NEW MEDIA ART, THEORY
AND CRITICISM IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA:
a subjective
map by Lev Manovich (UCSD) of schools and people [dec 2002]
/* note that this maps lists mostly
people and places I work with - it does not list everybody and every program
*/
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code: a - new media artist;
t - theorist of new media; c - critic of new media art
/* very close
interaction between new media art, industry, and theory is characteristic
of the scene here */
programs in new media art offered by each
school are listed right below its name
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UCSD <www.ucsd.edu>
Visual Arts Department <visarts.ucsd.edu>
BFA / MFA in new media art / PhD in new
media theory
If want to get email about events in the
department -
email Fang <fchen@ucsd.edu>> to add your name to Visual
Arts mailing list
email Ted <tapel@ucsd.edu> to add your name to CRCA mailing
list
new media art full-time
faculty:
Sheldon Brown [a]
Amy Alexander [a]
Adriene Jenik [a]
Lev Manovich [t+c+a]
Jordan Crandall [a]
two more full time positions to be filled
in Spring 2003
to meet visiting faculty: get a list of
classes we teach in a given quarter quarter, look up the name on our web site
to see if a person is teaching this quarter
Music Department - one of the top
places for computer music research internationally, a number of faculty including
Miller Puckette (creator of MAX and PD) and
George Lewis (MacArthur Fellow)
CRCA <crca.ucsd.edu> -
Center for Reseach in Computing and the Arts
available
to students for special projects; has a Web streaming station
CAL-IT(2) <www.calit2.net>
- California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.
A unique national research institute for the next paradigms in IT; currently
funds some grad students
new building to be completed in 2004 will
have the state of art facilities for new media rats, visiting artist program,
etc
The Infrastructures of Digital Design
grad student conference @UCSD (end of January 2003) - organized gy MFA Visual
Arts Students and PhD students from Communication Department.
UCSD library - a nice CD-ROM collection
(ask in Art Library downstairs); film/video collection
other relevant resources at UCSD:
a very strong Communication Department;
big Engineering and Computer Science departments;
a top place in the nation for Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Biological
Sciences.
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UCI (UC Irvine) <www.uci.edu>
Art Department
BFA, MFA,
PhD [a] between art and engineering (in development)
a number of art faculty including Simon
Penny (robotics, interactive installations), Celia Pearce (computer games),
Antoinette LaFarge, Robert Nideffer (computer games)
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Art Center College of Design (Pasadena)
BFA, MFA (media design and others)
a number of full time faculty including:
Peter Lunenfeld
[tc], the author of Digital Dialects and Snap to Grid;
editor of Mediawork series <mit-press.mit.edu/mediawork>
Brenda Laurel [at],
a pioneer in computer media, VR, computer games, etc.
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California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts)
BFA, MFA
MFA in Interactive Media
Art Department: Natalie Bookchin [a] -
many of their recent MFA gradutes teach for us in computer art area
Critical Studies: Norman Klein [t], the
author of the forthcoming book on the history of special effects
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SCI-ARC
(Dountown LA)
grad program only
(top architectural school with conceptual
emphasis)
a number of faculty working on computers
and architecture
check their web site for a lecture program
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USC (University of Southern California) <www.usc.edu>
(Downtown LA)
BFA, MFA
newly established Interactive Division
in the same school - director Scott Fisher (pioneer of VR)
Labyrinth project directed by Marsha Kinder
is producing a number of interactive projects on DVD pairing well-known artists,
filmmaker and artists with new media production team
still more new media programs in Film/TV
school and in Art school
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UCR (UC Riverside) <www.ucr.edu>
(1 hour from LA)
new curator in digital media [search in progress]
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UCLA (UC Los Angeles) <www.ucla.edu>
Architecture Department
- a number of people working in computers and architecture including Gregg
Lynn;
check their web site for visiting lecture schedule.
Film, TV and New Media Department -
a top film school offering BFA, MFA, PhD (critical theory). Full time faculty
includes:
Vivian Sobchack [t]
Fabian Wagmster [a]
English Department:
Katherine
Hayles [t], the author of How We Became Post-Human, now working on
cybertext; a joint appointment with Design/Media Arts
Art History Department:
a number of
PhD students currently working on new media but no faculty
Department of Design/Media Arts
BFA -
media design
MFA - new media art
a top lecture
series - check <eda.ucla.edu> for the upcoming lecturers
Top full time faculty in new media art
Victoria Vesna [a]
Rebecca Allen [a]
Katherine Hayles [tc]
Erkki Huhtamo [tc]
Christian Moeller [a - also architecture]
plus many top adjunct people who
teach once in a while, including:
Roy Ascott
Sara Diamond
Joachim Sauter
Jennifer Steinkamp
and others
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UCSB (UC Santa Barbara) <www.ucsb.edu>
Art Department
BFA, MFA,
PhD in development between art and engineering
Full time faculty:
George Legrady [a]
Lisa Jevbratt [a]
Marko Peljhan [a]
Film, TV and New Media Department:
Lisa Parks [t]
English Department:
William Warner [t] + Alan Liu [t]
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UC wide faculty research groups in new
media
Digital Cultures Project:
http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu
organelles conferences, offers
a fellowship. etc.
The University of California's
Digital Arts Research Network (DARNET)
http://169.232.172.29/uccampus/ucparticipants.htm.
The
Laboratory for Games and Culture [a part of CAL-IT(2): UC San Diego and UC
Irvine]
www.calit2.net/meta-game