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UG ICAM Senior Showcase We’re Not Old Enough to Know What Dying Means

June 11 - June 13, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

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 Pinar Yoldas panel for Synaptic Sculpture

June 15, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

ICA Central, San Diego CA

Please join us at ICA San Diego / Central on Saturday, June 15 in celebration of Dr. Pinar Yoldas‘ first solo exhibition in the U.S., Synaptic Sculpture. This free art event in San Diego is part of ICA’s commitment to reduce barriers to contemporary art in our community.

Lecturer Yue Nakayama screening I Get To Have My Own Private Hope

June 15, 3:30 p.m.

AVIFF Art Film Festival, Marseille, France

The play questions today's working conditions and societal structure through the precariousness of Fish's life and the disappearance of bananas. The AVIFF festival has become an essential place for exchanges between authors, directors, artists and professionals from the film industry, who come from all over the world to meet the public.

Lecturer Yue Nakayama screening Looking for Love (and Job)

June 22 - June 23, 2024

CIFRA & Sleepless Art Night, Venice, Italy

Looking for Love (and Job) is featured in the Bridging East and West nomination at CIFRA & Sleepless Art Night in Venice. The protagonist, Fish, washes up on the shores of the Pacific Coast in search of Love. The Fish, an alien species, encounters a different species (Pigeons) looking for a Job. Using a variety of everyday anecdotes, this film explores migration, job security, and the structure of power and gender in contemporary society.

Professor Anya Gallaccio Wins Commission to Create Aids Memorial

The Standard

British artist Anya Gallaccio has won the commission to create an Aids memorial near an HIV ward that was opened by Diana, Princess of Wales in 1987. Gallaccio’s proposal, which was selected by a panel of judges from a shortlist of five artists, features a tree trunk which has a hollowed-out space.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in LA Times Article

Los Angeles Times

The article, titled "Queer photographers’ most radical act? Turning the lens on themselves," states "Queer photographers, in particular, have been on the vanguard of that movement, not only by capturing the world around them, but by turning their cameras back on themselves — a daring move in a disapproving world."

MFA Nathan Storey featured in SD Union Tribune

San Diego Union Tribune

In the article, titled "Art of the City: Young San Diego emerging artist is finding that queer history is his story," writer Seth Combs describes how "Using archival materials, Nathan Storey explores the history of LGBTQ longing and loss within his multidisciplinary works."

Professor Teddy Cruz in In the Shadow of the Wall

June 7 - August 18, 2024 

Kimball Art Center, Park City UT

Through site-specific, object-oriented, and community-engaged works, the artists in this group exhibition challenge stark divisions between people and nations, embracing the creativity capacity of multiple belongings. Upcoming Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga, is also included in the exhibition.

CLOSING SOON

Lecturer Joshua Tonies & MFA alum Joe Yorty Kilo Quebec

May 18 - June 15, 2024

Phase Gallery, Los Angeles CA

This exhibition brings together a body of recent collaborative projects as well as a selection of independent works by the artists, each tracing a key lineage to their collaboration. Themes of queerness and invisibility/visibility emerged and ultimately became the foundation of their collaboration.

Professor Danielle Dean Out of this World

April 13 - June 15, 2024

Mercer Union, Toronto Canada

Commissioned for her solo exhibition Out of this World, Dean’s new film is a portrait of Hemel Hempstead, where she was raised and unfolds as a personal essay on the town’s history as a planned community under the New Towns Act of 1946.

Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold The Wake and Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro

June 10 - June 16, 2024

Art Basel, Switzerland

Goodman Gallery and ACA Galleries are proud to present the first major display of work by the acclaimed artist, author and activist Faith Ringgold taking place at Art Unlimited, Art Basel this June 2024. The large-scale multimedia installation The Wake and Resurrection of the Bicentennial Negro will be premiered as a tribute to the pioneering artist.

Professor Memo Akten in Tribeca Festival

June 6 - June 17, 2024

Mercer Labs, New York NY

Embodied Simulation is a multiscreen video and sound installation that aims to provoke and nurture strong connections to the global ecosystems of which we are a part. The work combines artificial intelligence with dance and research from neuroscience to create an immersive, embodied experience, extending the viewer’s bodily perception beyond the skin, and into the environment.

Professor Pinar Yoldas Synaptic Sculpture

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.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Fragmented Bodies

April 5 - June 24

Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome, Italy

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