Contents

SOTA Contents (not including Re-Posts from other news sources):

March 2012 Content:

• 10 Proposals for Life After Art School
• UCIRA Artist Spotlight on Holley Moyes: Raising the Sky in 2012
• UCSD’s Sixth College Conference: Education in Action: Mobilizing the Next Generation for Social Reform

February 2012 Content:

• David White, Jessica Sledge, and Stephanie Lie: There Goes the Neighborhood
• The Sounds of Singing: Nina Eidsheim’s Body Music
• Spotlight on UCIRA Artists Lisa Wymore and Amara Tabor-Smith: Sabar in the Studio
• UCIRA Spotlight on Artist jesikah maria ross: Restore/Restory
• UCIRA Artist Spotlight on Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly: Work and Play

January 2012 Content:

• Spotlight on UCIRA Artists Michael Dessen, Mark Dresser, Victoria Petrovich, John Crawford: Telematic Performance
• Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration. Tyler Stallings & Marko Peljhan
• Kaleidoscope of Pacific Standard Time
• Project Pulse: Richard Ross

December 2011 Content:

• UCIRA Spotlight on Mira Kingsley: Discourse in Action

November 2011 Content:

• Catherine Liu: Learning From Irvine (Interview with grantee Catherine Liu)
• Anastasia Hill: Psychonautica: Mind, Media and Mysticism
• Arelene Goldbard: Decracination, Art-World-Style 
• Art Occupies at Occupy Cal by Gregory Levine
• Joe Dumit: Expressing the CAVES

October 2011 Content:

• Shannon Jackson: Art + (Interview with grantee Shannan Jackson)
• Some Birds (Interview with grantee Renny Pritkin)
• Dee Hibbert-Jones: Living Condition (Interview with grantee Dee Hibbert-Jones)
• Crowdfunding and the Arts: UCIRA Interviews Thuy Tran of United States Artists (USA), Steve Lambert, Jeff Crouse and Dan Froot (UCLA) (PART 1)
• Crowdfunding and the Arts: UCIRA Interviews Thuy Tran of United States Artists (USA), Steve Lambert, Jeff Crouse and Dan Froot (UCLA) (PART 2)
• Crowdfunding and the Arts: UCIRA Interviews Thuy Tran of United States Artists (USA), Steve Lambert, Jeff Crouse and Dan Froot (UCLA) (PART 3)
• Crowdfunding and the Arts: UCIRA Interviews Thuy Tran of United States Artists (USA), Steve Lambert, Jeff Crouse and Dan Froot (UCLA) (PART 4)
• Ken Rogers: Off Peak (Interview with grantee Ken Rogers)

September 2011 Content

• Art of Regional Change (Q & A with jesikah maria ross on The Art of Regional Change (UC Davis)
• Cultivating the Next Generation of Teaching Artists

August 2011 Content

• Q & A with the organizers of BOOM
• SNAAP and UCIRA Team Up

July 2011 Content

• Kim Yasuda Reports Back from her Sabbatical and reflects on recent conferences and UCIRA projects

June 2011 Content

• Liz Losh Reports Back about the 3rd Political Equator gathering

May 2011 Content

• Q & A with Beth Stephens (UCSC)
• Q & A with Nicole Paiement of UCSC
• Q & A with Dee Hibbert-Jones (UCSC) and Dick Hebdige (UCSB)

April 2011 Content

• Q & A with Catherine Cole on future planning in the UC system
• Free Media as Free Speech by Desiree D’Alessandro, MFA student at the UCSB

March 2011 Content

• Personal reflection on UCIRA conference by UCSB MFA candidate Van Tran

January 2011 Content

• Excerpts of Chicano Secret Service performance at UCIRA conference (video)
• Reflections on UCIRA Conferences 2004-2010 from Dr. Holly E. Unruh (Associate Director of UCIRA)
• LM Bogad “Maintaining and Improving the Student Body” performance at UCIRA conference (video)
• Rickerby Hinds performance of UC/Me at UCIRA conference (video)
• Ambient Happening performance by UCSD students at UCIRA conference (video)

December 2010 Content

• Talk Sandwich with Dee Hibbert-Jones at UCIRA conference (video)
• Deans Panel from UCIRA conference at UCSD (video) featuring Seth Lerer (UC San Diego), Joseph Lewis (UC Irvine), Jessie Ann Owens (UC Davis), Stephen Cullenberg (UC Riverside), Christopher Waterman (UC Los Angeles), David Yager (UC Santa Cruz), and David Marshall (UC Santa Barbara).
• Grant Kester keynote speech from UCIRA conference at UCSD (video)

October 2010 Content

• Cara Baldwin reports back about October 7th protests on campus of UCSD
• Olive Odille reports back about October 7th protests on campus of UCLA
• Kyle Mckinley reports back about October 7th protests on campus of UCSC
• Van Tran reports back about October 7th protests on campus of UCSB

September 2010 Content

• Calm Before the Storm Q&A with micha cárdenas (UCSD)
• Q & A with Michele Rabkin (UCB) and Gilda Haas (UCLA) on Resources

August 2010 Content

• Ken Ehrlich, Marc Herbst, Peter Krapp, Brett Stalbaum, and Fred Lonidier respond to a Q&A about what challenges do people need to be preparing for, thinking about as the school year begins?
• An interview with UCSD’s Fred Lonidier, (President of UC-AFT San Diego Local 2034 and photography professor) about organized labor and art.
• “Why I made a formal statement to the UCSD Police” by UCSD faculty Brett Stalbaum.
• Responses to a Q&A about online education within the UC arts from Peter Krapp (UCI) and Brett Stalbaum (UCSD)
• Peter Krapp (UCI) and Brett Stalbaum (UCSD) respond to the question: “Q: How are you balancing the need for efficiency in your programs with the recognition that the arts cannot fit into an efficiency model?”

July 2010 Content

• An introduction to the SOTA project by our guest editor Daniel Tucker (UCIRA);
• Teaching the Crisis from Pat Morton (UCR) about her in-class experiences on March 4;
• A reflection on the performance protest Mark Yudof’s Thriller by project organizer Christina Noble (UCD);
• Eric Morrill (UCI) on the 24 hour reading of the Master Plan of California he co-organized at Irvine;
• Dayanita Ramesh and Lucille (Lucy) Potter are interviewed about their participation in a UCD curatorial class taught by Susette Min where a “Meet the Regents” was organized to coincide with March 4 protests. Photos by Jane Oh (UCD).

Resources:

• Hands off UC
• Budget Crisis Resources from UC Berkeley
• Save UC
• Defend UCI
• Remaking the University
• Changing Universities
• Saving UCSD
• Occupy CA
• Occupy Everything
• Master Plan for Higher Education
• UC Commission on the Future
• Saving Alma Mater
• Reclaim UC
• Reclamations Journal
• Charles Schwartz Critiques of the University
• University Probe
• After The Fall Communiques
• Regent Live Blog of student regent Jesse Cheng
• Studentactivism.net

Readings:

• Stanley Fish on Crisis of the Humanities Officially Arrives and Crisis of the Humanities II for the NY Times and UC bloggers Chris Newfield and Bob Samuels have produced some compelling responses (October 2010)
• A call for dissasembly (October 2010)
• The University is a Factory Lets treat it as one by  Sebastian Wright (September 2010)
• Billion Dollar Baby:  The University of California invests $53 million in two diploma mills owned by a regent. By Peter Byrne (June, 2010)
• Wendy Brown: Without quality public education, there is no future for democracy (March, 2010)
• Occupy Everything: A Roundtable on US Student Occupations
• Painting the Glass House Black by Evan Calder-Williams (March, 2010)
• Bob Samuels on Tuition Hike (February, 2010)
• Bob Samuels on “Why We Need Research Universities” (February, 2010)
• Occupy Everything: Behind the Privatization of the UC, a Riot Squad of Police By George Ciccariello-Maher (November 2009)
• Brian Holmes: UC Strikes Continue (November, 2009)
• The U.C. Strike By Brian Holmes (October, 2009)
• “They Pledged You Tuition: An Open Letter to UC Students” From Bob Meister, President, Council of UC Faculty Associations. (October, 2009)
• Communique from an Absent Future: The terminus of student life by Research and Destroy (September, 2009)
• TJ Clark on UC Santa Cruz Occupation (September, 2009)
• Catherine Cole’s Letter (September, 2009)
• George Lakoff’s  Privatization is the Issue (September, 2009)
• Mark Yudof, “Why the U. of California Has To Raise Tuition,” Chronicle of Higher Education (September 29, 2009).