New furnishings!

We are gearing up for a new academic year, new classes, new students, and new projects, and our swanky new chairs have arrived just in time! Professor Sakr will be teaching a graduate-level FemTech seminar in the space, and Professor Chang will be teaching an undergraduate-level course on “metagaming.” See you soon!

Professor Shereen Sakr featured in the UCSB Current

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 Download flyer […]

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