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Read Prof @SorayaMurray’s review of THE RACE CARD: FROM GAMING TECHNOLOGIES TO MODEL MINORITIES by Tara Fickle. She calls it “witty, controlled, righteously outraged, inspired and incredibly persuasive.” sorayamurray.com/2022/03/04/rev…

🌟Congrats to Prof susana ruiz, ph.d.!! Her collaborative project "Arab Data Bodies: Social Media in Mixed Reality" has been awarded a grant from the Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative, along with co-PIs Prof Laila Shereen Sakr, Prof Magy Seif El-Nasr & Prof Eddie Melcer🌟

Please watch this. And in particular watch from minute 23, where my so-called colleague Robin Hunicke is indicted as a toxic abuser. I can now say publicly, without equivocation, that this same abuse affected me and many others at UCSC, for years.

Great write-up on F+DM Prof Sharon Daniel’s new class Reasonable Doubts which pairs students at UC Santa Cruz & Georgetown University who are working together to free wrongfully convicted persons currently incarcerated in American prisons. news.ucsc.edu/2022/03/making…

Wonderful news! A new short film made by Prof ⁦⁦susana ruiz, ph.d.⁩ & collabs ⁦@michacardenas⁩, Cynthia Ling Lee, Gerald Casel & Huy Truong, “Oceanic: Queering the Ocean,” will screen TIFF in June tiff.net/events/infinit…

🗣University of California President Michael V. Drake Michael V. Drake announced today that Native students will pay no tuition at UC campuses beginning this fall.

🗣New article alert! F+DM PhD student Merve Ünsal explores paper, state archives, and buildings in pandemic Istanbul. mediapolisjournal.com/2022/04/archiv…

FILM SCREENING: Los Guardianes del Maíz/The Keepers of Corn w/director Gustavo Vazquez in-person & respondents | Winner Best Documentary Feature @rednationff | Wed May 11 7pm | Communications 150 | Free & open to the public

🌟Dean The UCSC Arts Division Dr. Celine Parreñas Shimizu, M.F.A., Ph.D. will debut her latest film 80 YEARS LATER at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival on May 12 VCFilmFestival #LAAPFF2022 🌟news.ucsc.edu/2022/05/80-yea…

Save the date: DANM Open Studios Spring 22 - Friday June 3, 12-4pm at the Digital Arts Research Center

PhD student @ModaresMahshid screened her film SANCTIONS ON THE SKY Awareness Festival in LA last week, voicing her support for #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی and the women of Iran.

UCSC is hiring – come make transformational racial justice games with us. recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01385

Terrific opportunity to work with me & my amazing colleagues @CivicCinema Yiman Wang @peter_limbrick susana ruiz, ph.d. @SorayaMurray Warren Sack ᎧᎾᏘ joseph erb @SpecificPx JJ Leaños irene gustafson & more! Check us out: film.ucsc.edu/faculty

Huy Truong and I are happy to announce we’ll be producing an XR film written by renowned author KT Yamashita. Commissioned by Hewlett Foundation & supported by Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History & the Arts Research Institute at The UCSC Arts Division. We’re honored to be among this group.

Days before the likely approval of U.S. Sen. Benjamin E. Sasse as the next president of the University of Florida, the Faculty Senate on Thursday voted no confidence in the selection process that ended with him as the sole finalist. chroni.cl/3zpCxQm

“Amidst the towering redwoods on UCSC’s verdant campus, there also roams a thriving colony of world-class women filmmakers.” A lovely portrait of F+DM Profs Irene Lusztig & ⁦@SpecificPx⁩, ⁦Dean ⁦Dr. Celine Parreñas Shimizu, M.F.A., Ph.D.⁩ & Art Prof elizabeth stephens⁩ inquiry.ucsc.edu/2022-23/docume…

New article by F+DM PhD student Brett Kashmere in JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies: "Effecting Repair: A Canyon Cinema Report on the 'Rediscovery' of Toney W. Merritt." Part of a dossier on "Film Programming as Social Justice Work in the Wake of COVID-19" ed. Dr. Terri Francis quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/images/…

🌟Congrats to SocDoc MFA student Amrit Kaur. Her short film ZINDAGI DOBARA premieres Sunday Nov 13 Tasveer, North America's largest South Asian Film Festival. Also currently streaming online: tasveerfestival.org/ticket/?utm_so…

US-based CALL for Delegates at the ISO INDIGENOUS IMMERSIVE INCUBATOR at MIT - MIT CoCreate cocreationstudio.mit.edu/us-based-call-…