Digital Arts and New Media: MFA: Collaboration, Innovation, Social Impact

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kzsc's artist on art features danm mfa candidate :: dan heller

Monday, April 1, 2013 - 8:30am to 9:00pm

On April 1, 2013, graduating DANMite, photographer, entrepreneur, educator, artist, Dan Heller came onto Artist on Art at KZSC 88.1 FM to talk about his work and voice driven interactive installation graduating project, Here Say See. He was interviewed by host and DANM '09 alum, Nada Mijkovic. View the YouTube video.

In this installation piece, the visitor listens to sound effects and is asked to “describe” where they are, and what they see. This description is then used as a search query for an image-based search online, and images that match these queries are displayed.

You will be able to interact with Dan’s installation, Here Say See, April 27-28 + May 2-5, 2013 as a part of the 2013 Digital Arts and New Media MFA exhibition, ground(ctrl), at the Digital Arts Research Center, UCSC.

Dan is also an entrepreneur with a penchant for helping startups as well as a photography business blogger.