Local choreographer, educator, Cid Pearlman came onto Artist on Art, May 14, 2012 to talk about her world premeire, From Estonia with Love.
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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On May 7, 2012, Santa Cruz Film Festival President, Elizabeth Gummere came onto Artist on Art to talk this great annual event that brings scads of filmmakers, directors, actors to Santa Cruz for rollicking fun ten days.
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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Educator, artist, professional game designer and mother, Heather Logas came on to Gamers on Game March 19, 2012 to talk about her art and practice and how that relates to her game design and developing practice. She is currently completing her MFA in Digital Arts and New Media at UC Santa Cruz.
Heather will be presenting Game/Reality Workshops at the DANM MFA show: I’ve Got Something on Your Mind, Project Nubby — a commercial game for Sony Playstation Home due out this year.
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Game/Reality Workshops is a series of live art game making events inspired in part by the playful participatory works of Fluxus artists and the New Games movement. The work presented at the show is one facet of the Gaming Reality Project, another part of which is a longer-term experimental game design event at UCSC. Games reflect and reinforce narratives of reality which are then passed on to their players. The Gaming Reality Project is an art initiative which empowers communities to envision new realities for themselves through game creation and play.
This year’s UCSC DANM MFA Exhibition, I’ve Got Something On Your Mind, is 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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Digital media artist Daniel Christopher came onto Artist on Art on the March 19, 2012 live interview show to talk about his current project and installation, Journey Through Light, as part of the DANM MFA Graduating Exhibition entitled I’ve got something on your mind the culmination of two years of research and artistic exploration, and will include new media works that explore performativity, interactivity and participation.
Journey Through Light is an interactive, group adventure through the visible light spectrum. Participants with glowing orbs move about a landscape of networked sculptures, activating embedded light elements by proximity. While participants can experience aspects of the work individually, only through collaboration can the visible light spectrum be transcended. In the spirit of the gameplay, participants are asked to refrain from engaging in any form of disembodied social interaction by temporarily exchanging their cellphone for an orb. Initially orbs will pulse with red light – the longest visible wavelength that humans can perceive. By seeking out others with orbs and visiting sculpture sites collectively, orbs progress through colors of the light spectrum, increasing in frequency until fully activated – signified by a violet state. Violet-colored orbs will unlock elements of a media experience at the central installation located in the Light Lab (DARC 306).
There will be five, two-hour sessions of “Journey Through Light” throughout the two-week MFA show. If you would like more information or are interested in participating, contact Daniel. This work could not have been developed without a dedicated team: computer science students Ace Levenberg and Aidan Seine. Others involved in the development of this work include: DANM Alumni Levi Goldman & Joe Cantrell, Sudhu Tewari, and Peter Elsea.
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On March 12, 2012, artist, hacker and game developer, James B. Pollack came into the KZSC station to talk about his upcoming installation entitled, be there (bethere.io) at this year’s UCSC DANM MFA exhibition, I’ve Got Something On Your Mind.
“be there” has two components, virtual and physical, both of which consider the problems of persistence and presence. The virtual part (bethere.io) is an interactive, web-browser based multi-user three-dimensional environment. Users acquire sculptures by navigating the sculpture’s length as strange and special creatures called neshamot. The physical part of “be there” is the electroplating of organic materials with certain floral elements as a way of interrogating exosomatic desire.
Constitutional Advocate, Danny Sheehan, and Ancient Greek Philosopher, Dr Paul Lee came into UCSC’s KZSC radio to talk about their art of activism from the philosophies that argue for the definistions of justice, human rights and law.
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On February 20, 2012, multi-media artist and graduating DANM MFA student, Sabrina Habel spoke with Nada Miljkovic about her art work and upcoming installation entitled, Seeing Spectacle, as a part of the DANM MFA 2012,I’ve Got Something On Your Mind.
Sabrina was the first DANM interview that I had in this year’s series of 2012 DANMite graduates. It was really fun to talk with her about her various forms of art. It has also been exciting to watch her work show around Santa Cruz over the past two years, such as partaking in the First Friday Santa Cruz Art Tour with an installation entitled, Cyphergraph, at Motiv, and her Hypnagonian work. You’ll have to listen the interview to hear what that means.
During our show, Sabrina explained the concept behind Seeing Spectacle, that “advertisement is everywhere- in magazines, on TV, the Internet, plastered over shopping malls and urban areas. Together all these advertisements form a mass media spectacle of desire, fantasy, and above all, consumption.” Sabrina’s multi-media series Seeing Spectacle uses off-beat humor to confront the essence of advertising. Commercial products and celebrities are replaced by simple and even mundane natural elements, usually taken for granted in consumer culture. By choosing non-gallery spaces for billboards, window displays, tabloids and TV commercials, ordinary sights are warped into a satirical commentary on the ever-intrusive advertising industry.
You can see Sabrina’s Seeing Spectacle at this year’s UCSC DANM MFA exhibition, I’ve Got Something On Your Mind all over the stairways in the DARC building.
Exhibition dates are 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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On February 13, 2012, UCSC PhD graduating candidate, Josh McCoy came onto Gamers on Game to talk about his work particularly the new indy game Prom Week.
Josh McCoy is finishing his dissertation this year and is the person who created the AI system that inspired Prom Week. He’s been a team lead of Prom Week from the beginning.
The team includes two past Gamers on Game and Artist on Art guests, Mike Treanor, and Aaron Xander Reed. The fourth team member, Ben Samuel will be on Gamers on Game February 20, 2012.
Ben Samuel is also an actor. He stars in the first HULU’s first original series - Battleground which premiered on Valentine’s Day, just like Prom Week.
The Prom Week team are finalists for the Independent Games Festival and hope that the campus and community will come out to vote for the team for the “Audience Choice” award. Play Prom Week on Facebook. It’s fun. I had the pleasure of playing it last year, when the game was less evolved, at the Future of Games Symposium. It was fun half-baked. Now it’s great. Can teach a greek a few things about high school.
If you would like to get up close and personal with the Prom Week team, they will be presenting at the E-Games Gathering at 7pm at NextSpace, February 16, 2012.
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On February 13, 2012, local sculptor, writer, producer, speaker and feng shui artist, Denise Vivar came into the KZSC radio studio to talk about her life’s work and upcoming workshops.
Denise is an artist who applies her creative talents to her public relations practice. For 20 years she has collaborated with Santa Cruz county business owners to bring their genius to bear through her service. She credits her succes to a unique combination of laser-focused business strategy with the ancient energetic art of feng shui. The fusion of which she finds dynamic and deeply rewarding, fostering a conscious evolution of excellence in all aspects of her clients’ craft.
Denise’s current venture is an innovative workshop designed to help single women break through the blocks to meeting and attracting a partner using the power of feng shui. The workshop is called ‘The Power of Radiance Feng Shui’ – a fun and inspiring workshop designed to get your mojo on and help you manifest your dreams.
She will be leading workshops starting February 13 and throughout the spring. Registration is open and everyone 18 years and older is welcome.
In between consultations and speaking, Denise’s other projects include building a cello and being a lifestyle pioneer for life as art.
Connect with Denise through Google+, LinkedIn, or davivar@gmail.com.
For more information, here’s the Power of Radiance Facebook page here.
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On January 23, 2012, the first shows for Artist on Art and Gamers on Game at their new time slot, 3-4pm Mondays, featured artistic director of the Santa Cruz Performing Arts: Ben Jammin Hulck.
SCPA is a nonprofit with the whose mission is to provide classes, programs, and events where individuals can develop skills in music, dance, and theater, thereby fostering self-esteem and an appreciation of the arts. SCPA offers a wide range of programs from dance classes with Cathy Faihy, Be in your own Rock & Roll band, to the Young Actors Studio. For more information, please visit their website, Santa Cruz Performing Arts.org and/or call Ben at 831-334-2121.
On the Artist on Art show, Ben brought two of his singers, Thor Layne, of Aptos Junior High School, and Chaska Farber, New Brighton, for an on-air live performance of “16 Going on 17″ from the Sound of Music.
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Local choreographer, educator, Cid Pearlman came onto Artist on Art, May 14, 2012 to talk about her world premeire, From Estonia with Love. 
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