New Media Map 02

NEW MEDIA ART, THEORY AND CRITICISM IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: a subjective map by Lev Manovich (UCSD) of schools and people [dec 2002] /* note that this maps lists mostly people and places I work with - it does not list everybody and every program */ -----------------------------------------------------------code: a - new media artist; t - theorist of new media; c - critic of new media art /* very close interaction between new media art, industry, and theory is characteristic of the scene here */ programs in new media art offered by each school are listed right below its name -----------------------------------------------------------UCSD <www.ucsd.edu> Visual Arts Department BFA / MFA in new media art / PhD in new media theory If want to get email about events in the department email Fang > to add your name to Visual Arts mailing list email Ted to add your name to CRCA mailing list new media art full-time faculty: Sheldon Brown [a] Amy Alexander [a] Adriene Jenik [a] Lev Manovich [t+c+a] Jordan Crandall [a] two more full time positions to be filled in Spring 2003 to meet visiting faculty: get a list of classes we teach in a given quarter quarter, look up the name on our web site to see if a person is teaching this quarter Music Department - one of the top places for computer music research internationally, a number of faculty

including Miller Puckette (creator of MAX and PD) and George Lewis (MacArthur Fellow)

CRCA - Center for Reseach in Computing and the Arts available to students for special projects; has a Web streaming station CAL-IT(2) <www.calit2.net> - California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. A unique national research institute for the next paradigms in IT; currently funds some grad students new building to be completed in 2004 will have the state of art facilities for new media rats, visiting artist program, etc The Infrastructures of Digital Design grad student conference @UCSD (end of January 2003) - organized gy MFA Visual Arts Students and PhD students from Communication Department. UCSD library - a nice CD-ROM collection (ask in Art Library downstairs); film/video collection other relevant resources at UCSD: a very strong Communication Department; big Engineering and Computer Science departments; a top place in the nation for Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Biological Sciences. -----------------------------------------------------------UCI (UC Irvine) <www.uci.edu> Art Department BFA, MFA, PhD [a] between art and engineering (in development) a number of art faculty including Simon Penny (robotics, interactive installations), Celia Pearce (computer games), Antoinette LaFarge, Robert Nideffer (computer games) -----------------------------------------------------------Art Center College of Design (Pasadena) BFA, MFA (media design and others) a number of full time faculty including:

Peter Lunenfeld [tc], the author of Digital Dialects and Snap to Grid; editor of Mediawork series <mit-press.mit.edu/mediawork> Brenda Laurel [at], a pioneer in computer media, VR, computer games, etc. -----------------------------------------------------------California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) BFA, MFA MFA in Interactive Media Art Department: Natalie Bookchin [a] - many of their recent MFA gradutes teach for us in computer art area Critical Studies: Norman Klein [t], the author of the forthcoming book on the history of special effects -----------------------------------------------------------SCI-ARC (Dountown LA) grad program only (top architectural school with conceptual emphasis) a number of faculty working on computers and architecture check their web site for a lecture program -----------------------------------------------------------USC (University of Southern California) <www.usc.edu> (Downtown LA) BFA, MFA newly established Interactive Division in the same school - director Scott Fisher (pioneer of VR) Labyrinth project directed by Marsha Kinder is producing a number of interactive projects on DVD pairing well-known artists, filmmaker and artists with new media production team still more new media programs in Film/TV school and in Art school -----------------------------------------------------------UCR (UC Riverside) <www.ucr.edu> (1 hour from LA) new curator in digital media [search in progress] ------------------------------------------------------------

UCLA (UC Los Angeles) <www.ucla.edu> Architecture Department - a number of people working in computers and architecture including Gregg Lynn; check their web site for visiting lecture schedule. Film, TV and New Media Department - a top film school offering BFA, MFA, PhD (critical theory). Full time faculty includes: Vivian Sobchack [t] Fabian Wagmster [a] English Department: Katherine Hayles [t], the author of How We Became Post-Human, now working on cybertext; a joint appointment with Design/Media Arts Art History Department: a number of PhD students currently working on new media but no faculty Department of Design/Media Arts BFA - media design MFA - new media art a top lecture series - check <eda.ucla.edu> for the upcoming lecturers Top full time faculty in new media art Victoria Vesna [a] Rebecca Allen [a] Katherine Hayles [tc] Erkki Huhtamo [tc] Christian Moeller [a - also architecture] plus many top adjunct people who teach once in a while, including: Roy Ascott Sara Diamond Joachim Sauter Jennifer Steinkamp and others -----------------------------------------------------------UCSB (UC Santa Barbara) <www.ucsb.edu> Art Department BFA, MFA, PhD in development between art and engineering

Full time faculty: George Legrady [a] Lisa Jevbratt [a] Marko Peljhan [a] Film, TV and New Media Department: Lisa Parks [t] English Department: William Warner [t] + Alan Liu [t] -----------------------------------------------------------UC wide faculty research groups in new media Digital Cultures Project: http://dcmrg.english.ucsb.edu organelles conferences, offers a fellowship. etc. The University of California's Digital Arts Research Network (DARNET) http://169.232.172.29/uccampus/ucparticipants.htm. The Laboratory for Games and Culture [a part of CALIT(2): UC San Diego and UC Irvine] www.calit2.net/meta-game