Author Archive for Evonne Liew
Feeding and Talking to Helium-Filled Blimps: The ALAVs at the Beall Center
This year, the Beall Center for Art and Technology’s featured artist is Jed Berk, creator of a new species called ‘Autonomous Light-Air Vessels.’
ALAVs, (pronounced ‘Ah-Laahvs’) are battery powered helium-filled blimps with electronic chips where a basket would normally be. The ALAVs float a few feet above the ground as they wander around the exhibit, interacting [...]
UC Students Lobby at State Capitol
POLITICS: Students from the seminar class Lobbycore travel to Sacramento to fight for affordable education.
24-Hour Mad Film Dash: Team ASTV
‘Last year, my team drove up to San Francisco to film,’ one member of Team Anteater Student Television enthusiastically said when asked about previous experience with the UC Irvine Computer Store’s Annual 24-Hour Mad Film Dash. I remember smiling to show that I admired that sort of dedication but also secretly thinking, ‘What in the [...]
UCLA Hacking Here at UCI?
SECURITY: After 800,000 students had their information stolen at UCLA, is UCI at risk as well?
East Village Opera Company Rocks the Barclay
Rock opera: an oxymoronic genre of music? Arranger and multi-instrumentalist Peter Keisewalter doesn’t agree: ‘Rock and opera aren’t so different; both are big, unsubtle, massive and pompous.’
The Barclay Theatre audience listened to this fusion of modern and old-world pomposity on Sunday, Nov. 5. The East Village Opera Company re-imagines classical arias with the help of [...]
