February 7, 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.

UpThere, VAF 353, UC San Diego

Lecturer Dino Dinco asked students in his VIS175 media class, Editing: Theory & Practice, to create experimental texts using the Cut-Up method. The texts reflect diverse strategies not only for cutting and reconnecting words and phrases but working with (or against) language to achieve linguistic and narrative coherence and incoherence.

February 8, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Doc. dr. Boštjan Bugarič is an architect, researcher, curator, critic and editor. Since 2014 he has been an editor at the open source community Architectuul in Berlin. He is a professor at the Visual art and Design department at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Koper.

February 9, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

MCASD, La Jolla

Known for his dense multimedia compositions that reference both art history and mythology, Hundley’s work weaves together scenes from the past with familiar imagery taken from the contemporary world. Working in a variety of media Hundley fuses painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, photography, and performance into rich, multifaceted tableaux.

February 9 - February 11, 2024

Museo Tamayo, Ciudad de México

Machine Yearning is a weekend-long survey of personal investigations and critical perspectives on generative AI by artists. The program starts with an evening at the Museo Tamayo on February 9th, hosted by Ríos. Co-presented by KADIST, the University of Monterrey, and FERIA MATERIAL, the event features a keynote lecture by Manuel DeLanda.

February 10 - July 7, 2024 

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY

The first major exhibition of the Dean Collection (Swizz Beats & Alicia Keys), Giants showcases a focused selection from the couple’s world-class holdings. The Brooklyn Museum’s presentation spotlights works by Black diasporic artists, part of our ongoing efforts to expand the art-historical narrative.

February 12, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.

CalARTS / Redcat, Los Angeles CA

A feature-length film meditation on vulnerability and interconnection through the lens of a natural forest and through the body of the filmmaker. From Inside of Here is preceded by Tending the Orchard, a collaboration around an orchard initiated by Basquin with co-director Katherine Agard (Creative Writing MFA 2018) that brings up history, anger, colonial violence, and the chance to feel the closeness of relationship.

February 13 - February 15, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Throughout my portfolio, I’ve largely dealt with the imperceptible or unremarkable, such as hostile architecture, roadkill, and graffiti; these instances are potent symbols for larger societal and infrastructural issues, relating to the removal of public spaces, takeover of nature, and the dichotomy of private vs. public art.

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

February 12 - 16 by appointment: ndevivo@ucsd.edu

Visual Arts Facility, Performance Space, UC San Diego

February 17, 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Registration Required at Link

City Lights presents a two session (lecture/panel) event celebrating the publication of The Quantum Revolution: Art, Technology, Culture– by Arthur Kroker and David Cook – published by University of Toronto Press (in the Digital Futures Series) – with Arthur Kroker, Lynn Baron, Rebecca Belmore, Ricardo Dominguez, Nadia Myre, and Jackson 2Bears.

February 20, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Structural & Materials Engineering, SME 149, UCSD

Carmen Cuenca is Executive Director of INSITE Proyectos de Arte AC, the non-profit established to facilitate the development of INSITE in Mexico. Andrea Torreblanca is currently the Director of Curatorial Projects at INSITE and the founder and editor-in-chief of the INSITE Journal. INSITE is an initiative committed to the production of artworks in the public sphere.

Reception: February 24, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

February 24 - June 23, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

Drawing on her background in neuroscience and architecture, artist and UC San Diego Professor Dr. Pinar Yoldas has built a practice of speculative design that imagines new products, appendages, and creatures in the service of a more compassionate culture. While Yoldas has shown extensively in Europe for nearly two decades, this show will be Yoldas’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

February 1 - April 6, 2024

Hauser & Wirth, New York NY

Curated by Enuma Okoro, ‘The Flesh of the Earth’ encourages us all to consider ways of decentering ourselves from the prevalent anthropocentric narrative, to reimagine a more intimate relationship with the earth, and to renew our connection with the life-force energy that surges through all of the natural world, both human and more-than-human.

January 11 - March 24, 2024

Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver CO

Hung Liu: Control and Freedom traces the creative trajectory of this celebrated artist following her emigration from Communist China and the repressive regime of Mao Zedong. Featuring paintings, prints, and tapestries produced over the last thirty years, this exhibition underscores the depths of Liu’s talent and demonstrates her incredible range as she perfectly captures the beauty and dignity of her subjects.

January 31 - March 31, 2024

Museo Nacional del Cacao in Guayaquil, Ecuador

“Liquid Spaces: Screen Politics” curated by Doreen Ríos (MX) is committed to reflection on thinking, navigating, using and hacking screens and their contents through artistic proposals. The exhibition includes 22 projects by artists and groups from various corners of Ecuador.

January 25 - March 20, 2024

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Drawing upon the collaborative nature of knowledge building, the collective nature of intelligence, and the permeable boundaries between individuals, the show employs cephalopods and cephalopod cognition as a means of reflecting upon the “increasingly powerful and pervasive synthetic alien intelligences of artificial intelligence (AI).”

January 13 - February 17, 2024

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

De Luca’s painting practice, informed by the unique qualities of her surroundings and place, studies the psychological and emotional impact of light and landscape. The works in Capricorn Rising were created over the past year, begun during a period as artist-in-residence at the Monira Foundation in Jersey City, New Jersey.

September 21, 2023 - February 18, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA

Included in MCASD's exhibition are the 51 postcards that document Antin's 100 Boots as well as pieces featuring her alter ego, the King of Solana Beach. My Barbarian's layered performances continue Antin’s spirit of social critique and playfulness.