Arts
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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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Alumnus Cary Fukunaga earns Emmy nomination for HBO’s ‘True Detective’
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Cary Fukunaga has been nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of “Outstanding Director for a Drama Series” for the HBO show “True Detective”
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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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Porter College announces inaugural Machotka Chairs in Creative Studies
Patty Gallagher, Gary Young, and Shelley Stamp have been chosen as the inaugural recipients of the Pavel Machotka Chair in Creative Studies at Porter College.
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UCSC selects acclaimed New York firm to design Institute of Arts and Sciences
The University of California, Santa Cruz, announced today that the award-winning New York firm, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, has been selected to design the campus’s new Institute of the Arts and Sciences.
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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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Acclaimed TV and film producers coming to UCSC on May 28
The 2014 Arts Dean’s Lecture Series comes to a close on Wednesday, May 28, with a special panel discussion featuring prominent artists from the television and film industry.

