SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEW MEDIA ART MAP
a unique network of world's leading new media artists, theorists, and critics
places | programs | people (this is made around 2000- not up to date)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO (UCSD)
rated number 14 among world's universities in 2003;
rated number 5 among U.S.A. public research universities in 2005;
described as the "hottest science campus in the country" in 2005 by Newsweek

www.ucsd.edu

VISUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT, UCSD
we offer BFA, MFA and PhD degrees in new media art and theory -
seven full-time faculty members in new media area: AMY ALEXANDER, SHELDON BROWN, JORDAN CRANDALL, RICARDO DOMINGUEZ, ADRIENE JENIK, LEV MANOVICH, BRETT STALBAUM
visarts.ucsd.edu

OTHER NEW MEDIA ART RESOURCES AT UCSD
CAL-IT2: nation's premiere research institute for future IT located at UCSD - new media wing @ CALIT2
CRCA: research center for computing in the arts at UCSD
list of resources from our department web site

MY STUDENTS
my current PhD students:
William Huber
Eduardo Navas
Tatiana Sizonenko

my past MFA students and their current positions (as of fall 2006):
Chris Csikszentmihályi - currently Director of Computing Culture Group, MIT Media Lab
Mark Duggette - currently Director of Information Architecture, Sketchers (USA)
Mathew Kabatoff - currently PhD candidate, Goldsmith College, London
Jon(athan) Phillips - currently an Open Source developer for the Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) and visiting faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

TEACHING RESOURCES

media_db: images for my older articles on new media
Illustrations for The Language of New Media


SELECTED CLASSES

Contemporary Computer Topics: Visualizing Culture | ICAM130/VIS149 | spring 2008
History of Art and Technology | VIS 159 / ICAM 150: Winter 2008
Contemporary Computer Topics: Visualizing Culture | ICAM130/VIS149 | winter 2008
PhD seminar: Design, IT, Globalisation | VIS 219: Spring 2007
History of Art and Technology | VIS 159: Winter 2007
Computers in the Arts: Current Topics | ICAM 130 / VIS 149: winter 2007
Introduction to Computing in the Arts | VIS40/ICAM40: spring 2006

researching computing culture
| ICAM 130 / VIS 149: winter 2006

PhD seminar: Software Theory (Theories of New Media) | VIS 242: Winter 2006
researching computing culture | ICAM 130 / VIS 149: spring 2005
Computing in the Arts: Current Practice
ICAM110: Spring 2005

PhD seminar: Mapping Digital Culture | VIS 230: Winter 2005
PhD seminar: Info-aesthetics (Theories of Media and New Media) | VIS 242: Spring 2004 |
Local, Global, Invsible:Mapping and Visualization
| ICAM 130 / VIS 149: Winter 2004

History of Art and Technology VIS 159: Winter 2003
Master Class "Metadating The Image" V2/C3 : Fall 2002 | images from Masterclass

PhD Seminar: Theories of Media and New Media VIS 242 : Fall 2002
History of Art and Technology VIS 159: Winter 2002
Graduate Seminar: Info-AestheticsVIS202: Fall 2000
Introduction to Computing in the Arts ICAM 40 | VIS 40: Fall 2000
History of Art and Technology VIS 159:Winter 2000
Computing in the Arts: Current Practice ICAM110: Spring 2000
Introduction to Computing in the Arts ICAM 40 | VIS 40: Winter 2000
Graduate seminar: The Langauge of New Media Fall 1999
Introduction to Computing in the Arts ICAM 40 | VIS 40: Winter 1999
Digital Media 1 ICAM 102 | VIS 145A: Winter 1999
Contemporary Computer Topics: Criticism of New Media VIS 149: Spring 1999
Graduate seminar: Theories of New Media VIS237: Spring 1998