June 11–13, 2019, 1–4 p.m. Reception: June 11, 5–7 p.m. www.icam.show Facebook Event SILIENCE “The kind of unnoticed excellence that carries on around you every day…the hidden talents of friends and coworkers, the fleeting solos of subway buskers, the unseen portfolios of aspiring artists—which would be renowned as masterpieces if only they’d been appraised by the cartel of popular taste, who assume that brilliance is a rare and precious quality, accidentally overlooking buried jewels that may not be flawless, but are still somehow perfect.” – John Koenig The 2019 graduating class of the UC San Diego Visual Arts ICAM (Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts) program is proud to announce this year’s Senior Exhibition. The Senior Exhibition (VIS 160) is a two quarter-long course required by all graduating ICAM students, where students pursue projects of their own design with support from faculty in a seminar environment. Their projects are a culmination of what students have learned throughout their time in the ICAM program, utilizing the skills and technologies they have learned along the way, to make their own masterpiece. This show features works including electronic installations, virtual reality, animations, video games, coding art, projection mapping, performances, and much more. Come join us in celebrating the diverse body of work that the ICAM program has produced this year! Alexa Wheelan – Chronic Alvin Pascua – Sports and Esports: A Related Ritual Areli Alvarez – Household Fun Catherine Y Qiu – N0d Chanel Tonnu – Birds of Disney[Land] Chia Jaqueline Lee – Meditation Pond Chia Jung Hsieh – Perspective Explorer Chiao Joy Wang – Story Trip Chuhan Wu – Data Mirror Erica Esserman – Quantum Snake Gabby Jeannet – Hypertext Gospel Gabriel Ang – Good Grief Gege Zhang – Game of an Abducted Bride Hanhui Lou – Inside The Blue Box Jake Schueler – Quantitative Aspirations Jiaming Li – On the Road Joaquin Villegas – Slim Traces of a Palette Rag Justin Gamiao – ACTIONS PER MINUTE Karmah Eldesouky – Meet Social Media Me Kayla Reger – Memory Quilt Michelle Viado – Operate, Operating, Operated (O3) MinJung Bae – Immersive Words Paul Chong – Unique Creation - Sid Rebecca Huijing Zhao – Simulation and Reality Rozanna Marie Lescano – Daily Ruilin Fan – Feed It for ______. Sarah Barker – Life: Game or Path Sean Tobe – Codependents Collective: Online Toxic Relationships Sharon Mo – Industrial Farming Shelby Tindall – The Birth of the Big Bang Shenglu Vivian Ma – DISCOVER Shirley Guo – Live Selector Sizhao Li – Mindwave Groove Sunny (Nicole) Johnson – Better With You//Better Without You Wen Chen – Arcana Wendi Wu – Space - A Simulation of Chinese New Year Xun He – Journey of the Snake Mountain Yichang Zhu – Truth Behind the Instagram Photos Yuanyi Zhou – Travelling Bed Yufei Wang – Untitled Show curated by Erica Esserman, Nicole Johnson, Justin Gamiao, Hanhui Lou, and Michelle Viado, with additional assistance from Karmah Eldesouky. Special thanks to Visual Arts faculty Amy Alexander, Patricia Stone, and Jon Paden. Additional equipment provided by Triton XR and the UCSD Media Lab. ________ What is ICAM? The ICAM program in both the Visual Arts and Music departments draws upon and aims to bring together ideas and paradigms from computer science, art, and cultural theory. The departments take for granted that the computer has become a meta-medium and that artists and musicians working with computers are expected to combine different media forms in their works. This makes the program unique among other existing computer art or design programs. The program also recognizes that creating sophisticated artistic works with computers requires a new model of the creative process, one that combines traditional artistic procedures with the experimental research characteristic of the sciences.