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May 13, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Geisel Library, Seuss Room, UC San Diego
The New Writing Series invites local, national, and international authors to read and perform throughout the academic year. Welcoming a wide range of authors and genres, including playwrights, poets, translators, essayists, critics, fiction writers, and performance artists, the New Writing Series celebrates both emerging and established award-winning writers.
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May 11 - May 16, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Reception: May 16, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego
Continuing my exploration of where we find comfort & what we learn to be comfortable with, How to Construct a Residence with what Remains is an ode to how we contribute to the construction of a neighborhood and its values.
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May 14, Atkinson Auditorium, UC San Diego
4:30 p.m. • Screening of BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
6:30-8:00 p.m. • Panel Discussion with Kahlil Joseph (Director), Onye Anyanwu (Producer), King Britt (Prof. of Music), and Brian Cross (Prof. of Visual Arts)
Kahlil Joseph is a Los Angeles–based filmmaker and visual artist whose work moves fluidly between cinema, contemporary art, and music. Known for his pioneering practice of “conceptual journalism,” he creates immersive, non-linear narratives that challenge traditional ideas of time, authorship, and the moving image.
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Awards Ceremony: May 15, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
SME Gallery & Theater, Structural & Materials Engineering
Exhibition: May 14 - May 20, 2026
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, Mandeville Center, UC San Diego
The Kamil family, Department of Visual Arts, and School of Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego invite you to the 16th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards Ceremony. Please join us for an evening of film and creativity to honor the memory of Adam Douglas Kamil and showcase the talent of undergraduate UC San Diego students.
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May 15, 7:00 p.m.
Mujeres Brew House, San Diego, CA
Headlining the evening is "Deep World," a live audiovisual/AI performance by VJ Übergeek (Amy Alexander), joined by a DJ set from monocromo. Blending live text improvisation, video art, and club aesthetics, the performance unfolds through a real-time dialogue with a custom-trained AI in a pulsing, rave-like setting. Dancing is encouraged.
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May 21, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
CALIT2 Theater, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
Peeling Cycle (2026) is a live audiovisual performance that combines a DIY laser device, multimodal AI, and embodied interaction to investigate how artificial intelligence participates in the production of gendered visibility. This is an IDEAS project by Anqi Liu, Mingyong Cheng, and Han Zhang.
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Reception: May 26, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Gallery QI, Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego
The exhibition explores the evolutionary impacts of microplastics in the environment, a long-standing problem that Yoldas first depicted in the Gallery QI exhibit EcoSystem of Excess in 2014 and will continue to explore in There Exist Microplastics in My Subconscious and They are Seeping into My Dreams at Gallery QI in May and June.
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AJ+ YouTube Link
The article, "Families left in the dark: UCSD, USC quietly sell donors’ bodies to Navy for Israeli military training," reveals that the U.S. Navy has taken the first steps to extend the program that relies on anatomical donations from USC and the UC system until 2029. The U.S. Navy uses cadavers in its Joint Training Exercise program with the Israeli military.
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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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April 30 - May 28, Thursdays, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
Oh, Bland Age, Up Yours! is a Thursday matinee series of international short and feature-length queer films that offer experiences that remind us to think and work beyond the limitations of the slogan 'Love is Love,' especially approaching another June+ Pride Festival season.
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April 18 - May 14, 2026
Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA
The exhibition brings together artists who view art as a tool to disrupt and to sound an alert. Emerging from a moment of heightened political and social tension, the exhibition reflects on a year marked by widespread protest and renewed public resistance to policies that have caused national and global instability. Along with Amy Sara Carroll (Literature), Dominguez and Stalbaum are part of Electronic Disturbance Theater.
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April 21 - May 20, 2026
Guadalajara, Mexico
The Archive Must Open the Future: As it Assembles the Past is a retrospective of 30 years of Electronic Disturbance Theater gestures, curated by MFA alum Juan Bastardo. Along with Amy Sara Carroll (Literature), Dominguez and Stalbaum are part of Electronic Disturbance Theater.
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March 4 - May 23, 2026
Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Quint Gallery is pleased to present a selection of direct-cast bronze sculptures, photography, and drawing by the British artist Anya Gallaccio. Gallaccio is recognized for her use of organic materials to make sculpture and installation, and subverting them with the use of natural elements like dirt, flowers, fruits, and trees, subject to inevitable changing states of life, death, decomposition and transformation.
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April 30 - May 24, 2026
DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
The show includes over fifty photographs of Italian street art made between 2000 and 2025. Tobia’s extensive documentation of graffiti and street art offers an authentic witnessing of the contemporary Italian scene and its many crossovers into the Western/American political context.
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