Our show starts tomorrow. I’m so proud of everyone! Here is the title and curatorial statement I wrote for the show. I hope you like it. Everyone who was enrolled in the class has their name on the show. Tell your friends and family to dl the plugin so they can see your show!
Zombie, Koi, Rollercoaster: digital media art from the University of California Santa Cruz
Undergraduate students in “Introduction to Digital Media” at the University of California Santa Cruz created Add-Art sets from the work of colleagues and fellow students. Enjoy California landscapes, animation stills, dorm life, and zombie encounters as seen through the eyes of emerging artists. For many students, this project was their first curatorial experience and their first experience using image-editing software. Members of this class look at advertising more critically after experiencing Add-Art. Students and instructor alike appreciate how Add-Art shows art to populations who might not have access to museums and galleries.
Curator Evan Andra is currently an undergraduate Literature/Film and Digital Media student at UCSC. He also holds a work-study position on campus at the Disability Resource Center, where he instructs students on the use of various adaptive technologies and scans textbooks for digital access by students with learning impairments. Andra is originally from Healdsburg, Sonoma County, California. Of Nate Murphy’s work, Andra writes, “influenced by animations like Invader Zim and Ahh Real Monsters, Murphy focuses on creating creatures which evoke the same adolescent wonder he felt as a child watching his favorite cartoons,” while artist Luke Wilson “places recognizable figures in bizarre backdrops.” For Andra’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~eandra/addart.html.
Curator Kelly Angeloty is a second year student at UC Santa Cruz majoring in Psychology. FDM 20C was the first digital media class she has taken giving her an opportunity to design her own website. Angeloty thoroughly enjoys going to school in Santa Cruz and living so close to the beach. Angeloty organized her add-art show as a community project, asking her friends from school to contribute work. Of her collection, Angeloty writes, “All of these artists are part of the same community and have a chance to interact on a daily basis, but rarely interact in the artistic sense. Through this project, the participants are indirectly conversing with each other, being placed side by side in this project.” For Angeloty’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~kangelot/addart.html.
Curator Larissa Bates is a full-time student, and a tentative Film and Psych double major at UCSC. Bates grew up in a small town in the heart of Riverside County in Southern California, where it was difficult to access art via museums or shows. She loves that Add-Art makes her feel connected to art no matter where she resides. Bates plans on using her degrees to create artwork in the form of movies from a psychological viewpoint. Of Lindsay Anne Needles photography collection, titled “Burning Crosses Won’t Help Your Demon Problems,” Bates writes “the hues from all these photos seem to tell a story of their own, a story of a silent journey.” For Bates’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~lgbates/Add%20Art%20Project/addart.html.
Curator Therese Esposo is a junior undergrad at UCSC. She is studying Computer Science and Art, and is very interested in computer animation and 3d graphics. When not focusing on computer programming, she enjoys painting, drawing, soccer, and sailing. Of Marlena McClain’s work, Esposo writes, “this show covers a broad spectrum of entertainment, place, and the people that surround the atmosphere of carnival life.” For Esposo’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~tesposo/film20c/add-art_proj/.
Curator Andrea Miner is a biological sciences major at University of California Santa Cruz. Although she studies science, she has always been very interested in art and photography. She took photography classes in high school and she considers arts, crafts, and digital media a hobby. Miner has a great appreciation for nature, and loves to express the beauty of the world through art. Of Ben Glatt’s photography, Miner writes, “Ben is using his photography as a means to reach out to people by helping them appreciate the beauty of nature.” For Miner’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~aminer/benglatt.html. Ben Glatt’s photography may be found in his flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/benglatt/ and his website http://benjaminglatt.com/.
Curator Amy Roseberry is an undergraduate student at UCSC. Of animator Sam Debey’s work, Roseberry writes, “the progression for this show was taken from one of his many short animations, this one entitled ‘Powered By Beans.’ …One little sketch, one thought, one idea can spring to life in the hands of an animator. I also found it interesting to see some of the original art that goes into Sam’s animations and to watch him as he literally sketched figures to life.” For Roseberry’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~aroseber/addart.html.
Curator Jadelyn San Juan was born in September in 1990. Jadelyn is currently a second year student at UC Santa Cruz, majoring in Global Economics. Sean Doll’s practice stands out for San Juan because “he was always carrying around either a photograph or a camera.” For San Juan’s complete project, see http://people.ucsc.edu/~jsanjuan/Add-Art%20Project.html.
“Introduction to Digital Media” was taught by Lindsay Kelley in Fall 2009. Teaching assistants were Elaine Gan, Christopher Maraffi, Aaron Reed, and Elizabeth Travelslight. All 20c students contributed to this project through production, discussion and critique: Isabella Albert, Amina Alvear, Ryan Anderson, Nicholas Andreetta, Johnathan Becker, Patrick Bertsch, Andrew Blazensky, David Burns, Christopher Burris, Jason Burstein, Marie Byrnes, Christian Calderon, Travis Carlson, Margaret Carpenter, Elias Carrillo, George Chadwick, Darren Chandler, Jing Han Chen, Brandon Choi, Teresa Chu, Stella-Terra Clemens, Dustin Conlon, Ashley Costa, Anthony Cote, David Cottle, Samuel Cowan, Kyle Craw, Christian Cuadrado, Kevin Davidson, Albert De Guzman, Gina Dematteo, Amy Donis, Matthew Drake, Richard Du, Gabriel Edelsohn, Steven Ekejiuba, Chelsea Enslow, Michael Estioko, Ivan Evert-Burks, Matthew Feaver, Anthony Ferreira, Nicholas Ferro, Ellen Fitzgerald, Kendal Fong, Linus Foster, Thomas Freeman, Logan Freesh, Joel Fricker, Jordan Galdo, Dustin Gay, Rene Gomez, Raul Gonzalez, Allen Goolsby, Morgan Grana, April Grow, Brittany Guillou, Jennifer Gunnell, Jamus Hain, Scott Hanshew, Spencer Haran, William Hare, Adam Hawley, Lynn He, Seth Helm-Burger, James Herbold, Timothy Hewitt, The-An Hoang-Nguyen, Michael Hollander, Joseph Hsieh, Wilson Hu, Nicholas Irizary, Timothy Irvine, Aria Jacobsen, Joshua Jacobson, Jeremiah Jimeno, Nicholas Jones, Hugh Katzenbach, Amanda Kimball, Austin Kovacs, Vladimir Kozyrev, Hannah Kreiger, Julia Lan, Lance Leahy, Calvin Lee, Simon Lee, Carlos Leyva, William Long, Charlie Lui, Priya Mapara, Jameka March, Zachary Markman, Ashley Masters, Isaiah Masters, Vadim Maximov, Ryan McDonald, Adam Mieuli, Joshua Mitchell, Bradley Monajjemi, Megan Moore, Abigail Newman, Victor Nguyen, Warren-Tri Nguyen, Laura Nichol, Adriaan Noordzij, Jensen Novak, Adam O’Donnell, Evan Ohara, Thomas Osborne, Neel Patel, Nicholas Patti, Christa Pedersen, Nicole Pena, Jacob Pernell, Justin Pinili, Kyle Placet, Kimberly Powell, Rohan Prabhakar, Sean Pritchett, Steve Ramirez, Jose Rangel, Sarah Rasmusson, Julie Rej, Alexander Rovira, John Salvador, Jadelyn San Juan, Alejandra Sanchez, Joseph Sanfilippo, Ariel Savage, George Scherer, Jordan Schmidt, Quinn Schreiner, Evgeni Selkov, David Shadrake, Zakary Sheridan, Elijah Sickel, Tessa Sicotte-Kelly, Sean Slattery, Nicholas So, Luis Solano, Scott Spitz, Alexa Stenabaugh, Thomas Stephens, Marcus Strehlke, Anthony Suschil, Sharon Tam, Lee Thomason, Loren Tihanyi, Sajeev Toprani, Samuel Trillo, Douglas Tsui, Veronica Tsuji, Kristen Vasilev, Nicholas Vezmar, Erik Vieyra, Lindsey Wachs, Kyle Walker, Jason Walters, Charles Watson, Samuel Wolpert, Wai Son Wong, Thomas Wunsch, Jerry Yao, Bridget Yount, Benjamin Zhang, Rachel Zhang.
