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Areas of expertise: Animation, Art, Ethnicity, New Media, Public Art, Theater, Indigenous Arts, Chicana/o Studies, Documentary Film
Biography, Education and Training
John Jota Leaños is a Mexican/Italian-American and Chumash interdisciplinary artist, documentary animator, and social art practitioner whose work engages the intersections of history, memory, and power through a social justice lens. A Guggenheim Fellow in Film and Media, Creative Capital Artist, and United States Artist (USA) Fellow, Leaños' practice spans a range of media, including documentary animation, video, public art, installation, and performance. His work disrupts dominant... more »
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Areas of expertise: Critical Practice, Digital Arts, Documentary Film, Environmental Justice, Human Rights, Law and Policy, Media Art, New Media, Social Documentation, Social Justice
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Sharon Daniel is a media artist and innovator in the field of interactive documentary. She creates online artworks and multimedia installations that examine social, racial, and environmental injustice. For over twenty years her creative research has focused on documenting injustice in the criminal legal system in an effort to persuade people to rethink their assumptions about the criminal punishment system and the people it imprisons. The interactive documentaries and installations Daniel has co... more »
Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, Associate Provost, Cowell College
Film and Digital Media DepartmentAreas of expertise: Media Art, New Media, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Animation, Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Critical Practice, Social Documentation, Virtual Reality, Immersive, and Augmented Reality Environments
Biography, Education and Training
I am an Associate Professor of Film + Digital Media at the University of California Santa Cruz with affiliations in the Digital Arts and New Media Program (DANM), the Art & Design: Games + Playable Media (AGPM), and the Social Documentation Program (SocDoc). I teach both undergraduate and graduate courses in media arts production, history, and theory. I advise students at the undergraduate, M.F.A., and Ph.D. levels. As a first-generation middle school, high school, and college graduate, I wa... more »
Areas of expertise: Documentary Film, GLBTQ Film and Media, Environmental Art, Archives, Archival Practices, Experimental Film, Film History, Digital Media, Urban studies, Queer Studies, Film Preservation and Film Archiving
Biography, Education and Training
PhD 2020 University of California, Santa Cruz, Film & Digital Media MFA 2003 Bard College BA w/ Honors, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Areas of expertise: Documentary Film, Experimental Film, Latin American and Latino Studies, Home Movies and Personal Media, Film Preservation and Film Archiving, GLBTQ Film and Media, Media Studies, World Cinema, Cinema and Social Movements, Digital Arts
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Dr. Livia Perez (she/her/ela/dela) is a Brazilian educator, media scholar and filmmaker. Her moving-image practice and research span non-fiction media, Latinx, feminist and queer media history, visual memory, diasporic media history, transnational film, and multimedia. She received an MFA in Digital Arts and New Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. from the University of Sao Paulo. The films she directed and produced have been screened at Sundance, Locarno, Havana, ID... more »
Areas of expertise: Ecology, Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights, Documentary Film, Food/Nutrition, South Asian Studies
Areas of expertise: Documentary Film, Documentary Studies, Film, Television, American Cinema, Screen Acting and Performance
Biography, Education and Training
JON AYON is a writer and director from Oakland, CA, by way of Northeast LA, where he was born and raised. Ayon is a native Spanish speaker and currently an assistant professor of film and digital media at UC Santa Cruz. He earned his BA in cinema production with honors from San Francisco State University and his MFA in documentary film and video production from Stanford University. As a Mestizo (Comcáac/Nahua-Salvadoreño/Xicano) son of Mexican and Salvadoran imm... more »
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