between Continents

February 8 - April 5, 2025

Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, UC Irvine, CA

The Intimacies Between Continents brings together the work of Sula Bermudez-Silverman, Danielle Dean, and Africanus Okokon — three contemporary artists who work across video, sculpture, and installation to unearth the often forgotten material traces of the historical processes that produced global capitalism. 

Professor Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Prof. Emerita Anya Gallaccio in Out of the Ordinary: Uncommon Materials, Marks, and Matrices

December 21, 2024 - April 6, 2025

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

This exhibition explores contemporary artists’ use of unusual mark-making devices, including blood, smoke, Kool-Aid, coffee, scrap metal, vegetable juice, pins, dryer lint, and more, to create drawings and prints. Out of the Ordinary examines artists’ wide-ranging motivations for choosing such unorthodox media, from sensory play and experimentation to excavations of the charged historical and symbolic values of mundane substances.

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