Faculty Spotlight: April 2020
Updates from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture faculty
On a typical day, the work of our faculty enlivens museums, galleries, performance venues, lecture halls, public spaces across the globe. While many of those venues and institutions have temporarily shut their doors, the creative and scholarly contributions of the UCLA Arts community continue to mine the complexities of the human condition, ask essential questions of our time, and expand the potential of creativity—now in new modalities, accessible from home. Read more for a list of recent accolades and current and upcoming virtual exhibitions, performances, and lectures.
Kristy Edmunds, Executive and Artistic Director of UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance contributed to the fourth periodical issue of Electra Street, “Art:Research:Art,” which sought to “investigate the relationship and the ways in which arts practice constitutes a form of research."
Greg Lynn, professor in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design recently won a Red Dot: Best of the Best award in the metacategory “Innovative Products” for his transport robot “gita.” Gita was designed by Lynn and his team at Piaggio Fast Forward, an arm of the Piaggio Group of which Lynn is CEO.
Jake Matatyaou, lecturer in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, launched PartyLine, a project premised on the simple idea of human connection through a phone call and friendship. PartyLine is about co-creating shared experience outside of shared space. The goal is to cultivate unmediated communication through the power of our voices, our innate ability to listen, and the gift of giving others our attention. Visit partyline.us to find out more and to join the weekly calls.
Ann Philbin, director of the Hammer Museum at UCLA was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read the UCLA Newsroom's coverage of Philbin and the five other UCLA professors and leaders who were elected this term.
World Arts and Cultures/Dance professor David Roussève’s dance company David Roussève/REALITY was awarded a MidAtlantic Arts Foundation grant to travel to and perform their latest work Halfway to Dawn in Havana, Cuba at the Festival Mayo Teatral. The festival, originally scheduled for May 2020, was recently postponed but the company plans to perform in Cuba when the new dates are announced.
Lauren McCarthy, associate professor in the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts, won a Japan Media Arts Festival Social Impact Award for her work SOMEONE. McCarthy will also present work at the Summer Nostos Festival, which will be hosted digitially from Athens, Greece June 21-28, 2020.
Header image: Piaggio Fast Forward's Gita cargo-carrying robotic vehicle
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