UCIRA: Projects

	The Richmond/Berkeley Project Shannon Jackson Open Classroom Challenge Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley www.touchablestories.org Social Practice: Theory and Practicuum: Course work in conjunction with The Berkeley/Richmond Project, a large-scale oral history installation set to open in March of 2007. Students are participating and will continue to participate under several course numbers: my graduate seminar on Social Practices (Rhetoric 240G) while others are receiving Independent Study credit (TDPS 199), Internship Credit (TDPS 198) and a Dissertation Credit (TDPS 602) for their ongoing work with this project. Because this project is a multi-year collaboration schedule to open in the Spring of 2007, we have built a number of curricular options to facilitate the participation of different kinds of students. We expect to have a total of 30 students receiving student credit for their participation as critics, researchers, artists and project managers of the "The Berkeley/Richmond Project".

	Situated Social Architectures Derek Lomas Open Classroom Challenge CALiT2, UC San Diego www.socialmovement.org Action research and participatory design of experimental situated social architectures. Students will review relevant literature and then plan, conduct and document social interventions during the quarter, drawing on histories of New Urbanism, Participatory Action Research and Relational Aesthetics

	Uncanny 07 Matthias Geiger Open Classroom Challenge Visual Art, UC Davis The course works across the disciplines of the visual arts, performance art, music and design. Site-specific art and performances are created by the students and presented in a live event at the end of the quarter.

	LV/UC Residency Program Shannon Spanhake Action Research Visual Art Department, UC San Diego LV/UC Residency Program consists of a series of artists residencies to be hosted at Lui Velazquez, an alternative art space in Tijuana, Mexico. The residency program facilitates projects that make interesting use of the San Diego/Tijuana region, require long-term involvement, and engage specific sites or communities within the region. The residencies will culminate into various public presentations, such as workshops, lectures, exhibitions and publications.

	The Resonance Project: Perceiving Presence within Tele-Immersive Technology Lisa Wymore Individual Demonstration Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, UC Berkeley This is a collaborative long-term project exploring Tele-Immersion technology, 3-D presence/co-presence and corporeal and code interactivity within live and media bases performance. The research is both performative and mediated and questions ethical, philosophical and practical applications of this technology within the arts and society. Part of the project will be a performance presented by the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies in Spring 2007.

	CALIFEST Hip-Hop Theatre Festival Rickerby Hinds Collaborative Demonstration Theatre Department, Riverside Califest Hip-Hop Theatre Festival is a celebration of hip-hop culture through the convergence of elements of hip-hop culture and theatre creating uniquely vibrant dynamic and innovative voice in both theatre and the hip-hop communities. Established by Rickerby Hinds, Associate Professor of Playwriting at UCR, as a one-day workshop and demonstration in 2001, Califest has evolved in to a week-long festival featuring performances, workshops, readings, spoken word, dance, graffiti art and other uniquely hip-hop forms of expressions. Under the guidance of Rickerby Hinds, the festival is in the process of establishing itself as a significant event in the Inland Empire and Southern California.

	SO_Cal Sheldon Brown Innovative Residencies CRCA (Center for Research and Computing in the Arts), UC San Diego UCSD/CRCA is inviting two international artists/curators to take part in developing a program of activities within the SilentObservers project. This major international media art project was initiated by Zeljko Blace (Multimedia Institute, CROATIA) and Natalie Jeremijenko (UCSD and CRCA) and was developed through a partnership with CRCA researchers and CRCA staff member, Carol Hobson. Their project culminated in an exhibit in Croatia in 2005. UCSD and CRCA is the host for further development of this work during September and October 2006 and would like to support the curators/artists Zeljko Blace and Honor Harger in developing the Silent*Observers workshops, exhibitions and symposium at UCSD.

	Interdisciplinary Digital Media Arts Exhibition, ACM JoAnn Morin and George LeGrady Collaborative Demonstration Media Arts and Technology, UC Santa Barbara Funding is requested to assist with the arts exhibition of Interdisciplinary Digital Media Arts organized under the auspices of the "ACM Multimedia Interactive Arts Program 2006" in conjunction with the International ACM 2006 Multimedia Engineering Conference to be held in Santa Barbara October 22 - 28, 2006.

	Make Art/Stop AIDS David Gere and Marla Berns Action Research UCLA Fowler Museum Make Art/Stop AIDS is a four month collaborative Arts/Action initiative (December 2006 to March 2007) organized by the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures and the Fowler Museum, in conjunction with a group of international scholars, curators, artists and social agencies, Los Angeles community partners, and two UCLA non-arts organizations (UCLA International Institute, UCLA AIDS Research Institute). The primary goal of Make Art/Stop AIDS is to demonstrate the power or art to raise awareness, inspire activism and ultimately, to help end global AIDS, and to galvanize individuals and communities to take responsibility and action. This project includes an 100+ object exhibition at the Fowler Museum; a public program and community outreach initiative with a satellite exhibition and performance space in Kaufman Hall for workshops, visiting middle and high school students, artists in residence, and a Make Art/Stop AIDS undergraduate course; and a take-home education and action booklet, all of which will be documented via photography, video and audio and disseminated via the Web.

	The Mexican Tapes: the Second Generation (working title) Louis Hock Individual Demonstration Visual Arts, UC San Diego In 1986 I completed a four part series of one-hour video tapes titled "The Mexican Tapes: A Chronicle of Life Outside the Law". The work followed the lives of my neighbors in a community of undocumented Mexicans in San Diego County over a five-year period, focusing on three families. I intend to pick up the immigration narrative after twenty years to chronicle the lives of the children and grandchildren of those families.

	Representation and War Renny Pritikin Collaborative Demonstration Nelson Gallery, Art Dept., UC Davis The depiction of war in the media has shaped the political and social reality of contemporary culture since the invention of the camera. This project is a coordinated interdisciplinary collaboration among American Studies, Fine Arts and Performing Arts to research issues raised by this pervasive influence. Using an experimental approach to extend arts practice for faculty, staff and students, an exhibition , a lecture and a variety of related programs will be presented.

	Young Caesar: New Directions in Contemporary Opera Collaborative Demonstration Nicole Paiement Music, UC Santa Cruz This project proposes to produce Lou Harrison's last opera: Young Caesar. The opera will be performed as part of a three day symposium on the Directions in Contemporary Opera. The performance will bring together faculty members from the music, theater and visual arts departments at UCSC, faculty from the theater and dance department of UCSD, UCSC students, reputable opera singers in this country and the Ensemble Parallele. Scholars and composers from within and outside the UC system will make up the body of two important panels. Young Caesar ultimately addresses many of Harrison's interests, which are in phase with many contemporary issues today - the Pacific Rim and its exotic colors, new theater, homosexuality and the study of the human condition.

	Food Forever Lisa Tucker Collaborative Demonstration Studio Art, UC Irvine In collaboration with three UC campuses there will be a symposium, undergraduate course, website and public art installation investigating the politics surrounding organic food crop production and consumption. The symposium is to include well-known artists and art historians, such as Beatriz da Costa, Grant Kester and Claire Pentecost. Scientists will also participate in the discussion, presenting their work with transgenic plants in agriculture and using other biotechnology tools. A tour will be given by Dr. Martha Orozco-Cardenas of the UC Riverside Plant Transformation Facility as part of the symposium. The tour, presentations and panel will be accessible to all UC campuses via live video streaming, including discussion s using teleconferencing capabilities.

	SoCCAS Projects 2006-2007 John Welchman Action Research Southern California Consortium of Art Schools, UC San Diego 1. MFA and PhD committee event programming 2. Publication series (Institutional Critique and After; The Aesthetics of Risk) 3. Student outreach, exchange, website 4. MCA San Diego/UCSB two venue event Curator/Artist: Artist/Curator 5. SoCCAS Project coordination and artistic development

	Adaptations Hana Van der Kolk Collaborative Demonstration World Arts & Cultures, UC Los Angeles The creation of two new adaptations of dance scores by choreographer Deborah Hay and the tour of these works to 3 Southern California campuses for lecture/demonstrations. The project culminated in a weekend of performances of the full works at Highways performance space.

	GPS Expo at CLUI Wendover Brett Stalbaum with Christina McPhee and Matt Coolidge Innovative Residencies, Faculty Visual Arts, UC San Diego This grant funded a UC graduate student residency and a documentary video at the Center for Land Use Interpretation's Wendover Residency Center, July 24th-30th 2006. Many artists appeared on the Bonneville Salt Flats to utilize GPS technology in the context of art practice, implementing and sharing projects and performances over the course of a week. A video and website are currently in production. Also supported by CLUI and UCSD. http://www.clui.org

	Genration Boul Fale Esther Marian Baker World Arts and Cultures, UC Los Angeles A Collaborative choreography and dance project about urban youth in Dakar, Senegal.

	Rancho California (por favor) John T. Caldwell Film/TV/Digital Media, UC Los Angeles A film depicting camps where migrant workers from Mexico live near upscale gated communities.

	Five Foot Feet Catherine Cole Drama, UC Santa Barbara A series of exchanges, presentations, and performances to raise awareness about disability.

	...desire to return to the safety of day Della Davidson Dance, UC Davis An interdisciplinary performance using dance, theater, and video to explore themes of loss and uncertainty.

	Microepiphanies Christopher Dobrian Music, UC Irvine An interactive digital opera utilizing lights, music and moving sets for improvisation. + more

	Open Frame Louis Hock Visual Art, UC San Diego Video production employing photography and cartoon imagery to invoke a sublime experience of the desert near the Grand Canyon and Four Corners area.

	Turning from the Millenium Jessica Irish Design/Media Arts, UC Los Angeles A bilingual on-line visual database of guidebooks, images and maps of central Los Angeles. + more

	“Supersonic” Multicampus MFA Exhibition Steven Lam (UCI Art) Studio Art, UC Irvine Exhibition and accompanying catalogue of art works by 128 Southern California visual artists from 8 MFA programs in the region. + more

	Reading Frankenstein Antoinette LaFarge Studio Art, UC Irvine A performance using experimental staging and digital media to evoke Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. + more

	Democracy When? Activist Strategizing in Los Angeles Tone O. Nielsen Art, UC Los Angeles A collaboration among 29 artists, activists, activist groups, and community organizations. + more

	Class: C Ruben Ochoa Studio Art, UC Irvine A customized delivery van housing a mobile art gallery brings experimental exhibitions to communities across California. + more

	New Dimensions in Classical Guitar: A Mutlimedia Presentation of New Guitar Music Mesut Ozgen Music, UC Berkeley Musical performance utilizing computer and video technology.

	Terms and Conditions Sarah Ross Studio Art, UC Irvine Plans for items of jewelry that can be converted into self-defense items primarily intended for use by sex workers. + more

	The Fact of Asian Women Celine Parrenas Shimizu Asian American Studies, UC Santa Barbara A digital film project about the fetishization of Asian women in popular American cinema.

	Wish You Were Here Elizabeth Stephens Art, UC Santa Cruz A web-based interface in which audience and artist explore the ways vicarious experience can replace “real life.”

	Terminals 2.0, UCIRA/UCHRI Collaboration Connie Samaras, Studio Art, UC Irvine Victoria Vesna, Art Studio, UC Santa Barbara Exhibition, web site, and performance project presenting contemporary artworks and writings about death. + more

	North South – East West Bruce Yonemoto Studio Art, UC IrvineA series of photographic portraits of Asian-American men dressed in uniforms from the Civil War era. + more

	Love Potions Cheng-Chieh Yu World Arts and Cultures, UC Los Angeles A dance/theater performance using elements of art-making and ethnographic field research.