research /student
2008
G. Craig Hobbs
Digital Agitprop of the Bush Era: A lecture/remix
Part of the Winter 08 DANM Student Exhibitions at the Porter Faculty Gallery
A video mashup of digital agitational propaganda disseminated during the postmillennial Bush rule of American society. Spanning the combined output of artists, the corporate media, and the US government, this remix/ lecture by DANM graduate student G. Craig Hobbs presents compelling video and audio works addressing matters of political power, engagement, and ideological resistance.
Digital Agitprop juxtaposes web-distributed works and archive sources to survey destruction, manipulation, and redemption in this tumultuous period of world history. The show and subsequent gallery installation attempts to recover the original meaning of propaganda—the dissemination of ideas—as a symbiotic form of media activism inherent to new distribution models provided by compressed digital media and the world wide web.
The presentation was followed by a discussion and after-party. A gallery installation of the performance mix as video loop on monitor was on display from 02.24.07- 03.01.07.
Post Colonial Ninja Front
Miki Foster, Lindsay Kelley, and Laila Shereen
Part of the Winter 08 DANM Student Exhibitions at the Porter Faculty Gallery
The exhibit included an opening reception, Laila Shereen's The United States of Consciousness Open Mic Night on 02.07.2008
Lindsay Kelley's Chocolate tastings and
"Feminist Craft Corner" by Miki Foster
The Post Colonial Ninja Front is a research group within the DANM first year cohort comprised of Miki Foster, Lindsay Kelley, and Laila Shereen. We are pleased to present an exhibition of recent work, which will include altered consumer products, interactive narrative installation work, and a series of performances produced in collaboration with other first year DANM students. Our work considers race and ethnicity in the US and internationally, adopting a critical perspective when looking at advertising, representations in a variety of media, and popular culture, music, and film. Performances will include an open mic night hosted by Emcee Um Amel (Laila Shereen), chocolate tastings facilitated by Lindsay Kelley, and a new felting performance from Miki Foster.
Download performance schedule here The exhibit ran from 01.31.2008 to 02.21.2008.
Leave Me Alone, Place of Isolation
Troy Allman with guest artist Nada Miljkovic
Part of the Winter 08 DANM Student Exhibitions at the Porter Faculty Gallery
Over the past year, Troy Allman has been working toward developing a ephemeral space station (ESS). The ESS combines specific content capturing methods and interviewing technique to facilitates access to otherwise unattainable candid content.
This event showcased Troy’s recent work with Tandy Beal’s dance-theatre project, "HereAfterHere."
Nada Miljkovic also participated in "HereAfterHere" providing video content of children explaining their theories of death. Her video footage of the interviews that were not used in "Here After Here" was included in this exhibition, which ran 01.17.2008 to 01.29.2008.
Roopesh Sitharan
Roopesh's work was recently exhibited as part of "The Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave"(CeC & CaC) that was held in New Delhi, India.
CeC & CaC is an annual global occasion to collectively seek out, manifest, learn from, connect with and enjoy a studied broad canvas of cutting-edge participation & content from India and the world, addressing the Creative Empowerment of Individuals by the burgeoning spread of Technology across multiple streams of human endeavour.
Here are some pictures from the event.
2007 Graduating Cohort
Tyler Freeman
Thesis Proposal Abstract
Noise Evolution
This video installation lets viewers interact with cellularly-automated avatars of themselves, painting a shifting landscape of multicolored sands with their movements.
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James Khazar
Thesis Proposal Abstract
On The Concept of History: A Liturgy
- Proposal for sculpture, On The Concept of History: A Liturgy for DANM202 Culture Theory & Research
Cartonnage
Alchemical Time
- Final project, Alchemical Time for DANM220 Introduction to Programming for the Arts
Cognition of Emergent Visual Forms
- Final
Cynthia "Synthia" Payne
Thesis Proposal Abstract
Professor Maggie Morse waves to Synthia in the Cyberjammer Live online music collaboration studio.
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no.e Parker
Alan Tollefson
2006 Graduating Cohort
Metavid
Aphid Stern
- Aphid's DANM related projects: ip collage (about)
Darryl Ferrucci
Concrete Computing
- Darryl Ferrucci's Concrete Computing|http://danm.ucsc.edu/darryl/concrete/index.html]
Nightingale
Written by DANM student Bob Giges, Nightingale is loosely based on the Hans Christian Anderson story of the same name in which a mechanical bird and its living counterpart become rivals of a sort. Using video, sound, and interactive digital media, this production will weave together the original fairy tale with a story about a contemporary relationship in trouble.
This performance comes out of Ted Warburton's project group and is the culmination of more than six months of collaboration between DANM students Bob Giges, Jessica Damsen, Timothy Jordan, leaf and Alan Tollefson. In Nightingale dancers onstage trigger digital effects through their intricate movements, creating streams of light and colors that appear on images of their bodies projected on screens behind them. It is the heart of Bob Giges's thesis project.