Check out this lovely feature story on Professor Sakr’s ongoing virtual-reality visualization and collaboration with Intae Hwang and Han-Wei Kung (PhD candidates in Media Arts and Technology)!
Thinking Palestine Panel, Poster Exhibit, Reception: Apr 28, 4-6:30PM
Please join us on April 28 from 4-6:30 pm for a panel, poster exhibit, and reception for the event “Thinking Palestine: 1967 and Beyond” at Wireframe Studio (Music Library, Music Building 1st floor, Parking Lot 3).
June 2017 will mark fifty years of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem. The anniversary makes all too evident what activists and scholars have long noted: the Israeli military occupation is not temporary. It is a defining structure of the Israeli and Palestinian political landscape.
Initiated by the Centers for Middle East Studies at UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UC Santa Barbara, separate panel discussions on all three campuses form the core of the conference. UC Berkeley’s panel of experts will reflect on how horizons of the future were differently produced across various disciplines after 1967. The Berkeley event will open with a keynote address by human rights attorney and activitist Noura Erakat, “Taking the Land without the People: International Law and the 1967 War.” UCLA’s panel focuses on the cultural production of nostalgia and memory. Our panelists will be Hosam Aboul-Ela (University of Houston), Elliott Colla (Georgetown University), and Nadia Yaqub (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
PANELS, POSTER EXHIBIT AND RECEPTION AT WIREFRAME: Apr 28, 4-6:30M
At UC Santa Barbara, we seek to build on decades of critical thinking and political organizing around Palestine and justice more broadly. It will engage how legality, legitimacy, and history have intersected over the last half a century.
Panelists: Felice Blake, Richard Falk, Lisa Hajjar, Sherene Seikaly
Discussant: Jennifer Tyburczy
Thanks to Palestine Poster Project Archive for the exhibition. The image above is from the 1968 poster by Faustino Perez in Cuba.
Mapping Dissent
Important dates: April 12 from 330-445PM in the MCC Lounge. We will plan the next day’s performance.
Thursday, April 13: 1245-345PM, Meet in front of SRB and we will move along our route; 4-5, rally in front of Storke Tower.
To be a main player in this performance, which will take the seemingly banal form of walking, please attend this meeting on April 12. Even if you can’t you are welcome to come and we can see what’s what or you can spectate. Spectating will not be a passive activity (it never is), but in the event that we are met with any opposition, our supportive spectators will form a circle, holding hands, around the primary performance walkers/display mounters. We hope this will not be necessary, but our spectators, no matter what happens, play an important role.
For more information, see Facebook page.
UCSB Daily Nexus covers Thank You For Playing event
Here’s a lovely write-up of the Thank You For Playing screening and Q&A at the Pollock Theater, which followed the open play session at Wireframe in March.
#UCSBDigitalActivism seminar does Overpass Light Brigade #OLB
#RESIST #DigitalActivism seminar at Wireframe Studio, UCSB. Students participated in Overpass Light Brigade #OLB public interactive thanks to the sponsorship of the Carsey-Wolf Center and UCSB Art Department. Special thanks to Patrice Petro, Emily, Zinn, Kim Yasuda, and Lane Hall. Camera footage by Michelle Chang. Directed and edited by VJ Um Amel. Original score by DJ Underbelly. Thanks for your beats:
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Mar. 7: That Dragon, Cancer open play session
Please join us for our next public event, an open play session of the Game for Impact 2016 award-winner That Dragon, Cancer (Numinous Games). Director/producer David Osit will join us! Then at 7PM, come watch the documentary that chronicled the game’s production, Thank You For Playing, at the Pollock Theater. Tickets available at http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock/events/thank-you-playing.
Highlights from Beta Launch: A Guerrilla Open Mic
On February 10, 2017, Wireframe Studio hosted its first public event in a beta launch as co-founding directors continue to prototype the studio virtually and in materiality. Leading an innovative form of humanities-based inquiry that explores digital media through critically informed collaborative design practices, UC Santa Barbara Film and Media Studies Professors Laila Shereen Sakr and Alenda Chang established Wireframe Studio in 2017.
Thanks to everyone who came, supported, and participated. Highlights include moments with Janet Walker, Greg Siegel, Alexander Champlin, Alenda Chang, Cristina Venegas, David Novak, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Zaveeni Khan-Marcus, Ziyad Marcus, Jiahong (Melinda) Guo, and Felice Blake.
Open Mic Beta Launch
Please join us Friday, February 10th from 3:30-5:30 as DC Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency (since 2003) co-founders Shahid Buttar and VJ Um Amel reunite to beta launch WIREFRAME!! (Located on the first floor of the Music Library).
Bring your words
Bring your selves
Join us in Wireframe’s first event
An Open Mic and Open House
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Shahid Buttar from the Electronic Frontier Foundation is a civil rights lawyer concerned with digital rights and surveillance, a grassroots activist, hip-hop artist, and DJ/MC. See previous works together.
“A Resurgency at Nomadico” Feat. DJ Shahid and VJ Um Amel (2016)
“NSA vs USA” by Shahid Buttar (2014)
“Guerrilla Poets on the Couch” Feat. Shahid Buttar, Laila Shereen (VJ Um Amel), Laurie Blair, and more (2005)
Building up!
Our lab assistant, Intae, has been hard at work building gallery-style art podiums for laptop work and exhibition. Starting to look (and smell) like a real studio. #MDF #paint #wooddust
