Events for April 2, 2026
Hollis Hammonds, ‘The River Entered My Home By Hammonds + West’
1953 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX, 77006 1953 Montrose Blvd., HoustonHollis Hammonds and Sasha West combine imagery and poetry into a multimedia installation about the impact of nature's elements.
Rebecca Pugh, ‘Highways to Houston’
Rebecca Pugh, instructional assistant professor in the Visualization program and director of Wright Gallery, presents this solo exhibition of abstract paintings inspired by driving between Houston and College Station.
‘Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Assembly Required’
This exhibition by Hillerbrand+Magsamen, a husband-wife team based in Houston, brings together sculptural, photographic and time-based works that explore the relationship between the domestic sphere and systems of thought, belief and care.
VCIM Seminar Series: Vision, Language and Action with Ishaan Singh Rawal
As autonomous driving systems evolve, the shift from standard vision-language models to vision-language-action (VLA) architectures marks a critical milestone by integrating "action" as a core modality. However, despite their potential, current VLA models are heavily bottlenecked by their reliance on massive dataset collection and expensive, dense reasoning annotations. This talk explores this multimodal evolution and presents NoRD, a novel, data-efficient VLA model that achieves competitive end-to-end driving performance without relying on reasoning overhead.