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G. Craig Hobbs
To mountains and to forests
To shrines that are groves and tress -
Humans who are threatened by fear
Dhammapada: 188
Research Associate 2009-2010, University of California at Santa Cruz
Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program
M.F.A., University of California at Santa Cruz
Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program
B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Fine Art/ Digital Synthesis
Bio
G. Craig Hobbs’ work addresses themes at the intersection of nature, culture, and technology in the mediums of video, sound, and interactive programming. Hobbs’ writing focuses on issues of embodiment, affect, time, and space in new media art. His artwork explores the use of metadata tagging, infrared computer vision, and open-source software for use in live cinema, locative media, and installation environments.
Hobbs is currently a Research Associate in the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at UC Santa Cruz and teaches in the critical studies program at the 
California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. He is the recipient of a 2009-2010 UC Institute for Research in the Arts Emerging Fields grant award for his thesis research In Situ ∆ The Embodied Search. His theoretical writing has been presented at Harvard University and will be published in the proceedings of the DAC09: Digital Arts and Culture 2009 conference at UC Irvine.
MFA Thesis
My thesis project and paper In Situ ∆ were successfully completed and I was awarded the Master of Fine Arts degree in June of 2009.
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Classes and Coursework 08-09
Spring 2009
- DANM 299 | Thesis Research/ Catherine M. Soussloff
- DANM 215 | MFA Exhibition Production/ Soraya Murray
- DANM 267 | Workshop in Computer Music and Visualization/ Peter Elsea
- Teaching Assistantship in History of Art and Visual Culture department | Introduction to Visual Cultures of Asia/ Boreth Ly
Winter 2009
- DANM 299 | Thesis Research/ Soraya Murray
- DANM 250C | Public Media Group/ Warren Sack
- HAVC 163B | Arts and Politics in Theravada Buddhist Traditions/ Boreth Ly
- DANM 267 | Workshop in Computer Music and Visualization/ Peter Elsea
- Advanced West Javanese Gamelan/ Undang Sumarna
- Teaching Assistantship in History of Art and Visual Culture department | Video Games as Visual Culture/ Soraya Murray
Fall 2008
- DANM 202 | Genealogies and Theories of Digital Arts and Culture/ Christina McPhee
- DANM 212 | Thesis Proposal/ Sharon Daniel
- DANM 250B | Public Media Group/ Warren Sack
- Advanced West Javanese Gamelan/ Undang Sumarna
- Teaching Assistantship in History of Art and Visual Culture department | Introduction to Visual Culture: Europe/ Catherine M. Soussloff
Classes and Coursework 07-08
Spring 2008
- DANM 203 | Dialogues/Questions/ David Crane
- DANM 211B | Critique Seminar/ Catherine M. Soussloff
- DANM 250A | Public Media Group/ Warren Sack
- Teaching Assistantship in Film and Digital Media department | The Film Experience/ Drew Todd
- Curatorial Internship with Steve Dietz, artistic director of Superlight/ 01SJ http://01sj.org/
Winter 2008
- DANM 211A | Critique Seminar/ Kathy Foley
- DANM 220 | Computer Programming for the Arts/ Ralph Abraham
- DANM 223 | Electronic Sound Synthesis/ Peter Elsea
- COWELL 291 | Embodiment: Visualities and Performativities/ Catherine M. Soussloff, Karen Bassi, Mark Franco, Nina Treadwell
- Teaching Assistantship in Film and Digital Media department : Experimental Film and Video/ David Crane
Fall 2007
- DANM 201 | *Recent Methods and Approaches/ Soraya Murray
- DANM 210 | *Project Design Studio/ Ed Osborn
- DANM 249 | *Faculty Seminar/ Sharon Daniel
- Teaching Assistantships in department of music | West Javanese Gamelan/ Undang Sumarna & Music of India/ Inderjit Kaur
Thesis Research/ Keyword Processing Environment | http://www.kwpe.org
Thesis Abstract (08-09)
Artist's Curriculum Vitae (PDF download)
Contact
- Email: ghobbs at ucsc dot edu
- Office: HAVC TA Office/ Porter D-123
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