Thirteen graduate students from the Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program (DANM) at UC Santa Cruz conclude two years of artistic study with BLIND SPOT. The artists' works explore performance, game play, electronic sculpture, repurposed technology, and collaborative research.

“The title of the exhibition refers directly to the punctum caecum or blind spot,” said DANM show curator Dorothy Santos. “It is the area of the eye where photoreceptors do not exist. In order to see what is in our blind spot, we must shift and alternate our positioning or gaze. In a metaphorical sense, these artists create in a space that requires the viewer to move and shift for the work to be seen and experienced.”

Location and Dates
Thursday, April 28-Sunday, May 1 (12:00-5:00 p.m.)
Digital Arts Research Center

Symposium
Friday, April 22 (7:30-9:00 p.m.)
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
and again on Saturday, April 30 (1:30-3:00 p.m.)
Digital Arts Research Center, Room 230

Events
Hope Hutman’s Twitch Odyssey
Friday, April 29 (4:00 p.m.)
Saturday, April 30 (4:00 p.m.)
Digital Arts Research Center, Room 108

Mónica Andrade’s Marqués, a Narco-Macbeth, video performance
Saturday, April 30 (5:00 p.m.)
Second Stage, Performing Arts Complex

Reception
Saturday, April 30 (5:00-9:00 p.m.)
Digital Arts Research Center

The DANM MFA Program serves as a center for the development and study of digital media and the cultures that they have helped create. Faculty and students are drawn from a variety of backgrounds, such the arts, computer engineering, humanities, the sciences, and social sciences, to pursue inter-disciplinary artistic and scholarly research and production in the context of a broad examination of digital arts and cultures.