COMING UP

Professor Rubén Ortiz Torres exhibition Repatriación Voluntaria

Reception: July 2, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

July 1 - August 20, 2026

OMR, Mexico City, MX

Repatriación Voluntaria [Voluntary Repatriation] brings together a group of recent works in which Rubén Ortiz Torres (Mexico, 1964) revisits questions that have accompanied his practice for decades: the construction of identity, the circulation of symbols, and the instability of origins themselves. Situated within the cultural space that connects Mexico and the United States, the exhibition begins with a deceptively simple question: what does it mean to return?

Professor Pinar Yolas keynote for Storytellers + Machines

July 8, 10:00 a.m.

Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

This year’s theme is ‘The End Of AI.’ The cultural and creative disruption of the first two years of generative AI technology was captured by Storytellers + Machines 2024 performers, artists and academics. Now as an artistic and academic community we speculate on, imagine, or perhaps plot the end of A.I. and wonder what might come after.  

Professor Alexandro Segade conversation Mandate to participate: A roundtable with “Living to Learn” contributors

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.

Professor Janell Iglesias in Public Art Fund exhibition Between Tides

June 27 - August 22, 2026

Rockaway Beach 67, Queens, NY

Between Tides brings together six artists—Moko Fukuyama, Ilana Harris-Babou, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Carlos H. Matos, Amalia Pica, and the collective SUPERFLEX—to rethink ping-pong tables as playable sculptures. These works invite beach-goers to approach the game in unexpected ways, transforming a familiar activity into a space for experimentation and new connections.

BA alum Farshid Bazmandegan in exhibition Field Notes on Memory

June 6 - August 16, 2026

California Center for the Arts, Esconcido, CA

Developed through the Museum’s In Studio Artist Residency program, the exhibition approaches landscape as a site where memory takes shape through earth, architecture, domestic objects, sound, and archival research. The artists draw from family histories, ancestral practices, and experiences of migration and exile, creating environments where personal memory and collective history remain closely intertwined.

PhD student Leila Abdelrazaq in exhibition The Amplification Project: Women Artists of The Arab Diaspora

June 13 - September 13, 2026

Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI

This exhibition emerges from The Amplification Project, a living, crowd-sourced digital archive documenting art shaped by forced migration, displacement, and cultural survival. Focusing on contemporary Arab women artists connected to Detroit, it explores migration, inheritance, and life between cultural geographies.

VIS 110i online exhibition Performing for the Camera

Kamil Gallery Online

This course focuses on creating performance art pieces produced for camera. At the close of the quarter, students often reveal that they not only have learned how they can express ideas and experiences through performance art, but that they have learned a good deal about themselves in the process.

 

ICAM 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.

ICAM Honors, instructed by Robert Twomey

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.

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