The UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts (DMA) is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this fall, including exhibitions, seminars, symposia and lectures.       

 

For events at the UCLA Broad Art Center's New Wight Gallery (Room 1100) or EDA facility (Room 1250), all-day parking ($11) and short-term parking (payable at pay stations) are available in Lot 3 (enter campus at Hilgard Avenue and Wyton Drive). All-day parking ($11) for events at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is available in Lot 9 (enter campus at the intersection of Manning Avenue or Le Conte Avenue with Hilgard Avenue, or at the intersection of Westwood and Wilshire boulevards).           

 

Visit www.dma.ucla.edu for live streaming coverage of lectures. Programs are subject to change. For updated information, gallery hours and confirmation of events, call 310-825-9007 or visit www.dma.ucla.edu.           

 

 

FREE EXHIBITIONS     

 

Oct. 13–19

Opening reception: Thursday, Oct. 13, 5–8 p.m.

New Wight Gallery (Room 1100), Broad Art Center

 

This group exhibition features works by UCLA Design | Media Arts M.F.A. students Joanna Cheung, Minkyung Choi, Jesse Chorng, Mark Essen, Noa Kaplan-Sears, David Leonard, Sephiroth Li, Gabriel Noguez Ibarra, Eric Parren, Rhazes Spell and Rexy Tseng.

 

 

FREE LECTURES & EVENTS  

 

Tuesday, Oct. 11

6 p.m.

EDA (Room 1250), Broad Art Center 

 

White is one of the most significant American female artists participating in the international dialogue on design today. From her delicate mobile aviaries, brightly colored Plexiglas pools, hanging tapestries and glass rivers to her numerous catalogs, advertisements and magazine covers, her work is crisp and challenging. She received her M.F.A. from the Art Center College of Design. White was a featured artist in the 2007 Sculpture Projekte Münster and also participated in the 2009 Venice Biennale.    

 

 

Tuesday, Nov. 15

6 p.m.

EDA (Room 1250), Broad Art Center 

 

Felton is the co-founder of Daytum.com, a website for counting and communicating daily data, and is a member of the product design team at Facebook. He has created several personal annual reports that collate countless measurements into a rich assortment of graphs and maps reflecting the year's activities. His work has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Wired and Creative Review.

 

 

Tuesday, Nov. 29

6 p.m.

EDA (Room 1250), Broad Art Center 

 

Austrian-born artist Erwin Redl uses LEDs as an artistic medium, redefining interior and exterior spaces. His works have received national and international attention and have been featured in Matrix VI at the 2002 Whitney Biennial, Fade I at the Eglise Sainte-Marie Madeleine, and Matrix II, which was shown in New York, Germany, France, Austria and Korea.

 

 

Art|Sci programs are held in the Art|Sci Gallery and Presentation Room (fifth floor) at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, unless otherwise noted. For updated information, please visit http://artsci.ucla.edu.   

 

Sept. 29–Oct. 31

Art|Sci Exhibition:

Opening reception: Thursday, Sept. 29, 5–7 p.m.

Art|Sci Gallery, CNSI Building, 5th floor

 

Diane Gromala, founding director of the Transforming Pain Research Group (TPRG), will exhibit the evolving work of this team of world-class researchers. Building on an extensive knowledge base from the fields of pain medicine, interactive art and design, computer science, neuroscience, and psychophysics, TPRG develops innovative technologies to address chronic pain, a disease that affects one in five North Americans. Technologies include meditation, biofeedback, immersive virtual reality, visualization, robotics and social media.

 

 

Thursday, Sept. 29

4 p.m.

Lecture Hall, CNSI Building

 

Gromala was one of the first artists to work with immersive virtual reality. Her work is currently in use in more than 20 hospitals and clinics. She is the founding director of the Transforming Pain Research Group, an interdisciplinary team of artists, designers, computer scientists, neuroscientists and medical doctors investigating how new technologies — ranging from virtual reality and robotics to social media — may be used as a technological form of analgesia and pain management. With Jay Bolter, Gromala is the co-author of "Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency." She is an associate professor at Simon Fraser University. Gromala has worked as a designer and art director in the corporate realm, including at Apple Computer Inc.        

 

 

Thursday, Sept. 29

5–7 p.m.

Art|Sci Gallery, CNSI Building, 5th floor

 

Join faculty, staff and students from north and south campus at our quarterly mixer, featuring the "Chronic Pain" exhibition. Come meet and greet colleagues from the sciences and humanities.

 

 

Nov. 10–Dec. 1

Opening reception: Thursday, Nov. 10, 5-7 p.m.

Art|Sci Gallery, CNSI Building, 5th floor

 

Hosted by Art|Sci fellow Siddarth Ramakrishnan, this exhibition gives humans a different perspective on our environment — a non-anthropocentric viewpoint. Using the dog — an animal that has been ubiquitous in the human home environment for centuries — as a model, the exhibition raises awareness of the different sensory potentials that other animals possess.