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Dear Art Department Community, We are pleased to Dear Art Department Community, We are pleased to announce that this week’s talk in our Fall 2025 Arts Colloquium is Jennifer Jacobs. Please Join us on Thursday, October 30th at Embarcadero Hall at 5:00pm. I am an Assistant Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara in Media Arts and Technology and Computer Science (by courtesy), where I direct the Expressive Computation Lab. I work across the fields of computational art and design, human computer interaction, and systems engineering. My research lab investigates ways to support expressive computer-aided design, art, craft, and manufacturing by developing new computational tools, abstractions, and systems that integrate emerging forms of computational creation and digital fabrication with traditional materials, manual control, and non-linear design practices. More broadly, we examine how we can enable art and design professionals to leverage their domain expertise to develop personal software tools. I received my Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab and completed my postdoctoral research in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. I also received an M.F.A. and B.F.A from Hunter College and the University of Oregon respectively. My research has been presented at international venues including SIGGRAPH, DIS, CACM, Ars Electronica and CHI and I am the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.
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Please join us on Thursday October 23rd at 5pm in Please join us on Thursday October 23rd at 5pm in Embarcadero Hall to see UCSB Professor Lisa Parks discuss her work as part of the Fall 2025 Artist Lecture Series. This lecture is free and open to the public. Lisa Parks, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara where she directs the Global Media Technologies and Cultures (GMTaC) Lab and is an affiliate of the Art and MAT Departments. Parks is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and was Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Science and Technology Studies at MIT from 2016-2020. She is a media historian and theorist, and her research focuses on satellite technologies and media globalization; critical studies of media infrastructures; media, militarization, and surveillance; and digital media technologies and AI. Parks is the author or co-editor of eight books, including, Media Backends: Digital Infrastructures and Sociotechnical Relations (U of Illinois Press, 2023), Rethinking Media Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror (Routledge, 2018), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare (Duke U Press, 2017), Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (U of Illinois Press, 2015), and Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke U Press, 2005). Parks has held visiting appointments at the IKKM at Bauhaus University in Weimar, the Institute for Advanced Study or Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, McGill University, University of Southern California, and the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, among others. She has been a PI on major research grants from the National Science Foundation, the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and the Mellon Foundation, and has collaborated with artists, computer scientists, sociologists, and geographers. She is currently a PI on two new research projects: “AI and the Media Industries,” funded by the Carsey-Wolf Center, and the “Satellite Coast,” funded by NSF, which explores the impacts of intensified satellite launching from the Vandenberg Space Force Base on the central coast of California. Over the years, Parks’ research practice has involved multiple collaborations with international a
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