Tag archives: SBCAST

Media Arts and Tech 25th Annual Grad Show
By Joanne A Calitri   |   July 9, 2024

UCSB’s Media Arts and Technology Program (MAT) 25th Annual End of Year Show titled soft AI+ M: Realities Altered Realities Emerging, was a dual treat with students showing at UCSB and SBCAST. I attended the SBCAST show on June 6. The poster for the show quipped, “No AI was harmed in the generation of this […]

CAST of Characters
By Steven Libowitz   |   September 21, 2021

Your faithful correspondent finds collaborations compelling, whether between artists in various genres or among cooperating venues. Both are in play with the current showcase series at Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science, and Technology (SBCAST), where three of its Artists in Residence are staging weekend exhibits of installation art, design, multimedia projects, and performances. The […]

3Qs with Shorts Fest curator Lynn Holley
By Steven Libowitz   |   August 5, 2021

After three years and five festivals screening at SBCAST, Lynn Holley’s 3 Minute Film Festival is going back online for its ninth iteration, with all 31 selections culled from twice as many entries from a dozen countries being screened on its website beginning August 1. Dubbed “The best little boutique film festival on an international […]

NEST Fest Nestles into SBCAST
By Steven Libowitz   |   November 7, 2019

Last August’s debut of NEST Fest – produced by the collective known as New Earth Star Tribe – was a deep, one-afternoon immersion in all kinds of healing and transformational modalities, from ecstatic dance to conscious talks, sound healing and movement and plenty of partner play. The event was hosted at a private East Side […]

Kristin Chenoweth Makes SB Debut
By Steven Libowitz   |   September 26, 2019

Tony Award-winning actress/singer Kristin Chenoweth has no illusions about who she is and what she can do. Blessed with a brilliant voice, plucky determination, and such a bubbly personality that The Daily Beast called her “the human version of just-popped champagne,” Chenoweth has soared on Broadway as Glinda in Wicked, and earned accolades, Emmy awards […]

PHorum Faces Facts on Dreams and Visions
By Steven Libowitz   |   March 14, 2019

Just eight days after Hospice of Santa Barbara brought Zen/Buddhist expert Roshi Joan Halifax to town to speak about compassionate care for the dying, Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care of Santa Barbara presents its annual PHorum: Perspectives in Health Care event featuring Dr. Christopher Kerr speaking about “Validating Dreams and Visions of the Dying.” Dr. […]

Lauding LUM
By Richard Mineards   |   January 24, 2019

Art lovers were out en masse when SBCAST – the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology – hosted LUM Art Zine Show POV featuring disparate works by Tosh Clements, Arturo Heredia, Madeleine Eve Ignon, and Tom Pazderka. The colorful exhibition was curated by the online art magazine’s editor Debra Herrick who waxed lyrical […]

Creative Characters: Sally Krysztal Kramberg
By Zach Rosen   |   May 10, 2018

Some people run off to the circus, other people study the circus and form an entire exhibit around it. In her showcase Charivari, on display at the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science, and Technology (SBCAST), multidisciplinary artist Sally Krysztal Kramberg explores the different circus archetypes, placing herself in these roles to discover her self-identity […]