Permanent Faculty
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 Rowan University and an MFA in Film/Video with additional work in New Media from California Institute of the Arts. She is currently Associate Professor of Visual Arts:...
Benjamin H. Bratton is sociological, media, and design theorist. He is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, and Director of the Center for Design & Geopolitics at the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology.
His work sits at the intersections of contemporary social and political theory, computational media...
Sheldon Brown is the Director of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and is UCSD Site Director of the NSF Sponsored Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR). He is the former Director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) and is a Co-PI and founder of New Media Arts for the California Institute of Information Technology and...
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...
Jordan Crandall is Chair of the Visual Arts department. He is an artist, theorist, and performer based in Los Angeles. His video installations, presented in numerous exhibitions worldwide, combine formats and genres deriving from cinematic and military culture, exploring new regimes of power and their effects on subjectivity, sociality, embodiment, and desire. His most recent video...
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...
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 *...
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...
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). In 1965, Gorin joined the editorial staff of Le Monde, the prestigious Parisian daily newspaper. From 1965 to 1968, he...
