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PhD candidate Doreen Ríos presents Intelligent Machines

November 26, 2023

Feria Internacional del Libro, Guadalajara MX

As part of TELOS magazine's new issue, Doreen Ríos presents a paper titled "Intelligent Machines: A history of databases, creative collaboration, and automation." How has the use of AI for creative purposes evolved and what is the future of these tools? In this article, we conduct a historical analysis of the use of AI in art, from a critical perspective.

noé olivas: Artist Talk

November 28, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Structural & Materials Engineering 149, UC San Diego

noé olivas (b. 1987, San Diego, California—occupied Kumeyaay land) lives and works in Los Angeles, California, occupied Tongva land. He received his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2019, and his BFA from the University of San Diego, California in 2013. Alongside with Patrisse Cullors and alexandre ali reza dorriz, olivas is co-founder of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, an artist collective in Inglewood, California. 

Scaffolding Autonomies: Scores for Daily Rehearsal

December 2, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Zoom Registration

An online workshop led by Kimi Hanauer of the Center for Liberatory Practice and Poetry. Grounded in the framework of mutual aid, this workshop explores practices of collective care that sustain social movements and encourage daily bodily motion, experience, and presence. In conjunction with the exhibition How We Gather at the Mandeville Art Gallery.

UG media student Jalal Al-Marashi Jaffer & alum Ryan Ritterby Another College Musical

December 3, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Price Center Theater, UC San Diego

Produced by Triton Television in association with The Suraj Israni Center for the Cinematic Arts. In addition to an exclusive world premiere, there will be an opportunity to network with local creatives and members involved with the creation of the film as well as a Q&A session where audience members can ask their burning questions! 


PhD candidate Doreen Ríos curated Mitocondria, Inmersión en el linaje materno

December 7, 2023 - March 10, 2024

Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City MX

The project consists of an exhibition, physical and virtual, with 31 artists, researchers, and scientists, to address their maternal lineage using mitochondrial DNA as a trigger. The project includes the delivery of mitochondrial DNA results to participants, a laboratory for reflection and artistic creation, and an exhibition. This is a project developed in collaboration with the Genomic Studies Lab at UNAM.

Video for MexiCali Biennial: Land of Milk and Honey


Multimedia arts exhibitions occurring in Mexicali and Calexico and along the US/Mexico border fence. Exhibitions in the borderlands venues include the Steppling Art Gallery and casa la linea – arte contemporaneo in Calexico, CA, USA. Simultaneous exhibitions took place at Planta Libre Espacio Experimental and IIC Museo in Mexicali.

Lecturer Joshua Tonies La Brizna de Hierba Viajera

November 11, 2023 - January 14, 2024

Galería La Moderna Ensenada, Ensenada MX

The exhibition invites viewers into a world where the aesthetic strategies of ruins serve as a lens through which domestic subjects are rendered within an ecological narrative. This body of work is a convergence of art and technology, fusing the past and the present in a captivating and thought-provoking manner. The works feature a now derelict 1930's catalog home where the artist previously resided for the past decade. 

Assc. Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Copy Machine Manifestos

November 17, 2023 – March 31, 2024

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY

Since the 1970s, zines—short for “fanzines,” magazines, or self-published booklets of texts and images, usually made with a copy machine—have given a voice and visibility to many operating outside of mainstream culture. Artists have harnessed the medium’s essential role in communication and community building and used it to transform material and conceptual approaches to art making across all media.

PhD alum Gabi Schaffzin in imaginary i

November 11, 2023 – April 7, 2024

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI

imaginary i compares how artists and mathematicians utilize constructs of the imaginary, or complex numbers, to envision the future and reclaim, retrace, and reveal past patterns. When examining MMoCA’s collecting patterns, there emerges a history of acquisitions that dovetails with explorations of science and math.

Professor Grant Kester book Beyond the Sovereign Self

Duke University Press

In Beyond the Sovereign Self Grant H. Kester continues the critique of aesthetic autonomy begun in The Sovereign Self, showing how socially engaged art provides an alternative aesthetic with greater possibilities for critical practice. Instead of grounding art in its distance from the social, Kester shows how socially engaged art, developed in conjunction with forms of social or political resistance, encourages the creative capacity required for collective political transformation.

Asst. Professor Alexandro Segade reviews Celia Álvarez Muñoz: Breaking the Binding

Panorama

Álvarez Muñoz’s retrospective is titled Breaking the Binding, a phrase evoking her forty years of work that build on the tactics unfolding in her early artist’s books. The exhibition, organized with great attention to design and didactics by curators Isabel Casso and Kate Green, emphasizes the artist’s use of image and text as means of exploring questions of identity, cultural belonging, and the symbiotic nature of the image-text binary.

CLOSING SOON

Assoc. Prof. Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Kinship: Photography and Connection

May 20 - November 26, 2023 

SF MoMA, San Francisco CA

Kinship: Photography and Connection features six contemporary photographers who share a special affinity with their subjects. Relationships are fundamental to each artist’s practice, whether they are familial, platonic, romantic, cultural, or geographic in nature. In each case, the deep connection between the artist and their subject is elemental to the power of the resulting photographs.

Professor Kyong Park in 2086: Together How? at Korean Pavilion

May 20 - November 26, 2023

Venice Biennale, Venice Italy

“2086” asks how we might live together in the year when our global population is supposed to peak. It posits that we need to realize a biocultural revolution if we are going to endure the unimaginable levels of environmental crises to come. Starting with three communities in South Korea, “2086” imagines a more empathetic, reflective, and restrained life in a new ecosphere.

MFA alum Omar Pimienta and Professors Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum (EDT 3.0) in Land of Milk & Honey

October 14 - December 2, 2023

Planta Libre, Mexicali MX

The MexiCali Biennial presents Land of Milk & Honey, a traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program that focuses on concepts of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico. Multimedia arts exhibitions occurring in Mexicali and Calexico and along the US/Mexico border fence.

MFA alum Isidro Pérez García in Land of Milk & Honey

October 13 - December 2, 2023

Steppling Gallery & casa la linea, Calexico CA

Exhibitions in the borderlands venues include the Steppling Art Gallery and casa la linea – arte contemporaneo in Calexico, CA, USA. Simultaneous exhibitions took place at Planta Libre Espacio Experimental and IIC Museo in Mexicali.

Chico MacMurtrie Border Crossers

October 5 - December 8, 2023

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

These projects channel MacMurtrie’s aesthetic and political concerns into speculative interventions at or along the U.S.-Mexico border. While his “Border Crossers” inflate over the border fence from both sides at once as a gesture of connection between two countries, the “Dual Pneuma” sculpture embodies the idea of a fluid cultural identity.

Mandeville Art Gallery How We Gather

October 7 - December 9, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

The group exhibition How We Gather investigates the notion and enactment of solidarity across various contemporary artists’ practices through the lens of the pandemic. Opening Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 12pm-8pm, Admission: Free

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