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Reporters are a skeptical bunch, so it was unusual to hear so many of them raving about their firsthand experience with Apple’s next Big Thing.

*located across from the main campus at the Extended Learning Building This lab based at the University of Buffalo brings an art and science duo to campus. This program includes a talk about the dynamic history and future of art fused with science with bio-artist Paul Vanouse and scientist Solon Morse. A hands-on workshop will give students the opportunity to create art with biology and experimental imaging methods. Vanouse has been working in emerging media forms since 1990 and is the recipient of prestigious international awards. Co-helming the Coalesce Center for Biological Art and collaborating on several art science projects, Morse guides artists through genomics and analysis. The duo will share insights with the CSUSM community on fostering art and science in shared laboratory and creative spaces. Co-sponsor: Innovation Hub Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram

The book “Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change” explores how artists use their creative practices to raise consciousness, form communities and cause social impact through new technologies. Tactical media artist xtine burrough, who presented in the Context Exhibit Series at Kellogg Library in 2018, returns to campus to discuss the new anthology of socially engaged artists’ writings that she co-edited. Book contributor and artist Kim Abeles will discuss her environmental and community-based artworks. Lucy HG Solomon, a CSUSM professor and chapter co-author, will moderate a panel about the artists’ relationships to community and technology. *satellite location with mini exhibit in the Arts Building foyer Co-sponsor: University Library, #CSUSMLibrary

Dr. Ana Muñiz, an assistant professor at UC Irvine and a scholar-activist from Arizona’s borderland region, will address the border’s salient features, which include an immigration carceral system and the border wall. Muñiz will specifically focus on the invisible information systems affirming a three-fold punitive system incorporating digital surveillance, immigration control and gang punitive enforcement. She also will describe how interlocked social control agencies, including federal, state, local and transnational police, create multiple digital borderlands, which become instruments of border militarization. Muñiz is the author of “Police, Power and the Production of Racial Boundaries.” Co-sponsored by the CSUSM Sociology Department and Project Rebound

San Diego is recycling organic waste as part of a state effort to reduce emissions coming from landfills. How is that working for you?

House lawmakers won't vote until Monday after a bloc of Freedom Caucus members torpedoed GOP legislation in an effort to express dissatisfaction with House leadership.

Sunday, June 11, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Go behind the scenes to explore the end of the epic tale of the iconic Oxford detective celebrated the world over. From INSPECTOR MORSE to the spin-off LEWIS to a decade of ENDEAVOUR, the Oxford universe of crime has continued to fascinate viewers.

Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro is the author of “Caparazones” (2010), the first lesbian fiction novel written in Puerto Rico, and the editor of the anthology “Cachaperismos,” the first Puerto Rican lesbian anthology on the island. An Afro Puerto Rican feminist writer who has won multiple awards for her work, Arroyo Pizarro will discuss issues related to race in Latinx culture, women’s rights and the LGBTQ+ fight for equity. Her experiences open the door for conversations on gender, race and ethnicity, particularly centering on the experience of Afro-Latinas. Follow on Twitter!

Dueling proposals from Democrats and Republicans in the California legislature aim to provide relief from soaring gas prices. Meanwhile, funding is on the way for mental health treatment for San Diego’s health care workers. Plus, we continue our series on how the pandemic has impacted San Diego’s arts scene.

Ariana Brown is a queer, Black, Mexican American poet with 13 years of experience writing, performing and teaching poetry. Her work focuses on Black relationality, queer kinship and imagining a world where Black girls are free. She is the author of the poetry collections “We Are Owed” (2021) and “Sana Sana” (2020). She is a 2014 national collegiate poetry slam champion who owes much of her practice to performance communities led by Black women poets from the South. Drawing on her lived experience and her research, Brown will trace her attempts to recover Black girlhood not just for herself, but for other Black girls too. Combining storytelling, poems and dialogue, this artist talk is an opportunity to hear from Brown about how her identities and politics shape her writing. The event will take place online via Zoom. Follow on social media! Twitter + Instagram