February 10, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
Digital Arts and New Media Festival
UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program is pleased to announce the Digital Arts and New Media Festival taking place at UCSC between May 4th and May 7th, 2006. The UCSC DANM MFA Program serves as a center for the development and study of digital media and the cultures they have helped create. The DANM Festival 2006 will showcase the expanding arena in which this new art practice is emerging and it will signal UCSC’s presence as a prominent center of activity in digital arts and new media. The DANM Festival 2006 introduces the campus and the public at large to cutting edge experimental work and serves as a bridge to the local community through collaborations with the The Museum of Art & History @ The McPherson Center and the Santa Cruz Film Festival.
Presenting work by national and international artists, expert speakers, and members of the DANM MFA Program, the DANM Festival 2006 features the following events:
EXHIBITIONS
PHYSICAL | DIGITAL
The Museum of Art & History @ The McPherson Center, Santa Cruz
May 4 to May 14: The works included in Physical | Digital reveal a remarkable match between subject and medium. Jim Campbell, Paul DeMarinis and Camille Utterback share an intense involvement with technology that is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging.
BLINK
UCSC Porter Sesnon Gallery, May 5 to May 7: Blink presents the works of from UCSC DANM MFA students.
SYMPOSIA
May 5, UCSC, Studio C, Communication Building
May 6, UCSC, Media Theatre, Theater Arts M110, UCSC
The DANM Festival Symposia includes 5 panels about Digital Arts and New Media theory and practice. The specific subjects of the panels are:
I.THE ART OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, Chaired by Elliot Anderson (Assistant Professor of Electronic Media, UCSC, DANM Faculty).
II. DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHIES, Chaired by Ted Warburton (Assistant Professor of Theater Arts, UCSC, DANM Faculty).
III. ALGORITHMIC METHODS AND MODELS IN THE ARTS; Chaired by David Cope (Professor of Music, UCSC, DANM Faculty) and Paul Nauert (Associate Professor of Music, UCSC, DANM Faculty).
IV. AUDIBLE TERRAIN: SHIFTING GROUND IN CONTEMPORARY SOUND PRACTICE, Chaired by Ed Osborn (Assistant Professor of Art, UCSC, DANM Faculty).
V. THE ROLE OF VIRTUOSITY IN A TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED PERFORMANCE, Chaired by David Merrill (MIT).
MUSIC PERFORMANCES
May 6
Media Theatre, Theater Arts M110, UC Santa Cruz
The DANM Festival will include the performances by three artists. Two of them, Laetitia Sonami and Sue Costabile, have been working together recently and their collaboration will be a live sound/film performance (with Costabile's work "I.C. You"). Sonami will also perform her solo piece "The Appearance of Silence (The Invention of Perspective)". John Bischoff, the third artist, has been creating electronic music for solo performer and in computer network bands for over 20 years.
FILM SCREENING
May 5, 8.30 to 10.30 pm
Media Theatre, Theater Arts M110, UC Santa Cruz
In collaboration with the Santa Cruz Film Festival, the DANM Festival will present some rare historical works that have been very influential in the development of digital art along with other films done by contemporary artists such as Harun Farocki.
Last but not least, the DANM Festival will also include a series of satellite events that will take place throughout April, May and June 2006.
The DANM Festival has been kindly supported by UCSC Porter College.
For further information please contact:
Elena Lledó
Festival Coordinator
Tel: 831 457 2027
Email: elledo[at]ucsc.edu
Posted by jo at February 10, 2006 09:27 AM
