Digital Arts and New Media

201. Digital Arts/New Media: History. F
Focuses on history of visual, aural, kinetic, and computational media and technologies central to the field of digital arts/new media today. Explores how digital and new media art has critically engaged with this history. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. M. Morse

202. Digital Arts/New Media: Cultural Theory and Research. W
Examination of key theories concerning digital media and cultures, especially the interaction between digital technologies and sociocultural formations. Emphasizes digital media’s connections to social networks, identity (gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality), ownership and access, and globalization. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15. S.Errington

203. Digital Arts/New Media: Interface Design. S
Examination of the way digital content creates context through which it is accessed by audience. In particular, explores choice of metaphors through which content is designed to be accessed and variety of interactive strategies made possible as result of choices. Explores rich variety of software interfaces including web browsers, traditional software, computer games, CD-ROMs, and various distributive art venues. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. S. Daniel

204A. Digital Arts and New Media: Colloquium Series (2 credits). F
Weekly colloquia include presentations by invited outside guests, by UCSC faculty in DA/NM and in related fields, and by advanced students preparing thesis projects. Students required to read materials specific to each presentation. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit. D. Massaro

204B. Digital Arts and New Media: Colloquium Series (2 credits). W
Weekly colloquia include presentations by invited outside guests, by UCSC faculty in DA/NM and in related fields, and by advanced students preparing thesis projects. Students required to read materials specific to each presentation. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit. D. Massaro

204C. Digital Arts and New Media: Colloquium Series (2 credits). S
Weekly colloquia include presentations by invited outside guests, by UCSC faculty in DA/NM and in related fields, and by advanced students preparing thesis projects. Students required to read materials specific to each presentation. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit. D. Massaro

219. Introduction to Electronics for Artmaking. F
Intensive introduction to electronic devices for use in artmaking. Provides hands-on experience working with sensors, motors, switches, gears, lights, simple circuits, microprocessors, and hardware-store devices to create kinetic and interactive works of art. Students produce sculptural or installation-based projects. Provides demonstrations, lectures, and critical discussion of work to develop concepts and technical skills. Presents history and theories of electronic art in lectures. Students required to have basic programming skills. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. E. Anderson

220. Introduction to Programming for the Arts. F
Learn about digital representation of text, sound, images, and movies and how to create and manipulate these representations under program control. Also learn about how computers share information over the network with view of “the web” as a potential medium for artists. Projects are completed using conventional programming languages such as Python, Java, or C. Assumes basic computer literacy and programming experience comparable to one-quarter introductory programming course such as Computer Science 60G or Art 21. This course does not teach how to use existing applications to manipulate the various media. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. E. Anderson, C. McDowell

250A. Project Group in Digital Arts and New Media. S
A three-quarter project group, starting in spring of first year of study and continuing through winter of second year of study for first-year students; or starting at other times during year for second-year students. Students collaborate to develop projects and thesis ideas. Examples include music and robotics, morphing, networks and systems, interactive game design, privacy and identity, and interactivity and performance. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit. P. Elsea, W. Sack

250B. Project Group in Digital Arts and New Media. *
A three-quarter project group, starting in spring of first year of study and continuing through winter of second year of study for first-year students; or starting at other times during year for second-year students. Students collaborate to develop projects and thesis ideas. Examples include music and robotics, morphing, networks and systems, interactive game design, privacy and identity, and interactivity and performance. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit. P. Elsea, W. Sack

250C. Project Group in Digital Arts and New Media. *
A three-quarter project group, starting in spring of first year of study and continuing through winter of second year of study for first-year students; or starting at other times during year for second-year students. Students collaborate to develop projects and thesis ideas. Examples include music and robotics, morphing, networks and systems, interactive game design, privacy and identity, and interactivity and performance. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit. P. Elsea, W. Sack

290. Interactivity in Performance. W
Examines use of interactive technologies to bring about collaboration among visual, performance, and sound art. Goal is to collaboratively produce an interactive live-performance work. Explores methodologies and technologies of interactivity, space, and time and addresses aesthetic and compositional concerns that arise when using interactive digital tools, including critical discussions about how technology itself shapes form and content of an artwork. Meets 3 1/2 hours/week for combination lab and lecture. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.
E. Anderson