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  • Art in Absentia
    March 1
    UCI’s first professional exhibition in a virtual format, The Black Index, benefits from processes developed for student showcases during the pandemic
  • Six Black Artists Test the Limits of Portraiture
    February 19
    Image: Dennis Delgado, "Do the Right Thing" (2020) (image courtesy the artist)
  • The Black Index
    January 14 - March 20 Online
    The Black Index exhibition features works by artists Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell, and Lava Thomas. They build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images....
  • Towards a Raw Materialism
    March 1 - March 26 Online
    Towards a Raw Materialism is an experimental project with artists Patty Chang, David Kelley, Ravi GuneWadena, and Miles Coolidge. The event consists of an exhibition in the xMPL (Experimental Media Performance Lab) and several online events with ...
  • Graduate Student Performances in the xMPL (Spring 2021)
    March 15 - June 14 Online
    Join CTSA graduate students from each of the four departments for a series of virtual performances in the Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL). The xMPL is a black-box space with a focus on interdisciplinary and experimental projects. Below are ...
  • DigiFilm Festival 2021
    June 3 Online
    UCI DigiFilm presents their 12th Annual movies under the stars. The film festival features the best student work produced in the Minor in Digital Filmmaking. The event is free and open to the public...
  • The Art of Performance @ UCI 6th Edition: Ritual, Performance, Utopian Consciousness and the Videophone
    June 3 Online
    The sixth edition of The Art of Performance features pioneering artists who were early experimenters with still-frame videophone technology of the early 1990s. The evening focuses on the artists’ inquiries into the past, present and future of ...

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Art in Absentia

UCI’s first professional exhibition in a virtual format, The Black Index, benefits from processes developed for student showcases during the pandemic By Christine Byrd When the artists, curators and preparators painstakingly install an exhibition in one of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts’ three
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Six Black Artists Test the Limits of Portraiture

"The Black Index" at UC Irvine pursues knottier narratives of self-representation. The six artists included in "The Black Index", the new exhibition at UC Irvine’s University Art Galleries (UAG), are highlighted by Allison Conner of Hyperallergic.com.
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‘We exist in other ways ... to see us, to find us’ — UC Irvine debuts ‘The Black Index’ exhibition

"The Black Index," the newest exhibition for the University Art Galleries (UAG) curated by Bridget Cooks, an associate professor of African American studies and art history at UC Irvine, garnered a review from Lilly Nguyen for the LA Times.
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Alumni
Alumni Profile: A Conversation with Glenn Kaino

Professor of Art Simon Leung chats with Glenn Kaino (B.A. ’93), an artist who’s been at the intersectional forefront of art and activism for more than two decades.

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Suburban Ecologies
March 10
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Graduate Student Performances in the xMPL (Spring 2021)
March 15 - June 14
Online
Join CTSA graduate students from each of the four departments for a series of virtual performances in the Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL). The xMPL is a black-box space with a focus on interdisciplinary and...
Jun
03
The Art of Performance @ UCI 6th Edition: Ritual, Performance, Utopian Consciousness and the Videophone
June 3
Online
The sixth edition of The Art of Performance features pioneering artists who were early experimenters with still-frame videophone technology of the early 1990s. The evening focuses on the artists’ inquiries into the past,...
Jun
03
DigiFilm Festival 2021
June 3
Online
UCI DigiFilm presents their 12th Annual movies under the stars. The film festival features the best student work produced in the Minor in Digital Filmmaking. The event is free and open to the public...
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