festival /Satellite Events
The DANM festival will include a series of events that will take place throughout April, May and June 2006 :
APRIL
Raqs Media Collective talk
UCSC, Communications Building, Studio "C"
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: 
The New Media Initiative a programme of interdisciplinary research and practice on media, city space and urban culture at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
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 SFAI website or contact or them at raqs@sarai.net.
April in Santa Cruz 2006
UCSC, Recital Hall
Organized by David Cope (UCSC, DANM Faculty)
April 7 (Friday) 7:30 (Desjardins)
Guests: Microtonal concert
April 9 (Sunday) 7:30 (Kim/Cope)
Guest: Korean gayageum virtuoso
faculty composers: Hester, Jones, Carson
April 12 (Wednesday) 7:30 (Kim)
Guests: Empyrean Ensemble
April 22 (Saturday) 7:30 (Cope/Burman-Hall)
Virtual Vivaldi (with Santa Cruz Baroque Festival)
April 29 (Saturday) 7:30 (Cope)
Guest: Ron George (first half)
Faculty composers and media show (second half)
Nauert, Elsea, Erb
To obtain Experiments in Musical Intelligence and other music by David Cope go to http://www.spectrumpress.com.
For information on the fourth Workshop on Algorithmic Computer Music (WACM) go to http://summer.ucsc.edu/wacm/.
“Election Day” Theater Arts Department Production
UCSC, Theater Arts Center, Experimental Theater
April, 28,29,30
(also in May 4,5,6,7!!)
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 7 pm
Sunday, 3 pm
Directed by Danny Scheie (UCSC, DANM Faculty) and written by James Bierman (UCSC, DANM Faculty).
MAY
Talk by Camille Utterback
The Museum of Art & History @ The McPherson Center, Santa Cruz (MAH site).
Auditorium
May 13, 2 pm
Media artist Camille Utterback will converse with Ed Osborn (UCSC, DANM Faculty) about her work and other digital art related issues.
JUNE
DANM MFA Thesis Exhibition
Digital Media Factory
2807 Mission St., Santa Cruz
June 16 –18
Reception: Friday, June 16, 7 pm
Gallery hours: TBA
Electronic Music Studio Concert
UCSC, Recital Hall
June 10
Admission free
It will be a concert by Peter Elsea (UCSC, DANM Faculty) featuring Gamelan Lumina and visualizations. There will be contributions from all of Elsea’s students, both undergraduate and graduate.