COMING UP

Electric Symphony: VIS 147A Class Exhibition

Reception: December 14, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.


December 12 - December 14, 2023


Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Students develop artworks and installations that utilize digital electronics. They learn techniques in digital electronic construction and computer interfacing for interactive control of sound, lighting, and electromechanics. Students construct devices that responsively adapt artworks to conditions involving viewer participation, space activation, and machine intelligence. Instructed by Professor Brett Stalbaum.

Professor Amy Alexander in AI in Music Online Symposium

December 15, 8:30 a.m. PST

University of Music Trossingen, Germany

The online symposium brings together experienced artists, practitioners, researchers and engineers who have been known for crossing over between composition, production, design and performance, engineering and development. The event addresses questions related to the agency of data, AI ethics, performance, and perception.

UG alum Joshua Moreno Terrarium Workshop

December 16, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA

Join San Francisco-based artist Joshua Moreno as we investigate ideas of cultivation and familial histories by making terrariums. Like the Japanese-Californian citrus that appears in the work of artist Kelly Akashi, some plants are hybridized and carefully cultivated, while others, like weeds, sprout resiliently on their own. Akashi explores these ideas through her sculpture, investigating plant life as a metaphor for family.

MFA alumni beck haberstroh, Maria Antonia Eguiarte, mika Castañeda, and Victor Castañeda H perform Fates, Boots and Bob: A Hijacked Hootenanny Holiday Hullabaloo

December 21, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA

In collaboration with Space Time (organized by UG alum and staff member Nick Lesley), join us on Free Third Thursday for the screening of (former professor) Ulysses Jenkins' Inconsequential Doggereal (1981) followed by a performance at 6p.m. of Fates, Boots and Bob: A Hijacked Hootenanny Holiday Hullabaloo.

Professor Grant Kester on Hosting Art with Diana Boros

Lynch School of Education and Human Development

These programs promote interdisciplinary conversations focused on human identity, suffering, and potential, with particular concern for the enduring ethical questions at the heart of human existence.

PhD candidate Hande Sever article A Casket for All Seasons

MARCH

"Since 2018, I have been persistently investigating a singular edifice, Sanasaryan Han, found nestled within Istanbul’s tourist-laden neighborhood of Sirkeci. This inquiry began when I learned that my father was apprehended and confined within its walls in 1977 for being a member of the People’s Liberation Army of Turkey."

Prof. Alexandro Segade & Prof. Emerita Eleanor Antin in The Modern Art Notes Podcast


Episode No. 629 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Alexandro Segade of My Barbarian, and a re-air of a 2013 conversation with artist Eleanor Antin. The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego is presenting “Eleanor Antin and My Barbarian,” a fiftieth anniversary celebration of Antin’s landmark 100 Boots (1973).

PhD alum Amanda Cachia awarded Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant


The program supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the visual arts. Amanda Cachia’s book Hospital Aesthetics: Rescripting Medical Images of Disability will argue that contemporary disabled artists are offering a new hospital aesthetics by taking health and care into their own hands and bodyminds.

Professor Anya Gallaccio in Deep Rooted

November 18, 2023 - February 25, 2024

City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland

A group exhibition featuring work by eight contemporary artists – Dalziel + Scullion, Anya Gallaccio, Andy Goldsworthy, Andrew Mackenzie, Naomi Mcintosh, Katie Paterson and Hanna Tuulikki. Together, they explore the relationship between people and the natural environment using a variety of media and approaches. Some of the works reflect on current ecological issues, others explore our fragile coexistence with nature and capture its beauty.

CLOSING SOON

Lecturer Yue Nakayama I Get to Have My Own Private Hope

Closing Reception: December 16, 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

November 11 - December 16, 2023

Best Practice, San Diego CA

In I Get to Have My Own Private Hope, Fish and Pigeon go on a quest in search of the meaning of “work” prompted by the news of the extinction of bananas, and rent that’s passed due. This new video piece further questions today’s work conditions and societal structure through the precarity of Fish’s life and disappearing bananas.

MFA candidate Chanell Stone in Affective Resistance

October 7 - December 16, 2023

University Art Gallery, UC Irvine CA

Affective Resistance brings together works by eight artists using performance art and materialist abstraction as modes of resistance to systemic racism and state power. Several works in the exhibition draw out the conflict between the democratic ideal of liberty and the subjugation of the body under the carceral system.

Professor Amy Adler Audition

November 11 - December 22, 2023

Night Gallery West, Los Angeles CA

The works in Audition expand Adler’s universe while simultaneously revealing their roots in her previous lines of inquiry: vulnerability, subject versus authorial agency, and queer desire. On each monumental canvas, Adler drew a different still frame from a single scene she’d cut from one of her short films.

Profs. Anya Gallaccio, Monique van Genderen, Jean Lowe, Kim MacConnel in Welcome

November 8 - December 23, 2023

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

Adam Belt, Kelsey Brookes, Kenneth Capps, Ethan Chan, Einar & Jamex De La Torre, Anya Gallaccio, Monique van Genderen, Thomas Glassford, Robert Irwin, Gary Lang, Jean Lowe, Kim MacConnel, Lee Materazzi, Allan McCollum, John McCracken, Roy McMakin, John Millei, Chris Puzio, Sasha Koozel Reibstein, Roman de Salvo, Jason Sherry, Eric Snell* (Performance on 11/16 at 7722 Girard), Chris Thorson, and Helena Westra.

Assoc. Professor Danielle Dean Bazar

October 21 - December 30, 2023

ICA North, Encinitas CA

Bazar originated out of Dean’s research in the archives of Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville, and her work with a group of women from Permis de Vivre la Ville (License to Live in the City), a community engagement organization working to increase social engagement in the Paris suburbs.

MFA alum Taylor Chapin Tell Me About Yourself

September 23 - December 30, 2023

ICA North, Encinitas CA

In her paintings, Taylor Chapin uses bold color, swirling patterns, and enigmatically camouflaged figures to reflect a consumerist society that treats beauty and goods as social currency. In this new body of work, Chapin employs the visual strategies of advertising to reflect on this current moment in which our identity has become our brand.

Lecturer Geoffroy Tobe in Alphabet Soup

December 9 - December 30, 2023

R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla CA

R.B. Stevenson Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition "Alphabet Soup" featuring new and current paintings by the gallery artists and introducing Mexican artist Laura Ortiz Vega. The exhibition opens with a reception on Saturday December 9, from 5 to 8 pm. Gallery will be open at 1 pm. for early viewing.

MFA alum Lorna Simpson in Multiplicity

September 15 - December 31, 2023

Frist Art Museum, Nashville TN

Featuring an intergenerational group of 52 living artists, Multiplicity explores the varying ways collage is employed and how the technique suggests diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory.

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