When UCI Adjunct Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Robert Liebeck designed a revolutionary aircraft at UC Irvine in the late 1980s, it was seen as an engineering breakthrough. Today, the U.S. Air Force has invested over $230 million into the same aircraft, the...
“Automata Garage” was featured at UC Irvine’s Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on May 29 and 30.
The installation’s creative team featured Ash Arder, a transdisciplinary artist whose work has been featured at the California African American Museum and the Swiss Institute, Reed Wixson, a Ph.D. candidate in integrated composition, improvisation and technology at UCI and Beatrice von Rague Schleyer, a Master of Arts at UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts.
The team hoped the multimedial installation would push audiences to consider nonhuman agency and the role of these entities in everyday environments.
The installation used headlights from a Jeep Grand Cherokee WJ. These headlights...
“Automata Garage” was featured at UC Irvine’s Experimental Media Performance Lab (xMPL) from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on May 29 and 30.
The installation’s creative team featured Ash Arder,...
A chemical tank at the GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove raised fears for several days of a leak or explosion after becoming unstable. By Tuesday night, however, the...
The Orange County (OC) Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the one-year pilot Roadside Memorial Program during their meeting on May 19. The program will add signs on the side...
Coming from an out-of-state background, I was beaming with excitement to experience hyped-up California cuisine. Now as a connoisseur of Californian culinary arts, I will be the first to admit that the food in...
The 2026-27 Editorial Staff and Editorial Board for the next academic year were finalized on May 30 after applications, interviews and careful consideration by the executive team.
The incoming Editor in Chief is Isabella Ehring...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claims that the American public does not need to fear the recent hantavirus outbreak, but the public remains unconvinced. As President Donald Trump’s executive branch takes...
California’s film and television industry has struggled mightily over the past five years. COVID-19 forced the world to stay home and away from theatres. The streaming bubble popped, leaving many industry workers without jobs....
Picture this: it’s three in the morning during finals week. You’ve been studying for eight hours. Your stress is peaking. You doomscroll to suppress it, but your eyes are singed from staring at your...
Much of modern political history has been narrated by the weaponization of truth. Truth can be used to gain popularity and ground, which may often serve as a constraint or positive aid. With current...
Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for “The Ballad of Falling Dragons.”
In a world where dragons roam the skies and gods sing to gifted fae, New York Times bestselling...
To call the famous girl group LE SSERAFIM one of the leaders in fourth-generation K-pop would not be an understatement — the group is known for their catchy beats,...
Rapper and producer JPEGMAFIA (Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks) released his sixth studio album “EXPERIMENTAL RAP” on May 21. The album was announced in an Instagram post on April 29. The...
There’s something about watching a student film that a blockbuster can never replicate.
You are not just watching a story. You are watching someone figure out who they are, one...
