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!!Laila Shereen Sakr: R-Shief proof of concept
Laila Shereen Sakr has published R-Shief's proof of concept in the peer-reviewed publication, Parsons Journal for Information Mapping!  See the journal, [PJIM Volume I, Issue 2 online | http://http://piim.newschool.edu/journal/issues/2009/02/] or her [publication in PDF | http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/media/research/student/Sakr-Laila_R-shief_PJIM.pdf].

!!Laila Shereen Sakr: Documenting Gaza on R-Shief--> a vj um amel remix

[Video | http://vimeo.com/3150655]
(video also uploaded onto ~YouTube.)

The R-Shief Initiative provides a platform for a community of users to archive their multilingual research—essays and articles, interactive projects, digital video, maps/images, project documentation, websites of organizations, journalism, as well as practical information on how to do research in the Middle East. Each user will create their own profile in which they will have detailed privacy control, ability to annotate their digital material using webcam, audio, and written notes, and access to share assets with other platforms including Google Books, Google Scholar, Archive.org, UC Digital Libraries, Facebook, Flicker, and more.  This multi-lingual, multi-positional resource fills an urgent need for digital infrastructure designed to empower unheard Middle Eastern voices. The initiative is a call for a collective organizing of information by 21st century transnational researchers, scholars, artists, activists—people migrating to and from the Middle East—displaced yet networked online, within organizations and institutions, as well as through shared social and historical experiences.

In June 2009, R-Shief will launch the beta version of this bilingual archive using a recent collection of media that emerged in response to the war on Gaza, Palestine.

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!!Nick Lally and Nik Hanselmann:
A series of 15 large prints and a hand-bound book that represent their efforts to turn the everyday into a creative medium through the use of digital media.

First-year DANM students Nik Hanselmann and Nick Lally installed a sensor in the Sesnon Gallery that collects environmental data (light level, sound level, proximity and temperature) from the space and uploads them to an online database every two seconds. They developed software that creates a generative drawing that changes with the data over time.

The live generative drawing exhibited in the Porter Faculty Gallery and the DANM Lounge as part of "No Batteries Required", part of the Sesnon Gallery exhibition "Some Assembly Required". An online version can be viewed here: http://transmogrify.me (Let it run for a few hours for a rich, complex image.)

Exhibition: March 11-20, 2009 in the UCSC Porter Faculty Gallery.

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!!Nik Hanselmann: Basic Arduino Sequencer
[video on Vimeo|http://vimeo.com/2295544]
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!!Kyle ~McKinley::_~Appropriations/Apropos:the Dialectics of Détournment and Recuperation_ Site-Specific Digital Printmaking

A collection of recent digital manipulations and photographs by first year DANM student Kyle ~McKinley that attempt to raise questions about the state of appropriation amongst radical/ anarchist communities.

[about | http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/kyle/apropos]
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!!02.04.2009 :: BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED _a collective exhibition by DANM students_
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!WHAT<br>
An assemblage of sensory interventions in the audio, visual and atmospheric climate of the Sesnon Art Gallery exhibition, Some Assembly Required, opening week activities http://arts.ucsc.edu/sesnon/<br>
!PARTICIPANTS<br>
Lyès Belhocine, Drew Detweiler, Nikolaos Hanselmann, Jessica F Hayden, Alexander Konrad, Nick Lally, Kyle Forrest Mckinley, Joshua ~McVeigh-Schultz, Christopher Molla<br>
!WHEN<br>
February 4, 2009 3-9 pm (Reception 4-6 pm)<br>
!WHERE<br>
Sesnon Art Gallery, Faculty Gallery (D-222) and DANM Lounge (D-221) at Porter College, UCSC

![Photos from event|http://www.flickr.com/photos/danm_ucsc/sets/72157614517149778/]<br>
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!!!2008
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!!24hr Thesis
In the space of 24 hours, participants proposed, developed, prototyped, built and exhibited an art project. It is jokingly called the 24h Thesis, since it condenses the two year process of the mfa program into a day.  Proposed by first-year DANM student Nick Lally, the idea was that people would come without preconceptions of what they want to do and work in small groups to come up with a project to exhibit. In his initial invitation, Nick said "I think it will be a good opportunity for us to work collaboratively, experiment, and play."

The day started at 10am on Saturday, October 25th in the Porter electronics lab, with the exhibit at 10am on Sunday at Porter College. Almost everyone from the first-year cohort and several second years participated; three made it overnight.

[Photos|http://danm.ucsc.edu/media/research/student/24hrThesis/Site/24hrThesis.html]
[More Photos|http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyle/tags/24hr/]

~YouTube [video|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byyfeIHHMjg] on the collaboration between DANM students Antoine Abou Jaoude and Karl Baumann. (thank you Antoine)
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!!When you are not your body ::  Lim Kok Yoong in collaboration with Roopesh Sitharan
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Roopesh Sitharan served as a conceptual collaborator in conceiving the artwork. To view their critical discourse, please down the [exhibition brochure|http://www.vwfa.net/v1/artists/images/project_prog/43-brochure.pdf]

'When You're Not Your Body' by Lim Kok Yoong is video installation that stimulates a process of decentering, where an awareness of the viewer's selfhood is disrupted. Since the beginning of video art practices, one of the key quality that interested artists is its ‘live’ transmission. Video artists since the 60s, like Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci, have explored this particular quality, creating works that challenges our sense of identity and self in a specific time and place through the effects of video transmission. This transmission provides the viewer with a concrete representation of him/her being in another space (the screening space for instance), while also telling us that we are in ‘here’ (in the gallery space), and this element of displacement can create feelings such as anxiety, alienation or amusement, challenging the way we understand optical perspective and cognition of both time and space.

By using digital video feed, the viewer is made to confront himself or herself as an 'other', an image or a subject that is separated yet recognisably part of oneself. Through this, the artist hopes to provoke the audience into thinking about the meaning of being in existence.

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!!Art as Photography as Art exhibition :: Curated by Roopesh Sitharan
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Roopesh Sitharan, in collaboration with Gallery 12 from Malaysia is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Puah Chin Kok. Best known for his intrinsic photographic works, the artist is making his debut comeback with cutting-edge and innovative ideas. Puah questions the field of photography as he expands the practice to include the subjects being photographed as part of
his artistic enquiry.

Emphasizing on the power of image technology such as digital photography that saturates the appearance of image in the mainstream media circulation, Puah is able to reposition our interaction with everyday images such as pictures of a holiday trip, graduation, family reunion and even mundane activities such as self-posing to create viable locations of inquiry and interaction. The theme of subjectivity is also recurring in Puah’s work, and though it is at times perceived as playful and at other times confrontational, his installations always seek to engage the viewer in a critical way.

For further information, please visit [12’s website | http://www.12as12.com]


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!!Laila Shereen Sakr :: R-Shief
R-Shief <an online journal> showcases and archives digital video of documentary film, radio, and live cultural programming. Real-time, automated transcriptions alongside editorially selected hypertexts in Arabic and English will feature current developments in the fields of web culture, media and the arts, civil society building and participation among people in contemporary Arab Diaspora.

The publication's Arabic /English content will be organized with added semantic annotations. The platform implements free extensions of the wiki-system powering Wikipedia, and extends them by incorporating a semantic media wiki in Arabic (released April 2008). Using the wiki publishing model, a form of processual publishing, the journal allows users to publish updates and corrections to the automated transcriptions and indexing.

R-Shief is designed for a public moving between the Arab world and the West, a transnational Arab public. R-Shief will provide its community with a hybrid platform to publish, visualize, and semantically organize both digitally sophisticated work and written articles. It offers its users a fresh perspective on the scene of contemporary Arab Diaspora, recognizing web culture as significant in the life of twenty-first century migrants.

A prototype of [R-Shief|http://r-shief.org] is part of the November 2008 MESA conference in Washington DC.

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!!Roopesh Sitharan :: Interview by TV Primorka as part of ISEA08 Event Coverage!
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!!Roopesh Sitharan :: 7th Gwangju Biennale Foundation's Global Institute August 11-23, 2008

 Roopesh is selected to participate in the Gwangju Biennale Foundation's Global Institute in Korea. The Global Institute consists of  two programs: “Open Studio” and “Arenas and Systems,” organized  into a series of workshops and lectures. Participants are given the  opportunity to attend workshops, discuss pertinent issues in  contemporary artistic discourse, build a network with 50 other participants selected from across the globe. The Institute’s  lecturers include this year’s Gwangju Biennale’s Artistic Director and curators  (Okwui Enwezor, Ranjit Hoskote, Hyunjin Kim, Claire Tancons, Abdellah Karroum, Sun Hyen Park, Patrick  Flores, Jang Un Kim), participating artists (Bingyi Huang, Juan  Maidagan, Jin Won Lee, MYDADA, Tania Bruguera and Arte Conducta,  Karyn Olivier, Jewyo Rhii, etc.), and renowned professors of K-art in Seoul and Chonnam National University in Gwangju (Sunjung Kim, Hyungmin Pai, Chang Sukwon and  more).
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 For more information: [http://www.gb.or.kr/2008gb/eng/index.asp]
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!!G. Craig Hobbs :: Digital Agitprop of the Bush Era: A lecture/remix


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 !Part of the Winter 08 DANM Student Exhibitions at the Porter Faculty Gallery
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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!!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
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 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 | http://danm.ucsc.edu/~lkelley/wiki_docs/pcnf_events.pdf] The exhibit ran from 01.31.2008 to 02.21.2008.
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!!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
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 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." http://www.tandybeal.com/hereafterhere/about.html For the production, Troy created a prototype ESS that took the form of an on-site, personal video interview capturing system. This isolated space was then used to interview audience members before each night’s performance. Participants responded to the simple prompt, “What do you think happens after you die,” and the resulting clips were interwoven into each performance. Thus, the audience and participants experienced these video responses as part of the performance. The Porter Faculty Gallery exhibit showcased the resulting content, as well as demonstrating equipment and methods used. Gallery patrons were able to participate in the ESS.

 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.
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!!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.|http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/ceccac08/cc08_pix.htm]
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!!!2007 Graduating Cohort
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!! Tyler Freeman
 [Thesis Proposal Abstract | ThesisProposalAbstracts #freeman]  [MFA Exhibition project | http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/Emergence2007 #TylerFreeman]  [Home Page | http://www.odbol.com]

  !Noise Evolution
   http://www.odbol.com

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 This video installation lets viewers interact with cellularly-automated avatars of themselves, painting a shifting landscape of multicolored sands with their movements.

 Visit [odbol.com|http://www.odbol.com] for Tyler's art projects, photography, music, poetry and more.

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!! James Khazar
 [Thesis Proposal Abstract | ThesisProposalAbstracts #khazar]  [MFA Exhibition project | http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/Emergence2007 #JamesKhazar]  [Home Page | http://www.khazar.com]
  !On The Concept of History: A Liturgy
     * [Proposal|KhazarDANM202FinalProject] for sculpture, _On The Concept of History: A Liturgy_ for DANM202 Culture Theory & Research
  !Cartonnage
     * [Project|http://www.khazar.com/mfa/cartonnage_mmedia.htm], _Cartonnage_ sculpture for DANM219 Electronics for Art Making
  !!Alchemical Time
     * Final [project | DANM220FinalProject], _Alchemical Time_ for DANM220 Introduction to Programming for the Arts
  !Cognition of Emergent Visual Forms
     * Final [project|http://www.khazar.com/cogtest/], _Cognition of Emergent Visual Forms_ for DANM224 Cognitive Approaches To Music Theater & Film

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!! Cynthia "Synthia" Payne
 [Thesis Proposal Abstract | ThesisProposalAbstracts #payne]  [MFA Exhibition project | http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/Emergence2007 #synthia]  [Home Page | http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/synthia]

   [Cyberjammer|http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/CYBERJAMMERPHOTOS]

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 Professor Maggie Morse waves to Synthia in the Cyberjammer Live online music collaboration studio.
  * [Cynthia Payne's research listed in UC Santa Cruz' Profiles in Excellence |http://www.ucsc.edu/students/profiles/#payne]
  * Check out more of Synthia's work at [http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/Synthia]

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!! no.e Parker
 [Thesis Proposal Abstract | ThesisProposalAbstracts #parker]  [MFA Exhibition project | http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/Emergence2007 #no.e]  [Home Page | http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/no.e]
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!! Alan Tollefson
 [Thesis Proposal Abstract | ThesisProposalAbstracts #tollefson]  [MFA Exhibition project | http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/Emergence2007 #AlanTollefson]  [Home Page | http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/ubik]
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!!!2006 Graduating Cohort
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!!Metavid
   [Metavid | http://metavid.ucsc.edu] is a project which seeks to capture, stream, archive and facilitate real-time collective ~[re]mediation of legislative proceedings. Metavid makes use of entirely free and open source software and video codecs to make both the footage and the architecture of the site available, accessible and recontextualizable.  Metavid was awarded a grant in 2006 by Sunlight Foundation. This grant funded full-time development on this project for a year in addition to expansion of hardware infrastructure.

!!Aphid Stern
  *[Aphid | aphid]'s DANM related projects: [ip collage | http://aphid.org/ipcollage] ([about| http://www.aphid.org/epiphany/index.php/IP%20Collage])

!!Darryl Ferrucci
!Concrete Computing
  *[Darryl Ferrucci's | darryl] Concrete Computing|http://danm.ucsc.edu/~darryl/concrete/index.html]


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!!Nightingale
  [_Nightingale_|http://currents.ucsc.edu/05-06/12-05/nightingale.asp]  ::  Barn Theater  ::  Thursday–Sunday November 17–20, 2005 at 7:00 pm

    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, Jess 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.
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!!! 2005
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! [Trabalenguas]
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