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Arts & Interdisciplinary Success

Staged Reading of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia launches UCI Drama’s Emergent Series in Collaboration with the Beall Center for Art + Technology   By Joel Veenstra, Chair, Department of Drama   The University of California, Irvine, Claire Trevor School of the Arts Department of Drama...

Art & Legacy

Young Chung (studio art, ’96) celebrates his late UC Irvine mentor, fellow Korean American artist Yong Soon Min By Greg Hardesty Back in his undergraduate days at UC Irvine in the early 1990s, after he switched his major from philosophy to studio art, Young Chung recalls seeing the professor...

Arts Advocates: Jeffrey Barrett

ARTFUL SCIENTIST Q&A with Professor Jeffrey Barrett Jeffrey Barrett is a Chancellor’s Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at UC Irvine and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to his research in the conceptual foundations of physics and game...

Complexity in Focus

Getty and the Beall Center for Art + Technology highlight the complexity of our modern challenges By Christine Byrd If we learn anything from living through this era of “unprecedented” events, it might be to expect the unexpected. Weather affects the supply chain, health impacts education,...

UC Irvine’s Beall Center for Art + Technology opens 'Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty' August 24

Image credit: Laura Splan, Baroque Bodies (Sway), 2024. work in progress still from interactive audiovisual installation including data-driven sound and 3D models with AI-generated imagery. Image courtesy of the artist. Commissioned by the Beall Center for Art + Technology’s Black Box Projects...

Getty PST exhibition centering complex systems to open at UC Irvine’s Beall Center for Art + Technology this August

Image: Ralf Baecker, Interface I, 2016. Installation view at NOME Gallery, Berlin 2016. Photo by Bresadola+Freese. Image courtesy of Ralf Baecker. DOWNLOAD THE CURRENT PRESS KIT Future Tense: Art, Complexity, and Uncertainty Irvine, Calif., April 24, 2024 — In partnership with...

Beall Center for Art + Technology unveils Katherine Behar's groundbreaking exhibition 'Ack! Knowledge! Work!'

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT The Exhibition Explores the Intersection of Digital Automation and the Future of Labor Irvine, Calif., January 25, 2024 — The Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine, is pleased to announce the opening of Katherine Behar: Ack...

Getty Foundation awards exhibition grant to UC Irvine’s Beall Center for Art + Technology

Funding will support its involvement in third regional Pacific Standard Time collaboration Irvine, Calif., May 9, 2023 — The Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine has received a $200,000 exhibition grant from the Getty Foundation to present “Future Tense: Art...

The Beall Center for Art + Technology presents Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT Difference Machines addresses the complex relationship between the technologies we use and the identities we inhabit Irvine, Calif., January 17, 2023 — The Beall Center for Art + Technology is pleased to announce Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in...

The Beall Center for Art + Technology presents an exhibition of human/computer collaborations in poetry

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT Computational Poetics explores Fluxus-infused work from the 1960s and contemporary experimentation in poetry. Irvine, Calif., September 23, 2022 — The Beall Center for Art + Technology is pleased to announce the opening of Computational Poetics, co-curated by...

Vera Molnár: Searching for Humanity in the Machine

Variations at Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine, is the first major solo show of a pioneer of generative art. Molnár is a pioneer of generative art whose work has, for six decades, influenced artists exploring the potential of autonomous systems.

The Beall Center to present works by computational art pioneer Vera Molnár: Variations

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT The exhibition will include over 80 works by Molnár, the largest one person show of her work in the United States. Irvine, Calif., March 14, 2022 — The Beall Center for Art + Technology is honored to be the first gallery in the United States to present Variations, a...

Ian Ingram’s Robot Menagerie Inhabits the Beall Center

The Beall Center’s Ian Ingram exhibition explores what the eponymous artist refers to as “animal morphology, robotic avatars, interspecies communication and technology in natural environments.” The 21 pieces in the exhibition involve 14 robots...

UCI Art Galleries Return to In-Person Shows with Three Remarkable Exhibitions

MEDIA ADVISORY UCI Art Galleries Return to In-Person Shows with Three Remarkable Exhibitions EVENT: The University Art Galleries (UAG) and Beall Center for Art + Technology at the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts return to in-person shows for the first time in 18 months, hosting three...

The Beall Center for Art + Technology presents a mid-career survey by artist Ian Ingram

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT Irvine, Calif., Sept. 28, 2021 — The Beall Center for Art + Technology presents a mid-career survey by artist Ian Ingram. Ingram’s art explores animal morphology, robotic avatars, interspecies communication, and technology in natural environments. This exhibition will...

Beall Center for Art + Technology awarded a research and planning grant from the Getty Foundation for Pacific Standard Time: Art x Science x LA

The region-wide collaboration opening in 2024 will explore intersections of art and science Irvine, Calif., Jan. 27, 2021 — A $100,000 research and planning grant from the Getty Foundation will allow The Beall Center for Art + Technology to join the third regional collaboration in the Getty’s...

Review: lauren woods: American Monument: 22/2019

Review: lauren woods: American Monument: 22/2019 By Andrea Liss for Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism June 2020 Who can read the news today without seeing a headline and a visceral photograph recounting yet another shooting of an African American person? The...

American Monument Think Tank Marathon at the Beall Center for Art + Technology

DOWNLOAD THE THINK TANK PRESS KIT DOWNLOAD THE AMERICAN MONUMENT PRESS KIT BEALL CENTER - EXHIBITION PAGE American Monument Think Tank Marathon at the Beall Center for Art + Technology For two days scholars, lawyers, community activists, civil rights leaders, students, artists, and...