Festival of Monsters 2025
Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA +4 moreExploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
Exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
Creative Interventions (CI) is a community colloquium in contemporary creativity and creative practices that addresses the interconnected work of artists, designers, activists, and knowledge workers—and the intrinsic and transformative capacity of that work to cultivate a just society. The CI Speaker Series raises questions of import to contemporary creative workers in media and technology: – How […]
Are you curious about careers in education or nonprofits? Join this job talk with UCSC Humanities alum Kristen Amicone, a doctoral student with expertise in nonprofits, educational programming, and leadership. Kristen will share insights from her academic and professional experience, from being a transfer student, to making career transition decisions, to navigating an online graduate […]
Since the shift to predominantly digital audio recording, manufacturers of software tools have stepped in claiming to make production work faster and easier while unlocking the artist/producer’s creative potential. In 2016, artist Justin Bieber explained to the New York Times Magazine that the way producers Diplo and Skrillex were able to manipulate Ableton on his […]
Exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
If preventing or delaying prediabetes or type 2 diabetes is a top priority for you—you are not alone. We know that carbs are key players when it comes to controlling blood sugar, but did you know that healthy fats and lean proteins are also just as important when it comes to managing blood sugar? Join […]
Feeling the archival impulse? Come get some hands-on experience with our collections, chat about archives with your fellow grad students, and get your questions answered about archival research at UCSC and beyond. Curious undergrads are welcome, too! Space is limited. Please RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount. Learn more about the Center […]
The Arts Division welcome students, faculty, staff, and the general community to a salon-style gathering presenting the work of UC Santa Cruz’s History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC) Department.
exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
exploring the ways monsters and tropes of monstrosity pervade our culture.
Presenter: Ben Keitz, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin Description: Qualities exhibited by living systems, including self-regulation, self-healing, morphology control, and environmental responsiveness, are highly attractive for sensing and […]
Presenter: Professor Jingmei Qiu, University of Delaware Description: In this talk, we introduce a sampling-based semi-Lagrangian adaptive rank (SLAR) method, which leverages a cross approximation strategy—also known as CUR or pseudo-skeleton […]
Presenter: Jason Xu, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, UCLA Description: We consider a penalty framework based on regularizing the squared distance to set-based constraints for several core statistical tasks. These […]
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes James Beard Award-winning author Joshua McFadden for a discussion and signing of his highly anticipated new cookbook Six Seasons of Pasta. In his follow-up to Six Seasons: A […]
Presenter: Hans Boehm, Google Abstract: C++11 extended the language to include threads, defining a concurrency memory model to specify the semantics of shared variables, including “atomic” variables that can be […]
What does “enough” look like in your life—and who gets to decide? In a world that constantly pushes us to do, earn, and be more, this webinar invites you to […]
During this presentation, Maya Scherr-Willson (PhD Student in the Film and Media Department) will show material and reflect on insights from a research trip that laid the groundwork for Penumbra […]
Presenter: Chen-Hsiang Yeang, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical Science of Academia Sinica Description: Computational models are roughly categorized into two types: describing the patterns of the phenomenon or data […]
Are you ready to showcase your communication and persuasion skills? We’re excited to invite you to our Elevator Pitch Competition! Snacks provided!
Deliver a 60-second pitch that wows the judges to compete for amazing prizes!
Prizes: $100 Amazon Gift Card and company swag!