Wireframe Studio

Wireframe Studio at

UC Santa Barbara

A Digital Media Studio for Environmental and Social Justice

Make + Think + Play: Creating a Supportive Community

EVENTS

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel – A Book Talk by Andrew Ross

Andrew Ross will be at Wireframe Friday, May 10th. Come hear about his new book! Arabic lunch with vegetarian options will be served. And UCSB bookstore will have a table there with copies for sale. On, Wednesday, May 8th on KCSB FM Santa Barbara 91.9 or streaming at www.kcsb.org, Elizabeth Robinson and Avery Gorden are interviewing…

April 18, 2019
Future Tripping Online Program

April 23-24, 2018 (1410 Music Bldg.) Wireframe Studio + Digital Arts & Humanities Commons The Future Tripping symposium addresses our current climate of extreme uncertainty over economic, political, and environmental futures. Through play with data, games, machines, virtual worlds, living species and landscape, participants will bridge medium and methodology among emerging fields of environmental science,…

April 8, 2018
Alliance of Women in Media Arts and Technology (AWMAT)

Wireframe and the Digital Arts and Humanities Commons are helping to play host to this year’s inaugural AWMAT conference, organized by Lena Mathew in Media Arts and Technology: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/events/awmat-2018-conference. The conference begins today at noon and runs through Saturday, February 10 ($25 for a day pass).

February 8, 2018
Wireframe Helps Host SB Hacks IV 2018

Coding teams will be settling into Wireframe and the Digital Arts and Humanities Commons (DAHC) starting this afternoon at 5:30. Good luck! https://www.sbhacks.com/

January 19, 2018
Parameters of Play

We were fortunate to play host to a Film and Media Studies graduate colloquium last week on the topic of gatekeeping and difficulty in games–see flyer below! And we played Cuphead. Or tried, anyway. Dean Takahashi even mentioned the event in his recent VentureBeat post. Thanks, Dean!

December 4, 2017
New furnishings!

We are gearing up for a new academic year, new classes, new students, and new projects, and our swanky new chairs have arrived just in time! Professor Sakr will be teaching a graduate-level FemTech seminar in the space, and Professor Chang will be teaching an undergraduate-level course on “metagaming.” See you soon!

September 18, 2017
Professor Shereen Sakr featured in the UCSB Current

Check out this lovely feature story on Professor Sakr’s ongoing virtual-reality visualization and collaboration with Intae Hwang and Han-Wei Kung (PhD candidates in Media Arts and Technology)!

August 3, 2017
Thinking Palestine Panel, Poster Exhibit, Reception: Apr 28, 4-6:30PM

Please join us on April 28 from 4-6:30 pm for a panel, poster exhibit, and reception for the event “Thinking Palestine: 1967 and Beyond” at Wireframe Studio (Music Library, Music Building 1st floor, Parking Lot 3). June 2017 will mark fifty years of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East…

April 24, 2017
Mapping Dissent

Important dates: April 12 from 330-445PM in the MCC Lounge. We will plan the next day’s performance. Thursday, April 13: 1245-345PM, Meet in front of SRB and we will move along our route; 4-5, rally in front of Storke Tower. To be a main player in this performance, which will take the seemingly banal form…

April 5, 2017
UCSB Daily Nexus covers Thank You For Playing event

Here’s a lovely write-up of the Thank You For Playing screening and Q&A at the Pollock Theater, which followed the open play session at Wireframe in March.

March 24, 2017