Category: ARI Artists

Dard Neuman

Dard Neuman Dard Neuman is the Hasan Endowed Chair in Classical Indian Music and Associate Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University in 2004, he joined the music faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005. He has studied the sitar for almost…
Irene Gustafson

Irene Gustafson Irene Gustafson’s research interests are located very broadly within visual culture studies with an emphasis on film/video theory and production. Her specific areas of research are: non-fiction film/video, experimental film/video, and queer and sexuality studies. ARI Supported Project: ‘Conversations’ is a collaborative endeavor between myself, several San Francisco/Tenderloin community groups, and members of…
Jorgge Menna Barreto

Jorgge Menna Barreto Jorge Menna Barreto, Ph.D. (b. 1970, Araçatuba, Brazil) is an artist and educator whose practice and research has been dedicated to site-specific art for over 20 years. Menna Barreto approaches site-specificity from a critical and South American perspective, having taught, lectured, and written on the subject; he has participated in art residencies,…
Amy Mihyang Ginther

Amy Mihyang Ginther Amy Ginther currently is a professor of Theater Arts at UCSC. Ginther is currently focusing on the relationship between voice, identity and power structures within actor training environments while incorporating and re-contextualizing interdisciplinary topics such as critical pedagogy, critical race theory, sociolinguistics, accents, adoption studies, postcolonial theory, Shakespeare, standard language ideology, EFL,…
Kathy Foley

Kathy Foley Kathy Foley is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of Theatre Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has also taught at University of Malaya, University of Hawaii, Yonsei University (Korea), and Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). She is author of the Southeast Asia section of Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre (Cambridge, UK, 1993) and…
E.G. Crichton

E.G. Crichton ARI Supported Project: Q+Public is a publishing platform and forum for dialogue about urgent and underrepresented issues in national and global LGBTQ+ communities. As co-founder and series editor, I am working with a group of nine innovative thinkers across the country who form the Q+Public editorial board. This group spans three generations of…
Irene Lusztig

Irene Lusztig Irene Lusztig is a filmmaker, visual artist, and archival researcher. Her film and video work mines old images, technologies, and objects for new meanings in order to reanimate forgotten and neglected histories. Often beginning with rigorous research in archives, her work brings historical materials into conversation with the present day, inviting viewers to…
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor

Jennifer Maytorena Taylor Jennifer Maytorena Taylor’s research interests include long-form and short form filmmaking for emerging platforms, collaborative production practices, and the intersection of point-of-view storytelling and journalism. She has over two decades of experience as an award-winning filmmaker of feature and short documentary films, exploring diverse topics such as gentrification battles, Latin American Dirty…
Jazmin Benton

Jazmin Benton ARI Supported Project: The goal of the Black Student Archives Project (BSAP) is to create a physical and digital “counter-archives” project and exhibition dedicated to documenting, preserving, celebrating and showcasing the rich culture and history of Black students and our experiences at UC Santa Cruz. Led by Black UCSC students, this project will…
LuLing Osofsky

LuLing Osofsky Osofsky’s current research focuses on the visual culture (contemporary art, architecture & mass media) of the Arctic, particularly Svalbard Norway, and its geopolitical implications for global collective memory ARI Supported Project: Refract is an online peer-reviewed, open-access journal founded and run by graduate students at UCSC and dedicated to interdisciplinary conversations about visual…