This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Explore the winning poetry entries submitted by Kiana Perez, Aran Hosseini, and Vivian Walman-Randall.
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This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Explore the music submitted by Noah Vela, Charlie Prindle, and Violet Joy Hanson.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Students from all walks of life submitted their original works of photography, poetry, prose, visual art, and music for the opportunity to be featured on the HFA website.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. Explore the works of photography and visual art submitted by Aran Hosseini, Reed Gaynor, Ethan Lacher, and Pricila Flores.
South African film director Enver Samuel produced a documentary on the 1988 assisination of South African anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September, Murder in Paris: The Assassination of Dulcie September. In a post-screening discussion of the film , a panel of UCSB professors and visiting NYU scholar Leonard Cortana, focused on sexism as a factor that prevented September from receiving proper police protection and due justice after her murder.
I-In Chiang is a Taipei-based film academic who teaches East Asian Languages and Cultures at Tamkang University. She recently shared her most recent research on Li Han-hsiang, a prolific Chinese director during the 1960s and 70s, as well as the founder of Grand Motion Pictures. This private-owned studio revolutionized the Taiwanese film industry and elevated its status amongst other Asian cinemas during a period in history where political tensions ran high.
The UC Santa Barbara Dance Company departed early this week for its annual trip to Europe, where the company will perform its repertoire across multiple countries as well as take and teach dance classes while immersing itself in international culture. This year the company will visit Krakow, Prague, and Barcelona, and will even perform twice on April 29 in celebration of International Dance Day.
On January 6, 2021, when an armed mob stormed the U.S. capitol building to prevent Congress from verifying the presidential election, viewers were surprised to see rioters sporting Christian symbols. But for author and sociology professor Samuel Perry, the Christian symbolism at the insurrection represented a growing ideological trend in American politics. In a recent talk, Perry presented research from national surveys to define the ideology known as Christian nationalism and illuminate the threat such ideas pose to U.S democracy.
The Glass Box Gallery, a student ran exhibition space on campus, kicked off Spring quarter by hosting UCSB Art student Anna Sophia Monzon. Last week, Monzon displayed her colorful art series “Up, Up, and Away.” Monzon spoke about her journey as a painter and the events that brought the series to life.
Art student Jasmin Tupy hosted an art show gallery in her Isla Vista home last month featuring several other student artists – to showcase the talents of the college town next to UC Santa Barbara.
Americans created a criminal punishment system based on the model of quarantine in which the poor and people of color are disproportionately isolated and contained, “treated as a pathogen,” Sharon Daniel, a professor at UC Santa Cruz and media artist, told the UCSB Media Arts and Technology (MAT) graduate program. Now, in the 21st century, the COVID-19, has both exposed and intensified the injustices of the criminal system, Daniel said as she walked through her interactive art documentary “EXPOSED: Documenting COVID-19 in the Criminal Punishment System.”
Yin Yu, a graduate student in UCSB’s Media Arts and Technology (MAT) program, debuted her 3D fusion of biology and technology recently at the Art Department’s Glassbox Gallery. Yu’s pieces “OctoAnenome” and “SoftVoss” are a representation of her desire to portray the potential of robots to behave realistically with life-like motions.
In celebration of Women's History Month, UC Santa Barbara's Humanities and Fine Arts division hosted a panel entitled "The Wisdom of Women," in which two faculty members stressed uplifting and recovering female voices that are not often heard in mainstream discussions of women in history. UCSB undergraduate student Colleen Coveney, engaged author and English professor Cherríe Moraga and History professor Miroslava Chavez-Garcia in an insightful discussion that ranged from the panelists' personal histories to the difficulties they encounter in academic circles.
UC Santa Barbara history professors Anthony Barbieri and Sherene Seikaly were recently awarded $60,000 each by the National Humanities Alliance to further their research on the ancient Han Dynasty and Levantine mobility, respectively.
Earlier this month, students in UC Santa Barbara’s Honors Arts Program opened their studio spaces to the public — the first time they have held such an event since 2020. UCSB Honors Art students Grace Warren, Madeleine Galas, and Marlena Goodman were among those who exhibited their completed and ongoing works, as well as their work spaces. Viewers were able to stroll through the studios and meet the student artists.
The Art, Design, and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara has multiple art exhibitions on display year-round. Currently, it is showing a collection of instruments used for gagaku, an ancient Japanese style of orchestral music and dance.
At the turn of the 20th century, the United States saw a boom in Japanese immigration. But as the Japanese American population increased, campaigns to exclude immigrants grew as well. In a recent talk for the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Berkeley English professor Andrew Way Leong examined Japanese literature in the context of these acts of exclusion. He explained how the immigration ban led many Japanese Americans to emphasize reproduction as a way to build a future in America, excluding individuals in queer or other non-traditional relationships.
Nowadays, machines are so technologically advanced that they can handle problems humans are ordinarily responsible for. But, we should view artificial intelligence in cultural rather than technological terms, French AI researcher Alexandre Gefen recently told a UC Santa Barbara audience at an event sponsored by the Comparative Literature Program and the English Department’s Transcriptions Center.
Television has changed since the beginning of the 21st century, with streaming platforms such as Netflix and Hulu now allowing us to watch thousands of television series that offer more diversity and global perspectives, says UCSB Film and Media lecturer James McNamara. Television series, he told a virtual audience this month, allow people to connect with one another through shared experiences, not only in America but around the world, giving the medium a new educational role in society.
The UC Santa Barbara Writing Program is beginning a creative nonfiction initiative in which 19 students will work with faculty members to create multimedia stories about their COVID-19 pandemic experiences.