MAT 595M Seminar Series

Time: Mondays 5:30-7:00 pm

Location: Engineering Science Building, room 2001

Administrative Contact: Marco Pinter - mpinter (at) mat.ucsb.edu

This is a seminar in media arts and technology. The seminar will consist of talks by experts in various areas of media arts, multimedia systems, media technology, and related areas of research and practice. There will be a mix of speakers, from UCSB and from outside, with a variety of backgrounds, including computer science, engineering, art, and music. Occasionally we will schedule discussion or brainstorming sessions instead of a talk.

All Media Arts and Technology students are strongly encouraged to attend this seminar.

Spring 2013 Schedule

Four Eyes Lab – Research and Discussion

April 15, 2013 - 5:30 pm to 6:45 pm

Four Eyes Lab research group

NOTE: This seminar is in a different room: ESB 1001

Zoomorph – Software Simulating How Animals See: The Research, The App and Clashing Paradigms

April 22, 2013 - 5:30 pm to 6:45 pm

Speaker: Lisa Jevbratt, Professor, MAT and Art, University of California, Santa Barbara

Site Unseen

April 29, 2013 - 5:30 pm to 6:45 pm

Speakers: Ava Ansari and Molly Kleiman — The Back Room

Spontaneous Futures

May 6, 2013 - 5:30 pm to 6:45 pm

Megan Daalder, Media Artist

Radiant Soil

May 7, 2013 - 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Philip Beesley, Sculptor, Architect, Full Professor University of Waterloo

NOTE: This seminar is in a different room: ESB 1001

Human Presence and Fidelity in Media-based Performance

May 13, 2013 - 5:45 pm to 7:00 pm

Miwa Matreyek, animator, designer, multi-media artist
Note: Different start time — 5:45pm

A Leap Into a Void

May 20, 2013 - 5:30 pm to 6:45 pm

Tom Leeser, Artist and Director of the Center for Integrated Media and the Program in Art and Technology at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)

NOTE: This talk is in Elings/CNSI 1601

Poetic Machines, Robotic Gestures and Scenarios of Production

May 28, 2013 - 5:30 pm to 6:45 pm

Jürg Lehni, Visiting Professor, Design & Media Arts, UCLA

Creating with Sensing Machines

June 3, 2013 - 5:30 pm to 6:45 pm

Lisa Wymore, Associate Professor, Dance, University of California, Berkeley