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Arts Division
Department of Performance, Play & Design (PPD)
Associate Professor
Faculty
Digital Arts and New Media
Art & Design: Games + Playable Media (AGPM)
Regular Faculty
Digital Arts Research Center
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Digital Arts Research Center
A.M. Darke is an artist and Associate Professor of Creative Technologies, Games, and New Media at UC Santa Cruz. Through critical games and experimental media, Darke examines power and oppression through a social and technocultural lens. She has won multiple awards for her creative practice in the arts, as well as for her contributions to the simulation of afro-textured hair in computer graphics. Darke is the founder of the Open Source Afro Hair Library, a 3D platform that serves as a living archive of Black hair and digital culture.
Darke has a BA in Design and an MFA in Media Arts, both from UCLA. Her work has been widely exhibited at festivals and galleries around the world, and featured in a variety of publications, such as The Guardian, The Washington Post, NPR, and The New York Times.
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