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Media Arts & Design Minor In MAT, we seek to define and to create the future of media art and media technology.
Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at UCSB is a transdisciplinary graduate program that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, electronic music and digital art research. Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at UCSB is a transdisciplinary graduate program that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, and electronic music and digital art research, practice, production, and theory.
05/29/2026
Our next MAT seminar features Gérard Assayag — Electronic Musician, Senior Researcher at IRCAM & Founder of the Music Representation Team in Machine Musicianship.
Gerard Assayag : Symbolic interaction and cocreativity in the REACH Project,
Monday, June 1 at 1:00PM PST | Elings 2611 & Zoom
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05/14/2026
Our next MAT seminar features Andrew A. Watts — Composer, Music Composition Faculty at UCSB College of Creative Studies & Affiliate in Mind & Machine Intelligence.
The Heat Death of the Universe: Approaches to Glitch in Recent Compositions,
Monday, May 18 at 1:00PM PST | Elings 2611 & Zoom
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05/09/2026
Our next MAT seminar features Charlie Roberts — Associate Professor of Computer Science, Core Faculty in Interactive Media & Game Development & Director of the REPL Lab, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; MAT UCSB PhD ’14.
Creating Languages for Creativity,
Monday, May 11 at 1:00PM PST | Elings 2611 & Zoom
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05/01/2026
Our next MAT seminar features Andrew Culp — Media Theorist, Professor of Media History and Theory & Director of the MA in Aesthetics and Politics Program at the School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts
The Nomadology Visualizer: Four Nomadic Models of Capture and Flight,
Monday, May 4 at 1:00PM PST | Elings 2611 & Zoom
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04/24/2026
Our next MAT seminar features Aaron McLeran — Audio Programmer, Musician & Former Lead Audio Architect for Unreal Engine, Epic Games.
Jazz Is a Solved Problem: Improvisation, Feedback, and What Generative Music Systems Get Wrong,
Monday, Apr. 27 at 1:00PM PST | Elings 2611 & Zoom
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04/17/2026
Our next MAT seminar features Tatiana Catanzaro — Composer, Musicologist & Professor of Composition, UCSB.
Recent explorations in composition: Da'ath, an audiovisual monodrama for soprano, Disklavier, and electronics,
Monday, Apr. 20 at 1:00PM PST | Elings 2611 & Zoom
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04/10/2026
Our next MAT seminar features Casey Reas — Artist, Educator, Co-Founder of Processing and Feral File, and Professor of Design Media Arts, UCLA.
OPEN: Networked Public Art,
Monday, Apr. 13 at 1:00PM PST | Elings 2611 & Zoom
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04/03/2026
Our next MAT seminar features João Pedro Oliveira — Composer, Corwin Chair of Composition, Professor & Vice-Chair of Music, and Media Arts and Technology Affiliate Faculty, UCSB.
Artificial Intelligence, Embodied Craft Intelligence, and Exploratory Encounters,
Monday, Apr. 6 at 1:00PM PST | Elings 2611 & Zoom
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03/30/2026
Today's MAT seminar features Simon Billinge —
the new Director of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) and Professor of Materials Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The Materials Genome and the Manifold of Meaning,
Monday, Mar. 30 at 1:00PM PST | Elings 1601 & Zoom
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03/06/2026
Our next MAT seminar features Cactoid Labs — an experimental artist-driven blockchain consultancy specializing in bridging Web3, Digital Art and Museums lead by Lady Cactoid and Crypto Cactoid.
Decentralized Impulse: Blockchain as Medium & Distribution Mechanism,
Monday, Mar. 9 at 1:00PM PST | Zoom
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