UC Santa Cruz: New Collaborative Research Projects in Digital Media Arts

An integral component of the Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program

Application deadline: February 1, 2011

University of California, Santa Cruz
Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program
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+1-831-459-1554

http://danm.ucsc.edu

Participatory Culture :: Sierra Nevada: An Adaption
Faculty: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison
SIERRA NEVADA: AN ADAPTION is an initial work in the Force Majeure Series, a 50-year collaboration between the Harrison Studio and the Center for Art + Environment at Nevada Museum of Art. The term ‘The Force Majeure’ refers to the inexorable force of human-based global warming acting in transaction with our vast processes of extraction and CO2 production. Explore and create the methodologies demonstrating how to buffer drought and erratic weather, which will inevitably impact the Central Valley of California as well as the high grounds of the Sierra Nevada. (more)

Performative Technologies :: Peer Gynt
Faculty: Kimberly Jannarone and others
Peer Gynt, Ibsen’s 1867 masterpiece, has waited a century and a half to be staged with 21st-century technology. The proscenium theater of Ibsen’s day launched this sprawling verse epic, but it could not accommodate the multidimensional adventure it demands. This production will take over a building with advanced technological capacities, bringing the adventure of Peer Gynt to life in rooms crafted from video, digital animation, human and non-human performers. Become a part of this collaborative and multi-disciplinary process. (more)

Playable Media :: Playable Fictions
Faculty: Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Play can change the audience’s relationship to a fiction. It is also a powerful method of developing audience understanding of a computational system, which is perhaps the most promising future territory for the development of digital fictions. Explore the potential of playable experiences that combine the concerns of fiction (language, character, story), the techniques and research methods of media making and computer science, and the insights of game design in a collaborative and challenging environment. (more)

The application deadline is February 1.

ABOUT DANM
The Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program at UC Santa Cruz is an interdisciplinary center for the development and study of digital media arts and their social impact. From its base in the new, state-of-the-art Digital Arts Research Center, this intensive two-year MFA program brings together faculty and students from across the academic spectrum to pursue artistic and scholarly research.

In addition to conducting collaborative research that results in publications and exhibitions, DANM students take core and elective courses in the theory and practice of digital media arts. Their journey culminates in the development of individual thesis projects, which premier in our annual MFA exhibition. The MFA is the terminal degree in the field of digital media arts, qualifying graduates for a variety of career paths including university-level teaching and research.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
DANM makes a strong effort to help its students put together the support they need, including teaching assistantships for the first year. Additional support may be available in the form of grants and fellowships, graduate student researchships or additional teaching assistantships—some are awarded based on need, others on academic merit. Graduate students are encouraged to apply for both.

MORE INFORMATION

http://danm.ucsc.edu/admissions