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Four adults in farmers clothes, their faces lit, look up at a foreboding figure in a mask
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Jeff Liang
The allegory that is 'Animal Farm' examines the perils of unchecked power and privilege, the use of words as a political weapon, and revolutions that erode into regimes not unlike those they overthrew.

UCSB theater students take on Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a fable that still bites

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Woman with black hair with red streaks and bangs wearing a red and black dress grinds pigments on stone in front of a red tiled wall
"Sandy Rodriguez: Unfolding Histories" opens at the Art, Design and Architecture Museum this winter.
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still photo from the experimental film
A 35-millimeter landscaped portrait from the "Get Shorty" press kit, as seen in "Still Film"
person smelling jasmine

A Multifaceted Sensation
white powder in petri dish against black background

An Overlooked Phenomenon
Photograph of authors Pei-te Lien and Nicole Filler

A Pioneering Collaboration

Communication Breakdown

Facing the Heat
Workstation for spatialization app and two portraits of men

Space Control

‘Liking’ is Believing

Existing in Movement

A Legacy of Research