2020 Events

Join artist-healer Thea Monyeé for a conversation

Unpack and deconstruct issues that are affecting UCSB students and communities beyond campus with the MCC

Film screening and discussion event by the MCC

Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime

Speaker: Ge Wang

http://seminar.mat.ucsb.edu/

Abstract

How might the shaping of technology make our lives richer and more meaningful? This presentation (with live demos) is a journey through the design of everyday tools, musical instruments, games, and social experiences -- working at the intersection of HCI, design, art, the humanities and social science. It is a story on how we shape technology, and how technology, in turn, shapes us and our society.

Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Sciences(AWMAS) will host another online speaker series event on Friday May 1st, 2020 at 12PM (Pacific Time). 

Speaker: Anne Deane Berman

Title:  Interactive Immersive Environments Social Commentary through Narrative Design

Zoom: Email awmas.ucsb@gmail.com for login link

Abstract

Abstract

Participation in computing across gender, race/ethnicity, and socio-economic status is far from equitable. This equity matters because it determines who gets to develop technology. Artistic computing environments is one lens to explore inequities that exist within the design of learning experiences. Artistic practices offer reflective processes that can enable learners to draw on their own values and cultures within the learning experience; while computing technology provides various new media for learners to express themselves. In this talk, Dr.

A moderated conversation with Yvon Chouinard and featuring clips from Patagonia’s upcoming film, This Land

Join CCS during All Gaucho Reunion!

Jane Lubchenco will discuss "From a Rude Awakening to a Bold New Vision: The Path from a Disastrous Oil Spill to a Sustainable Future" on April 22, 2020 at 7:30 in Campbell Hall

Author of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize finalist Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Elizabeth Rush explores how humans adapt to changes enacted upon them by forces seemingly beyond their control