A flyer encrypted with a Snapchat code can unlock dancing bears on your phone’s screen. Using augmented reality, the project is one of the works that will be on display at the design media arts exhibition opening Thursday. Read more...
Photo: Second-year Amy Fang and fourth-year Chris Kim, both design media arts students, co-lead curated the “Breaking the Rules” exhibition, which will show in the New Wight Gallery in the Broad Art Center beginning Thursday. (Niveda Tennety/Daily Bruin)
A manually driven car may be as antiquated as a landline telephone in the future, Erkki Huhtamo said. Huhtamo is a professor at UCLA’s department of design media arts and a founder of the field of media archaeology, the discipline that seeks to understand new and emerging media through examination of the past. Read more...
Photo: Erkki Huhtamo, a professor at UCLA’s department of design media arts, gave a series of lectures throughout Japan entitled “Media, Transportations, and the Challenges of Posthuman Culture.” (Courtesy of University of Tsukuba)
A performer was already standing on the Royce Hall stage as the audience shuffled toward their assigned seats. He emulated the frozen stride of an Egyptian hieroglyph while his head gently pivoted on its axis to scan the space. Read more...
Photo: “The Great Tamer,” a piece of dance theater created by Dimitris Papaioannou, premiered in the U.S. on Friday in Royce Hall through the Center for the Art of Performance. (Courtesy of Julian Mommert)
Repurposed trash will be the focus of UCLA’s upcoming art show: “Our Ecological Footprint: Expressions of Environmentalism.” The show will kick off the UCLA Renewable Energy Association’s Waste Awareness Week on Monday. Read more...
Photo: Liliana Epps, a third-year gender studies student, Kayli Masuda, a first-year chemical engineering student, and Ariana Mamnoon, a fourth-year geography and environmental systems and society student (left to right), helped organize an environmental art show to kick off the Renewable Energy Association’s Waste Awareness Week. (Axel Lopez/Assistant Photo editor)
The Meiji Restoration generated not only an industrial boom in late 19th century Japan but also a new wave of mass-produced media. Bard College assistant professor Nathan Shockey will speak about this surge of magazine printing in his colloquium at Royce Hall on Friday, titled “Developing A Paper Empire: Late Meiji Magazines And Modern Japanese Mass Culture.” The lecture, hosted by the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, will explore the role of photography and oral performance in making typographic print a widespread, mass phenomenon. Read more...
Photo: Bard College assistant professor Nathan Shockey will deliver a colloquium in Royce Hall about changes in mass media production – specifically the rise of oral performance and photography during the Meiji Restoration in Japan. (Courtesy of Nathan Shockey)
Evolutionary Darwinism and spirituality face off in “A Misunderstanding.” The play, which opened Jan. 4 and runs through Feb. 3 at The Complex, is centered around the fictional Dr. Read more...
Photo: Matt Chait and Bruce Katzman (left to right), play Bertram Cates and Joshua Brownstein in “A Misunderstanding,” respectively. In the production, Cates is suing the University of California for a wrongful dismissal lawsuit, and debates Brownstein, the UC head of biology, during the trial. (Courtesy of Ed Krieger)
The black-and-white checkerboard stage floor in “The Mineola Twins” represents its lead characters’ inability to see the world in shades of gray, said Molly Livingston. Livingston, a fourth-year theater student and one of the lead actresses, said the play focuses on the dangers of absolute opinions and seeing the world in black and white. Read more...
Photo: Sam Linkowski (left), a third-year theater student, and Molly Livingston (right), a fourth-year theater student, play Ben and Myrna, respectively, in “The Mineola Twins,” where Ben is Myrna’s son. (Anirudh Keni/Daily Bruin)
