Category: AD&A Museum

  • Fall of Freedom: Art Matters, Courage is Contagious

    https://www.falloffreedom.com Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized. Institutions and media have been recast as mouthpieces of propaganda. This Fall, we are activating a nationwide wave of…

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  • DH Monday: Encoded Gazes: Women of Color AI Panel (Oct. 8 – 3:00pm)

    Free Admission / McCune Conference Room (Humanities and Social Sciences Building, 6th Floor, Room 6046 / Visitor Information) “Encoded Gazes: Women of Color on Bias, Power, and Possibility in AI” will focus on women of color critiques and approaches to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Framed through the lens of women of color, this panel interrogates…

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  • Stories from the Vault: Mr. Smiley Man

    by Susan Lucke, Collections Manager & Registrar for the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB. Art collections housed at university museums offer a treasure trove of unusual albeit valuable objects. And since they usually lack adequate funds to purchase objects comprehensively, university art museums often rely on the generosity of donors to provide objects to…

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