Message from Chancellor Fox: One of UCSD’s greatest institutional strengths is the breadth and depth of faculty research on a range of important topics. Each month, Chancellor’s Corner will showcase cross-disciplinary faculty expertise in a specific area. I invite you to learn more about the work of these scholars, and I hope you share my pride in their achievements and their contributions to society.

NEW MEDIA

Sheldon Brown,
Professor Visual Arts; Director, CRCA; Layer Leader, New Media Arts, Cal-(IT)2
Sheldon Brown examines the relationships between information and space. His work manifests as public artworks and installations that combine architectural settings with mediated and computer controlled elements. An expert in the creation of computer facilitated forms such as virtual reality, computer game environments and computer controlled fabrication, Brown also works in multi-disciplinary contexts: programmatically with Cal-(IT)2 and in his work, which involves research in real-time graphics, multi-user environments and computer vision. More…

Jordan Crandall, Associate Professor, Visual Arts
His ongoing art and research project Under Fire, concerning the organization and representation of political violence, opened in October 2006 at the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville. To date, two catalogues of Under Fire have been produced, in 2004 and 2005, published by the Witte de With center for contemporary art, Rotterdam. The third volume will be produced by the Seville Biennial in early 2007. More…

Kelly Gates, Assistant Professor, Communication
Her research focuses on new media, science and technology studies and cultural policy. She is currently writing a book on the use of new information technology for purposes of surveillance, focusing on Facial Recognition Technology. In this work, Prof. Gates explores the social construction of facial recognition technology, focusing both on the conceptual and cultural frameworks we use to think about the technology, and on the constellations of interests, institutions and social practices that shape its development and use. More…

Brian Goldfarb, Associate Professor of Communication; Faculty Affiliate: Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, Education Studies.
Goldfarb is a digital media artist, curator, and educator. His research and visual media production focuses on media studies and contemporary visual and digital culture. His book, Visual Pedagogy: Media cultures in and beyond the Classroom, (Duke University Press, 2002), considers how media technologies were used in the second half of the 20th century to advance a model of pedagogy across the arts, education, and postcolonial politics in the United States and globally. Goldfarb’s digital art projects have been exhibited nationally, internationally, and on the Web. More…

Adriene Jenik, Associate Professor,
Department of Visual Arts, Computer & Media
Adriene Jenik is a telecommunications media artist who has been working for over 15 years as an artist, educator, curator, administrator, and engineer. Recognized for her pioneering interactive cinema work Mauve Desert: A CD-ROM Translation, her artistic projects straddle the borders between art and popular culture. Her artwork takes on many forms, including musical composition and performance, math/logic/programming, poetry, drawing/painting, videography, and recently internet street theater in the work Desktop Theater. More…

Falko Kuester,
Associate Professor, Department of Structural Engineering
Dr. Kuester's research interests include tera-scale scientific visualization and virtual reality, image-based modeling and rendering, as well as distributed and remote visualization. His research efforts are aimed at creating intuitive, high-resolution virtual environments, providing engineers and scientists with a means to intuitively explore and analyze massive and complex, higher-dimensional datasets. In this context, his focus is on developing new methods for the acquisition, compression, streaming, synchronization and visualization of data. More…

Lev Manovich, Professor, Department of Visual Arts
Lev Manovich is recognized as one of the leading theorists of new media art and digital culture in the world. Manovich is the author of The Language of New Media (MIT Press, 2001), Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture (Chicago University Press, 1993) as well as many articles which have been published in thirty countries. The Language of New Media has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Latvian, Korean, and Chinese. According to the reviewers, this book offers "the first rigorous and far reaching theorization of the subject" (CAA reviews); "it places [new media] within the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan" (Telepolis). More…

Nuno Vasconcelos, Assistant Professor of electrical engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering
A Google image search for “tiger” returns photos of a tiger pear cactus, Tiger Woods, the boxer Dick Tiger, and many others. Nuno Vasconcelos is developing a new type of search approach based on the images themselves, which would distinguish between carnivorous cats and cacti. He is working at the intersection of signal processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition. One goal is to provide computers with the ability to understand images, video, audio, speech, or even DNA sequences. More…

Noah Wardrip-Fruin,
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is a digital media creator and scholar whose current work is focused on fiction and play. His digital writing/art creates new experiences of reading through bodily interaction, algorithmic recombination, game mechanics, and exploration of the potential of the network as more than a delivery mechanism. These projects have been presented by galleries, arts festivals, scientific conferences, DVD magazines, VR Caves, and the Whitney and Guggenheim museums -- as well as discussed in books such as Digital Art (2003) and Art of the Digital Age (2006). More…

** To learn more about other campus faculty scholars and areas of expertise, please visit the searchable UCSD Faculty Experts Database at: http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/facultyExperts/