Love Machines: M.F.A. Exhibition
The 2024 UCLA Design Media Arts M.F.A. cohort present their thesis exhibition
Saturday, May 25, noon–2 p.m.
Free
Pulsing cores, twitching digits, memory movements.
Love Machines is the hopeful condition — that through and with ever-changing media we may join together in generosity. Love Machines is the foreclosed command — the demand to operationalize the self and accept technology as the answer.
In the presence of this double, Love Machines looks to make sense of these conflicting desires that permeate contemporary techno-culture. From performances to simulation, the works in this show by the 2024 UCLA Design Media Arts M.F.A. cohort both embrace the new relations that media art fosters and call into question the black boxed reality that is formed from these technologies.
As the love of machines swells to consume, the works in this show look toward the love machine, that which turns in mutual care, as a new mode to understand our present.
Love Machine is on view through Thursday, May 30.
ARTIST WALKTHROUGH ON SATURDAY, MAY 25, NOON–2 P.M.
We are excited to invite you to an exclusive artist walkthrough on Saturday, May 25, from noon–2 p.m. at the New Wight Gallery, Broad Art Center. This special event offers a unique opportunity to engage directly with the nine participating artists of the M.F.A. in Media Arts program. We look forward to welcoming you to our show!
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Aurora Mititelu, Brenton Zola, Chong Xu, Doyeon Kim, Hua Chai, Jules Johnston, Vinny Roca, and Wantong Yao
LOCATION
New Wight Gallery
Broad Art Center
240 Charles E. Young Dr.
PARKING
Public parking is available in UCLA Parking Structure 3.