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Elizabeth Stephens
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estephe@ucsc.edu
Areas of expertise: Art, Film, Environmental Justice, Social Justice
Biography, Education and Training
Beth Stephens is an artist, and filmmaker with a Ph.D. in Performance Studies. Awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021) for her current film project with Annie Sprinkle, Playing with Fire, an Individual Artist Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission (2022), a Fleishhacker Foundation grant (2022) and the publication of Assuming the Ecosexual Position— the Earth as Lover published by the University of Minnesota Press. In 2021 the ... more »
Areas of expertise: Animation, Art, Ethnicity, New Media, Public Art, Theater
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John Jota Leaños is a Mexican/Italian-American and Chumash interdisciplinary artist, documentary animator, and social art practitioner whose work engages the intersections of history, memory, and power through a social justice lens. A Guggenheim Fellow in Film and Media, Creative Capital Artist, and United States Artist (USA) Fellow, Leaños' practice spans a range of media, including documentary animation, video, public art, installation, and performance. His work disrupts dominant... more »
Areas of expertise: Africa and African Studies, Art, Colonialism, History of Art and Visual Culture, Museum Studies, Subsaharan Africa, Visual Culture
Areas of expertise: Art, Digital Arts
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Parker received a B.A in art from the University of California Santa Barbara in 1990, attended The Skowhegan School Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and received her M.F.A. in Sculpture from Rutgers University in 1992. Professor Parker has been part of the faculty at the University of California Santa Cruz since 1999.
Areas of expertise: Art, Mass Media, Writing, Social Justice
Biography, Education and Training
B.A., M.F.A., University of California, San Diego.
Areas of expertise: African American / Black Studies, Asian Studies, Art, Art Theory, Queer Studies, Performance, Poetry, Fiction, Visual Culture, Writing
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Education: 2009 Ph.D., English, CUNY Graduate Center 1995 M.A., Poetry, New York University Graduate Creative Writing Program 1991 A.B., English, University of California, Berkeley Biography: Ronaldo V. Wilson is an award-winning poet, interdisciplinary artist, academic and author of six collections of hybrid and experimental works spanning poetry, fiction, mixed genre theory, performance, digital, sound, and visual art. He has performed in multiple ... more »
Areas of expertise: Art
Biography, Education and Training
Research Interests: A. Laurie Palmer’s work is concerned with material explorations of matter’s active nature as it asserts itself on different scales and in different speeds, and with collaborating on strategic actions in the contexts of social and environmental justice. She sees art in its surprising, sensory, relational, and critically constructive capacities as a liberatory force that can contribute to collective and systemic transformation. Her work takes form as sculpture, ins... more »
Areas of expertise: Art, Digital Arts, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Game Technology
Biography, Education and Training
Ed has been teaching game students at UCSC since 2015 in hands-on digital art creation for video games. Much of his focus has been on instructing students in digital art through studio courses in digital painting, 3D modeling, texturing, rigging and animation. Having been a founder of two Independent video game companies(Santa Cruz Games and Boing, inc.), Ed started his work in the video game industry in 2000 with experience as a Senior Animator, Producer, Game Designer, as well as a 3D Generali... more »
Areas of expertise: Writing, Technical Writing, Science Writing, Art, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Artificial Intelligence, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Contemplative Studies, Creativity, Science and Technology
Biography, Education and Training
M.F.A., Digital Arts and New Media, University of Califorina Santa Cruz B.A., Writing and Visual Arts, Sarah Lawerence Collge Cert., TESOL/TESL/TEFL Cert., Stanford Univerity Cultivatving Compassion Training (CCT) Teacher
Areas of expertise: Art, Aesthetics, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Digital Arts, Contemporary Art, Digital Media, History of Art and Visual Culture, Science and Technology, New Media
Biography, Education and Training
Dr. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. Recent publications and presentations address art and shamanism, environmental art, sound art and ecology, and bridging the gap between new media and contemporary art. His book Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon Press, 2009) has been expanded with an extensive, multimedia, multilingual Online Companion. Inventing the ... more »
Areas of expertise: Art, Computer Science
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Wes Modes is a California artist and educator focused on new media, social practice, sculpture, and performance. Their pioneering social practice work with the people who live in American river communities has been nationally recognized and reported worldwide. Their multidisciplinary work Secret History of American River People combines social practice, oral history, video, photography, sculpture, new media, and adventurous fieldwork on American rivers since 2014.
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