Art & D|MA Collaborative Studio Workshop
DESMA 199, Spring 2011
F 10-1, location tbd
Advisors

Erkki Huhtamo (D|MA)
James Welling (Art)

Instructors

Alexis Hudgins

...is in the photo program at the UCLA Graduate School of Art. She incorporates media and the processes of image-making and editing into her practice and has a worked extensively in production for reality television and incorporates that experience into her practice.

Ivan Iannoli

...is also a graduate in the photo program in the UCLA Art department. He explores the relationship of images to the structures of image making/presentation. Recently, he has begun working on videos and projections

Rhazes Spell, PhD

...is a first year graduate in D/MA MFA program. He has a MS and PhD in biomedical engineering from Duke University. His interests are in generative design and computational aesthetics. He is particularly interested in how social data, mathematical relationships and scientific phenomena can be enmeshed in generative practices.

Tiffany Trenda

...is a video artist completing her MFA in the D/MA program. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Fine Arts. Her process is to take technology (LCDs, video projectors, cameras, etc.) and create a digital environment with an embodied performance that simulates the human psyche. Her work is an investigation of how we are defined and redefined through the integration of technology. Trenda amalgamates LCD screens and her body making her identity interchangeable..