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Works In Progress

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When times are challenging, how can the arts help us find our way forward? Works In Progress is a podcast from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, a forward-looking interdisciplinary center for creativity and scholarship. The show's host, Sean Arenas, looks at current topics and trends through the lens of art, architecture and design, and explores the ideas and practices of UCLA’s faculty, staff, students, and alumni. Learn more at https://podcast.arts.ucla.edu.

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Lindsey Kunisaki: Arts and Music Education for All

March 11, 2024 21:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

UCLA Arts alumna, emerging researcher, and education evaluation specialist Lindsey Kunisaki ‘15 joins "Works In Progress" to discuss what initially drew her to the arts, what she gained from her time in UCLA’s Visual and Performing Arts Education (VAPAE) program, the importance of culturally sustaining pedagogy, and California Proposition 28, the largest investment in arts and music in our nation’s history.

Dami Olufowoshe and Katie Chuh: Form and Function

February 05, 2024 22:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MB

UCLA Arts alumni and active practitioners Dami Olufowoshe M.Arch. ‘16 and Katie Chuh M.Arch. ‘16 join "Works In Progress" to discuss what initially drew them to architecture, what they gained from their time at UCLA, how they have adapted to rapidly evolving technology, and any advice they can provide to aspiring architects.

Jackie Lopez, Harry Weston, and Alli Gray: Versa-Style Dance Company

January 08, 2024 22:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

Dancers and UCLA Arts alumni Jackie Lopez ‘04, Harry Weston ‘12, and Alli Gray ‘10 join "Works In Progress" to discuss what initially drew them to Hip Hop; what they gained from their time at UCLA; the history and future of Versa-Style Dance Company, a non-profit organization and dance ensemble; and any advice they can provide to aspiring dancers.

Jackie Amézquita and Roksana Pirouzmand: "Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living"

December 01, 2023 21:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MB

Artists Jackie Amézquita M.F.A. ‘22 and Roksana Pirouzmand M.F.A. ‘22 both currently have work on view at the Hammer Museum at UCLA’s biennial "Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living." For the first episode of the new season, the UCLA Arts alumnae join "Works In Progress" to discuss what originally drew them to art, their work in the show, what they gained from their graduate studies at UCLA, and what it's like to be a working artist in Los Angeles.

Designing with climate change in mind

May 26, 2022 08:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MB

Design media arts students worked alongside environmental science students this spring to create design and art projects that draw attention to climate change and ecological inequality. Professor and department chair Rebeca Méndez led the “Introduction to Ecological Art and Justice” class this quarter, the final part of a three-quarter sequence, and joined several students to discuss design’s ability to change minds and spur action.

Mercedes Dorame: Making art on Tongva land

May 11, 2022 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MB

Native American Indigenous artist and UCLA alumna Mercedes Dorame will deliver the keynote address at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture’s 2022 commencement on Saturday, June 11th at 4 p.m. This will be the first commencement ceremony to be held in-person since 2019. Dorame spoke to the UCLA Arts podcast Works In Progress about how her Tongva heritage informs her practice, which encompasses photography, sculptural installations, and sound art.

Australian Aboriginal screen-printed textiles at the Fowler

April 06, 2022 20:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MB

The Fowler Museum exhibition Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End invites us to explore more than 70 distinctive, screen-printed textiles made by contemporary artists at five Aboriginal-owned art centers across northern Australia. These textiles combine traditional cultural knowledge with contemporary production techniques to produce dazzling, unique fabrics. Their bold colors and striking patterns have inspired interior design, furnishings, and fashion apparel.   Joa...

Mapping climate justice in Los Angeles

March 23, 2022 21:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MB

This winter quarter, design media arts students researched Los Angeles and its ecologies through the lens of climate change. Department of Design Media Arts professor and vice chair Peter Lunenfeld emphasized the importance of design research in the hybrid seminar/studio course “Introduction to Ecological Art and Justice,” part of a three-quarter sequence. Students conducted original research in order to think through historical and on-going issues of environmental racism in Los Angeles and ...

Twenty years of Dance Camera West

March 16, 2022 18:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MB

Dance Camera West, the world-renowned dance film festival, marks its 20th anniversary this year. From March 24-April 2, the festival will screen the top films selected from a record of over 400 submissions from around the world, in a live in-person event at two Los Angeles venues. UCLA professors of choreography Lionel Popkin and David Roussève, who are board members of Dance Camera West, and the festival's executive and artistic director Kelly Hargraves join the UCLA Arts podcast "Works In...

AEDI in the Classroom

March 09, 2022 23:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MB

Classes rooted in AEDI – anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion – are being taught across the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. This winter quarter, two undergraduate Art studio classes – painting and new genres – are being taught as AEDI-themed courses. On this episode of the UCLA Arts podcast "Works In Progress," we spoke to faculty members Patty Wickman and Vishal Jugdeo as well as students about this shift and how students are responding in the classroom.

Dancing to the words of Angela Davis

March 02, 2022 22:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MB

UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance will present award-winning choreographer Ronald K. Brown and his company EVIDENCE’s newest dance work, The Equality of Night and Day: First Glimpse, at Royce Hall on Saturday, March 5. The work features recordings from UCLA distinguished professor emerita Angela Davis’s speeches. CAP UCLA is highlighting the activist and educator's legacy with a special exhibition drawn from UCLA Library Special Collections.

Edgar Arceneaux on his new play “Boney Manilli”

February 23, 2022 21:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB

Edgar Arceneaux is an artist-in-residence at UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, where he is developing his work-in-progress "Boney Manilli," a live performance, exhibition, and single-channel film. On the latest episode of "Works In Progress," Arceneaux discusses his inspirations for the work, from 70’s disco group Boney M. and 90’s pop duo Milli Vanilli, to losing his mother to dementia. He also discusses his extensive research process, working on themes across an array of media, and...

Jimmy Wu: How writing in prison saved my life

February 16, 2022 18:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MB

At just 16 years old, Jimmy Wu committed a crime that led to 13 ½ years of incarceration. In a Los Angeles juvenile detention facility, IOW introduced him to creative writing. He now runs the organization and is an advocate for juvenile justice reform. This quarter, Wu is teaching a class at UCLA through the Visual and Performing Arts Education program (VAPAE) called “Arts Programs in Correctional Institutions.”

'Destination Crenshaw’ pays tribute to Black creativity and history

February 09, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MB

A cultural and economic corridor that's central to Southern California’s Black community is getting a new look. Destination Crenshaw is a $100 million revitalization project that will bring public art, pocket parks and small business investment to 1.3 miles of Crenshaw Boulevard in South Los Angeles. Helping bring this project to life? UCLA faculty and alumni. On this episode of "Works In Progress," hear from two UCLA scholars who are advising the project, Darnell Hunt and Marcus Hunter, a...

Reconnecting with nature through immersive exhibition “Ritual of Return”

January 20, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutes - 10.6 MB

Art and science students at UCLA want you to reconsider the human relationship with nature, even if it means shrinking you down to the size of an insect – or at least creating an immersive environment that helps shift your perspective to the scale of tiny creatures.  This past fall, students from the Department of Design Media Arts (DMA) collaborated with environmental science, biology, and public policy students in the course “Introduction to Ecological Art and Justice.” The students stage...

Dr. Thanh Neville: Life and death in the ICU

November 24, 2021 20:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MB

As we approach the end of 2021 and the second holiday season of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of us are tired, frustrated, and impatient to see transmission rates drop and restrictions further loosened. Meanwhile, our front-line medical workers are bracing themselves for a repeat of last winter’s surge in hospitalizations, driven this year by the non-vaccinated. Dr. Thanh Neville is an ICU physician, researcher, and the current medical director of UCLA’s 3 Wishes Program – which fulfills end...

Arturo O’Farrill: Orchestrating connections through music

November 18, 2021 01:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MB

The composer, bandleader, and pianist Arturo O'Farrill has his hands full. The seven-time GRAMMY Award-winning jazz musician is a professor of global jazz studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where he is also the associate dean of equity, diversity, and inclusion. O’Farrill, the director of the renowned Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, has just released the album "...dreaming in lions...", his debut on the legendary Blue Note Records label. O'Farrill is also working to open a permanen...

Adam Bradley: The power and poetry of hip-hop

November 10, 2021 23:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB

Rap and hip-hop are the most popular musical genres in the United States. At the end of 2017, Nielsen Music, which tracks music listenership, noted that the combined genre of R&B and hip-hop had surpassed rock to become the most-consumed style of music in the country.  Hip-hop continues to grow and evolve, and Adam Bradley has been tracking its changes. He teaches English at UCLA and founded the Laboratory for Race and Popular Culture, known as RAP Lab.  In his books, which include “Book o...

D’Artagnan Scorza: Education as a tool for justice and empowerment

November 03, 2021 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MB

In July of 2020, soon after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police along with the murder of many other Black men and women, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors established an anti-racist County policy agenda. They also created an executive director of racial equity position for Los Angeles County with a charge of creating a strategic plan to eliminate structural racism and bias in the county, and appointed D’Artagnan Scorza to fill that role. Scorza is a long-...

Safiya Noble: Decoding bias in our digital lives

October 28, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MB

The search engines that we use throughout the day, like Google and Yahoo, aren’t just useful digital tools. They’re also multi-billion dollar companies that track our browsing habits and sell that data to advertisers and marketers. They also invest heavily in developing artificial intelligence – highly complex algorithms meant to predict and manipulate our behavior. But just as humans have biases, so do the algorithms. And that has real-world implications that can lead to greater inequity, p...

Diane White-Clayton: The healing power of music

October 20, 2021 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MB

Diane White-Clayton found her voice in the church. As a little girl in Washington DC, the church was central to her community. The classically trained singer and pianist studied music at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and at UC-Santa Barbara, where she received her masters and PhD. Music has brought her around the country and around the world, where she performs, conducts choral groups, composes original music, and leads workshops of gospel, jazz, and classical music.  White...

Leroy Moore: Speaking out for disability rights

October 14, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MB

Leroy Moore is a writer, poet, community activist, and a hip-hop and music lover. He was born with cerebral palsy, and has dedicated much of his writing and activism to disability rights. He co-founded Krip-Hop Nation, a movement that uses hip-hop as a means of expression for people with disabilities. Moore is currently a doctoral student in linguistic anthropology at UCLA. He writes and delivers lectures and performances that reflect the intersections between racism and ableism, in the Uni...

Luis Alfaro: Opening the doors to LA theater

October 06, 2021 22:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MB

Luis Alfaro is a celebrated and award-winning artist and writer. His plays, short stories, poems, and performances are often set in barrios like the Pico-Union district of downtown Los Angeles where he grew up, and tell stories about working class people and the systems that trap them – systems of poverty, incarceration, racism and homophobia. Alfaro is a MacArthur "genius" fellow, teaches theater at the University of Southern California, and was recently named the Associate Artistic Directo...

Ping Ho: Healing through creative expression

September 29, 2021 22:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MB

The arts can heal and transform us. This is something that Ping Ho has been advocating since she founded the group UCLArts & Healing in 2004. It trains artists, educators, therapists, health care professionals, and community members to use visual art, movement, music and writing, in concert with mental health practices, to build social and emotional skills and foster self-discovery.  These alternative health practices have gradually become more integrated in traditional health settings, and...

Isaac Bryan: Advocating for political change

September 22, 2021 19:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MB

California Assemblymember Isaac Bryan ran in a special election earlier this year and won the California State Assembly seat representing the 54th District. The district includes a wide swath of West LA and South LA, including Westwood, Mar Vista, Culver City, Ladera Heights, View Park and Leimert Park. Prior to holding elected office, Bryan was a longtime organizer and educator, and the director of public policy at the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African-American Studies. He was also f...

The Map and the Territory

May 27, 2021 01:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MB

The Fowler Museum at UCLA has brought together approximately 200 objects from collections across campus for an exhibition called "The Map and the Territory: 100 Years of Collecting at UCLA." The show was set to open last spring to coincide with UCLA’s Centennial, and will now open in July. Thematically linked and geographically diverse, the objects – such as a guitar made from an armadillo, a meteorite, a Star Trek manuscript, and the bodies of Arctic terns – tell stories of migration, home...

Ellen Reid: A soundtrack for your walk in the park

May 18, 2021 22:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MB

Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is a GPS-enabled work of public sound art that gives users a customized soundtrack for their walk. Subtly shifting compositions change along with users’ paths to reflect their environment.   SOUNDWALK's creator is the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and sound artist Ellen Reid. UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance presented the Griffith Park version of the app.   In an interview with the UCLA Arts podcast Works In Progress, Reid explains how she made SOUNDWALK, how...

Ellen Reid: A soundtrack for your walk in the park

May 18, 2021 22:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MB

Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is a GPS-enabled work of public sound art that gives users a customized soundtrack for their walk. Subtly shifting compositions change along with users’ paths to reflect their environment.   SOUNDWALK's creator is the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and sound artist Ellen Reid. UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance presented the Griffith Park version of the app.   In an interview with the UCLA Arts podcast Works In Progress, Reid explains how she made SOUNDWALK, how...

Mr. Wash: No making up for lost time

May 12, 2021 20:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MB

In the late ‘90s, Fulton Leroy Washington, also known as Mr. Wash, was convicted of a nonviolent drug offense and sentenced to life in prison. He has always maintained his innocence. He served 21 years, until President Obama granted him clemency and commuted his sentence in 2016.  Washington learned how to paint in prison. Several of his teardrop paintings – which show photorealistic portraits of people with big tears rolling down their faces and miniature scenes inside the teardrops – are...

UCLA’s Roger Wakimoto champions the arts and creative activities

May 06, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MB

The vast majority of UCLA's research budget, which topped $1.4 billion last year, is spent in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math to develop vaccines and robots as well as break new ground in agriculture, chemistry, nanoscience, and other fields. Although the arts and humanities historically receive considerably less research funding than the STEM fields, they are just as vital to UCLA’s research environment, said Roger Wakimoto, UCLA’s vice chancellor for research and ...

UCLA’s Roger Wakimoto champions the arts and creative activities

May 06, 2021 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MB

The vast majority of UCLA's research budget, which topped $1.4 billion last year, is spent in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math to develop vaccines and robots as well as break new ground in agriculture, chemistry, nanoscience, and other fields. Although the arts and humanities historically receive considerably less research funding than the STEM fields, they are just as vital to UCLA’s research environment, said Roger Wakimoto, UCLA’s vice chancellor for research and ...

Janet O'Shea: Managing conflict through competitive play

April 29, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MB

These are polarized times. Fights over masks and vaccines, the debate over policing, immigration reform and the border situation – even in this new political era, partisan divides feel as wide as ever. For Janet O’Shea, fighting may be the solution. She’s a professor in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, and focuses on critical dance studies, performance, and the social and political contexts of martial arts. In this episode of the UCLA Arts podcast Works In Progress, sh...

For digital artists, NFTs are promising – and problematic

April 23, 2021 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MB

The rise of blockchain-enabled NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, to buy and sell artwork has created a boon for digital artists, who have long struggled with selling works that can be infinitely reproducible.  In this episode of Works In Progress, faculty and alumni of the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts weigh in on the potential for NFTs to empower artists, connect them directly with fans and collectors, and build demand and appreciation for digital art. They also consider the carbon foot...

A South LA art gallery encourages Black creatives to “shoot for the stars” 

April 16, 2021 02:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MB

Three alumni of the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design have teamed up to design an art gallery housed in an industrial stretch of Historic South-Central Los Angeles. Kevin Sherrod gave Works In Progress a tour of Gallery 90220, which he – along with fellow UCLA architecture alums Chris Doerr and Wayne Thomas – hopes will become a hub of community and inspiration, to be led by and primarily serve an audience of color.  “What I'm really interested in is changing the way we und...

Susan Leigh Foster: How dance functions in our lives

April 07, 2021 21:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MB

When Susan Leigh Foster gets in front of an audience, she doesn’t spend much time standing behind a podium or pointing at slides. The choreographer and scholar dances freely around the stage, her movements underlining and sometimes building on her words. "I needed to provide the audience with an example of what I was talking about, and also an example of why it's so difficult to talk about," she said. “I also wanted to offer them the opportunity to reflect on the fact that all lectures are ...

Hammer Museum’s Connie Butler looks back — and ahead

March 31, 2021 16:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MB

The Hammer Museum at UCLA plans to reopen April 17, allowing the public to finally see Made in L.A. 2020: a version, the acclaimed biennial that spotlights emerging Los Angeles artists and, for the first time, extends to galleries at the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. “We’re not allowed to have big gatherings or big crowds,” said Connie Butler, the Hammer’s chief curator. “It will be quiet and a really nice time to be in the galleries.” Butler, who co-c...

Karin Liljegren: Breathing new life into old buildings

March 25, 2021 02:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MB

Before the pandemic, downtown L.A. was in the midst of a renaissance, with the steady opening of new bars, restaurants, hotels and apartment buildings. Architect and UCLA alumna Karin Liljegren has been a leader in that effort. Over the past 20 years, she has overseen or consulted on more than 400 adaptive reuse projects, mostly in downtown’s historic core. Last year, the American Institute of Architects named Liljegren to the College of Fellows, considered one of the architecture world’s h...

Zoom fatigue is real: here's how to prevent it

March 12, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MB

A student-conducted survey from across the School of the Arts and Architecture found that the pandemic is having a profound impact on students' mental and physical health, and "Zoom fatigue" is a major factor. In this episode of the UCLA Arts podcast "Works In Progress," Joy Chen, a second-year design media arts student, breaks down the findings; Victoria Marks, associate dean of academic affairs, shares what faculty are doing about it; and Dr. Drea Letamendi, head of the UCLA RISE Center, ...

Architecture students "make values visible” through design

March 04, 2021 06:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MB

Students at the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design are proposing a hypothetical center where principles of AEDI – anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion – are put into action. "I think what we're trying to do is a paradigm shift away from a distant, automated, estranging kind of environment where people are bureaucratized, into something way more engaging,” said Mohamed Sharif, the faculty member who is heading the design studio for the master of architecture program st...

Verlena Johnson: Painting love, Blackness and divinity

February 25, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MB

Verlena Johnson is a student affairs officer in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. But she’s also a multi-media visual artist with a published children’s book and a series of paintings that pay homage to LGBTQ African American icons. She talks to the UCLA Arts podcast "Works In Progress" about the themes of race, gender, sexuality, and divinity in her paintings; how she maintains her creative practice during the pandemic; and how to promote diversity in academia.

Turning the lens to the architecture of Paul R. Williams

February 10, 2021 23:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MB

Photographer Janna Ireland is known for portraits of family and friends that explore domesticity and Black life. But she has devoted the last four years to driving the streets of Los Angeles, seeking out some of the more than 3,000 projects designed by barrier-breaking Los Angeles architect Paul Revere Williams. The result: her critically praised collection of photographs “Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View” (Angel City Press). The book features 280 of Ireland’s black-and-whi...

A gallerist in Georgia brings UCLA alumni work together

February 04, 2021 07:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MB

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a handful of galleries in downtown LA’s Chinatown neighborhood opened amid souvenir shops and restaurants. With names adopted from previous businesses, China Art Objects and Black Dragon Society showed work by UCLA art students and became hubs of a burgeoning art scene. A DIY-inspired community of artists threw parties and staged concerts while selling their work at dirt-cheap prices, with some finding unexpected success. The salon-style exhibition "Via Ca...

Searching for the LA-based pioneers of internet art

January 28, 2021 02:00 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MB

Internet art is a broad term for the work of artists who use the internet as their canvas. Think of Flash animation, psychedelic glitch art, computer-generated art, GIFs, and many other examples. The internet has been around for five decades now, and internet art is falling victim to broken links, expired domains, and unsupported file types. "I believe we're in a crisis right now, where so much work is disappearing and will never be seen again. We want to be in communication with these arti...

Rodney McMillian: "The act of surviving is enough"

January 13, 2021 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MB

UCLA Department of Art Professor Rodney McMillian's practice embodies a wide range of media and technique, and often confronts racial and socioeconomic injustice. McMillian’s most recent show at Vielmetter Los Angeles, "Body Politic," explores the body’s symbolic meaning and the relationship between politics and aesthetics. It included sculptural works depicting body parts made of chicken wire and black fabric. Vividly-colored drawings used mixed media and text to narrate a history of the ...

"The Embrace" is a different kind of memorial

January 09, 2021 02:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MB

This week, pro-Trump supporters marched through Washington D.C. and stormed the Capitol building, just as Congress was meeting to formally certify the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. The insurrection left five people dead and a world in shock. Many are asking, is this what America has become? The attack also comes the same week that Tucson, Arizona is marking the ten-year anniversary of a shooting rampage outside a supermarket that killed six people and injured thirteen, includin...

Anna Spain Bradley: Creating a more inclusive university

December 03, 2020 00:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MB

How does one create a more equitable learning environment? Anna Spain Bradley, UCLA’s new vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, has been thinking a lot about this question. Despite the political polarization of our time, Spain Bradley – a scholar of international law, global racism and human rights – says it’s imperative that we sit down and have conversations with people we disagree with.  "If people communicate and we look at each other and see each other and value each oth...

Sharon Hayes: Words of love and protest

November 25, 2020 21:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB

Sharon Hayes makes video, performance and installation art that tackles complex questions about history, politics and speech. Her work is staged on the street, in living rooms, and in museums and galleries. She incorporates historical texts and her own writing into her work. She might involve strangers, activists, and fellow artists as performers.  Hayes was born in Baltimore and came of age in a community of queer artists and activists in New York's East Village in the early '90s, where sh...

Sharon Hayes: Words of love and protest

November 25, 2020 21:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB

Sharon Hayes makes video, performance and installation art that tackles complex questions about history, politics and speech. Her work is staged on the street, in living rooms, and in museums and galleries. She incorporates historical texts and her own writing into her work. She might involve strangers, activists, and fellow artists as performers.  Hayes was born in Baltimore and came of age in a community of queer artists and activists in New York's East Village in the early '90s, where sh...

Jenna Caravello: Digital avatars and virtual spaces

November 19, 2020 04:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MB

Jenna Caravello makes mind-bending video games, interactive installations and animated short films that use symbolism and metaphor to ask profound questions about memory, loss, and meaning. Caravello is an assistant professor in the Department of Design Media Arts. And she'll respond to the question “What Is Loss?” as part of the UCLA Arts series “10 Questions: Reckoning,” which brings UCLA faculty from across campus together to examine ten essential questions. In this episode of the UCLA ...

Neil Garg: Having fun with organic chemistry

November 12, 2020 05:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MB

Few things strike fear into the hearts of college students like the words “organic chemistry." Neil Garg, a distinguished professor and the Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry, wants his students to get creative and enjoy learning. His undergraduate class has been one of UCLA’s most popular classes, and he uses a range of innovative and out-of-the-box teaching methods to make what can be a very dry topic more fun and engaging.    Garg will respond to the questio...