From Estonia with Love features five dance artists from Estonia and U.S.A. intelligent and deeply embodied dancing. Cid began the project as a Fulbright Scholar living in Estonia for a year. She was able to bring the show to California through crowd sourcing funding such as Kickstarter and a grant from the San Francisco International Art Festival.

Santa Cruz is the first stop in a California tour, including events in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Santa Cruz performances are Thursday & Friday, May 17th and 18th, 8:00 PM, at Santa Cruz Dance/Motion at the Mill. Tickets are $15-$20 in advance, $18-$20
at the door. To purchase tickets go to Santa Cruz Dance.com.

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This is our eleventh festival and runs May 10-19, 2012. Here’s a PDF with the list of movies and showtimes.

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All the work was created by children that are in the Kid’s Club. This is an enriching childcare environment where 0-11 year old children participate in self-expressive art projects while their parent/guardian attends support groups and one-on-one peer counseling appointments at the Walnut Avenue Women’s Center.

Express Yourself Show went up on April 27 and will continue being shown thorough the end of May. The reception for this event is Saturday, May 12 from 3-5pm at the  Santa Cruz Art League.

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The Center is always looking for volunteers. If you want to become a Child Advocate, the next Training is May 19 and 20 Sat/Sun half days 12-4pm. Please contact Denise Gonsalves, volunteer coordinator at 831-426-3062.  You can also help the center with donations that are accepted at the front desk Monday & Tuesday 10-4pm, at 303 Walnut Ave. The Walnut art supplies toys, dramatic play clothing (capes, hats, purses, dresses, glasses, baskets, aprons, soothing music, cash, gift certificates, healthy food fruits/vegetables.

For more information on Kid’s Club.

Kid’s Club is an enriching childcare environment where 0-11 year old children participate in self-expressive art projects while their parent/guardian attends support groups and one-on-one peer counseling appointments at the Walnut Avenue Women’s Center.

Many of the children have been exposed to domestic violence and are impacted by the trauma in their homes. The Center’s goal is to provide a safe space for children to relax and express themselves. As children engage in fun activities, Child Advocates foster resiliency skills. Children are encouraged to develop safe coping strategies of healthy attachment, self-regulation and developmental competency, to heal from trauma and thrive.

Kid’s Club Child Advocates have observed how art provides an opportunity for children to express their thoughts and emotions as a form of healing, support and community building.

This year’s TechRaising began Friday, April 20, at 6:00 PM with a gathering to pitch ideas and ended Sunday, April 22, at 6:00 PM with the demonstration of prototypes built over the course of the weekend. It is a weekend startup blitz designed to take ideas for new web-based businesses and bringing them to reality. Most teams include a designer, developer and a business developer. Volunteer mentors help by roaming the event and injecting knowledge and sage advice wherever needed.

During the show, Andrew explained that he and co-founders Mathew Swinnerton and Margaret Rosas, began TechRaising in an effort to help create a friendly environment for tech startups in Santa Cruz. Their mission it to “provide the space and support for individuals to gather, collaborate, build, promote, and gain momentum for their ideas.” The collaborations created at this annual event have lead to several successful new application creations.

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Internal Worlds. is a two-part installation using abstract video projection and interactive components to explore how our sensing bodies shape our perception, and our selves. The pulse of the participant is detected through a biosensor helmet and externalized as lights pulsing in time with their internal rhythm. The sound of their heartbeat is played back at the cadence of different species, as additional lights synchronize to this new, unfamiliar tempo. These competing pulses affect the participant’s state of mind and bring a hyperawareness to their body, as they viscerally experience the biorhythm of another species

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Natalie McKeever received her BFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, in New Jersey, with a major in Visual Arts (Video) and a minor in Art History.  In her time between undergrad and DANM she worked as an art department production assistant for Film and Television in New York.

Production credits included City Island, Lymelife, and the TV series Damages.  Natalie’s work has been exhibited internationally, including Media 1×1 at the Jersey City Museum, Women in Magmart, and the Athens Video Art Festival.  As a member of the Performative Technologies Project Group at DANM, Natalie collaborated with fellow DANMite Helen Park on the public art event “Architectures of Memory”, a site-specific video installation at Mitchell’s Cove exploring the poetics, construction and erosion of human memory.  Natalie uses video and installation to explore the imagery of introspection, the alluring hypnosis of the road, and the development of self through processes of perception.

This year’s UCSC DANM MFA Exhibition, I’ve Got Something On Your Mind happening April 28-29 and May 3-6 with the reception, Friday, May 4, 5:30 – 8:30PM. The Gallery is open from 10AM – 4PM and located at The Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), off Meyer Drive near the Music Recital Hall and Theater Arts on West Campus.

We started the conversation with defining what level design which is level designers create gameplay through geometry, AI scripting, and item placement. Designers draw from their experience, design lore, and rules of thumb rather than a formal understanding of how the construction of a level creates gameplay for a player. To improve this understanding, Ken and his research group have taken a first by identifying design patterns in game levels, primarily in single player first-person shooters (FPS) and studying the cause-effect relationships between these level design elements and gameplay. To test these relationships, they are gathering data from a series of user tests. Analysis of this data will improve our understanding and provide level designers with scientifically verified tools for creating gameplay.

We explored Ken’s other research interests concerning Design in Games: Level Design, Design Patterns in Games, Game Data Analysis, Player Modeling, and Procedural Content  Generation.

Ken is a part of the first cohort to graduate from the  Department of Computer Science (CS) with Ph.D. degrees.  This program is considered one of the top ten graduate schools in video game design.

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Jesse’s work explores issues of transparency, autonomy, and agency on the Internet. Software studies, science studies, physical computing, street art, tactical media.

Jesse grew up in a suburb of Boston and went to undergrad in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins University in Psychology and Computer. After graduating he moved to LA shortly after and lived there for about 4 years doing web development (worked for Disney and freelanced) before coming up to UCSC.

Jesse’s thesis projects are about digital culture, digitization, and the privatization of the Internet. The basic gist is that people view technology as supporting and fostering democratic ideals, yet the very nature of a privatized internet (Google, Facebook, etc.) is inherently undemocratic. 

Jesse will be showing two projects at the MFA show: “Everybody’s Google”, and “Web Pages for Humans” (/Ocular Character Recognition)

• EG explores the various “digital life worlds” Google builds and presents to end users through it’s personalization algorithms
• WPfH is a bit more playful… most/all documents on the web are text-based and machine-readable so that search engines can index and query them; my project transforms those documents into digital (and physical) images, distorted in a way such that humans can still read them, yet machine algorithms cannot.

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Helen’s work investigates how affective processes provoked by aesthetic experience can shape, and be shaped by, the intersubjective, cross-cultural encounter. She uses video, sound, installation,  and performance, while employing strategic poetics of the image and representation to shape environments for encounter and engagement between strangers. In designing mediated spaces of engagement, she questions how subject positions orientated by race, ethnicity, citizenship, education, and class can realign within the self in dialogical relation to another.

Living from 2009-2010 in Seoul, South Korea on a Fulbright Fellowship in the field of Performance Art, Helen’s research investigated the Korean psyche and national identity as they are negotiated and embodied through the traditional performing arts.  Since 2003, she has been a collaborator with Open University, a transdisciplinary multimedia collective and alternative education project, founded in Brooklyn, New York.

Helen is currently producing  “My Future Is Here” a site-specific project that brings to light the most pressing issues immigrant youth face when making a new life in the global city. Produced with students in Queens, New York, this multimedia project utilizes immigrant narratives and social intervention to foster public engagement and exchange.

Excerpts of the movies will be shown at the upcoming UCSC DANM MFA Exhibition, I’ve Got Something On Your Mind happening April 28-29 and May 3-6 with the reception, Friday, May 4, 5:30 – 8:30PM. The Gallery is open from 10AM – 4PM and located at The Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), off Meyer Drive near the Music Recital Hall and Theater Arts on West Campus.

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