ISLS 2026 Agenda

ISLS 2026 UC Irvine · Jun 15–19

Arts Gallery & Performance ✕ Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency ✕ Clear filters

Wednesday, June 17 · 6 sessions

8:00 AM

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Arts Gallery & Performance

#1184: Looking Through the Lens: How Youth Practice Perspective-Shifting Through Filmmaking

A screening of four youth-produced short films from Spy Hop's Voices of the West media intensive in Utah, paired with research on how young filmmakers practice perspective-shifting. The selected works span a documentary, a YouTube-tutorial parody, an anxiety-themed narrative, and a nostalgic piece on community spaces.

Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency

Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1203: #SlowLS

A video performance examining time, movement, and rest through a scholar living at the intersection of academia and chronic illness, with footage replayed at varying speeds amid campus foot traffic. #SlowLS prompts viewers to question the rushed 'two-a-year' pace of academia and how disability might help resist its pressures.

Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency

10:00 AM

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Arts Gallery & Performance

#1184: Looking Through the Lens: How Youth Practice Perspective-Shifting Through Filmmaking

Four short films from Spy Hop's "Voices of the West" media-production intensive in Utah showcase how youth filmmakers make multimodal artistic decisions while shifting perspective. The selection spans a documentary on a local restaurant, a parody YouTube tutorial subverting the superhero genre, a film on anxiety from social media, and a nostalgic piece on a community movie theater.

Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency

Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP 3700

#1279: What’s In A Game? Framing Undergraduate Improvisers Contributions as Legitimate Participation in Improv’s Oral History

A demonstration of improv games created and modified by undergraduates in an 'Improv for Games' course, performed by a campus improv troupe. The work frames students' new forms as legitimate contributions to improv's oral history, motivated by a pedagogy of meaningful making.

Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency

Arts Gallery & Performance · ALP Patio

#1336: Intersect: A Mixed Media Collage Series

A mixed-media collage series that treats artmaking as collaboration with unruly materials, advancing a posthumanist, distributed view of agency among bodies, ideas, and matter. Created by a disabled, chronically-ill scholar-artist, the work reframes the 'flawed' or 'ruined' and explores how arts can support critical consciousness and radical hope in science and engineering.

Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency

Arts Gallery & Performance · Screening Room / Theatre (1070 McCormick Screening Room)

#1203: #SlowLS

A video performance about a scholar living at the intersection of academia and chronic illness, layering footage of the subject amid campus foot traffic at varying speeds with textual provocations. It invites attendees to question the rushed pace of academic work and whether disability can help resist its oppressive rhythms.

Identity, Belonging & Learner Agency