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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2008 GRADUATES!
MFA Exhibition '08: "Bureau of Disruptions"
The Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at UC Santa Cruz joined the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge to present the work of 14 graduate students in downtown San Jose from June 4 to June 8, with an opening reception Friday, June 6 from 7-10 pm. Thank you to everyone who visited and participated!
"furusato -sounds of home-", an interactive sound installation by DANM MFA Candidate Naomi Lucille Kagaya
"Eco-Mod MoCap", final project installation by fabricio (BREEZE) olsson
About DANM
New technologies have profoundly changed contemporary culture and indelibly altered the role of the arts in society. The Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program serves as a center for the development and study of digital media and the cultures they have helped create. Faculty and students are drawn from a variety of backgrounds such as the arts, computer engineering, humanities, the sciences, and social sciences to pursue interdisciplinary artistic and scholarly research and production, in the context of a broad examination of digital arts and cultures.
This site is dedicated to the support of the DANM MFA program at UC Santa Cruz. Visit
http://digitalarts.ucsc.edu for general information about the program, our faculty, courses and the application process.
- The full DANM Program description can be found here.
- Print brochure available upon request to Felicia Rice
- Descriptions of the project groups beginning in Spring 08 can be found under Collaborative Research.
If you would like to join our mailing list for information on upcoming events or information about the DANM program, please send your email and mailing addresses to
danm@ucsc.edu.
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Since wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic system, it is difficult to explain precisely in western terms. According to Leonard Koren, wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty and it "occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West."
"Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
"It is the beauty of things modest and humble.
"It is the beauty of things unconventional."
(quoted from "WABI-SABI: FOR ARTISTS,DESIGNERS, POETS & PHILOSOPHERS," 1994, Leonard Koren)
The concepts of wabi-sabi correlate with the concepts of Zen Buddhism, as the first Japanese involved with wabi-sabi were tea masters, priests, and monks who practiced Zen. Zen Buddhism originated in India, traveled to China in the 6th century, and was first introduced in Japan around the 12th century. Zen emphasizes "direct, intuitive insight into transcendental truth beyond all intellectual conception." At the core of wabi- sabi is the importance of transcending ways of looking and thinking about things/existence.
- All things are impermanent
- All things are imperfect
- All things are incomplete
(also taken from WABI-SABI: FOR ARTISTS,DESIGNERS, POETS & PHILOSOPHERS, 1994, Leonard Koren):
Material characteristics of wabi-sabi:
- suggestion of natural process
- irregular
- intimate
- unpretentious
- earthy
- simple
For more about wabi-sabi, see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WabiSabi.