Category: ARI Artists

Jack Chapman

Jack Chapman ARI Supported Project: Round Valley Indian Tribes UCSC Campus Bridge This project is building the foundation of a bridge from the University of California, Santa Cruz to the Round Valley Indian Tribes in Covelo, California in an effort to connect an isolated California Indian Tribe with its right to an education at a…
Dee Hibbert-Jones

Dee Hibbert-Jones Dee Hibbert-Jones is Professor in the Department of Art and serves as UCSC’s inaugural Associate Dean of Research, Exhibition and Engagement. Dee Hibbert-Jones is an Academy Award nominated, Emmy® award winning filmmaker and internationally recognized artist. Her work incorporates animation, installation, public art and documentary film examining power and politics: how people manage…
Cynthia Ling Lee

Cynthia Ling Lee Cynthia Ling Lee creates performance and scholarship that instigate postcolonial, queer, and feminist-of-color interventions in the field of Asian diasporic performance. Trained in US postmodern dance and North Indian classical kathak, Cynthia’s interdisciplinary performance work has been presented at venues such as Dance Theater Workshop (New York), East West Players (Los Angeles), IGNITE!…
Claudio Bueno

Claudio Bueno Cláudio Bueno (b. 1983, Brazil) is an artist, curator, professor, and designer. Bueno is a member of different platforms and groups, such as ‘Explode! Platform’, ‘Intervalo-Escola’ and ‘O grupo inteiro‘. Throughout these collectives, he has worked in collaborative, dialogical, and interdisciplinary political-aesthetic propositions, projects, and processes in art, design, education, activism, architecture, and technology.…
Bruce Kiesling

Bruce Kiesling Active in a wide variety of music, Bruce has a national profile as a conductor and music educator from coast to coast, from classical repertoire at Carnegie Hall to the stage of the Hollywood Bowl conducting with Stevie Wonder and Latin superstars Juanes and Gloria Estefan. His current Music Director positions include the…
Beth Stephens

Beth Stephens Elizabeth Stephens, Ph.D., is a filmmaker, performance artist, activist, and theoretician. Stephens gained her MFA at Rutgers in 1992 and completed her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at UC Davis in 2015. Her most recent project is the book, Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover from the University of Minnesota Press, 2021.…
A.M. Darke

A.M. Darke A.M. Darke is an artist and game maker designing radical tools for social intervention. Still in the class war. Now in the pandemic. He’s in the combination class war and pandemic. Assistant Professor of Digital Arts and New Media, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and Art & Design: Games & Playable Media at…
Sharon Daniel

Sharon Daniel Sharon Daniel is a media artist who produces interactive and participatory documentaries focused on issues of social, economic, environmental and criminal justice. She builds online archives and interfaces that make the stories of marginalized and disenfranchised communities available across social, cultural and economic boundaries. Daniel’s work has been exhibited internationally as well as…
Anna Friz

Anna Friz Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist, and media studies scholar. Since 1998, she has created and presented new audio art and radiophonic works internationally in which radio is often the source, subject, and medium of the work. She also composes atmospheric sound works and sonic installations for theater, dance, film, and…
Kyle Parry

Kyle Parry Kyle Parry researches across digital media, visual culture, critical theory, and the environmental humanities. His book project, A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes (University of Minnesota Press, ~2022) argues for the power and pervasiveness of a cross-media cultural form called assembly. A second book project, Ubiquity: Photography’s Multitudes, is a co-edited volume on the history and theory (and…