Beall Center News

Best of 2019: Our Top 20 Los Angeles Art Shows

"... A year later, the University of California, Irvine has finally unveiled woods’s ambitious exhibition, a monument to Black lives lost to police brutality."

"American Monument" to be 'un-paused' at The Beall Center for Art + Technology

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT American Monument to be “un-paused” at The Beall Center for Art + Technology IRVINE, Calif. – The Beall Center for Art + Technology at University of California Irvine (UCI) presents American Monument, an artwork by lauren woods that examines the cultural conditions...

AMERICAN MONUMENT to be “un-paused” at The Beall Center for Art + Technology

DOWNLOAD THE FULL PRESS KIT BEALL CENTER - UPCOMING EXHIBITION American Monument to be “un-paused” at The Beall Center for Art + Technology Monument public viewing and co-production to launch October 5, 2019 “Unveiling” and Related Public Events in February 2020 Irvine, Calif., June...

R. Luke DuBois: Music into Data::Data into Music

Set in a darkened exhibition space, lit primarily by videos, Music into Data::Data into Music explores the auditory, visual and verbal structures and underpinnings of contemporary culture. Four of the six pieces by R. Luke DuBois in this...

Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, a Retrospective

DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PRESS PREVIEW KIT BEALL CENTER FOR ART + TECHNOLOGY AT UCI PRESENTS CHRISTA SOMMERER & LAURENT MIGNONNEAU, A RETROSPECTIVE On View: February 9 – May 25, 2019 Opening Reception: February 9, 2019, 2-5pm Holiday Closure: Feb. 18, March 23-31 IRVINE, Calif. (...

The Human Fascination With Birds: It Passes Like a Thought

“It Passes Like a Thought,” a spring art exhibition currently located at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, explores the “flight, birdsong and the aesthetic variation of avian species through the work of several intermedia artists.”

The Human Fascination With Birds: It Passes Like a Thought

“It Passes Like a Thought,” a spring art exhibition currently located at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, explores the “flight, birdsong and the aesthetic variation of avian species through the work of several intermedia artists.”

Technology Is Part of Life – and Art

Beall Center exhibit showcases the few constraints of ‘expanded media arts’ and how the field intertwines with the human experience. By Shari Roan - I’m standing before a wall-sized screen in a darkened corner of the Beall Center for Art + Technology...

UC Irvine's 'Masculine<-->Feminine' Exhibit Explores Gender Identity in the Trump Era

OC Weekly's art critic Dave Barton reviews the current Beall Center for Art + Technology exhibition "Masculine Feminine."

Exploring the Interconnection of Body and Mind at UC Irvine's Beall Center

Dave Barton from the OC Weekly reviews "Embodied Encounters" the current exhibition at the Beall Center for Art + Technology. On display through January 21, 2017.

Masculine ←→ Feminine, an intermedia exhibition featuring twelve international contemporary artists

DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PRESS PREVIEW KIT BEALL CENTER FOR ART + TECHNOLOGY AT UCI PRESENTS MASCULINE ←→ FEMININE An intermedia exhibition featuring twelve international contemporary artists Featuring: Cassils, Freewaves, Micol Hebron, Julie Heffernan, Robert Heinecken, Maria Lassnig, Lynn...

UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Annual Open House 2016

  MEDIA ADVISORY UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Annual Open House Presents a Backstage View to a World of Talent EVENT: Celebrate the Arts at the annual Trevor School Open House! The event is a rich palette of performances, which showcase the talents of the students and faculty...

Beall Center presents Embodied Encounters, an international inter-media exhibition

DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PRESS PREVIEW KIT BEALL CENTER FOR ART + TECHNOLOGY AT UCI PRESENTS EMBODIED ENCOUNTERS   INTERNATIONAL INTER-MEDIA ART EXHIBITION EXPLORES NEW LANGUAGES OF COGNITION IRVINE, Calif. (September 1, 2016) – This Fall, the Donald R. and Joan F. Beall Center for...

Stephen Barker named dean of UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts

  Stephen Barker to serve as dean of UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts. In interim role, he fostered faculty diversity, arts/sciences collaboration and outreach. Irvine, Calif., July 5, 2016 – Drama professor Stephen Barker has been appointed dean of the Claire Trevor School of the...

A new alchemy: Biotechnology as art

Since the earliest anthropomorphic statues, myths of vivification or the 'giving of life' have surrounded artefacts made by the artist’s hand. Today, artists who employ laboratory methods in the context of Synthetic Biology are getting particularly...

The Alien World of ‘Wetware’

Behind the non-descript double doors of the Beall Center for Art and Technology lives an alien world, one in which artificial life reigns supreme. As I entered the interdisciplinary exhibition “Wetware: Art, Agency, Animation”, I was confronted with...

Art and biology mix at new UC Irvine exhibit

Artists from around the globe will showcase their understanding of art and biology in an exhibit opening Saturday at UC Irvine's Beall Center for Art + Technology. The display, called "Wetware: Art Agency Animation," will include works created by...