events /Visiting Day 2008
Welcome To Visiting Day 2008!
Each year, Visiting Day provides the opportunity for the applicants recommended for admittance to meet faculty, current students and staff and learn more about the campus, community, the DANM program and research.
Directions and Maps
Directions to UCSC
To the Music Center
- From the intersection at Bay and High Streets (UCSC's main entrance), drive 1.1 miles north on Empire Grade Road to the West Entrance at Heller Drive. Turn Right. Drive up the hill past four stop signs. Turn right just after the fourth stop sign onto Meyer Drive. Turn left at the second stop sign. The Music Center is on the right and parking is on the left. Handicap parking is available directly in front of the Music Center Recital Hall.
Detailed Agenda
9:00am – 9:30am Coffee and bagels outside Music Room 191, Music Center.
- Pick up packet outside from Felicia.
9:30am – 12:00pm Welcome and Introduction to DANM in Electronic Music Lab, Music Room 191
- 9:30 Margaret Morse, Acting Dean of Division of the Arts
- 9:40 Sharon Daniel, Chair, Professor of Film & Digital Media
- 9:50 Lyle Troxell, DANM technical coordinator on Technical Orientation
- 10:00 Elliot Anderson, Assistant Professor of Art and current project group leader, Mechatronics
10:20am Break
- 10:40 Warren Sack, Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media and current project group leader, Participatory Culture
- 11:00 Peter Elsea, Lecturer and Director of Electronic Music Studios
- 11:20 Felicia Rice, Program Manager
- 11:30 Q&A
12:15pm – 1:00pm Lunch served for all students, faculty and staff at Fireside Lounge, Porter College, Sesnon Gallery open
1:00pm – 2:00pm Q & A with advisors/project group leaders
2:15pm – 3:00pm Presentations in the Experimental Theater
- 2:15 David Cuthbert, Associate Professor of Theater Arts and project group leader, Performative Technologies
- 2:35 Alan Tollefson, DANM alumnus
3:15pm - 5:15pm Presentations in Graduate Game Lab, E2 392
- 3:15 Sharon Daniel, Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media and James Davis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and project group leaders, Participatory Culture
- 3:45 Michael Mateas, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Jim Whitehead, Associate Professor of Computer Science and project group leaders, Gaming
- 4:15 Monica Enriquez, current DANM student
- 4:35 Margaretha Haughwout, current DANM student
- 4:55 Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, current DANM student
5:30pm DANM Student reception in Graduate Game Lab, E2 392