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Make it Yourself

A publicly accessible guide for sustainable making and material reuse. Recipes include textiles, paper, glues, bioplastics, dyes, and cleaners, supporting low-waste practices for educators, visitors, and households.

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EcoVisions

Students Shaping Climate Futures

Curated by UCSC graduate student instructor Saul Villegas as part of OpenLab's Climate Action Lab initiative, developed under the guidance of Professor Jennifer Parker, with support from the Center for Coastal Climate Resilience at UC Santa Cruz.  

EcoVisions showcases an inspiring collection of posters at the Seymour Discovery Center designed by students in the "Altering the Digital Image & Creative Art Practices" course. A lower division undergraduate class developed and taught by Villegas in the summer of 2023 at UC Santa Cruz. Students were asked to focus on creating positive messaging that sparks curiosity, builds opportunities for engagement, and illustrates possibilities for action and change while illuminating the beauty and wonder of the natural world we are all part of.

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ART20K: Intro to Digital Art & New Media

A ten-week course taught by Professor Jennifer Parker for Art Majors at UC Santa Cruz as part of remote learning during the pandemic.

Inspired by Anna Tsings Feral Atlas project and her argument  “that invasion develops as a relationship between an organism and an infrastructure,” this class focused on two main questions: 1) How can digital art embrace radical modes of eco-social experimentation as biodesign to reveal the interconnected relationships of ecologies and humans?  2) Can virtual Human-Plant relationships inform our future with multi-species communities as a tool to support empathy and expand public awareness of more-than-human life on the planet.

Exhibition website

Data Viz Collective - Data as Art Virtual Exhibition - Winter 2021

Professor Parker led an independent study group with Jessie Kendall-Bar, graduate student in Environmental Science and OpenLab Fellow. The collective of students were undergraduate and graduate levels from diverse fields such as Art: Games and Playable Media, Computational Media, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, & Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Enter Exhibition Hub Portal HERE

Independent Studies: 2021 Bio Design Competition

Creating an immersive bioart world, as a tool for speculating thinking and design, shifts and opens new possibilities for experiencing and learning about art, biology, and technology — unbound by the physical non-virtual world.

Click here to learn more

 

Virtual Student Exhibition Winter 2021

Working with the OpenLab theme What Makes Us Human: Art + Genomics Convergence at the Sesnon Gallery, undergraduate students in the Art189 course worked with Art Professor Jennifer Parker for ten-weeks to create new bio art and design artworks for their virtual exhibition and website.

Click here to learn more about student works and view the online exhibition

UCSC ART189: Special Topics Fall 2020

An undergraduate course taught by Professor Jennifer Parker for the Art Department at UC Santa Cruz with students working remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions. Bio Art & Design is an emerging field of artistic practice at the boundary of art and science, using the tools and technologies of biology to create artworks that explore the relationship between humans and nature.

Click here for student works

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OpenLaB

Find & Share Seeds as part of the Space Permaculture project. A network of gardens for growing, interpreting, and preserving the seeds of edible plants cultivated for eating in outer space.

Seymour Center

10-12 pm

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Founded by the Center for Genomic Gastronomy, an international artist-led think tank sponsored by UCSC's Genomics Institute and OpenLab as visiting artists in residence to engage people to research, grow, taste, and debate the agricultural biodiversity of outer space.

Many local and national seed-saving programs preserve the historical agricultural biodiversity of a place, but who will assemble, maintain and propagate the plant varieties that have been grown in, or cultivated for, outer space?

Join us Sunday, May 21st, at 10 am to collaborate and share some of our favorite seeds; Artist Jorge Menna Barreto will join the conversation and share his thoughts on seeds along with EASP graduate students L. Gilbert and Dav Bell, who will talk about their recent greenhouse project at the farm at UCSC.

 

 

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