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Video Artist and Professor Ulysses Jenkins Finally Gets His MomentVideo Artist and Professor Ulysses Jenkins Finally Gets His Moment
By Richard Chang There are some talented people who create thought-provoking works all their lives, flying just below the radar and occasionally popping up for a moment in the spotlight. Ulysses Jenkins is one of those people. Jenkins is a professor of art, focusing on video, digital and...
Daphne Lei Appointed Director of UCI Illuminations, the Arts and Culture InitiativeDaphne Lei Appointed Director of UCI Illuminations, the Arts and Culture Initiative
Professor of Drama Daphne Lei has been appointed Director of UCI Illuminations, the Arts and Culture Initiative, effective Feb. 1, 2022. Provost Hal Stern made the announcement on behalf of Chancellor Howard Gillman on Jan. 28, 2022. Lei has served as interim director since Jan. 1, 2022. Lei has...
Curtains UpCurtains Up
UCI alumni and faculty help reopen live theater on Broadway and national tours By Christine Byrd One of Kaden Kearney’s, M.F.A. ’19, last performances before the pandemic was at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Now, Kearney is taking curtain calls at the Kennedy Center and the Ahmanson...
Learning the StepsLearning the Steps
Young alumni are prepared to thrive in their professional dance careers By Christine Byrd Lauren Gresens’ final performance as a student was a solo in North Star, a piece by acclaimed modern dance choreographer and UCI professor Lar Lubovitch. When she graduated a few months later, in June...
12 Must-See U.S. Art Museum Shows in 202212 Must-See U.S. Art Museum Shows in 2022
Excerpt from Artnet News, January 13, 2022: 12 Must-See U.S. Art Museum Shows in 2022, From Philip Guston’s Scandal-Stalked Survey to Faith Ringgold’s Big New York Moment Plus, a full-scale Cézanne survey for a new generation, and Ulysses Jenkins gets the retrospective treatment in L.A....
TOP TEN: Sky Hopinka’s highlights of 2021 TOP TEN: Sky Hopinka’s highlights of 2021
#10 ULYSSES JENKINS (ICA PHILADELPHIA; CURATED BY MEG ONLI AND ERIN CHRISTOVALE) The work of Ulysses Jenkins was a revelation. Across the videos and performances featured in this career retrospective—among them Two-Zone Transfer, 1979, and Inconsequential Doggerel, 1981—one found a...
New Book on Clara Schumann Published for the Cambridge University Press Composer Studies SeriesNew Book on Clara Schumann Published for the Cambridge University Press Composer Studies Series
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the publication of Clara Schumann Studies edited by Dr. Joe Davies and featuring a chapter by Professor Nicole Grimes. The volume is dedicated to the late Nancy B. Reich as a tribute to her pioneering scholarship on Clara Schumann. Since the 1980s,...
Bringing to Life Madame Modjeska’s Fairytale Bringing to Life Madame Modjeska’s Fairytale
By Mia Hammett Living, breathing on-screen animation. A kaleidoscopic patchwork of actors awhirl. Engaging sonic and visual experimentalism. This is Madame Modjeska’s Fairytale, the latest film production from Annie Loui, Claire Trevor School of the Arts professor of acting and...
UCI Department of Music recognized as a thriving hub for Clara Schumann research and performanceUCI Department of Music recognized as a thriving hub for Clara Schumann research and performance
The article “Wieck Spot” in VAN Magazine by Sarah Fritz pays tribute to the pioneering research and performance on Clara Schumann that is being carried out by UCI faculty at the Department of Music including Joe Davies, Lorna Griffitt, Nicole Grimes, and Nina Scolnik. It highlights the prominence...
UCI Drama Faculty and Students Produce Multimedia Dance Theater About Madame Marie CurieUCI Drama Faculty and Students Produce Multimedia Dance Theater About Madame Marie Curie
Chancellor's and Claire Trevor Professor Bryan Reynolds in the Department of Drama leads a thrilling collaboration of theater focused on the life and work of Madame Marie Skłodowska Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. The partnership is between Transversal Theater Company and Laurie...
UCI Art Professor Hosts International Symposium Focused on Industrial Crafts ResearchUCI Art Professor Hosts International Symposium Focused on Industrial Crafts Research
The Industrial Crafts Research Network (ICRN), co-directed by Department of Art Professor Simon Penny and Professor Tom Fisher (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom), will host the inaugural symposium, Exhibiting Skill: Understanding, Documenting, and Communicating Skilled Practices of...
Meet Antoinette LaFarge: Co-Founder of UCI’s Electronic Art & Design ProgramMeet Antoinette LaFarge: Co-Founder of UCI’s Electronic Art & Design Program
In celebration of Antoinette LaFarge's new book, Sting in the Tale, Irvine Community News & Views wrote a feature about her and the many contributions she has made to UCI's Department of Art. Read more about LaFage here. Attend LaFarge's upcoming talk through UCI Illuminations on Tuesday...
Mari Kimura Explores Music’s Intersections with Technology and ScienceMari Kimura Explores Music’s Intersections with Technology and Science
By Richard Chang Mari Kimura, a professor of music at UCI’s Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology program, is connecting students, disciplines and departments with her groundbreaking work. She’s fostering collaboration and interaction during times when the coronavirus pandemic has...
Ulysses Jenkins retrospective opens in Philadelphia on Sept. 17
Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation is the first major retrospective on the work of groundbreaking video/performance artist Ulysses Jenkins, on view at ICA this fall, September 17–December 30, 2021. The exhibition is co-curated by Meg Onli, ICA Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator and...
Dr. Rajna Swaminathan joins the UCI Music facultyDr. Rajna Swaminathan joins the UCI Music faculty
The Department of Music is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Rajna Swaminathan as Assistant Professor of Music. Professor Swaminathan holds a Ph.D. in Music from Harvard University’s Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry program and is an improviser, composer, and scholar. Her...
Ariyan Johnson Brings Innovation and Passion to UCI DanceAriyan Johnson Brings Innovation and Passion to UCI Dance
By Jezebel Ramirez-Robles and Lauren Knight Professor Ariyan Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist with a rich background in dancing, choreographing, acting, producing, and directing, the list continues with each new project she takes on. At a young age, Johnson’s mother -- a dancer...
Survey: Simon Leung Survey: Simon Leung
e-flux Education | July 27, 2021 Simon Leung is an artist who lives in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. He has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles; California Institute of the Arts; Rhode Island School of Design; New York University; and Skowhegan, in addition to the University of...
Prof. Monica Majoli wins a prestigious Hammer Museum awardProf. Monica Majoli wins a prestigious Hammer Museum award
Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times by Deborah Vankin July 15, 2021 "The Hammer Museum announced Thursday that L.A. artist Kandis Williams, co-founder of Cassandra Press and a visiting faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts, will receive the museum’s $100,000 Mohn Award for...
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