announcements
ISEA2006 and ZeroOne San Jose Festival :: August 7–13, 2006
The ISEA2006 Symposium on Electronic Art and the ZeroOne San Jose Global Festival of Art on the Edge will take place August 7–13. The ISEA Symposium is a prestigious international art and technology conference that is sponsored biennially by the Netherlands-based Inter-Society for Electronic Art (ISEA). Every other year, cities around the world bid to host the symposium and this year it will be held in San Jose. ZeroOne is a milestone festival that will be held biennially in San Jose, making the work of the most innovative contemporary artists in the world accessible to an audience from around the world.
http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/index.html
Once more UC Santa Cruz’s DANM Program benefits from having San Jose and Silicon Valley as our near neighbors. DANM faculty and graduate students take significant roles in this digital arts extravaganza.
1. Elliot Anderson
2. Sharon Daniel
3. Daniel Massey
4. Margaret Morse
5. Ed Osborn
6. Michella Rivera-Gravage
DANM graduate Abram Stern aka Aphid exhibit
New California Masters
June 13–July 8, 2006
Reception: Friday, June 16th, 7 - 9pm
Discussion: Thursday, June 29th, 5:30pm
In this annual juried exhibition, emerging curator award winner Rachel Beth Egenhoefer takes the pulse of California's most recent MFA graduates. Artists include Val Britton, Carleton Christy, Alex Clause, Jeffery Foye & Robbie Miller, Wrenay Gomez Charlton, David Hatcher, Elyse Hochstadt, Darren Hostetter, Lindsay Ljungkull Clark, Chris Oatey, Zachary Royer Scholz, Jocelyn Schneider Foye, Sara Simon, Keith Southern and Abram Stern.
Works/San Jose • 30 North 3rd Street • San José, California 95112 • 408.295.8378
Gallery hours: T, W, F, Sat: noon - 4pm and Thursdays noon - 7pm
The Lionel Cantú Graduate Student Award 2006
Christopher Angel Ramirez, DANM MFA graduate student, is the fourth recipient of The Lionel Cantú Graduate Award which included a cash prize for his research "Mapping the Public Space of (Homo)sexual Latino Men."
Lionel Cantú Memorial Award was established to honor the life and scholarship of Professor Lionel Cantú. Engaged in path-breaking research and analysis on sexuality, masculinity, and migration, Dr. Cantú was a devoted teacher, a remarkable mentor, and a wonderful colleague.
Christopher also received a best prize for "Bearing Witness" at the 2nd Annual UCSC Graduate Symposium, and a best prize for the 1st Annual UCSC Graduate Symposium for MAPPING THE GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE OF DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES. His conceptual art piece, "Giorno Sucks Just," produced in Isabel Reicher's DANM 217, will be screened at OUTFEST 2006 in Los Angeles, California.
Visiting speaker
Rick Prelinger
Can the Archives Survive?
May 25 from 4-5pm, followed by a question period.
College 8, Room 240Rick Prelinger will speak about issues of access to archives and control over cultural and intellectual "property," and put these large issues in context with current issues and controversies.
Visiting lecturer
Ben Shneiderman :: Unversity of Maryland-College Park
The Thrill of Discovery: Information Visualization for High-Dimensional Spaces
Tuesday, May 16, 4 pm
Engineering 2, Room 180
Artist talk
Camille Utterback
The Museum of Art & History @ The McPherson Center, Santa Cruz (
Auditorium
Saturday, May 13, 2 pmMedia artist Camille Utterback will converse with Ed Osborn (UCSC, DANM Faculty) about her work and other digital art related issues.
Camille Utterback, originally trained in traditional media, has been creating ground-breaking interactive installations since 1999. Her work has been exhibited extensively at venues including The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The American Museum of the Moving Image, New York; The NTT ICC, Tokyo; The Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Netherlands Institute for Media Art; The Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine; and the Ars Electronica Center, Austria. Awards include a Transmediale International Media Art Festival Award (2005), a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship (2002), and a Whitney Museum commission for the CODeDOC project on their ArtPort website (2002). She received her B.A. in Art from Williams College (1992), and a Masters degree from The Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (1999). She lives and works in San Francisco.
For further information see
Artist talk
Scott Draves
Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts taught by Ralph Abraham
Tuesday, May 9 (10-11:45 am)
Porter D-249Scott Draves a.k.a. Spot is a visualist and programmer residing in San Francisco. He is the creator of the Fractal Flame algorithm, the Bomb visual-musical instrument, and the Electric Sheep distributed screen-saver. All of Draves' software artworks are released as open source and distributed for free on the internet. His work has been utilized in our DANM brochures. This is a rare and unique opportunity to view his work on Electric Sheep, and hear how it all works, with its community of 20,000 internet participants, webservers and clients --- right here on the UCSC campus.
Metavid @ CC Salon May 10
Michael & Aphid will present Metavid at CC Salon. CC Salon is a monthly gathering for people interested in Creative Commons, copyright, Free Culture, Open Source, Art, Media, and Music. For more information visit cc salon at
Digital Arts and New Media Festival :: May 4–7, 2006
The DANM Program, in collaboration with Porter College, will host the Digital Arts and New Media Festival in Santa Cruz and here at UCSC.
BLINK: DANM MFA Student Work Opening Reception
Friday, May 5 (5:30-7:30)
With Michael Dale, Tyler Freeman, Bob Giges, “Gamelan Plesetan” (featuring Sapto Raharjo, Professor Rene Lysloff, DJ saKAna (aka no.e sunflowrfish), and special guests), James Khazar, Cynthia Payne, Michella Rivera-Gravage, Abram Stern (aka aphid), and Alan Tollefson.
Venue: UCSC, Porter College, Porter Sesnon Gallery
Exhibition dates: May 5 - 7, 2006
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00 - 5:00 pm
Graduate Student Research Symposium Outcome and Congratulations! CORRECTION!
Aphid and Michael gave a talk about Metavid, a system for collective remediation of public gov't proceedings, at the Graduate Research Symposium here on the UCSC campus and won the "Best Presentation" Award. Congratulations! Leaf and Christopher Ramirez also won best presentation awards! Congratulations!
Other DANM students also presented their work: leaf facilitated a performance and Christopher Ramirez presented "Bearing Witness."
Event Summary: The Division of Graduate Studies, along with University Relations, the Deans of the Academic Divisions, and the Graduate Student Association, is pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event will take place on Friday, May 5, 2006, from 3-5 pm, with a reception immediately following. The event this year will take place at University Center, and we are excited that it will be bigger, more all-inclusive, and more vibrant than our first gathering. If you were part of last year’s event, you may recall the excitement and energy associated with it.
Raqs Media Collective talk
UCSC, Studio C, Communication Building
April 14, 4pm
There will be an informal gathering for tea and conversation at 3pm!Raqs is a collective of media practitioners that works in new media & digital art practice, documentary filmmaking, photography, media theory & research, writing, criticism and curation.
Raqs Media Collective is the co-initiator of Sarai:
Members of the collective are resident at the Sarai Media Lab, Delhi, where they work on projects interpreting the city and urban experience; make cross-media works; collaborate on the development of software; design and conduct workshops; administer discussion lists; edit publications; write, research and co-ordinate several research projects and public activities of Sarai. They are co-editors of the Sarai Reader series.
For further information about the upcoming project of the Raqs Media Collective at the San Francisco Art Institute please go to the
DANM Student Winter Potluck
DANM Incoming Student Potluck
Long-form improv with DANM student Bob Giges and "Freefall"
The Broadway Playhouse, 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz
Saturday, March. 25, 8 PM
Tickets $10FOR TICKETS: Available at the door but safer to make a reservation, especially since there are only about 60 seats in the theater. For reservations, email improv@loon.com or call and leave the info on Arch's machine: 831-688-6882
DANM faculty exhibit and opening
Off-Site: Ed Osborn — Ground Creeper Variations
Fulton Mall, Downtown Fresno, California
Thursdays & Fridays, 12.15 pm - 12.45 pm
March 23 - April 14, 2006Remixes by Frank Delgado, Kenneth Froelich, Paulo Raposo, and Tara Rodgers :: April 20 & 21, 2006
Opening Event: Join artist Ed Osborn for lunch at noon to listen to the first concert broadcast on the Fulton Mall on Thursday, March 23 .
As part of the Fresno Metropolitan Museum's Off-Site series, sound artist Ed Osborn transforms the architectural space of the Fulton Mall walkway into four sound compositions, which are broadcast over the loudspeakers located throughout the mall. Osborn draws the underlying structure of the compositions from a set of plans created in the early 1960s for the design of the Fulton Mall by landscape architect Garrett Eckbo and the planning firm Victor Gruen and Associates. Using a computer program, which transforms visual structures, shapes and lines into electronic sound, Osborn reads the plans like a musical score. The linear pavement patterns, for example, translate into elongated and steady tones, whereas the clusters of planters unfold as a series of punctuated and pulsating sounds.Ed Osborn has exhibited and performed internationally, most recently at the Klanggalerie, Berlin, Germany; Interaccess, Toronto, Canada, the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, and the Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA, which represents his work. His sounding artworks take the form of installations, sculptures, radio broadcasts, videos, performances, and public projects. Osborn received his MFA from Mills College, Oakland, and is presently Assistant Professor of Media Art and DANM faculty member at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
DANM and Open Studios
leaf's 3-D Fundamentals section to perform a collaborative work beginning at 12:55pm
Friday, March 17 (12-4pm) Open Studios, Baskin Arts, UCSC
Guest lecture sponsored by Computer Science Dept.
Konrad Dunton, Graphics Technical Director, Electronic Arts
Thursday, March 16 (10-11am) :: College 8, Room 252
Character Modeling for Films and Games
This lecture will concentrate on his passion for character work and will cover methods on building models, which can be rigged to deform well. He will discuss the special considerations of modeling primary characters versus generic models for non-player characters and crowds. There will also be a discussion on best practices in relation to the interactions between designers, artists and engineers.
Konrad Dunton has over 14 years of production experience in both the motion picture and interactive game industries. Combining his two trades as a sculptor and CG software engineer, he became a Modeling Supervisor at Pacific Data Images (now PDI/DreamWorks). He was responsible for creating the sculpture and modeling departments, as well as the modeling pipeline for "Antz" and subsequent features. He was a lead in character modeling, rigging and texturing for the CAFE group (Commercials and Film Effects).
At Electronic Arts, he worked primarily with the character group as a modeler, texture artist and rigger. Currently, as the Graphic Technical Director on "Tiger Woods PGA Tour", he oversees character creation, environments, effects, and is responsible for solving a myriad of data flow and production problems.
Artist talk
Carlos Trilnick
DANM faculty exhibit and opening
Natural History
Photographs by Elliot Anderson
Opening Reception: Friday, February 24th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
February 24th to March 31st
Gallery 16
1616 16th Street
San Francisco
Gallery hours Mon - Fri, 9:00am-5:00pm and by appointment
Elliot Anderson's upcoming exhibition at Gallery 16 is a project that involves documenting the painted backdrops on display in the dioramas at New York's American Museum of Natural History. Each of the photographs are wonderfully diffused images of what appear to be landscape photographs, but are in fact, pictures of paintings. They are documents that defy convention. Anderson composes his images by cropping out all the animal or human figures in the diorama. In the process he creates his own landscapes derived from the 19th century paintings. The painted landscapes suggest an 'untamed world replete with bucolic vistas and idealized and romanticized landscapes.' The documentation of museum artifacts and systems as an art practice is not new. Mark Dion, Catherine Wagner and many others create work which allow the viewer to construct their own alternative narrative histories. Anderson's work in this vein is to confuse the boundaries of two seminal art practices, painting and photography, and recontextualize the meaning of these grandiose images. Anderson challenges photography's piety and position as a window on the real, while displaying the naive earnestness of the painters intent.
DANM facullty speaks for Mathematics Undergraduate Colloquium
Ralph Abraham
Wednesday, February 15 :: 4:45 refreshments in Baskin 295 :: 5:00 presentation in Baskin 295
Open to the public.New Branches of Mathematics
Since the computer revolution of the 1950s, Mathematics has developed several new branches -- chaos, bifurcations, fractals, complex systems, agent-based models, etc. In this talk, Professor Abraham will discuss the implications of the new branches for the sciences (especially the social sciences), for the history and sociology of mathematics, and for math education.
Ralph Abraham, , Professor Emeritus UCSC Department of Mathematics, was involved in the development of the theory of dynamical systems in the 1960s and 70s and founded the Visual Math Institute at UC Santa Cruz in 1975. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Economics, Education, Philosophy, Spirituality, and Art.
Artist talk
DONT RHINE of ULTRA-RED, Los Angeles audio art collective
Tuesday, February 14, 12:30 - 1:30pm :: Arts Seminar Room D140 Baskin Arts
Open to the public.Organizing the silence: A Briefing for SILENT|LISTEN
Rhine will discuss his most recent performance/installation with Ultra-red; SILENT|LISTEN a record of AIDS/HIV in North America, and other work by Ultra-red.
Dont Rhine co-founded in 1994 the Los Angeles-based audio art collective Ultra-red. Through radio broadcasts, performances, sound installations, publications, and street actions, Ultra-red blends sound art and electronic music with political organizing. Ultra-red draws on Conceptualism, Latin American popular education, and cultural analysis to develop projects on the politics of migrant struggles, gentrification, education, HIV/AIDS and queer sexuality. As an activist, Rhine has worked with a variety of social movements including ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), Clean Needles Now (needle exchange), and Pride at Work / AFL-CIO (queer labor). The group's current performance/installation is SILENT|LISTEN a record of HIV/AIDS in North America (Baltimore Museum of Art, Hammer Museum, Andy Warhol Museum). Ultra-red have released CDs and vinyl on Comatonse (Japan), Mille Plateaux (Germany), Fat Cat (UK), Soundslike (UK), Antiopic (US), Beta Bodega (US), Bottrop-Boy (Germany) and their own Public Record label (US).
Invitational show: A Graphic Poster of Korea | Byoung Jin. Kim
January 18–February 11, 2006
Artist Reception January 18, 5–7 pm
Porter College Faculty Gallery, UCSC
UCSC and DANM Visiting Scholar, Professor Byoung Jin. Kim’s work reflects the dichotomy that is at the heart of Korea in the 21st century: its rich and ancient traditional culture juxtaposed with its progressive ambitions and cutting-edge technology. Professor Kim’s concepts emphasize the modernization of traditional Korean cultural images without sacrificing the strength of their original essences to more accurately represent the contemporary Korean cultural identity.
Professor Kim holds a B.F.A from the Department of Applied Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University and an M.F.A from the Graduate School of Visual Design, Seoul National University, Korea. He is Art Director for two of the top graphic design studios in Korea, and is currently on sabbatical from his positions as Professor of Fine Art and Culture and Director of the Design Department, Kunkuk University, Korea. This is Professor Kim’s first overseas academic affiliation. During his year-long stay he designed the Digital Arts and New Media Program's first print brochure, establishing an identity for the program.
2006 Shows of new work by DANM student Darryl Ferrucci
"SHOT UP", a sculptural installation
Preview January 9 - 27 2006 at Cowell Coffe Shop, Cowell Coillege, UCSC.
Full show March 1-30, 2006 at The Attic, 931 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz. Presented by the Santa Cruz Institute of Contemporary Art.
For more information:
As far as I can tell, this project has nothing to do with either digital arts or new media. If anyone thinks it does, please let me know.
2005-2006 Show of work by DANM student Alana Perlin
Cross Pollination--November 28, 2005 through January 6, 2006
UC Santa Cruz's Cowell Cafe: I'm in the process of planning an opening...will keep you posted
Artist talk
Pixar Animators, Doug Sweetland and Jeff Pratt
Monday, November 21, Noon :: Porter D245
Pixar animators, Doug Sweetland and Jeff Pratt, to speak to the Theater, Drama, and the Pixar Feature seminar on November 21st from noon until 3pm in Porter D245, the DANM lounge/classroom. You are invited to attend, but since the classroom has a limited number of chairs can anyone wishing to do so please RSVP to James Khazar at james@khazar.com.
Nightingale :: Barn Theater :: Thursday–Sunday November 17–20 at 7:00 pm
Written by DANM student Bob Giges, Nightingale is loosely based on the Hans Christian Anderson story of the same name in which a mechanical bird and its living counterpart become rivals of a sort. Using video, sound, and interactive digital media, this production will weave together the original fairy tale with a story about a contemporary relationship in trouble.
This performance comes out of Ted Warburton's project group and is the culmination of more than six months of collaboration between DANM students Bob Giges, Jess Damsen, Timothy Jordan, leaf and Alan Tollefson. In Nightingale dancers onstage trigger digital effects through their intricate movements, creating streams of light and colors that appear on images of their bodies projected on screens behind them. It is the heart of Bob Giges's thesis project.
Job opportunity
The Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications for a tenure-track (Assistant Professor) faculty position. We seek outstanding applicants in Computer Science and we particularly welcome those whose interests relate to the science, design and engineering of computer games.
The link for the position description is:
Artist talk
Newton & Helen Mayer Harrison :: Pioneers of conceptual urban environmental art
Friday, October 28, 2:00 PM :: Porter D 245
Among the leading pioneers of the eco-art movement, the collaborative team of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison (often referred to simply as "the Harrisons") have worked for over thirty years with biologists, ecologists and urban planners to initiate collaborative dialogues to uncover ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development. The Harrison's concept of art embraces a breathtaking range of disciplines. They are historians, diplomats, ecologists, investigators, emissaries and art activists. Their work involves proposing solutions and involves not only public discussion, but extensive mapping and documentation of these proposals in an art context.
Past projects have focused on watershed restoration, urban renewal, agriculture and forestry issues among others. The Harrisons visionary projects have often led to changes in governmental policy and have expanded dialogue around previously unexplored issues leading to practical implementations throughout the United States and Europe.
"Our work begins when we perceive an anomaly in the environment that is the result of opposing beliefs or contradictory metaphors. Moments when reality no longer appears seamless and the cost of belief has become outrageous offer the opportunity to create new spaces—first in the mind and thereafter in everyday life."
Artist talk
iKatun & Michael Mandiberg
Friday, October 28, 5:00 PM :: Oakes Learning Center
IKatun: In South Slavic, "katun" means "temporary village" and is used to designate seasonal communities that form near bodies of water in the warm weather. iKatun's projects take the form of katuns: temporary convergences of people, institutions, and materials in a particular space. iKatun is a collective of researchers, artists and technologists who create installations, interventions, research materials and software in physical space and cyberspace. iKatun projects explore issues surrounding information, power and social exchange, particularly as they relate to public discourse, urban play and political action.
Michael Mandiberg: Michael Mandiberg is a new media artist who uses the Internet, Video and performance to explore subjectivity, labor, and commerce. His recent projects include IN Network with Julia Steinmetz, and Bush Poll (