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A Woman, Life ,Freedom art projection was displayed on campus earlier this week in solidarity with the struggle for women’s equality in Iran. Shiva Balaghi, a cultural historian and academic coordinator of the UCSB Area Global Initiative, collaborated with her colleagues at two nonprofit organizations, Mozaik and ArtRise Collective, to create the public art project.
A UC Berkeley computer science professor, Hany Farid, spoke to a UC Santa Barbara audience last week about the dangers of deep fake technology and artificial intelligence, as part of IHC’s Too Much Information (TMI) series.
Activists in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, including Manjusha Kulkarni, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, visited UC Santa Barbara’s Multicultural Center to speak about the increase in Anti-AAPI violence and bias in America after the COVID-19 pandemic. Following a panel discussion, Kulkarni gave a keynote presentation titled “Challenging Hate: How to Stop AAPI Violence.”
In 1951, Moris Sawda’i, an Iraqi Jew, left Baghdad for Israel and worked as an assistant editor on an Israeli film production team. In an unpublished memoir, he wrote, “I hoped to realize my dreams of becoming a great film director. However, at the end of this journey, the fact of working as a small contributor in a big cinema project left me depressed.” Sawda’i went from the top of the film business in his country of birth to starting over, said University of Oslo Middle East cultural historian Pelle Valentin Olsen at a recent UCSB event. The Sawda’i family pioneered the construction of cinemas and established the first Iraqi film studio in the 20th century.
Researcher and author Daniel Araya was co-hosted by the Center for Information Technology and Society and Center for Black Studies Research at UC Santa Barbara, where he discussed the rise of artificial intelligence in the global age. He warned of the potential effects of AI on global powers, societal structures, and the workforce, referencing the recent release of the AI ChatGPT.
UCLA Classics professor Ella Haselswerdt said that the chorus from the Greek Tragedy Agamemnon gradually transforms from a distant bystander to an active participant in the play’s action, at an event sponsored by UCSB’s Classics and Theater and Dance departments. She said that this metamorphosis is “unparalleled” in surviving Greek Tragedy.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of student across the UCSB campus. Check out our video and music category winners.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across UCSB’s campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of students across the UCSB campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative student across the UCSB campus. The following story tied for second place in the prose category.
This spring, UCSB’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted a creativity contest to highlight the work of creative students across the UCSB campus. The following story won first place in the prose category.
This spring, UC Santa Barbara’s Humanities and Fine Arts Division hosted the annual creativity contest to highlight creative student voices across the UCSB campus. The following are the winning submissions in the Photography and Visual arts categories.
UC Santa Barbara’s annual Creativity Contest this spring honored three Poetry winners at a Give Day Ceremony in early April. The winners, alongside their work, are featured here.
UCSB’s Division of Humanities and Fine Arts celebrated Give Day last week with its annual Creativity Contest. Students from all majors and years submitted works in different categories—photography, prose, poetry, visual art, music and video—for the opportunity to be published on the HFA website. The winners were honored at a luncheon award ceremony.
Robert Weller, anthropology professor at Boston University, spoke to a UC Santa Barbara audience about how Taiwanese religious rituals use both noise and silence to mark transitions, establish rhythm, and create an emotional choreography.
Professor of Media & Communications and author Derek Vaillant, a visiting researcher for the Center for Information Technology and Society at UC Santa Barbara, explained the ways in which World War I expanded opportunities in radio. He said African Americans and women gained access to radio communication skills from the war effort.
UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum celebrated 60 years of its Architecture and Design Collection with a talk from the exhibits curator Silvia Perea. Perea walked guests through a behind-the-scenes tour of some of the hundreds of archives, as well as introduced visitors to an eclectic exhibition, Genius Loci: Domesticity and Identity in Southern California which will be up until early May.
As the climate crisis has grown as one of this era's most significant challenges, the overwhelmingly data-centric presentation of science may impede its ability to inform the public, says Heather Houser, a professor of American and English literature at the University of Texas at Austin, at a recent UC Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center webinar. Instead of using too much information, Houser suggests that art and literature can help people engage with environmental issues emotionally and meaningfully.
Fourth-year Theater and Dance major Sophie Lynd finds she is able to enhance the emotional impact of her productions through theater lighting design. Lynd has worked on many productions and recently adapted previous lighting designs for the UCSB Dance Company.
Indie video game developers Melos Han-Tani and Marina Kittaka spoke about representing Taiwan through their latest game, Sephonie, at an event sponsored by UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies.
