Founded in 2010 by Art Professor Jennifer Parker with support from Astrophysics Professor Enrico Rameriz-Ruiz, to serve the campus community for purposes of networking, research, resource-sharing, documentation and events in collaborative interdisciplinary research.

As a faculty led center, we are dedicated to pursuing, promoting, and serving interdisciplinary innovation in the arts, sciences and technology. Our projects shift the focus from industrial machines, computers, and robots, to people and ecosystems. This use of technologies across disciplines forces us to decide how we, as humans, want to experience our creative strivings and work for the public good to help redirect and understand the negative consequences of unsustainable innovation and the direct costs to the planet.

JENNIFER PARKER

Executive Director and Founder of OpenLab, Professor, Art
University of California Santa Cruz
Email: parker1@ucsc.edu
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ENRICO RAMIREZ-RUIZ

co-Founder, Professor, Astronomy & Astrophysics
University of California Santa Cruz
Websites: http://www.ucolick.org/~enrico/home.html
Email: enrico@ucolick.org