Podcasts about design media arts

The AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) seeks to enhance the abilities of design educators and educational institutions to prepare future designers for excellence in design practice, design theory, and design writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels while supporting the fundamental mission of AIGA.Meet our Panelist and AIGA Design Educators SpotlightRebeca Méndez, Founder and Director of CounterForcelab and Chair of the Design Media Arts program at UCLA, works with vulnerable environments and communities in the Arctic to threatened ecologies in the eastern Pacific Ocean. In her ecological sustainable design philosophy and practice, she examines reciprocal relationships and environmental justice in a multi-species world in the midst of climate change, mass extinction, and a ravaging extractivist society.Holly Robbins, MCAD Adjunct Faculty and partner and creative director of This Is Folly, has collaborated with AIGA/MN, GreenBlue's Sustainable Packaging Coalition, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design on promoting sustainability, developing design guidelines and award criteria, and advancing professional sustainable design education.

ABOUT REFIK ANADOL:LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/refikanadol/LinkedIn page for Refik Anadol Studio: https://www.linkedin.com/company/refik-anadol-studio/Website: https://refikanadol.comYoutube Videos:Disney Concert Hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKfCrChDWpYMelting Memories: https://refikanadol.com/works/melting-memories/Machine Halucinations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OviC5RwpnvATED TALK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxQDG6WQT5sSHOW INTRO:Number of years ago, in 2014, when I was writing my book Retail (r)Evolution, I was looking at the interrelationship between brands, they're physical expression, cognitive science neuroscience and emerging digital technologies.I was thinking a lot about the emergence of a new cohort of experience seeking consumers and their proclivity to use their digital devices not just us communication devices but as vehicles for self-expression through the use of media making. Going out and capturing images and posting to Instagram or social media platforms wasn't just about pushing visual content into the world it was about storytelling, media making and creating narratives of one's life experience in a very different and hugely impactful way.I was beginning to see that young emerging consumers would be extremely savvy in terms of marketing because pushing content into the digisphere required them to understand what their individual markets were interested in, in terms of contenttheir ability to stay in front of their viewers was a large part of their success. True, I also felt that a lot of this was an otherated sense of validation that was driving a deep emotional connection to a sense of well-being and a sense of self in community but it nevertheless suggested that making stories and rewriting narratives of experience was becoming common place and was influencing expectations about how brand engagements should unfold. Brands could no longer just assume that they would give their customers certain services or products and that they would be acceptable and if they didn't like them this season, well, they could come back and next season. But that the ability to remain relevant was tied to the idea of engaging guests in the creation of part of the narrative, something that they could own, something that gave them a sense of agency and connection to the brand in a very different way. I also began to think that what this likely meant was that, as we moved to a world of artificial intelligence and using data to help us understand decision making in in the shopping aisle or online, that it would likely also mean that places that we inhabited might also change based on the interchange of data between my personal devices and a set of algorithms that drove brand experience.I then began to think about the opportunities here of a space that could change in real time to accommodate my individual needs perhaps even from data that was pulled from my smart devices that were reading body temperature, skin conductance, heart rate, breathing rate and even neural activity that was indicating maybe what parts of my brain were being more activated than others and how that might change the environment to align the physical space with my mind body space.This then became a platform for me thinking about a future state where brand experience places were more like brand performance places where the interaction between the performer in this narrative and the stage set on which the story unfolded were intimately tied together and transformed in ways that adapted to different need-states and expectations driven from both personal digital footprints, the places and manner that we used our digital devices and our bio data pulled from our personal digital device connected to our person.There were certainly at certain some points where I believed that all I might need as an architect was it data set, an algorithm, a projection system and a white box. And into that white box we could project data images that were representation of my inner desires or inner mind body state.Then along comes an exposure to something that was called a data sculpture in the Sales Force headquarters in San Francisco. The extraordinary digital image moved across a large part of a wall surface was pulling data from the environment and changing in response to the weather, traffic flows to public sentiment about certain things.This became my first exposure to the fact that someone out there was actually doing this thing I had imagined would be possible. Subsequent to that, I stumbled across an exhibit called “Melting Memories” where Refik Anadol ,a Turkish data visualization artist, had been able to capture brain data of people's memories and made the invisible visible. Refik Anadol's data paintings, or data sculptures, were enormous high-definition fluid moving images that were like watching a campfire - ever changing and captivating. I found them captivating more so because they were a physicalization of somebody's most private moments - a memory. This for me was a complete game changer. Finally, the ideas that I had begun to think about but knew I was incapable of actually creating on my own were being done. An artist in our midst who was tying together artificial intelligence, art and neuroscience was beginning to reshape the way we would come to experience public spaces and art itself. Refik Anadol is an extraordinary example of a game changing artist who brings together these three core components in reshaping the world we live in.Using architecture as a canvas, his data sculptures recontextualize the built work, or the inner life of significant cultural buildings, and externalizes them as a painting on the exterior skin giving these public buildings a new level of appreciation, perhaps, for an emerging cohort of digitally oriented consumers.One of the main premises of my book Retail (r)Evolution was to try to get people who were creating brand experience places a little more connected to what happens at a brain-body level in terms of their experience of environments. My whole premise was that if you knew a little bit more about how your brain actually worked you might not create some of the things that you believe are relevant which are completely off of the awareness radar and probably don't have the impact that you hope to have with people who are experience the place.If we only understood a little bit what goes on inside your head we might be able to create more relevant and meaningful experiences for people because so much of what we experience is driven by our neurophysiology and our interpersonal neurobiology.As I learned more about the work of Refik Anadol, I was intrigued and delighted by his thinking of what he's doing today and his relationship to early Renaissance art where, at that time artists were afforded materials by their patrons and they would use technologies to create advances in artistic expression. In Anadol's world, his connection to massive data sets were akin to having the raw materials for creating great new digital pieces of artwork. I once heard him explain that what he was effectively doing was taking his paintbrush and plunging it into the consciousness of the machine and painting with those algorithms and data sets. What is even more fascinating about his work is the use of light as a building material, or maybe as a pigment, which he wields to create both paintings that may hung in a gallery as well as wrapping significant pieces of architecture like the Frank Gehry Disney Concert Hall for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the center of downtown LA.The interesting thing about using existing architecture as a canvas onto which light as a substance is painted and moving pictures generated from massive data sets that are the memory of the building is that in a way it recontextualizes these buildings that are, generally speaking, time stamped,meaning they're built in a period of time and represent a certain period of culture into which they were born. This work brings those buildings forward into a contemporary world of fluid experience where time and space seemed to collapse as we move rapidly from one significant change in our digitally mediated environment to the next.Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is now an internationally renowned media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where he owns and operates Refik Anadol Studio and RAS LAB, the Studio's research practice centered around discovering and developing trailblazing approaches to data narratives. Anadol also teaches at UCLA's Department of Design Media Arts from which he obtained his Master of Fine Arts.Anadol's body of work addresses the challenges, and the possibilities, that ubiquitous computing has imposed on humanity, and what it means to be a human in the age of AI. He explores how the perception and experience of time and space are radically changing now that machines dominate our everyday lives. Anadol is intrigued by the ways in which the digital age and machine intelligence allow for a new aesthetic technique to create enriched immersive environments that offer a dynamic perception of space.  In some cases, entire buildings come to life, floors, walls, ceilings disappear into Infinity, breathtaking aesthetics take shape from large swaths of data, and what was once invisible to the human eye becomes visible, offering the audience a new perspective on and narrative of their worlds.Refik anadol global projects have received a number of awards and prizes.His studio comprises designers, architects, data scientists and researchers from diverse professional and personal backgrounds, embracing principles of inclusion and equity throughout every stage of the production. Studio members originate from 10 different countries and are collectively fluent in 14 different languages. I don't often gush over having an opportunity to speak to a guest but in this case my enthusiasm for the work of Refik Anadol is unbounded. I truly believe that he is doing something extraordinarily in the world of art, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, urban planning and architecture.And so I confess a certain fandom for Refik and was grateful to have him offer up time so that we could have this discussion. To some degree, it is unfortunate that this podcast is a non-visual medium and so I encourage all who listen to visit refikanadol.com – R E F I K A N A D O l.comThere you will have an in-depth look at his work that is shifting the nature and our understanding of how art artificial intelligence, neuroscience and architecture are all merging in a way that is a paradigm shift for how we experience place.        ABOUT DAVID KEPRON:LinkedIn Profile: linkedin.com/in/david-kepron-9a1582bWebsites: https://www.davidkepron.com    (personal website)vmsd.com/taxonomy/term/8645  (Blog)Email: david.kepron@NXTLVLexperiencedesign.comTwitter: DavidKepronPersonal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidkepron/NXTLVL Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nxtlvl_experience_design/Bio:David Kepron is a multifaceted creative professional with a deep curiosity to understand ‘why', ‘what's now' and ‘what's next'. He brings together his background as an architect, artist, educator, author, podcast host and builder to the making of meaningful and empathically-focused, community-centric customer connections at brand experience places around the globe. David is a former VP - Global Design Strategies at Marriott International. While at Marriott, his focus was on the creation of compelling customer experiences within Marriott's “Premium Distinctive” segment which included: Westin, Renaissance, Le Meridien, Autograph Collection, Tribute Portfolio, Design Hotels and Gaylord hotels. In 2020 Kepron founded NXTLVL Experience Design, a strategy and design consultancy, where he combines his multidisciplinary approach to the creation of relevant brand engagements with his passion for social and cultural anthropology, neuroscience and emerging digital technologies. As a frequently requested international speaker at corporate events and international conferences focusing on CX, digital transformation, retail, hospitality, emerging technology, David shares his expertise on subjects ranging from consumer behaviors and trends, brain science and buying behavior, store design and visual merchandising, hotel design and strategy as well as creativity and innovation. In his talks, David shares visionary ideas on how brand strategy, brain science and emerging technologies are changing guest expectations about relationships they want to have with brands and how companies can remain relevant in a digitally enabled marketplace. David currently shares his experience and insight on various industry boards including: VMSD magazine's Editorial Advisory Board, the Interactive Customer Experience Association, Sign Research Foundation's Program Committee as well as the Center For Retail Transformation at George Mason University.He has held teaching positions at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (F.I.T.), the Department of Architecture & Interior Design of Drexel University in Philadelphia, the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising (L.I.M.) in New York, the International Academy of Merchandising and Design in Montreal and he served as the Director of the Visual Merchandising Department at LaSalle International Fashion School (L.I.F.S.) in Singapore.  In 2014 Kepron published his first book titled: “Retail (r)Evolution: Why Creating Right-Brain Stores Will Shape the Future of Shopping in a Digitally Driven World” and he is currently working on his second book to be published soon. David also writes a popular blog called “Brain Food” which is published monthly on vmsd.com. ************************************************************************************************************************************The next level experience design podcast is presented by VMSD magazine and Smartwork Media. It is hosted and executive produced by David Kepron. Our original music and audio production by Kano Sound. The content of this podcast is copywrite to David Kepron and NXTLVL Experience Design. Any publication or rebroadcast of the content is prohibited without the expressed written consent of David Kepron and NXTLVL Experience Design.Make sure to tune in for more NXTLVL “Dialogues on DATA: Design Architecture Technology and the Arts” wherever you find your favorite podcasts and make sure to visit vmsd.com and look for the tab for the NXTLVL Experience Design podcast there too.

Once there was a girl who discovered that while period products seemed to be widely available to everyone, there were still many girls and women who were forced to use trash to absorb their menstrual flow every month. Twenty-Three year-old Harvard graduate, Nadya Okamoto founded PERIOD.org at the age of sixteen and in 2020 she co-founded August, a lifestyle brand working to reimagine periods.   But what would you do if even after all your work and dedication, 4 in 5 US students were missing classes because of lack of access to period products and periods were still the main reason why girls were missing school in developing countries? Would you move on to a cause that made people feel more comfortable? Or would you start posting your period blood on TikTok and demand that the world starts paying attention? More From Nadya: Visit: https://period.org Visit: https://www.nadyaokamoto.com Read her book Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement Check out: August on IG & @periodmovement Finding Nadya: Instagram: @nadyaokamoto Twitter: @nadyaokamoto LinkedIn: Nadya Okamoto Episode chosen by Sue Bin Lee, Director of Video Production: Sue Bin Lee is the video production director of The Only One In The Room, where she handles production and post-production for long-form video content across Youtube and Patreon. She is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Design Media Arts at UCLA with a focus on integrating cognitive science research into her work. Passionate about storytelling of all modes, she seeks narratives concerning Korean-American identity, “abnormal” psychology, and technology. In her spare time, she enjoys watching strange sci-fi movies or daydreaming about eating hallabongs(Korean tangerines) on the South Korean island, Jeju. Finding Sue Bin Lee: Email: suebinlee@gmail.com Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  PATREON SHOUT OUTS: Mercedes Cusick LMFT, Website: www.mercedescusick.com, IG: @recoverhealbloom Check Out How To Do The Pot Thanks to Kathleen Hahn Cute Booty Lounge is made right here in the USA, by women and for women. The company is incredible, female, and minority-owned and all of their leggings make makes your booty look amazing. Go to https://cutebooty.com/ today! Embrace your body, love your booty! Join our Patreon: Become an Only One In The Room patron by joining us on Patreon! Starting at only $5.00 per month, you'll get bonus content, access to outtakes that the general public will NEVER see, extremely cool merch, and depending on what tier you get, monthly hang time with Scott and Laura. Join our Patreon today at https://www.patreon.com/theonlyonepodcast Be sure not to miss Scott Talks on Wednesdays, our Sunday release called Sunday Edition & our brand new series On My Nightstand releasing on Fridays by subscribing to the show wherever you listen to podcasts.  Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series.  Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't forget to rate us, subscribe and share the show! All of us at The Only One In The Room wish you safety and wellness during this challenging time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bobby Joe Smith III is a Black and Lakota (Hunkpapa and Oohenumpa) graphic designer and media artist. Design, computation, performance, writing, and lens-based image-making are mediums of expression and inquiry he turns to often. His creative practice is rooted in the ongoing decolonial and abolitionist movements led by Indigenous communities on Turtle Island and across the Black diaspora. His research draws from the decolonial, abolitionist, and post-apocalyptic strategies of Black and Indigenous people to construct a poetic vernacular of "unsettling grammars"—gestures, methodologies, and utterances that deviate, disrupt, and dismantle settler-colonial systems. By rearticulating these "unsettling grammars" through the disciplines of media art and design, Bobby Joe seeks to reveal vectors leading toward decolonial futures and generate work that resonates with the people and movements that comprise his community. He currently is pursuing an MFA from UCLA's Design | Media Arts department and holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), a Post-Baccalaureate degree in Graphic Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Middlebury College.In this episode, listen as we discuss how Bobby Joe utilizes design to uplift his community and how we can encourage students to think about design in a way that is meaningful to them.

This winter quarter, design media arts students researched Los Angeles and its ecologies through the lens of climate change. Department of Design Media Arts professor and vice chair Peter Lunenfeld emphasized the importance of design research in the hybrid seminar/studio course “Introduction to Ecological Art and Justice,” part of a three-quarter sequence. Students conducted original research in order to think through historical and on-going issues of environmental racism in Los Angeles and surrounding areas.

Peter Ng graduated from UCLA in Design Media Arts, helped shape the early mobile experience at Google, completely redesigned the mobile app for Uber, and has now landed at Spatial where he heads the design team.Wired: Spatial: The Airbnb for NFTsThe spatial virtual reality experienceHardwareOculus Rift - https://www.oculus.com/rifthttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololensMagic Leap - https://www.magicleap.com/en-usPlatform being built on UnityHow they create a presence layer for people to collaborate and mingle3D environments to showcase art and portfoliosHow to think about making a unique 3D NFT and how it's related to sculptureTaking virtual hikesPeople are minting whole environments!https://www.dezeen.com/2021/03/22/mars-house-krista-kim-nft-newsSold on SuperRare: https://superrare.comWhy it's important to display art in the right lighting, context, and setting. How Peter and spatial are working to create appealing digital architecture to show art in.How spatial partnered with OpenSea and SuperRare.How Peter transitioned from 3D artist to Mobile designer and how learning art as a baseline enabled him to jump mediumsHow hard it is to be a digital artistPeter's excitement about DAO's and De-centralizationhttps://ethereum.org/en/daoWhy DAO's creating ownerships automatically pushes people to shareLack of approval requirement"The world wide web becoming the world wide web again"The no code movement : https://medium.com/@McBain/build-a-no-code-ethereum-app-in-under-2-minutes-e1834d131685How do you actually view or interact with NFT's?Uploading, selling, and buying through SpatialBuying land via Decentral land - https://decentraland.orgThe easiest onboard to VR: Spatial + Oculus Quest 2NReal, one of the most inspiring new VR hardware developmentshttps://venturebeat.com/2020/08/10/nreal-light-ar-glasses-add-vr-lenses-launch-august-21-in-south-koreaWe're introducing a new series where Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3. This is a pivotal moment in time where Web3 has exploded and a lot of smart people we know are dropping their careers to transition into Web3. This is a series where we bring friends on to learn about what's happening.Previous Will, Lee, and Andrew Learn about Web3 Episodes:Will, Lee & Andrew Recap After 25 Episodes and Starting a Learning Web3 Series#27 Yoshi Luk: Exploring DeFi (Decentralized Finance)#28 Evan Lai: How to Get Started Learning About Web3#31 Jay Chang: Cofounding Genopets. A Play-to-Earn NFT Game on Solana.#32 Shalin Pei: Coinbase Designer. Unlocking a Playground for Creativity.#33 Howie Zhang: Designing an NFT Game Economy as a Quant Analyst#34 Li Ouyang: Discovering an NFT Community She's Passionate AboutResources to learn more:Read Chris Dixon: Why Web3 MattersListen to Tim Ferriss' episode with Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant on Web3Listen to #14 Elliot Chun: Making the World a Better Place with Blockchain 

Today I talk with artist Yiyun Kang about her project Anthropause, and her process of making and showing art in the middle of the pandemic. Yiyun Kang received her BFA in painting from Seoul National University, MFA from UCLA's Design & Media Arts, and PhD from Royal College of Art, UK. She held exhibitions at numerous art institutions including the Seoul Museum of Art, Taipei MOCA, Victoria and Albert Museum, and participated in international events such as Venice Architecture Biennale, Shenzhen Biennale, and Gwangju Design Biennale. In 2020, she participated in the transcontinental contemporary art project CONNECT, BTS as the only Korean artist; in 2017, she received the Red Dot Award with Deep Surface, a commissioned exhibition by Max Mara. Recently Kang had solo exhibition ‘Anthropause' at PKM gallery, Seoul. Currently a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art (London), Kang also gives lectures at Politecnico di Milano (Milano, Italy), SOAS University of London (London, UK), and Sotheby's Institute of Art (London, UK). Kang is featured in Bloomberg's ‘Art+Technology' series and her writings have been published in the Leonardo Journal (MIT Press) and Practices of Projections, published by Oxford University Press. Kang is a fellow of the RSA (Royal Society of Arts, UK) since 2019.

The following is a conversation with Refik Anadol. Refik is a media artist and director working in Los Angeles, California. He is a pioneer in a new art form called “data art”, in which images and sound are generated by the intervention of machine learning algorithms with data sets. In the last week, the National Gallery of Victoria purchased Refik's work, ‘Quantum Memories' for their permanent collection. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th Florence Biennale. He is also a lecturer at UCLA's Department of Design Media Arts. On the podcast Julius and Refik discuss his work, his process and the digital age in general. If you like this conversation review it with five stars on Apple Podcast, follow on Spotify, subscribe on YouTube or follow me on Instagram at Recorded Time Podcast. I hope you enjoy the episode.

The rise of blockchain-enabled NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, to buy and sell artwork has created a boon for digital artists, who have long struggled with selling works that can be infinitely reproducible. In this episode of Works In Progress, faculty and alumni of the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts weigh in on the potential for NFTs to empower artists, connect them directly with fans and collectors, and build demand and appreciation for digital art. They also consider the carbon footprint of the blockchains that power NFTs, and whether an NFT bubble is likely to pop anytime soon. This episode includes UCLA faculty Casey Reas, Refik Anadol and Rebecca Allen, and alumni Nate Mohler and Adam Ferriss.

"Social media, like most technologies, is a double-edged sword. It can shrink distance but it can also manipulate our behavior and help disinformation spread like wildfire. It can help us feel connected, but keeps us doom scrolling well past our bedtimes." - Ramesh SrinivasanRamesh Srinivasan author of the best seller “Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow.” joins Lewis Myers and Daniel Andalon along with The Ruckus' Sound Engineer and Producer Arun Ravendhran. Arun was a staff organizer on the Bernie Sanders' California and New York teams and is currently a political organizer and Progressive Policy Director on local and national campaigns.Srinivasan is a Professor in the UCLA Department of Information Studies and Director of the UC Digital Cultures Lab, and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Design Media Arts. He was a national surrogate for Senator Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign on issues of technology policy and an innovation policy advisor to the Biden/Harris campaign.

Internet art is a broad term for the work of artists who use the internet as their canvas. Think of Flash animation, psychedelic glitch art, computer-generated art, GIFs, and many other examples. The internet has been around for five decades now, and internet art is falling victim to broken links, expired domains, and unsupported file types."I believe we're in a crisis right now, where so much work is disappearing and will never be seen again. We want to be in communication with these artists while they're still with us,” said Casey Reas, co-founder of the UCLA Arts Conditional Studio with Lauren Lee McCarthy and Chandler McWilliams, all professors in the Department of Design Media Arts.The UCLA Arts Conditional Studio is launching an initiative to collect internet art made by LA-based artists and preserve it for future generations. “Art and the Internet in LA 1969+” will explore the history of artists in Los Angeles who have worked with, responded to, and transformed the internet.Their beginning point is November 21, 1969, when UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock established the first permanent ARPANET link from his laboratory to Stanford University. It continues through the emergence of the World Wide Web to the ubiquitous influence of the internet today.

This week, pro-Trump supporters marched through Washington D.C. and stormed the Capitol building, just as Congress was meeting to formally certify the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The insurrection left five people dead and a world in shock. Many are asking, is this what America has become?The attack also comes the same week that Tucson, Arizona is marking the ten-year anniversary of a shooting rampage outside a supermarket that killed six people and injured thirteen, including then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The attack took place at a “Congress on the Corner” event, days after Rep. Giffords had won a contentious re-election race.Today, a permanent memorial to honor the victims and survivors of the Jan. 8, 2011 attack was dedicated in a small ceremony. Rebeca Méndez, professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts, worked with the architecture firm Chee Salette to design that memorial.The memorial, called "The Embrace," includes a series of symbols that Méndez and a team of UCLA students created to depict the victims, survivors and first responders, and to tell a larger history of Tucson and southern Arizona.

What is our Los Angeles of today? There is so much more than meets the eye in LA. Susan speaks to Peter Lunenfeld, author of the urban portrait of LA called City at the Edge of Forever. Lunenfeld weaves together the alchemical city's art, architecture and design; juxtaposes its entertainment and literary histories; and moves from restaurant kitchens to recording studios to ultrasecret research and dev labs. Peter Lunenfeld is the vice chair of UCLA's Department of Design Media Arts and a faculty member in the Urban and Digital Humanities programs. He writes about the ways in which art, design and technology intertwine. POSTHOC is a petri dish for ideas & thought-leaders. We host invite-only salons that connect people and spread ideas. We create unique and intimate experiences that stir the senses—a forum for the cross-pollination of ideas and conversations. Instagram: @posthocpictura Twitter: @PosthocSalons LinkedIn: Posthoc Facebook: @Posthocpictura

Jenna Caravello makes mind-bending video games, interactive installations and animated short films that use symbolism and metaphor to ask profound questions about memory, loss, and meaning.Caravello is an assistant professor in the Department of Design Media Arts. And she'll respond to the question “What Is Loss?” as part of the UCLA Arts series “10 Questions: Reckoning,” which brings UCLA faculty from across campus together to examine ten essential questions.In this episode of the UCLA Arts podcast “Works In Progress,” Caravello talks about creating digital avatars, storytelling in virtual spaces, and what inspires her, from ‘90s video games and “Akira” to European and Soviet animators.

Peter Lunenfeld, vice-chair of UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts, appreciates Los Angeles as one of the world’s supercities. Even amid Covid, politics, and competition for the future from Silicon Valley, he sees a city thriving with reinvention. The metropolis he depicts in his book "City at the Edge of Forever" is certainly not your father's Los Angeles.

“[In the future] I believe that the buildings will dream, the buildings will remember.” In the latest episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston speaks with Refik Anadol, media artist, director and visiting researcher at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts. Johnston and Anadol discuss the intersection between the spiritual, virtual and physical realms, data as an art fo

“[In the future] I believe that the buildings will dream, the buildings will remember.”In the latest episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston speaks with Refik Anadol, media artist, director and visiting researcher at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.Johnston and Anadol discuss the intersection between the spiritual, virtual and physical realms, data as an art form and how Refik challenges the conventions of art with his public space data sculptures.

Tune in to Episode 07 of the PA Talks series with Refik Anadol, a media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence. Refik creates parametric data sculptures through hypnotic audio and visual installation experiences. Embedding media design into architecture, he questions the possibility of a post-digital architectural future in which there are no more non-digital realities. Anadol is known for his prominent works such as Machine Hallucinations, and audio/visual shows for Walt Disney Concert Hall in the USA. His global projects have received a number of awards including the Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award for New Media Art and Microsoft Research's Best Vision Award. He is also a lecturer at UCLA's Department of Design Media Arts from which he obtained his second Master of Fine Arts. Watch this podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnqrMa407dM&t=332s Listen on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/tr/podcast/pa-talks/id1503812708 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4P442GMuRk0VtBtNifgKhU Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/search/pa%20talks Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/parametricarchitecture Follow the platform on: Parametric Architecture: https://www.instagram.com/parametric.architecture/ PA Talks: https://www.instagram.com/pa__talks Website: https://parametric-architecture.com/patalks/

In the midst of global crisis, how can art and design change our behavior and beliefs?"I feel that that is a key aspect of my design and my art practice: what can I say that can make you a better human being?"In this episode of Works In Progress, Rebeca Méndez — artist, designer, and professor in the department of Design Media Arts at UCLA — discusses how her formative life experiences shaped her artistic practice. From family vacations to explore jungle ruins in her home country of Mexico, to being a young gymnast on Mexico's Olympic team who couldn't compete after Mexico withdrew from the games in protest, to being raised by chemical engineers who instilled in her a scientific rigor and love of research that informs her approach to art and design.

Reston, VA: Katie, a senior at UCLA in Design Media Arts, heroically gives up her "capstone project" to create the showcase website for her 60 graduating classmates' capstone projects.

Willem Henri Lucas is a professor in the Design Media Arts department at UCLA. These days he's in Zoom meetings and classes a lot, catching glimpses into other people's homes and private lives.As a consummate collector, he's fascinated with the objects people collect and display in their homes. His downtown LA loft is filled with art, books, masks and other trinkets that he bought at flea markets on his foreign trips."What I'm interested in still is what home actually means. In the times that I've moved, I realized it was not just the space that you're in, like the actual building or the actual surrounding, that it's memories and that it's things," Lucas said.

Ramesh Srinivasan has been a faculty member at UCLA since 2005 in the Information Studies and Design Media Arts departments. He is a surrogate for Senator Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign on issues of technology policy and the founder of the UC-wide Digital Cultures Lab, and studies technology’s impact on the lives of people across the world. He is an author as well. His most recent book, Beyond the Valley (MIT press), explores the the relationships between new technologies and our political, economic, and social lives. This includes such themes as tech’s relationship to democracy, social movements, and elections; automation, the gig economy, and worker futures; algorithmic bias and AI; and the relationship between tech and the nations and peoples of the global South. Find me on Instagram or Twitter. Please consider supporting this podcast. This Amazon affiliate link kicks a few bucks back my way. Music: “Brightside of the Sun,” by Basin and Range; “Frohmut” by Poetenleben (PL); “Smoke Alarm,” by Carsie Blanton.

Ramesh Srinivasan and Shahid Buttar discussing Ramesh's new book, Beyond the Valley: How Innovators around the World are Overcoming Inequality and Creating the Technologies of Tomorrow, published by The MIT Press. How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic internet. Ramesh Srinivasan is Professor of Information Studies and Design Media Arts at UCLA. He makes regular appearances on NPR, The Young Turks, MSNBC, and Public Radio International, and his writings have been published in the Washington Post, Quartz, Huffington Post, CNN, and elsewhere.

Rebeca Mendez is an artist, designer, educator and ArtCenter alumna whose creative practice defies the bounds of traditional disciplines or descriptions. Her pioneering career in graphic design has been widely recognized. Most recently, her work was featured in shows at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2017, she was awarded the prestigious AIGA Medal for her transformative work in academia and design. Mendez is also a celebrated fine artist best known for her visually arresting mixed-media installations incorporating photography, film, video and typography. She explores the mediated experience of nature at its most elemental in her breakthrough series At Any Given Moment, filmed on location in Iceland between 2006 and 2008. The series exhibited to rave reviews around the world, including at ArtCenter’s Williamson Gallery in 2010. It was there that I first physically encountered Rebeca’s work and was spellbound by its raw power. Most recently her video installation piece, Ascent of the Weavers, was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca, Mexico A focal point of Rebeca’s creative practice is her long-term, transdisciplinary, multimedia project entitled CircumSolar, which encompasses a mural, a photo essay, and several large-scale single-channel video installations. The project is centered around the arctic tern (T-E-R-N), a very small sea bird distinguished as having the longest migration of all living beings on earth. Each year, it flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back again. This bird’s epic journey crystallizes Rebeca’s interest in nature’s exquisite refusal to succumb to the limits and artificial boundaries of human enterprise. Mendez also directs the CounterForce Lab at UCLA, where she is a professor of Design Media Arts. She founded CounterForce to develop new modes of field research to study the social and ecological impacts of climate change. Rebeca herself is a force of nature whose poetic spirit infused every moment of her impassioned and, at turns, tender and vulnerable interview with Change Lab’s Lorne Buchman. The conversation covered the broad arc of a remarkable journey from her upbringing in Mexico, where she became the country’s top-ranked gymnast, to a singular career that dissolves boundaries and, to borrow her phrase, rages with love. Learn more about Rebeca’s life and work: http://www.rebecamendez.com/ https://www.aiga.org/2017-aiga-medalist-rebeca-mendez https://dma.ucla.edu/faculty/profiles/?ID=32

This week on Art Talks #3, we sat down with faculty and visiting artist Casey Reas. We spoke with him about his experience teaching Experimental Video and Animation Through Code one week, and making a new series of video work at the ranch the next. Listen to him discuss the purpose of code and its ability to mingle with the other crafts at Anderson Ranch. Casey Reas is an artist and educator. He has a studio in Los Angeles and he is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Design Media Arts. With Ben Fry, Casey co-founded Processing in 2001, a computer programming language created to teach non-programmers computer programming fundamentals in a visual way. www.reas.com

Ready to jump down a rabbit hole of curiosity and creation? Join us as we talk with Casey REAS, an artist and educator whose interdisciplinary work has been shown around the world and most recently, in music videos for The National. Casey teaches in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA and is the cofounder of Processing, a programming language for artists. We discuss the power of emphasis over aptitude, finding the right balance between solo work and collaboration, getting your work seen and lots more. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hueman grew up drawing and painting in Northern California, and received her degree in Design | Media Arts from UCLA in 2008.  Whether she is painting delicate visions on canvas, or crushing massive walls with a spray can, she often draws on the human condition to create freestyle mash-ups of the abstract and figurative, and the beautiful and grotesque.  She is interested in creating ethereal motion and dimension on otherwise flat, two-dimensional surfaces. Hueman's work can be seen on walls and in galleries worldwide.  Her art has caught the attention of media outlets and publications such as CNN, the History Channel, Complex, Juxtapoz and Hi-Fructose. www.artistdecoded.com www.instagram.com/artistdecoded www.twitter.com/yoshinostudios

Willem Henri Lucas studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and post graduate at the Sandberg institute in Amsterdam. From 1990 to 2002 he served as a professor and chair of the Utrecht School of the Arts’ Graphic Design department. Currently he is the chair of the department of Design Media Arts at UCLA in Los Angeles. Willem was a young student when going to art school. At the age of 26 he started teaching at the HKU in Utrecht. We wonder why he moved to LA in 2004, and we talk about the many differences in design culture between the Netherlands and the US. As a designer Willem works for clients mostly based in the field of culture and art. He also did a small detour in advertisement, because he felt that he needed to see what that was like. Recorded at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California. Willem Henri Lucas :: AIGA archive :: UCLA Design Media Arts :: WHL interview video :: File Download (33:12 min / 31 MB)

A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan, Department of Information Studies and Design|Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.