UCSB’s Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program Hosts Its 2026 End of Year Show: Re:agency
UCSB’s Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program Hosts Its 2026 End of Year Show: Re:agency
Publish Date: 2026-05-28 13:13:00
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UCSB’s Media Arts and Technology (MAT) Graduate Program is hosting its End of Year Show (EoYS), re:agency, to celebrate another year of groundbreaking research. The EoYS is an annual event where guests are invited to step into the fusion of media arts and technology to experience innovative projects and performances produced by the program’s graduate students.
This year’s theme, re:agency, addresses the meaning of human agency in the presence of systems that appear increasingly “agentic”—systems designed to absorb, predict, and appropriate human action. MAT is working to position themselves not as subjects of technology, but as active collaborators in its evolution—re:imagining, re:purposing, and re:configuring the very systems that threaten our autonomy, and transforming them into tools for creativity.
Community members are invited to attend two celebratory events:
EoYS@Elings Hall (UCSB Campus) | Tuesday, June 2 | 5-8 p.m.
Research, exhibitions, demos
California NanoSystems Institute Elings Hall (Floor 2). Paid parking is available in Lot 10.
The Elings Hall showing will highlight MAT’s research work, spread across the Expressive Computation, AlloSphere, transLAB, and Experimental Visualization research groups.
EoYS@SBCAST (Downtown SB) | Thursday, June 4 | 6-10 p.m.
Installations, performances, urbanXR
Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology (531 Garden Street). Paid parking is available in city lots 10 and 11.
The SBCAST showing is taking place as part of Downtown Santa Barbara’s First Thursday Art Walk. Live music will feature the MAT Create Ensemble, and large-scale projection-mapping will be presented after dark. Media arts installations will be featured throughout.
These events are free and open to the public.
re:agency
What does human agency mean in the presence of systems that appear increasingly “agentic”—systems designed to absorb, predict, and appropriate human action? Where does agency reside when…
