Events
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab
IDEA Hub Fall Open House
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEngage in social and creative enterprise with a growing community of entrepreneurs at UCSC. Learn about social and creative innovation projects and opportunities. Tour the OpenLap incubator spaces. Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:00-5:00 p.m. Digital Arts Research Center Room 108 Schedule of Events: 1:00 p.m. Information Botths OpenLab Tours Lunch Buffet 1:45 p.m. Introductions 2:00 […]
Dark Deleuze in the Dark
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAndrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today's world of compulsory happiness, decentralized control, and overexposure. Arranged in a series of contraries, Culp’s cataclysmic politics exhorts us to kill our idols and cultivate “hatred for this world.” “Dark Deleuze in the Dark" […]
The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman The Land Beneath Our Feet, a film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman, follows a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage […]
Patricia Piccinini and Donna Haraway in Conversation
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAustralian artist Patricia Piccinini will join UC Santa Cruz professor emerita Donna Haraway for a conversation about their shared interest in what Haraway calls "technoculture and speculative fabulations." Patricia Piccinini works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture. In 2014 she was awarded the Artist Award by the […]
Subatlantic: A Screening and Presentation
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesArts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Swiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss her recent speculative SF video essay Subatlantic (2015), addressing, among related works and topics, the interdisciplinary-discursive ecotone of geology and climatology merged with human politics […]
LASER (Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous)
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Arts Division at the University of California, Santa Cruz present: LASER Tuesday, February 2, 2016 Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please […]
UPDATED TIME: Amalia Mesa-Bains Talk & Film Screening of “Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement”
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMonday, November 9, 2015 6 PM, Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 The Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Museo Eduardo Carrillo invite you to a talk by internationally renowned artist Amalia Mesa-Bains and a screening of the Museo's new 30 minute documentary Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement. Amalia Mesa-Bains is an […]
Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER)
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLeonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of evening gatherings that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. Please join us in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by: Giacomo Bernardi "Finding general patterns in the natural […]
DataLex: Privacy, Big Data, & the Law
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesToday, across nearly every societal sector, from corrections to education to health care, large-scale data analysis is a widely adopted tool. Our most personal behaviors and traits are regularly quantified by a rapidly growing array of sensors and devices around us. These devices are connected to intelligent systems that can render critical predictions about our […]
Weekend with Shakespeare: Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis two-day event features leading Shakespeare scholars and theater artists who share their insights into this season’s plays through lectures, demonstrations, and discussions. Weekend with Shakespeare offers two options for purchase: a lecture-only package, which allows you to purchase and see the plays on your own schedule; or as a package that includes Premium seating […]