SBCAST

05/25/2026

First Thursday, June 4th, 6pm-10pm at SBCAST - 513 Garden Street. Parking at SB City Lots 10 and 11.

UCSB Media Arts and Technology End of Year Show - always one of the most engaging and provocative art exhibitions in Santa Barbara.

Art that elucidates the boundaries between technology, media and humanity.

The MAT department will showcase the cutting-edge research and new media artworks of our students, presented on June 4th at the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science, and Technology (SBCAST).

04/30/2026

Early Bird Pricing Ends on May 5th!

The Art and Power of Storytelling with Former Disney Animator Dave Zaboski
Saturday, May 9th, 10am - 4:30pm

SBCAST, 513 Garden St.

The Technology of Imagination: How belief, story and care shape the reality we create.

Stories are how we shape our world. Storytelling is a technology humans use to make meaning, move people, and design the lives we actually want to live.

Hosted at SBCAST in Santa Barbara, this daylong experience, drawn from Dave’s book Grimoire: A Storyteller’s Book of Spells, is for creatives, storytellers, and meaning-makers who sense that story is a form of power and want to use it wisely.

Across three acts, Discovery, Discipline, and Devotion, you’ll explore how belief is formed, how narrative shapes the world you inhabit, gain tools and practices for great storytelling and learn why care is the secret ingredient that separates master storytellers from those who merely persuade.

You’ll leave with deeper self-knowledge, genuine confidence in your craft, and a grounded practice for the work ahead, connected to a community on a kindred quest to make the world better for all life.
One day. Three acts. A story worth telling.

Limited seating!

Early Bird! Available until May 5th, 11:59 PM
$222.00

Standard: $333.00
Available starting May 6th, 12:00 AM

About the Dave

Dave Zaboski is the co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Laetro.com, a tech-enabled community of the world’s finest creatives serving enterprise customers with best in class design services. He is a classically trained painter and was an animator at Disney, Sony and Warner Bros. during the Second Golden Age of Animation. He worked on “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Lion King,” “Pocahontas,” “Aladdin,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Hercules,” “Fantasia 2000,” and others. He has illustrated several acclaimed children’s books, including titles for Dr. Ken Dychtwald, Dr. Deepak Chopra, finance guru Ric Edelman and actor Paul Michael Glaser.

TICKET LINK

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04/04/2026

The always superb SBHS “VADA Talks”!

There are still seats remaining for this upcoming Tuesday's VADA Talks.

Tickets are $25, free for full-time students, and RSVP is required.

The Visual Arts & Design Academy (VADA) is proud to present our 5th VADATalks Join us at the VADA Design Lab at Santa Barbara High School, for an intimate conversation with María Rendón, a visual artist whose work explores transformation, identity, and the courage to reinvent your creative practic...

12/25/2025

Hyperallergic’s annual antidote to the lists of wealthy collectors, royals, and so-called tastemakers that pervade the art media.

11/09/2025

Body Electric Exhibition
December 5th - 7th, 2025

Opening, reception and performances: Friday,
December 5th at 6pm, performances at 7pm

Exhibition Open to Public: Saturday, December 6th and Sunday, December 7th from 12pm - 4pm

Inspired by Walt Whitman's visionary poem
"I Sing the Body Electric”, this exhibition reimagines the body as a network of electric impulses, voltages, and signals that both generate and transmit lived experiences.

Body Electric brings together artists, researchers, performers, and technologists who explore the inner electrical life of the human body through biophysical sensing. By capturing physiological signals such as
brainwaves (EEG), heart rhythms (ECG), and muscle activity (EMG). The exhibition reveals the hidden languages of the body - not as metaphor, but as material, as data, as expression.

Electricity governs life on Earth at every scale, from small molecular organisms to sophisticated evolved beings. In the human body, in particular, electricity has presents itself as the firing of neurons, the pulse of the
heart, the conductivity of the skin, and the flux of emotional states. This exhibition foregrounds electricity not only as a force of animation, but as a creative medium — a raw, natural element that artists can research for an important book. sense, shape, and translate. The electric medium is further carried into the technological domain as a
means of instrumentation and expression of gathered data from the human body. Through interactive installations, performances, and sonic-visual systems, Body Electric invites audiences to witness how the body thinks, feels, and reacts beneath the surface. What emerges is a portrait of the human not
as a fixed entity, but as an ever-changing field of affective and electrical relations.

Body Electric will take place this December at Charles Street Video (Toronto) and features contributions from York University faculty, students, and international collaborators. The programme will showcase interactive sculptures, VR installation, and live
performances — including a new work by composer Gene Coleman, performing with violinist Amy Hillis from York's Music Department, body physiology sensing chairs originally conceptualised by artist Alan
Macy (SBCAST), and archival and yet pivotal work by artist, composer and scholar David Rosenboom. The exhibition builds a living bridge between the past and the present, connecting analogue pioneers with today's
generative futures, and invites us to look into the future with an open and curious mind

10/29/2025

Closing out this year and looking forward to BNW in October 2026!

10/03/2025

Brave New Work - a new initiative in Santa Barbara 10/7-10/9

https://www.independent.com/2025/10/02/step-into-the-unknown-at-brave-new-work/?fbclid=IwRlRTSANMMJFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHt2HdvEQNRcRtnBKLRlOP-Qq3ObASL8iWCcqvNXh2aWZF1JRXZ7_wpqehg2g_aem_rLHfCbS6MLofjBHuShlmiA

World leaders in art and technology gather in Santa Barbara to discuss our future.

10/03/2025

Brave New Work - In Santa Barbara 10/7-10/9

www.bravenewwork.org

The plethora of noteworthy art offerings this fall season is quite impressive. From the unknown future intersection of art and technology of Brave New Work, to two landmark exhibitions of Impressionist and 19th-century artworks by Monet, van Gogh, Matisse, and Gauguin, among others, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, plus Goleta-bred DJ Javier’s first solo exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, and the oodles of exciting art shows for us to ogle over at museums and galleries all over town — our cultural cup runneth over right now. ⁠
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This fall’s abundance of art in our museums and galleries, not to mention outside at the Library Plaza (thanks to Brave New Work), is well worth celebrating and savoring. Read on and enjoy! ⁠
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To read the full cover story check out your nearest newsstand or click here: https://www.independent.com/2025/10/01/fall-visual-arts-preview-mark-your-cultural-calendars-for-all-sorts-of-art/
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Out of town and can’t get to your nearest newsstand in Santa Barbara County? Not to worry! We put our weekly issue online each week, so you can have the print experience from anywhere: https://issuu.com/santabarbaraindependent/docs/santa_barbara_independent_10_2_25
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🎨: Xavier Pereyra⁠
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09/24/2025

Learn how to apply your design superpowers for social and ecological impact from two of the world's most impactful design visionaries.

Location:
Camp Earnest
21553 Cedar Springs Road Twain Harte, CA 95383

Date:
October 13 · 2pm - October 17 · 2pm PDT

Learn how to apply your design superpowers for social and ecological impact from two of the world's most impactful design visionaries.

09/24/2025

What is happening in the art world? How are technology and advancing computational systems affecting evolution in the arts? What is the meaning and promise of this work? What are the future implications of collecting, exhibiting and maintaining art - as described in “Brave New Work”?

A large number of arts-related institutions and organizations (in no particular order - University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, UCSB Media Arts and Technology, the Allosphere, ADA Museum, Santa Barbara Independent, Chumash Foundation, MCASB, VADA, CAW, Sullivan Goss, David Bermant Foundation, Unite to Light, Peter Brill Foundation, SBCAST) are interested in these questions. If you are too, perhaps consider attending at this inaugural event?

08/30/2025

Science funding has proven to be a marvelously effective and efficient way to improve our circumstances. Present day telecommunications is one example. Many advances result from developing mathematical theory. Budget attacks in this area, as well as to science and R&D efforts, are profoundly unwise and shortsighted.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/mozart-math-rarely-speaks-politics-wide-ranging-cuts-science-funding-m-rcna226033

UCLA's Terence Tao called the Trump administration's actions an "existential threat" to academic research in the U.S.