Digital Arts and New Media

Porter D-232
(831) 459-1554
http://digitalarts.ucsc.edu

Faculty and Professional Interests

Ralph H. Abraham, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

Elliot W. Anderson, Assistant Professor of Art
Electronic art, digital arts/new media

Lawrence Andrews, Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media
Film, video, installation and media art

Tandy Beal, Lecturer of Theater Arts (Dance)
Choreography, improvisation, technique, performance skills, collaborations with classical and jazz composers, circus, theater and video, children's productions

James H. Bierman, Professor of Theater Arts
Playwriting, theater history and literature, classical and Renaissance drama, Chicano theater, digital media

Benjamin L. Carson, Assistant Professor of Music
Theories of consciousness and cognition, rhythm perception, Schoenberg, history of compositional method, subjectivity and identity

David H. Cope, Professor of Music
Composition; 20th-century music history, with focus on the avant-garde; 18th- and 19th-century theory; analysis; experiments in music intelligence

David Crane, Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media
Film and media theory, discourses on technology, digital culture, experimental media, critical and psychoanalytic theory

David Cuthbert, Assistant Professor of Theater Arts
Lighting design, CADD, projection design, scenic design

Sharon Daniel, Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media
Community-based public art in information and communications environments, social and political aspects of information technology, community networks, participatory culture, digital inclusion, net art, human-computer interface design

James E. Davis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Computer graphics and computer vision, methods for acquiring and manipulating complex graphical models from the real world

Peter Q. Elsea, Lecturer of Music
Electronic music and music technology

Shelly Errington, Professor of Anthropology
Globalization of folk art, visual and social semiotics, photography, film, the Internet and digital media, Southeast Asia, and Latin America

Frank R. Galuszka, Professor of Art
Painting, book arts

Jennifer A. González, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
Contemporary theories of visual culture, semiotics, critical museum studies, photography, public and activist art in the U.S.

Eli E. Hollander, Professor of Film and Digital Media
Film and video directing, editing, cinematography, videography, digital image generation, screenwriting

Donna M. Hunter, Associate Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
European painting (especially French) from 1600 to the 1960s; German art and visual culture between the two world wars; art as social practice, portraiture

David Evan Jones, Professor of Music
Composition and analysis, chamber opera, Balkan music, language and music, timbre and orchestration

Norman Locks, Professor of Art
Photography

Suresh K. Lodha, Professor of Computer Science
Geo-spatial visualization, scientific visualization, sensor and computer vision, data mining

Charles L. Lord, Professor of Film and Digital Media
Film and video directing and editing, video theory and history, video installation, screenwriting, documentary production

Dominic W. Massaro, Professor of Psychology
Understanding language, speech perception and reading, language learning and speech technology, pattern recognition, psychology of interactive media, psychology of art and new media, human-machine interface

Charles E. McDowell, Professor of Computer Science
Programming languages, parallel computing, and computer science education

Margaret Morse, Professor of Film and Digital Media
Digital and electronic media theory and criticism, media art, media history, technology and culture, film history and theory, German cinema, documentary and science fiction

Paul Nauert, Associate Professor of Music
Theory, composition; rhythm and meter; music cognition; mathematical and computer models of the compositional process

Ed Osborn, Assistant Professor of Art
Electronic art, digital arts/new media

Alex T. Pang, Professor of Computer Science
Uncertainty visualization, tensor visualization, scientific visualization, collaboration software, virtual reality interfaces

Warren Sack, Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media
Software design and media theory

Danny Scheie, Professor of Theater Arts
Acting, directing, dramatic literature, theater history, Shakespeare, Wagner, gay studies

Barry Sinervo, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Animal behavior, evolution, physiological ecology

Catherine M. Soussloff, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
European cultural theory, aesthetics, and the historiography of art; performance studies; early modern Italian art; media history including film; Jewish identity and representation

Elizabeth Stephens, Associate Professor of Art
Intermedia, electronic art, sculpture, and performance art

Hai Tao, Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering
Image and video processing, computer vision, vision-based graphics, and human-computer interaction

Edward C. Warburton, Assistant Professor of Theater Arts
Development of dance thought in action, creative processes, and technology in theater arts; dance technique, movement research and composition, and applied dance practices

Lewis Watts, Associate Professor of Art
Photography

E. James Whitehead, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Software engineering, software configuration management, web, hypertext, collaborative authoring, hypertext versioning, Internet information systems