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MFA Exhibition
MFA Thesis Exhibition: HEAP IS FULL
is a viscerally immersive exhibition offering alternative orientations to our mediated worlds. Eight exceptionally talented artists – Ian Costello, Nicki Duval, Carl Erez, Angela Fan, Rose Klein, Livia Perez, Patrick Stephenson and Rory Willats – present new works of media art developed through concentrated inquiry over a two-year period. Heap is Full is curated by Yolande Harris in collaboration with the artists of the DANM 2023 cohort.
DEI Plan
Concrete Steps for Empowering Under Represented Minorities and Expanding Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti Racism in the Arts and throughout the UC Santa Cruz Community. This is a plan that DANM created in collaboration with members of the Arts Division to create a balanced socio-environmental experience of all DANM students, staff, and faculty.
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FALL 2024 DANM OPEN STUDIOS
Featuring artwork from the Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) graduate students as well as work from Marianne Weems’s “Future Stages” and Elizabeth Swensen’s “Experimental Play” courses. Installations range from games…
DANM STUDENTS FEATURED IN SHOW AT INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS & SCIENCES GALLERY
Haoran Chang (DANM ’21) and Saul Villegas (DANM ’24) will exhibit works in “Futurescapes: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Collective,” a multi-media exhibition by UCSC students and alumni winners of the Coha-Gunderson Prize…
DANM PROGRAM REVISION UPDATE; ADMISSIONS SUSPENDED FOR FALL 2024
After embarking on an evaluation of the DANM program via a self-study in 2021 and the external review in 2022, the DANM Principal Faculty will undertake a structural and curricular revision of the program in the academic…
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