The Media Arts and Technology Program at UCSB (MAT
@UCSB ) presents latent•ville, our 2023 EoYS (End of Year Show), in two events:
6-9 pm June 1
@sbcast
513 Garden St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
&
6-9 pm June 9
@ucsantabarbara
(Elings Hall, Mesa Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)
Our theme this year, latent•ville, is a play on latent space, a central concept in machine learning, and Alphaville, a reference to the classic 60s movie that anticipated the advent of artificial intelligence. A -ville being a space where people commune, latent•ville is the latent space we live in now. As AI's awesome and terrible power colors our lives and pervades our public and private spaces, and even the spaces of our imagination, we ask, what is art in latent•ville now?
Both EoYS events will showcase our students' cutting-edge research and new media artworks and work from our MAT courses.
— The June 1st SBCAST event will feature the work of MAT students at the new MAT AlloplexStudio
@SBCAST , with extensive new projection mapping constituting a spectacular electronic audiovisual concert.
— The June 9th Elings event will feature open laboratories: transLAB, Experimental Visualization Lab, Expressive Computation Lab, plus new immersive experiences in MAT's famous AlloSphere.
No AI was harmed in the generation of this text.
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