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  • Future Tripping on KCSB

     

    The Future Tripping symposium, hosted this month by DAHC and Wireframe Studio, is featured on KCSB! Listen to Sonia Htoon’s interview with Professors Jeremy Douglass and Alenda Chang, on our collective anxieties about the future and how video games can open up new possibilities for us.

     


  • UCSB Give Day Pop-Up

     

    Give Day Flyer

     


  • Future Tripping Symposium

     

    • April 23-24, 2018 (1410 Music Bldg.)
    • Wireframe Studio + Digital Arts & Humanities Commons
    • UC Santa Barbara

     


  • REM Lab Lecture with Maurice Bloch

     

    • June 4, 4pm
    • McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)
    • REM Lab Group

     


  • Dessert with the Humanities

     

    Want to use your liberal arts degree to get a job in media or tech or to forge your own path? You’re not alone. Grab dessert and career advice with three rotating panels of professionals, on Tuesday, Feb 27, 6:30-8pm.

     


  • Startup Weekend

     

    Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement where anyone can form a team, find an idea and in 54 hours go through the process of creating a startup business and engineering a demo product. Teams pitch their idea to a panel of seasoned investors, and winners will receive various prizes, including $2,000 worth of business consulting.

     


  • HFA Feature on DAHC

     

    DAHC is featured in the HFA (UCSB Division of Humanities and Fine Arts) blog this week! Check out Mirabella McDowell’s (‘18) write-up on her conversation with our faculty director, Professor Jeremy Douglass.

     


  • Conversation with UCSB Physicist Mathew Fisher

     

    The Religion, Experience, and Mind Lab has invited Professor Mathew Fisher to speak on Wednesday, Feb 20, 2-4pm. Professor Fisher will address lay understandings of quantum mechanics and popular (mis)conceptions about potential overlaps with spirituality, introduce us to his hypothesis that the brain may function like a quantum computer, and discuss the idea that quantum effects may be operative at the biochemical level more generally.

     


  • Critical Code Studies 2018 Wrap-Up

     

    The Critical Code Studies Working Group 2018 comes to a close today, after three weeks (Jan 15 - Feb 5) of discussion about code and society. The conversations have been as wide-ranging as they have been thought-provoking, touching on some of the fundamental issues in CCS.

     


  • SB Hacks IV Hackathon

     

    UCSB’s 4th annual Hackathon is scheduled this weekend, January 19th-21st (Fri-Sun). Join us for a weekend of innovation, where the next generation of entrepreneurs and programmers gather at UCSB. Participants code solutions to real-world problems their communities, such as last year’s winning app, which created a better way to hunt for apartments in the Santa Barbara area.

     


  • Critical Code Studies 2018 Launch

     

    The Critical Code Studies Working Group 2018 launches today with three weeks (Jan 15 - Feb 5) of discussion about code and society on a variety of issues. Each week features a different theme in CCS scholarship. Over the course of each week, presenters will post up discussion prompts related to that theme.

     


  • Announcing Critical Code Studies Working Group 2018

     

    DAHC is pleased to announce that we will co-sponsor the 5th biennial Critical Code Studies Working Group 2018 (Jan 15 - Feb 5).

     


  • Django Girls Workshop

     

    Sat, November 11, 9a - 5p

     


  • DAHC Welcome Reception

    We invite you to the opening reception of the Digital Arts & Humanities Commons (DAHC) this Tuesday, November 7. Join us for light refreshments! See the new vision for the Commons, discuss how DAHC will support research and pedagogy in the Arts & Humanities, and learn how to propose projects and apply for commons space and resources!


  • Launching the DAHC Website

    Welcome to the Digital Arts & Humanities Commons (DAHC) website! We invite you to return often to learn about events that we will host during the academic year and our past and present research groups.


  • DAHC Call for Participants

     

    The DAHC Call for Participants for Fall 2017 is open! The DAHC initiative is sponsored by Dean John Majewski and the division of Humanities & Fine Arts. The DAHC was developed in collaboration with DAHC advisory committee.

     


  • Maker Lab Ribbon Cutting

    Ribbon-cutting ceremony and luncheon celebrating the opening of the Maker Lab, directed by Patricia Fumerton. To be followed by a brief tour of the Maker space and hands-on use of the pull press. Punctum will also be displaying its wide range of exciting publications and forthcoming projects.