Resources

Arts Library

The Arts Library has more than 270,000 books in the fields of architecture, architectural history, art, art history, design, film, television, photography, theater, and allied disciplines. Approximately one-third of these holdings are stored in the Southern Regional Library Facility. Reference assistance is available during reference hours and via email. Detailed research guides are available online for Architecture and Design, Art and Art History, and Film, Television and Theater. Arts Library website and online catalog.

Art|Sci Center

The Art | Sci Center aims to pursue, facilitate and promote research and programs that demonstrate the potential of media arts and science collaborations. Media artists and scientists from the home campus, UCLA, from the UC system, the national and international communities will approach the center's intention to address ethical, social and environmental issues of contemporary scientific innovations and artistic projects that respond to cutting-edge inventions and research. Art|Sci Center website.

Broad Art Center

Opened in September 2006, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center houses the Design | Media Arts and the Art departments, as well as ongoing public series of free exhibitions and lectures at the New Wight Gallery and the EDA (experimental digital arts) space. Designed by Richard Meier & Partners Architects, the Broad Arts Center is located in the northeast section of the UCLA campus, adjacent to the internationally renowned Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden. The building site features "T.E.U.C.L.A.," a 42.5-ton torqued ellipse sculpture by Richard Serra, which has been installed on its plaza.

DMA Grad Student Gallery

Supported by a generous gift from the David Bermant Foundation, the DMA Grad Student Gallery is a space curated by DMA M.F.A. students. The Gallery provides an alternate space for presentation of new student work outside of normal coursework or M.F.A. shows. The Grad Student Gallery is located on the ground floor of the Broad Art Center, adjacent to the EDA in room 1250 of the Broad Art Center.

DMA Labs

Directed by Maroun Harb, Alan Wood, and Mihai Peteu, the DMA Labs feature high-end Windows and Macintosh computers; various peripherals, such as scanners, laser printers, and large-format Epson plotters; CD and DVD burners; and film recorders and digital video cameras. The Labs also provide access to a large library of graphics software in the areas of digital photography, illustration, interactive media, and 3D-modeling and animation. In addition to our main labs, our facilities include studio space for graduates and undergraduates, several faculty research labs, a blue screen room, a video facility supporting analog and nonlinear digital editing, audio mixing, and video capture, and two digital audio facilities. Wireless access is available to laptop users, and all the computers in our facilities are connected to the campus network, giving students individual access to DMA network resources and the Internet. The DMA Labs also contains the DMA Help Desk, which provides student support for Labs activities. The DMA Labs support website provides a wide range of online services to DMA students, faculty, and staff, including the abilities to view current lab and help desk hours, lab information and guides, reserve equipment from inventory, modify user accounts, access charge histories, and submit print jobs.

EDA

The EDA (Experimental Digital Arts) is a lecture room and experimental space designed for multimedia lecture presentations and exhibitions located in room 1250 near the ground floor entrance of the Broad Art Center. The EDA was established in 1999 by Professor Victoria Vesna as a space to encourage dialogue between disciplines and experimentation with new technologies. The EDA website features a schedule of past and present events, as well as an extensive archive of streaming video documentation from all previous events. EDA website.

Fabrication & Electronics Labs

Directed by Frank Chang, the fabrication and electronics labs provides students and faculty with physical computing and fabrication resources. Located in room 2250 on the second floor of the Broad Art Center, the fabrication lab facilitates physical construction across several different media, including wood, metal, and plastics. In addition to traditional manual and powered fabrication equipment, such as table saws, drills, routers, and sanders, the fabrication lab features a growing collection of computer-aided milling and rapid- prototyping facilities. The adjacent electronics lab supports research and development for projects utilizing physical computing with the goal to move away from standard computer interfaces such as monitors and keyboards. The lab provides electronics fabrication resources, including soldering equipment, power supplies, multimeters, oscilloscopes, basic components, and microcontrollers. Additionally, the electronics lab functions as a communal site for sharing and documenting physical computing experiments and draws on the extensive professional experience of the lab's visiting electronics consultant, Paul Yarin of Blackdust Design.

MARS

The Media Arts Research Space (MARS) provides faculty and graduate students access to hard to find audiovisual material and literature from the fields of media arts and design. MARS contains several hundred videotapes, laserdiscs, CD-ROMs, DVDs and books. It also has basic viewing facilities for video, DVDs and laserdiscs, as well as for Internet-based works. The collection, initiated by Professor Victoria Vesna, was put together by Professor Erkki Huhtamo and Visiting Professor Machiko Kusahara. MARS is located in room 3246 on the third floor of the Broad Art Center.

New Wight Gallery

Located on the ground floor of the Broad Art Center, the New Wight Gallery, established in 1995, is a vital center on the UCLA campus for the display and discussion of student art, design and media arts work. In winter and spring quarters, master's of fine arts exhibitions representing work from the UCLA Department of Art and the UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts are presented in the 5,500-square-foot gallery, offering each graduating M.F.A. student a professional exhibition setting for their work and an appropriate venue for review by their graduate faculty committees. The New Wight Gallery committee, comprised of graduate students in art, Design | Media Arts, and architecture and urban design, curates biennial exhibitions of graduate student work, drawing from M.F.A. programs across the United States and abroad.

Student Forum

The D|MA Student Forum is an online resource developed for students by students. Once logged in, students can seek or provide assistance for class-related questions, search an up- to-date job bank for work opportunities, and socialize in an environment that is entirely theirs. Student Forum website.