OpenLab Collaborative Research Center
The OpenLab Collaborative Research Center and UCSC Genomics Institute are proud sponsors of the PLANETARY INDIGESTION year-long series of conversations and performative lectures about food, art, ecology & biotechnology between the Center for Genomic Gastronomy (CGG), UC Santa Cruz faculty and non-institutional expert guests.
The series is anchored by four public online lectures through the Sesnon Gallery Directed by Professor Parker during the artists' residency period (October 2021 - September 2022) with reading groups, artist hotlines, and experiments to be announced along the way.
All lectures are free and open to the public with student participation strongly encouraged. View the full schedule of events here https://art.ucsc.edu/sesnon/cgg
OpenLab Graduate Student Fellow Madison MCCartha collaborated with Saul Villegas, a recent graduate from the Art Department'a undergraduate program, to create the virtual FREAKOPHONE WORLD Exhibition with New Art City as part of the kick of MCCatha's debut book of poetry and visual art.
FREAKOPHONE WORLD performs both as a book-length poem and occulted terrain, which together reimagines black diasporic life in an increasingly imperiled and globalized society. The speaker in this poem comes from a long tradition—of FREAKS, outsiders, others, and spirits calling out to the living reader from the undead, black, and unapologetically freakophonic space of the text.
link to the virtual exhibition: https://newart.city/show/spt-fw-exhibition-lobby
link to book: https://www.madisonmccartha.com/freakophone-world