Roger Bloom

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Join date: May 5, 2026

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Roger Bloom is an award-winning OC journalist, having written and edited for the OC Business Journal and Orange County Register. He is the founding editor of the Newport Beach Independent and twice served as president of the OC Press Club. He is especially interested in the business side of the arts in Orange County.

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May 6, 2026 ∙ 4 min

UCI’s Beall Center is Turning Social Media and AI on Themselves

The current exhibit uses the latest technology as both the medium and the message. AI personalities discuss the meaning of their AI lives in Sara Rothberg’s “Forever Meetings: Scrambled Zone” at UC Irvine’s Beall Center for Art + Technology. Photo by Roger Bloom, Culture OC “The medium is the message,” wrote Marshall McLuhan in 1964, arguing that our perceptions are shaped by how the information we receive is delivered and presented. At UCI’s Beall Center for Art + Technology, the message is...