Past News & Press Releases

Past CRCA Press Releases

• Sammy Studios Supports CRCA/CalIT2 Experimental Game Lab November 2004
  
• Virtual Reality Intellectual Property Endowment initiated for CRCA. June 2004
  
• Cal-(IT)2: The Final Countdown to Occupancy, by Larry Smarr. March 2004
  
• UCSD's Graduate Program in Multimedia/Visual Communications Ranked 6th in the Nation by US News & World Report, June 2003
  

Past CRCA Newsletters

The newsletter issue links to a PDF file of the print version of the newsletter. Specific news items have their own links below.

Winter/Spring 2005

• cover story: A Global Perspective, an interview with Miller Puckette
  
• What is Up: North-South mapping of Mental Health and Learning Disability", an international research project with Argentina by communications faculty, Brian Goldfarb
  
• The MetaMap of the Californias, the recent project by CRCA's director, Sheldon Brown
  
• CRCA joins the MARCEL project
  
• Visual arts professor, Lev Manovich, will participate in the 2nd Beijing International New Media Exhibition and Symposium this summer.

• Sammy Studios supports the Experimental Game Lab
  
• Three new media art faculty join UCSD: Shahrokh Yadegari, Theater; Ricardo Dominguez, Visual Arts; and Philippe Manoury, Music.
  
• Heather Raikes joins Sixth College as the new Coordinator for Innovation in the Culture, Art and Technology program.

• ISEA2004: featured exhibitions, live events and concerts with CRCA faculty, staff, alumni and graduate researchers playing an active role.
  
• Immersion, Innovation and Anxiety: Sheldon Brown, CRCA Director presented at the Information Society Converence at Sweden's Interactive Institute
  
• Jordan Crandall, "Under Fire" – a year-long project consisting of organized discussions online and in Rotterdam.
  
• Art & Bioinformatics: Ruth West , CRCA Research Associate working with the Center for Research in Biological Systems.
  
• Untouched by Hands: Harold Cohen, UCSD Professor Emeritus unveils digital prints using his computer program, AARON. On exhibit at Earl & Birdie Taylor Library in Pacific Beach, CA til Sept. 25th.
  
• "Diary of a Star" is a new project by Eduardo Navas. It is a critical take on blogging that appropriates selections from the Andy Warhol diaries.
  

Spring 2004

• Sometimes Progress Makes Me Cry: CRCA's old building returns to dust while plans to move into Cal-(IT)2 are under construction.
  
• New Visual Arts Faculty joins Digital Media: Natalie Jeremijenko
  
• Henrik Does It: Henrik Wann Jensen/CS wins Academy Award for Technical Achievement
  
• SPEC-FLIC: A Speculative Distributed Cinema Project led by Adriene Jenik/VA
  
• 040404 Plasmatica: The Unfolding of New Structures in Old Spaces
  
• American Assoc. for AI 2004 Fall Symposium
  
• SCALE: New Journal on Campus
  
• CALTRANZIT
  

Winter 2004

• Powering Up / Powering Down: An Int'l Festival of Radical Media Arts presented by TEKNIKA RADICA
  
• Cal-(IT)2 New Media Arts Fellow - Joseph Sarlo
  
• Potential Difference by Ted Apel in "Sonic Absorption", ConWorks, Seattle.
  
• Carroll Blue's "The Dawn at My Back" makes the 2004 Sundance Online Film Festival.
  

Fall 2003

• Change on the Horizon: CRCA Prepares to Move
  
• UC Digital Arts Research Network Online Portal
  
• Powering Up/Powering Down
  
• 5.1 Surround Sound Workshop held @CRCA
  
• New Faculty Researchers: Shlomo Dubnov/Music and Brett Stalbaum/Visual Arts/ICAM
  
• Hypermedia Artist in Residence: Jorge Mora-Fernandez of Daktyl4 of the Media Lab Madrid
  
• Alumni Sightings
  

Summer 2003

• CRCA & Cal-(IT)2 New Media Arts @ Siggraph2003
  
  associated links:
  
  • UC Irvine Game Lab
    
  • Amy Alexander and Eduardo Navas perform b0timati0n
    
  • Sheldon Brown's Istoria on Exhibit
    
• Three music grads participate in ICMC2003
  
• Biospheria Seeks New Life Forms
  
• US News & World Report Ranks UCSD MFA 6th in Nation
  

Spring 2003

• Reality Zone [I]: From Mechanics to Quantum, a UC DARNet event
  
• Alex Dragulescu presents Suspended Gardens 2
  
• Revealed Messages by Rachel Egenhoefer at the Boston Cyber Arts Festival
  
• Carol Hobson Juries at the WRO Media Art Beinnale
  
• Composer-in-Residence, Matthias Kriesberg
  
• Women's Interarts Technology Coalition is founded.
  

Winter 2003

• Infrastructures of Digital Design Symposium
  
• Eric Deis, Cal-(IT)2 New Media Arts Fellow
  
• m-Cult's Tapio Makela Presents @CRCA
  
• Graphical Interface for Pure Date by Joe Sarlo
  

Fall 2002

• Sixth College's Active Campus Explorer
  
• Lev Manovich's Soft Cinema
  
• Sound Travels: Global Internet Exchange
  
• Momilani Ramstrum receives Fellowship to work at IRCAM
  
• San Diego's Jewish Palestinian dialogue presented on the web by Ruth Wallen
  
• Brody Condon's game-based media works get attention
  
• Estonian media artist, Kai Kaljo, in residence
  
• Amy Alenxander unveils the Travesty Corporate PR InfoMixer
  

Summer 2002

• Summer Cal-(IT)2 Research Fellows Announced
  
• Lev Manovich Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
  
• Platinum Oasis/LA Invites Juliana Snapper
  
• newsMixing @ICA London's Cybersonica Festival
  
• CRCA Hosts Sixth College Admit Day
  

Spring 2002

• Smoke and Mirros by Sheldon Brown Opens at Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
  
• Microsoft Research Helps CRCA Streaming Efforts
  
• Amy Alexander takes her Internet Performance to Russia
  
• Pei Xiang new Computer Music Cal-(IT)2 Fellow
  
• Eliza Slavet's Breathing Space project
  
• TIME FORMS Event Marathon
  

Winter 2002

• Dueling Disklavier Network Performance
  
• Pablo Silva, Visiting Composer
  
• The Dawn Project, Carroll Blue
  
• Persian Electronic Music by Shahrokh Yadegari
  

Summer/Fall 2001

• Sheldon Brown VR Exhibition under Development
  
• Lev Manovich, Language of New Media
  
• Summer Cal-(IT)2 Research Fellowships
  
• Reseach Collaboration w/Morton Subotnik
  
• AARON painting program reborn
  
• Ted Apel recognized by Ars Electronica