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Warren Sack
wsack@ucsc.edu
Areas of expertise: Digital Arts, Digital Media, New Media, Science Studies, History of Science, Philosophy of Science, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Democracy
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Warren Sack is a media theorist, software designer, and artist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. He is Professor and has been Chair and earlier Director of Graduate Studies of Film + Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he teaches digital arts and digital studies. He has also served as Director of the Digital Arts & New Media MFA program. He was primary supervisor for 23 MFA students and a thesis committ... 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 »
Professor and Sociology Undergraduate Education Chair, Science & Justice Research Center Founding Director
Sociology Department, Science & Justice Research CenterAreas of expertise: Sociology, Science and Technology, History of Science, New Media, Genomics
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2002 - Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University 1993 - B.A., Political Science and B.S. in Biology, University of Kansas Jenny Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training... more »
Areas of expertise: American Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Arts, Dramaturgy, Middle Ages, New Media
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Michael Chemers researches the “dramaturgy of empathy,” a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary inquiry that seeks to understand how performance culture fosters compassion and kindness (and conversely, fear and hatred). Michael is the creator of the 'Ghost Light' model of dramaturgy: a muscular, creatively engaged, artistically vibrant approach to dramaturgy that requires thorough historical understanding, theoretical training broad and deep, and a passionate dedication to creating powerful, re... more »
Areas of expertise: Critical Practice, Digital Arts, Documentary Film, Environmental Justice, Human Rights, Law and Policy, Media Art, New Media, Social Documentation, Social Justice
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Sharon Daniel is a media artist and innovator in the field of interactive documentary. She creates online artworks and multimedia installations that examine social, racial, and environmental injustice. For over twenty years her creative research has focused on documenting injustice in the criminal legal system in an effort to persuade people to rethink their assumptions about the criminal punishment system and the people it imprisons. The interactive documentaries and installations Daniel has co... more »
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Tim Stephens
Senior Public Information Representative, Science & Engineering
stephens@ucsc.edu
831-459-4352
Areas of expertise: Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Fiction, Digital Media, Digital Humanities, Digital Arts, Game Studies, Game Technology, Game Design, Artificial Intelligence, New Media
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Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio, a technical and cultural research group. Noah's research areas include new models of storytelling in games, how games express ideas through play, the literary possibilities of computational media, and how cultural software can be preserved, discovered, and cited. Noah has authored or co-edited five books on games and digital media f... more »
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 Cruzn 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 w... 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
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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: Queer Studies, Game Design, Game Studies, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, New Media, Design
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dani (she/they) is a game designer and educator currently lecturing at UC Santa Cruz. She has studied computer science and game design ever since discovering an interest during high school. After loving a couple of design-centric courses, they switched their undergraduate major from Computer Science: Game Design to Art and Design: Games & Playable Media. Currently, she is currently lecturing for the Art & Design: Games & Playable Media major at UC Santa Cruz. dani is passionate abou... more »
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Nolan Higdon
Lorna Garano
lornagarano@gmail.com
510-759-6655
Areas of expertise: Critical Theory, Digital Media, New Media, History
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Nolan Higdon is a author, lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, Project Censored National Judge, and founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas. Higdon’s areas of concentration include critical AI literacy, podcasting, digital culture, news media history & propaganda, and critical media literacy. All of Higdon’s work is available at Substack (https://nolanhigdon.substack.com/). He is the au... more »
Areas of expertise: Asian American Pacific Islander History, Visual Arts, Indigenous Arts, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Science and Technology, New Media, Literature, Performance
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Ph.D. English (Literature), University of California, Riverside | Designated Emphasis in Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science | M.A. English (Literature), University of California, Riverside | Awarded with Distinction | B.A. English, University of Hawaii at Manoa A.A. Liberal Arts, Leeward Community College Dr. Nicole Ku'uleinapuananioliko'awapuhimelemeleolani Furtado was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and has lived in California over the last six years.... more »
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Shannon Deoul
shannon@razpr.com
Areas of expertise: Digital Arts, Performance, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Digital Humanities, Writing, Direction (Theater), Literature, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, New Media
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Samantha Gorman is an interdisciplinary writer, director and artist who does practice-based research in interactive narrative, games, digital performance/theater, and the theory and practice of immersive media (AR/VR). Since 2014, she has been the co-lead of established art/game studio Tender Claws. She is known for projects that make critical, creative interventions in form/technology (e-readers, mobile VR, AR, machine learning, biometrics), while also functioning as commercially relea... more »
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