Digital Arts and New Media
2018-19 General Catalog
DARC 302
(831) 459-1919
http://danm.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Principal Faculty and Professional Interests
Sharon A. Daniel, Professor, Film and Digital Media
New media and interactive documentary; social, economic, environmental and criminal justice; socially engaged art; community-based public art in information and communications environments; social and political aspects of information design; documentary forms and ethics
David Dunn, Assistant Professor, Music
Sound art and design, music and the environment, acoustic ecology, compositional linguistics, live electro-acoustic performance, composition, bio-acoustic research, history of electronic music practice, art and science, audio engineering and location recording
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.
Robin Hunicke, Associate Professor, Art and Design: Games and Playable Media
Game design
Susana Ruiz, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media
Game and transmedia design; games as expressions of activism and art; animation; participatory culture; social art practice; non-fiction storytelling; theory/practice hybridity; animation; Theatre of the Oppressed; critical and liberatory pedagogy; expanded documentary; interaction design; worldbuilding
Warren Sack, Professor, Film and Digital Media
Software design and media theory
Elizabeth Swensen, Assistant Professor, Art and Design: Games and Playable Media
Games as personal narrative, games and learning, games and social impact, dynamics of language and identity through play
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Professor, Computational Media
Digital media, computer games, electronic literature, software studies
Marianne Weems, Professor, Theater Arts
Directing, crossmedia performance, mediaturgy, applying contemporary critical theories to conceptual practice
Affiliate Faculty and Professional Interests
Ralph H. Abraham, Professor Emeritus, Mathematics
Elliot W. Anderson, Associate Professor, Art
Electronic art, digital art and new media
Lawrence Andrews, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media
Film and video production, documentary, installation and media art, sound, animation
Neda Atanasoski, Professor, Feminist Studies
Race and technology; cultural studies; critical race and ethnic studies; postsocialism; human rights and humanitarianism; war and nationalism; religion and secularism
Brandin Baron-Nusbaum, Associate Professor, Theater Arts
Costume design, design history, digital illustration and graphic 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
James H. Bierman, Professor, Theater Arts (Drama)
Playwriting, theater history and literature, classical and Renaissance drama, Chicano theater, digital media
Benjamin L. Carson, Associate Professor, Music
Theories of consciousness and cognition, rhythm perception, Schoenberg, history of compositional method, subjectivity and identity
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
E.G. Crichton, Professor Emerita, Art
Kate Edmunds, Professor, Theater Arts
Set design for theater, dance, opera and film; drafting and drawing for the designer; model-making and color theory; Broadway musicals
Shelly E. Errington, Professor Emerita, Anthropology
Irene Gustafson, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media
Documentary theory and practice, experimental film/video, gender and queer studies, animal studies
Yolande Harris, Lecturer, Art
Newton Harrison, Professor Emeritus, Arts Division
Dee Hibbert-Jones, Professor, Art
Public art, sculpture, documentary film, animation
Katherine Isbister, Professor, Computational Media
Games and human interaction, games and emotion, game user research, game character design, human-centered design, research through design, social wearables, haptics for self-regulation
Kimberly Jannarone, Professor, Theater Arts (Drama)
Directing, performance history, dramatic criticism, modernism
Sri Kurniawan, Professor, Computational Media
Human-computer interaction, human factors and ergonomics, accessibility, assistive technology, usability, virtual reality, human-centered design
John Jota Leanos, Associate 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
Irene Lusztig, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media
Film and video production, experimental ethnography and essayistic nonfiction; representations of historical memory; archives, propaganda and training films; feminist film practices; medical film; autobiographical filmmaking; interactive documentary; editing
Michael J. Mateas, Professor, Computational Media
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for art and entertainment, game AI, AI and creativity, AI-based interactive storytelling, autonomous characters
Margaret E. Morse, Professor Emerita, Film and Digital Media
Soraya Murray, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media
Visual culture studies including contemporary art, film, and electronic games; critical game studies; new media art, theory, and criticism; theories of technology and globalization; history of art and technology; science fiction (utopia/dystopia/apocalypse/technothriller); representations of otherness/race/class/gender/sexuality
Jennifer Parker, Professor, Art
Sculpture, digital art and new media, art | science
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
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.
Ed Shanken, Associate Professor, Arts Division
The entwinement of art, science and technology, with a focus on experimental new media art and visual culture
Elizabeth Stephens, Professor, Art
Performance art, film, environmental art, writing
Mircea Teordorescu, Associate Professor, Computer Engineering
Dynamics, vibrations, contact mechanics, biomechanics
Gustavo Vazquez, Professor, Film and Digital Media
Film and video production, documentary and experimental cross-cultural experiences in film
Jim Whitehead, Professor, Computational Media
Generative methods, procedural content generation, level design in computer games, software engineering, software analytics, software evolution, software bug prediction
Revised: 07/15/18
