DIGITAL ARTS & NEW MEDIA
Master's Exhibition ArchiveA collection of the seminal exhibition research projects of the graduating students of the Digital Art & New Media program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
2023
THE DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA MFA PROGRAM PRESENTS: HEAP IS FULL
IAN COSTELLO
NICKI DUVAL
CARL EREZ
ANGELA FAN
ROSE KLEIN
LIVIA PEREZ
PATRICK STEPHENSON
RORY WILLATS
Above: Rose Klein’s Games of the Oppressed.
Background: Rory Willats’ Come, Fur(r)ies, Dance.
Above: Forest Reid’s THE LAST GALACIAN SWITCHBOARD.
Background: Laura Boutros’ AMDUAT: THE 12 HOURS OF RA.
2022
THE DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA MFA PROGRAM PRESENTS: UNFORGETTING
MOHAMADREZA BABAEE
dani wright
LAURA BOUTROS
DAVE CRELLIN
FOREST REID
The UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program presents unforgetting the culminating exhibition of the 2022 MFA cohort. Five artists, Mohamadreza Babaee, Laura Boutros, Dave Crellin, Forest Reid and dani wright present new works of media art in the form of installations, games, experimental theater, video and site-specific installation, curated by Yolande Harris.
2021
THE DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA MFA PROGRAM PRESENTS: SIGNS OF LIFE
M. JAMES BECKER
NICK JUNIUS
ERIN SINGLE
STEPHANIE LAYTON
DAYNA DIAMOND
REY CORDOVA
HAORAN CHANG
PATRICK STEFANIAK
Above: Erin Single’s DUST WARNING.
Background: Patrick Stefaniak’s CLOTH^3.
Above: Evie Chang’s Buddytale.
Background: Marjan Khatibi’s Virtual Empowerment.
2020
Virtual Empowerment is an immersive experience and visual narrative in the form of sociopolitical fiction. The project is designed to inhabit both virtual and physical spaces.
Buddytale is a game exploring our attachments to virtual pets and the nature of our relationships to them. The game invites players pick out and care for their own virtual buddy and play through snapshots of their life together: their first meeting, picking out a toy at the pet shop, comforting them during a particularly bad storm, and so on, until they must say goodbye.
2019
THE DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA MFA PROGRAM PRESENTS: RECEIVERSHIP
SHIMUL CHOWDHURY
KATHLEEN DECK
KAVI DUVVOORI
KEEGAN FARRELL
RICHARD GRILLOTTI
CHELSEA JONES
YANZI LI
JORDAN MAGNUSON
AVITAL MESHI
MATTHEW MITCHELL
ZOE SANDOVAL
LAURA STEVENSON
GREGORY SULLO
Above: Richard Grillotti’s Resonant Waves: Immersed in Geometry.
Background: Shimul Chowdhury’s Stiching Solidarity.
Background: Carinne Knight’s Presence Interference.
2018
The 2018 DANM MFA exhibition represents the culmination of two years of intensive study and creative work, encompassing a range of artistic practices and approaches to the use and examination of new media. The exhibition’s title, Interstices, alludes pointedly to the historical moment and conditions that have shaped their work and lives. Meaning “an intervening space” and “an interval between things, parts, or times,” Interstices signals the artists’ conviction that this a time of transition and seeking, a time to find the cracks in current reality, to see beyond it and break through to a new space. Their work testifies to the belief that art can and should help change the world.
2017
Above: Scott Tooby’s Embedded Soundscaping.
Background: Marguerite Kalhor’s the this: artifice + superfice: two scoops of banality.
Background: David Harris’ Edges of Color.
2016
The 2016 graduates from the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA Program are presenting their work in the exhibition, Blind Spot. Thirteen artists are creating and iterating within realms not easily decipherable and detected in the conventional art world. Each artist has worked in the critical spaces of game design, performance, post cinematic space, scientific theory, economic systems, or interactive media to resist and expand long-established, canonical meanings of art.
2015
THE DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA MFA PROGRAM PRESENTS: NEW ALCHEMY
JANA BOLOTIN, JOEL DREAM, STEVE GERLACH, KRISTIN GILLETTE, WAYNE BOOTH MARCI, SEAN MCGOWEN, WES MODES, NATHAN OBER, JOAN RAPSO, ALEXANDRA TEIXEIRA RIGGS, KELLY SKYE, DIETRICH “SQUINKY” SQUINKIFER,
Above: Steve Gerlach’s Topological Projections.
Background: Nathan Ober’s Orbits.
Background: Holly Findlater’s Rendering O(H)M.
2014
THE DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA MFA PROGRAM PRESENTS: UNDERCURRENTS
LISA BANKS, GENE A. FELICE II, HOLLY FINDLATER, DAVID HARRIS, MATTHEW JAMIESON, PHIL LY, STACEY MASON, JOHN MAWHORTER, JONATHAN MENENDEZ, DAVID W. MOODY, DANIELLE WILLIAMSON
Eleven emerging artists push back against prevailing ideas and definitions of digital art. Undercurrents of information and meaning run through the exhibition, connecting themes of conservation, activism, and representation.
2013
THE DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA MFA PROGRAM PRESENTS: ground (ctrl)
JOHN-PATRICK AYSON, DEREK FRANZ, JACOB GARBE, CATALINA GIRALDO, DAN HELLER, ANDREW SILLER, EVE WARNOCK, LAURA WRIGHT
Above: Catalina Giraldo’s Verde Oscuro.
Background: Laura Wright’s Radidio.
Background: james b. pollack’s be there.
2012
THE DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA MFA PROGRAM PRESENTS: I’VE GOT SOMETHING ON YOUR MIND
DUNCAN BOWSMAN, DANIEL CHRISTOPHER, JESSE FULTON, SABRINA HABEL, HEATHER LEE LOGAS, EMILY MARTINEZ, NATALIE MCKEEVER, ALEXEI OTHENIN-GIRARD, HELEN HYUN-KYUNG PARK, JAMES B. POLLACK, JOLIE RUELLE
Entitled, I’VE GOT SOMETHING ON YOUR MIND. presents the work of eleven MFA candidates who employ advanced technologies for creative potential. Through storytelling about places, times and players, these artists experiment with digital media to produce unforeseen, imaginative outcomes.