lectures

UAM @ noon

The University Art Museum’s midday series, UAM @ noon, features gallery talks, music concerts, and spoken-word performances related to current exhibitions. The program is designed to be accessible to CSULB students, faculty, and staff, as well as the broader public community. UAM @ noon has featured such speakers as Chris Miles, Catherine Chalmers, Todd Gray, Louis Hock, and Christopher Scoates; and performances by Sara Schoenbeck, Julissa Bozman, Tom Peters, the Robin Cox Ensemble, Barbara June Dodge, and many others.

Zeitlin Lectures

The Zeitlin Lectures were inaugurated in 1979 to honor Jacob Zeitlin (1902-1987), the legendary Los Angles bookseller, poet, and pioneer patron of the arts. In 1985, through his generosity, an endowment fund to assure the future of the lectures was established. Mr. Zeitlin gave the first lecture, which coincided with the presentation of Käthe Kollwitz: The Jake Zeitlin Bookshop and Gallery—1937, a UAM exhibition which recreated Mr. Zeitlin's presentation of work by the noted German Expressionist artist. Subsequent lectures have been given by artists David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, the late George Segal, Robert Irwin, Wayne Thiebaud, the late Beatrice Wood, Jonathan Borofsky, Bill Viola, Sally Gall, James Rosenquist, Sidney B. Felsen, Eric Fischl, Jim Dine, Jorge Pardo, Alex Melamid, and Tina Barney.

Special Lectures + Symposia

The UAM presents special lectures, members only events, and symposia connected to the scheduled exhibitions. Previous events include, a discussion with Kurt Helfrich, Curator of the exhibition Fantasy Islands: Landscaping Long Beach’s Oil Platforms; and a panel discussion on border issues held in conjunction with the exhibition Constructed Evidence: Work by Louis Hock, 2000-2006. Our members only preview presentations have included presentations by artist Anna Von Mertens, (Burned Out by the Rising Sun: works by Anna Von Mertens); and Patrick Polk, Senior Museum Scientists and Lecturer in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA (Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art). For more information on future events please visit the UAM Calendar.

5D: The Future of Immersive Design
Film • TV • Animation • Interactive • Environment
An International Conference: October 4-5, 2008
Carpenter Performing Arts Center
California State University, Long Beach

Cinema, the most dynamic and influential art form of the 20th century, has been an incubator for revolutionary design technologies for generations. As we move into the 21st century, we see the evolution of design and technology in cinema continuing to assert influence on culture and society in extraordinary ways. Designers, with an open collaboration between filmmakers, artists, scientists and engineers, are structuring every aspect of the visual world, to form what has become an immersive culture. Progressive designers speak less of “art direction” and more of “world-building.” Their use of new and powerful tools coupled with an advanced, non-linear workflow has catapulted design to a central role in content-creation, forcing the reconsideration of all narrative media in terms of creativity and production economics.

The challenge lies not just in recognizing this pioneering design paradigm, but also in preparing the current and future generation of arts professionals for leadership in this field. This groundbreaking conference will bring together for the first time filmmakers, architects, and designers in media, to speak with an audience of industry professionals, academics and students. The program will examine immersive design and its impact on modern culture and the entertainment industry; design that, in all aspects is driven by a unique, unified, multi-dimensional approach, crossing boundaries where narrative, environment, character and audience are encapsulated in a time-driven interaction.

More information please visit Special Events