Media Arts & Technology Show @UCSB | Deep Cuts

The Media Arts and Technology Program (MAT) invites the community to attend its annual End of Year Show! 

Deep Cuts | The MAT EoYS 2025

EoYS 2025 offers a fresh glimpse into the future of new and emerging media, including interactive, generative and immersive art, music, and architecture; physical computing and AI/VR/XR, robotics and fabrication; AI and machine learning, data and scientific visualization; and expressive computational for crafts, tools, and design. 

Experience media arts and technology as the cutting-edge fusion of the humanities and fine arts with science and engineering. Witness the advanced graduate and doctoral research of our labs and enjoy the media rich performances and exhibitions of our unique transmodal and  transdisciplinary community. 

UCSB | Tuesday, June 3 | 5-8PM

California NanoSystems Institute Elings Hall (Floor 2)

Research, exhibitions, demos

Explore the latest work of MAT’s research labs in their full splendor and experience the unique and justly famous AlloSphere.

(Parking: Paid parking is available in lot 10)

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Deep Cuts (noun)

1. Obscure or lesser-known pieces of work by a musician, artist, technologist, designer, researcher, etc.—often overlooked, yet deeply meaningful to those who know them.
2. Severe reductions in funding or support, particularly in education, the arts, and research—threatening the survival of programs that exist at the edge of visibility.

Deep Cuts are heard in boardrooms and whispered through backdoor channels. They echo in creative, thought-provoking work that’s been both cherished and cast aside. They’re felt by those with eyes on the margins and hands in the process—those shaping what’s next from the edge.

Existing between abstraction and lived experience, Deep Cuts is a warning, a wound, a hidden gem. It’s a call to attention.

MAT is a deep cut.

Media Arts and Technology is a graduate program at UC Santa Barbara that bridges the humanities and sciences. We design and deploy cutting-edge tools to create work that lives in the gradients between and beyond disciplines. Our practices span fabrication, musical composition and performance, computer graphics, immersive installation, and more. We harness the power of digital technology to produce bold, experimental, and defiantly original works that cut deep in every sense of the word. Creative and critical, from the edge of campus and the cutting edge of ideas, our fresh light illuminates the deep cuts of our complex world. 

This exhibition is our reveal. It surfaces what’s often unseen: the quietly radical, the structurally complex, the playfully subversive. Here, algorithms dance, light speaks, and code performs. In our hands, technology is not just a tool—it’s a creative co-conspirator shining light into the unknown.

Deep Cuts is both a reckoning and a celebration. It honors what has been lost or overlooked, refuses to be silenced, and boldly carves bright new pathways through the unknown.

There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

( *paraphrasing Leonard Cohen’s exquisite “there is a crack, a crack, in everything” )

Participants showcasing their work: 

Sabina Hyoju Ahn | Alejandro Aponte | Sam Bourgault | Emma Brown | J.D. Brynn | Deniz Caglarcan | Ana Cárdenas | Pingkang Chen | Payton Croskey | Ashley Del Valle | Colin Dunne | Diarmid Flatley | Devon Frost | Yuehao Gao | Amanda Gregory | Joel A. Jaffe | Nefeli Manoudaki | Ryan Millet | Megumi Ondo | Lucian Parisi | Iason Paterakis | Weihao Qiu | Marcel Rodriguez-Riccelli | Jazer Sibley-Schwartz | Mert Toka | Anna Borou Yu | Emilie Yu | Yifeng Yvonne Yuan | Karl Yerkes | Shaw Yiran Xiao