Kenya Hara Lecture
Emptiness
September 30, 2008, 6:00 pm
Kenya Hara is interested in designing “circumstances” or “conditions” rather than “things.” A graphic designer and Professor at the Musashino Art university, Hara has been an Art director of MUJI since 2002.
Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
Sound Unbound
October 29, 2008, 6:00 pm
Miller explores the overall theme of sound in contemporary art, digital media, and composition. He reconstructs the history of sound and recorded media by several of the most well known artists of their field.
The Yes Men
Correcting Identities with the Yes Men
November 20, 2008, 6:00 pm
The Yes Men are a merry troupe of imposters who have poked fun at some of the world's biggest corporate criminals. They are most well known for impersonating the WTO– the subject of a feature film and book– but they have had dozens of other escapades fighting corporate crime with words, glue, and rubberbands.
Clay Shirky
Lecture
January 13, 2009, 6:00 pm
Shirky is the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. He divides his time on consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.
Steven Heller
Lecture
January 28, 2009, 6:00 pm
Steven Heller is an art director at the New York Times, originally on the OpEd Page and for almost 30 of those years with the New York Times Book Review. Currently, he is co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Department, Special Consultant to the President of SVA for New Programs, and writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review.
United Visual Artists
Lecture
February 10, 2009, 6:00 pm
United Visual Artists is a British-based collective whose current practice spans permanent architectural installation, live performace and responsive installation. Research and development is a core part of their process -- enabling them to constantly explore new fields.
Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers
Lecture
April 7, 2009, 6:00 pm
Franceschini is an artist and educator. She founded Futurefarmers in 1995 to bring together multidisciplinary practitioners to create new work. She is currently teaching media theory and practice courses at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute.
Natalie Jeremijenko
Lecture
May 5, 2009, 6:00 pm
Jeremijenko is an artists, inventor, and engineer with the mission to reclaim technology from idealized, abstract concepts and to apply it to the messy complexities of the real world, often with disquieting results.
UCLA - Design | Media Arts
Broad art Center - EDA (Room 1260)
Lectures begin promptly at 6:00 pm
The UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts (DMA) offers a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to media creation that fosters individual exploration and innovative thinking. Our internationally renowned faculty provides each student with a creative and intellectual foundation for constructing a unique contribution to culture. DMA is committed to educating conscientious creators bby emphasizing production within the context of history and theory. The core curriculum is augmented by series of vital lectures, workshops, and other events, and we actively encourage our students to pursue other interests within the university.
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