UCLA Design Media Arts presents: COACTION: Collaborations in Art, Science, Design, Games, and Technology
DATES: Thursday, October 17 – Thursday, October 24, 2024
OPENING DATE AND TIME: Thursday, October 17, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
An exhibition of work created by UCLA Research Center, Labs, and Studios founded by DMA Faculty: Victoria Vesna, Rebeca Méndez, Eddo Stern, Jenna Caravello, Chandler McWilliams, Lauren Lee McCarthy, and Casey Reas.
Art|Sci Center / Victoria Vesna, Founder and Director
The UCLA Art|Sci Center pursues, facilitates, and promotes research and programs that explore the potential of media arts and science collaborations. We focus on projects that address social, ethical, and environmental challenges stemming from scientific innovations.
Ivana Dama, Assistant Director
artsci.ucla.edu / @ucla_artsci
Game Lab / Eddo Stern, Director, and Jenna Caravello, Associate Director
UCLA Game Lab fosters the production of experimental computer games and other playful art forms and promotes games and play-related research, education, and creative practice.
Tyler Stefanich, Lab Manager
games.ucla.edu
Conditional Studio / Chandler McWilliams, Director
The UCLA Arts Conditional Studio works to draw attention to the materiality of technological systems and the intrinsically machinic, political, and physical realities of our technological moment. The studio is also the home of FLAT Journal.
conditional.arts.ucla.edu
Counterforce Lab / Rebeca Méndez, Founder and Director
Counterforce Lab is a research center that harnesses the power of art and design to engage with the reality of the global ecological crisis and its ties to social and environmental injustice.
Eleanor Diamant, Associate Director
Erin Cooney, Affiliate Faculty
Yogan Müller, Affiliate Researcher
Chuyu Liu, Designer
counterforcelab.org / @counterforcelab
Social Software / Lauren Lee McCarthy and Casey Reas, Co-Directors
Software is culture. Software is art. Software is social. Social Software is people coming together to create software art and art that explores the role of software in culture.
Daniel Soto, Creative Producer
Chelly Jin, Research Assistant
Alani Hendriks, Student Assistant
dma.ucla.edu/initiatives/social-software
Flat Journal / Chandler McWilliams, Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief
Flat Journal is a platform for theoretical and critical texts and experiments that engage with technology and emerging media in the arts.
Sadia Quddus, Research Assistant
Dalena Tran, Editor
flatjournal.com
LOCATION
New Wight Gallery
Broad Art Center
240 Charles E. Young Dr.
GALLERY HOURS
Monday – Friday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.
PARKING
Public parking is available in UCLA Parking Structure 3.