April 30–May 1 and May 5–8 (10am–4pm)
Special Events Friday, May 6:
Talk by Steve Dietz, 4pm
Reception, 5:30–7:30pm
Premiere of a newly composed opera, 8pm
Digital Arts Research Center
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at UC Santa Cruz presents an exhibition of ten graduate students whose works employ advanced technologies for creative potential and social impact.
Entitled Permutations, this year’s UCSC DANM MFA exhibition is the culmination of two years of research and artistic exploration, and will include new media works that explore performativity, interactivity and participation. Through storytelling about places, times and players, these artists experiment with digital media to produce unforeseen outcomes and permutations. Their works probe fundamental questions and explore controlled and random mediated experience. They interrogate the borderlands, edges, and contested territories of contemporary new media art practice.
The show reception will be preceded by a talk from serial platform creator Steve Dietz, entitled “Between Media and Architecture”, as part of the Art Technology & Culture Colloquium at UCSC. The founder, president and artistic director of Northern Lights.mn, Dietz has organized and curated numerous contemporary and new media art exhibitions including 01SJ Biennial. He speaks and writes extensively about new media, and teaches about curating and digital art.
From its home in the new, state-of-the-art Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), the Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program at UC Santa Cruz brings together the arts, engineering, the humanities, and the sciences to produce artistic and scholarly research in the context of a broad inquiry into digital arts and cultures.
danm.ucsc.edu