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Areas of expertise: Visual Culture, Contemporary Art, Art Theory, Critical Theory, Art Photography/Photography as Critical Practice, Media Studies, Contemporary Cinema, African American / Black Studies
Biography, Education and Training
Derek Conrad Murray is an interdisciplinary theorist specializing in the history, theory, and criticism of contemporary art and visual culture. He works in contemporary aesthetic and cultural theory with particular attention to technocultural engagements with identity and representation. He has contributed to leading magazines and journals such as Radical History Review, American Art, Art in America, Parachute, Art Journal, Third Text, Consumptio... more »
Professor, Film and Digital Media Department, Social Documentation MFA Program
Film and Digital Media DepartmentPress Contact
B RUBY RICH
PROFESSOR, CRITIC, SCHOLAR, EDITOR
brrich@ucsc.edu
415-287-0306
Areas of expertise: Aesthetics, Film, Latin American and Latino Studies, Personal and Social Identities, Digital Media, Contemporary Art, Documentary Studies, Feminist Studies, LGBT+, Cultural Studies
Biography, Education and Training
B. Ruby Rich is a Professor of Film and Digital Media, specializing in the Social Documentation graduate program. She is also Editor of Film Quarterly (UC Press), the oldest film journal in the U.S. With a long history in film festival curating, museum exhibition, and public philanthropy before entering academia, she continues to participate in panels and juries at such major film festivals as Sundance, Toronto, and Provincetown. She is the author of New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut (1998) a... more »
Press Contact
semurray@ucsc.edu
Areas of expertise: Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, Visual Arts, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Game Studies, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Cinema, Digital Media, Diversity, Critical Theory
Biography, Education and Training
Soraya Murray (PhD Cornell) studies contemporary visual culture, especially film and video games. She is an Associate Professor in the Film + Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her writings may be found in journals in the areas of contemporary art, film and digital culture, including venues such as Art Journal, Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Public Art Review, Third Text, Open Library of Humanities, PAJ: A... more »
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: Archives, Archival Practices, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Audio Culture, Community-based Research, Contemporary Art, Film, Visual Culture, Writing
Biography, Education and Training
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. (she/they) is a Filipino American storyteller, poet, artist, and scholar. She earned her Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media with a designated emphasis in Computational Media and a certificate from the Science and Justice Research Center from the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Eugene Cota-Robles fellow. She received her Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology... more »
Areas of expertise: Art Photography/Photography as Critical Practice, Contemporary Art, Installation Art
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