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July 15 & July 27, 12:45 p.m.
Zoom Registration
Associate Instructor Jae Hwan Lim (Ph.D. candidate) has organized a virtual lecture series, “Korean Art, Society, and Culture,” in conjunction with his summer session course VIS 103A: Contemporary Arts in South Korea at UC San Diego. Designed as an open platform, the series invites anyone interested in Korean art, society, and culture to register and participate in the lectures.
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July 15, 6:30 p.m.
Miércoles de SOMA, CDMX (Online)
In the final session of the series, we will be joined by curator and researcher Doreen Ríos, in conversation with Eduardo Abaroa. Her work focuses on technological counterproduction within contemporary art, tactical media, and new materialities. As the founder of [ANTI]MATERIA and author of the book Unstable Media: On Technical Objects and Art (2025), Ríos has developed a context-specific analysis of the relationships between art, technology, and digital culture in Latin America.
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July 19, 10:30 a.m.
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (Online)
In Why Would You Do That?, Daniela de la Torre stages a fugitive act. She is a spectre of the artist she once imagined becoming: the rebellious genius, the celebrated rule-breaker. The performance will be followed by a panel conversation between the artist and the curator Doreen Ríos and will be moderated by mily Hsiang-Yun Huang.
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July 23, 2026 10:15am - 11:00am PDT
SIGGRAPH 2026, Los Angeles, CA
BFF: Dog Walk explores human-AI intimacy through co-parenting two robot dogs. With video and live performance, the artist-researchers challenge the mind-body divide, documenting the evolution of their dogs' LLMs and their life in the intimate everyday. Blending human and machine perspectives, this project seeks a hybrid language exploring the boundaries of authenticity, embodiment, and synthetic companionship.
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Camera Exposure
Jack Furgerson is a San Diego–based photographer whose work documents the people, places, and everyday moments that shape Southern California culture. Working primarily with film photography, his images balance nostalgia and observation, capturing the character of suburban neighborhoods, coastal communities, and the individuals who inhabit them.
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A*DESK
Can the internet still serve as a site for collective exploration and political action? Looking across the forgotten genealogies of digital art in Mexico between the 1990s and 2010, this text explores how contemporary net art is deeply rooted in traditions of mail art, concrete poetry, textile work, and activism.
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June 1 - September 30, 2026
Digital Billboard at The Worl, Los Angeles, CA
The West Hollywood Moving Image Media Art Program (MIMA) is an exhibition series presenting moving image artworks on multiple digital billboards along Sunset Boulevard. At the top of every hour, MIMA presents Hand Shapes and Scene Numbers by Alison O’Daniel, a video of Deaf artist Christine Sun Kim signing scene numbers from O’Daniel’s film The Tuba Thieves. Viewers are encouraged to listen through seeing and rethink their relationships to sound.
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June 26 - September 13, 2026
ICA at Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
A Sea of Particles explores the lasting effects of shared interactions over time. Working in a range of media, the artists research themes such as familial relationships, cultural inheritance, value systems, modes of transmission, accumulation, grief and memory, touch and repetition, and more.
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July 3 - October 5, 2026
ICA Miami, Miami, FL and Online
The installation features works that deliberately misuse technology to explore the knowledge it holds. Through acts of repair, error, repurposing, and deliberate misapplication, they ask how technology might become strange again—and therefore newly thinkable.
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July 11 - August 15, 2026
Best Practice, San Diego, CA
Both artists utilize materials and imagery that imply the physical hands or touch the objects once felt, as well as the traces and resonances of these touches. Their emphasis on fragments of personal archives, notes, gifts, and recorded memories aligns with their overlapping themes of queerness, (in)visibility, material memory, and resisting archival violence.
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July 10 - August 22, 2026
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
An exhibition of works spanning over eighty years by more than seventy artists engaging with Tom of Finland’s radical ability to imagine a physique—and a world—that did not yet exist in popular culture. By channeling private fantasy into virtuosic drawings, Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) created a libidinal realm in which freedom and pleasure were the reigning tenets.
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e-flux Education
The “Classroom” program at Printed Matter's 2026 LA Art Book Fair (LAABF), which was held at ArtCenter College of Design in early May, featured a panel discussion moderated by Noah Simblist, the editor of Living to Learn: Art & Education for the Common Good. For the panel at LAABF, Simblist invited three LA-based Living to Learn contributors to elaborate on their contributions to the book and their respective relationships to arts education.
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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.
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April 11 - July 19, 2026
Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, DE
Historical show comparing federal funding of the arts under the New Deal and under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). Display includes documentary photos of the Cultural Council Foundation’s CETA Artists Project in NYC by Blaise Tobia. Posters, books and historical research lent by Virginia Maksymowicz and Blaise Tobia.
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May 2 - July 25, 2026
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library is pleased to present Within the Context of Time, a two-person exhibition bringing together new and recent works by May-ling Martinez and Coralys Carter. On view from May 2 through July 25, 2026, the exhibition explores memory, time, and family history through two distinct yet deeply resonant artistic practices.
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May 12 - July 25, 2026
Judith Harris Gallery, Central Library, San Diego, CA
Las Comadres includes MFA alumni Ruth Wallen, Cindy Zimmerman, Eloisa DeLeon, Anna O'Cain, Frances Charteris, Kit Aaboe, Aida Mancillas, BA alumni Berta Jottar, Maria Kristina Dybbro. The exhibition tells the visual story of land use through the perspective of artists whose work has touched, traversed and activated the site of Friendship Park.
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