While walking through the UCSC Digital Arts Research Center (DARC), we noticed posters for the Digital Arts and New Media MFA Program (DANM):
- Birth of Stars : "Michael M. Chemers: Birth of Stars is the story of a fourteen-year-old girl, Sofia, growing up in a rural mountain community in California. Sofia has exceptional gifts - she has an extraordinary facility with science and is obsessed with the life cycles of stars. These gifts, however, come at a terrible price - Sofia is outcast from her community, cruelly bullied (and cyber-bullied) by her classmates, and misunderstood by her mother, who is very religious. The one person who might understand her is a great scientist, but he also wrestles with terrible personal demons. Sofia’s journey through these obstacles is both a compelling and deeply human one, but also, in the end, transcendent and cosmic, in the grandest sense. The show itself combines live action with a variety of digital visual effects, including projections of simulations of stars forming in space. The live action interacts with the projections and other effects to create what we think is a unique experience that is both immediately present and also highly mediated."
- The lead actress wears a shirt with text reading, "I love Carl Sagan"
- The Orrey Harp: "The Orrery Harp is an autonomous musical instrument designed to play a composition based on the movements of planetary bodies in motion around the sun. The instrument includes nine strings representing each planet in our solar system, including the dwarf planet, Pluto. Frequency is determined by the rotational period of a given planet (day), while rhythm is determined by the planet’s period of orbit around the sun (year). Each string is activated by an electromagnetic pulse to induce harmonic resonance as a planet reaches its starting point, or yearly cycle. One Earth year is scaled to 36.24 seconds on the Orrery Harp. Nathan Ober is a new media artist whose work crosses disciplines from installation and performance to video and sound. His current research is focused on astronomy and astrophysics, and deals with techniques of sonification and processes that attempt to expose our innate connection to the universe. Video by Dani Williamson."
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