Friday, April 28, 2023 - 12:00pm to Saturday, May 6 2023 - 5:00pm
Digital Arts Research Center
https://danmmfa.ucsc.edu/
Heap is Full is a viscerally immersive exhibition offering alternative orientations to our mediated worlds. Eight exceptionally talented artists – Ian Costello, Nicki Duval, Carl Erez, Angela Fan, Rose Klein, Livia Perez, Patrick Stephenson and Rory Willats – present new works of media art developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period. Heap is Full is curated by Yolande Harris in collaboration with the artists of the DANM 2023 cohort.
The exhibition includes an open source game engine tool for modeling forest dynamics, an audiovisual performance on queer temporality in baseball, a media theater performance on bureaucracy surrounding the CZU forest fires, a virtual reality installation of Applied Cuteness Research, a workshop and games for changing systems of oppression, a multiscreen video installation on queer Brazilian filmmaker Norma Bahia Pontes, an interactive audio-visual installation on aesthetics of queer sex clubs, and a series of performance experiments on the manipulation of masculinity in virtual communities.
Why Heap is Full?
Gathering together eight individuals, the exhibition presents a “heap” of ideas, styles, voices and technologies, a full heap perhaps, both an organic pile of stuff and an error of bulging computer memory. The artists embrace both/and, heap/full, through an exhibition frame expansive enough to contain their work without forcing any voice into a unified theme. Through highly skilled collaborations, inquiries and experiments, their creative work in digital media offers a complete reorientation of perspectives, a way forward.
Faculty Curator Yolande Harris
FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
• Open admission from noon–5:00 p.m.
• April 28, 29 & May 3, 4, 5, 6
• April 28 Opening Reception at 4:00 p.m.
ADMISSION
• Free and open to the public
PARKING
• Lot 126 is the closest parking lot to the event
• Parking is by UCSC permit or Park Mobile
• More visitor parking information here