Digital technologies are revolutionizing contemporary art and society, rapidly transforming the way traditional arts are practiced and creating far-reaching possibilities for new forms of expression.

The Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA Program at University of California, Santa Cruz was established in 2004 to address the social and cultural impact of digital technologies and their increasingly central role in the arts. DANM offers a two-year MFA program that brings together students and faculty from across the academic spectrum to pursue interdisciplinary artistic and scholarly research and practice. DANM faculty include Sharon Daniel, Warren Sack, Ed Osborn, Elliot Anderson, Ted Warburton, and Margaret Morse, among thirty others.

Small clusters of students collaborate with professors in Project Groups that develop skills and strategies to engage with artistic, technical and theoretical research in three focused areas: Participatory Culture, Performative Technologies, and Mechatronics. Prospective students are asked to identify their research area preference above in their application. Detailed information about the project groups is available at http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/DocumentsOfRecord. Other coursework includes a theoretical/historical core as well as praxis oriented courses. Each student designs a Thesis Project that culminates in publication of artistic and theoretical research on the web and the opportunity to participate in an exhibition.

The Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program is now accepting applications through February 15, 2007 for this two-year program beginning in fall 2007.

For more information:
http://digitalarts.ucsc.edu
http://danm.ucsc.edu


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Felicia Rice
Program Manager, Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program
http://digitalarts.ucsc.edu

Porter Faculty Services, UC Santa Cruz
Phone: (831) 459-1554
Fax: (831) 459-3535
Email: fsrice@ucsc.edu