UCLA Design Media Arts

06/02/2023

SINCERELY: DMA Senior Exhibition
06.08.23
TIME: 05:00pm
LOCATION: EDA, room 1250 and Untitled Gallery on the 2nd floor

Signing a letter “Sincerely,” has a special kind of power. Sincerely, allows communication to be authentic while still standing in respect. Sincerely, grants the receiving end an opportunity to interpret a letter as they want, but it is a word that signifies realness. It is not as formal as “With Love” and less withdrawn than “Best Regards”. Sincerely, can be warm and empathetic, or professional and modest—but it is always personal.

The UCLA DMA undergraduate class of 2023 welcomes you to our final sign-off, from us to you. This exhibition is a love letter to our guests and ourselves, reflecting on who we have become during our time at UCLA. Translated through a myriad of mediums, these creations voice what inspires us. As designers and artists, we will show the skills we have acquired and mastered during our time in DMA.

Like letters from us to the universe, our works declare the deepest parts of our identities as artists and feature a range of personalities and tones. Whether we are commenting on life’s nuance or identifying significant cultural imprints, these works highlight our authenticity and perspective. We invite you all to our exhibition.

Sincerely,
The DMA class of 2023

P.S. Sincerely, opens at 5 pm on Thursday, June 8th, 2023, lasting until June 18th.

The EDA and Untitled Gallery
Broad Art Center, Suite 1100,
Los Angeles, CA 90095.

Public parking is available in UCLA Parking Structure 3.

05/12/2023

05/12/2023

Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou | BB the Pet Robot : DMA Graduate Solo Show (LECTURE | PERFORMANCE)
DATE: 05.16.23
TIME: 06:00pm
LOCATION: EDA, room 1250

BB the Pet Robot
a lecture performance by Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou
Invited Lecturer: Anna-Maria Velentza
Phd Candidate in Human-Robot Interaction, Fulbright Scholar at Interaction Lab, USC
EDA, Broad Art Center, Room 1250
May 16th 2023
Performance starts: 6:00 pm
PLEASE DON'T BE LATE
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, together with invited lecturer Anna Maria Velentza, will deliver a lecture-performance that explores the affective components of technology, as well as the edges, limits, and ethics of socially assistive robots.
By deconstructing the traditional man/machine dichotomy, can we create a space that allows for intimacy, vulnerability and care? Is it acceptable to develop feelings for BB the Pet Robot?
Broad Art Center — Experimental Digital Arts, Room 1250
240 Charles E Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095

05/12/2023

TOWN HALL: MFA FINAL EXHIBITION
DATE: 05.18.23
TIME: 05:00pm
LOCATION: The New Wight Gallery

To host a TOWN HALL is to initiate a public gathering. A gathering of thoughts, feelings, and uncertainties that each of us holds dear behind our screen presence. A space for remembrance and healing while we work through conflicting ideas, moving towards some kind of future. The 2023 UCLA DMA MFA cohort invites you to this town hall, where we could exchange our divergent voices about our collective personal struggles.
To begin this TOWN HALL, our cohort presents 12 media artworks built with material forms and immaterial pixels. These works extend our invitation to contemplate on digital selves and the lethargy they carry; to explore reality/unreality where places, spaces, and histories converge; to memorialize once colonized landscapes and minds; to cherish and archive corroding memories and entangled rituals; to communicate within and without extended realities; to hold reflections in a space, cry and feel lost; and to resist our perpetual instability amidst designed precarity.
TOWN HALL opens at 5 pm on Thursday, May 18th, 2023. Light refreshments served.
Participating Artists:
Hyun Cho, Eunice Choi, Michael Luo, Maya Man, Krista Ramirez-Villatoro, Bobby Joe Smith III, Henrik Soederstroem, Ariel Uzal, Wiley Wiggins, Camille Wong, Bomi Yook, Tengchao Zhou
New Wight Gallery
Broad Art Center, Suite 1100,
Los Angeles, CA 90095.
Daily Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am – 5pm through June 1.
Public parking is available in UCLA Parking Structure 3.

05/05/2023

Jules Johnston | Schematics of Attention | DMA Graduate Solo Show
EDA, Broad Art Center, Room 1250
Opening Reception May 9, 5 - 8
Live Performance at 6
Schematics of Attention brings together a series of participatory experiments and performances that diagram the fractured and fervent experience of seeing today, as seen through your eyes, then mine, then yours once more. Please be prepared to split your attention, here, to the left, what’s that, can you do a 360, further, no further to the right– A live media performance will begin at 6 pm during the opening reception.

05/01/2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL FRIDAY MAY 19!!!
Limited spots still available for these courses. Final chance to Enroll!" register now at: https://summer.ucla.edu
• DESMA 21 Drawing & Color
• DESMA 25 Typography
• DESMA 160 Special Topics in Design Media Arts: Digital Photography
• DESMA 160 Special Topics in Design Media Arts: Professional Practice in Design and Media Arts

04/28/2023

COMING IN MAY!!!

To host a TOWN HALL is to initiate a public gathering. A gathering of thoughts, feelings, and uncertainties that each of us holds dear behind our screen presence. A space for remembrance and healing while we work through conflicting ideas, moving towards some kind of future. The 2023 UCLA DMA MFA cohort invites you to this town hall, where we could exchange our divergent voices about our collective personal struggles.

To begin this TOWN HALL, our cohort presents 12 media artworks built with material forms and immaterial pixels. These works extend our invitation to contemplate on digital selves and the lethargy they carry; to explore reality/unreality where places, spaces, and histories converge; to memorialize once colonized landscapes and minds; to cherish and archive corroding memories and entangled rituals; to communicate within and without extended realities; to hold reflections in a space, cry and feel lost; and to resist our perpetual instability amidst designed precarity.

TOWN HALL opens at 5 pm on Thursday, May 18th, 2023, lasting until June 1st.

Participating Artists:
Hyun Cho, Eunice Choi, Michael Luo, Maya Man, Krista Ramirez-Villatoro, Bobby Joe Smith III, Henrik Soederstroem, Ariel Uzal, Wiley Wiggins, Camille Wong, Bomi Yook, Tengchao Zhou

New Wight Gallery
Broad Art Center, Suite 1100,
Los Angeles, CA 90095.

Public parking is available in UCLA Parking Structure 3.

04/28/2023

Aurora Mititelu | Self/Defense | DMA Graduate Solo Show
EDA, Broad Art Center, Room 1250
May 2nd - May 4th, 2023
Opening Reception: May 2nd, 5-8pm

Self/Defense is an immersive media installation by Aurora Mititelu that proposes a poetic interpretation of human vulnerability and inner conflict through the use of digital representation and experimental film techniques. The work is a personal reflection on the internalization of narrative structures to make sense of one’s own psyche and autobiography. Through an iterative, obsessive loop, the piece creates a continuous tension between tranquility and conflict. It represents an aim to turn one’s skin inside-out, to transform a visceral feeling into a monumental, spatial, and aesthetic experience.

Broad Art Center — Experimental Digital Arts, Room 1250
240 Charles E Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095