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Susana Ruiz

Susana Ruiz

Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, Associate Provost, Cowell College

Film and Digital Media Department

Areas of expertise: Media Art, New Media, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Animation, Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Critical Practice, Social Documentation, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments


Biography, Education and Training

I am an Associate Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California Santa Cruz with affiliations in the Digital Arts and New Media Program (DANM), the Art & Design: Games + Playable Media (AGPM), and the Social Documentation Program (SocDoc). I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in media arts production, history, and theory. I advise students at the undergraduate, M.F.A., and Ph.D. levels. As a first-generation middle school, high school, and college graduate, I wa... more »


Areas of expertise: Documentary Film, GLBTQ Film and Media, Environmental Art, Archives, Archival Practices, Experimental Film, Film History, Urban studies, Film Preservation and Film Archiving, Digital Media, Queer Studies


Biography, Education and Training

PhD 2020 University of California, Santa Cruz, Film & Digital Media MFA 2003 Bard College BA w/ Honors, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT  


Areas of expertise: World Cinema, Experimental Film, Documentary Film, Media Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Home Movies and Personal Media, Film Preservation and Film Archiving, Digital Arts


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Livia Perez (she/her/ela/dela) is an educator, media scholar, and filmmaker. Her research and moving-image practice span experimental and nonfiction film, narrative forms, and digital media, with particular interests in visual storytelling, feminist and queer moving-image histories, archival practices, visual memory, transnational cinema, and Latin American and diasporic media. She received an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. f... more »


Areas of expertise: Art, Art Criticism, Anthropology, Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Experimental Music, Environmental Art, Ethnomusicology, Linguistic Anthropology, Middle East Studies


Biography, Education and Training

    Brian Karl has worked as a writer, educator, curator, arts administrator, and media producer. As curator and administrator he has worked at organizations including Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Harvestworks Media Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, Art-in-General, Creative Time, and the Kitchen. His writing on art has been published in A Blade of Grass, Apollo, Art in America, Art & Education, art-agenda, Artforum, Artillery, ArtReview, The Brooklyn Rail, e-fl... more »

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