Artist, educator and researcher of haptic aesthetics. Graduated in Visual Arts in 2014 (UFRGS, Brazil) and Master in Visual Poetics in 2018 (UFRGS, Brazil), Burd is currently doing her PhD research at Facultat de Belles Arts, Universitat de Barcelona, where she is also working as a professor. Joana has already presented seven solo shows, recently ...
Julian Harake is an artist, registered architect, educator, and critic. He is the founder of Studio Harake, an art and design practice bridging architecture, printmaking, ceramics, and digital fabrication.
Julian has facilitated university-level courses since the age of 19, beginning with a contemporary art course for students in outside disciplines at UC Berkeley. Since then, he ...
Iason N. Paterakis is an Architect-Engineer, Media Artist, and researcher based in California. He is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Media, Arts & Technology (MAT) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a member of transLAB, a trans-disciplinary laboratory supervised by Vice Chair Professor Marcos Novak. Since 2012, he has been working ...
Nefeli Manoudaki is an innovative Architect – Engineer, currently an Ph.D. student at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) program. Until recently, Nefeli was a researcher at the TUC TIE Lab in Greece, where she participated in large-scale projects of national scope and visibility. Her work lies in the ...
What does Raul Soares need?
What does Brazil need?
What does planet Earth need?
What must be stamped on our face, and then displayed on a 576 square meter mural, for all of us to understand?
We need to understand that we are all connected.
Because we think planet Earth is too big.
The sky, the oceans, the continents…
We ...
Adah Parris is a polymath, anti-disciplinary artist, tech futurist and activist who’s work explores the anatomy of transformation and innovation. Her work sits at the intersection of ancient wisdom, living systems and indigenous community practices, digital and emerging technologies all under the philosophical idea and systems framework that she developed called cyborg shamanism.
Adah was ...
On any given day it is likely that you will find Ben jamming on his steel drums in the streets of Santa Barbara. It is there he discovered, through hours of daily practice and repetition, a deep sense of serenity and calm that emerges from the musical landscape. In his performances, Ben’s goal is to ...
Mixed media artist, Lindsey Appleyard, works with glass, steel, paint, and found objects to create a unique representation of the natural world. Drawing from her background in construction and agriculture, Lindsey uses land itself as a medium to explore human’s relationship to nature. She uses animals to represent important people and concepts in her life. ...