COMING UP

Professor Memo Akten exhibition SUPERRADIANCE

Reception: March 29, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

March 29 - April 30, 2025

CTRL Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Superradiance is a multiscreen video and sound installation and film by Memo Akten and Katie Peyton Hofstadter that invites the viewer to extend their bodily perception beyond the skin and into the living environment. The work interweaves dance, poetry, music, generative imagery and the neurological phenomenon of embodied simulation with artificial intelligence.

PhD student Fabiola Carranza performance The Mexican Husband / Un marido mexicano

April 2, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

This bilingual adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s one-act play “The Jewish Wife” (1937) follows the events of a husband’s final night with his wife in Los Angeles before running for the Mexican border. The Mexican Husband / Un marido mexicano is an account of the ways in which exclusionary immigration policies play out. It asks questions about the state of humanity in an era of immigration enforcement, border walls, and enduring prejudice, both visible and invisible.

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.

Coralys Carter MFA thesis exhibition RATTLEBONE

Reception: April 4, 5:00 - 7:30 p.m.

April 7 - April 11, 2025 by appointment

Main + Performance, Visual Arts Facility, UCSD

In RATTLEBONE, Coralys Carter lends flesh to memory. Through sculpture, etchings, and textiles, Carter contends with the places memories reside: in our objects, in our homes, and in ourselves. Carter’s work sinks into the many meanings of objects, their uses, and places within and outside of the body where memory is made.

Moe Penders Ramos MFA thesis exhibition NELWAT

Reception: April 4, 5:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Performance: April 10, 7:00 - 7:30 p.m.

April 4 - April 18, 2025

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Nelwat (root in nahuat) is a culmination of work pertaining to themes of cuirness, migration, and translation. Join us for a sound performance on April 10th from 7:00 pm to 7:30 pm as a part of Moe's exploration of maps as graphic scores. Guest musicians performing include Lyra Montoya, Emir Chacra, and Ana Luisa Díaz.

VIS149 class online exhibition Beyond Dystopia


Beyond Dystopia is the online exhibition by students in Professor Amy Alexander’s 2025 seminar, Beyond Dystopia: “AI” and algorithmic ethics, bias, and possibilities for artists. The artworks and research examine critical issues surrounding contemporary generative AI systems including race and gender bias, authorship, and automation bias.

Professor Memo Akten and others write AI | Alternative Intentions

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As the idea of art as a strictly human domain comes into question, the power of collective forms of imagination and intelligence is gaining attention. In order to address the uncertainty surrounding so-called “AI art,” Alex Estorick invited prominent creators and critics working at the intersection of art and technology to stake out their positions within this debate.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim essay [PRISM] "Relational Aesthetics" and "Socially Engaged Art" in Korea

Public Public

Korean socially engaged art journal, Public Public (https://maily.so/publicpublic), presents Jae Hwan Lim's short essay about "relational aesthetics" and "socially engaged art" in contemporary South Korea.

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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