COMING UP

Professor Robert Twomey, MFA alum Ash Eliza Smith performance Quantum Theater

August 13, 1:00 - 1:45 p.m.

SIGGRAPH 2025, Vancouver, BC

Quantum Theater takes quantum science as subject and method for playable theater. Phenomena like entanglement, superposition, coherence, and collapse shape the performance in a post-AI exploration of liveness, variability, and improvisation. Multiple realities are layered on stage, where the audience as observer-participant plays an active role in cohering singular narratives.

MFA alum Maddie Butler & PhD student Jeffrey Stuker in Painting All Together

Reception: August 16, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

August 16 - September 27, 2025

Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The group exhibition extends the ongoing dialogue of Painting as Is—a conversation grounded in the belief that painting remains a vital, self-reflexive medium for negotiating material, image, and subjectivity. This fourth installment unfolds across five conceptual threads: inscription, object-hood, recollection, event, and projection.

Professor Janelle Iglesias exhibition Las Hermanas Iglesias: wontloversrevoltnow

Reception: August 16, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

August 16 - December 27, 2025

ICA San Diego North, Encinitas, CA

Spanning the entire ICA / North campus, wontloversrevoltnow invites visitors into a conversation about care and community. Through a combination of existing work and new projects created specifically for this exhibition, Las Hermanas Iglesias generously weave their own navigations of loss, motherhood and current events into works that speak to how we value, define, and provide caregiving.

Professor Ricardo Dominguez published trans/BORDER/ing in Beyond Sanctuary

Duke University Press

Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez on behalf of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 published a new play focused on critical transborder conditions. The contributors to Beyond Sanctuary examine how the liberal democracies of the West recognize and include racial others through technologies of state power that promise but rarely grant sanctuary and refuge.

BA alum MG Evangelista awarded New Voices Filmmaker Grant


NewFest’s New Voices Filmmaker Grant, supported by Netflix, supports emerging directors telling LGBTQ+ stories by providing funding to make new work, assisting in getting their work more widely shared, and propelling their careers forward through mentorship, networking and professional development opportunities.

Professor Memo Akten in Dancing the Algorithm

July 6 – August 23, 2025

Jacob's Pillow Dance, Becket, MA

Curated by Katherine Helen Fisher, this exhibit features artists whose works illuminate how the dancing body doesn’t just adapt to technology, but shapes it, challenges it, and celebrates the new possibilities it creates.

Prof. Emerita Eleanor Antin in More is More: Reinventing Photography Beyond the Frame

August 2, 2025 - January 18, 2026

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

The exhibition presents singular works of art created from multiple photographs. Set in the experimental time of the mid-1960s to 1980s, the exhibition features artists who deconstructed, reconstructed, and multiplied photographs, playfully pushing photography’s physical boundaries and conceptual limits.

PhD student Clarissa Chevalier published Living Surfaces (review)

Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology

Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka's Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media offers a way to understand the contemporary urge to digitize and datafy the planet, and the colonial and military gains to be had from the production of these renderings.

Professor Ricardo Dominguez, MFA alum micha cárdenas published in Informatics of Domination

Duke University Press

Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. Informatics of Domination builds on Donna J. Haraway’s chart as an open structure for thought, inviting fifty scholars, artists, and creative writers to unfold new perspectives.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Text Messages presented on Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen

July 1 - September 27, 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. daily

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Comprised of works by digital artists displaying text manipulated and hijacked using programming and code. The words, phrases, and typography presented on view reveal the influence of machines on the production of meaning and the exercise of power within the context of social media, advertising, online censorship, and artificial intelligence. Participating Artists: Maya Man, Winnie Soon, Sasha Stiles.

Professors Memo Akten, Robert Twomey, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alum Ash Eliza Smith 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 Summer Screening Program

July 9 - August 15, 2025

47 Canal, New York, NY

Our inaugural Summer Screening Program features eight artist selected moving image works that will be on view every day during gallery hours for the run of the exhibition. Martin Beck, Danielle Dean, Elle Pérez, and Cici Wu have each invited another guest artist to contribute work to the program alongside their own.

MFA alum & former Lecturer Jean Lowe Down with the Hierarchy

July 12 - August 16, 2025

Best Practice, San Diego, CA

BEST PRACTICE is very excited to announce a collaborative exhibition of the work of Encinitas-based artist Jean Lowe and Mexicali-based graffiti artist Abraham Razo (Rancholo/DHEF) with a contribution from MFA alum & Professor Emeritus Kim MacConnel. Down with the Hierarchy! is an installation exploring the overlaps and connections between French period decoration, Persian carpet design, and street art.

MFA alum Taylor Chapin in exhibition Somewhere in Between

July 26 - August 16, 2025

Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Curated by Moshonda Tifrere as an exploration of dimensionality, the exhibition weaves together a combination of narrative and abstract paintings and ceramic sculpture that can be seen as expressive portals to intangible realms and metaphysical landscapes. The show features six artists: Taylor Chapin, Megan Gabrielle, Sasha Koozel Reibstein, Victor Ubah, Elizabeth Waggett, and Nathan Wong.

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