Launch of .able

Excited to see .able launch this week. I’m on the editorial board and have a piece titled “Solve for (x)Futurisms” in the first issue. This peer-reviewed publication makes research accessible through images. Created at the initiative of La Chaire Arts & Sciences of the École Polytechnique, the École des Arts Décoratifs – PSL, and the Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso, the journal is published by Actar Publishers. [The image above by UCLA undergraduates in my Design Futures hybrid seminar/studio.]

Crypto and Cons on YouTube

My talk “Null Demos: The Long Confidence Games of Crypto Currencies” from the International Colloquium on Demonstrations sponsored by the Centre de Recherche Français à Jérusalem is online. Thanks to fellow participants and organizers Claude Rosental (CNRS, Paris), Samuel Bianchini (ENSAD, Paris) and Émile de Visscher (Humboldt University, Berlin).

Good Neighbors

Summer Reading

Checked Off the List

Cinema, Alpha to Omega

In the May issue, Artforum published my Focus review of “City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907,” which runs through July 10, 2022 at LACMA.

EcoLA class Podcast

At the UCLA Arts site, Avishay Artsy put together a great multi-media piece about my Winter 2022 DMA hybrid seminar studio on design research. So proud of the work the students did looking at ecological justice, environmental racism, and the political-economy of Southern California over the past half century.

Collage by DMA 160: EcoLA student Janie Wang

Peter & Tom Explore LA

I’m featured in the latest episode of the YouTube series, Tom Explores Los Angeles, interviewed about the mysterious life and even more confusing death of the co-founder of JPL, the rocket scientist and magus Jack Whitesides Parson.

DMA Grad Show

Emma Akmakdijian, Carrie Chen, Jodi Cheung, Don Edler, Leslie Foster, Berit Gilma, Yuchi Ma, Harvest Moon, Iman Person and Isaac Ruder

The department of Design|Media Arts at UCLA is proud to announce Perspective Slip, an exhibition of new work by second-year MFA candidates within the department. The exhibition will open to the public on Thursday, Oct 14, 2021, at the New Wight Gallery and the EDA in the Broad Art Center, UCLA.

And in Pasadena…

City on the Edge of Forever is on the Vroman’s Bookstore bestseller list for paperback non-fiction this week.