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UCI’s Beall Center is Turning Social Media and AI on Themselves
The current exhibit uses the latest technology as both the medium and the message.
UC Irvine Cellist Sarah Koo Freeman Receives Unit 18 Faculty Professional Development Award
The recognition supports U18 faculty in advancing Koo Freeman’s professional and pedagogical work
Remembering Ulysses Jenkins (1946–2026), Contemporary Griot
UJ understood LA, his home city, not as backdrop but as medium
Professor Eli Simon to Receive Helena Modjeska Cultural Legacy Award at 26th Arts Orange County Awards
Founding Artistic Director of New Swan Shakespeare Festival honored for 38 years of transformative contributions to the cultural life of Orange Cou...
At Home in Sunlight, A State in Motion
Second-year M.F.A. student brings an artist-researcher lens to yearlong curatorial initiative at UCI Langson Museum
Making a Subject of the Object
Gosia Wojas, M.F.A. ’22 works with artificial humans to examine the feminist ethics and politics embedded in AI
Playing in Real Time
Rebecca Larkin, Ph.D. ’26 builds music that responds in the present. A composer, flutist and game developer, Larkin is a Ph.D. candidate in Integra...
Concerto Competition Winners Face Upcoming Performance With Grit And Creativity
UCI Symphony Orchestra students look ahead to their Spring 2026 performance
Undergraduate Choreographers Take the Stage in Physical Graffiti 2026
From contemporary ballet to hip hop, the program highlights the breadth of movement and storytelling within UCI Dance
Two Artists from UC Irvine Join the Guggenheim Foundation's 101st Class of Fellows
Department of Art professor Monica Majoli and M.F.A. alumna Samira Yamin are named among 223 fellows across 55 disciplines
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UCI’s Beall Center is Turning Social Media and AI on Themselves
The current exhibit uses the latest technology as both the medium and the messag...
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Remembering Ulysses Jenkins (1946–2026), Contemporary Griot
UJ understood LA, his home city, not as backdrop but as medium
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UC Irvine Cellist Sarah Koo Freeman Receives Unit 18 Faculty Professional Development Award
The recognition supports U18 faculty in advancing Koo Freeman’s professional and...
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Professor Eli Simon to Receive Helena Modjeska Cultural Legacy Award at 26th Arts Orange County Awards
Founding Artistic Director of New Swan Shakespeare Festival honored for 38 years...
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Musical Humor and the Marx Brothers with musicologist Beth Levy
Please join us in the third floor CAC Colloquium room May 7 at 4 p.m. for the first of our 2026 musicology...
UCI Opera with UCI Symphony Orchestra: Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief
UCI Opera presents a concert-style performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief, a witty one...
UCI Jazz Combos - spring 2026
The Department of Music invites you to an exciting evening of music and improvisation as UC Irvine’s...
ICIT Showcase Concert - spring 2026
Original works by Ph.D. students in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) showcase...
