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Artist, Software Engineers Showcase ‘Dreamscapes’ on Calit2 Visualization Wall

Calit2 director Larry Smarr welcomes artist Daniel Ambrosi to Qualcomm Institute to showcase full-size art works for first time ever at highest resolution.

UC San Diego Professor Uses Photography to Draw Together Different Disciplines

University of California, San Diego Department of Visual Arts Professor Lisa Cartwright has spent her career working across different disciplines.

Arts and engineering students collaborate in new course at UC San Diego

Students from a structural engineering and a visual arts class are working together, shoulder to shoulder, on a collaborative final project despite the fact that they are in different classes. This visual arts and engineering mashup is happening in the new EnVision Maker Studio at UC San Diego and involves students in Structural Engineering 1 and Visual Arts 40.

Electrical Engineering Undergrads Build and Race Robots

The EnVision Arts and Engineering Maker Studio at UC San Diego teemed with excitement on the day of the final in an electrical engineering class called Making, Breaking and Hacking Stuff. Instead of a typical test, the class culminated in a cumulative final project – teams of two or three students used the knowledge and some of the parts they had acquired during the class’s previous projects to build a line-following robot. The teams competed to see who programmed their robot to follow a line most closely, and at the fastest speed.

April 5: “Fallen Star: Finding Home” Film Reveals the Making of Do Ho Suh Sculpture

On Tuesday, April 5, the campus and local community are invited to attend the free premiere of “Fallen Star: Finding Home,” a 50-minute film by artist Do Ho Suh. The documentary tells the behind-the-scenes story of the planning, engineering and installation of “Fallen Star,” the 18th addition to UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection, an ongoing program of commissioned, site-specific sculptures.

UC San Diego Visual Arts Graduate Student Honored for Initiating Art Practices

University of California, San Diego Department of Visual Arts Ph.D. candidate Stephanie Sherman was recently recognized for her achievements in art and activism by the Women’s Caucus for Art (WCA), which honored her with the President’s Award for Art & Activism at the 2016 College Art Association conference in Washington D.C. The award is given to individuals who exemplify the WCA mission of creating community through art, education and social activism.