MAT End of Year Show

2025

The Media Arts and Technology Program at UCSB presents Deep Cuts, our 2025 End of Year Show:

• UCSB | Tuesday, June 3 | 5-8PM
  California NanoSystems Institute, Elings Hall (2nd Floor)

  Research, exhibitions, demos.

  Explore the latest work of MAT’s research labs in their full splendor and experience the unique and justly famous AlloSphere.

  Paid parking is available in lot 10 (adjacent to Elings Hall)

  Click here for a map to Elings Hall

• SBCAST | Thursday, June 5 | 6-10PM (Live performances begin 8PM)
  Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology (531 Garden Street)

  Installations, performances, urbanXR

  Enjoy Installations, performances, urbanXR, in a unique and festive setting at Santa Barbara’s extraordinary SBCAST compound.

  This second event takes place as part of Santa Barbara’s “First Thursday,” highlighting the collaboration of the MAT Alloplex Studio/Lab@SBCAST with the SBCAST and the Santa Barbara creative community. Live music performances (from 8-10 p.m) will feature the MAT Create Ensemble. Large-scale projection-mapping will be presented after dark.

  Paid parking is available in city lots 10 and 11.

  Click here for a map to SBCAST

  sbcast.org

A list of the exhibits can be found here: show.mat.ucsb.edu.

Deep Cuts

1. Obscure or lesser-known pieces of work by a musician, artist, technologist, designer, researcher, etc. —often overlooked, yet deeply meaningful to those who know them.
2. Severe reductions in funding or support, particularly in education, the arts, and research—threatening the survival of programs that exist at the edge of visibility.

Deep Cuts are heard in boardrooms and whispered through backdoor channels. They echo in creative, thought-provoking work that’s been both cherished and cast aside. They’re felt by those with eyes on the margins and hands in the process—those shaping what’s next from the edge.

Existing between abstraction and lived experience, Deep Cuts is a warning, a wound, a hidden gem. It’s a call to attention.

MAT is a deep cut.

Media Arts and Technology is a graduate program at UC Santa Barbara that bridges the humanities and sciences. We design and deploy cutting-edge tools to create work that lives in the gradients between and beyond disciplines. Our practices span fabrication, musical composition and performance, computer graphics, immersive installation, and more. We harness the power of digital technology to produce bold, experimental, and defiantly original works that cut deep in every sense of the word. Creative and critical, from the edge of campus and the cutting edge of ideas, our fresh light illuminates the deep cuts of our complex world.

This exhibition is our reveal. It surfaces what’s often unseen: the quietly radical, the structurally complex, the playfully subversive. Here, algorithms dance, light speaks, and code performs. In our hands, technology is not just a tool—it’ s a creative co-conspirator shining light into the unknown.

Deep Cuts is both a reckoning and a celebration. It honors what has been lost or overlooked, refuses to be silenced, and boldly carves bright new pathways through the unknown.

"There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That’ s how the light gets in."
- Leonard Cohen

Both EoYS events will showcase our students' cutting-edge research and new media artworks and work from our MAT courses.

Artist List

Sabina Hyoju Ahn
Alejandro Aponte
Sam Bourgault
Emma Brown
J.D. Brynn
Deniz Caglarcan
Pingkang Chen
Payton Croskey
Ana Cárdenas
Colin Dunne
Diarmid Flatley
Devon Frost
Yuehao Gao
Amanda Gregory
Joel A. Jaffe
Nefeli Manoudaki
Ryan Millett
Erik Mondrian
Megumi Ondo
Lucian Parisi
Iason Paterakis
Weihao Qiu
Marcel Rodriguez-Riccelli
Jazer Sibley-Schwartz
Mert Toka
Ashley Del Valle
Shaw Yiran Xiao
Karl Yerkes
Emilie Yu
Anna Borou Yu
Yifeng Yvonne Yuan

No AI was harmed in the generation of this text.