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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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April 5, 1:00 p.m.
Casa del Lago, UNAM, México
This talk is a public program for the exhibition Annlee: No Ghost Just A Shell. In 2013, Hito Steyerl posed the question: “Is the internet dead?” as a starting point for reflecting on the current state of the internet, with a particular emphasis on the circulation, editing, and manipulation of multiple images.
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Reception: April 7, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
April 7 - April 11, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
These works aim to explore and uplift the very intrinsic nature of existence and connectedness, through pieces which delve into explorations of a Filipino identity, a religious upbringing, subcultural affiliations, as well as friends and family.
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Reception: April 9, 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
March 29 - May 3, 2025
Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX
The artist's recent residency in the desert vistas of Pioneertown, CA turned into an extended chapter in her exploration of the color blue. The Pioneertown desert and the Rocky Mountains come together to create a similar emotional environment. Piersol pulls from both, visually and psychologically, to create new landscapes.
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Media Art 21
This text reflects upon Latin American media art that actively reappropriated and reuses obsolete machines as a mode of production that makes space to criticize technocapitalism from different fronts. It examines the artistic practices of a selection of artists who use discarded technical objects and actively critique planned obsolescence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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August 29, 2024 - April 12, 2025
Rubin Gallery & L Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso
The exhibition includes artwork from the U.S. Corn Belt and from Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. For the artists (many of whom have witnessed these events firsthand), it is important to make visible the connections between the natural world, agricultural reform, economic recession, military intervention, civil war, genocide, and mass migrations.
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January 17 - April 13, 2025
Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Gallery, Washington DC
Hung Liu: Happy and Gay, curated by Georgetown University Art and Curatorial Studies graduate students in collaboration with Dr. Dorothy Moss, presents a selection of Liu’s works from 2011-2013. In the series, Liu revisits cartoons of her youth that were published in children’s books and primers (known as xiaorenshu).
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