Welcome to Informatics Projects

The Graduate School of Informatics, in conjunction with Elizabeth Watkins of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, are proud to present Informatics Projects, a brand-new gallery space within the Informatics Department.

Alumni and student artwork from the Studio Art Department will be exhibited within the lobby, hallway, and meeting spaces of the Informatics Department. Hopefully this project, executed jointly by Elizabeth Watkins and Informatics professor Bonnie Nardi, will undertake to bridge the gap between the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. These schools, being so lauded and yet so far from one another physically and perceptively, deserve to be bridged in a way that encourages cross pollination of ideas, research and creativity. This project will foster a greater sense of community on campus: the students and faculty of the Informatics Department will be shown a new set of visual ideas, and art students will be shown a way of thinking and field of academia that is rarely found in conjunction with the practice of fine arts.

In addition, instituting visual interest in the open spaces in the Informatics Department would help to warm up the brand-new, unworn walls, hallways, classrooms and meeting halls that make up Donald Bren Hall. This warmth will make spending time in the building a more pleasant sensory experience, and will also play a wonderful backdrop to the various visitors to this new and innovative Department.