What We Are to Make of Creative Digital Youth – Josef Nguyen, The University of Texas at Dallas

This book talk explores how contemporary American culture constructs youth in the era of digital media as inextricable from creativity, which is the subject of The Digital Is Kid Stuff: Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy (UMN Press, Dec 2021). Rather than taking creative digital youth as a natural fact, however, The Digital Is […]

Spaces, Stories, and Sense – Some Ways To Adapt Themes To an Explorable Environment

Lead programmer on many projects including Walden and The Night Journey, Dr. Todd Furmanki joins our Interaction Design course (famst 109ID) on Monday, April 26, 2021 from 1pm – 2 pm. He asks us to consider different kinds of adaptation (in Walden’s case, Thoreau’s book). Dr. Furmanski will walk students through a demonstration of 3D modeling […]

Beyond Blue: A discussion about oceans and games with Dr. Samantha Joye

On Thursday, November 12, 2020, from 2-3PM Pacific Standard Time, Professors Melody Jue (English) and Alenda Chang (Film and Media) will be hosting Dr. Samantha Joye (Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia) for a discussion of the game Beyond Blue (E-Line Media, 2020). Since the Q&A will take place during Prof. Jue’s course, please […]

2/24: The Digital Revolution That Wasn’t

Please join us on Monday, February 24 (starting at 1:00PM) for a public lecture by Dr. Jen Schradie, “The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives,” in the McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020). Sponsored by the Center for Information Technology & Society, the Departments of Communication and Film and Media Studies, and Wireframe Studio! Abstract: […]

UCSB Major Discovery Fair Jan. 22, 2020

Wireframe will be open during tomorrow’s major discovery fair, hosted primarily in the DAHC. If you’ve always wanted to check out the space, try some student-created games, or play with some virtual-reality gear, come on by! Thinking about adding a minor, second major, or declaring/changing majors? Learn about major and minor options you may not […]

Invitation: Open Play Session for “Green Games” Final Projects 12/5 @11AM

Come check out my students’ final projects for our FAMST166GG “Green Games” course on the environmental aspects of games and game design! We have 5 projects on offer: Tindearth (Ren’Py) Half-Cycle (PlayStation Dreams) Chop Chop (Unity) Trash Island (board game) [dolphin cry] (board game) We’d love to have your feedback. And just for fun, this […]

Bartertown Workshop and Public Lecture by Janette Kim

We have an exciting new year ahead for Wireframe, beginning with a playtesting workshop during Professor Chang’s Fall 2019 “Green Games” course! Date: Thursday, October 10, 2019 Time: 10:00AM – 12:00PM Location: Wireframe and Digital Arts and Humanities Commons (Music 1410) Immerse yourself in the struggles of “Bartertown,” a game and fictional land that asks […]

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel – A Book Talk by Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross will be at Wireframe Friday, May 10th. Come hear about his new book! Arabic lunch with vegetarian options will be served. And UCSB bookstore will have a table there with copies for sale. On, Wednesday, May 8th on KCSB FM Santa Barbara 91.9 or streaming at www.kcsb.org, Elizabeth Robinson and Avery Gorden are interviewing […]

Future Tripping Online Program

April 23-24, 2018 (1410 Music Bldg.)
Wireframe Studio + Digital Arts & Humanities Commons
The Future Tripping symposium addresses our current climate of extreme uncertainty over economic, political, and environmental futures. Through play with data, games, machines, virtual worlds, living species and landscape, participants will bridge medium and methodology among emerging fields of environmental science, media theory and practice, and the digital humanities.

Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Technology (AWMAT)

Wireframe and the Digital Arts and Humanities Commons are helping to play host to this year’s inaugural AWMAT conference, organized by Lena Mathew in Media Arts and Technology: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/events/awmat-2018-conference. The conference begins today at noon and runs through Saturday, February 10 ($25 for a day pass).