News + Events
OpenLab open studios Friday June 7, 2013
Oceanic Scales team showed an amazing amount of dedication and hard work leading up to our first demonstration of our prototype system at the UCSC Art dept. open studios. More info…
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Balance-Unbalance May 31-June 2
Founding Director, Jennifer Parker to present OpenLab at Balance-Unbalance 2013. An International Conference designed to use art as a catalyst to explore intersections between nature, science, technology and society as we move into an era of both unprecedented ecological threats and transdisciplinary possibilities. Hosted in the UNESCO Noosa Biosphere Reserve on the Sunshine Coast of Australia. The 2013 conference theme, Future Nature, Future Culture[s] is aimed to provoke discourse around what our elusive future might hold and how transdisciplinary thought and action could be used as tools for positive change. More Info….
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Bay Area Maker Faire 2013, San Mateo, CA
May 18-19, 2013 – Sat: 10am- 8pm Sun. 10am-6pm
Maker Faire is a family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
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UCSC Digital Arts & Research Center Room 108, Wednesday
April 17, 2013 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm Free and Open to the Public!
A panel discussion at UCSC exploring expressive interactions across: theory, science, art, & the public. Panelists: Karen Barad (UC Santa Cruz), Sally Jane Norman (University of Sussex), Eric Paulos (UC Berkeley), Simon Penny (UC Irvine), Jennifer Parker (UC Santa Cruz). Program developed by Jennifer Parker and Kate O’Riordan. Free and open to the public.
Workshop with visiting artist Joel Dittrich: Audio & Visual Installation, VJ & Projection Mapping
UCSC Baskin Arts D101, WednesdayApril 10, 2013 – 2:00pm - 4:00pm Free and Open to the Public!
Students, come to a workshop with visiting artist Joel Dittrich. The workshop will cover audio and visual installation, and vj and projection mapping. http://www.joeldittrich.se
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Let’s Talk App for the NICU now Available on iTunes!
Let’s Talk App for the NICU created in collaboration with the THRIVE Infant-Family Program and OpenLab Artists: Jack O’Neill and Amy Boewer of GirlBoy Media support from Associate Professor Jennifer Parker is now available on iTunes.
Thrive Infant Family Program has been awarded grants from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation through the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association for our Let’s Talk Smart Phone App for parents while their infants are in the NICU. THRIVE has an affiliation agreement with the New Center for Psychoanalysis.
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OpenLab Director, Jennifer Parker talks Art +& Science
Under the Microscope: In Museums, schools, and research facilities scientists and artists are swapping methods to illuminate natural phenomena and solve global problems
by Suzanne Muchnic
When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology celebrated its 150th birthday two years ago, a group of professors organized a Festival of Art, Science & Technology. The bonanza of installations, concerts, kinetic illuminations, and new-media explorations “turned the campus upside down”, says Evan Ziporyn, a composer and clarinetist who has been on the faculty for 20 years. Read more….
OpenLab Artist Drew Detweiler + DANM Mechatronics create the Wave Walker
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Fri Feb 15 2013 at 05:00 pm
Designed for Peer Gynt in Collaboration with UCSC Mechatronics for Kimberly Jannarone’s amazing version of Peer Gynt. The show literally takes the audience on a journey. It opens March 1st at UC Santa Cruz and shouldn’t be missed!
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December 12, 2012 6:45-9:30PM
Jennifer Parker (UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor and OpenLab co-founder) on “Down to earth: Art, Astronomy and Physics” Highlighting new works created by artists and scientists from the UCSC OpenLab Network… Read more…
Blue Trail Design Jam Competition @ Adaptive Path
SMMMASH!
Stanford Multidisciplinary Multimedia Meeting of Arts, Science and Humanities
OpenLab projects on display for the ” SPACE” Exhibition
October 18, 2012 6:30-9:30pm
Panel: Chris McKay (Chief scientist at NASA Ames), Anne Fougeron (Award-winning architect), George Legrady (Director of the Experimental Visualization Lab in the Media Arts & Technology at UC Santa Barbara). Read More…..
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Critical Play, Mary Flanagan – Art, Games & History
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 – 2:00pm
Art Department/Arts Division/Digital Arts and New Media, Co-sponsored by OpenLab + Games and Playable Media
Free and open to the public. More Info…
Sound Installations + Exhibits Opening NightJuly 13, 2012 – Sept 28, 2012 More info…
ISEA International Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness
September 19-24, 2012
Associate Professor Jennifer Parker will give a talk on OpenLab at ISEA International 2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wildernes in New Mexico September 19-24. Read More…
OpenLab to present two projects at the ZERO1 Biennial 2012
Opening weekend: September 12-16, 2012Under the theme Seeking Silicon Valley, the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial will feature work by a diverse group of local, national, and international contemporary artists whose work will transform Silicon Valley into an epicenter for innovative art production and public experience. Read More….
UCiRA + OpenLab Sponsored Workshop with Sudhu Tewari
July 9-12, 2012
Location: Digital Arts Research Center: OpenLab RM 214
A workshop designed to give artists a basic understanding of electronics and mechanics for augmenting their artwork, We will transform static artwork into active pieces allowing for interactive functionality. More Info….
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OPEN STUDIOS
DANM Mechatronics + OpenLab
Location: Digital Arts Research Center, OpenLab rm#214
June 8, 12-4pm More Info…
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John Matthias + Nick Ryan
THE SOUND OF SMALL BRAIN CIRCUITS: THE NEUROGRANULAR SAMPLER, PLASTICITY AND CORTICAL SONGS
Public Presentation:
Wednesday May 23, 1-2:30pm UCSC Art Department room D101Read More…
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THRIVE Infant-Family Program
OpenLab is happy to announce THRIVE Infant-Family Program partnership to develop “Let’s Talk App” for the NICU with the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.
Intersection for the Arts: The Artist as Citizen and Public Arts Partnerships
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
EAP brings together dynamic panelists to discuss artistic citizenship and issues of engagement with place.
Panelists: Jennifer Parker (UCSC OpenLab), David Kasprzak (Artist) and Randy Rollison (Intersection for the Arts). More info…
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OpenLab @ Maker Faire Bay Area!
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Contact Microphone Building
With Sudhu Tewari OpenLab affiliated artist and founder of AUX, at the Exploratorium Saturday, Apr 21, 2012 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Do you ever wonder if there are sounds you can’t hear? Well, there are! Some sounds are too quiet to be picked up by human ears and so go unnoticed. Sudhu Tewari wants to share these sounds with you. Read more… ______________________________________________________________________________
Armchair explorers of the cosmos can now have at their fingertips the nearly 2,000 distant planetary systems discovered by NASA’s Kepler Mission. Kepler Explorer, an innovative app for iPads and iPhones developed by a team at the University of California, Santa Cruz, provides interactive displays of newly discovered planetary systems based on Kepler data. Read More….
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Report on our new Kepler Explorer OpenLab app!!!
Released 4/3/2012
The app, called Kepler Explorer, provides interactive displays of the 2,300 alien planet candidates that NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has detected thus far. It’s available for free at the iTunes App Store and runs on Apple’s iPhone and iPad. It was developed by astronomers, artists and designers at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).
Released: Mar 27, 2012
Kepler Explorer is an exciting new application for the iPad and iPhone, allowing anyone to gain a better understanding of the faraway planetary systems found by NASA’s Kepler Mission. Read More…
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OpenLab and UCSC Baskin Visual Arts Offer Experimental Game Design Class
Spring Quarter 2012
There is so much more to games than what you play on your Xbox or Facebook! We will look at game design as an art practice, engaging with the works of the New Games movement, Fluxus artists, the Big Games movement and makers of socially conscious board and card games. Read More…
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San Francisco Museum of Art
January 15 – August 12, 2012
Sudhu Tewari (OpenLab member and Founder of Aux) has a new game at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Visitors can view game in the Koret Visitor Education Center, and pick up instructions for prototype games to be played in the museum’s galleries and other public spaces. Read more…
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Leonardo Art/Science Evening
November 7, 2011 6:30-9:30PM
Jennifer Parker (UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor and OpenLab co-founder) on “Down to earth: Art, Astronomy and Physics” Highlighting new works created by artists and scientists from the UCSC OpenLab Network… Read more…
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The Tech Museum After Hours: Cosmos Under the Cosmos
Wednesday November 2, 2011, 6pm-11pm
Come and celebrate OpenLab Art + Astrophysics projects and with Co-Founder Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz presentation of Cosmic Dynamics at After Hours, the new monthly themed event at the Tech Museum in San Jose where adults only can enjoy science, technology, entertainment and cocktails together with their friends. Read more…
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OpenLab @ Bay Area Science Festival
November 6, 2011, 11-4PM
AT&T Park will become a science wonderland when the Bay Area Science concludes with this FREE science extravaganza on Sunday November 6th. The event showcases the intrigue and pure fun of science with a non-stop program of interactive exhibits, experiments, games, and shows, all meant to entertain and inspire. Over 170 exhibits will overwhelm AT&T Park – are you ready to unleash your inner scientist? Read more…
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KZSC Radio: Artist on Art Interview with OpenLab co-founder Amy Boewer
October 10, 2011
Local installation artist, Amy Boewer was the guest on Gamers on Game for October 10, 2011. Amy is Research Assistant and one of the student Founders of OpenLab at UCSC, and the Resident Artist in the UCSC AstroPhysics Department. She recently graduated from UCSC in the Art and History of Art and Visual Culture Programs. Read more…
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OpenLab Art + Astrophysics Exhibition at UCSC Digital Arts Research Center
September 17- October 28, 2011
The exhibition features four exhibits of astrophysical phenomena including Black Hole/Star Bowling Game; a Kepler App for iPad/iPhone; a 3D Zoetrope of Moon-Splat; and an interactive sculpture of Spectral Shifts in the Milky Way
More information can be found in the Exhibition Catalog…
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OpenLab Astronomer Jonathan Forntey contributes to confirm first planet orbiting two stars
A world with multiple suns is a common trope in science fiction, as in the iconic double sunset in Star Wars. Scientific reality has now caught up, with a report from NASA’s Kepler mission of the first unambiguous detection of a planet orbiting two stars. More…
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OpenLab Kick-off Event at the Media Theater UCSC
July 12, 14, 15, 21, 2011
Visualization presentations by Alex Pang, Nic Brumell, Joel Primack and technical workshops by Nic Brumell, Uliana Popov, Ralf Kaehler and Hank Childs.
All are welcome to attend. Read more…
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OpenLab Marker Workshops
August 3, 4, 5, and 9, 2011, 1-4PM
You are invited to join the OpenLab Summer Makers Workshops in Metal, Woodworking, Casting and Prototyping Labs at the Arts Division at UCSC. These workshops are designed for everyone regardless of skill level. The Makers Workshop is perfect for inventors, makers, tinkerers, artists, students, scientists, and entrepreneurs. read more…
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OpenLab Scientist, Erik Asphaug on NPR Morning Edition
feature on the origin of the lunar farside (Jutzi and Asphaug, Nature, Aug 4, 2011).
This made the front page of LA Times, Denver Post, many other papers worldwide. Read More…
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TRANSMUTATIONS: Sound, Data, and Mechanics Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
March 26-May 13, 2011
By taking data out of archives, pie charts and graphs and giving it a physical form through sculptural, audio and visual means, we aim to build a compelling experience synthesizing scientific research with new media as a method of engaging community participation. We believe in the concept of learning by doing, that material exploration is an important part of the understanding process and that explaining through tangible tools, where people can actually touch, explore and play with information, is essential to collaborative communication and visual thinking.
Graduate students in the UCSC Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) program, UCSC Arts + Physics Research Lab and OpenLab worked collaboratively with SonicSENSE to develop and create the design, content, and conceptual framework of the interactive art exhibition. Read more…
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