A Glimpse Into the Blind Spot
This year, graduating UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media Exhibition (DANM) MFA students will continue the tradition of putting experimental twist on conventional art forms, lifting the veil on what tends to go unnoticed. Last year, “New Alchemy” was DANM’s theme and drew…
LEDs Over Ivory Towers
When the sun set on downtown Santa Cruz last Friday night, local artists and organizers replaced the darkness with bright lights, interactive digital art exhibits and genre-bending performance art. The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) transformed into an alternate universe for GLOW:…
Artists Document the Undocumented
A dark and crowded Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) room suddenly grew quiet and attentive as a bare chested person with long black and gray hair entered and faced the surrounding audience center stage. Performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña began to chant, spraying bright red clouds of paint into the air.
Reimagining Gaming as an Expressive Art
The arrival of a prominent figure in the gaming industry is poised to influence the way UC Santa Cruz students perceive the intersection of game design and art. As of spring 2015, Robin Hunicke will begin teaching at UCSC as an associate professor of art…
Confronting Contemporary Issues With Art
Walking through Undercurrents — the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) exhibit — feels a lot like traversing a maze. The artists’ expansive pieces are tucked into different rooms of the building and along hallways, spread out like cities on a map. Undercurrents will offer…