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THURSDAY MAY 4
6:00 - 9:00
INAUGURATION OF DANM FESTIVAL AND OPENING EXHIBITION:
“PHYSICAL | DIGITAL”
Venue: The Museum of Art & History @ The McPherson Center, Santa Cruz
Exhibition dates: May 4 - May 14
Museum hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Artists:
- Jim Campbell
Library, 2004
Custom electronics, 768 white LEDs, Photogravure, treated Plexiglas
Wave Modulation, 2003
Custom electronics, 768 white LEDs, treated Plexiglas
- Paul DeMarinis
(a)sync, 2006
Projector and audio spotlights
- Camille Utterback
Untitled 6, 2005
Interactive installation, custom software, computer, video camera, and projector
FRIDAY MAY 5
12:30 - 2:30
PANEL DISCUSSION: “Digital Cartographies”
Venue: UCSC, Communications Building, Studio C
Chair:
Ted Warburton
Assistant Professor of Theater Arts, DANM Faculty, UC Santa Cruz
Discussant:
Ed Osborn
Assistant Professor of Electronic Media, DANM Faculty, UC Santa Cruz
Panelists:
John Crawford
Assistant Professor of Dance & Media Arts, UC Irvine
Martin Gotfrit
Director, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Lisa Naugle
Associate Professor of Dance, UC Irvine
Sommer Ulrickson
Visiting Lecturer, UC Santa Cruz, Choreographer, Berlin, Germany
2:30 - 3:00
COFFEE BREAK
3:00 - 5:00
PANEL DISCUSSION: ”The Art of Biologies and Environmentalism”
Venue: UCSC, Communications Building, Studio C
Chair:
Elliot Anderson
Assistant Professor of Electronic Media, DANM Faculty, UC Santa Cruz
Panelists:
Oron Catts
Artistic Director SymbioticA - The Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, School of Anatomy & Human Biology, University of Western Australia
Beatriz da Costa
Assistant Professor, Departments of Studio Art, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Associate Director of Arts Computation Engineering (ACE) Graduate Program, University of California, Irvine.
Kim Stringfellow
Assistant Professor (multimedia), School of Art, Design and Art History, San Diego State University
Gail Wight
Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University
5:30 - 7:30
BLINK: DANM MFA Student Work Opening Reception
Venue: UCSC, Porter College, Porter Sesnon Gallery
Exhibition dates: May 5 - 7, 2006
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 12:00 - 5:00 pm
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.
8:30 - 10:30
FILM SCREENING IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SANTA CRUZ FILM FESTIVAL
Venue: UCSC, Media Theatre TA M110
Presented by David Crane, assistant Professor of Film & Digital Media, DANM Faculty, UC Santa Cruz.
The screening will include works by John Whitney, Steina and Woody Vasulka, Jennifer Montgomery and Harun Farocki.
SATURDAY MAY 6
10:00 - 12:00
PANEL DISCUSSION: “Algorithmic Methods and Models in the Arts”
Venue: UCSC, Theater Arts, Media Theater TA M110
Chair:
David Cope
Professor of Music, DANM Faculty, UC Santa Cruz
Panelists:
Harold Cohen
Artist, Professor Emeritus, UC San Diego
Jason Freeman
Composer, Sound Artist, Assistant Professor of Music, Georgia Institute of Technology
George Legrady
Professor of Interactive Media, Media Arts & Technology (MAT) Graduate Program, UC Santa Barbara
12:00 - 1:00
LUNCH BREAK
1:00 - 3:00
PANEL DISCUSSION: “Audible Terrain: Shifting Ground In Contemporary Sound Practice”
Venue: UCSC, Theater Arts, Media Theater TA M110
Chair: Ed Osborn
Assistant Professor of Electronic Media, DANM Faculty, UC Santa Cruz
Panelists:
Paul DeMarinis
Associate Professor, Art Department, Stanford University
Jim Haynes
Sound Artist, Writer, San Francisco
Nigel Helyer
Sculptor and Sound Artist, Sydney, Australia
3:00 - 3:30
COFFEE BREAK
3:30 - 5:30
PANEL DISCUSSION: “The Role of Virtuosity in a Technology-Enhanced Performance”
Venue: UCSC, Theater Arts, Media Theater TA M110
Chair: David Merrill
MIT Media Lab
Panelists:
Chris Chafe
Director, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Duca Family Professor, Stanford University
Peter Elsea
Director, Electronic Music Studios, DANM Faculty, UC Santa Cruz
Fred Frith
Composer, Improviser, Multi-Instrumentalist, and Professor of Composition, Mills College, Oakland, California
8:30 - 10:30
MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Venue: UCSC, Theater Arts, Media Theater TA M110
- John Bischoff
“Piano 7hz“
“Aperture“
“Local Color“
- Laetitia Sonami
“The Appearance of Silence” (The Invention of Perspective)
Intermission
- Sue Costabile
“Mini Movies“ live!
- Laetitia Sonami / Sue Costabile
“I.C. You”
SATELLITE EVENTS: APRIL 28 - JUNE 18
Satellite events will take place throughout May and June, 2006, mostly on campus, and will include the following events:
APRIL/MAY
“Election Day” Theater Arts Department Production
Venue: UCSC, Theater Arts, Experimental Theater
April 28,29,30
May 4,5,6,7
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays 7:00 pm; Sunday 3:00 pm
Directed by Danny Scheie (DANM Faculty, UC Santa Cruz) and written by James Bierman (DANM Faculty, UC Santa Cruz).
MAY
Talk by Camille Utterback
Venue: Auditorium of The Museum of Art & History @ The McPherson Center, Santa Cruz
May 13, 2:00 pm
Media artist Camille Utterback will converse with Ed Osborn (DANM Faculty, UC Santa Cruz) about her work and other digital art related issues.
JUNE
Electronic Music Studio concert
Venue: UCSC, Recital Hall
June 10
Concert by Peter Elsea (DANM Faculty, UC Santa Cruz) featuring Gamelan Lumina and visualizations. There will be contributions from all of Elsea’s students, both undergraduate and graduate.
DANM MFA Exhibition
New digital technologies are revolutionizing the arts in contemporary society, rapidly transforming the way traditional arts are practiced and creating unlimited possibilities for new forms of artistic expression. At the same time, digital media have propelled the arts to the forefront of global culture, merging arts and communication in ways unimaginable just a decade ago. These new media are transcending cultural boundaries and opening new channels of artistic communication throughout the world.
UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) Program was established in 2004 to address the increasingly central role of digital technology in the arts and to examine the impact of digital arts on human culture. This innovative program is at the forefront of a new discipline that merges the aesthetic and research work of a traditional university arts program with the creative and academic potential of digital media. DANM offers a two-year MFA program that brings together students and faculty from across the academic spectrum to collaborate on artistic practice and scholarly research.
Don’t miss the work of our first DANM MFA graduates:
Venue: Digital Media Factory
2807 Mission Street, Santa Cruz
June 16 - 18, Gallery hours TBA
Reception Friday, June 16, 7:00 pm
For further information, please contact:
Felicia Rice
DANM Program Manager
Porter D121
Office: (831) 459-1554
Fax: (831) 459-3535
Email: fsrice@ucsc.edu
Or visit the DANM Program’s website:
http://digitalarts.ucsc.edu