LOVE MACHINES
UCLA DMA 2024 MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center

Artist Walkthrough on Saturday, May 25, 12-2 pm

We are excited to invite you to an exclusive artist walkthrough of the LOVE MACHINES exhibition this Saturday, May 25th, from 12-2 pm at the New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center. This special event, part of the UCLA DMA 2024 Thesis Exhibition running from May 16 to May 30, offers a unique opportunity to engage directly with the nine participating artists of the MFA in Media Arts program. We look forward to welcoming you to our show!

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Pulsing cores, twitching digits, memory movements.

Love Machines is the hopeful condition - that through and with ever-changing media we may join together in generosity. Love Machines is the foreclosed command - the demand to operationalize the self and accept technology as the answer. In the presence of this double, Love Machines looks to make sense of these conflicting desires that permeate contemporary techno-culture. From performances to simulation, the works in this show by the 2024 UCLA DMA MFA cohort both embrace the new relations that media art fosters and call into question the black boxed reality that is formed from these technologies. As the love of machines swells to consume, the works in this show look toward the love machine, that which turns in mutual care, as a new mode to understand our present.

PARTICIPANTS ARTISTS
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Aurora Mititelu, Brenton Zola, Chong Xu, Doyeon Kim, Hua Chai, Jules Johnston, Vinny Roca, Wantong Yao

LOCATION
UCLA New Wight Gallery
240 Charles E Young Dr N.
Broad Art Center, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90095

LOVE MACHINES opens May 16th and will run until May 30th with limited gallery hours. Please check the @ucla_dma Instagram for updated gallery hours.

Public parking is available in ULCA Parking Structure 3.