Hearing Extremes
On Friday, May 24, the Qualcomm Institute’s IDEAS series presents “Hearing Extremes” with renowned composer and UC San Diego Professor…
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Past Events
Border Crossers with Chico MacMurtrie and Amorphic Robot Works – Exhibition Premiere
RSVPs for opening night requested to galleryqi@ucsd.edu. “Border Crossers” will be open for viewing at the Gallery QI Monday – Friday, noon to 5 p.m. through Friday, December 8, 2023. The Gallery QI is closed weekends. A livestream to the…
“Dal Niente Ensemble” with Lei Liang and Graduate Students
In this IDEAS performance in Atkinson Hall (UC San Diego campus), Chicago-based musical ensemble “Dal Niente” visits QI to premier original compositions by graduate students in the “Hearing Extremes” seminar taught by QI Research Artist in Residence and UC San…
Pigments of Imagination
The Qualcomm Institute’s (QI) IDEAS series presents “Pigments of Imagination,” an interactive virtual reality experience that frames the creative process as a narrative relating the inner-workings of one’s unique imagination to the universe around us. It is an observation on the beauty, fear, adventure,…
Biosphere Dreaming
An exhibit at UC San Diego’s Gallery QI, “Biosphere Dreaming” explores the “Dream Diary” of Mark Nelson, a participant in the closed-ecosystem experiment Biosphere 2. A recording of the opening night for “Biosphere Dreaming” is available at https://www.youtube.com/live/T87vT_flc6g. Summary “Biosphere…
“Earth Is the Alien Planet”: Lecture by Mark Dery
In the Late Anthropocene, we’re all castaways on a soon-to-be-desert island earth. Global weirding is here to stay. Eco-pocalypse looms. Existential dread is the new normal. Philosophy has taken a “nonhuman turn,” away from the anthropocentric worldview of classic humanism.…
Ecospherical
“Ecospherical” is an ambisonic multichannel installation immersing listeners in natural and hybrid soundscapes of California and the Pacific Northwest. This project is based on extensive field recordings taken with a third-order ambisonic microphone array, documenting diverse ecosystems in the face of…
PERSISTENCE
This IDEAS performance features UC San Diego Professor Emeritus of Music Roger Reynolds, a Pulitzer prize-winning American composer known for blending traditional music with sounds newly enabled by technology. In “PERSISTENCE,” Reynolds; Miller Puckette, UC San Diego Distinguished Professor Emeritus…
Closing Night for “Beyond the Metaverse with OurWorlds: Indigenous Stories are All Around You”
Free parking will be available for event attendees at the Hopkins Parking Structure at the corner of Hopkins and Voigt Dr (see map). Live stream available at https://youtube.com/live/NE81hjJfKfE?feature=share for remote viewers. Summary Join us for the closing night of “Beyond the…
Everything is Dust
Dust surrounds us at all times. The most common dust particles, composed of our dead skin cells, can be found gathering quietly in places around our homes. Even the most common dust mixes with cosmic stardust and particles that have traveled by…
