• Jimin Lee: Ancient Artform, Digital Technique

    A rare and innovative merging of the very old with the very new sums up the work of artist Jimin Lee, who creates digital prints on papers made by 500-year-old techniques and who, during her recent six month sabbatical, spent residencies in Japan, Korea and Montreal, studying in-depth the ancient techniques, as well as new experiments in handmade printing papers.  The...

  • Warren Sack Expands Cyber Citizenship

    Chair of the Digital Arts & New Media MFA program, film professor Warren Sack is a pioneer in social computing research. Recently appointed an associate director of CITRIS's "Data and Democracy Initiative," Sack spends most of his creative energies at the intersection of arts and technology.  CITRIS—the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of...

  • Amy Beal on Jazz Icon Carla Bley

    Haunted by an enduring interest in jazz icon Carla Bley, music historian Amy Beal took an editor's request for a manuscript as the perfect excuse to track down oral histories, study the music, interview Bley herself and finally write her latest book "from the 10th floor of the NYU Library—staring at the Empire State Building."

     

  • Danny Scheie Takes Nero to the Capital

    In a role literally made for his unique brand of comic genius, Danny Scheie recently opened in You, Nero on the Arena Stage, in Washington, DC. Having already performed the role with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and South Coast Repertory, Scheie again stars as Nero through January 1, 2012. "It's definitely easier when you've performed the role before" he admits.

  • Gustavo Vazquez: Filming on the Margins

    Filmmaker Gustavo Vazquez focuses on the colorful edges of human engagement. When he's not teaching classes in the Film & Digital Media department, he is as likely to be in the high Andes as in a Bay Area gallery or the wrestling rings of Tijuana. For his most recent documentary Vazquez tracked the unlikely creativity of rural Peruvian firework-makers whose folkloric...

  • Carolyn Dean: Listening to Inka Stones

    In her new book A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock, art historian Carolyn Dean rethinks prevailing notions concerning the importance of stone masonry in the Inka past. After a decade of exploring some of the most breathtaking high-altitude architecture extant, Dean sheds new interpretive light on the indigenous tale that the ancient Inka of the Andes...

  • Jennifer Parker - Artist, Techie, Entrepreneur

    Artists deal in making ideas visible. Science works with conceptual data, with ideas often inaccessible to non-scientists. Why couldn't art and science collaborate more creatively in order to uncover each other's mysteries?  At least that's what electronic sculptor Jennifer Parker wondered a year ago.

  • Anatole Leikin Uncovers Scriabin's Performance Style

    Just released in 2011, The Performing Style of Alexander Scriabin, marks the climax of a decade of detective work on the part of author/music professor Anatole Leikin.  A specialist in Romantic performance practice, the Russian-born Leikin admits that the book is the...