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!!06.04.2008 - 06.08.2008 :: MFA '08 Exhibition: "Bureau of Disruptions"
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The highlight of each academic year is the graduates' MFA exhibition during the first weekend of June. Here the meaning of"digital arts" and "new media" come to life in the form of video installations, interactive kiosks, telematic performance, sound art...digital media expanding our collective imagination. Pools of light and moving color images illuminate huge open spaces filled with ambient music. Small rooms provide intimate experiences of sound and self. We invite you to join us in our work and play.

This year the exhibit, entitled "Bureau of Disruptions" will be part of the biennial Zero One San Jose or [01SJ|http://www.01sj.org] June 4-8 in downtown San Jose. Visit the ["Bureau of Disruptions"|08show]...

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!!06.06.2008 - 06.07.2008 "Cathexi Spin" an interactive installation by the Friends of Ficus for the  biennial Zero One San Jose


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Dates: Friday, June 6, 2-10pm and Saturday, June 7th, 2-10pm
Location: South First Street, San Jose, on the street, presented by Sub Zero and Plaza de Cesar Chavez, presented by Target Family Day in the Park

If every spinning class was connected to the grid, imagine the kilowatts of electrical power we could return to the community! To harness the transformative power of spinning-generated electrical energy, Cathexi Spin’s classes will be free and open to the public. Each class will be led by an artist/spinning instructor, using customized bicycle generators. The energy created by the collaborative effort of the instructor and participants powers individual batteries that together, form an aggregate reserve of art energy. Friends of Ficus is an artistic collective comprised of Elliot Anderson, Lindsay Kelley, Nada Miljkovic, Victoria Bloedau, Nichole Smith, and Rupa Dhillon.[More info here|http://cathexispin.ucsc.edu/fof.html]

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!!06.06.2008 - 06.07.2008 "furusato -sounds of home-" an interactive sound installation by Naomi Lucille Kagaya

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Dates: Friday, June 6 and Saturday, June 7th, 1-5pm
Location: on the lawn (overlooking the ocean), outside of the lower level of the Music Center

Naomi Lucille Kagaya's Furusato - sounds of home - presents an interactive sonic installation that explores personal origins. Through the creation of an aural "environment" Furusato inspires guests to question themselves and re-think their own definitions of home.  The sound samples used for the installation were recorded by the artist, and are everyday sounds that evoke a sense of home. When guests enter the space, sensors react to their presence triggering the algorithm, which randomly selects sound samples and other parameters. Because of the variables, the soundscape is never the same. This randomness is significant because it demonstrates that the elements within space, time, experience, and memory are always changing just as individual ideas of home are constantly evolving. [More info here | nkagaya/furusatoshow]

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!!05.30.2008 - 06.01.2008 :: Eco-Mod, ~MoCap: final project installation by fabricio (BREEZE) olsson
* W.E.S.T. (West End Studio Theater), 402 INgalls St. #3
* 6-10 pm Fri, Sat & Sun; opening reception Friday at 6pm

Fabricio "Breeze" Olsson's Eco-Mod, ~MoCap is a 3D interactive installation in which participants, through physical movement, cooperate to modify a projected kinetic image of the local environment (Santa Cruz County).
Using ~PhaseSpace motion capture system, a pair or participants interact within the motion capture space. Their movement is rendered in real time, affecting a continuous video clip, which is displayed on a large screen.  The video, an aerial view of the Pajaro River, is modified by participants’ movement vocabulary/dialogue. Eco-Mod, ~MoCap’s development process and installation is presented through photo and video documentation.

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!!05.18.2008 :: _Reflux_ by Marc Sciglimpaglia and _Becoming Bird_ by Lea Cox at Electronic Music Recital
Two DANM MFA Candidates,  Marc Sciglimpaglia  and Lea Cox, will be part of the spring Electronic Music Recital on Sunday, May 18th at 7:30p.m. at the UCSC Music Recital Hall. The show will include work by students and faculty of the UCSC Electronic Music Studios.

Marc Sciglimpaglia will be showing the cutting edge of his thesis project, _Reflux._ He says, "My contribution ~[to the Recital] will be the grand premiere of Super Mario Bros. (the game not the theme song) played using an expressive piano-based interface."

Lea Cox says, "I'll be presenting a sound composition, part of my MFA thesis project. My composition, Becoming Bird, is based on bird songs.  I hope to see you there!"

This event is free and open to the public. Parking is $2.

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!!05.15.2008 - 05.17.2008 :: Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice
Interventionist practices use interruptions to question norms by using humor, surprise, and unusual associations to overturn assumptions about the world. Such practices work within societal structures to re-examine set ideas, subvert norms, map hidden systems and allow us to see and think in new ways.

The University of California Santa Cruz will host a three-day conference and month long series of interventionist exhibitions entitled [Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice|http://may2008.artintervention.org/] in May 2008. A series of exhibitions featuring the work of participating artists will run concurrently with the conference, hosted by: the Art department and the Sesnon Gallery at UCSC; the LAB, San Francisco; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose. Interruptions will foster exchange between scholars, innovative regional and international artists and curators, through panel presentations, performances and indoor and outdoor exhibitions. There will be a wiki dedicated to real-time collaboration and exchange between participants. The conference will generate a publication documenting the scholarly and artistic work emerging from this event.

Lindsay Kelley and Joshua ~McVeigh-Schultz, both first-year DANM students, are part of the team coordinating these events, which include:

![DANM Open Studios|/InterventionsOpenStudios]%%%Thursday, May 15 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
DANM students are opening their studio doors to interruptions by interventionists and all those interested this Thursday afternoon. Participants include:
 * Lindsey Bonk, Porter D-127
 * Lea Cox, Porter D-232
 * Miki Foster, Porter D-124
 * Margaretha Anne Haughwout, Public Media Lab, Porter D-120
 * Joshua ~McVeigh-Schultz, Porter D-213
 * Nada Milkovich, Porter D-232
 * Mark Sciglimpaglia, Porter D-214
 * Laila Shereen, Porter D-125

!Suzanne Lacy in the DANM Lounge %%%Thursday and Friday, May 15 and 16, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
Come see _The Performing Archive: OPEN ACCESS_, an installation/performance with improvisational conversations, conceived by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz, performed by Suzanne Lacy, in the DANM lounge (Porter D-221).

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!! 04.28.2008 :: Lauren Cornell on the evolution of art engaged with the Internet, 1996 to now

* Monday, April 28th, 6:15pm
* Studio C, Communications Building, UCSC

Lauren Cornell is Executive Director of Rhizome.org and Adjunct Curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, as well as a UCSC Porter College Distinguished Visiting Lecturer.

In this presentation, Cornell will trace the evolution of art engaged with the Internet from the the time of Rhizome's founding in 1996 up through its diverse, current iterations. She will present new directions and practices in the field and illuminate the underlying economics and structures surrounding this field.

Lauren Cornell oversees and develops Rhizome's programs, all of which serve to promote and contextualize emerging art engaged with technology. She also serves as Adjunct Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Previously, Cornell worked as a curator, writer and director in New York. She worked in the Andy Warhol Film Project at the Whitney Museum and, from 2002-2004, she served as Executive Director of Ocularis, an organization dedicated to avant-garde cinema, experimental video and new media. Her writing has been published in a range of international publications and she has collaborated to produce events or exhibitions at The Kitchen, Foxy Production, Participant Inc, The Institute of Contemporary Art in London and the Contemporary Center for Art in Warsaw.

This talk is organized by Warren Sack, and sponsored by Porter College and atc@ucsc.

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!!04.08.2008 4-5:30pm :: Carson on "Hearing Time Freely"

You are cordially invited to attend the Music 252 Colloquium on Tuesday, April 8th,4:00-5:30 PM, in the Music Center Performance Studio (room 131).

Featured speaker:  Benjamin Carson, Assistant Professor of Music and DANM Faculty, UCSC <br>
_Hearing time freely: experimental and practical approaches to rhythmic heterarchy_

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!!04.04.2008 :: Visiting Day
The new potential cohort participated in a full day of learning more about the program and community here at DANM. [Details|/VisitingDay2008]

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!!03.14.2008 - 03.15.2008 :: The 14th Annual Women of Color Film and Video Festival%%%bodies in flight: migration and transit%%%a space for films, videos, spoken word, music, dialogue, and activist vision

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presented by the UCSC Women of Color in Conflict and Collaboration Research Cluster and including DANM colleagues Monica Enriquez, Angela Carroll, Miki Foster and Laila Shereen Sakr.

!Friday March 14th and Saturday March 15th%%%@ the Kresge College Town Hall

Join us as we bring together cultural productions by U.S.-based women of color and women internationally that speak to issues of migration, dislocation, and displacement.  Featured filmmakers include: Sonali Gulati, Jolie Harris, Nanobah Becker, Claudia Mercado, Dee Rees, yaya raiz, Dolissa Medina, monica enriquez-enriquez, Vanessa Huang, Nao Bustamante, Elissa Moon, Emiliana Reynoso, Veronica Majano, Osa Hidalgo de la Riva and Mujeres y Cultura Subterranea from Mexico City. Plus one program curated by the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project based in San Francisco.

with music by: Erica Nalani and from La Havana, Cuba, Las Krudas Cubensi a Hip Hop and Spoken Word three women collective. Friday March 14th at the Hide Gallery 9pm.

spoken word by: UCSC spoken word collectives S.I.N. Verguenza and FLOW, Oakland youth spoken word troupe IGO, and Bay Area performance artist Aimee Suzara. MCs Angela Carroll, Tannia Esparza, Miki Foster and Laila Shereen Sakr. Saturday March 15th at 6pm.

For more information and a complete schedule, please visit our website at http://www.ucscwocfilmfest.com  or email [Cindy Bello | mailto: cbello@ucsc.edu] or [Monica Enriquez | mailto: marginadas@gmail.com].

The complete story covered in CURRENTS ONLINE at http://messages.ucsc.edu/text.asp?pid=2005.

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!!03.06.2008 :: An ATC@UCSC & DANM event: Golan Levin%%%Audiovision, Interactive Art and Abstract Communication<br>

Golan Levin develops artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression. His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into the formal language of interactivity, and of nonverbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, often created with a variety of collaborators, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity. Levin has exhibited widely in Europe, America and Asia. Levin's work combines equal measures of the whimsical, the provocative, and the sublime in a wide variety of online, installation and performance media. For information visit http://www.flong.com

ATC@UCSC Winter 2008 lectures
Tuesdays and Thursday at 6:16 pm
Oakes, 105, UCSC

Free and open to the public
Reception to follow

_About ATC@UCSC:_ The Art Technology and Culture Colloquium at UCSC http://atc.ucsc.edu has been established as a partner to the ATC at UC Berkeley http://atc.berkeley.edu, an internationally known forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about technology and culture. The ATC at UCSC will presents artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective.

For more information, http://atc.ucsc.edu or sdaniel@ucsc.edu
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!!03.06.2008  :: Laila Shereen  %%%Video Remixing at Dr. Toast Listening Party

WHEN: Thursday, March 6, 2008, 8:30 - 11:00 p.m. (Toast starts playing a little after 9).%%%
WHERE: 865 Florida St., Space 2, San Francisco%%%
VISUALS MC Um Amel (UCSC Digital Arts and New Media)%%%
SOUND: Periphony Systems%%%
DAMAGE: $10, in advance, via paypal to mpriester@gmail.com%%%

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!!02.22.2008 - 03.02.2008 :: >Subject B's Confession_%%% an original new media production by the DANM 2007-08 Performative Technologies Research Project Group with members of the Theater Arts Department

 Conceived, written, designed, and directed by the Digital Arts & New Media (MFA) Performative Technologies Project Group with members of the Theater Arts Department.
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 an original new media production which sets actor against avatar stage against screen, where (almost) everyone is under surveillance, implanted with RFID chips, and are pawns in the information war
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 Experimental Theater, UC Santa Cruz%%%
 7:00 pm (Sundays at 3:00 pm)%%%
 post-show Talk-back: Saturday, Feb. 23
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 Friday-Sunday, February 22-24%%%
 Thursday-Sunday, February 28-March 2%%%
 2008
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 $14 general, $11 seniors, $11 students / UCSC undergrads w/ valid ID: 1 FREE ticket%%%
 prices include ticket outlet service charges%%%
 UCSC staff, faculty, and Alumni Assoc. members w/ ID may purchase up to 2 tickets at the student price%%%
 (DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE AT UCSC TICKET OFFICE  ONLY)%%%
 santacruztickets.com, UCSC Ticket Office (831-459-2159), SC Civic Auditorium Box Office (831-420-5260)
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 NO LATE SEATING // adult content // strobe lights // haze
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 Co-presented by UCSC's Theater Arts Department and the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA Program
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!!03.03.2008 ::  DANM 211A/213A Lecture Series%%%Roger Copeland discusses Digital Arts as a Tool for Political-Social and Artistic Response
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 Roger Copeland will speak on how as a thinker-writer he turned to digital media to create a response to 9/11 and its aftermath. He will talk about his use of digital arts as a tool for political-social and artistic response.
 Copeland wrote and directed the highly-praised film, _THE UNRECOVERED_ (2007, 129 Minutes) -- the first feature-length, fictional narrative film to deal directly with the psychological aftermath of 9/11. Set in the hallucinatory period of time between September 11 and Halloween of 2001, _The Unrecovered_ examines the effect of terror on the average mind, the way a state of heightened anxiety and/or alertness can cause the average person to make the sort of imaginative connections that are normally made only by artists and conspiracy theorists-both of whom figure prominently in this film. It explores the way in which irony, empathy, and paranoia relate to one another in the wake of 9/11.

 Roger Copeland is Professor of Theater and Dance at Oberlin College, an author of many published essays and books, and a filmmaker.

 ["The Unrecovered" trailer on YouTube | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvbUx96ry8w]

 _DANM 211A/213A meets Mondays at 3 p.m. in Porter D-245._
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!!02.23.2008–03.01.2008 :: Digital Agitprop of the Bush Era: A lecture/remix%%%G. Craig Hobbs

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 !Part of the Winter 08 DANM Student Exhibitions at the Porter Faculty Gallery
 !Live Performance - Saturday, 02.23.2008  7pm & 9pm %%%(in celebration of Washington's birthday)%%% Porter Faculty Gallery, Porter D-222
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 A video mashup of digital agitational propaganda disseminated during the postmillennial Bush rule of American society. Spanning the combined output of artists, the corporate media, and the US government, this remix/ lecture by DANM graduate student G. Craig Hobbs presents compelling video and audio works addressing matters of political power, engagement, and ideological resistance.
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 Digital Agitprop juxtaposes web-distributed works and archive sources to survey destruction, manipulation, and redemption in this tumultuous period of world history. The show and subsequent gallery installation attempts to recover the original meaning of propaganda—the dissemination of ideas—as a symbiotic form of media activism inherent to new distribution models provided by compressed digital media and the world wide web.
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 The presentation will be followed by a discussion and after-party. A gallery installation of the performance mix as video loop on monitor will be on display from 02.24.07- 03.01.07.
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!!02.26.2008 :: An ATC@UCSC & DANM event: %%%Jim Campbell%%%Electronic Art<br>

Jim Campbell was born in Chicago in 1956 and lives in San Francisco. He received 2 Bachelor of Science Degrees in Mathematics and Engineering from MIT in 1978. His work has been shown internationally and throughout North America in institutions such as the Whitney Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Carpenter Center, Harvard University; The Power Plant, Toronto; The International Center for Photography, New York, and the NTT Inter Communication Center in Tokyo. His electronic art work is including the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the University Art Museum at Berkeley, and the San Jose Museum of Art. In 1992 he created one of the first permanent public interactive video artworks in the U.S. in Phoenix, Arizona. He has lectured on interactive media art at many Institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in NY. He has recently received a Rockefeller Grant in Multimedia, a Langlois Foundation Grant, and a Eureka Felowship Award. As an engineer he holds more than a dozen patents in the field of video image processing. For information visit http://www.jimcampbell.tv

ATC@UCSC Winter 2008 lectures
Tuesdays and Thursday at 6:16 pm
Oakes, 105, UCSC

Free and open to the public
Reception to follow

_About ATC@UCSC:_ The Art Technology and Culture Colloquium at UCSC http://atc.ucsc.edu has been established as a partner to the ATC at UC Berkeley http://atc.berkeley.edu, an internationally known forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about technology and culture. The ATC at UCSC will presents artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective.

For more information, http://atc.ucsc.edu or sdaniel@ucsc.edu
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!!01.31.2008–02.21.2008 :: Post Colonial Ninja Front%%%Miki Foster, Lindsay Kelley, and Laila Shereen
 !Part of the Winter 08 DANM Student Exhibitions at the Porter Faculty Gallery
 !Exhibit Opening and Reception 01.31.2008   5:30–7:30pm%%% The United States of Consciousness Open Mic Night 02.07.2008 7–9pm%%%Chocolate tastings Wednesday February 6, 13, and 20 1–4pm %%%"Feminist Craft Corner" by Miki Foster, 02.06.2008 12-2pm%%% Porter Faculty Gallery, Porter D-222
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 The Post Colonial Ninja Front is a research group within the DANM first year cohort comprised of Miki Foster, Lindsay Kelley, and Laila Shereen. We are pleased to present an exhibition of recent work, which will include altered consumer products, interactive narrative installation work, and a series of performances produced in collaboration with other first year DANM students. Our work considers race and ethnicity in the US and internationally, adopting a critical perspective when looking at advertising, representations in a variety of media, and popular culture, music, and film. Performances will include an open mic night hosted by Emcee Um Amel (Laila Shereen), chocolate tastings facilitated by Lindsay Kelley, and a new felting performance from Miki Foster.%%%[Download performance schedule here | http://danm.ucsc.edu/~lkelley/wiki_docs/pcnf_events.pdf]
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!!02.05.2008 :: An ATC@UCSC & DANM event%%%Pamela Z%%%Performance/Composition/Audio Art<br>

Pamela Z is a composer/performer who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, sampled sounds, and The Body Synth™ gesture controller. She has also composed scores for dance, film, and new music chamber ensembles. Her audio works have been presented in exhibitions at the Whitney in NY and the Diözesanmueum in Cologne. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan in concerts and festivals including Bang on a Can, the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds, and the Venice Biennale. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the Cal Arts Alpert Award, the ASCAP Award, and the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship. For information visit www.pamelaz.com

ATC@UCSC Winter 2008 lectures
Tuesdays and Thursday at 6:16 pm
Oakes, 105, UCSC

Free and open to the public
Reception to follow

_About ATC@UCSC:_ The Art Technology and Culture Colloquium at UCSC http://atc.ucsc.edu has been established as a partner to the ATC at UC Berkeley http://atc.berkeley.edu, an internationally known forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about technology and culture. The ATC at UCSC will presents artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective.

For more information, http://atc.ucsc.edu or sdaniel@ucsc.edu
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!!01.28.2008 :: DANM 211A/213A Lecture Series%%%Richard Rinehart on "New Media & Social Memory"
 How do societies remember for the long-term, and how is digital media challenging that, specifically looking at the long-term preservation and collection of digital art that a) reveals interesting aspects of digital art as a genre in general and b) gets at specific issues of how digital art is collected (or  not) by collectors and museums and by extension how digital artists create a legacy.

 Richard Rinehart is curator of digital media at the Berkeley Art Museum and currently working on a book on this topic.

 _DANM 211A/213A meets Mondays at 3 p.m. in Porter D-245._
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!!01.17.2008–01.29.2008  ::  Leave Me Alone, Place of Isolation%%%Troy Allman with guest artist Nada Miljkovic
 !Part of the Winter 08 DANM Student Exhibitions at the Porter Faculty Gallery
 !Exhibit Opening and Reception 01.17.2008   5:30–7:30pm%%%Porter Faculty Gallery, Porter D-222
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 Over the past year, Troy Allman has been working toward developing a ephemeral space station (ESS). The ESS combines specific content capturing methods and interviewing technique to facilitates access to otherwise unattainable candid content.

 This event showcases Troy’s recent work with Tandy Beal’s dance-theatre project, "~HereAfterHere." http://www.tandybeal.com/hereafterhere/about.html For the production, Troy created a prototype ESS that took the form of an on-site, personal video interview capturing system. This isolated space was then used to interview audience members before each night’s performance. Participants responded to the simple prompt, “What do you think happens after you die,” and the resulting clips were interwoven into each performance. Thus, the audience and participants experienced these video responses as part of the performance. This exhibit showcases the resulting content, as well as demonstrates equipment and methods used. Gallery patrons will have the opportunity to participate in the ESS.

 Nada Miljkovic also participated in "~HereAfterHere" providing video content of children explaining their theories of death. Her video footage of the interviews that were not used in "Here After Here" is included in this exhibition.
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!!01.17.2008 :: DANM Open House
 We will be hosting an [Open House|events/JanuaryOpenHouse] on Thursday, January 17, 2008. Attendees will have a chance to learn about the DANM MFA Program, get tips for the application process*, view the work of current students and alumni, and see a showcase of our project groups’ work in progress.

 To RSVP or get more information, email danm@ucsc.edu or call Felicia at 831-459-1554.

 _*We are encouraging prospective students to begin the application process-- especially requesting transcripts and recommendation letters--before January to ensure meeting the Feb. 15 application deadline._
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!!12.10.2007 :: _NEW TIME--6:30 PM!_ Synthia Payne presents a 20-minute talk on
 !Procedures and Approaches in Telepresent Music Improvisation
 Monday December 10, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. sharp <br>
 UC Santa Cruz Music Department, Room 131 (downstairs)<br>
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!!12.06.2007  5pm :: Mechatronics project group demonstrating "outfield"
 the mechatronics collaborative research group will be demonstrating their project "outfield" in the porter faculty gallery from 5-6 on thursday, 5.december.07. please join us for this test run.

 outfield is an exploration of electro-mechanical instruments that operate according to emergent principles and degrees of influence. samples of these instruments are also played through several speakers, enabling a meditation on source sounds vs. recorded sounds.

 the mechatronics collaborative research group is comprised of: ed osborn, luke bullock, lea cox, chau-marie griffiths, margaretha haughwout, brendan salmond, and marc sciglimpaglia.
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!!12.04.2007 :: Town Hall Meeting
 The town hall meeting has been set for Tuesday, December 4, 2007 from noon - 2:00pm  in Porter D-245. Bring your lunch and come prepared to share your thoughts on the DANM experience. Coffee, tea and cookies will be provided. Please do come even if only for part of the time.
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!!10.30.2007 & 11.06.2007 :: ATC The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
 !with UC Santa Cruz's Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program

 The Art Technology and Culture Colloquium at UCSC http://atc.ucsc.edu has been established as a partner to the ATC at UC Berkeley http://atc.berkeley.edu, an internationally known forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about technology and culture . The ATC at UCSC will presents artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective. See story in [UCSC CURRENTS ONLINE | http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1684]

 !ATC@UCSC Fall lectures%%%
 *Tuesdays at 7:30 pm%%%
 *Communications Building, Studio C%%%

 Free and open to the public%%%
 Reception to follow

 !ATC at UCSC will launch its Tuesday night lecture series in Fall 07 with talks by Geert Lovink (October 30) and Erkki Hutamo (November 6).%%%

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 !October 30, 2007
 *Geert Lovink%%%
 *New Media Arts at the Crossroads%%%
 The emerging new media arts genre is in a crisis. Not that 'new media' are on their way out. What we're talking about here is a 'luxury' problem: in what direction should this emerging art form grow further? After an initial period in which time and again the question "what is new media" was raised, we have now moved to a second phase, in which large parts of the population have become familiar with multimedia, cell phones and the Internet. However, new media arts still operates in a self-referential ghetto, dominated by techno-fetishism. In the meanwhile, the world at large has moved from utopian promises about virtual reality and cyberspace to a culture of massive use. Taking this 'democratization' of new technologies in mind, what are the implications of this shift for the 'electronic arts' branch? Should new media artists and their (few) institutions seek collaboration and integration with the museum and gallery art? The 'contemporary arts' market is booming, but new media seems not to be part of it. Should new media remain a seperate category, with its own festivals and exhibitions, or be integrated into the broader 'contemporary arts'? Or should we rather further institutionalize the new media discipline?%%%

 *Geert Lovink* (NL/AUS) is a media theorist and activist, Internet critic and author of Dark Fiber, Uncanny Networks, My First Recession and Zero Comments. He worked on various media projects in Eastern Europe and India. He is a member of the Adilkno collective and co-founder of Internet projects such as The Digital City, Nettime, Fibreculture and Incommunicado. He is founder and director of the Institute of Network Cultures, professor at Interactive Media (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) and associate professor at the Media & Culture department, University of Amsterdam. In 2005-2006 he was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.
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 !November 6, 2007
 *Erkki Huhtamo%%%
 *Urban Gigantology: An Archaeology of the Public Screen%%%
 This lecture develops a media-archaeology of the large screen, contributing to our understanding of the formation and underpinnings of the society of spectacle. The current discussion about giant screens in public places often bypasses the simple fact that such displays have not always been with us. Where did they come from, when, and under what kind of cultural conditions? This lecture extends Huhtamo’s ideas about screenology into an archaeology of large public screens. It focuses mainly on their incubation era in the nineteenth century, identifying cultural formations and parallels that contributed to their emergence, taking both material and discursive factors into consideration. The discussion also goes beyond the frame, so to speak, to include phenomena like public fireworks, son et lumière presentations and sky signs, i.e. displays created for the skies by hot-air balloons, light cannons and eventually by airplanes. Even before the nineteenth century, fireworks were used for political, informational and recreational purposes that anticipated some of the future roles of giant screens, as well as their inter-relations.

 *Erkki Huhtamo* is a media archaeologist, writer, and exhibition curator. Born in Helsinki, Finland in 1958, he works currently as Professor of Media History and Theory at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Design | Media Arts. He has published extensively on media archaeology and media arts, lectured worldwide, created television programs and curated media art exhibitions. In the past few years, his research has dealt with topics like peep media, Marcel Duchamp’s optical experiments, the archaeology of the screen, and the emergence of mobile media. He is currently working on two books, one about the 19th century moving panorama (University of California Press), and the other on the archaeology of interactivity.%%%

 For more information, http://atc.ucsc.edu or sdaniel@ucsc.edu
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October 18, 2007
!!Groundbreaking Celebration for the Digital Arts Facility
 Construction has begun on a new Digital Arts center, a state-funded $25 million arts building slated to support our expanding digital arts program with a state-of-the-art media lab and theater, exhibition areas, studios, workshops and offices. The new building is scheduled for completion in May 2009.

 An official groundbreaking ceremony held on October 18 featured faculty and alumni speakers from Art and Music as well as  Digital Arts and New Media.
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!!New DANM program assistant
 !Welcome Cris Imai !
 DANM program manager Felicia Rice is thrilled to announce that she has been joined in her office by Cris Imai, who will be helping with program administration.
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!!DANM DAAD Scholar
 ! Welcome Fokko Schulz!

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 %%%*Fokko Schulz* was fortunate to have been awarded a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in order to study at UCSC in the Digital Arts & New Media Program. This will greatly facilitate his work on his doctoral thesis, ["Audio Production in Change – Online Audio Collaboration as a new Production Method." | FokkoSchulzResearch]

Fokko's passion is the Internet and its potential to facilitate collaboration in media production. While in Santa Cruz he is also taking advantage of the natural wonders of the area to pursue his love of mountain biking and surfing.
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!!The new year begins…
    September 22 first day of the fall quarter
    <br>September 25 New TA Orientation (8:30-1:30) Thimann Lecture Hall
    <br>September 26 DANM Orientation for new students (12-5) and DANM Welcome Reception for students and faculty (5-7) Porter D245
    <br>September 27 first day of instruction
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!! DANM professor honored in 11th annual Webby Awards

 _Public Secrets,_ an online art project created by UC Santa Cruz film and digital media associate professor and DANM faculty member Sharon Daniel, has been named an Official Honoree in the Activism category at this year's Webby Awards.<br><br>
 http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1273
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