Digital Arts & New Media
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Acclaimed artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña to perform on campus
On Nov. 6, Guillermo Gómez-Peña comes to UC Santa Cruz for a special live performance titled “Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art World” at the Digital Arts Research Center.
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Astrophysics meets theater in ‘Birth of Stars’
What does the birth and death of stars have to do with the lives of real human beings? How do we balance the joy and pain of life in a productive way? Does technology make us less than human…or something more?
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Grad students’ interactive fiction honored at IndieCade games festival
Ice-Bound is an interactive fiction piece created by two graduate students in the UC Santa Cruz Center for Games and Playable Media
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Acclaimed game designer joins UC Santa Cruz art faculty
Award-winning game designer and producer Robin Hunicke will join the UC Santa Cruz faculty in January as Associate Professor of Art & Game Design.
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Five artists collaborate on experimental book art
When fully opened, Felicia Rice’s book literally unfolds like an accordion along the length of a 30-foot table…
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UC Santa Cruz film professor’s original animation to debut on PBS.org
John Jota Leaños’s unconventional short film uses humor, hip hop, and comic book style animation to tell a fascinating story of revolt in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands
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UC Santa Cruz graduates featured at SF innovative art and music festival
Interactive art installations by four recent UC Santa Cruz graduates will be featured at the opening night of Soundwave–San Francisco’s innovative biennial three month art and music festival—at the California Academy of Sciences.
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UCSC graduate student is a new kind of storyteller
Aaron Reed’s award-winning games use computer technology to explore the possibilities of interactive fiction.
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First annual spring ‘Celebration of the Arts’ set for June 6
On Friday, June 6, the UCSC Arts Division will present its first annual “Celebration of the Arts,” featuring work from students in all six departments of the division.
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UCSC receives NEA grant for art/science project on ocean ecology
UCSC has been awarded an NEA grant to support Blue Trail: Imagination and Innovation for Ocean Sustainability–a series of art installations that will be spread out across the San Francisco waterfront.
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UCSC announces three finalists for national architect competition
UC Santa Cruz announced that Allied Works Architecture (Portland/New York), Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (New York), and the team of Patkau Architects (Vancouver, B.C.) and Fong & Chan Architects (San Francisco) have been selected as finalists in the architect search for the campus’s new Institute of the Arts and Sciences.
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DANM student nominated for four Independent Game Festival Awards
Deirdra ‘Squinky’ Kiai–a first-year student in UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media MFA program (DANM)–has been named a finalist in four categories of the 2014 Independent Game Festival Awards.