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Amy Adler received her BFA at Cooper Union in 1989 and her MFA from UCLA in 1995. Before coming to UCSD in the fall of 2004 Amy taught at UC Irvine, Art Center and CalArts. Amy has had one person shows in galleries in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin, Tokyo and Milan. In 1998 she had one person show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Her project, Amy Adler Photographs
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Amy Alexander has worked in film, video, and digital media. She received a BA in Communications: Film/Video from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) in New Jersey and an MFA in Film/Video with additional work in New Media from California Institute of the Arts. Prior to coming to UCSD, she taught at CalArts and USC, as well as working commercially in television and digital media. With
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David Antin is a poet, critic and performance artist. His background includes undergraduate work in science and languages with graduate work in linguistics at New York University (special project was the language structure of Gertrude Stein). He has edited and translated several science and math books and has pursued a career as a poet since 1955 and that of an art critic since 1964. He also
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An artist/filmmaker working for many years in installation, photography, video, film, performance, drawing and writing, Antin has an international reputation. She has had one woman exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the La Jolla Museum (now the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art), the Long Beach Museum, etc., as well as a major 30-year
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Sheldon Brown is the Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at UCSD and the head of New Media Arts for the California Institute of Information Technology and Telecommunications (Cal-IT(2)). In the Visual Arts Department most of his teaching is in the Computing in the Arts area and with the Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts major. His courses focus on the
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Prior to joining the Department in 2003, Norman Bryson taught at Cambridge, Rochester, Harvard, and London Universities. At King’s College, Cambridge, he was a Fellow and Director of Studies in English. At the University of Rochester he was the first Director of the newly formed PhD program in Visual and Cultural Studies. He was professor of art history at Harvard from 1990 to 1998, when he
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Harold Cohen studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London, and taught there for several years before joining the Visual Arts Department in 1968. His work as a painter has been exhibited widely both in galleries and in major museums. During the 'sixties he represented Great Britain in the Venice Biennale, Documenta 3, the Paris Biennale, the Carnegie International and many other
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VAF 413
Jordan Crandall (http://jordancrandall.com) is a media artist and theorist. He is Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego. His ongoing art and research project Under Fire, concerning the organization and representation of political violence, opened in October 2006 at the International Biennial of
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Teddy Cruz’ work dwells at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, where he has been developing a practice and pedagogy that emerge out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. Teddy’ Cruz has been recognized internationally in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations such as
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Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater
(EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in
solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He is
co-Director of Thing (thing.net) an ISP for artists and activists. His
recent Electronic Disturbance Theater project with Brett Stabaum, Micha
Cardenas and Amy Sara Carroll the
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Steve Fagin, the recipient of several NEA grants, is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. He has produced a series of feature length videos including: The Amazing Voyage of Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel, The Machine That Killed Bad People and TropiCola. They have featured prominently at museums and international festivals and have been screened on Bravo
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Professor Emeritus Manny Faber who served on the full-time faculty from 1970 to 1987, died August 18, 2008, at his home in Leucadia, California. He was 91. For further details, see:
Obituary of August 21st, 2008...
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Claudio Fenner-López initially "discovered" the arts via studies in Architecture, UC Berkeley, and after Korean War service, he continued on to a BA in Theatre Arts and MA in Film and Television at UCLA.
Prior to joining UCSD in 1973, Fenner-López was writer-producer-director of films for the Franciscan Communications Center, Los Angeles, designing productions for, among others, the
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Anya Gallaccio emerged in the late '80s as part of the group of young British artists from Goldsmiths College in London. Since her first appearance in the historic 1988 Freeze exhibition, she has become established internationally, having exhibited at the Sculpture Centre, New York and Palazzo Delle Papesse, Sienna, and completed major commissions, including 'Motherlode' where she collaborated
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Jean-Pierre Gorin received his baccalaureate in Philosophy in 1960. He prepared for L'École Supérieure (Ulm) at the Lyçée Louis-le-Grand from 1960 to 1964 while pursuing his Licence de Philosophie at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He took part in the seminars of Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault and collaborated on the creation of Les Cahiers Marxistes-Léninistes and
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VAF 354
Jack M. Greenstein is author of Mantegna and Painting as Historical Narrative (University of Chicago Press, 1992) and articles on Leonardo’s La Gioconda, Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Sala della Pace Frescoes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment, Leon Battista Alberti’s commentary On Painting, temporalities of the face in Renaissance portrait painting, time in pictorial narrative, composition and
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Raul Guerrero San Diego based artist Raul Guerrero graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles in 1970, BFA. After graduation he traveled to Europe, in search of himself, eventually ending up in Tangier, Morocco. After 6 months he returned to Los Angeles where he lived in the 60's and 70's. He held his first one person exhibition at the Cirrus Gallery in 1974, which was followed by
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The Harrisons have been collaborating as artists since the early seventies. Since the mid-eighties they have done a large part of their work in Europe and have recently completed a book on the future of the European landscape, commissioned by the Schweisfurth Foundation of Munich and Hannover 2000, entitled Grüne Landschaften, Vision: Die Welt als Garten, published by Campus Verlag, Frankfurt.
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Louis Hock began making films when he was studying psychology and poetry at the University of Arizona, graduating with a BA in Psychology in 1970. In 1973 he received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Before joining the Visual Arts Department in 1977, he established the film program at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Louis Hock's artwork - films,
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Adriene Jenik is a telecommunications media artist who has been working for over 15 years as an artist, teacher, curator, administrator, and engineer. Her works combine "high" technology and human desire to propose new forms of literature, cinema, and performance.
She received her BA in English from Douglass College, Rutgers University and her MFA
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Professor Emeritus Allan Kaprow who served on the full-time faculty from 1974 to 1993, died April 5, 2006, at his home in
Encinitas, California. He was 78 and died of natural causes.
For further details, click here.
A memorial celebration was held on Saturday, June 3, 2006, from
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VAF 364
Grant Kester is an art historian and critic whose research focuses on socially-engaged art practice, the visual culture of American reform movements, and aesthetic theory. He received a BFA in photography from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and an MA and PhD from the Visual and Cultural Studies program at the University of Rochester, where his dissertation examined the relationship
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Standish Lawder attended Williams College and the University of Mexico as an undergraduate, studied at the University of Munich, and received his PhD in art history from Yale University where his thesis dealt with relationships between modern art and film during the teens and 20's. He has also written on other aspects of film history, principally Griffith, Eisenstein, and the German Expressionist
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MAN 229
Li Huai received her BA in fine arts at the Beijing Film Academy in 1982 and her MFA in art at CalArts in 1990. Her specialties include installation, painting, drawing, mixed media, and Chinese calligraphy and brush painting. In thematic terms, her work deals with various issues related to East-West cultural interaction in an increasingly transnational age, including issues involving the Asian
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Fred Lonidier studied at Yuba College and San Francisco State (graduate work in sociology and photography) before becoming a member of our graduate program. He joined the faculty in 1972.
Lonidier's work deals with the sociological possibilities of photography applied to social change and has been exhibited at the Houston Center for Photography, the Oakland Museum, the Long Beach Museum, the
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MAN 222
Jean Lowe was born in 1960 in Eureka, CA. She earned her MFA at the University of California, San Diego in 1988, and her BA at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been included in more that fifty exhibitions throughout the U.S. and internationally. Recent solo shows include venues such as Rosamund Felsen Gallery, in Santa Monica, CA, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in
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VAF 452
Kim MacConnel received his BA from UCSD in 1969 and MFA in 1972. He has taught in the Visual Arts Department in various capacities between 1976 and 1980, and permanently since 1987. He has been represented by the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York since 1975, and is one of the founders of the so-called Pattern and Decoration movement. His work has been exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American
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Babette Mangolte was born and raised in France. She discovered Cinema with the New Wave. In 1964 she became one of the first women accepted by "L'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie et de la Cinematographie" in the section "Cinematographie, Class 1965 66." This school, known as "Vaugirard," was funded by Louis Lumiere in 1922. Mangolte worked as an assistant camera on several feature films in
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VAF 553
Lev Manovich is recognized as one of the leading theorists of new media art and digital culture in the world. Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as many articles which have been published in thirty countries.
The Language of New Media has been translated into Italian,
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VAF 362
Elizabeth Newsome joined the faculty of the Visual Arts Department in 1996, after four years of teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of Texas at Austin, where she specialized in Precolumbian and Native American Art History. Newsome is a specialist in the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, including the Aztec,
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Sheldon Nodelman received his Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University. Before joining the Visual Arts Department at UCSD, he taught at Bryn Mawr College, Princeton and Yale. He has been the recipient of Fulbright and Morse fellowships and has been a Getty Scholar. His fields of interest include the art of classical antiquity, especially Roman Imperial Art, twentieth century avant-garde
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Rubén Ortiz-Torres is an artist who is joining the Visual Arts Department effective Fall 2001. He began his career as a photographer, printmaker, and painter in the early 1980s, well before he received his M.F.A. from the California Institute of Arts in 1992.
Ortiz-Torres is a Mexican-born artist who has been living and working in Los Angeles since 1990. Ortiz-Torres is widely regarded as one
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Kyong Park is involved in a wide range of productions on Public Culture,
including research, documentation, and representations focused on the urban
landscapes that delineate the economic, political and cultural borders and
territories of the contemporary social geography. Working in visual arts,
architecture, theory and criticism, Park incorporates text, photography,
video, installation and
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VAF 414
Jennifer Pastor is a sculptor who is joining the Visual Arts Department effective Fall 2001. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1988 and her MFA from UCLA in 1992. Pastor's sculptures are large in scope, materially complex, high involved hybrids. She has been investigating parallel and elastic structures in disparate subjects.
Before coming to UCSD, Pastor
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Patricia Patterson graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York. Before joining the Department in 1975, she taught art in Catholic grammar schools in the Bronx and Lower East side of Manhattan as well as the New School for Social Research. Patterson's career as a painter has been active since 1964. Her work has been exhibited at Downtown Whitney and P.S. 1 in New York, American
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Faith Ringgold, began her artistic career more than 35 years ago as a painter.
Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts --
art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling. She has exhibited in
major museums in the USA, Europe, South America, Asia,
Africa, and the Middle East. She is in the permanent collection of many museums
including the
Studio Museum in
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Jerome Rothenberg received his BA in English from the City College of New York and his MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan. A member of both the Visual Arts and Literature faculties, he has served as Chair of the Visual Arts Department and as director of the Literature Department's creative writing program. Jerome Rothenberg is an internationally renowned poet,
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Kuiyi Shen is Professor of Asian Art History, Theory, and Criticism, whose
teaching and writing has focus on Chinese and Japanese art with an
emphasis on modern and contemporary Chinese art and Sino-Japanese art
exchanges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He
received a BA in fine arts from the Shanghai Normal University and an MA
and PhD in art history from the Ohio State
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VAF 551
Ernest Silva joined the faculty of the Visual Arts Department in 1979. Silva studied at the University of Rhode Island where he received a BFA and obtained an MFA from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in 1974. Within the Department he teaches painting, drawing, sculpture, Introduction to Art-Making and graduate classes.
Silva has been exhibiting his paintings and sculptures since
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VAF 511B
Cauleen Smith was born in Riverside, California and grew up in
Sacramento, California. She received a BA from San Francisco State
University from The School of Creative Arts in 1989. She earned an
MFA from The School of Theater-Television-Film, University of
California, Los Angeles in 1998. She is currently assistant
professor in the department of Media and Performing Arts at
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Susan Smith joined the Department in the Fall of 1987 after having taught here as a visitor on several occasions. She received her BA from Swarthmore College, where she studied history and philosophy, did graduate work in Medieval Studies at Yale University, and received her PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Her book The Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval
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VAF 365
Brett Stalbaum is a C5 research theorist specializing in information theory, database, and software development. A serial collaborator, he was a co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater in 1998, for which he co-developed software called FloodNet
(http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/ecd.html), which has been used on behalf of
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VAF 554
Haim Steinbach is an influential exponent of art made with already existing objects. Since the late 1970's he has been conceiving structures and framing devices for the presentation of objects. Steinbach displays objects, ranging from the natural to the ordinary, the artistic to the ethnographic, giving form to art works which illuminate objects' aesthetic and social qualities. Exploring the
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VAF 410
Phel Steinmetz studied photography for a number of years including study with Ansel Adams and Bennett Meyers and was a freelance photographer before joining the faculty here in 1971. His work has been shown in Los Angeles County at the Long Beach Museum and Womanspace, in New York at the Museum of Modern Art, Downtown Whitney, the Kitchen, M. L. D'Arc Gallery, and in San Francisco at the Focus
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Lesley Stern is the author of The Scorsese Connection (The British Film Institute and Indiana University Press, 1995) and The Smoking Book (The University of Chicago Press, 1999) and co-editor of Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance. Her work moves between a number of disciplinary locations, and spans both theory and production. Although her reputation was established in the fields
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VAF 359
Roberto Tejada is a visual arts critic, photography historian, and curator. His research interrogates twentieth-century image-making from the perspective of interdisciplinary discourses in art history, Latin American and Latino studies, cultural and critical theory, the language arts, and visual culture analysis, to the degree that these methods arbitrate between the limits of visual
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Michael Trigilio is a multimedia artist who just moved to San Diego from Oakland, CA. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, he received his B.A. in Humanities from the University of Texas at San Antonio. His fear of religion notwithstanding, he was ordained as a lay Buddhist priest in 1997, a role from which he resigned five years later. He received his M.F.A. from Mills College in 2003.
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VAF 363
Professor Mary Vidal who served on the full-time faculty from 1997 to 2007, died July 6, 2007, in Berkeley, California. She died of a cancer related illness. A small memorial gathering was held on August 12, 2007.
Mary Vidal is an art historian whose teaching and writing has focused on the early modern period in Europe from the late sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries with an
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Ruth Wallen is a multi-media artist whose work is dedicated to encouraging dialogue about ecological and social issues. Her multilayered installations and performances have been exhibited at Franklin Furnace, New Langton Arts, the Exploratorium, Sushi Gallery, and CEPA. Public installations include interactive "nature walks" at Carmel Mountain, the San Bernardino Children's Forest and Tijuana
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John Welchman combines the roles of modernist art historian and contemporary critic with work in visual-cultural studies. His most recent publications are the 'Survey' for Mike Kelley in the Phaidon Contemporary Artists series (1999); Art After Appropriation: Essays on Art in the 1990s (Amsterdam/London: G + B Arts International/Routledge, 2001), one of the first critical studies of the art of
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