Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 12:00pm to Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 5:00pm
Digital Arts Research Center
https://danmmfa.ucsc.edu/
Embodiments presents the thesis research and culminating projects of the Digital Art and New Media (DANM) M.F.A. graduating cohort of spring 2024. The exhibition features multimedia performances and interactive installations, visual novels, games, virtual reality, sound art and an interactive puzzle-based experience exhibited throughout the Digital Arts Research Center at UC Santa Cruz.
Building from spaces of self inquiry, performance, and play, the spring 2024 graduating M.F.A. cohort, Jordan Fickel, Kristopher Funk, Robbie Trocchia, Saul Villegas, and Elliot Rex White, explore questions of queer and trans bodies, academic ableism, personal memoir and mythology. The resulting work is a powerful statement on memory, perception, imagined futures, and the production and consumption of erotic energy through art and experimental technologies.
Embodiments critiques and calls out, but also invites us into and beyond our own embodiments through the convergence of art, technology, and community. The artists’ resilience, commitment and ambition encompass far more than a culminating MFA thesis, rather acts of resistance which provoke critical reflection through immersive and engaged experiences of experimentation, catharsis and play.
Faculty Curator G. Craig Hobbs
FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Open admission from noon–5:00 p.m.
April 26, 27 & May 1, 2, 3, 4
Sign up here to reserve a time slot for Kristopher Funk's interactive, puzzle-based experience Facades of Ingress (5 slots per day) at Digital Arts Research Center room 306
Friday April 26:
- Opening Reception at 4:00 p.m., Digital Arts Research Center front lobby
- Robbie Trocchia eroto-system performances at 3pm and 5:30pm, Digital Arts Research Center room 108
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