COMING UP

UG Interdisciplinary Computing Arts exhibition Echo•Location

June 10 - June 12, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Student projects can also be viewed at the Kamil Gallery Online. The Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts major draws upon and aims to bring together ideas and paradigms from computer science, art, and cultural theory. The goals of the program are to prepare the next generation of artists who will be functioning in a computer-mediated culture.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in exhibition Fragile Beauty

June 12 - September 27, 2026

Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

Marking over thirty years of collecting, Fragile Beauty celebrates Sir Elton John and David Furnish’s passion for photography, reflecting their personal taste and unique eye as collectors. Across five thematic sections, the exhibition explores themes such as desire, celebrity, fashion, reportage, and affirmation of identity.

MFA alum Cat Gunn solo exhibition if only by the light of a new moon

Reception: June 13, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

June 13 - September 13, 2026

ICA San Diego, Balboa Park, CA

Cat Gunn’s first solo museum exhibition explores the complex terrain of inherited memory and the seemingly impossible nostalgia for a home that one has never known through materials including fabric, ceramics, and cyanotypes. Gunn is ICA San Diego’s 2025 Artist-in-Residence.

Professor Brian Cross screenings and talk ...Like No One is Watching

June 19, 7:30 p.m.

2220 Arts and Archives, Los Angeles, CA

Legendary production house Mochilla presents …like no one is watching… unseen films and unheard music. Films curated by photographer/filmmaker B+ (Brian Cross) and conversation with B+, Harmony Holliday, Mychal Odum and Sam Lemontayne. Followed by DJ sets by DJ Nuts (Cultura Copia), Waajeed (Dirt Wreck), Cut Chemist (Stable Sound), Francesca Harding (KCRW) and Carol Ueno (SP).

Professor Danielle Dean screening Hemel, talk with Cauleen Smith

June 20, 3:00 p.m.

MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

Danielle Dean’s film is a portrait of Hemel Hempstead, England, where she was raised, and unfolds as a personal essay on the town’s history. The work’s central reference is a 1957 sci-fi horror B-movie shot in town about the arrival of a non-human entity that infiltrates the minds of residents and endangers life with a toxic black slime. Danielle Dean will be present for a post-screening conversation with Cauleen Smith.

MFA student Nube Hawk Cruz guided art walk "A Walk with Yáamay"

June 20, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Buena Vista Lagoon, Oceanside, CA

Experience a transformative journey with A Walk with Yáamay, a series of free, site-specific guided “art walks” presented by New Village Arts. Led by a council of Indigenous artists and curators, these immersive tours blend natural exploration with live poetry, song, visual art, and performance.

VIS 160A online exhibitions Echo•Location & The Interactables

Kamil Gallery Online

The Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts major draws upon and aims to bring together ideas and paradigms from computer science, art, and cultural theory. The goals of the program are to prepare the next generation of artists who will be functioning in a computer-mediated culture.

Echo•Location, instructed by Ricardo Dominguez

The Interactables, instructed by Trish Stone

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Media Mesh exhibition Data Tales

June 3 - September 25, 2026

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Data Tales showcases datasets reimagined by guests and students of VIS 141B. Our students have used python coding to develop their visuals on the Media Mesh. The genre of visuals ranges from GEN Z humor to light-hearted work, as well as visuals that our society should reflect on. Our data visualizations are here to be your summer tales to tell.

CLOSING SOON

Professor Amy Adler, MFA alumni Cat Gunn, Matt Savitsky, Joe Yorty in exhibition Ruins: Performing Queer History

May 2 - June 13, 2026

Best Practice, San Diego, CA

Amy Adler, Ken Gonzales-Day, Cat Gunn, William E. Jones, Morgan Lieberman, Stephen Milner, Darian Newman, Matt Savitsky, Joe Yorty. Curated by MFA alum Nathan Storey.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya exhibition Focus. Desire.

February 28 - June 14, 2026

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

In his portraits and studio photographs, Sepuya explores queer desire while questioning the established acts of looking and their underlying power structures. Through intimate encounters and carefully staged compositions that often involve close friends, Sepuya presents marginalised bodies as fragmented subjects and objects in their relation to the gaze. 

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