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Areas of expertise: Digital Arts, Digital Media, New Media, Science Studies, History of Science, Philosophy of Science, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Democracy
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Warren Sack is a media theorist, software designer, and artist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. His artwork and research has been support by grants and fellowships from the NSF, the ACLS, Sunlight Foundation, and the IAS of Paris. His artwork has been exhibited at SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the ZKM. He has a BA from Yale College and a PhD from the MIT Media ... more »
Areas of expertise: Animation, Art, Ethnicity, New Media, Public Art, Theater
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John Jota Leaños is a Mestizo (Mexican-Italian-Chumash) interdisciplinary artist, documentary animator and social art practitioner concerned with the embattled terrains of history and memory as they relate to nation, power and social justice. Leaños is a Guggenheim Fellow of Film and Media, Creative Capital Artist and United States Artist (USA) Fellow. His practice includes a range of media arts, documentary animation, video, public art, installation and performance introdu... more »
Professor, Director, Science & Justice Research Center
Sociology Department, Science & Justice Research CenterAreas of expertise: Sociology, Science and Technology, History of Science, New Media, Genomics
Biography, Education and Training
2002 - Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University 1993 - B.A., Political Science and B.S. in Biology, University of Kansas Jenny Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research draws into focus questions about identity, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training... more »
Areas of expertise: American Studies, Artificial Intelligence, Classical Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory, Digital Arts, Dramaturgy, Middle Ages, New Media
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semurray@ucsc.edu
Areas of expertise: Visual Culture, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Game Studies, Visual Arts, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Cinema, Digital Media, New Media, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies
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Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY M.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY M.F.A., University of California, Irvine, CA B.F.A., Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
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Tim Stephens
Senior Public Information Representative, Science & Engineering
stephens@ucsc.edu
831-459-4352
Areas of expertise: Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Fiction, Digital Media, Digital Humanities, Digital Arts, Game Studies, Game Technology, Game Design, Artificial Intelligence, New Media
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Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a Professor of Computational Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio, a technical and cultural research group. Noah's research areas include new models of storytelling in games, how games express ideas through play, the literary possibilities of computational media, and how cultural software can be preserved, discovered, and cited. Noah has authored or co-edited five books on games and digital media f... more »
Areas of expertise: Digital Media, New Media, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Animation, Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Activism
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As a first-generation middle school, high school, and college graduate, I was fortunate to attend and earn my B.F.A. from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, an institution with a radically progressive history founded on the belief that advanced education should be free. It was here that my nascent interest in community building conceptually merged with art practice, media-making, and humanities scholarship, thereby laying a foundation for research into creative embodied app... more »
Areas of expertise: Art, Aesthetics, Art Criticism, Art Theory, Digital Arts, Contemporary Art, Digital Media, History of Art and Visual Culture, Science and Technology, New Media
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Dr. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. Recent publications and presentations address art and shamanism, environmental art, sound art and ecology, and bridging the gap between new media and contemporary art. His book Art and Electronic Media (Phaidon Press, 2009) has been expanded with an extensive, multimedia, multilingual Online Companion. Inventing the ... more »
Areas of expertise: Queer Studies, Game Design, Game Studies, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, New Media, Design
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dani (she/they) is a game designer and educator currently lecturing at UC Santa Cruz. She has studied computer science and game design ever since discovering an interest during high school. After loving a couple of design-centric courses, they switched their undergraduate major from Computer Science: Game Design to Art and Design: Games & Playable Media. Currently, she is currently lecturing for the Art & Design: Games & Playable Media major at UC Santa Cruz. dani is passionate abou... more »
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Nolan Higdon
lornagarano@gmail.com
510-759-6655
Areas of expertise: Critical Theory, Digital Media, New Media, History
Biography, Education and Training
Nolan Higdon is a founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, Project Censored National Judge, author, and lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. Higdon’s areas of concentration include podcasting, digital culture, news media history, propaganda, and critical media literacy. All of Higdon’s work is available at Substack (https://nolanhigdon.substack.com/). He is the author of The Anatomy of Fake... more »
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Shannon Deoul
shannon@razpr.com
Areas of expertise: Digital Arts, Performance, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments, Digital Humanities, Writing, Direction (Theater), Literature, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, New Media
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Samantha Gorman is an interdisciplinary writer, director and artist who does practice-based research in interactive narrative, games, digital performance/theater, and the theory and practice of immersive media (AR/VR). Since 2014, she has been the co-lead of established art/game studio Tender Claws. She is known for projects that make critical, creative interventions in form/technology (e-readers, mobile VR, AR, machine learning, biometrics), while also functioning as commercially relea... more »
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