Arts
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Dedication of newly remodeled UCSC Communications Building set for April 17
The spotlight will shine on the UC Santa Cruz Film and Digital Media Department on April 17 when the campus dedicates its newly renovated Communications Building. The festivities will begin at 3 p.m. with a welcome reception in front of the building, accompanied by a sound mix of film scores provided by a student D.J.…
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UC Santa Cruz music faculty travel to Asia over spring break for Korean premiere of professor’s first opera
Three UC Santa Cruz music faculty had a rather unusual experience over spring break. David Evan Jones, Nicole Paiement, and Brian Staufenbiel traveled to Seoul, Korea, to oversee the Korean premiere of the chamber opera Bardos, for which Jones wrote the music and libretto. Bardos appeared in a double bill with Back to the Origin…
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Century Project challenges stereotypes of the female body
The Century Project is a remarkable exhibition that challenges stereotypical views of the female body, the nature of voyeurism, and the cycle of aging. Featuring 70 photographs of unclothed girls and woman in chronological order-from a newborn baby to a woman in her 90s-it is designed to provoke thought and discussion about subjects that are…
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Sesnon Gallery spring exhibit to feature innovative works from three UC Santa Cruz art faculty
What do exploding soap, the Polaroid I-Zone camera, and an espresso coffeemaker have in common? They’re all part of Faculty Works: 2004, an exhibition of innovative photography, video installation, and printmaking that will be presented by UCSC’s Sesnon Art Gallery from March 31 to May 1. The show will feature works by associate professor of…
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UC Santa Cruz faculty collaborate for innovative, multimedia classical guitar concert
Ever since he arrived at UC Santa Cruz in the fall of 1998, Mesut Ãzgen has been thinking about how to present a more theatrical version of the traditional classical guitar concert. After years of discussion with a wide variety of artists, the UCSC music lecturer has come up with a multimedia concept–designed to visually…
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UC Santa Cruz professor hopes to promote musical connection with Monterey through concert at Carmel Mission
UC Santa Cruz music professor Nicole Paiement is particularly looking forward to a rare appearance by the UCSC Chamber Singers at the Carmel Mission on February 21. The 24-voice ensemble will perform an evening of early music featuring Renaissance and Baroque styles from England and France–including works by Thomas Morley, John Dowland, John Wilbye, and…
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UC Santa Cruz film professor’s revolutionary past to be featured in Berkeley Art Museum retrospective and new DVD
Years before he joined the faculty at UC Santa Cruz, Chip Lord was a member of the Ant Farm, a groundbreaking experimental art and architecture collective he founded in 1968 with fellow architect Doug Michels. Dedicated to finding alternatives to mainstream architectural practice, the Ant Farm combined video, performance, and sculpture–achieving widespread notoriety in the…
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UC Santa Cruz film professor wins ‘Academy Award’
Associate professor of film and digital media Shelley Stamp has been named one of two 2003 Academy Film Scholars by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences-the same folks who bring us the Academy Awards. Stamp will receive $25,000 from the Academy to complete a book about silent film director/screenwriter/actress Lois Weber. The Film…
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UC Santa Cruz receives gift of 2,700 classical CDs from late UC Berkeley professor
The University Library at UC Santa Cruz has received a gift of 2,700 classical CDs from the personal collection of the late Jesse C. Rabinowitz, a distinguished emeritus professor of molecular and cell biology at UC Berkeley, as well as an enthusiastic cellist and avid patron of the arts. “The Music Department is tremendously grateful…
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Disciple of renowned master musician Ali Akbar Khan to kick off new Indian classical music series at UCSC
Violinist Sisirkana Dhar Chowdhury–a disciple of renowned master musician Ali Akbar Khan for over 30 years–will kick off the UC Santa Cruz Music Department’s 2003-04 Indian Classical Music series with a concert on Saturday, October 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall. One of India’s premier performers of Hindustani music, Sisirkana…
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First master of fine arts degree to be offered at UCSC
UC Santa Cruz has established its first Master of Fine Arts degree program in Digital Arts/New Media. The innovative new program will draw from a variety of disciplines including graphic arts, three-dimensional and environmental arts, music and sound design, film, video, and theater. “The Digital Arts /New Media program promises to become a center for…
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Acclaimed author and journalist Pico Iyer to speak at UCSC
Acclaimed author and travel writer Pico Iyer will present a free public lecture, Sunday, October 12, at 4 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Iyer will speak on the topic: “Islam and California: A Cultural Romance.” Renowned Indian actress Sharmila Tagore to appear at Satyajit Ray film screening A…