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June 4, 2007

DANM exhibition slated for Digital Media Factory in June

By Scott Rappaport (831) 459-2496; srapp@ucsc.

Seven graduate students in UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media M.F.A. program will come together during the second and third weekends of June to display their original works in an exhibition titled Emergence 2007, at the Digital Media Factory in Santa Cruz (2809 Mission Street).

The exhibition will include cutting-edge video and animation, web art, participatory performance pieces, projection presentations, and sound installations. It will also feature the artistry of Satadru Sovan Banduri, a Fulbright Scholar and digital artist from India, whose work contrasts the two cultures in dramatic video installations.

UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) program is at the forefront of a new discipline that merges the creative potential of digital media and emerging art forms in exciting and unfamiliar ways. The DANM program was established in 2004 to address the increasingly central role of digital technology in the arts and to examine the impact of digital arts on culture.

The two-year M.F.A. program brings together students and faculty from across the art and academic spectrum to collaborate on artistic practice and scholarly research. Faculty and students are drawn from a variety of backgrounds such as the arts, sciences, computer engineering, humanities, and social sciences.

The DANM exhibition will run June 8-10 and June 15-17. An opening reception will be held on June 8 from 7 to 10 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

The Digital Media Factory--a multibusiness facility for the design, development, production, and distribution of digital information products—is located on the third floor of the former Wrigley's Building at Western Drive and Mission Street.

This event is sponsored by the Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center, the UCSC Alumni Association, and the Digital Media Factory. For more information, contact Felicia Rice, DANM program manager, at (831) 459-1554, or visit http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/Emergence2007.

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