Last night, as a part of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s Third Friday of the month series, Santa Cruz had its first MINIfest Destiny, Short film festival. It was a great success and I look forward to the next one.
For the occasion, I made the above film. It’s about the ritual of taking a bath with flowers on St. George’s Day, May 6th. The song is also called Djurdjevdan.
Local artist, activist, video audio media maker, Brooke Bradford of came into KZSC to talk about her work and upcoming event, MINIfestdestiny, A short film festival at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History beginnning at 4pm on Friday.
Brooke owns the Brooke Br
adford Creative Services company that can be found at her website, Sheep in Space. Sheep is Space is full of valuable information that features a Santa Cruz Events Calendar and a blog.
We also talked about Brooke’s involvement with the upcoming TEDxYouth@Watsonville, May 19th at the Mello Center beginning at 10am.
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Local Filmmaker Chris McGlivray came into KZSC to talk about his movie company, Six Finger Films and curating or putting the program together for the upcoming, MINIfestdestiny a mini film festival for films under five minutes long.
A MINIfestdestiny, a short film festival, will be at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History Friday, May 17th from 5-8pm as a part of the 3rd Friday May: Photography and Film Night.
Chris and I met when he spoke at NextSpace and presented a Next Talk entitled, the Syntax of Film. On the show, we talked the development of the independent film movement that exists through technology. This movement has made the democratization of the medium as well changed the language of film. For instance, the camera on your smartphone used to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. It also allows for experimentation that a few decades ago would have been cost prohibitive.
Chris described a couple of his current projects, Wild is the Night and Smoke and Mirrors. The link is to their Facebook Page. This Six Finger Films short film, Smoke and Mirrors, will be completed in June. The trailer is below.
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On May 5, 2013, Graduating PhD candidate in Computer Science at UCSC, Chris Lewis came onto Artist on Art to talk about his studies & research of “Motivational Design” and the intersection between computer science and psychology.
Chris’ research delves into the psychology literature of motivation theory, to try and find the answers to these questions, and help software designers to make more engaging software. In the process, he’s learning about psychology, motivational behavioral and pattern in design in popular applications to create a software where getting a task done is less important than ensuring that the user comes back tomorrow.
Chris‘s thesis, Motivational Design, presents his understanding into a framework and library of twenty-seven {motivational design patterns}, under the categories of gameful, social, interface and information. Theories and experimental results from motivational psychology, behavioral psychology and behavioral economics are used to explain the power of different design patterns and suggest optimal implementations. Additionally, a set of eight dark patterns are presented. These patterns promise short-term gains, but at the expense of long-term motivational harm, and strategies to avoid their use are proposed.
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On May 5, 2013, local artist/educator and artistic director of Anavami Center, Maijo came into the KZSC studio to talk about the upcoming year-long series beginning May of 2013 through the summer of 2014, Painting Into Our Emerging Cosmological Mythology.
Led by Majio, Painting Into Our Emerging Cosmological Mythology is a year long educational collaboration using the creative Transformational Painting Process.
We also talked about the upcoming 5 day 2013 Fall Retreat at Ghost Ranch , Abiquiu, New Mexico, Georgia O’Keefe’s old stomping grounds. Early Registration is necessary for Ghost Ranch lodging! Contact: Majio 831 420-1349 or anavami@cruzio.com.
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Letter Press/Printer/Book Artist, Designer and Program Manager for the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at UCSC, Felicia Rice came into KZSC to talk about her eighth DANM MFA Exhibition show, ground (cntrl).
Felicia talked about being with DANM at the very beginning of its inception. The program began having students in 2005 with the first cohort graduating in 2006.
You will be able to see the 2013 Digital Arts and New Media MFA exhibition, ground(cntrl) at the Digital Arts Research Center, UCSC, April 27-28 + May 2-5, 2013.
We also talked about Felicia’s work at Moving Parts Press.
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On April 29, 2013, Producer/Director/Writer and former KZSC staff member, Davis Banta came onto Artist on Art to talk about his Santa Cruz based SideReal Theater and upcoming plays.
Davis directed The Contemporary American Guide to a Successful Marriage © 1959 which opens Friday May 3 @ 9:20pm and continues May 4 @ 2pm, May 11 @ 9:20pm, and May 12 @ 2pm at the Cabrillo Black Box Theater in Aptos as a part of the Cabrillo Theater Festival 2013.
The next big show for SideReal is entitled “Touch” by Toni Press-Coffman. The show opens June 14th. Davis is acting in this production.
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Graduating DANMite, Artist, videographer and musician, Andrew Siller came onto Artist on Art, April 22, 2013 to talk about his work, Jakk in the boxxx, an interactive video and sound installation that investigates food culture. Using data input from the participants videos are displayed and triggering sounds.
Andrew’s piece, Jakk in the boxx, will be on display at the 2013 Digital Arts and New Media MFA exhibition, ground(cntrl) at the Digital Arts Research Center, UCSC, April 27-28 + May 2-5, 2013.
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Graduating DANMite, Digital Artist, augmented reality app developer and story-teller, Jacob Garbe came onto Artist on Art, April 22, 2013 to talk about his work, XMPLAR, a mobile app and data visualizations for Integrated Security Automation.
Jacob’s thesis work has two main components. First is XMPLAR, a mobile app that you can download for your smartphone that allows people to sign up as “field agents” who are directed by artificial intelligences to take pictures of things around them. The second aspect is the data visualizations, which take the data from the AIs on the company mainframe and map it.
The data visualizations generated by XMPLAR players will be on display at the 2013 Digital Arts and New Media MFA exhibition, ground(cntrl) at the Digital Arts Research Center, UCSC, April 27-28 + May 2-5, 2013.
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Digital Artist, videographer, activist and biologist, Catalina Giraldo came onto Artist on Art to talk about her work, Verde Obscuro, a piece in the 2013 MFA Exhibition and working on Culture-Sierra nevada: an adaptation. The Harrison Studio under direction of ecologically concerned artists Helen and Newton Harrison.
Catalina came to the US to study in the UCSC DANM program from Bogota Colombia after working in botany, palinology (the taxonomy of pollen), palaeoecology (reconstruction of past ecosystems using pollen fossil as a proxy) and melissopalinology (bee pollen). As an artist/scientist Catalina experiments with photographing nature and human cultures. She is interested in using new media and science research to plant a seed of consciousness for all to treat our planet Earth with respect.
You will be able to see Verde Obscuro at the 2013 Digital Arts and New Media MFA exhibition, ground(cntrl) at the Digital Arts Research Center, UCSC, April 27-28 + May 2-5, 2013.
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