The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2, previously Cal (IT)²) is an academic research institution jointly run by the University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

 (UCSD) and University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...

 (UCI).

People

Calit2 is home to scientific, artistic, and technological innovators. Some of the people involved on the UCSD campus include:

• Ramesh Rao
• Larry Smarr
  Larry Smarr
  Larry Smarr is a physicist and leader in scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and Internet infrastructure.He received both his BA and MS at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and received a Ph.D...
  
  
• Thomas A. DeFanti
  Thomas A. DeFanti
  Tom DeFanti is a computer graphics researcher and pioneer. His work has ranged from early computer animation, to scientific visualization, virtual reality, and grid computing...
  
  
• Lev Manovich
  Lev Manovich
  Lev Manovich is an author of new media books, professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, U.S. and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches new media art and theory, software studies, and digital humanities...
  
  
• Sheldon Brown
  Sheldon Brown
  Sheldon Brown may refer to:* Sheldon Brown , artist and professor of computer art* Sheldon Brown , professional American football player...
  
  
• Ricardo Dominguez
  Ricardo Dominguez (professor)
  Ricardo Dominguez is an artist and associate professor of visual arts at UC San Diego. He has been the subject of controversy over a number of acts of electronic civil disobedience on his own and with the Electronic Disturbance Theater, which he co-founded.Dominguez, the founder of the Electronic...
  
  , bang.lab
• Micha Cárdenas
  Micha Cárdenas
  Micha Cárdenas is a transgender performance and new media artist. Her work deals with the interplay of technology, gender, sex, immigration and biopolitics. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.- Education :...
  
  
• Jürgen Schulze, Immersive Visualization Laboratory (IVL)
• Trish Stone, Gallery Coordinator

Gallery at Calit2

The Gallery at Calit2 has presented numerous exhibitions from artists around the world since 2009 including Jordan Crandall, Carlos Trilnick, Felipe Zuñiga, Nina Waisman, Ignacio Lopez, Adriene Jenik, Antoinette LaFarge, Robert Allen, Greg Niemeyer and Sabrina Raaf. Guest curators include Christiane Paul and Steve Dietz.

The Gallery has hosted talks by artists including Ann Hamilton, Jordan Crandall, Micha Cárdenas

Micha Cárdenas

Micha Cárdenas is a transgender performance and new media artist. Her work deals with the interplay of technology, gender, sex, immigration and biopolitics. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.- Education :...

, Amy Sara Carroll, Sharon Daniel, Warren Sack and Rita Raley.