Tuesday, January 23, 2024 Screening at 6:30 PM UCSC Communications 150 (Theater C) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC USA / 2023 / 93 minutes Built by the US government to house the Hanford nuclear site workers who manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project, Richland, Washington is proud of its heritage as a nuclear…Continue Reading Event: RICHLAND with Irene Lusztig
Virtual Reality in Real Time: A Conversation TUESDAY MAY 2, 730pm / Communications Studio C Coming to Santa Cruz to discuss VR (Virtual Reality) with the UCSC community are Sundance curator Shari Frilot, who pioneered the exhibition of VR at the Sundance festival and has watched it evolve over the years, and Prof. Homay King (Bryn Mawr), who writes…Continue Reading VIRTUAL REALITY IN REAL TIME: an evening of discussion with Sundance curator Shari Frilot
SCREENING TUESDAY MAY 1, 7pm | Communications 150 (Studio C) Visiting Artist Jodie Mack screening her film-cycle “Let Your Light Shine” including featurette “Dusty Stacks of Mom” and “New Work” Jodie Mack (born 1983 London, UK): Let Your Light Shine, (75 min.) This collection of films investigates the formal principles of abstract cinema while maturing an…Continue Reading LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE: an evening of screening and discussion with filmmaker Jodie Mack
Tuesday evening, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz March 6, 2017 An EXTRACTION Event Join us from 5:30 -7:30 pm for an evening of Elizabeth Knafo’s film “Rare Earth” + artist talk ______________ Elizabeth Knafo is a filmmaker whose work engages issues of extraction, materialisms, and social and…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: screening of “Rare Earth” and artist talk by Elizabeth Knafo
Tuesday evening, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz February 28, 2017 An EXTRACTION Event Join us from 5:30 -7:30 pm for an evening of (hard-to-find!) short films ______________ David Kelly / Patty Chang, Spiritual Myopia, 2015 (15 min) Spiritual Myopia portrays the invisible labor and desire of…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: an evening of short films
Tuesday evening, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz February 21, 2017 An EXTRACTION Event Join us from 5:30 -7:30 pm for Subhankar Banerjee, “Why should I care about the Arctic?: Politics of Extraction & Justice in the Near North.” This artist talk is part of EXTRACTION, a research program exploring…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: artist talk by Subhankar Banerjee, “Why should I care about the Arctic?…”
Tuesday evening, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz February 14, 2017 An EXTRACTION Event Join us from 5:30-7:30 pm for a screening of The Otolith Group’s The Radiant, 2012. This event is part of EXTRACTION, a research program exploring the industrial operations which abuse natural resources and thrive…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: screening of The Otolith Group’s The Radiant 2/14
EXTRACTION: DECOLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES IN THE AGE OF THE CAPITALOCENE All events are on Tuesday evenings, 5:30-7:30, in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 at UC Santa Cruz Extraction designates capitalism’s fundamental logic of withdrawal—of value, nutrients, energy, labor, time—from people, lands, culture, life-forms, the elements, without corresponding deposit (except as externalities of non-value…Continue Reading EXTRACTION: DECOLONIAL VISUAL CULTURES IN THE AGE OF THE CAPITALOCENE