Faculty News

UCSC Associate Professor and Founder of the Open Source Afro Hair Library, A.M. Darke.

UCSC Associate Professor and Founder of the Open Source Afro Hair Library, A.M. Darke.

UCSC Associate Professor and Founder of the Open Source Afro Hair Library, A.M. Darke.

Professor A.M. Darke of Performance, Play, & Design publishes a landmark study in Hair Animation in collaboration with Professor Theodore Kim, and graduate students Haomiao Wu and Alvin Shi. Full Yale article can be found at Yale News The study Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair will be presented at the SIGGRAPH Asia conference…

October 25-27 Marianne Weems is the artistic director of the New York-based cross-media company The Builders Association. Their new production, just in time for the election, ATLAS DRUGGED (Tools for Tomorrow) is an analysis of both the current moment, in which AI-generated “evidence” influences much of what we think and feel, and also a speculation about a…

By Gaby Messino micha cárdenas, an interdisciplinary and multimedia artist, is sounding the warning about climate catastrophe tipping points in her new high-profile exhibition Probability Engine: Atlantic Overturning, which opened on October 5 at Nuit Blanche, Toronto’s all-night celebration of contemporary art. In late 2022, Tim Lenton, founding director of the Global Systems Institute, issued…

Michael M. Chemers chair of the Department of Performance, Play, & Design launches new book The Figure of the Monster in Global Theatre: Further Readings on the Aesthetics of Disqualification. ABOUT THE WORK Bringing together international perspectives on the figure of the “monster” in performance, this edited collection builds on discussions in the fields of…