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Visual Arts Professor Lev Manovich Leads New Mellon Foundation Grant

May 10, 2012
By Inga Kiderra and Doug Ramsey

Mellon Foundation Supports New Software Tools for Humanities Researchers

Grant will enable widespread exploration of image collections once thought ‘too big to handle’

Computers have changed the landscape of humanities research. Innovations continue to make it cheaper and easier to digitize and analyze ever larger volumes...

MFA 2012: HETEROTOPIA

Heterotopia: UCSD MFA Thesis 2012
May 31 > June 29
Opening Reception, May 31, 5:30-9:00pm
Curated by UC San Diego Art History PhD Students Sascha Crasnow, Emily Elizabeth Goodman, and Elizabeth Miller

The UCSD University Art Gallery and Visual Arts Department are pleased to announce Heterotopia, an exhibition featuring the work of this year's graduating MFA students. Conceived by Michel Foucault, "heterotopia" describes non-hegemonic conditions of human...

Worldmaking Features Vis Arts MFA Candidates

Worldmaking
Opening Reception, Thursday, May 3, 4-6pm
May 1-June 15, 2012
Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4pm
UC San Diego, ARTifact Gallery
Free and open to the public

Each quarter, ARTifact gallery presents a new exhibit featuring artwork that is conceptually linked to the current courses of the Culture, Art & Technology (CAT) program. The gallery functions as an integrated learning laboratory, transforming the...

Visual Arts professor Sheldon Brown will become director of the newly established Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination

By Inga Kiderra and Paul Mueller

The University of California, San Diego and the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation have agreed to establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (ACCCHI) at UC San Diego. The agreement was signed in conjunction with the foundation’s annual international Clarke Awards...

Graduate Student Artists Throw Open Doors to Public at Open Studios Event

thisweek@ucsandiego
April 10, 2012 By Sheena Ghanbari and Inga Kiderra

Doors open at Open Studios. They open literally, for the campus and larger San Diego communities, as visual arts MFA and Ph.D. students invite people to view their creative spaces, and figuratively, for the participating graduate students themselves, as they make connections that may continue far beyond the day...

ANOMALIA

UCSD, University Art Gallery
February 16-May 18 2012
Curated by Lucía Sanromán
Participating Artists: Erick Meyenberg, Charles Gaines, and Erick Beltrán and Jorge Satorre

The UC San Diego University Art Gallery (UAG) presentsANOMALIA, curated by Lucía Sanromán.  The exhibition features four international contemporary artists whose work engages scientific models of research and...

Vis Arts At A Glance

The Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego encourages experimentation, innovation and risk-taking in scholarly and artistic production. We provide a unique environment for learning and research that crosses the boundaries between history, theory, and practice in the visual arts.

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News

As We Move, So You Think (working title) Presented by Montalvo Arts Center (ZERO BIENNIAL)
Sheryl Oring to Stimulate Dialogue at Lindbergh Field By Matt Potter (San Diego Reader)
Visualizing.org will be featuring visualizations of Impressionist artists created by undergraduate artist Megan O’Rourke in Professor Lev Manovich's Data Visualization and Computational Art Hist
April 16, 2012 By Inga Kiderra and Paul Mueller UC San Diego, Clarke Foundation Collaborate to Create Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination