News

• PhD student Wes Smith is teaching an advanced Jitter workshop at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea, June 22 - 26.
• PhD student Salman Bakht awarded two Sherrill C. Corwin Metropolitan Theater Awards;  first place in the electronic/electroacoustic composition category for his piece "Mushrooms", and first place in the solo/chamber ensemble composition category for his piece "PIANO 04h".
• PhD students Wesley Smith, Graham Wakefield, and Salman Bakht to present papers at the 2009 International Computer Music Conference in Montreal, Canada, August 16-21, 2009.
• PhD candidate Rama Hoetzlein to work with Dreamworks Animation in Glendale, California as a summer intern developing graphics code to create a new in-house renderer.
• An installation by Professor George Legrady and PhD student Angus Forbes titled Cell Tango to be exhibited at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, September 16 - December 13, 2009.
• Professor Marcos Novak's installation Turbulent Topologies to be exhibited in "Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers", an exhibition at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain. May 28 - November 15, 2009.
• PhD Student Pablo Colapinto receives Prestigious Olivia Long Converse Graduate Fellowship.
• PhD Student Michael Winter Receives Prestigious Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship.
• PhD student August Black is awarded a Pre-Doctoral fellowship by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UC Santa Barbara.
• Professor George Legrady's Seattle Public Library visualization commission to be featured at The Global Polis: Interactive Infrastructures, at the Center for Architecture, New York, NY. Opens May 15, 6 - 8pm.
• PhD students Haru Ji and Graham Wakefield's "Artificial Nature; Fluid Space" project will be on exhibit at the A.L.I.C.E Museum 2009, May 1 - June 21, at SOMA, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea.
• MAT alumnus MarkDavid Hosale teams up with "Hyperbody" at the Delft University of Technology and helps create the "Interactive HyperWall".
• MAT alumnus Garry Kling has been appointed the position of Multimedia Technician at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Events

• MAT students Yutaka Makino, Lance Putnam, Wesley Smith, Graham Wakefield, and Korean artist Performantive will perform at Gallery Loop, Seoul, South Korea. June 24, 7pm.
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Media Arts and Technology at UC Santa Barbara

Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at UCSB is a transdisciplinary graduate program that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, and electronic music and digital art research, practice, production, and theory. Created by faculty in both the College of Engineering and the College of Letters and Science, MAT offers an unparalleled opportunity for working at the frontiers of art, science, and technology, where new art forms are born and new expressive media are invented.

In MAT, we seek to define and to create the future of media art and media technology. Our research explores the limits of what is possible in technologically sophisticated art and media, both from an artistic and an engineering viewpoint. Combining art, science, engineering, and theory, MAT graduate studies provide students with a combination of critical and technical tools that prepare them for leadership roles in artistic, engineering, production/direction, educational, and research contexts.

MAT Research Spotlights:

The AlloSphere The AlloSphere is large sphere, ten meters in diameter, made of perforated aluminum, that is designed to provide multimodal representations of large-scale data in a fully immersive, 3D environment. More  >>
"We Are Stardust" "We Are Stardust" is a two-screen projection installation with infrared camera, that maps the sequence of NASA sky observations from 2003 to the present through the Spitzer Space Telescope, an infra-red temperature sensing instrument that is orbiting the sun, and trailing in the earth's orbit. More  >>
Multimodal Representation of Quantum Mechanics: "The Hydrogen Atom" As the sciences increasingly rely on mathematical constructs to describe the invisible processes of nature, it is important to remain cognizant of the effectiveness of empirical observation towards gaining new insights. Digital systems provide not only a means of simulating models, but also a medium for communicating through image and sound. More  >>
"Artificial Nature" "Artificial Nature" is an immersive, multimodal, interactive art installation bringing forth a complex ecosystem of creativity through multiple generative strata, exploring the notion of "art-as-it-could-be" and re-questioning the meanings, mechanisms and relationships of nature and art, life and beauty. More  >>
"Turbulent Topologies" "Turbulent Topologies" is an exhibition that explores turbulence as both a formal principle and as a condition of the global metropolis. Through a variety of means, both visible and invisible, it examines the turbulent topologies of mixed layers and crossed currents, hidden links and sudden connections, flow networks and perturbed stratifications. More  >>

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