26 January–27 January 2007
26 Jan–27 Jan 2007
epicenter: University of California Digital Arts Research Network Faculty and Graduate Research Exchange, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA
Panel: “Social Considerations”
With Ramesh Srinivasan, Julie Wyman, Garnet Hertz, and Michael Mateas
epicenter, the 2007 DARnet faculty and graduate research exchange is designed to bring together artists, practitioners and scholars at all levels in the UC System engaged in the diverse practices of the Digital Arts. Two days of performances, installations, presentations, interventions, workshops, and social events are planned for January 26 and 27, 2007 on the UC Riverside campus. The weekend event is designed to sustain and advance all aspects of digital practice and scholarship, with a focus on stimulating research collaborations between campuses while broadening the DARnet network system-wide.
The UC Digital Arts Research Network (UC DARnet) is a transdisciplinary Multicampus Research Group of University of California faculty who utilize digital media for cultural and theoretical research and in their creative production. UC faculty established DARnet in 1997 to lay the foundation for a UC-wide program to facilitate collaborative research and teaching within a distributed digital arts and humanities community.
Culture is in the midst of an increasingly rapid shift to computer-mediated forms of creative production, distribution and communication. The role of digital media is fundamental to this shift. Media Artists create a natural bridge across the traditional disciplinary divide between the humanities and the sciences. UC DARnet, provides an opportunity for critical engagement and conceptual dialogue between humanists, scientists, and those in the media arts.