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Launching Clara Schumann Studies, Celebrating Women in Music
On March 1, 2022, in association with the Women in Global Music Network, the Department of Music was pleased to host the online launch of Clara Schumann Studies, a collection of essays edited by Dr. Joe Davies for Cambridge University Press. The event, attended by an...
Trailblazing Artist Ulysses Jenkins is being recognized for his critical work in video art
Groundbreaking video and performance artist. video and digital artist, Professor Ulysses Jenkins, presented the first major retrospective Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation Feb. 5 - May 15, 2022, at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Below includes some of the various press and...
Play explores UCI’s PrisonPandemic project
The disembodied voices of incarcerated people – scared, pleading, angry, upset – will haunt a UCI play about the coronavirus in California’s crowded penitentiaries. Set to run April 29 through May 1 in the campus’s Little Theatre, “COVID in Custody” chronicles the real-life efforts of three UCI...
Dance: Embodiology with Dr. S. Ama Wray
University of California, Irvine | April 12, 2021 Dr. S. Ama Wray is a Professor of Dance at the UC Irvine, and an improviser, choreographer, director, teacher and scholar. Dr. Wray is a former UK National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts and received an Emerging Scholar Award...
Hooked from the Start
Professor Michael Hooker receives top honor for career achievement in sound design By Jill Kato Professor Michael Hooker has received the 2022 Distinguished Achievement Award in Sound Design from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), the premiere organization in his...
UCI’s Bruce Yonemoto is named a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Professor of art is among 180 recipients of the renowned award Bruce Yonemoto, a video and digital media installation artist, educator, writer, curator, and professor of art at the University of California, Irvine, has been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. He joins 179 other American and...
Art and Embodiment with Simon Penny
University of California, Irvine | April 12, 2022 Simon Penny is a professor of electronic art and design in the Department of Art, with joint appointments in the Department of Music and the Department of Informatics. Penny sat down for a virtual interview with Associate Dean of...
Dance: Embodiment and Empathy with Lindsay Gilmour
University of California, Irvine | April 12, 2022 Lindsay Gilmour is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker, and educator. Her work explores presence, ritual, and our body’s relationship with the natural world. She combines the mystical, somatic and scientific looking deeply into what it...
Art: The Art of Performance with Ulysses Jenkins and Deborah Oliver
University of California, Irvine | April 12, 2021 The Art of Performance, co-founded and curated by Ulysses Jenkins and Deborah Oliver, is an annual event dedicated to experimentation in live art and pedagogical research at UCI’s Experimental Media and Performance Lab, which includes...
A Whitney Biennial of Shadow and Light
March 31, 2022 | By Holland Cotter After a year’s Covid delay, the latest Whitney Biennial has pulled into town, and it’s a welcome sight. Other recent editions — this is the 80th such roundup — have tended to be buzzy, jumpy, youthquake affairs. This one, even with many young artists...
Los Angeles exhibit features work of video art pioneer Ulysses Jenkins
PBS Newshour (CANVAS Arts), March 18, 2022 (Video) Ulysses Jenkins is considered a pioneer in the world of video art, which emerged as artists in the 1960s and '70s began using lighter and more affordable video cameras to create work and tell stories. One of the first Black artists in the field...
Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness
Excerpt from Hyperallergic online. Feature by Allison Conner LOS ANGELES — “You’re just a mass of images you’ve gotten to know / From years and years of TV shows / The hurting thing, the hidden pain / Was written and bitten into your veins,” chants artist Ulysses Jenkins in his 1978 video...
Video 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 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 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 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 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
#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...
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Launching Clara Schumann Studies, Celebrating Women in Music
Trailblazing Artist Ulysses Jenkins is being recognized for his critical work in video art
Play explores UCI’s PrisonPandemic project
Dance: Embodiology with Dr. S. Ama Wray
Hooked from the Start
UCI’s Bruce Yonemoto is named a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Art and Embodiment with Simon Penny
Dance: Embodiment and Empathy with Lindsay Gilmour
Art: The Art of Performance with Ulysses Jenkins and Deborah Oliver
A Whitney Biennial of Shadow and Light
Los Angeles exhibit features work of video art pioneer Ulysses Jenkins
Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness
Video Artist and Professor Ulysses Jenkins Finally Gets His Moment
Daphne Lei Appointed Director of UCI Illuminations, the Arts and Culture Initiative
Curtains Up
Learning the Steps
12 Must-See U.S. Art Museum Shows in 2022
TOP TEN: Sky Hopinka’s highlights of 2021