Events

Monterey Bay Sanctuary Exploration Center

April 19th, 2024, 11am - 3pm.

Created by Layla Scott, Water Fair Executive Director

Looking at an orange sunset ocean view or a crystal clear blue lake water is breathtaking. It is the source of life. A precious resource we tend to take for granted. Here in Santa Cruz, it is a unique place with both surrounding forests and ocean coastlines. Our city is magical. As residents, it is our responsibility to understand how to protect and steward the natural resources that create our beautiful home. The fair includes informational poster sessions from UCSC student researchers, art activities, local organizations, and educational games for all ages!! Looking forward to making a splash in our community...See you there!!

SUNDAY MAY 21st, 2023, 1-3 PM
152 FARM RD, SANTA CRUZ, CA
The Greenhouse Project is hosting its first public event, and we'd love to see you there! The event will include a reading by Dine writer and poet Byron Aspaas, an exhibition of prints by Edward Ramirez, Auntie Manna's Vietnamese food pop-up by Amanda Linh Vong, and a seed exchange (bring seeds!) hosted by Zoe Loomis from Pie Ranch. Auntie Manna will also host a banh mi workshop (limited to 15 people). To sign-up for the banh mi workshop, email dalbell@ucsc.edu. Please feel free to share! A poster is attached below if needed.

Details: the greenhouse project

Adaptable Academics amid pandemic upheaval, flexibility finds opportunity article by Mary-Russell Roberson.

"The isolation brought on by the pandemic inspired a team assembled and led by Jennifer Parker, founding director of the OpenLab Collaborative Research Center. Their pandemic plan? To create a virtual reality gallery intended to encourage conversations among scientists, artists, and others. “The whole concept is brand new, spearheaded by this moment,” said Parker.

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The Norris Center for Natural History is soliciting applications from student artists for an Art and Science Residency at UC Santa Cruz. The goal of the program is to fund and support creative communication opportunities for science research and student professional development.

The Norris Center will work together with scientific researchers and students from UC Santa Cruz to either complete a needed artwork for a specific research project or to collaboratively generate something new. Examples of projects could be an illustration of a scientist’s research system or organisms to use in a publication or presentation; animations about complicated processes; communicating outcomes of scientific research to a wider audience; or collaborating with a scientist to develop an arts research project. The collaborative approach often has fascinating and unexpected outcomes that lend themselves to further scientific inquiry - visit https://norriscenter.ucsc.edu/art/art-science-residency/index.html for examples of previous Norris Center art-science residencies.

June 23, 2020 - CHAIRED BY: Piero Scaruffi

Panel on "Opportunities for Online Art/Science Interaction" (Part 2 with UCSC Prof. Parker, Stanford Prof. Curtis Fran, and Bettina Forget the director of SETI Institute's Artist-in-Residence program, ). Register here

A discussion about Online Art by broadening it to scholars who spent their life bridging the world of art and science. Which opportunities arise online for interaction between art and science? Much collaboration is created when people are in physical proximity, in the same campus, or in the same building. Does the online world foster or deter interdisciplinary collaboration? The online world tends to create echo chambers, where one looks for what one is already familiar with, not with the unfamiliar. How can we foster collaboration across disciplines in the online world?

This is the Algae Societies first exhibition in Spain produced by the Complutense Research Group “Art, Technology and Social Commitment – ARTECS.” For this exhibition Algae Society members collaborated with the ARTECS – UCM research group (Arte, Tecnología y Compromiso Social) and the MIAC graduate students to create pieces that talk about the environmental impact of human activity and how this affects the existence of algae worldwide. The hope is to better understand our symbiotic relationship with non-human organisms and to spawn empathy as we communicate the rich diversity of algae in the face of global warming.

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UCSC graduate students Kathleen Deck and Juniper Harrower have both had their thesis abstracts (PhD and MFA) accepted to LEONARDO Journal (see Vol. 53, No. 5, October 2020) on topics at the intersections between art, science and technology.Jennifer (Juniper) Harrower: Species Interactions and Climate Change in the Loss of Joshua Trees and the Role of Eco-Art for Understanding Multispecies Connections (Highest-Rated Abstract) and Kathleen Deck, Enviro-Envision Visualizing Climate Change through Art. Both Juniper and Kathleen have been actively involved in OpenLab and the IDEA Hub at UC Santa Cruz.

You can read more about Leonardo Labs at https://www.leonardo.info/labs-2019#Harrower

Congratulations to Juniper Harrower, Openlab Fellow and Ph.D candidate in Environmental Studies - Her research on how climate change is affecting Joshua trees has been published in a National Geographic article!

By 2100, scientists predict that Joshua Tree National Parkwill lose almost all of its Joshua tree habitat to climate change. But the Joshua tree relies on other species to survive, and a new study on the relationship between Joshua trees and a type of symbiotic yucca moth piles on the bad news. According to the study, yucca moths, which the Joshua tree relies on to reproduce, aren’t healthy in the few places where Joshua trees can survive the heat.

“We’re finding that not only does climate change affect species, it affects how species interact with each other,” says Juniper Harrower, the study’s first author, and a graduate student at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Click HERE for full article.

A new article published in Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 58, Issue 1, 1 July 2018, Pages 103–112, features OpenLab sponsored projects by Juniper Harrower, a PhD candidate in Environmental Science.

Human-induced global change has triggered the sixth major extinction event on Earth with profound consequences for humans and other species. A scientifically literate public is necessary to find and implement approaches to prevent or slow species loss. Creating science-inspired art can increase public understanding of the current anthropogenic biodiversity crisis and help people connect emotionally to difficult concepts.

here: Harrower, J., Parker, J., Merson, M., 2018 Species Loss: Exploring Opportunities with Art-Science. Journal of Integrative and Comparative Biology: https://doi.10.1093/icb/icy016

OpenLab is sponsoring Kathleen Deck's Re-Thinking Extinction project as part of the 5th L.A.S.T. Festival March 23-24th at Stanford University. Kathleen is a UCSC DANM graduate who has sought innovative paths and connections between creativity and sustainability to develop her arts research practice at the intersection of art and science. She is a new media artist MFA candidate at the University of California Santa Cruz, interested in themes of sustainability, climate change and animal extinction. Re-thinking Extinction is a collaborative project with Professor Sinervo at UC Santa Cruz to develop and build "Robo-tort,O a robot prototype of the California Desert Tortoise (Gopherus Agassizii). This mechanical tortoise creature embodies the human desire to dominate and change the natural world. Only, this monster is determined to save the species it was made to resemble and can explore solutions beyond the current resolution of inevitable extinction.

If you’ve never tried VR before, this is your chance. Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. They invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware. The event is designed for IDEA Hub fellows, but open to anyone.

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Cosponsored by the IDEA Hub, Institute for Humanities Research and the Digital Scholarship Commons.

UCSC OpenLab Spastic Robots and Frankenthings: Tear into consumer electronics and repurpose the parts for making with OpenLab Maker, Wes Modes. Create robots, kinetic art, and DIY toys from the cast-offs of consumer society. Spastic Robots are robot doodles, cyborg rejects, the workings of the mad-scientist who lives just below the landfill. We'll have VCRs and other things with motors and controllers for you to reconfigure into spastic robots.

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Presented by Geoffrey Thomas, Interactive

DesignerWednesday, April 16, 2014 - 2:00pm. Digital Arts Research Center Room 206, University of California, Santa Cruz

Geoffrey Thomas has worked as a programmer, interaction designer, and university professor. He has trained in the fields of fine art, animation, and multimedia. His work has been exhibited and screened at Siggraph 2002, File2003, Select Media Festival, Kunst Aus Strom, Popcorn Incident, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Chiangmai First New Media Art Festival and featured online at ArtMedia2002, DIAN-network.com, Mediatopia.net, Rhizome.org, and SoundToys.net.

For more about Thomas' work: http://turbulence.org/studios/thomas/

Dr Aristea Fotopoulou (University of Sussex/ UCSC Science and Justice Research Center 2014 Visiting Scholar)

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Digital Arts Research Center, University of California Santa Cruz

Aristea works at the intersections of media & cultural studies with science & technologies studies. She has written about digital networks and feminism, and recently, on information politics, knowledge production, and digital engagement. She currently explores practices of data sharing and algorithmic living (Project Tracking biodata: sharing and ownership. She also works in the EU-funded project EPINET, a technological assessment of new emerging technologies, such as wearable sensors, with focus on media and digital culture.

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OpenLab @ #ZERO1 in San Jose – participate in public research- exhibits, workshops and talks – Tues. 7/23 – Fri. 7/26

OpenLab: Creating Art + Science Platforms to Engage Citizens and Grow Community Workshops, Exhibits, and Talks, organized by Jennifer Parker

PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOPS!
Learn about Phytoplankton, Desalination and Bike Mechanics. Create CB Radios,Discover How to Build DIY Water Rafts and Play Yahoo Answers Jeopardy Game Show. Join artists Gene Felice, Laura Wright, Matthew Jamieson, Kyle McKinley, Wes Modes, FICTILIS and Blue Trail for a series of innovative, creative and collaborative workshops combining art, community, design, technology, and science. Bay Area participants of all ages welcome to attend!

Workshops and events are free but we'd love to know you are coming: RSVP HERE! All events will be Free and Open to the Public at the ZERO1 Garage, located at 439 S. 1st Street, San Jose

OpenLab presents: PERFORMING TECHNOLOGIES, 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. READ More...

By Kevin Corcoran and Leslie Horwitz

Seymour Marine Discovery Center.

Where Does the Cornfield End? centers on the fate of a sick cornfield rich with pathogens and parasites. At the site in Grayson, CA, scientific researchers use environmental DNA (eDNA) to identify the impact on biodiversity of a riparian buffer corridor around the industrially farmed cornfield. A riparian buffer corridor consists of trees and/or shrubs planted adjacent to a river, stream, wetland, or water body to protect near-stream soils from over-bank flows, trap harmful chemicals or sediment transported by surface and subsurface flows from adjacent land uses, or provide shade, detritus, and large woody debris for the in-stream ecosystem.

Details: Where Does the Cornfield End?

This interdisciplinary course is for students at any level, all backgrounds and majors interested in exploring the intersection of art and biology. This class introduces students to a range of topics to create art and examine "What Makes Us Human” as part of th virtual exhibition hosted by OpenLab, the Genomics Institute, and the Porter Sesnon Gallery at UC Santa Cruz opening November 12, 2020. Students in this class will have the opportunity to participate in the exhibition and the 2021 Bioart Design Challenge with students from around the country. See whatmakesushuman.org for more information about the class and to learn more about the project.

In a special topics issue of SciArt,"How can art influence science?" David Harris wrote "The Story's We Tell Ourselves." Here is a shot excerpt: "My research, now, is about the nature of art and science collaboration, and one of my ongoing interests has been the question of whether the creative arts can substantively influence the sciences. What is it about the creative arts that is peculiar to the creative arts, that could influence science? Lots of scientists talk about how the arts influence their work, but when I talk to them about it and look for evidence, and try to understand how that influence actually happens, it almost always reduces to the scientists feeling warm and fuzzy feelings for engaging with the arts." Click HERE for the full article

OpenLab is proud to help sponsor “Follow the Flush” is a free participatory 5K walk following the path of wastewater through interesting landscapes that are hybrids of urban infrastructure and natural features. Interactive art installations and educational displays along the way offer a fun way for people to learn more about what happens after we flush the toilet, and to engage in some potty humor as a playful way into more serious conversations about waste, sanitation, sustainability, and resilience. The walk ends at the wastewater treatment facility, where tours of the facility and will celebrate the work that goes into maintaining this critical infrastructure, including the role that microorganisms play in processing human waste and making us who we are.

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The cymatic water tank visualizer takes any sound or data in the form of sound files, and plays them through deep bass “Buttkicker” speakers to vibrate a tank full of water. Different frequencies excite different modes of vibration of the tank and cause different kinds of patterns in the water.

Higher frequencies make a delicate, wispy, spider-web-like pattern on the surface of the water, while lower frequencies make the water jump as the sound
creates standing waves. See movie moment. This instructable shows the steps we went through to build the tank, the frame, and the electronics to run the visualizer. This project is part of the work of the University of California, Santa Cruz OpenLab, DANM, designed and constructed by Sean Pace, Zach Corse, and David Harris.

Featuring 10 UCSC artists each using an English phrase to query a corpus & presenting the results. A cross-disciplinary event representing Creative Writing, Digital Arts & New Media, Film & Digital Media, Computer Science, and Linguistics students. The event will start with a reception and presentation of artist works at 6pm, followed by an informal panel discussion at 7, offering an opportunity to see the processes behind various works. Writ Large at UCSC is made possible with support from the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund, OpenLab, and Digital Arts & New Media.

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Transflux, an interactive exhibition where the artists transform the Front Door Gallery into a living, breathing organism and symbiotic ecosystem. Developed by OpenLab affiliated artists Gene A. Felice II, Nathaniel Ober, and eve Warnock with coordinating artist Kate Spacek transform the Front Door Gallery into a living, breathing organism and symbiotic ecosystem. Through the exploration of the interconnectedness of our inner and outer world, the artists demonstrate the patterns and forms within life that shape who we are and where we come from. Read more....

BioSensing Garden is a sculptural garden and water-droplet fountain that visualizes data from a Fitbit, (an exercise tracking device). The fountain is made from a re-purposed printer that drips water onto a pane of tilted glass. The droplets are timed and placed precisely so that they create visualize the data from the fitbit as they fall. Imagery will be projected onto the droplet patterns as they fall onto a garden below. The data droplets are the sole source of water for the plants and so their health is a direct reflection of the amount of exercise from the participant. OpenLab Team: Sean McGowen, Ian Ayyad, Richard Vallejos, and Joel Horne

OpenLab Director, Jennifer Parker talks Art +& Science ART News article "Under the Microscope: In Museums, schools, and research facilities scientists and artists are swapping methods to illuminate natural phenomena and solve global problems" March 2013 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 with SonicSENSE presents: TRANSMUTATIONS: Sound, Data, and Mechanics at 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..

MsGlitch403 is a collective initiated by four UCSC SIP interns in the summer of 2023, exploring the relationship between gender, sexuality, and representation in cyberspace. MsGlitch403 represents a multitude of ideas: Starting at its core, we take inspiration from ‘glitch,’ first coined in Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell, representing our divergence from the heteronormative digital sphere. Repurposing the ‘403’ from ‘403 Forbidden Error,’ a status code indicating the server understands the request but refuses to authorize it, we seek empowerment from becoming internet reformers who defy online restrictions.

Click HERE to learn more about the project.

SHARING DNA: HUMAN, CAT, COW, SLUG, FRUIT FLY AND TREE

A collection of paintings and sculptures created in collaboration with the Genomics Institute during an Art Residency at UCSC OpenLab in summer 2023.

The artist translated DNA profiles into a visual language, using stripes that represent the 20 proteins found in human, cat, cow, slug, fruit fly, and tree genomes. What sets this collection apart is the artist's approach to color selection—a method that draws a connection between the four nucleotides and the blending of primary colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and white.

Click HERE to learn more about the collection and the artist

Annette S. Lee is an astrophysicist, artist and the Director of the Native Skywatchers research and programming initiative. She has over three decades of experience in education as a teacher, university instructor, teacher educator, program administrator, professional visual artist, and researcher.

Designed by Lee (2007), the Native Skywatchers initiative seeks to remember and revitalize indigenous star and earth knowledge. The overarching goal of Native Skywatchers is to communicate the knowledge that indigenous people traditionally practiced a sustainable way of living and sustainable engineering through a living and participatory relationship with the above and below, sky and earth. We aim to improve current inequities in education for native young people, to inspire increased cultural pride, and promote community wellness. We hope to inspire all people to have a rekindling or deepening sense of awe and personal relationship to the cosmos.

More about Annette S. Lee

MADISON MCCARTHA is a poet, critic, and multimedia artist. FREAKOPHONE WORLD (Inside the Castle, 2021) is their debut book of poetry and visual art. Their second book, THE CRYPTODRONE SEQUENCE, is forthcoming from Black Ocean. McCartha holds an MFA from the University of Notre Dame and is a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The Poetic Research Bureau is a valise fiction and portable literary service in the public domain. It is a founding and resident member of 2220 Arts + Archives on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles.

All lectures are free and open to the public with student participation strongly encouraged.

Readings are supported by a Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts 2021 Organizational Support Grant.
Online event: Register here

November 12, 2020 Webinar Event and Opening

The unfolding pandemic has triggered an existential reckoning over our conceptions of place and human encounter. Twenty years after UC Santa Cruz posted the assembled human genome to the internet, we find ourselves redefining and expanding genomics while masked and socially distanced. Simultaneously, the uprisings for Black lives and all silenced and underrepresented identities have brought visibility, urgency and profound pause.

What Makes Us Human takes the doors off the traditional gallery, imagining a space which transcends those walls. Visitors will see connections between diverse academic disciplines from unique and collaborative lenses of the arts, sciences, and humanities.

OpenLab's newest initiative: The Algae Society Bio Art Design Lab opens at the MOXI Wolf Museum of Innovation + Exploration in Santa Barbara California. April 26, 2019. The Algae Society is a global collective of interdisciplinary researchers working together to establish a new community with algae, as a non-human international research partner to spark and ignite new research & communication approaches across the globe that transcend disciplines to invite deeper more compassionate connections for living organisms like algae.

Fusion opens at the R. Blitzer Gallery on March 1 and features the results of 17 collaborations between visual artists and physicists. A couple of weeks after the show’s opening reception, both types of participants will share what they learned from each other in a panel discussion.

The show is the brainchild of UC Santa Cruz physicist Stephanie Bailey, who has attempted to blend lessons from the humanities into her teaching of physics. Bailey’s idea was to pair up a roster of Santa Cruz County artists with grad students and faculty in the physics department at UCSC. Like Jane Austen’s Emma, Bailey played matchmaker, looking for complementary interests between artists and physicists. Her own pairing put her with mosaic artist Beth Purcell. Together, Bailey and Purcell built mosaics on musical instruments to illustrate standing waves, the vibrational waveform often created in music. Read more here.

This model is meant to be a generic description of the barriers and bridges to: connect with collaborators, participate in successful collaborations, and to create meaningful science inspired art works. We provide a conceptual model for successful collaborations between artists and scientists, including suggestions on how to connect and collaborate with potential partners, as well as ideas for successful art/science creations. Through a set of case studies in art/science research, we illustrate the promises and the pitfalls to working across these disciplines and make suggestions for successful approaches to this interdisciplinary work. Click here to learn more about the conference and the panel discussion.

The Black Aesthetic is an Oakland-based creative organization—recently featured in the East Bay Express—whose mission is to curate and assemble both a collective and distinct understanding of Black visual culture. Through film screenings, publications, and product development, TBA is exploring the question, "What is the Black aesthetic sensibility and what does it look like to you?”

This event is organized by INTERVAL and hosted by OpenLab with support from Film & Digital Media, History of Consciousness, and the Art Department at UCSC. INTERVAL is a space dedicated to interdisciplinary play and experimentation in art and scholarship.

Refreshments provided.

Exploring the Frontiers of Knowledge and Imagination, Fostering Interdisciplinary Networking. Tuesday, February 25 DARC

Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASERS) are a national program of evening gathering that bring artists, scientists, and scholars together for informal presentations and conversations. At UCSC's inaugural LASER, speakers will lay the foundation for the series by speaking about the intertwining of art and science. Questions like "why art and science" and "why now" will provide context for the series as a local forum for presenting art and science projects underway throughout the University of California, in the Bay Area, and beyond.

more info click here

Openlab in conversation with Owen Driggs: Can Artists Heal Nature? at ZERO1 Garage in San Jose, June 28, 2013 6pm

As human actions impact the natural environment, can artists heal nature? Does art bring “special powers” to the table? If so, what are they? What is ‘art’? What is ‘nature’? What needs healing? What arrogance!

Presented by ZERO1 and the Lucas Artist Residency at Montalvo Arts Center, this conversation is organized by Lucas Artist Fellows Owen Driggs in association with their project Mapping Biointimacy, developed for COME HEALING, Montalvo’s 2013 Art on the Grounds exhibition. OpenLab Founding Director Jennifer Parker and OpenLab affiliate artist Gene Felice to join the conversation June 28th at 6pm. Read More...

OpenLab Let's Talk App Launched created in collaboration with the THRIVE Infant-Family Program and OpenLab Artists: Jack O’Neill and Amy Boewer of GirlBoy Media with Associate Professor Jennifer Parker. 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.

OpenLab Blue Trail Design Jam Competition @ Adaptive Path. Imagination + Innovation for Ocean Sustainability
October 27 10am - 5:30pm.

Join us for a day of art-design-science-tech collaboration to generate concepts for Blue Trail. Blue Trail is a trail of Ten (10) commissioned interactive installations that will take place along the San Francisco waterfront during the final races of the America's Cup sailing challenge in September 2013. Blue Trail is a non-profit initiative developed by 7Story in collaboration with UC Santa Cruz’s OpenLab and the UN Safe Planet Campaign. Blue Trail is a member of the Intersection for the Arts Incubator Program. Read more....

Fog Fest 2024

Fog Fest 2024

Climate Action Lab: Water Fair Event

THE GREENHOUSE PROJECT SPRING EVENT & SEED EXCHANGE

Art + Genomics initiative What Makes Us Human: An Art + Genomics Convergence virtual exhibition highlight in UCSC Inquiry Research Magazine

UCSC BioDesign Challenge winners Saul Villegas & Silvana Moiceanu

Data Visualization Collective

Norris Center Art/Sci 2021 Residency Program

Entanglement exhibit at COP25

LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks is Leonardo's international program

El arte como herramienta frente a la emergencia climática

The Algae Society Bio Art & Design Lab

UC Art + Design Placemaking at UC Santa Cruz

The Mobile Coaction Lab hits the Road!

Congratulations Juniper Harrower and Kathleen Deck

Iconic Joshua trees may disappear—but scientists are fighting back

Fall Quarter’s IDEA Hub Open House

Species Loss: Exploring Opportunities with Art–Science

Kathleen Deck: Re-thinking Extinction

Dark Deleuze in the Dark

OpenLab ArtCrawler at the Santa Cruz Mini Maker Fair

OpenLab at the 3rd L.A.S.T (Life Art Science Technology) Festival

OpenLab at California Academy of Sciences, NIGHT LIFE Live, San Francisco, CA

OpenLab sponsors workshop at University of Sussex, Creativity Zone

OpenLab's Oceanic Scales with Gene Felice at California Academy of Sciences -July 10, 2014

OpenLab at the Tech Museum for Open Make with DANM graduate student Wes Modes

Celebrating Alterity: Imagining Other Worlds

Climbing Godzilla with Fitbit: assessing media coverage and the user interface.

Where Does the Cornfield End?

UCSC American Indian Resource Center invites you to attend the Native Speaker Series with Patty Krawec

Algae Society: Bio Art & Design Lab featured in Leonardo Magazine

OpenLab's Special Topics Class Art:189

OpenLab Visiting Artists in Residence Ivaylo Hristov

New article David Harris, OpenLab alumnus and Ph.D candidate at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University

Printmaking Pop-UP

Follow the Flush, Saturday May 5, 2018 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM

The second L.A.S.T. festival - San Francisco, California

OpenLab 3D Workshop

OpenLab partners with the CIED to establish IDEA Hub

WRIT LARGE at UCSC

Fort Mason Center, San Francisco

California Academy of Sciences, NIGHT LIFE Live, San Francisco, CA

OpenLab sponsors TRANSFLUX @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

OpenLab: BioSensing Garden at ZERO1 for the L.A.S.T. Festival

UCSC receives NEA grant for Associate Professor Jennifer Parker's Art/Science project on ocean ecology.

Justice in the More-than-Human World: Fostering Care and Affinity in Emergent Collaborations Co-Sponsors: UCSC OpenLab, Digital Arts and New Media, SJRC, UCIRA

OpenLab Director, Jennifer Parker talks Art +& Science ART News article "Under the Microscope: In Museums, schools, and research facilities scientists and artists are swapping methods to illuminate natural phenomena and solve global problems" March 2013 by Suzanne Muchnic

THINK INK event May 25, 2024

MsGlitch403: Gender, Cyberspace, and Art Practice with Jingtian Zong, EASP MFA Candidate

"DNA INTERTWINED" by José Carlos Espinel, at UCSC Genomics Institute

MIKROS: UN MUNDO OCULTO

OpenLab Art/Sci in Residence

Madison McCartha, OpenLab Graduate Student Research Fellow at The Poetic Research Bureau in Los AngelesC BioDesign Challenge winners Saul Villegas & Silvana Moiceanu

What Makes Us Human: An Art and Genomics Convergence

Art-Science Residency Program

Algae Society Bio Art Design Lab

OpenLab at CCA Conference in NYC 2019

Professor Parker to present Case Studies and Conceptual Model for Navigating Art-Science Collaboration

Juniper Harrower, to present "Species Loss: Exploring Opportunities with Art–Science" at ESA2018

IDEA Hub 2018 Fellowship Funds, May 18th is the deadline

Black on Black-ness

OpenLab Welcomes the Crochet Coral Reef

Black (W)hole

OpenLab Bio-Sensing Workshop with UCSC & University of Sussex

OpenLab at Bay Area Maker Faire 2015, San Mateo, CA

OpenLab: Blue Trail Receives Grant from Alliance Data and Epsilon

OpenLab ArtCrawler at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in Oakland

Bay Area Maker Faire 2014, San Mateo, CA

OpenLab presents BLOOM: Ocean + Art + Science

LASER (Leonardo Art/ Science Evening Rendezvous)