Hong Kong born artist Shirley Tse spoke at UCSB art department’s final Visiting Artist Colloquium presentation. Tse showed past sculptures that were on display in Venice, Italy, as well as recent art installations in California. Tse discussed her recent move to Lompoc, California, where she seeks out art projects that sustainable on many levels.
Check out these Q & A’s with UCSB Film Students: an Instagram-inspired director, a transfer student making new connections, and an Indonesian student telling untold stories.
UC Santa Barbara Film and Media Studies program is renowned for its research and scholarship and students come away with a deep understanding of the field.They also have a chance to network and pursue production projects to gain traction in their future careers — applying practically what they’ve learned theoretically. Four students recently gave interviews about what they are doing on the production side. Read their stories.
Although Christian nationalism is slowly gaining support among Republicans and older Americans, last month’s election results were not as bad as some people expected for Democrats, UC Santa Barbara alum and Skidmore College associate professor Brad Onishi said at an event co-sponsored by UCSB’s Walter H. Capps Center.
Curtis Roads, professor and chair of Media Arts and Technology at UCSB, spoke to a Santa Barbara audience last week about his career in electronic music composition and music software development. During the lecture, he played some of his more recent pieces and updated his audience on future projects.
Over the past decade, after researching the practices of those who consider themselves nonreligious, UC Santa Barbara Religious Studies associate professor Joseph Blankholm, a specialist in atheism, published his new book The Secular Paradox. Blankholm proposes that the very definition of “religion” in the English language is flawed, as the term has been shaped by the parameters of Christianity. He spoke about secularism and atheism in a recent interview.
