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06.13.2009 - 07.24.2009 :: DANM Student work part of RUST FEST at McDonough Museum of Art at Youngstown State University, Ohio

McDonough Museum of Art
RUST FEST digital arts and new media festival
June 13 - July 24, 2009
Opening Reception, Saturday, June 13, 6:00-8:00pm
A selection of digital arts and new media from MFA programs within the United States.


Rust Fest, opening June 13th at the McDonough Museum of Art on the campus of Youngstown State University, will feature the work of graduate students from MFA programs in digital arts and new media from eight universities across the United States. This exhibition is a presentation of screen based work in all forms - from animation to computer games and novel visualization environments - to works in 2nd life. In a press release, Rust Fest organizers say, "This exhibition will provide an unparalleled opportunity for visitors to the Museum to encounter compelling new media and digital art works from several progressive MFA programs."

The DANM MFA Program at UC Santa Cruz is participating along with the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of California at Berkley, Alfred University, New York University, the University of Texas at San Antonio, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Minnesota. The exhibition includes works by DANM's own Angela Carroll, Michael Dale and Aphid Stern, Nik Hanselmann and Nick Lally, Laila Shereen Sakr, and Alan Tollefson.

For further information: http://mcdonoughmuseum.ysu.edu/

07.03.2009 - 07.24.2009 :: DANM Artists show Invisible Ingredient at Rock! Paper! Scissors! in Oakland

Opening reception Friday, July 3rd at 6pm

Please come to the opening reception, this Friday July 3, at Rock Paper Scissors. First Friday starts at 6 pm, and the show is up until July 24, when we will have a closing reception at 7 pm. Below are details about the show and the artists involved (Rupa Dhillon, Miki Foster, Lindsay Kelley, Nick Lally, and Elizabeth Travelslight).

Invisible Ingredient brings together five up-and-coming digital artists from the Bay Area whose works uncover the hidden politics and histories of everyday phenomena. Each artist merges art, technology, and craft to make invisible ingredients visible. Miki Yamada Foster's Feminist Craft Corner explores the hidden politics of gender and sexuality by interweaving technology and craft, while Lindsay Kelley examines the borders of food and nonfood through video and text in Starvation Seeds. Nick Lally, Elizabeth Travelslight, and Rupa Dhillon expose everyday invisible phenomena ranging from the relationships between sound and light to the notion of memory and personal reflection. Through the use of electronic sensors and computer programming, Nick Lally uncovers the beauty and complexity behind seemingly mundane data in his untitled series of digital prints, photographs, and accompanying mural. Elizabeth Travelslight explores the notion of personal identity, memory, and reflection in her assemblage series containing found furniture, textiles, and glass. Rupa Dhillon exposes the visibility of sound in (Re)Sounding Light through the use of electronics, beads, and deconstructed musical instruments.

(Re)Sounding Light, by Rupa Dhillon

(Re)Sounding Light explores the relationship between sound and sight though an interactive sonic chandelier that can be touched and spoken to. It takes sound from the audience, which is normally thought of as invisible, and uses its vibrational character to create motion within the chandelier. This motion causes a series of deconstructed instruments to vibrate and generate additional sounds, while also causing the light reflected from the chandelier’s beads to dance around the space. This artwork reveals that the experience of sound goes beyond what is heard: that it can also be seen.

Bio: Rupa Dhillon holds a BSc in Music Technology from London Metropolitan University and an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from UC Santa Cruz. Her work combines software, electronics and music in order to explore the experiential qualities of sound and investigate issues of accessibility for those with sensory impairments.

Feminist Craft Corner, by Miki Yamada Foster

Feminist Craft Corner is a public access television show and an installation of collaborative Do-It-Yourself (DIY) experiments in crafting and technology. The public access show invites the audience to question their assumptions about how we speak about technology and who can speak for it. The episodes enact a queer staging of media production for the purposes of educating its audience about the intersections of DIY, crafting and technology. These interactive craft pieces encourage participants to playfully engage with objects through the activation of a queer and feminist framework, produced through the selection of content and the construction of form.

Bio: Miki Yamada Foster is a queer hapa multimedia artist from Seattle, Washington. She is a maker of comics, zines, small crafted things, installations and experimental documentaries. Her current work investigates the intersections between DIY crafting and radical feminism and queer theory through the creation of feminist video productions and electronic crafting materials. She received her Bachelors of Arts at the Evergreen State College with an emphasis in Film and Gender and Race Studies.

Starvation Seeds, by Lindsay Kelley

Lindsay Kelley's Starvation Seeds is a video installation, a cookbook, and a research initiative. Throughout the project, Kelley asks the simple question "what is food?" Many of the practices referred to in Starvation Seeds exist at the limit of intelligible cuisine and are not understood as food or eating; such practices might be pathologized as "pica" (the ingestion of nonfood) or viewed in relationship to malnutrition and starvation as refeeding. Such practices reveal bodies at their limits. Starvation Seeds at Invisible Ingredient presents videos documenting the preparation of three fringe foods, opportunities to taste and prepare these foods, and a small book documenting Kelley's recipe development process.

Bio: Lindsay Kelley researches fringe foods, experimental ingestion, and representations of people and plants in narratives of conquest. She has exhibited and published in the United States, Canada, and Australia. She recently completed a dissertation in the History of Consciousness Department at University of California Santa Cruz about food, biotechnology and contemporary art, focusing on artists who use biological processes or "wet ware," and also holds a MFA in Digital Art and New Media from UCSC.

Untitled, by Nick Lally

Untitled is a series of large-format digital prints and a painted mural inspired by the prints. The prints feature visualizations of large amounts of environmental data (sound and light levels) collected over the course of a day using custom-built sensors. The seemingly mundane data is visualized in unexpected, complex and beautiful ways. The project unlocks new potentials for the performance of large amounts of data over time. The visualizations break from the traditional model of graphing data along a time axis; rather than the movement of time instigating the movement of the data, light levels determine its trajectory and path. The work encourages the viewer to understand the everyday in a new way, through its defamiliarization.

Bio: Nick Lally creates multimedia work that explores citizens' experiences living in a society ruled by the logic of the informational network. His work encourages viewers to think about the ways that those changes are manifested and to explore new possibilities for subjective experiences afforded by those technologies. His work takes the form of digital media, prints, video projections, sound, sculpture, photographs, drawings and paintings. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from the University of California Santa Cruz. He is a founding member of the Artclash Collective and the Thunderwhip Design Collective.

Experimental Archives / Collaborative Media Studies, by Elizabeth Travelslight

Experimental Archives / Collaborative Media Studies brings together four of the most recent developments of Bay Area artist Elizabeth Travelslight. Her works are primarily concerned with knowledge making and knowledge sharing before and beyond the written word. In particular, Travelslight’s works revolve around feminist intertwinings—literal weavings—of texts and textiles and the use of intricately etched mirrors that playfully introduce unexpected possibilities of sight and subject position. Her work explores the inherent tensions and libratory potential between remembering and forgetting, knowing and not knowing, holding on and letting go; all towards the re-forging of new paradigms of relationship.

Bio: Transnationally made and Bay Area born, Elizabeth Travelslight is thirty-three. Orchestrating collisions between material and digital media, she hopes to continue her explorations of writing and philosophy through conceptual art, curious objects, and installations that demonstrate the possibilities of folk art and craft with contemporary technology. She is a graduate student with the Digital Arts New Media MFA program at the University of California Santa Cruz.


Ongoing


02.02.2009 :: "Artists on Art" Radio Show, host: Nada Miljkovic, KZSC

Tonight, at 7:00 PM, the new weekly KZCS radio show Artists on Art will feature: DMA in music composition student Vedran Mehinovic talking about his newest orchestral and music pieces. Tune into KZSC at 88.1 FM on your radio or listen on the web at www.kzcs.org for the third show about art and artists. If you miss the live presentation, no worry tune into the DANMite Blog for the on-line archival version. Also, if you would like to discuss future show potentials or have a question, send an email to art at kzsc dot org.


Recent

05.29.2009 - 06.24.2009 :: interACTIVATE part II

See the second part of our 2009 MFA exhibition at the MAH. Details


06.24.2009 :: 6pm :: Encore Presentation: Short Animations by Kathleen Kralowec

a free event -- everyone's invited!

Kathleen Kralowec is a first-year student in Digital Art and New Media at UCSC, whose recent work has included experimental and semi-surreal digital animations. These works stand as experiments in medium, but also as attempts to discover a unique approach to narration, poetics, and speculative story-telling.

06.16.2009 :: 7:30pm :: Strange Cadence: a distinct view of Shakespeare Santa Cruz

Special screening of a documentary film which chronicles the making of SSC's 2008 season, presented by DANM alumna CM Griffiths

Details: http://www.shakespearesantacruz.org/season/special_events.php

06.12.2009 :: Graduate Division Commencement Ceremony

Congratulations to the new DANM Masters of Fine Arts!


06.11.2009 :: 1pm :: A Few Things in a Box by Jessica Hayden, featuring Veronica Tjioe

On Thursday afternoon, DANM student Jessica Hayden will be presenting a short theatrical piece that she's written and directed for the DANM critique class. The piece explores questions of autobiographical memory and the evocative object, and uses RFID technologies to trigger several audio plays-within-a-play.

A Few Things in a Box
featuring Veronica Tjioe

You are invited to come and watch the piece, beginning at 1:00 and running approximately 25 minutes.

06.10.2009 :: 7pm :: A Presentation of Short Animations by Kathleen Kralowec

a free event:

Kathleen Kralowec is a first-year student in Digital Art and New Media at UCSC, whose recent work has included experimental and semi-surreal digital animations. These works stand as experiments in medium, but also as attempts to discover a unique approach to narration, poetics, and speculative story-telling.






06.10.2009 :: 11am :: Talk by game scholar T.L. Taylor

Social Code: Practices, Technology, and Play

Within game studies a fair amount of work has been done exploring forms of sociality and action that operate within massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs). Building on the notion that these spaces are a rich cultural milieu, this talk will explore how players actively engage with a variety of technologies to help shape and sustain social life and play in these worlds. By looking at a variety of examples - from simple websites to mods - this talk will present a notion of play as socio-technical assemblage in which players often actively configure and co-create game experience via a complex mix of play norms embedded in user-produced tech.

T.L. Taylor (http://www.itu.dk/tltaylor) is Associate Professor in the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT University of Copenhagen where she also heads the Multimedia Technology and Games graduate program. As a sociologist, she has been working in the field of internet and multi-user studies for over fifteen years and has published on topics such as values in design, avatars and online embodiment, play and experience in online worlds, gender and gaming, and intellectual property in MMOGs. Her book Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture (MIT Press, 2006) uses her multi-year ethnography of the massively multiplayer online game EverQuest to explore issues related to play and game culture. She is currently completing work for a book on professional computer gaming.

05.30.2009 - 05.31.2009 :: Maker Faire in San Mateo - DANM Mechatronics group and others to attend

Maker Faire next weekend, May 30-31, in San Mateo. FREE admission is being offered to educators who request a ticket as described on their website, http://makerfaire.com/education.

The event's organizers say "Last year, the two days of Maker Faire attracted over 65,000 people, including members of the DANM community. They all came to see hundreds of unusual inventions in the areas of science, technology, engineering, green design, food, music, arts, & crafts created by more than 500 Makers from around the Bay Area and all over the world. Maker Faire’s creative explosion sparks new ideas for projects and curriculum. Come to meet Makers -- scientists, homemakers, students, automotive enthusiasts, software developers, musicians, crafters of all stripes -- or just to benefit from their diverse ideas. They are all individuals and communities of people drawn together by a common delight in the magic of tinkering, hacking, creating, and reusing materials and technologies. They use their creativity and resourcefulness to bring their bright ideas into the real world, whether in the form of robots, LED clothing, wacky bicycles, art cars, rockets, unusual musical instruments, or any of thousands of other things you may not have ever imagined."

(NEW DATE!) 06.02.2009 :: DANM Town Hall Meeting

This bi-annual event gathers faculty and students to discuss the student experience and identify ways to further enhance and improve the program. All DANM students and faculty are encouraged to attend.


05.15.2009 :: 5th Annual Graduate Research Symposium

UCSC's 5th Annual Graduate Research Symposium will be held on the 3rd Friday in May (5/15). Each of the Divisions contributes funds toward the symposium - with 3 cash prizes awarded per division for the best presentation (poster, oral, or whatever mechanism).

DANM participants

Ten DANM students will be presenting their research at the 5th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium. Rupa, Miki, Christoph, Josh and Laila are giving "Media" presentations in the Chancellor's room and the Rotunda; Antoine, Craig, Nick and Nik, and Topher are giving poster presentations in the Bhojwani Room and Nada will be giving a "live" presentation in the Sentinel Room at 3:30.

You can find out more info about the symposium and download a PDF of the program here

Post-event update

The Division of Arts awards went to Joshua McVeigh-Schultz for "Synaptic Crowd: Vox Pop Experiments" and Nada Miljkovic for "Balkan Song" -- congratulations! Read more about the event and our own announcement.

04.17.2009 - 05.14.2009 :: interACTIVATE part I

See the first part of our 2009 MFA exhibition at the MAH. Details


05.07.2009 :: Santa Cruz Film Festival

DANM Student, Nada Miljkovic has been selected for this year's Santa Cruz Film Festival with her short entitled Eva on Marriage, that is a small part of her DANM MFA Exhibit entitled Balkan Song. The screening will be May 7th at 5:15 at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz.


04.29.2009 :: ATC Event with Amy Balkin

Artist Amy Balkin's projects – including Public Smog, This is the Public Domain, and Invisible-5 – consider how we occupy the social and material landscapes we inhabit. Recent video works address the politics of climate change and war production.


04.19.2009 - 04.21.2009 :: DANM Chair and Student participate in HASTAC III Conference in Urbana, IL

Sharon Daniel participates on panel and shows new media documentary at 3-day conference

DANM Chair and Professor of Film + Digital Media Sharon Daniels' new media documentary "Technology for Social Inclusion" will be a continuous installation at the conference. She will also be participating on a Monday afternoon panel discussing "Born Digital Scholarship: New Strategies, Projects and Possibilities"

Joshua McVeigh-Schultz opens the conference with his Vox Pop Event

DANM 2nd-year student Joshua McVeigh-Schultz will present his thesis project, Synaptic Crowd: Vox Pop Experiments, in a hybrid presentation on Sunday April 19th at 6pm. His presentation will serve as a introductory event to the opening keynote at the Independent Media Center, Urbana, IL.

04.17.2009 - 04.18.2009 :: Unfolding the Baroque: Extensions of a Concept

The spring Visual and Performance Studies conference, Unfolding the Baroque, will deal with two aspects concerned with concepts and histories of the Baroque: 1) the art-historical and cultural-historical category of the Baroque in new cross-cultural, trans-medial, and trans-historical configurations, e.g., “baroque-ness”; and 2) the aesthetics, historiography, and general Weltanschauung of the baroque as a conceptual model for contemporary critical thinking, writing, and performance.
Event poster

04.17.2009 :: DANM Student Miki Foster presents as part of "Crafting Queer" panel at the GLBT Historical Society

This Friday Miki Foster will be presenting at the GLBT Historical Society in SF on a panel called Crafting Queer, and invites the larger DANM community to attend.


04.17.2009 :: Career Workshop

UCSC Career Center's April Goral helps DANM students prepare for post-MFA professional life.


03.14.2009 - 04.15.2009 :: Solo Show of New Media Art: 'FERMENTATIONS' BY ROOPESH SITHARAN

'FERMENTATIONS' is open to members of the public from 14 March to 15 April 2009 at Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah in University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

04.14.2009 :: DANM Project Group Presentations

See the work of the 2008-09 Participatory Culture and Mechatronics collaborative research groups.


04.02.2009 - 04.21.2009 :: Talks by Candidates for Assistant Professor of Electronic Art and DANM faculty

Thursday, April 2, 2:30–3:45pm :: Christina McPhee

Christina McPhee works with data landscapes and assemblage, interpreting large scale technological installations, often in remote areas. She creates topologic site assemblages in layered baroque suites involving onsite photographs, video, drawing, and interactive new media. She has a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Boston University. Her work is shown nationally and internationally.

Friday, April 3, 2:30–3:45pm :: Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer. His work has been exhibited internationally and involves deliberately blurring the lines between social science, contemporary art, and a host of even more obscure disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to interpret the world around us. Paglen holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a PhD in Geography from UC Berkeley.

Monday, April 6, 2:15–3:30pm :: Clea Waite

Clea T. Waite’s experimental video works examine the meta-meanings found in unlikely correspondences between myth and science. Waite’s works include computer animation, stereoscopic, multi-channel video installation, hemispherical digital-film, and a collaborative work with several hundred tropical spiders. She studied laser-physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and did her graduate work in 3D computer graphics at the MIT Media Laboratory. Waite has exhibited and received prizes internationally.

Thursday, April 9, 3:00–4:15pm :: Brooke Singer

Brooke Singer is a digital media artist, currently Assistant Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, and co-founder of the art, technology and activist group Preemptive Media. Brooke is interested in emerging technologies not only because they are fun but also because they are contingent and malleable. She has utilized wireless communications (Wi-Fi, mobile phones, RFID) to initiate discussion and positive system failures. Her work seeks to provide public access to important social issues that often are characterized as specialized or “for experts only.”

Tuesday, April 21, 2:45–4:00pm :: Aleksandra Dulic

Dr. Aleksandra Dulic is media artist, theorist and filmmaker working at the intersections of interactive multimedia installation and live performance with research foci in cross-cultural media performance, interactive animation and computational poetics. She holds an MFA from the School for the Contemporary Art and PhD from the School of Interactive Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University. She has received a number of awards for her short animated films. Her artistic work is widely presented in exhibitions, festivals, and television broadcasts across Europe, Asia and North America.

04.08.2009 :: LASER lecture and presentation series features DANM's Warren Sack and others

LASER is a monthly series of lectures and presentations organized by Piero Scaruffi on behalf of Leonardo/ISAST

Please RSVP to p (at) scaruffi (dot) com to attend. Admission is free but limited.

Schedule:

6:30pm-7pm: Socializing/networking.

7pm-7:30pm: Warren Sack (UC Santa Cruz) on "Software Studies, Software Art, Software Design"

Since software design is a process of writing, the "computer revolution" can be understood as the rewriting of the world. One can identify a minor literature, within computer science, that has been premised on an understanding of software designers as writers, as essayists, as those who articulate ideas in code to communicate with other people. In other words, within this minor literature, computers are understood not just as tools but also as media that connect and separate people. Software studies is an emerging area in which code is examined as a digital medium.

7:30pm-8pm: Hasan Elahi, San Jose State University's CADRE Lab for New Media, on "Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project"

8:30pm-9pm: Chris McKay (NASA AMES) on "The Phoenix Mission to Mars and Mars-like places in Antarctica"

9pm-9:30pm: Marty Banks (UC Berkeley) on "Some Interesting Phenomena in Picture Perception"

This LASER is sponsored by: ZKM|Center for Art and Media. More information about previous LASERS, see: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/laser.html

04.03.2009 - 04.04.2009 :: DANM student g. craig hobbs presents at "Objects of Knowledge, Objects of Exchange: Contours of (Inter)disciplinarity" at Harvard University


The Mellon Graduate Student Conference will take place April 3rd and 4th in the Thompson room, Barker Center, Harvard University. (All events are free and open to the public.) With topics ranging from movement theory and parkour to the uses and abuses of fMRI imaging, from the development of the economy as a discursive object to the role of new media in contemporary theater, organizers anticipate a lively and dynamic exchange.

Craig's panel: "Circulations"



More on the conference

04.03.2009 :: Visiting Day

03.30.2009 :: "When Video Games Became Casual" - a talk by Jesper Juul

Jesper Juul, the well-known game studies researcher and author of the book Half-Real (http://www.half-real.net/), will be talking at UCSC Monday the 30th. Here's the information about his talk.


Abstract

It seems like only yesterday that the whole world could agree on one thing: that video games were for young geeky males and young geeky males only. Yet today, casual games are everywhere, and the game industry is actively targeting so-called casual players. In this talk I will present a short history of the rise of casual games, and discuss the how's and why's of this casual revolution.

Bio

Jesper Juul is a Video Game Researcher at the Singapore-MIT Game Lab in Cambridge, MA. His research interests include video game history, games and storytelling, and game design. His book Half Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds was published by MIT press in 2005. He continues to write The Ludologist, a blog on video game theory. His new book on the rise of casual video games titled "A Casual Revolution" will be published by MIT Press in October 2009.


02.20.2009 - 03.27.2009 :: ELLIOT ANDERSON: EQUIVALENTS at Gallery 16 in San Francisco

DANM faculty member Elliot Anderson has a new body of work, “Equivalents,” on display at Gallery 16 in San Francisco through March 27. This series follows the direction set by Anderson’s “Averaged Landscapes,” shown at the deYoung Museum in 2007.

In this new work, Anderson questions the notions set forth by Alfred Stieglitz in his 1921 “Equivalents” series. Anderson uses the Internet, the repository for all digital snapshots, as his source material. “Inspired by Stieglitz’ work I began collecting snapshots of clouds and skies gathered from the web-searches on the Internet. Using software I designed I averaged together a selection of these images. Averaging is an algorithmic process that merges a series of images into one, creating a final image that is a composite of all those submitted to the software. Another influence on this work is the aesthetic of the sky from Hudson River School paintings. The Hudson River School was a loosely affiliated group of 19th century painters who lived and worked in the Hudson River Valley in upstate New York. These artists were the first to truly represent the American Landscape. The vocabulary of their work included luminous and at time ominous skies through which they sought to evoke an emotional response to an idealized American wilderness.”


03.11.2009 - 03.20.2009 :: "COME SEE COMPUTER ART"

COME SEE COMPUTER ART showcases work in a variety of media by 10 graduate students in DANM 224 Digital Arts Project Studio, taught by E.G. Crichton: Lyes Belhocine, Drew Detweller, Nik Hanselmann, Jessica Hayden, Alex Konrad, Nick Lally, Topher Maraffi, Kyle McKinley, Josh McVeigh-Schultz, Chris Molla


01.09.2009 - 03.14.2009 SCALABLE RELATIONS, a media festival from ucDARnet, includes work by DANM Faculty Sharon Daniel and Warren Sack


03.13.2009 :: Open Studios at Baskin Arts

Open Studios at Baskin on Friday, March 13 will include work by DANM students Drew Detweller, Nik Hanselmann, Nick Lally, and Josh McVeigh-Schultz.


03.11.2009 :: CMPE 118/218 (Mechatronics) presents final projects in "SLUG SPACKLER’S REVENGE: CADDYSHACK OPEN 2009"

Come watch the action as Computer Engineering's Mechatronics students show their final projects: droids that will reclaim the golf tournament from the dreaded gopher by dropping in ping-pong ball sized explosives down the gopher holes.


03.10.2009 :: DANM 220 Presentations

The students of DANM 220 will be making project presentations at 12:00 on Tuesday March 10. All interested faculty are invited to attend.

Selected projects will also be shown in the showcase
  • Porter Faculty Gallery, Porter College, UCSC
  • Wednesday, March 11 through Friday, March 20
  • Reception Wed., March 11, 4-6pm


12.06.2008 - 03.07.2009 :: Harlem of the West Revisited: an exhibit by Elizabeth Pepin & Lewis Watts

Come see Harlem of the West…Revisited, an art and photographic exhibit that celebrates the bustling San Francisco Fillmore jazz era of the 1940s and 1950s, a period when the Fillmore was a vibrant neighborhood of more than two dozen nightclubs and music joints within its one square mile---all of which virtually vanished due to redevelopment in the 1960s. The exhibit celebrates a unique and rediscovered chapter in jazz history and the African American experience on the West Coast. The exhibit is based on a book written by Elizabeth Pepin & Lewis Watts, who are also the exhibit curators.


02.27.2008 - 02.28.2009 College Art Association 2009 Conference includes topical panels led by DANM Students

Friday 12:30-2:00pm :: New Media Caucus Panel led by Lindsay Kelley: "Mail Away: War Correspondence at Home and Online"

Friday 12:30-2:00pm :: Miki Foster leads panel discussion on "Queering Craft"

Saturday 2:30-4:00pm :: Join Rupa Dhillon as she leads a panel on "Touching Conceptual Art"

For more on the CAA 2009 Conference: http://conference.collegeart.org/

For more information on the New Media Caucus: http://www.newmediacaucus.org/



02.28.2009 :: Fun-A-Day in the Bay: show features work of DANM students at Queen's Nails in SF

The Fun-A-Day show in San Francisco features work by several DANM students (Jessica Hayden, Elizabeth Travelslight, Nik Hanselmann, Karl Baumann, Kathleen Kralowec and Nick Lally, who also is one of the show's organizers). In the Fun-A-Day shows -- which take place in locations across the US -- we see the work of artists who created something new every day in January.

For more info, see: http://nicklally.com/?p=516 or http://artclash.com/.



11.08.2008 - 02.28.2009 :: Warren Sack's Conversation Map at SF MoMA

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DANM faculty member Warren Sack's Conversation Map is an online exhibit in "The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now" curated by Rudolf Frieling, showing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art November 8, 2008 through February 2009. The graphical user interface and video were created by DANM student Laila Shereen Sakr. You can see the interactive installation in San Francisco or participate online.

02.06.2009::_Appropriations/Apropos:the Dialectics of Détournment and Recuperation_ Site-Specific Digital Printmaking by Kyle McKinley


First year DANM student Kyle McKinley shows a collection of recent digital manipulations and photographs that attempt to raise questions about the state of appropriation amongst radical/ anarchist communities.


Sub Rosa Community Space, 703 Pacific Ave. Santa Cruz. February 6th through February 28th, 2009.
Opening reception Friday February 6th, 6-10pm.
All proceeds directly benefit Sub Rosa.

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12.13.2008 - 02.06.2009 :: "Simply Divine" by Satadru Sovan Banduri

"Simply Divine" by Satadru Sovan Banduri (New media Artist) and DANM 2007 Fulbright Scholar

More information: satadru.sovan@gmail.com

02.04.2009 :: BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED a collective exhibition by DANM students

WHAT

An assemblage of sensory interventions in the audio, visual and atmospheric climate of the Sesnon Art Gallery exhibition, Some Assembly Required, opening week activities http://arts.ucsc.edu/sesnon/

PARTICIPANTS

Lyès Belhocine, Drew Detweiler, Nikolaos Hanselmann, Jessica F Hayden, Alexander Konrad, Nick Lally, Kyle Forrest Mckinley, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Christopher Molla

WHEN

February 4, 2009 3-9 pm (Reception 4-6 pm)

WHERE

Sesnon Art Gallery, Faculty Gallery (D-222) and DANM Lounge (D-221) at Porter College, UCSC

Photos from event


01.30.2009 :: 1st Annual Global Game Jam -- Registration required!

All DANM students are invited to the first annual Global Game Jam. It's an event where people get together in teams and create video games in a 48 hour time span. It will take place at the Engineering building on Jan 30-Feb.1. Food is provided and entrance is free, but space is limited. Register online at http://ayandeh.cse.ucsc.edu/ggj09/

More information: http://www.globalgamejam.org/

01.21.2009 :: Music and Videos by DANM students at The Crepe Place

Organized by DANM student Nick Lally, the night includes music by Dragging an Ox through Water, Eddie Loves Debbie and DANM's own Chris Molla, with experimental, documentary, interactive and other video by a number of DANM students.

more information at http://nicklally.com/?p=418

Photos

01.14.09 - 01.16.09 :: "Global Webjam" hosted by Synthia Payne








Wednesday, January 14 and Friday January 16 - 7:00 p.m. PST

Chill Out Cafe - 1222 Soquel Avenue - next to Blockbuster

11.23.2008 - 11.25.2008 :: Laila Shereen Sakr exhibits prototype of R-Shief installation at MESA conference in Washington DC

2nd-year DANM student Laila Shereen Sakr will be at the Middle East Studies Association conference in Washington DC this year exhibiting an installation of a prototype or R-Shief and would love to see you there! The exhibit will be at the Marriott Hotel in Woodley Park on Sun 11/23 (9-6pm), Mon 11/24 (9-6pm), and Tues 11/25 (9-12pm). Here's a little blurb about the work.


http://atc.ucsc.edu/atc_mobius_poster.pdf
click the image to download the ATC Fall 2008 möbius poster

11.19.2008 :: Nonny de la Peña: "GONE GITMO"

GONE GITMO is an installation of Guantánamo Prison in the virtual environment of Second Life created in collaboration between Peggy Weil and Nonny de la Peña. The work provides an accessible version of this inaccessible prison camp by integrating documentary video, scripted avatar experiences and live events for engagement and active participation.

more: http://atc.ucsc.edu

updated time - 7 p.m. pst

open_borders: SHOW in the Telepresence Research Unit

Friday 11/21 at 7:00 p.m. PST - Baskin Engineering 2 - #510

please RSVP: cpayne@ucsc.edu


video snippet from the show


a few people will be in the lab playing music and doing video (Synthia, Anthony, Tyler on video), and we will also be on NINJAM. If you want to participate email Synthia.
We'll use iChat to teleconference into this event which is based out of UCLA.

The idea is that there is already an event going on there at UCLA and then remote performers from New York, Santa Cruz, Brazil, Mexico, and other places are "hacking in" (but not really b/c it's planned.)

Anyway the "hackers" winkwink, get projected on a big screen mixed with video from the mixers onsite. It'll be chaotic and wonderful.

The show is directed by Adriene Jenik, a professor out of UCSD, but she'll be at UCLA for the show.

the flash link will be available here: http://dma.ucla.edu/events/streaming/
and the real player will be available here: http://eda.ucla.edu/archive/ram/live.ram

here's some video of previous events they've done.

here's the website explaining the gig and the program.

5:30-7:30 -- Interactive Performance and Reception, Broad Center, EDA Room Open_borders: Improvisation Across Networks, Distance, Timezones Presented by: Adriene Jenik, University of California, San Diego, and Charley Ten, Inter-media artist Performers, writers and engaged world citizens participate VIA WEB-BASED VIDEO-CONFERENCE TOOLS in a networked performance event. Live performances will be mixed and processed with additional imagery and sound to enhance meaning and intensify aesthetic impact.

Lab Space and Network connections for the Telepresence Research Unit are sponsored by CITRIS and DANM.


11.17.2008 :: Eyebeam Roadshow: a day of presentations and workshops


Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides context and state of the art tools for digital research and experimentation. Currently, Eyebeam has gone out on the road and is giving a variety of workshops that engage the public, challenge convention and encourage collaboration. Workshops:


more: http://atc.ucsc.edu

11.12.2008 :: CANCELLED

Jordan Crandall: “Something-Happening, the Absorptive Assemblage”


Jordan Crandall will present and perform his text, “Something-Happening, the Absorptive Assemblage.” Crandall explains, “This work is about wanting to be ‘in’ something rather than to visually possess. By focusing on the absorptive qualities, the assemblage becomes an anticipatory happening that exerts a gravitational and absorptive energy that can be understood in terms of desire.”
more: http://atc.ucsc.edu

11.06.2008 :: Open House for Prospective Students

Please visit the Open House page for details.

10.30.2008 :: Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet: Arte Nuevo InteractivA: An Independent curatorial project in MERIDA_MX

The biennale was born as a consequence of the invisibility of many artists in the big biennials of electronic art, to the marginalization experienced by new media artists with limited access to technology and to the need for creating a critical space for the new generation of artists who are constantly excluded from museums, galleries and festivals only because they do not live in the “metropolis” or because their limited access to technology forces them to produce “rudimentary” or “low tek” artworks.

Arte Nuevo InteractivA, through its curatorial approach, offers a deep inquiry into the social uses, effects and consequences of new communication technologies, the examination of new art, new media art and critical writings in Latin (Luso) America, the Caribbean and other regions of the world to create a cross cultural dialogue and a knowledge production/audience interaction highlighting the issues, ideas and struggles faced by artists and audiences in many areas of the world in the consequential global/colonial information age.

Arte Nuevo InteractivA http://www.cartodigital.org/interactiva

"Border Crossings" with Ferrera-Balanquet

Curated and led by DANM instructor, Christina McPhee https://lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2005-April/author.html

About Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet

Interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and Fulbright scholar, Ferrera-Balanquet has exhibited extensively throughout the glob, including the US, Canada, Latin America, Spain and Australia. His writings have appeared extensively in print and electronically. In addition to a Fulbright Fellowship, Ferrera-Balanquet has been awarded grants from FOECAY, US/Mexico Cultural Fund, The Australian Network of Art and Technology, the National Endowment for the Arts and The Lyn Blumenthal Video Foundation. He currently holds the Multimedia professorship at the Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatan (ESAY), Merida, Mexico.

Parking

Enter the Main Entrance to the campus and proceed directly to the parking kiosk on the right. Purchase an "A lot" parking permit. Then drive to the West Entrance to the campus. Follow Heller Drive until you reach Porter College on your left and park there. Walk into the main entrance of Porter College and at the end of the administration building on your left walk straight ahead, up a flight of stairs and proceed to Room D-245.

Map

UCSC campus: http://maps.ucsc.edu/

10.29.2008 :: Hasan Elahi: “Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project”


Hasan Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, borders and frontiers. “Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project” builds on a series of installations, performances, and websites designed to protect Elahi from unwanted scrutiny by making his entire life and whereabouts publicly accessible.

10.20.08 :: Experiences at ISEA2008

UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program (DANM) welcomes


Margaretha Haughwout and Roopesh Sitharan
Experiences at ISEA2008, Singapore
Monday, October 20 (4:30-6:00 pm)
Porter D-245, Porter College UCSC


This is our opportunity to learn about the experiences of DANM students at ISEA2008 in Singapore, and beyond.

ISEA, the International Symposium on Electronic Art initiated in 1988, is the world's premier media arts event for the critical discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in interactive and digital media. Held biannually in various cities throughout the world, this migratory event was held in Asia this summer for the second time in its history, after Singapore successfully secured this bid. http://isea2008singapore.org

DANM student, Roopesh Sitharan presented his work, "Mondrian in Action" and curated the exhibition, "Relocations" at ISEA2008 in Singapore. He was also an invited panelist for "Passing and Peril on the Information Super Highway." After ISEA2008 Roopesh travelled to Korea and Malaysia to participate in select conferences and exhibitions this summer.

2008 DANM graduate Margaretha Haughwout presented on her work, "dangerous fiction: the body, desire, and narrative" at ISEA2008 in Singapore.

This talk is free and open to the public. Please disseminate widely.

Parking Enter the Main Entrance to the campus and proceed directly to the parking kiosk on the right. Purchase an "A lot" parking permit. Then drive to the West Entrance to the campus. Follow Heller Drive until you reach Porter College on your left and park there. Walk into the main entrance of Porter College and at the end of the administration building on your left walk straight ahead, up a flight of stairs and proceed to Room D-245.

Map UCSC campus: http://maps.ucsc.edu/

10.25.2008 :: 24hr Thesis

In the space of 24 hours, participants proposed, developed, prototyped, built and exhibited an art project. It is jokingly called the 24h Thesis, since it condenses the two year process of the mfa program into a day. Proposed by first-year DANM student Nick Lally, the idea was that people would come without preconceptions of what they want to do and work in small groups to come up with a project to exhibit. In his initial invitation, Nick said "I think it will be a good opportunity for us to work collaboratively, experiment, and play."

The day started at 10am on Saturday, October 25th in the Porter electronics lab, with the exhibit at 10am on Sunday at Porter College. Almost everyone from the first-year cohort and several second years participated; three made it overnight.

Photos

10.8.08 Mundos especulares presented at a Global Communications Program conference

Mexico City

Karl Baumann presented his documentary Mundos especulares: Filmic Reconstructions and Remedies of Historical Memory Trauma: Argentina and its Desaparecidos at the Iberoamericana University in Mexico City for a conference on Global Communications and the role of media in dealing with major historical events and transitions, especially traumatic ones. The conference was an interdisciplinary discussion with classes from Communications, Film, and History programs.

Mundos especulares (Mirror Worlds) deals with Argentine fiction and documentary cinema that has represented the dictatorship of 1976-1983, specifically those works that dealt with the psycho-social effects of the 30,000 that were tortured and disappeared for participation or ‘association’ with the leftist militant groups of the early 70s. Mundos especulares maps out the trajectory and development of films from a classic or melodramatic narrative structure towards more recent postmodern and post-structural explorations of the epistemologies and semiotics of history.

Simultaneously, the Mundos analyzes the historical context of each production as the popular discourses and presidential policies have swung to polar extremes since the return of democracy; with the members of the military government being prosecuted, then pardoned, and now prosecuted again. The current administration of Christina Kirchner has been the most fervent in supporting the recovery of the disappeared bodies as well as the return of children of the disappeared to their genetic grandparents and away from “foster” families who supported the dictatorship. Yet, at the same time, the major issue is the current administration’s manipulation of this period for their political gain. Thus the documentary analyzes the complex relationship between mass media, individual experience, historical context, and the politics of memory.

The students and professors of Iberoamericana received the piece very well and were very interested in the visual experiments in representing the unrepresentable and utilizing filmic forms for meta-criticism of film and art within society. They were also very reflexive of the perspective of the piece as being a representation of the left, since the interviews were with film theorist/directors and human rights activists.

A running question of the piece though was why I didn’t utilize the medium to critique the representations of current traumatic military struggles throughout the Americas, such as Columbia. From a historical topology perspective though I felt that the exploration of a more distant traumatic event would help to begin to explore pre-existing paradigms and issues of film and history in order to prepare for contemporary issues and their current and future constructions, especially those issues involved with the US military, such as Columbia or Iraq. Most importantly though, a large number of the students questioned the historical conscientiousness of US students, especially in regards to US military interventions, and suggested that Mundos especulares and other future projects should emphasize accessibility to young US audiences.

09.23.08 :: DANM Fall Mixer

Please don't miss our Fall Welcome for new and returning students and faculty. We have 24 DANM students this year, and several new faculty. Come meet and greet each other!


Food and drink! Conviviality! Wii!

07.11.08 - 08.08.08 "narrating identity, (dis)locating bodies" an exhibition curated by DANM graduate monica enriquez-enriquez

"narrating identity, (dis)locating bodies", curated by 2008 DANM graduate monica enriquez-enriquez,
opens July 11 at Galeria de la Raza as part of its Queer Latino Collective Exhibit.

The exhibition includes monica's MFA thesis and works by Vanessa Huang, Sonali Gulati, Rebeka Rodriguez
and Mujeres y Cultura Subterranea from Mexico City.

An artist talk will take place on Saturday, July 12 at 2:00.





07.25.2008 - 08.03.2008 :: "Mondrain in Action" an artist presentation at ISEA2008 by DANM student, Roopesh Sitharan

DANM student Roopesh Sitharan will be presenting his work, "Mondrain in Action" at ISEA2008 in Singapore.

07.25.2008 - 08.03.2008 :: DANM student, Roopesh Sitharan is a invited panelist for "Passing and Peril on the Information Super Highway" at ISEA2008

Through the escalating numbers and increasing awareness of online sting operations, videogaming avatars, and social networking websites, issues of identity and race in cyberspace have come under hard scrutiny. The panel, comprised of artists and academics from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippine Republic, and other countries within Asia will discuss these crucial and controversial issues from within the contrasting perspectives of their own diverse cultures.For more info visit ISEA2008.

07.25.2008 - 08.03.2008 :: "dangerous fiction: the body, desire, and narrative" an artist presentation at ISEA2008 by DANM graduate, Margaretha Haughwout

isea-header.gif 2008 DANM graduate Margaretha Haughwout will be presenting on her work, "dangerous fiction: the body, desire, and narrative" at ISEA2008 in Singapore.

07.25.2008 - 08.03.2008 :: "Relocations" an exhibition at ISEA2008 curated by DANM student, Roopesh Sitharan

relocations.jpg
The two Malaysian artists, Niranjan Rajah and Hasnul Jamal Saidon, who are the focus of Relocations, have been creating electronic art since the 1990s, endeavoring to locate emerging new media technologies within national art practice, before moving onto global platforms. The exhibition includes single channel video, web based works and installations; artworks which unpick and reconstruct the relationship between art, culture and technology. http://isea2008singapore.org/exhibitions/pe_relocations.html

More about ISEA2008


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