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SUMMARY:The Cigarette Surfboard
DESCRIPTION:Join Banana Slug alumni filmmaker Ben Judkins (Kresge ’17\, film and digital media) and “ciggy board” creator Taylor Lane for a screening of their award-winning documentary\, The Cigarette Surfboard (runtime 93 minutes) followed by an audience Q&A. This event is taking place at Media Theater M110\, 453 Kerr Road on UC Santa Cruz campus and light refreshments will be provided. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE FILM \n\n\n\nAfter a young designer realizes that a surfboard – which he crafted from thousands of littered cigarette butts picked up off California beaches – could captivate the eyes of millions across the globe\, he decides to use it as the impetus to do something more. The Cigarette Surfboards become a platform to spark ocean stewardship and the symbol of a campaign to hold Big Tobacco accountable for their toxic\, plastic waste. Surfing is the medium\, but the message is universal. \n\n\n\nSmall decisions and actions\, like littering a cigarette butt\, cumulatively can have a large impact\, for better or for worse. This immersive documentary provides viewers an up close experience of the ocean through surfers’ eyes\, to amplify a message of urgency and possibility regarding the ocean’s well being. As our ocean faces mounting threats\, and surfing continues to grow\, we as surfers have a responsibility to protect it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRaised in Northern California\, at age eight\, Ben Judkins found an old camcorder and discovered the medium to explore and create. After years of videotaping friends skateboarding and surfing\, Ben landed at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, majoring in Film & Digital Media. His senior film “Marshall” earned the Dean’s Award\, and also won “Best Locally-Produced Work” at the 2017 Santa Cruz Film Festival. Ben is an avid surfer who believes in the power of visual storytelling to move people to action. The Cigarette Surfboard documentary is an opportunity to inspire a generation of surfers to be stewards of the sea. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented in collaboration with the California Coastal Commission‘s Whale Tail Grant.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/the-cigarette-surfboard/
LOCATION:Media Theater M110\, 453 Kerr Road\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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SUMMARY:Weather and the Whale Book Launch and Closing Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of the Weather and the Whale catalog with an after-hours viewing of the exhibition and a conversation with three of the exhibition collaborators and catalog contributors:  Guillermo Delgado-P\, Kailani Polzak and Zac Zimmer.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDistributed by University of Minnesota Press\, Weather and the Whale is an exciting interdisciplinary catalog combining artworks\, critical and creative texts\, and new scientific research about whales and other marine mammals to both sound a warning of the irreversible consequences of the collapsing climate and offer alternative possibilities for living during these challenging times.  \n\n\n\nArtists: Imani Jacqueline Brown\, Carolina Caycedo\, Sharon Daniel\, Yolande Harris\, Christine Howard Sandoval\, Ashley Hunt\, Courtney Leonard\, John Jota Leaños\, Libia Posada\, Mia Eve Rollow\, Whale Liberation Front\, Sam Williams\, Suné Woods. \n\n\n\nScientists: Natalia Botero-Acosta\, Chloe Lew\, Logan Pallin. \n\n\n\nOther contributors: Guillermo Delgado-P.\, Cory Diane\, Mirra-Margarita Ianeva\, LuLing Osofsky\, Kailani Polzak\, Şebnem Susam-Saraeva\, Zac Zimmer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKailani Polzak (Assistant Professor in the History of Art and Visual Culture) is an art historian who focuses on European visual culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with particular attention to histories of science\, aesthetic philosophy\, race\, colonialism\, and intercultural contact in Oceania. Her current book project\, Difference Over Distance: Visualizing Contact between Europe and Oceania\, examines the graphic and printed works created in relation to so-called “Voyages of Discovery” conducted by Britain\, France\, and Russia in Aotearoa New Zealand\, Australia\, and Hawaiʻi in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and traces how these pictures were mobilized in arguments about the origins of human difference in Europe and the United States. Her research and publications also emphasize the methodological questions raised by writing about and curating colonial histories from multiple perspectives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGuillermo Delgado-P is an anthropologist\, Quechua linguist\, and cultural journalist. He taught in the Anthropology and LALS Departments. As a Latin Americanist his research focuses on Indigeneities and Andean biome relationalities with special attention to the anthropogenic detritus of extractivism in underground and surface mining (think e.g. of lithium\, rare earths). His most recent article “Genomics\, Indigeneity\, Bio-Prospecting\,” is in L. Lorusso and R.G. Winther\, (Eds.)  Remapping Race in a Global Context (2022) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nZac Zimmer (Associate Professor of Literature) is an interdisciplinary scholar of literature\, culture and technology in the hemispheric Americas. His book First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas is forthcoming with Northwestern University Press. In addition to his current research on the infrastructure of technosystems\, he co-facilitates the Ethics & Astrobiology reading group\, part of UCSC’s Astrobiology Initiative. In the Literature department\, he teaches classes on Latin American literature\, science fiction\, ethics & technology\, and the poetics of California infrastructure. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/weather-and-the-whale-book-launch-and-closing-party/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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SUMMARY:Unexpected Returns: The Historic Entanglements of Fire\, Settlement\, and Stewardship in the Santa Cruz Mountains
DESCRIPTION:Wildfires are an increasing feature of contemporary life in California. Media and scientific accounts tell us that we are in a new age of “megafires”. What combination of human settlement\, land use and climate change propels these fires? What drives people to make their homes in increasingly flammable landscapes\, and with what effect? In this event Miriam Greenberg and Andrew Matthews present the findings of UCSC researchers who have spent three years studying the ecological\, social\, and political economic processes that have set the stage for contemporary wildfires\, in what has become known as the “Wildland Urban Interface” (WUI).  \n\n\n\nCome and learn about the deeper histories of indigenous burning\, settler ranching\, fire suppression\, extractive industries and urbanization that have produced fire prone landscapes in the Santa Cruz Mountains. We will share new maps of logging-fueled 19th century megafires; historical photographs of early twentieth century orchards and vineyards planted in the burn scar; and oral accounts of how fire and ranching cleared the land for subsequent waves of rural homebuilding and population growth. Further we explore how today\, in the context of climate change\, and as WUI growth draws more people into the beauty of rural living and possibility of affordable housing\, it builds upon these land use legacies to spark the return and increasing destructiveness of megafire.  Yet\, we also are learning from these histories\, and the recent experience of the 2020 CZU Fire\, to reshape our relationship with fire\, plants\, land\, and housing. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMiriam Greenberg is Professor of Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz\, and co-director of the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center\, and is the author of Branding New York:  How a City in Crisis was Sold to the World (Routledge\, 2008); Crisis Cities: Disaster and Redevelopment in New York and New Orleans (Oxford\, 2014)\, co-authored with Kevin Fox Gotham; and The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Tactics in an Urban Age\, co-edited with Penny Lewis (Cornell\, 2017).  She has also undertaken engaged\, public-facing research projects exploring urban and environmental justice issues in California\, including the Critical Sustainabilities project\, which can be found at: https://critical-sustainabilities.ucsc.edu/\, and (with Steve McKay) the project No Place Like Home\, on the experience of the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz County\, which can be found at: http://noplacelikehomeucsc.org/. \n\n\n\nShe is currently P.I. on the project WUI Research for Resilience:  Addressing California’s Climate\, Conservation\, and Housing Crisis\, which is part of the UCOP Climate Action Research Initiative.  A recent publication in PNAS lays out the conceptual framework for this project: “Relational geographies of urban unsustainability: The entanglement of California’s housing crisis with WUI growth and climate change.”(2024). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Mathews is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He holds a joint Ph.D. in forestry and anthropology from Yale University. He has studied relationships between people\, plants\, and landscape in Mexico\, Italy\, and California. His interests range from ethnoecology\, STS\, political ecology\, and environmental history\, in publications on Indigenous forest management in Mexico (Instituting Nature\, MIT Press\, 2011)\, to environmental humanities\, human plant relations\, historical ecology\, and landscape ethnography\, in Italian landscapes (Trees are Shape Shifters Yale\, 2022). He is now studing the relationship between fire\, grazing\, and the political geomorphology of landscapes in California and in Italy.  \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund. \n\n\n\nImage by Raty Syka.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/unexpected-returns-the-historic-entanglements-of-fire-settlement-and-stewardship-in-the-santa-cruz-mountains/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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SUMMARY:Electroacoustic Performance and Artist Talk with the Whale Liberation Front
DESCRIPTION:Whale Liberation Front members Peter Johnson Bowling and Cory Diane will perform a live\, electro-acoustic piece in relationship to their installation Untitled\, or\, They’ve been singing since the gulf was born. This piece is rooted in their long term sonic practices in solidarity with the Gulf Whale and broader Gulf of Mexico ecosystems. Utilizing zither\, synthesizers\, voice\, water\, and rare Gulf recordings\, this performance will imagine a sonic reclamation of waters monopolized by sounds of oil extraction\, centering Gulf Whale song in an immersive\, evolving\, spatialized soundscape. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Johnson Bowling (left) is a multi-instrumentalist improviser\, composer\, music producer\, sound designer\, arranger\, music technologist\, & collaborator based in New Orleans. Bowling works primarily in live music performance\, group/collaborative devising\, and experimental live composing\, in addition to scoring and sound design. His interests include live electroacoustic music\, multichannel spatial speaker compositions/installations\, electronic improvisation\, and multidisciplinary collaboration. \n\n\n\nCory Diane (right) is a composer\, performer\, researcher\, and sound artist based in New Orleans. Much of their practice explores sound and vibration as ways of knowing\, connecting climate justice\, marine science\, gravitational wave astronomy\, and lived experience. Their long-term practice\, “Reverie\,” engages the soundscape of the Gulf of Mexico in relation to and in solidarity with Gulf Whales. Their broader work spans chamber orchestral composition\, installation\, creative technology\, and electroacoustic performance. An active collaborator\, they are a member of Wit’s End Brass Band and New Orleans Musicians for Palestine\, performing regularly throughout New Orleans. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/performance-and-artist-talk-with-the-whale-liberation-front/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260211T180000
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SUMMARY:The California Firefighter Cancer Research Study with Dr. Shehnaz Hussain and Fire Captain Jamie Gabriel
DESCRIPTION:Cancer is the leading cause of death among California firefighters\, yet the precise determinants as well as their mechanisms of action are poorly understood\, and effective preventive interventions remain elusive. The California Firefighter Cancer Research Study (CAFF-CRS) is a large\, well-characterized\, longitudinal cohort of firefighters across California established in 2024 to advance knowledge on understudied cancer risk factors in firefighters. CAFF-CRS uses a community-based participatory research framework and is collaboratively led by an academic/fire service partnership. Dr Shehnaz Hussain and Captain Jamie Gabriel of LA County Fire will present initial observations and discuss implications for firefighter health.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShehnaz Hussain\, PhD\, is a Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of California (UC) Davis School of Medicine. She serves as Associate Director for Population Sciences and Director of the Office of Population Health at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Hussain’s research stems from a long-standing interest in the intersection of infections and cancer. As a molecular epidemiologist\, she brings together a mindset for maximizing public health impact and scientific curiosity to orchestrate research in cancer etiology\, pathogenesis\, chemoprevention\, and early detection. A common thread of her ongoing research is the identification of biomarkers that relate to\, or modulate\, the immune response including serum immune markers\, intestinal microbiome\, immunogenic microbial components and metabolites\, and environmental toxins. Currently\, she is utilizing this immunoepidemiology lens to lead investigations of the disease continuum from metabolic associated fatty liver disease to liver cancer. Most recently\, she has catalyzed a multidisciplinary research program focused on the carcinogenic impacts of wildfires. Dr. Hussain completed an Sc.M. in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University\, and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Washington\, Seattle. She subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden\, and a second fellowship at the University of California\, Los Angeles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJamie Gabriel is a Fire Captain with the Los Angeles County Fire Department\, where she serves in operational leadership roles including emergency response\, safety oversight\, and coordinating in-service training for all fire personnel. Her work is grounded in protecting firefighter health and safety\, with a particular focus on occupational exposures and long-term health outcomes. Her research interests broadly focus on firefighter cancer risk\, integrating occupational and environmental exposures with lifestyle and psychosocial factors such as sleep\, diet\, physical activity\, and mental health. Drawing on 18 years of frontline fire service experience\, she contributes to cancer research efforts aimed at reducing cancer burden among fire service personnel through advancement of departmental policies that support cancer prevention\, risk reduction\, and improvements in modifiable risk factors. Jamie recently completed a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies\, expanding her clinical training and strengthening her ability to bridge public safety\, clinical medicine\, and occupational health research. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund. \n\n\n\nImage: Still from Ashley Hunt’s Kaleidoscope\, 2025\, featured in Weather and the Whale.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/firefighter-cancer-research-study-with-dr-shehnaz-hussain/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T193000
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SUMMARY:Climate Justice and the Moss Landing Battery Fire
DESCRIPTION:On January 16th\, 2025\, a fire started at the world’s largest Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) in Moss Landing\, 20 miles from UC Santa Cruz. The fire burned for at least two days\, creating a plume of smoke that drifted above the nearby estuary of Elkhorn Slough and the surrounding agricultural fields. \n\n\n\nWhat were the impacts of this fire on the local ecosystem and communities? What can be learned about energy storage safety? And what is (or should be) the role of BESS technologies in moves towards a just transition? Join us for a panel discussion with marine geologist Dr Ivano Aiello and environmental studies scholars Dr. J. Mijin Cha and Dr. Dustin Mulvaney focused on the climate justice issues raised by the Moss Landing BESS fire. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Ivano Aiello is a marine geologist and Chair of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories\, part of San José State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Sedimentology from the University of Bologna and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Dr. Aiello’s research focuses on marine sediments\, silica diagenesis\, and the geological and chemical processes that shape both deep-sea and coastal environments. He has sailed on multiple international ocean-drilling expeditions (IODP) investigating subseafloor life and hydrothermal systems and has led studies on coastal sediment dynamics and environmental change in the Monterey Bay region. At MLML\, he directs projects that integrate marine geology\, geochemistry\, and mapping technologies to understand how natural processes and industrial impacts affect seafloor and wetland ecosystems. His work bridges field observation\, laboratory analysis\, and data-driven environmental monitoring.  \n\n\n\nFollowing the Moss Landing battery fire in January 2025\, Aiello and his team documented several-fold increase in soil concentrations of battery-derived metals (nickel\, cobalt\, and manganese) relative to pre-fire baseline levels in Elkhorn Slough wetlands\, this study provides the first evidence of toxic metal fallout caused by a fire at one of the world’s largest battery energy storage systems. His findings point to an urgent need for baseline environmental monitoring before future energy storage projects break ground. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJ. Mijin Cha is an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is also a fellow at Cornell University’s Climate Jobs Institute\, a faculty advisory board member for the UCSC Center for Labor and Community\, and a fellow at the Climate and Community Institute. Her book\, “A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future\,” was published by MIT Press in Dec. 2024. Dr. Cha is on the board of Greenpeace Fund and a member of the California Bar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDustin Mulvaney is a Professor in the School of Policy\, Planning\, and Environmental Studies at San José State University (SJSU). He is a Fellow with the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines\, and also a Fellow with the Climate + Community Institute. His research includes work on just transitions\, solar energy commodity chains\, natural resource development\, and circular economy. He is author of Solar Power: Innovation\, Sustainability\, Environmental Justice published by the University California Press in 2019 and Sustainable Energy Transitions: Socio-Ecological Dimensions of Decarbonization with Palgrave-MacMillan in 2020\, and Energy\, Society\, and the Environment: A Critical Perspective\, that will be out with Wiley-Blackwell in 2026. Dustin’s areas of expertise and research are on land use change\, life cycle assessment\, recycling & waste\, and the environmental justice impacts of energy technologies\, supply chains\, and infrastructures\, with extensive emphasis on the life cycle impacts of solar photovoltaics and lithium-ion batteries. Find more about that research here:  www.dustinmulvaney.com  \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund. \n\n\n\nImage: Fire at Moss Landing Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)\, 2025. Photo by Mike Tataki
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/climate-justice-and-the-moss-landing-battery-fire/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pesticide Impacts In and Around Monterey Bay
DESCRIPTION:One of the research projects currently on display as part of Weather and the Whale documents for the first time the presence of pesticide-derived toxins within sea otters\, California sea lions\, and humpback whales in Monterey Bay. Join us for a conversation with Yanely Martinez\,  Katherine Gabriel-Cox\, Adam Scow and Logan Pallin about the short and long-term health impacts of pesticide use for local communities on land as well as in the ocean. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Logan Pallin\, a Post Doctoral researcher with the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) and Ocean Sciences at UC Santa Cruz\, is an ecophysiologist with a primary interest in understanding how wild populations alter their physiology and demography as a response to changes in their environment. To address these questions\, Logan collects minimally invasive tissue samples (e.g.\, blood/skin) and then uses molecular and endocrinological markers to answer specific questions about population health and growth. He works on multiple species of large marine predators worldwide and continuously advocates for ethical animal research and effective conservation and policy. Most of Logan’s work is focused along the Antarctic Peninsula and the coast of California. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYanely Martinez is an organizer for the Monterey and Santa Cruz regions\, empowering local Safe Ag Safe Schools members for climate change solutions and pesticide reform while developing the next generation of leaders. The daughter of farm workers from the Salinas Valley\, Martinez served on the Greenfield City Council from 2016-2024 and is a proud mother of four. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdam Scow is a Public-Interest Advocate\, Violinist\, and Music Teacher. Adam has helped win environmental campaigns in the Monterey Bay region including the efforts to ban fracking in Santa Cruz\, Monterey\, and San Benito Counties. He is a co-founder of the Campaign for Organic & Regenerative Agriculture\, a grassroots group working to transition agricultural fields away from toxic pesticides to organic in the Watsonville area. He has served on the boards of Regeneracion Pajaro Valley Climate Action\, Watsonville Wetlands Watch\, and the Sierra Club. He previously served as a Board Trustee for the Pajaro Valley Unified School District\, where he helped win one the largest salary increases for teachers and staff in the history of the district and protected vital arts and music programs.    \n\n\n\nAs a violinist Adam performs with the Santa Cruz Symphony and is the founder of Mariachi Libertad. Adam teaches both orchestra and mariachi through the award-winning El Sistema program in Watsonville. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Katie Gabriel-Cox is an OBGyn physician serving Santa Cruz county for 17 years. She is a volunteer and board member for the Center for Farmworker Families. She is also a wife and proud mom to 4 young men. She currently serves as the Director of Obstetrics\, Midwifery and Gynecology at Salud Para La Gente. She is a board member of the Pajaro Valley Healthcare District and on the board of Hospice of Santa Cruz County.  She is deeply committed to uplifiting and supporting the farmworker community with kindness and advocacy.  \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/pesticide-impacts-in-and-around-monterey-bay/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260124T140000
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SUMMARY:Like Water: A Participatory Walk from the Edge of the City to the Sea
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday January 24th\, 2026\, join the IAS for a participatory walk led by artist A. Laurie Palmer\, in collaboration with Cid Pearlman and Ilia Dolgov. Presented alongside Weather and the Whale\, this event will start at the intersection of Delaware Avenue and Natural Bridges Drive\, two blocks west of the IAS Galleries. \n\n\n\nWater is always in contact\, always touching\, something – air\, earth\, rock\, plant\, fur\, skin\, sand – this is part of its chemistry\, its solvency\, and its ability for modeling deep relation. Water is both collective and molecular\, moving in synchrony and composed of individual parts eager to bond with the world and with each other. \n\n\n\nInspired by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\, Bruce Lee\, and the Hong Kong protestors in 2011\, we will practice moving together as a body of water through this particular stretch of land\, as a way to enter deep relation with its human and more-than-human histories\, and to consider its potential futures in the context of human-caused climate change. We will experiment in feeling the power of fluid forms of collective action and the intimacy of thoughtful listening and observation as tools for countering the brutality and militarism of the current moment. \n\n\n\nHow might a collective experiment in moving “like water” help us to discover surprising ways to relate with a place\, a social and environmental context\, and a particular historical moment? As one friend said\, there is nothing “like” water\, but as Leanne Betasamosake Simpson has so beautifully described\, so much to learn from and with it. \n\n\n\nParticipants are urged to come at the beginning and to stay for the entire walk\, but also welcome to join or leave at different points.   \n\n\n\n2:00 pm. Meet at Natural Bridges Road and Delaware Avenue  \n\n\n\n2:45 pm. Antonelli pond walkway entrance on Delaware  \n\n\n\n3:15 pm. Homeless Garden Project\, Shaffer Road \n\n\n\n3:45 pm. Parking lot at entrance to Coastal Campus \n\n\n\n4:15 pm Younger Lagoon overlook \n\n\n\n4:30 pm Beach at Younger Lagoon \n\n\n\nYou are invited to bring a stone to carry with you to return to the sea. Please also wear comfortable shows\, dress for the weather\, and bring water. \n\n\n\nThis walk will be fully accessible except for one short unpaved section at the east end of Antonelli Pond for which we will provide an alternate paved route. At the end of the walk\, a technically accessible\, but possibly slippery\, trail (depending on the weather) meanders down hill to the beach at Younger Lagoon. Participants are welcome to stay at the Lagoon overlook\, or go down to the water’s level in the company of a guide. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA. Laurie Palmer is an artist\, writer\, and teacher. Her place-based\, research-oriented artworkstake form as sculpture\, public projects\, and artist books\, and she collaborates on strategic actionsthat employ imagination and art in the context of social and environmental justice. Her mostrecent book\, The Lichen Museum (2023) explores lichens’ role as an anti-capitalist companionand climate change survivor. She taught in the Sculpture Department at the School of the ArtInstitute of Chicago for 20 years\, and 10 years in the Art Department at the University ofCalifornia\, Santa Cruz\, where she helped her colleagues build the Environmental Art and SocialPractice MFA program. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCid Pearlman is a choreographer working in the field of visual art and contemporary performance. For many years Pearlman presented her work primarily in theaters\, including ODC Theater\, Joyce SoHo\, Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Estonia)\, the Getty Center\, Stockholm City Hall\, Theatre Artaud and the Museum of Contemporary Art/San Diego. Her recent projects are more likely to take place outside\, or in galleries and public art spaces\, as a way to directly address issues of access\, community\, audience experience. Inspired by the resilience\, fragility\, and resourcefulness of the human body\, Pearlman makes dances about how we negotiate being together in a complex world. Among other honors she is the recipient of the 2021 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship\, a Fulbright Award from the US Department of State\, and has been twice awarded a Djerassi Resident Artist Fellowship.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIlia Dolgov is a plant-grower\, artist\, and writer. Born in 1984 in Voronezh\, Russia\, he left the country in 2022 in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and now lives in Santa Cruz\, California\, on the unceded land of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. \n\n\n\nIlia holds a Master of Fine Art degree in Environmental Art and Social Practice from University of California Santa Cruz\, a B.A. and M.A. in Psychology from Voronezh State University\, and a New Artistic Strategies certificate from the Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a collaborative research initiative of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. The project brings scientists\, artists\, humanists\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change and is supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/like-water-a-participatory-walk-from-the-ias-to-younger-lagoon-in-3-movements/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251106T193000
DTSTAMP:20251110T204329Z
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SUMMARY:Deep in The Eye and The Belly: A Conversation on Community & Survival
DESCRIPTION:Join us in DARC 108 for a conversation with Sam Williams\, Nicole Seymour\, and micha cardenas focusing on the questions of community\, survival\, and climate change raised by Williams’ multi-chapter\, speculative film\, Deep in The Eye and The Belly. \n\n\n\nPanelists: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSam Williams is an artist with a practice that intertwines moving-image\, collage\, choreography\, sound and writing. His ongoing research focuses on multispecies entanglements\, ecological systems\, bodies-as-worlds and folk mythologies and how they propose possibilities for present and future ways of non-human-centric living. Sam is based in London\, where he has been a resident of Somerset House Studios since 2019. He received his MA in Sculpture/Moving Image from the Royal College of Art (2016) and in 2021 was part of the Wysing Arts Centre Syllabus VI alternative education program. Sam has shown work at institutions including Chisenhale Gallery\, Arnolfini\, Siobhan Davies Dance\, Somerset House and Studio Voltaire (UK)\, Atletika (LT); She Will (NO); Röda Sten Konsthall (SE); Kino Arsenal\, Akademie der Kunst\, Tanzhalle Wisenberg and B3 Biennale (DE) and in Autumn 2025 will have a solo exhibition in Santa Cruz\, California. Sam has been artist in residence at Rupert (LT)\, PRAKSIS (NO)\, Hospitalfield (UK) and JOYA (ES). His work has been supported by Arts Council England and The Elephant Trust and in 2017 he received the Stuart Croft Foundation prize for Moving Image. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicole Seymour works at the intersection of environmental studies\, queer theory\, and affect studies. Her most recent books are Glitter\, a public-facing cultural and environmental history of that substance (Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series)\, and Bad Environmentalism\, which shows how artists and activists have employed playful modes to combat the gloom-and-doomism of mainstream environmentalism (University of Minnesota Press). She is currently Professor of English and Grad Advisor for Environmental Studies at Cal State Fullerton and is working on a new book project about the right-wing appropriation of camp aesthetics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nmicha cárdenas\, PhD\, is an artist\, author and Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance\, Play & Design\, at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she directs the Critical Realities Studio. Her book Poetic Operations\, Duke University Press (2022)\, proposes algorithmic analysis to develop a trans of color poetics. Poetic Operations was the co-winner of the Gloria Anzaldúa Book Prize in 2022 from the National Women’s Studies Association. cárdenas’s co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press. She is a first generation Colombian American.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/panel-discussion-deep-in-the-eye-and-the-belly/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T190000
DTSTAMP:20250916T093544Z
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SUMMARY:Exhibition Celebration: Deep in The Eye and The Belly
DESCRIPTION:Join the IAS and the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery to celebrate the opening of Sam Williams: Deep in The Eye and The Belly. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeep in The Eye and The Belly is an installation of film\, sculpture\, specimens\, and photographs which together probe the violent histories of preserving and displaying whale bodies while also envisioning a future of multispecies flourishing. \n\n\n\nEnjoy refreshments and an after-hours viewing of the exhibitions. This event is free and open to the public. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/exhibition-celebration-deep-in-the-eye-and-the-belly/
LOCATION:Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery\, 1156 High St\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251003T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251003T190000
DTSTAMP:20250916T225928Z
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SUMMARY:Student-Led First Friday Craft Night
DESCRIPTION:Welcome back Santa Cruz students! \n\n\n\nJoin us on October 3rd\, 2025 at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences for a student led craft night. Explore your connection to the environment through art! Students will be hosting a stamp making and collage workshop inspired by the symbolism of the whale.  \n\n\n\nWeather and the Whale features immersive displays of ocean science research and newly commissioned artworks delving into the human and non-human experiences of living in times of crisis. \n\n\n\nEnjoy refreshments\, a student-led tour\, and an after-hours viewing of Weather and the Whale. \n\n\n\nAdmission is always free. \n\n\n\nAll materials will be provided. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/student-led-october-first-friday/
LOCATION:California
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250801T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250801T190000
DTSTAMP:20250719T005015Z
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SUMMARY:First Friday: IAS After Hours
DESCRIPTION:Join us for First Friday at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (100 Panetta Ave\, Santa Cruz\, CA) and enjoy an after-hours viewing of Weather and the Whale\, the culmination of a two-year collaboration between the Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Lab at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\nCombining art and science to deepen understanding about climate change and environmental threats\, Weather and the Whale features immersive displays of ocean science research and newly commissioned artworks delving into the human and non-human experiences of living in times of crisis. \n\n\n\nAdmission is always free. \n\n\n\nThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to participate in Santa Cruz’s First Friday Art Tour. \n\n\n\nImage: View from the exhibition opening\, photo by Daris Jaspar\, @CultureSaving
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/first-friday-ias-after-hours/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250726T150000
DTSTAMP:20250719T004324Z
CREATED:20250612T211842Z
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SUMMARY:Art for All Family Day
DESCRIPTION:Bring the whole family! Enjoy activities organized by the youth participants of Art for All\, the IAS teen summer program\, and view the current exhibition\, Weather & the Whale. All materials will be provided for activities. \n\n\n\nFree and open to all. \n\n\n\nThe IAS Galleries will be open from 12-5 p.m.\, with activities taking place between 12-3 p.m.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/youth-led-family-day/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250722T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250722T143000
DTSTAMP:20250701T191920Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Tour with Christine Howard Sandoval
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the afternoon of Tuesday July 22\, for a special artist-led walk through of Weather and the Whale with artist Christine Howard Sandoval. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHoward Sandoval will discuss her works in the exhibition\, Fourth Person Singular\, 2025\, and The First Color is Red\, 2025. Both artworks were newly commissioned as part of the Coha Nowark Art + Science Residency and An Aesthetics of Resilience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine Howard Sandoval is a multidisciplinary artist who questions the boundaries of representation\, access\, and habitation\, where what is held in the land and what is held within state sponsored archives negotiate shared spaces of meaning. Howard Sandoval’s work has exhibited nationally and internationally including: The 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennial (Seoul\, S. Korea)\, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de São Paulo (Brazil)\, The Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver\, BC)\, Oregon Contemporary (Portland\, OR)\, The Museum of Capitalism (Oakland\, CA)\, Designtransfer\, Universität der Künste Berlin (Berlin\, Germany)\, El Museo Del Barrio (New York\, NY)\, and Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens\, NY). Howard Sandoval’s work has been the subject of solo museum exhibitions at the ICA San Diego (2021) and Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College (2019)\, during which time she was the Mellon Artist in Residence at Colorado College. Howard Sandoval has been awarded numerous residencies including: UBC Okanagan\, Indigenous Art Intensive program (Kelowna\, BC)\, ICA San Diego (Encinitas\, CA)\, Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe\, NM)\, Triangle Arts Association (New York\, NY). Howard Sandoval is represented in the permanent collections of the Hammer Museum\, The San Jose Museum of Art\, The San Diego Museum of Art\, and Forge Projects (NY)\, and is represented by parrasch heijnen (LA). She currently lives in the unceded territories of the Squamish\, Tsleil-Waututh\, and Musqueam First Nations and is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Art in at Emily Carr University (Vancouver\, BC). Howard Sandoval is an enrolled member of the Chalon Nation in Bakersfield\, CA.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/artist-tour-with-christine-howard-sandoval/
LOCATION:California
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T190000
DTSTAMP:20240123T222215Z
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Rachel Nelson and Ari Friedlaender Introduce "An Aesthetics of Resilience"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between Dr. Rachel Nelson\, Chief Curator and Director at the IAS\, and Dr. Ari Friedlaender\, Professor of Ocean Sciences\, introducing An Aesthetics of Resilience\, a new collaboration between the Friedlaender Lab\, which focuses on using technology to study the impacts of environmental change on marine mammals\, and the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS)\, UCSC’s premier art and research galleries.  \n\n\n\nAn Aesthetics of Resilience brings scientists\, artists\, scholars\, and activists together to examine multiple experiences of vulnerability in the face of climate change. In this initial conversation\, Drs. Nelson and Friedlaender will discuss their collaborative methods\, why contemporary artists are necessary research partners for the scientists\, and the types of cultural shifts they hope this work will catalyze. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public but space is limited. Registration is now full. \n\n\n\nRachel Nelson is director and chief curator of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences. She has curated and organized exhibitions including Barring Freedom\, a group exhibition engaging art\, prisons\, and justice; Carlos Motta: We The Enemy;  jackie sumell: Solitary Garden; Newton Harrison and Helen Mayer Harrison: Future Garden\, and other projects with artists including Sadie Barnette\, Maria Gaspar\, Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas\, and Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Nelson also writes and publishes extensively on contemporary art and geopolitics\, including exhibition catalogue essays\, journal articles\, and reviews in Journal of Curatorial Studies\, Public History Weekly\, Brooklyn Rail\, NKA\, Third Text\, Savvy\, and African Arts. She teaches in the History of Art and Visual Culture department at UC Santa Cruz. \n\n\n\nAri Friedlaender\, Professor\, Ocean Sciences\, UC Santa Cruz\, is an ecologist with a primary interest in understanding the relationship between the foraging behavior of marine mammals and their prey. He works on a wide range of marine mammal species including baleen and toothed whales and dolphins across a range of geographic regions. Prof. Friedlaender has long-term ecological research projects ongoing in Alaska\, California\, Massachusetts\, North Carolina\, and Antarctica. He has helped in the development of tag technology and analytical and visualization tools to better understand the underwater movements and behaviors of marine mammals. In Antarctica\, Prof. Friedlaender is part of the Long-Term Ecological Research program at Palmer Station to better understand the ecological roles of cetaceans in a rapidly changing environment. In Alaska and Massachusetts\, Prof. Friedlaender’s research focuses on variability in the foraging strategies of humpback whales in relation to changes in their prey. In California\, he is part of the SoCal Behavioral Response Study to understand the impacts of anthropogenic sound on a variety of cetacean species. Along with this research\, he is an active member of the Society for Marine Mammalogy\, acting as an associate editor for Marine Mammal Science and serving on the Conservation Committee. Prof. Friedlaender is also a principal investigator in the Southern Ocean Research Partnership to conduct non-lethal research on cetaceans in the Southern Ocean. \n\n\n\nAn Aesthetics of Resilience is organized by Rachel Nelson and Ari Friedlaender and supported by a University of California Office of the President California Climate Action Seed Grant\, with additional support from the Coha Nowark Art + Science Fund. \n\n\n\nImage Information  \n\n\n\nLeft: Christine Howard Sandoval\, Niniwas- to belong here\, 2022\, single channel video with audio\, TRT 12:23\, Sound design in collaboration with Luz Fleming. Installation for the green shoot that cracks the rock\, parrasch heijnen Gallery\, LA\, 2022. Image courtesy of parrasch heijnen Gallery \n\n\n\nRight: A tagged blue whale surfaces off the coast of California. Photo by Dr. David Johnston\, Duke Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab. Collected under appropriate National Marine Fisheries (NMFS) / Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) permits. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/introducing-an-aesthetics-of-resilience/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201013T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201013T183000
DTSTAMP:20231211T210249Z
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SUMMARY:David G. Stork\, Yolande Harris\, and Ari Friedlaender
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences and University Relations invites you to join us October 13\, 2020 for a special online LASER Talk ​featuring David G. Stork\, Yolande Harris\, and Ari Friedlaender. \n\n\n\nFor this online gathering\, scientist and author David G. Stork’s talk\, “Did Tim Paint a Vermeer?” will follow attempts to reproduce Johannes Vermeer’s The Music Lesson\, 1662–65\, through a novel optical telescope and mirror-comparator procedure. \n\n\n\nEcologist Ari Friedlaender and sound and video artist Yolande Harris will discuss their collaborative practice exploring underwater worlds and the migratory behaviors of whales. Recently\, Friedlaender has been tracking the changed whale behaviors in Monterey Bay during the pandemic\, with the lessening of boat traffic\, and the collaborators will talk about how this is informing their practice. \n\n\n\nFrom computer vision and pixel painting to immersive sound and video work exploring the underwater world\, these wide-ranging presentations will reflect on the unique intersection of scientific research and artistic practice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid G. Stork\n\n\n\nDavid G. Stork is currently Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University\, where he is teaching Computer vision and image analysis of art and completing Pixels & paintings: Foundations of computer-assisted connoisseurship (Wiley). He is a graduate in Physics from MIT and the University of Maryland\, and has held faculty positions in Physics\, Mathematics\, Computer Science\, Statistics\, Electrical Engineering\, Neuroscience\, Psychology\, and Art and Art History variously at Wellesley and Swarthmore Colleges and Clark\, Boston\, and Stanford Universities. He has lectured on computer methods for analyzing fine art paintings and drawings in major museums\, universities\, and conferences in 30 countries\, including the Louvre\, National Gallery London\, National Gallery Washington\, Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Museum of Modern Art\, Art Institute of Chicago\, van Gogh Museum\, Getty Research Center\, and many others. His 200+ technical publications and 54 issued patents have garnered over 82\,000 scholarly citations. He is a Fellow of IEEE\, OSA\, SPIE\, IS&T\, IAPR and IARIA. \n\n\n\n\n\nAri Friedlaender\n\n\n\nAri Friedlaender is an Associate Researcher at the Institute for Marine Sciences at UC Santa Cruz. Ari’s work focuses on using advanced telemetry tools to study the underwater behavior of marine mammals and how is is affected by changes in their environment\, including climate change and ocean noise\, across a range of their habitats. Friedlaender’s multi-disciplinary research spans the globe and as an educator\, Ari works with several organizations to combine art and science to develop curriculum to share information broadly about marine mammals and conservation. Friedlaender is the co-founder of the California Ocean Alliance\, has published nearly 100 scientific papers and has been featured in numerous documentary film series from and museum exhibits. Their recent collaboration with artist Yolande Harris\, From a Whale’s Back (2020)\, includes an immersive sound and video work “exploring the visual and sonic underwater world inhabited by whales.” \n\n\n\n\n\nYolande Harris\n\n\n\nYolande Harris is an artist and researcher exploring ideas of sonic consciousness. Her projects consider techniques of navigation\, expanding perception beyond the range of human senses\, the technological mediation of underwater environments and our relationship to other species. Her projects on underwater sound aim to bring us closer to this inaccessible environment\, encouraging connection\, understanding and empathy with the ocean. She has presented her work internationally over the last twenty years\, including the ICA London\, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt\, the House of World Cultures Berlin and the Exploratorium in San Francisco and holds a PhD from Leiden University in ‘Sound\, Environment and Sonic Consciousness’ and an MPhil from from Cambridge University in Architecture and Moving Image. Yolande was Assistant Professor in Video and Open Media at Rhode Island School of Design\, and is currently Research Associate at the University of California Santa Cruz\, working on underwater sound in the Monterey Bay. Melt Me Into The Ocean (2018) is an ongoing investigation exploring our relationship to the world oceans through underwater sound. From a Whale’s Back (2020) uses video\, sound and data from tags used by scientists to monitor whales.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/david-g-stork-yolande-harris-and-ari-friedlaender-2/
LOCATION:California
CATEGORIES:Art + Science,LASER,Past Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191203T150000
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SUMMARY:Laser Talmicha cárdenas\, Gerald Casel\, Carrie Partch\, and Danielle Siembieda
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 6:30 for a reception followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by dancer and choreographer Gerald Casel\, biochemist Carrie Partch\, director of Leonardo\, Danielle Siembieda\, and artist and theorist micha cárdenas. \nmicha cárdenas\, “Poetic Operations: Algorithms of Trans of Color Art”Gerald Casel\, “Dancing Around Race”Carrie Partch\, “Morning larks\, night owls\, and the daily rhythms that control your life on Earth”Danielle Siembieda\, “Alter EcoArt – The intersection between environment and technology based art” \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. Metered parking is available in the Arts Parking Lot #126 adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center. For additional information and disability or access needs please contact ias@ucsc.edu. \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nmicha cárdenas\n\n\n\nmicha cárdenas\, PhD\, is Assistant Professor of Art & Design: Games + Playable Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. cárdenas is writing a new algorithm for gender\, race and technology. Her book in progress\, Poetic Operations\, proposes algorithmic analysis as a method for developing a trans of color poetics. cárdenas’s co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press. Her artwork has been described as “a seminal milestone for artistic engagement in VR” by the Spike art journal in Berlin. She is a first generation Colombian American. \n\n\n\n\n\nGerald Casel\n\n\n\nGerald Casel\, Associate Professor of Dance\, UCSC\, is a dancer\, choreographer\, cultural activist\, and artistic director of GERALDCASELDANCE. Casel’s choreographic research and social practice complicates and provokes questions surrounding colonialism\, collective cultural amnesia\, whiteness and privilege\, and the tensions between the invisible/perceived/obvious structures of power. A recipient of the New York Dance and Performance Award and a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship\, Casel is a founding member of the Racial Equity Working Group sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Human Rights Commission. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarrie Partch\n\n\n\nCarrie Partch\, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry\, UCSC\, is a leading researcher in the field of chronobiology\, studying the molecular mechanisms of the biological clock that drives the daily rhythms of life. She is the recipient of the Aschoff’s Ruler\, the top honor in her field\, as well the Margaret Oakley Dayhoff award for her lab’s integration of cellular and biophysical studies leading to new insights into the molecular basis of circadian rhythms. She has multiple publications in the most important journals in the field. \n\n\n\n\n\nDanielle Siembieda\n\n\n\nDanielle Siembieda\, Deputy Director of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts\, Sciences\, and Technology\, is an art service provider and creative entrepreneur in the San Francisco Bay area\, emphasizing and building relationships between art\, science\, the environment\, and technology. Siembieda develops collaborative explorations through partnership-driven programs such as Leonardo Education and Art Forum\, art-science residencies with Djerassi Program and Nokia Bell Labs\, and LASER Talks. Siembieda holds an MFA in Digital Media Art from San Jose State University at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media\, with a focus on green technologies and sustainable materials. 
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/micha-cardenas-gerald-casel-carrie-partch-and-danielle-siembieda/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Art + Science,LASER,Past Events,Tours & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190521T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190521T150000
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SUMMARY:LaseAnthony Aguirre\, Brett Hall\, Rachel Nelson\, and Susana Ruiz
DESCRIPTION:LASER talks are a program of the Leonardo International Society for Art\, Science\, and Technology (ISAST). Join us at 6:30 for a reception followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by theoretical cosmologist Anthony Aguirre\, botanist Brett Hall\, curator Rachel Nelson\,and artist Susana Ruiz in Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108. \nAnthony Aguirre\, “Wandering\, Wondering\, and Physics”Brett Hall\, “Adventures in the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum’s Native Plant Program”Rachel Nelson\, “Visual Pedagogies: Teaching Race and the Prison Industrial Complex in the U.S.”Susana Ruiz\, “Experiments in Game-Based Pedagogy: Playful Approaches to Media Theory\, Production\, and Activism” \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. Metered parking is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center. For additional information and disability or access needs please contact ias@ucsc.edu. \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthony Aguirre\n\n\n\nAnthony Aguirre is a theoretical cosmologist and associate professor in Physics at UC Santa Cruz\, His wide range of research interests including black holes\, foundations of physics\, information theory\, and artificial intelligence. He is a founder and co-director of the Foundational Questions Institute and of the Future of Life Institute. He has just completed his first book\, Cosmological Koans (released May 21). \n\n\n\n\n\nBrett Hall\n\n\n\nBrett Hall is California Native Plant Program Director at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum and Botanic Garden. Along with students and enthusiastic members of the community\, Hall is developing a large California Conservation Garden featuring common and rare native plant communities\, developing a seed bank for research and educational use\, and\, all the while\, exploring the wild lands which are the essence and driver of the Arboretum’s native plant gardens and programs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Nelson\n\n\n\nRachel Nelson\, PhD is curator of the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) and lecturer in History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Currently\, Nelson is curating a traveling exhibition\, Barring Freedom\, engaging art and the prison industrial complex. She has published exhibition catalogue essays\, journal articles and reviews\, including in NKA\, Third Text\, Savvy\, and African Arts. \n\n\n\n\n\nSusana Ruiz\n\n\n\nSusana Ruiz is an artist and assistant professor in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz whose work traverses the intersections of cinema\, games\, art\, ethics and activism. Her teaching and research are broadly concerned with how the intersection of art practice\, design\, computation\, and storytelling can enable emergent forms of social justice\, aesthetics\, and learning.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/anthony-aguirre-brett-hall-rachel-nelson-and-susana-ruiz/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)\, 407 McHenry Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064
CATEGORIES:Art + Science,LASER,Past Events,Tours & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190312T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190312T210000
DTSTAMP:20231211T213916Z
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SUMMARY:Marianne Weems\, Alexie Leauthaud\, Ronaldo V. Wilson\, and Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
DESCRIPTION:LASER talks are a program of the Leonardo International Society for Art\, Science\, and Technology (ISAST). On March 12\, LASER will be coming to Rio Theater and will feature stimulating performances and presentations by theater and opera director Marianne Weems\, astrophysicist Alexie Leauthaud\, poet Ronaldo Wilson\, and documentary filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor. \nRio concessions opens at 6:30 pm. Come mingle with speakers before talks begin at 7 p.m. This event is FREE and open to the public. \nMarianne Weems\, “‘Liveness’ in a digital world”Alexie Leauthaud\, “Journey to a Universe of Darkness”Ronaldo Wilson\, “Persona\, Melody\, Mask”Jennifer Maytorena Taylor\, “Beyond Red and Blue\, Documentary Storytelling in Polarized Times” \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nMarianne Weems\n\n\n\nMarianne Weems is a director of theater and opera and the artistic director of the Obie award-winning New York-based performance and media company The Builders Association\, known internationally as a leader in theatrical innovation\, interdisciplinary stage performance\, and the use of digital technology. In addition to twenty years of work with her company\, she has collaborated with other artists including Diller+Scofidio\, Taryn Simon\, the Wooster Group\, David Byrne\, Susan Sontag\, and many others. She is a professor in Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz\, where her new multi-media theater production\, STRANGE WINDOW: The Turn of the Screw had its West Coast premiere in the fall of 2018 before opening at the Brooklyn Academic of Music last December in the Next Wave Festival. \n\n\n\n\n\nAlexie Leauthaud\n\n\n\nAlexie Leauthaud is an observational cosmologist and professor in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at UC Santa Cruz. The core of her research focuses on understanding the interplay between the dark and bright universe. Her research areas include dark matter and galaxy formation; the distribution of dark matter in the universe; and the evolution of dark energy. Her primary area of expertise is weak gravitational lensing: the deflection of light from distant galaxies by intervening gravitational potentials. She is a Packard Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow\, and has received fellowships at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and the Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Toyko. Her work is also supported by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRonaldo V. Wilson\n\n\n\nRonaldo V. Wilson\, PhD\, is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh\, 2008)\, winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Prize.\, Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books\, 2009)\, winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry in 2010. His latest books are Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other (Counterpath Press\, 2015)\, a finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry\, and Lucy 72 (1913 Press\, 2018). Co-founder of the Black Took Collective\, Wilson is also a mixed media artist\, dancer\, and performer. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz\, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program\, and co-directing the Creative Writing Program. \n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Maytorena Taylor\n\n\n\nJennifer Maytorena Taylor’s new\, in-progress\, feature documentary\, The Gut (working title)\, follows the lives of several intersecting but very different characters in a small rural\, New England town struggling to emerge from the opioid epidemic as it also deals with Syrian refugee resettlement. What does\, and doesn’t\, change when white\, rural Americans see themselves in “the other?” Taylor’s award-winning work has shown at the Sundance\, Los Angeles\, San Francisco and Locarno Film Festivals\, among others\, at the New York Museum of Modern Art\, and been broadcast on PBS\, Sundance Channel\, Al Jazeera\, and NHK-Japan. She is an Associate Professor of Social Documentation and Film and Digital Media\, and Director of Graduate Studies of the Social Documentation MFA Program at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/marianne-weems-alexie-leauthaud-ronaldo-v-wilson-and-jennifer-maytorena-taylor/
LOCATION:Rio Theatre\, 1205 Soquel Ave\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95062\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science,LASER,Past Events,Tours & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181204T210000
DTSTAMP:20231211T214203Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Weiss-Penzias\, A. M. Darke\, Angus Forbes\, and Susan Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:Peter Weiss-Penzias\, “From Fog to Lions: Effects of Marine Fog on Methylmercury Bioaccumulation in Terrestrial Food Webs in California”A. M. Darke\, “Games as Everyday Activism”Angus Forbes\, “Creative and Critical Visualization”Susan Schwartz “Where’s Waldo? Template Matching to Better Understand Fault and Glacier Motion” \nThis event is FREE and open to the public. Metered parking is available in the Performing Arts Lot adjacent to Digital Arts Research Center. \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Weiss-Penzias\n\n\n\nPeter Weiss-Penzias is an atmospheric chemist in the Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology Department and a General Chemistry instructor in the Chemistry Department at UCSC. He became interested in atmospheric mercury as a global pollutant in 2002 through his work tracking Asian air pollution at mountain tops observatories in Oregon and Washington. His work on mercury in fog was funded by the National Science Foundation and was reported on widely in the popular press. When not trying to collect elusive fog samples\, Peter performs his original environmental education music to audiences in the Monterey Bay region as the Singing Scientist.  \n\n\n\n\n\nA.M. Darke\n\n\n\nA.M. Darke is an artist\, game designer\, and activist who works to maximize agency for marginalized bodies\, while disrupting systems of oppression. Using humor\, play\, and interactive media as an entry point for challenging the viewer\, Darke distills large-scale social issues into formats which are intimate and personal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngus Forbes\n\n\n\nAngus Forbes is an Assistant Professor in the Computational Media Department at University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where he directs UCSC Creative Coding. His research investigates novel techniques for visualizing and interacting with complex scientific information; his interactive artwork has been featured at museums\, galleries\, and festivals throughout the world. Angus chaired the IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP)\, a forum that promotes dialogue about the relation of aesthetics and design to visualization research\, from 2013 through 2017\, and this year he served as the Arts Papers chair for ACM SIGGRAPH. Information about Angus’s recent projects is available at https://creativecoding.soe.ucsc.edu.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSusan Schwartz\n\n\n\nSusan Schwartz received a BS in geophysics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in seismology from the University of Michigan. After graduation in 1988\, she was awarded a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship that brought her to The University of California\, Santa Cruz where she is presently a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences. She was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2016. Her research interest in the mechanical behavior of the plate interface at subduction zones and in how glaciers slide along their bed has taken her to many interesting places including Costa Rica\, New Zealand\, Alaska and Antarctica. Prof. Schwartz teaches introductory classes for non-science majors\, classes designed for undergraduate Earth and Planetary Science majors\, and graduate classes in seismology and geophysics.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/peter-weiss-penzias-a-m-darke-angus-forbes-and-susan-schwartz/
LOCATION:Theater Arts\, Second Stage\, 411 Kerr Rd\, Santa Cruz\, California\, 95064\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science,LASER,Past Events,Tours & Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180313T210000
DTSTAMP:20231211T213823Z
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SUMMARY:Karen Tei Yamashita\, Paul Koch\, Nidhi Mahajan\, and David Haussler
DESCRIPTION:Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is an international program of evening gatherings that bring artists\, scientists\, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. For this Best of LASER\, the IAS has invited back crowd favorites from the last five years of events and will feature presentations by evolutionary (paleo) biologist Beth Shapiro\, glaciologist Slawek Tulaczyk\, director and filmmaker Jennifer Maytorena Taylor\, and evolutionary marine biologist Rita Mehta. \nMarch 13\, 20186:30 p.m. Wine reception7 p.m. Program \nThis event is presented as part of the international LASER series initiated by the Leonardo International Society for Art\, Science\, and Technology. \n\n\nAbout the speakers\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Shapiro\n\n\n\nBeth Shapiro is an evolutionary biologist whose work has been centered on an anaylsis of ancient DNA and the genetics of ice age animals and plants. Shapiro is an Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. She was awarded a MacArthur “genius” fellowship in 2009 and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2006. \n\n\n\n\n\nSlawek Tulaczyk\n\n\n\nSlawek Tulaczyk is Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of California\, Santa Cruz and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America since 2010. He has authored and co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications focused ice sheet and glacier dynamics\, permafrost properties\, and polar microbial habitats. His research has been funded by NSF\, NASA\, and DoE. He co-led the multidisciplinary research project WISSARD\, which returned the first water and sediment samples from a pristine subglacial lake trapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Cumulatively\, Slawek spent nearly 3 years doing field work in Antarctica\, Iceland\, Greenland\, Alaska\, and Arctic Canada. In 2006 the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named after him a mountain glacier on the highest mountain in Antarctica\, the Vinson Massif.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDee Hibbert-Jones\n\n\n\nDee Hibbert-Jones is a Professor of Art & New Media at UC Santa Cruz. Her work incorporates animation\, installation\, public art\, and documentary film to examine power and politics. Her recent film\, Last Day of Freedom (created in collaboration with Nomi Taslisman)\, was nominated for an Oscar and won multiple awards\, including the International Documentary Association’s Best Short Film of 2015; Best Short Film at Full Frame Documentary Festival\, and the Filmmaker Award from the Center for Documentary Studies\, among many others. Hibbert-Jones is a Guggenheim Fellow\, and she was recently awarded a United States Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award in recognition of her outstanding national commitment to civil rights and social justice.  \n\n\n\n\n\nRita Mehta\n\n\n\nRita Mehta is Associate Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UC Santa Cruz. Her research explores morphological\, physiological\, and behavioral evolution. Mehta focuses on the mechanisms guiding diversification in vertebrate clades whose members have evolved an elongate and limb-reduced (or complete loss) body plan such as snakes\, anguilliform fishes\, and other eel-like vertebrates. Mehta has received honors\, awards and grants from the National Science Foundation\, the Division of Comparative Biomechanics of the Society for the Study of Integrative and Comparative Biology\, and the Association for the Study of American University Women.
URL:https://ias.ucsc.edu/event/karen-tei-yamashita-paul-koch-nidhi-mahajan-and-david-haussler/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art + Science,LASER,Past Events,Tours & Talks
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