Jessica Faith Hayden is a first year graduate student in UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Technocultural Studies with highest honors at UCSC by combining courses from the disciplines of Film and Digital Media, Sociology, and Community Studies into scholarly work into the completion of a unique interdisciplanary degree. In addition to her extensive coursework at UCSC, Jessica attended both the University of Utah and Westminster College, where she developed an expansive and varied artistic background in visual arts, theater arts, music and creative writing.
Jessica's most recent media project is "Mare Incognito (Unknown Sea),” a concept project that makes use of a variety of mediums (video, audio, flash animation, and composite imaging), to consider issues of stereotype and mythology as they relate to the body, illness and disability. As a unifying element, Jessica explores the socio-anthropological metaphor of the body as a literal territory to be mapped and conquered by medical science. The work considers both personal and cultural experiences of pain, dysfunction and desire, examining points of contrast and similarity between public and private, ability and disability, stereotype and individuality, and corporeal and metaphorical.
In addition to her work as an audio-visual digital artist, Jessica has performed extensively both as a professional actor and as a musician. As an actor and director, Jessica has worked with Stage Right Theater Company, Pioneer Theater Company and Salt Lake Acting Company, and served as founding board chair and artistic director for Salt Lake Experimental Theater Company. As a musician, Jessica was lead guitarist and songwriter for the Submersians surf rock band, bassist for The Shockwaves rock band, and guitarist and vocalist for The Waite rock-fusion band. She has performed with these groups at numerous public festivals, civic events, clubs and corporate parties. Jessica has also published creative written work in several literary journals, including the Private Eye and Elipsis Literary Magazine.
Jessica is currently working on a grant for the Creative Work Fund, and hopes to offer a workshop in digital audiobiography creation in summer 2009 through collaborative effort with The California Grey Bears and the Louden Nelson Community Center. It is Jessica's hope that this forum will help senior citizens actively engage the issues surrounding aging, age perception and identity in modern society, and will further serve to empower the use of digital technologies for the purposes of creative self expression.
Jessica Faith Hayden is a first year graduate student in UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Technocultural Studies with highest honors at UCSC by combining courses from the disciplines of Film and Digital Media, Sociology, and Community Studies into scholarly work into the completion of a unique interdisciplanary degree. In addition to her extensive coursework at UCSC, Jessica attended both the University of Utah and Westminster College, where she developed an expansive and varied artistic background in visual arts, theater arts, music and creative writing.
In addition to her work as an audio-visual digital artist, Jessica has performed extensively both as a professional actor and as a musician. As an actor and director, Jessica has worked with Stage Right Theater Company, Pioneer Theater Company and Salt Lake Acting Company, and served as founding board chair and artistic director for Salt Lake Experimental Theater Company. As a musician, Jessica was lead guitarist and songwriter for the Submersians surf rock band, bassist for The Shockwaves rock band, and guitarist and vocalist for The Waite rock-fusion band. She has performed with these groups at numerous public festivals, civic events, clubs and corporate parties. Jessica has also published creative written work in several literary journals, including the Private Eye and Elipsis Literary Magazine.
Jessica is currently working on a grant for the Creative Work Fund, and hopes to offer a workshop in digital audiobiography creation in summer 2009 through collaborative effort with The California Grey Bears and the Louden Nelson Community Center. It is Jessica's hope that this forum will help senior citizens actively engage the issues surrounding aging, age perception and identity in modern society, and will further serve to empower the use of digital technologies for the purposes of creative self expression.
Jessica Faith Hayden is a first year student in UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program. She earned her BA degree in Technocultural Studies from UCSC. In addition, she attended both the University of Utah and Westminster College, where she developed an expansive and varied background in visual arts, theater arts, music and creative writing.
In addition to her work as an audio-visual digital artist, Jessica has performed extensively as a professional actor and musician. She is currently working on a grant for the Creative Work Fund, and hopes to offer workshops in digital audiobiography creation in summer 2009.
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