First crop of DANM graduates exhibit work
The first group of Digital Arts and New Media graduates exhibited their work at DANM.01, which featured video and animation, performance pieces, sound installations, and web art. Photo: Lyle Troxell |
The Master of Fine Arts program in Digital Arts and New Media held a public exhibition of work by its very first graduates on June 16 to 18 at the Digital Media Factory in Santa Cruz. DANM.01 premiered video and animation, performance pieces, sound installations, and web art.
UCSC's Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) program is at the forefront of a new discipline that merges the creative and academic potential of digital media and emerging art forms in exciting and unfamiliar ways.
Below are the names of the graduating students and brief descriptions of their projects.
- Jess Damsen’s “Media Mural Project” is a collaborative video and music piece for distribution on Internet and TV. Archives are available at www.mediamural.org.
- Darryl Ferrucci’s “Gamelan Lumina” is a system that elucidates the inner structure of West Javanese gamelan music, by means of a live visual display.
- Bob Giges’ “Nightingale” is an interactive hypertext work that explores a play's script and its theoretical underpinnings.
- leaf’s project is “Softly Spoken” (A participatory ritual / now together gently / mundane shimmers at edges / i see. here we are).
- Daniel Massey’s project is “Untitled: A sound installation incorporating fragmented souvenirs and field recordings from the Mexico/U.S. border region.”
- Michael Dale’s and Aphid Stern’s “Metavid” seeks to capture, stream, archive and facilitate real-time collective [re]mediation of government proceedings. For more information, visit www.metavid.ucsc.edu.
- Alana Perlin’s “Interactive Interiors | Home Project” is an environment where individuals fashion their living spaces through interactive, web-based navigation.
- Christopher Angel Ramirez’s project is “Untitled: Narrating Pieces from the Lives of Latino (Gay) Men.”
- Michella Rivera-Gravage’s “Train Tracks” is a perpetually unfolding collection of downloadable audio programs. It is a combination of interviews with riders, histories about the SF BART system, and ambient/musical elements.
- Tiffany Wong’s “My Orientalist Fantasy” is a video installation that circles around the notion of desire as diatribe.
DANM was established in 2004 to address the increasingly central role of digital technology in the arts and to examine the impact of digital arts on culture. The program offers a two-year M.F.A. program that brings together students and faculty from across the art and academic spectra to collaborate on artistic practice and scholarly research.
Founded in 2004, the Digital Media Factory is a multi-business facility for the design, development, production, replication, management, and distribution of digital information products.
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