Installation

Games

Sculpture

Video

Performance

Costumes

Interaction

A person/creature on a black background, wearing a pink fluffy mask with colourful beads, oversized shiny yellow high heels made from vinyl, pink furry pants, a t-shirt with sewn beads and orange hair, and having fluffy pink-yellow bunny ears on their sho

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Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou

Websites

A black-and-white, 5-by-5 mosaic collage consisting of multiperspective fragments of Hua Chai's portrait. 

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Hua Chai

Movement / Dance

A black and white photo of performance lecture by the artist Julianna Johnston. Julianna is a white wall drawing a diagram of two points on an x and y axis. On the dark indoor floor there is a white square in which two participants are standing and anothe

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Julianna Johnston

Professor

Identity

Software

Femininity

Internet

Screenshot of a Photo Booth window. The main image at the top features a half chinese woman wearing a lime green shirt with platinum blonde hair. She's not really smiling. She's using the hearts Photo Booth feature that places pink hearts about her head. 

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Maya Man

Literature

Illustration

Animation

Asian man with short black hair wearing a black tshirt

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Michael Luo

AMID TEARS is how we speak through varying voices in a world riddled with conflict, dispersion, and trauma in the persistent aftermath of a forced transition into the virtual and our evermore complex relationship with the physical. Tears, traveling between lingering remembrances and coalescing uncertainties in a contested reality, epitomize a human reaction to a landscape dominated by technology and algorithm. Tears are our collective language in which we take shelter.

Through our commonality amidst our different tears, the 2023 UCLA DMA MFA cohort presents an exhibition that deals with memories and nostalgia from an artificial past; diaspora, bureaucracy, and decolonial poetics mapped to the worldmaking present; femininity, queerness, bodily difference, ensuing labor, and visionary architecture of a shape-shifting future. With this show, we share a multitude of artworks that host many divergent ideas and approaches in our convergent field of contemporary MEDIA ARTS.


Text reading "Amid tears openeing thurs oct 13, 5PM" on a blue background. The bottom left corner has an illustration of a crying eye.

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DMA MFA PREVIEW SHOW 2022

AMID TEARS

Generative Art

Queer Studies

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TengChao Zhou

a black and white image of Vinny Roca's head and torso - although taken by himself the photo has the appearance of being produced in a photo studio - he is wearing a turtle neck sweater

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Vinny Roca

3D Animation

Augmented Reality

"an overly retouched photo of wantong yao" an asian woman in a black dress looking at the camera

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Wantong Yao

Visionary Architecture

Generative Text

Family Histories

Wiley Wiggins head and shoulders in front of a video projection of a sword, candle, and teddy bear

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Wiley Wiggins

Design Media Arts

People

MFA Candidates