Security Cameras ‘Sing’ as Artist Turns Video Feeds into Text
On May 25, the Qualcomm Institute will stage a new work, Song Cycle for Security Camera, by sound artist and Music Ph.D. candidate Joe Cantrell.
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UC San Diego Researchers Discover Human Burials and Artifacts in Ancient Mycenaean Tomb
The field researchers also collected paleo-environmental data concerning climate and environmental change during the Late Bronze Age.
UC San Diego Library Partners with OMA to Exhibit Works by Scarred for Life Artist Ted Meyer
A sampling of the works from artist Ted Meyer’s intriguing Scarred for Life series will be on display, beginning May 15 through September 1, 2017, in the Biomedical Library Building breezeway. The exhibit and an opening reception on May 15 are a collaboration between the UC San Diego Library and Oceanside Museum of Art, which is holding a major exhibition of the artist’s work—Ted Meyer: Scarred for Life— from May 27 through September 17, 2017.
UC San Diego Professor Recognized as One of World’s Most Influential Living Philosopher
Asking questions is a matter of course for UC San Diego Philosopher Nancy Cartwright. Her queries include, “What makes something evidence for something else?” and “Does policy work define outcomes?” For her deep-thought work that “fills in gaps,” as she explains, Cartwright is recognized as one of the world’s most influential living philosophers according to The Best Schools, the University of Edinburgh, and others. But when asked how it feels to be among the world’s leading thinkers, Cartwright states: “If I thought it was true, it would be really great.”
Genre Giants
Science fiction and fantasy came to life in the real and human forms of authors George R.R. Martin and Kim Stanley Robinson May 2 at the Price Center West Ballroom. The genre giants, each with ties to UC San Diego through the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, bantered on stage under bright lights against a backdrop flanked by the emblems of the Great Houses featured in the “Game of Thrones,” HBO’s enormously popular adaptation of Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series.
UC San Diego History Students Learn Secrets of 16th to 18th Century Islamic Manuscripts
The University of California San Diego’s Department of History is flush with scholars studying the fascinating histories of many parts of the world, from Africa and the Americas to the Middle East. Among them is assistant professor Nir Shafir, whose research explores what he calls “manuscript pamphlets” in the Ottoman Empire. These were cheap, short and handwritten treatises that transformed the religious and intellectual life of the Middle East over the 16th to 18th centuries.
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