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Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program
University of California, Santa Cruz
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DANM Announces New Collaborative Research Projects in Digital Media Arts
The Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program at UC Santa Cruz is pleased to announce the initiation of new collaborative research projects in the context of the program’s ongoing research. Collaborating with faculty and contributing to digital media arts research that results in publications and exhibitions is a critical component of each student’s experience in the DANM program. Students entering in Fall 2009 will have the opportunity to collaborate on the following projects:
• Participatory Culture :: Software as Culture
Faculty: Warren Sack
Despite its ubiquity, most of the software of our software culture has been designed and implemented by engineers, mathematicians, and scientists who have deployed little or no knowledge of the history of art, media, and culture in their creations. Employ the medium of software as artists, designers and humanists to articulate a set of alternatives to the conditions of contemporary technology.
• Performative Technologies :: Digital Media in Live Performance
Faculty: James Bierman, Elliot Anderson, Danny Scheie
Digital media technologies can play a role in every aspect of theatrical performance from the very conception of the performance to the actual production. Create a theatrical performance incorporating digital production elements capable of stepping from the background into the foreground, and of moving the performance through transitional moments in a manner previously reserved for live performers.
• 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.
• Mechatronics :: TBA
UCSC is actively recruiting faculty in Electronic Arts, who will lead this project group.
The application deadline for Fall 2009 admission is February 15.
The Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program at UC Santa Cruz serves as a center for the development and study of digital media arts and their social impact. This intensive two-year MFA program brings together faculty and students from across the academic spectrum to pursue interdisciplinary artistic and scholarly research. In addition to conducting collaborative research in one of four areas – Mechatronics, Participatory Culture, Performative Technologies, or Playable Media – DANM students take core and elective courses in the theory and practice of digital media arts. The MFA journey culminates in the development of individual thesis projects, which are premiered 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.
RESOURCES
Beginning in Fall 2009, DANM will occupy the new, state-of-the-art Digital Arts Facility at UC Santa Cruz. http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/daf
VISITING ARTISTS
An ongoing speaker series takes place on campus throughout the year and includes noted regional and international visiting artists.
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
DANM makes a strong effort to help graduate students put together the support they need while attending the program, including teaching assistantships for the first year. Additional support may be in the form of grants and fellowships, graduate student researchships or additional teaching assistantships, depending on the availability of funds. Certain kinds of support are awarded on the basis of academic merit, and others are granted on the basis of need. Graduate students are encouraged to apply for both kinds.
ADMISSIONS INFORMATION
For information on the program and application process, visit: http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/ApplicationInfo.
MORE INFORMATION
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Images: (clockwise from top left)
Playable Media: Screen + Silhouette, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, http://www.noahwf.com
Mechatronics: SonicSENSE installation, Jennifer Parker and Barney Haynes, http://www.sonicSENSE.net
Participatory Culture: ConversationMap, at SF MOMA through February 2009, www.hybrid.ucsc.edu/ConversationMap, Warren Sack.
Performative Technologies: Subject_B’s Confession
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