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UC Santa Cruz professor Derek Conrad Murray appointed Editor-in-Chief of leading arts publication
Derek Conrad Murray, Professor of History of Art & Visual Culture (HAVC), has recently been appointed editor-in-chief of Art Journal. After previously serving on the journal’s editorial board, Murray will be taking on an expansive position where he can shepherd the journal’s distinguished mission for…
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New AI-driven multimedia lab bridges art and technology
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New Faculty Member – Yolande Harris, Assistant Professor of Music and Creative Technologies
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New Faculty Member – Nicole Furtado, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
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New Faculty Member – akua naru, Assistant Professor of Music
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UC Santa Cruz professor Derek Conrad Murray appointed Editor-in-Chief of leading arts publication
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New AI-driven multimedia lab bridges art and technology
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New Faculty Member – Yolande Harris, Assistant Professor of Music and Creative Technologies
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New Faculty Member – Nicole Furtado, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture
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Study addresses challenges in digital animation of coiled hair
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How Netflix’s Rez Ball Spotlights Indigenous Sports — and Introduces Benjamin Bratt’s Nephew, Kauchani
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Festival of Monsters brings insight, scholarship to Halloween season
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Circus performance, silent film screening among Festival of Monsters highlights
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We will not experience the full power of the arts unless access to the means of representation is available to all. And we will not realize the full power of the arts if our iconographies and methodologies are dictated by the very few. So, I am driven to expand access so that authorship, critique and the shaping of what we know can be driven by all, and what we take for granted or natural can shift, and to keep our definition of the arts, fervently open.