COACTION: Collaborations in Art, Science, Design, Games, and Technology

An exhibition of work created by UCLA Research Center, Labs, and Studios founded by DMA Faculty

WHEN

Thursday, October 17 - Thursday, October 24, 2024 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

LOCATION

Located at Broad Art Center at the New Wight Gallery

An exhibition of work created by UCLA Research Center, Labs, and Studios founded by DMA Faculty: Victoria Vesna, Rebeca Méndez, Eddo Stern, Jenna Caravello, Chandler McWilliams, Lauren Lee McCarthy, and Casey Reas.

Art|Sci Center / Victoria Vesna, Founder and Director

The UCLA Art|Sci Center pursues, facilitates, and promotes research and programs that explore the potential of media arts and science collaborations. We focus on projects that address social, ethical, and environmental challenges stemming from scientific innovations.

Ivana Dama, Assistant Director
artsci.ucla.edu

Game Lab / Eddo Stern, Director, and Jenna Caravello, Associate Director

UCLA Game Lab fosters the production of experimental computer games and other playful art forms and promotes games and play-related research, education, and creative practice.

Tyler Stefanich, Lab Manager
games.ucla.edu

Conditional Studio / Chandler McWilliams, Director

The UCLA Arts Conditional Studio works to draw attention to the materiality of technological systems and the intrinsically machinic, political, and physical realities of our technological moment. The studio is also the home of FLAT Journal.
conditional.arts.ucla.edu

Counterforce Lab / Rebeca Méndez, Founder and Director

Counterforce Lab is a research center that harnesses the power of art and design to engage with the reality of the global ecological crisis and its ties to social and environmental injustice.

Eleanor Diamant, Associate Director

Erin Cooney, Affiliate Faculty
Yogan Müller, Affiliate Researcher
Chuyu Liu, Designer
counterforcelab.org

Social Software / Lauren Lee McCarthy and Casey Reas, Co-Directors

Software is culture. Software is art. Software is social. Social Software is people coming together to create software art and art that explores the role of software in culture.