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Margaret Morse, Professor of Film and Digital Media with a specialty in electronic and digital art and culture states "I want to encourage DANM students in critical thinking and writing on digital/new media and culture. These skills are just as essential for artists as they are for writers and teachers. My own publications include work on fundamental concepts such interactivity, immersion and telematics, many essays on specific work by artists as well as critiques on contemporary culinary, body and other cultures. My books are Virtualities: Television, Media Art and Cyberculture (Indiana UP 1998) and Software, Hardware, Artware (ZKM and Cantz Verlag 1997). See the Medien Kunst Netz/Media Art Network online for critical introductions to numerous artists as well as essays, including my recent "Sunshine and Shroud" under Cyborg Bodies : www.medienkunstnetz.de (2005)."

Office: Communications 105, Porter-D231
Office Hours: Tues 2:00-5:00pm in Porter D 231; appt. only Wednesdays in Comm 105
Email: morse@ucsc.edu



TA margaretha haughwout:: there are three intersections within the realm of new media that i find the most compelling. these are the intersections between performance, game, and ritual. games give us a sense of safety (we know there's structure, that there are time limits, that it is "pretend"); this, combined with agency and role-playing aspects, allows us to achieve a kind of liminality. this achievement of liminality allows us to perform our cultural scripts and perhaps even revise them. ritual enables this as well. i believe that there are many scripts our culture performs that are unconscious and damaging. my work often seeks to tease these out and to reveal them to participants, to create space for transgression. -- romantic love, gender bias, emotional intelligence and objectivity are themes i investigate in this process.

Office: Porter-D122
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: mhaughwo@ucsc.edu Office Phone: 459-1918