UCSB Media Arts & Technology End of Year Show (EoYS): “re:agency”
**Events may have been canceled or postponed. Please contact the venue to confirm the event.
Date & Time
Tue, Jun 02 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Address (map)
Building 266, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Venue (website)
UCSB Elings Hall
UCSB’s Media Arts and Technology (MAT) Graduate Program is hosting its End of Year Show (EoYS), re:agency, to celebrate another year of groundbreaking research. The EoYS is an annual event where guests are invited to step into the fusion of media arts and technology to experience innovative projects and performances produced by the program’s graduate students.
EoYS@Elings Hall (UCSB Campus) | Tuesday, June 2 | 5-8 p.m.
Research, exhibitions, demos
California NanoSystems Institute Elings Hall (Floor 2). Paid parking is available in Lot 10.
The Elings Hall showing will highlight MAT’s research work, spread across the Expressive Computation, AlloSphere, transLAB, and Experimental Visualization research groups.
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re:agency
What does human agency mean in the presence of systems that appear increasingly “agentic”—systems designed to absorb, predict, and appropriate human action? Where does agency reside when power is concentrated in the hands of a few, who unilaterally define what is possible and what will not be tolerated? And what might agency become if we choose, collectively, to reclaim and reassert our capacity to act, shape, and intervene?
re:agency marks a moment of reckoning. It is not only an invitation to reclaim our sense of authorship, but a demand to exercise it with renewed urgency and intention. Within MAT, we position ourselves not as subjects of technology, but as active collaborators in its evolution—re:imagining, re:purposing, and re:configuring the very systems that threaten our autonomy, and transforming them into tools for creativity.
Examine histories. Challenge the present. Envision what comes next.
