March 2015

March 23 – 17, 2015

The Sussex-Santa Cruz Digital Media Exchange is a two-year faculty and post-graduate exchange involving visits from the University of Sussex, UK, to the University of California, Santa Cruz, and back.

Visitors from UCSC to SUSSEX

Sharon Daniel, http://www.sharondaniel.net
Jennifer Parker, http://art.ucsc.edu/faculty/jennifer-parker
Fabiola Hanna, http://fabiolahanna.com
Andrea Steves, http://andreasteves.com
Nathan Ober, http://nathanielober.com/portfolio/
David Harris, http://sciartica.net

Agenda

  Monday 16 March Tuesday 17 March Wednesday 18 March Thursday 19 March Friday 20 March
 Mornings: Introductions: informal roundtable: SB121 (or social space) 9-11: Sound Environments Class with Sally Jane Norman OR Media Histories and Cultural Change JUB-117 (session on internet histories) with David Hendy – or 10-1 UG interactive seminar with Paul/Andrew 10-1: Liveness in Art and Technical Practice introductions and discussion – or UG Interactice seminar  Paul/Andrew 9-11: New Moving Screens SB311  with Mary Agnes Krell  MA New Developments in Digital Media Practical SB311 Andrew Duff
Boundary Walk (or Monday) 11-1: New Moving Screens SB311  with Paul McConnell
 Lunch: Welcome lunch at Silverstone: social space lunch at Silverstone: social space lunch at Silverstone: social space lunch at Silverstone: social space
 Afternoons:  Intro to Humanities Lab with David Berry Digital Exchange Research presentations and discussion SB 309 “Live Acoustics Investigations,” Halldor Ulfarsson (Iceland Academy of Arts), Creativity Zone Music department concerts: 1.20 Meeting House, Jeremy Huw Williams performs Shubert and Broughton followed by lecture  The Sublime in Computer Games: Procedurally Generated Audiovisual Worlds, Tom Betts, Recital Room
Boundary Walk (or Tuesday) Liveness parallel workshops: participatory cartography and distributed data/ixi-lang live coding/objects + puppetry Meet in the social space for open dicussion – follow on in SB 309
Research & Prototyping for Interactive Media LAB Blue Practice Emile Devereaux 4-6 PhD Research seminar 4.30-6 Fulton 201/ or 5-6 Sussex Lecture on Dystopia for Dummies (Social and Politcal Thought, Prof Greg Claeys Discussion, Reflections and planning for the Digital Exchange: Silverstone 309
Goodbye drinks at IDS
Evening Events Dinner in Brighton with Tim Jordan and UCSC visitors
In Brighton: Lighthouse – Drones exhibition 10 Oct- 5 April http://www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/a-screaming-comes-across-the-sky
One Network for Conservation and the Arts http://onca.org.uk
SICK Festival http://www.sickfestival.com/programme/channel/brighton/