UCSC’s Arts Division and Porter College presents

The Art of Collaboration:
Processes
Technologies
Authorship

Hosted by the Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program at the new Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), UC Santa Cruz

Thursday October 22, 4:30p-7:30p,
and Friday October 23, 9:30a-7:30p

http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/collaboration

UCSC’s Arts Division and Porter College are proud to present an interdisciplinary symposium investigating collaboration as a key concept in contemporary art and creative production.

Join more than twenty scholars, artists, filmmakers, game designers and theorists as they come together to discuss the meanings and cultural aspirations associated with collaboration, including non-hierarchical production, shared authorship, cross-disciplinary and trans-cultural approaches to research. By exploring the complexities of collaboration, this symposium challenges overdependence on intellectual individuality in favor of the non-territorial, collective, dialogic, participatory and relational.

Keynote Address:
“Enclosure Acts: Collaborative Practice in an Indian Village”
Grant Kester, Chair and Associate Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego

Special Lecture co-presented with the UCSC Foundation Forum:
“Creativity: What I Don’t Know and What I Know”
Dr. Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios

In three panel discussions, collaborative work will be considered as an alternative to the notion of individual authorship in intellectual and creative endeavors.

Panel participants include:
Joline Blais
Dee Hibbert-Jones
E.G. Crichton
Marsha Kinder
Sharon Daniel
John Jota Leaños
Claudia Eipeldauer of WochenKlausur
Chip Lord
Sean Fletcher & Isabel Reichert
Michael Mateas
Jennifer A. González
Susana Ruiz
Melissa Gwyn
Warren Sack
Bassam Haddad
Gustavo Vazquez
David Evan Harris
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Jon Ippolito

The event also includes artistic presentations of collaborative works of art by students and faculty, as well as a joint reception with Sesnon Gallery (Porter College) to celebrate Full Disclosure, an exhibition featuring collaborative projects by UCSC arts and science faculty and lab researchers.

This event is free and open to the public.
Information and registration at http://danm.ucsc.edu/web/collaboration

Organized by Margaret Morse and B. Ruby Rich and coordinated by Soraya Murray, this symposium is sponsored by UCSC Arts Division, UCSC Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program, the Porter Festival Grant, the Arts Research Institute, the Academic Senate Committee on Research (COR), the Center for Art and Visual Studies (CAVS), the UC Santa Cruz Foundation and Awake Media.