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Painting of a comet traveling through night sky full of stars
Rose Schlossberg, "Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinstan-ATLAS," 2024

MFA exhibition explores time, space and transformation

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cyanotype
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Hương Ngô, detail, "Bestouan 5/12/18"

Generational memory and labor, Southeast Asian refugee experience, in new Hương Ngô exhibition
abstract art
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How art opens the mind: Professor Jonathan Schooler’s research on the cognitive effects of art
white man holding camera with many people behind him who are Black
Chris Jenkins filming in South Sudan

Film & media studies instructor awarded Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship
photo sculpture of mannequins in vintage clothing
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Jane Callister, from the series ”Imaginary Film Stills from a Movie that Never Existed”

Exploring the connection between memory and film through art
black and white AI generated image of wires and computers overgrown
George Legrady, "The Alchemist’s Study: #f803b," 2022

Exploring the aesthetics of AI
pink and black weaving
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Ruben Diaz
Sarah Rosalena, Spiral Arm Red, 2023. Hand-dyed cochineal wool yarn, cotton yarn, image source Milky Way Galaxy.

Artist Sarah Rosalena featured in six Getty PST ART shows, gains spot in LACMA’s collection
people standing looking at wrap around image of world from space
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Immersive ocean health project premieres at UCSB’s AlloSphere as part of Getty PST ART
box and cylinder
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Matt Perko
Paul Georg von Möllendorff Chinese cylinders, a collection of 16 recordings from the late 1800s

Linguistic artifacts: UCSB Library acquires rare Chinese audio recordings
bald man in green car on fire with arrows chasing
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Wayne McCall
Keith Puccinelli, "Hot Rod Ambush," 2014. Blacklight ink and pen on paper, diptych. Gift of the Estate of Frances Garvin and Keith Julius Puccinelli.

Pooch’s World
glitched mosaic of images and data
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Laila Shereen Sakr
VJ Um Amel, "Boys on the Gaza Beach," digital mosaic, 2014

Laila Shereen Sakr’s ‘Arabic Glitch’ explores data, activism and technoculture
a small group of student filmmakers gather footage on Santa Cruz island
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Ian Kellett
Student filmmakers (foreground, from left) Ryan Grant, Jade Ipina and Catherine Scanlon filming the sunset on Santa Cruz Island.

Coastal Media Project screens environmental documentaries at Pollock Theater
Black female news anchor on tube television set.
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Marilyn F. Solomon hosts her weekly prime-time program “News in Review,” 1981.

Marilyn F. Solomon’s television archives join UCSB Library’s film & television collection
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