Events

Difference Machines: Curator's Talk
March 2, 2023 - 2:00pm
Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art addresses the complex relationship between the technologies we use and the identities we inhabit. The exhibition asks some of the most urgent questions we face today: How is technology changing the way we see ourselves, and each other? In what ways does it contribute to—or allow us to resist—prejudice and systemic forms of oppression? What role should it have in our lives and in our communities? Buffalo Professor Paul Vanousse and Buffalo AKG Art Museum Curator Tina Rivers Ryan will discuss how artists respond to these inquiries...
Image: Cesar & Lois, Degenerative Cultures: fire and water, 2022 (project series 2018–2022); Book with Physarum polycephalum (microorganism) growth. Courtesy of the artists.
Computational Poetics: Language and Technology
January 12, 2023 - 2:00pm
Computational Poetics: Language and Technology Organized by Beall Center for Art + Technology Supported by UC Illuminations Anteater Learning Pavilion (ALP), Room 1300 Thursday, January 12 2PM PST   Language has met the challenge of computation by accelerating, leaping off the page, expressing its embodied nature, abbreviating itself, visualizing, manifesting via sonification and then joining the landscapes of the Anthropocene. Since the 1960s, artists and poets play a critical role in this transformation by exploring and exploiting the ever-expanding misalignment between...
Beall Center Art + Ecology Series: Ocean Research-Creation
April 11, 2022 - 4:30pm
Organized by Lauren Lees and Raechel Jasmine Hill  Moderated by Jesse Colin Jackson Sponsored by UCI Illuminations Monday, April 11, 2022 4:30-6:30 p.m. PST In-person: Natural Sciences I, Room 1114 — https://map.uci.edu/?id=463#!m/83373 Online: Zoom — https://uci.zoom.us/j/94921333559 In anticipation of Pacific Standard Time 2024—a forthcoming series of exhibitions focused on intersections between science and art—this panel conversation brings together artists, scientists, and curators pursuing interdisciplinary research and creation in, on, around, and...
Beall Center Art + Ecology Series: Hans Baumann
March 9, 2022 - 5:30pm
Organized by Margaret Oakley Hosted by Jesse Colin Jackson Sponsored by UCI Illuminations For the Beall Center Art + Ecologies Series, artist Hans Baumann discusses his practice in relation to the contemporary climate crisis. From past land art interventions at hypersaline lakes and abandoned coal mines to current research on archeological methodology and aquaria, Baumann will describe how conceptions of Nature and “the natural” delimit our understanding of the biosphere and constrain our ability to imagine and enact alternatives to fossil capitalism. In doing so, Baumann will foreground...
Danger, Squirrel Nutkin!, 2009
Just Your Garden Variety Robots: A Conversation
February 23, 2022 - 5:30pm
Just Your Garden Variety Robots: A Conversation  Wednesday, February 23, 5:30-6:30 pm Coinciding with the Beall Center for Art + Technology’s exhibition by artist Ian Ingram, this conversation between the artist, UCI neurobiologist Steve Mahler, and UT Dallas art history professor Charissa Terranova explores the process of collaboration for works in the current exhibition. Topics include animal morphology, robotic avatars, and furtive technology in natural environments—specifically systems that cohabitate and interact with animals in the wild. This mid-career survey exhibition...

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