Arts
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents work of John Jota Leaños
“Imperial Silence: Una Ópera Muerta”–a bilingual multi-media opera by UCSC assistant professor of film and digital media John Jota Leaños–will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, September 14-16.
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UCSC’s DANM program to be featured at ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose
UCSC”s Digital Arts and New Media program (DANM) will showcase campus projects at the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial—an international festival featuring work at the intersection of art and technology—that takes place in Silicon Valley and around the Bay Area, September 12 to December 8.
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UCSC taps Tang Museum director to lead innovative museum project
The UC Santa Cruz Arts Division announced today that John Weber—currently Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York—has been hired to guide the development of a new institute of the arts and sciences.
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Crossing the boundaries of media-focused computer science, digital humanities and arts
Interaction between media-focused computer science, the digital humanities and digital arts have the potential to drive major progress in interactive media creation and understanding.
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UCSC alum’s third CD offers haunting ‘optimistic melancholy’
Rolling Stone magazine has described Emily Jane White’s songs as “melancholy as a rainbow glimpsed through the bars of a prison window.”
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Swords, wigs, and corsets: Shakespeare Santa Cruz by the numbers
Have you ever attended a Shakespeare Santa Cruz performance and wondered, “How on Earth do they do it?” Can the magic of Shakespeare Santa Cruz be broken down into cold, hard statistics?
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Spike Lee hires UCSC alum as designer for Mike Tyson solo Broadway show
Erik Pearson, a 2001 graduate of UC Santa Cruz in Film and Digital Media, has been chosen by director Spike Lee to design the media for “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,” opening July 31 on Broadway
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Shakespeare Santa Cruz launches new season July 24
Shakespeare Santa Cruz (SSC) will kick off its 31st season on Tuesday, July 24. Nearly 60 UCSC students and alumni help make it happen.
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Mickey Hart talks about UCSC Archive in Sunday LA Times
The June 29 public opening of UCSC’s Grateful Dead Archive has generated widespread and extensive media coverage. As reporter Matt Stevens noted in a story published in the July 1 edition of the Sunday Los Angeles Times…
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UC Santa Cruz launches the Grateful Dead Archive Online
The UCSC Library announced today that the public can now access the Grateful Dead Archive Online through the GDAO website at www.gdao.org.
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Sunday SF Chronicle arts section features cover story on B. Ruby Rich
UC Santa Cruz professor of Film and Digital Media B. Ruby Rich was featured in June on the cover of the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sunday Datebook pullout arts section.
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UCSC film prof to receive Frameline Award at SF LGBT Film Festival
UC Santa Cruz professor of Film and Digital Media B. Ruby Rich, will be awarded the 2012 Frameline Award at the 36th annual San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, running June 14 to 24.