Digital Arts and New Media
2014-15 General Catalog
DARC 204
(831) 459-1919
http://danm.ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Ralph H. Abraham, Professor Emeritus, Mathematics
Elliot W. Anderson, Associate Professor, Art
Electronic art, digital arts/new media
Lawrence Andrews, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media
Film and video production, documentary, installation and media art, sound, animation
Neda Atanasoski, Assistant Professor, Feminist Studies
New media and film; critical race and ethnic studies; feminist theory; human rights and humanitarianism; war and nationalism; religion and secularism; post-socialist politics and culture in Central and Eastern Europe
Gopal Balakrishnan, Associate Professor, History of Consciousness
Classics of political thought from Plato to Rousseau, early modern and modern European intellectual history, historical sociology, the history and future of capitalism, nationalism
Brandin Baron-Nusbaum, Associate Professor, Theater Arts
Costume design, history of design
Amy C. Beal, Professor, Music
American music, 20th-century music, experimental and improvisatory performance practices, postwar and Cold War culture, German new music festivals and radio stations, piano performance, contemporary music ensemble
Tandy Beal, Lecturer, Theater Arts (Dance)
Choreography, improvisation, technique, performance skills, collaborations with classical and jazz composers, circus, theater and video, children's productions
James H. Bierman, Professor, Theater Arts (Drama)
Playwriting, theater history and literature, classical and Renaissance drama, Chicano theater, digital media
Kirsten Brandt, Lecturer, Theater Arts (Drama)
Associate Artistic Director, San Jose Repertory Theatre
Benjamin L. Carson, Associate Professor, Music
Theories of consciousness and cognition, rhythm perception, Schoenberg, history of compositional method, subjectivity and identity
Michael Chemers, Associate Professor, Theater Arts
Theater history and theory, playwriting, dramaturgy, acting
Nancy Chen, Professor, Anthropology
Medical anthropology, visual anthropology, urban anthropology, Asian American identity, mental health, food, China
Alan Christy, Associate Professor, History
Early modern and modern Japan; history of social sciences, colonialism, nationalism
Christopher Connery, Professor, Literature
World literature and cultural studies, globalism and geographical thought, the 1960s, Marxism, pre-modern and modern Chinese cultural studies, cultural revolution
Vilashini Cooppan, Associate Professor, Literature
Postcolonial studies; comparative and world literature; literatures of slavery and diaspora; globalization studies; cultural theory of race and ethnicity
David H. Cope, Professor Emeritus, Music
Melanie Cordan, Lecturer, Digital Arts and New Media
Character animation, film, games, illustration, story boarding, 2-D animation, teaching
E. G. Crichton, Professor, Art
Intermedia, electronic arts, photography, installation
David L. Cuthbert, Associate Professor, Theater Arts
Lighting design, CADD, projection design, scenic design
Sharon A. Daniel, Professor, Film and Digital Media
Community-based public art in information and communications environments, social and political aspects of information technology, community networks, participatory culture, digital inclusion, net art, human-computer interface design
James E. Davis, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Computer graphics and computer vision, methods for acquiring and manipulating complex graphical models from the real world
Luca De Alfaro, Professor, Computer Science
Reputation systems, crowdsourcing, game theory, formal methods
Kate Edmunds, Professor, Theater Arts
Set design for theater and film
Shelly E. Errington, Professor, Anthropology
Globalization of folk art, visual and social semiotics, photography, film, the Internet and digital media, Southeast Asia, and Latin America
M. Kathleen Foley, Professor, Theater Arts (Drama)
Asian theater, Southeast Asian studies, performance studies, maskwork, puppetry, multicultural theater
Mark Franko, Professor, Theater Arts (Dance)
Dance history and theory, choreography, technique, performance studies, theatrical theory in historical and critical perspective
Carla Freccero, Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, Literature
Renaissance studies; French and Italian language and literature; early modern studies; postcolonial theories and literature; contemporary feminist theories and politics; queer theory; U.S. popular culture; posthumanism; animal studies
Patty Gallagher, Associate Professor, Theater Arts (Dance)
Movement training for actors, circus and clown traditions, and Indonesian dance/performance
Jennifer A. González, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.
Shelby Graham, Lecturer, Digital Arts and New Media
Irene Gustafson, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media
Producing across the boundaries between "theory" and "practice," non-fiction media, experimental film/video, production design, gender and queer studies
Helen Mayer Harrison, Visiting Eminent Professor, Arts Division and Art Department
Newton Harrison, Visiting Eminent Professor, Arts Division and Art Department
Karlton Hester, Associate Professor, Music
Premeditated, electroacoustic, and spontaneous composition; flutes, saxophones, and interdisciplinary performance; improvisational and Afrocentric music theory, analysis and history
Dee Hibbert-Jones, Associate Professor, Art
Public art, sculpture
Robin Hunicke, Visiting Associate Professor, Art
Game design
Donna M. Hunter, Associate Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as social practice, portraiture
Robin James, Associate Professor, Philosophy (UNC Charlotte)
Contemporary continental philosophy, feminist theory, and critical race/postcolonial theory
Kimberly Jannarone, Professor, Theater Arts (Drama)
Directing, dramaturgy, dramatic theory and criticism, theater history, acting
Arnav Jhala, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Artificial intelligence: video games, graphics, and intelligent user interfaces
David E. Jones, Professor, Music; Provost, Porter College
Composition and analysis, chamber opera, Balkan music, language and music, timbre and orchestration
David Kaun, Professor, Economics
Economics of art and culture; political economy of capitalism (including the quality of public discourse and its impact on public policy)
James Khazar, Lecturer, Art
Christine L. King, Lecturer, Kresge College
Mark Krumholz, Associate Professor, Astronomy and Astrophysics
Star formation, interstellar medium, numerical methods
Sri Kurniawan, Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering
Human-computer interaction; human factors and ergonomics; accessibility; assistive technology; usability; empirical studies; user-centered design
Brenda Laurel, Adjunct Professor, Computer Science
Research, design, and production management of interactive media
John Jota Leanos, Assistant Professor, Social Documentation
Documentary animation, social documentation, social art practice, community arts, Chicana/o art and culture, new media, critical media studies, cultural studies, documentary photography, installation art, public art and interventionist art practice
Norman Locks, Professor, Art
Photography
Charles L. Lord, Professor Emeritus, Film and Digital Media
Paul M. Lubeck, Professor Emeritus, Sociology
Irene Lusztig, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media
Film and video production, experimental documentary, ethnographic film, autobiographical film, editing
Dominic W. Massaro, Professor Emeritus, Psychology
Michael J. Mateas, Professor, Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for art and entertainment, game AI, AI and creativity, AI-based interactive storytelling, autonomous characters
Charles McDowell, Professor, Computer Science; Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Affairs
Programming languages, parallel computing, and computer science education
Margaret E. Morse, Professor Emerita, Film and Digital Media
Derek C. Murray, Assistant Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture
Contemporary art, globalization, theory and criticism, African-diaspora art, visual-culture studies, cultural theory
Soraya Murray, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media
Contemporary visual culture and representation including: new media art; projected arts; photography; electronic games; theories of art and globalization; representations of migration and otherness
Spencer Nakasako, Lecturer, Social Documentation
Paul Nauert, Professor, Music
Theory, composition; rhythm and meter; music cognition; mathematical and computer models of the compositional process
Dard A. Neuman, Assistant Professor, Music; Kamil and Talat Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music
Ethnomusicology; Hindustani music; colonialism, nationalism, technology and performance; sitar
A. Todd Newberry, Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Marcia Ochoa, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies
Gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, media and cultural studies, ethnography of media, feminism, queer theory, geography, multimedia production, graphic design, colonialism and modernity, Latin American studies—Colombia and Venezuela
Alex Pang, Professor, Computer Science
Uncertainty visualization, tensor visualization, scientific visualization, collaboration software, virtual reality interfaces
Jennifer Parker, Associate Professor, Art
Sculpture, installation, video, and performance art
Stephen C. Petersen, Lecturer, Computer Engineering
Embedded controller systems, RF wireless systems, modulation and spectrum reuse, digital signal processing, circuit theory
Larry Polansky, Professor, Music
Composition, post-tonal theory, algorithmic music, American music, tuning theory, contemporary music, ensemble performance and performance practice, acoustic and electric guitar music, music editing and publishing, interdisciplinary collaboration, music and scientific research
Eric Porter, Professor, American Studies
Black cultural and intellectual history; U.S. cultural history and cultural studies; critical race and ethnic studies; popular music and jazz studies
S. Ravi Rajan, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
Environmental history and political ecology, risk and disaster studies, science and technology studies, North-South environmental conflicts, environmental social theory, environmental ethics
B. Ruby Rich, Professor, Social Documentation and Film and Digital Media
Documentary film and video, post-9/11 culture, new queer cinema, feminist film history, Latin American and Latin/a cinema, U.S. independent film and video, the essay film, the politics of film festival proliferation and the marketing of foreign films in the U.S.
Jennifer Reardon, Associate Professor, Sociology
Science studies; sociology of science, technology, and medicine; feminist theory; race/ethnicity/gender/sexuality/class; biology and society
Kate O'Riordan, Associate Professor, Art
Theory, digital media technologies.
Adrienne Roberts, Lecturer, Art
Warren Sack, Professor, Film and Digital Media
Software design and media theory
Daniel Scheie, Professor, Theater Arts (Drama)
Acting, directing, dramatic literature, theater history, Shakespeare, Wagner, gay studies
Barry Sinervo, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Animal behavior, evolution, physiological ecology
Elizabeth Stephens, Professor, Art
Intermedia, electronic art, sculpture, and performance art
Renee Tajima-Pena, Professor, Social Documentation
Documentary film and video focusing on Asian American and immigrant communities, media, and social change
Mircea Teodorescu, Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Engineering
Dynamics, vibrations, contact mechanics, biomechanics
Gustavo Vazquez, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media
Film and video production, documentary and experimental cross-cultural experiences in filmr
Fabian Wagmister, Associate Professor, Film and TV (UCLA)
Edward C. Warburton, Associate Professor, Theater Arts
Development of dance thought in action, creative processes, and technology in theater arts; dance technique, movement research and composition, and applied dance practices
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Digital media, computer games, electronic literature, software studies
Christina Waters, Research Associate, Digital Arts and New Media
Theory, writing
Zachary Watkins, Lecturer, Music
Music composition, engineering, sound art
Jeff Watson, Assistant Professor, Digital Futures (OCAD University)
Lewis G. Watts, Professor Emeritus, Art
Emmet J. Whitehead, Associate Professor, Computer Science
Software engineering, software configuration management, web, hypertext, collaborative authoring, hypertext versioning, Internet information systems
Don Williams, Director, Cultural Arts and Diversity Center
African American Theater Arts Troupe, Rainbow Theatre
Rob Wilson, Professor, Literature
Transnational and postcolonial literatures, especially as located and transformed in Asia/Pacific; cultural-political emergences as posited against empires of globalization; cultural poetics of America in the Pacific and Oceania; the sublime, Longinus to Hiroshima; poetics of experimental writing, especially poetry; the poetry and cultural poetics of Bob Dylan; Beat beatitude, social and literary, from Jesus to Juliana Spahr et al; San Francisco as Global City, with its literature read as archive of vision and critique; Pacific Rim cities from Hong Kong and Seoul to Taipei, Kaohsiung, Shanghai, Honolulu, San Francisco, and Los Angeles
Richard Wohlfeiler, Lecturer, Art
Printmaking, drawing
Susan Working, Lecturer, Digital Arts and New Media
Sculpture, design, arts administration
Laura Wright, Lecturer, Digital Arts and New Media
Technology and fiber arts, social and political practices, education, communication
David Yager, Professor, Art
Photography, design, and print media
Chris Yonge, Lecturer, Computer Science
Design and innovation, digital modeling, computer-based animation, 3-D printing
Erika Zavaleta, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
Biodiversity and global change, biological invasions, terrestrial plant and ecosystem ecology, human ecology, conservation science
Revised: 09/01/14
