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Awards & Honors
Undergraduate Students Jason Campa and Joshua Krohn Win at 'Earth Week Video Festival'
Submitted by yolietorres on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 7:18am. Awards & Honors | Undergraduate EventsJason Campa & Joshua Krohn
Students Paint a Green Picture at Film Festival
VidFest Works Promote Sustainable Lifestyle
(http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/thisweek/2008/04/28_vidfest.asp)
By Christine Clark for This Week@UCSD | April 28, 2008
UC San Diego students showcased their commitment to the environment and talent for visual arts during the second Earth Week “VidFest” film festival on Wednesday night at the Price Center Theatre. The competition featured 11 original videos by undergraduate students. The short pieces differed in style, but all were created specifically for the competition to increase awareness about the environment.
The filmmakers competed for over $3,000 in cash prizes and winners also received a copy of Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax” autographed by Audrey Geisel. In addition, Leonardo DiCaprio donated copies of the documentary “11th Hour” to the winners and sent a statement commending the student filmmakers for their dedication to the arts and the environment.
Jason Campa and Joshua Krohn shared top honors at the film festival and won $1,000 each for their efforts. Krohn’s “Footprint” was built as a narrative in reverse that showed how the ‘footprint’ of littering causes damage to the environment. Krohn also won the Muir College “Choose to Change” award; his film was screened at the Honorary Muir Luncheon on Thursday.
The Blender: The Art of Doris Bittar - A video by Alternate Focus
Submitted by yolietorres on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 1:18pm. Alumni_Review | Awards & Honors | Review
The Blender: The Art of Doris Bittar
Alternate Focus, a non-profit video production/public access organization that evolved out of Jewish-Palestinian dialogue individuals in San Diego has just produced a video on the art and life of Doris Bittar. John Odam who directed and created the film, has done a tremendous job.
Doris Bittar emigrated with her Lebanese Family to New York in 1965, and studied Fine Art at Stonybrook College in New York. Now living in San Diego, she has exhibited her work widely in art museums throughout the United States and Europe. Bittar’s work weaves together iconic images of European, American and Middle Eastern culture, combining the political with the intensely personal.
The video can be viewed at AlternateFocus.org (http://www.alternatefocus.org/ArtDorisBittarShow.html)
Lecturer Doris Bittar is one of two artists featured in the Arab American Yearbook 2007-2008
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 04/08/2008 - 11:35am. Alumni_Review | Awards & Honors
Lecturer Doris Bittar is one of two artists featured in the Arab American Yearbook 2007-2008
The first issue of the "Arab-American Yearbook: The Resource and Referral Guide For and About Arab Americans" was published in February by TIYM Publishing (www.tiym.com).
The "Arab-American Yearbook" is a comprehensive, nationwide resource for and about the Arab-American community. It includes chapters on the community, as well as its politics, business, education, health care and role in the nation’s armed forces. Contributors include the Library of Congress, Arab American Institute, ACCESS, the Islamic Society of North America and a host of scholars and prominent figures from across the Arab-American community.
Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold: UCSD Artist, Designer, Author to be Honored at National Women's History Month Festivities
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 11:48am. Awards & Honors
UCSD Artist, Designer, Author to be Honored at National Women's History Month Festivities
By Jan Jennings for UC San Diego News Center, March 4, 2008
A sculptor, architect and designer of buildings at the University of California, San Diego, an author and professor of theatre, and an emerita professor in visual arts will be honored in festivities during March – National Women’s History Month.
Architect Judith Munk (1925-2006) and theatre professor Marianne McDonald will be inducted into the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame March 29 on the UCSD campus.
Artist Faith Ringgold will be recognized at the National Women’s History Project’s (NWHP) high tea March 28 in New York City. NWHP has chosen Women’s Art: Women’s Vision as the 2008 theme for National Women’s History Month.
The seventh annual induction ceremony for the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame will be at 5 p.m. in UCSD’s Price Center Ballroom.
J.P. Gorin receives the Chevaliers des Arts et des Lettres from the Consul General Mourier
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 1:35pm. Awards & HonorsConsulate General of France in San Francisco
Tom Luddy and Jean-Pierre Gorin awarded Chevaliers des Arts et Lettres
Jean-Pierre Gorin receives his medal from Consul General Mourier
Tom Luddy, director of the Telluride Film Festival, and Jean-Pierre Gorin, filmmaker and professor at UC San Diego, have been honored as Chevaliers des Arts et des Lettres. The award was bestowed upon Luddy and Gorin by Pierre-François Mourier, Consul General of France in San Francisco, at a private ceremony.
Undergraduate Student Pinar Istek receives the UCIRA grant
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 4:03pm. Awards & HonorsUndergraduate Student Pinar Istek receives the
UCIRA ( University of California Institute for Research in the Arts )Grant
Pinar Istek's Project Maquiladora was selected for the project's use of art's potential to foster understanding, encourage the intersetion of communities, and transform experience.
Autumn Hayes - Undergraduate Studio Art Student Wins Dream Scholarship
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 8:35am. Awards & HonorsAutumn Hays
UCSD Art Student Wins Dream Scholarship
By Christine Clark for UCSD News, October 16, 2007
Autumn Hays
Earl Warren College junior Autumn Hays recently won the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke scholarship to help her pursue her life’s passion to become an artist. The $60,000 award will help her cover tuition and living expenses for the next two years.
The honor student has come a long way from her elementary school years, when she was diagnosed with dyslexia, and her teenage years, when she found out she is bipolar.
Hays, who is a Studio Arts major, attended University High School and comes to UCSD from Mesa College, where she excelled academically.
Hays was born and raised in San Diego County. She was told she had dyslexia in elementary school and was placed into special education classes.
“Because of being in special-ed, I assumed I was stupid or that something was wrong with me,” Hays said.
But when put through testing, she scored higher than any student her special education teacher had seen.
Brett Stalbaum's Undergraduate Media and Icam Project Chosen as One of the Ten Great (but Fake) Tech and Science Vdeos
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 2:54pm. Awards & Honors | ReviewBrett Stalbaum and ICAM and Media undergraduates who authored and performed this now famous work are: Tristan Newcome, Houng Ly, Jesse Chappo, Jamila Mahfudh, Cy Cary, Gary Wong, and Lance Miyamoto
This article excerpt refers to the GRRF Project, which was a Visual Arts VIS40/ICAM40 class project in 2004 that had many reincarnations in ICAM40, VIS2, CAT 124 and at CALIT2 until most of the students graduated last year.
Ten Great (but Fake) Tech and Science Videos
From subtle hoaxes to clever goofs, here are the ten best fake technology and science Web videos. We'll bet that if we hadn't told you, one or two may have taken you in.
Christopher Null, PC World, September 09, 2007
The Mother of All Fake Game Demos (excerpt)
One would think a person wouldn't need to be a hoaxster to make a video game look awful: So many commercially released games are bad enough without anyone resorting to trickery. But Tristan Newcomb created a masterful hoax by intentionally building an awful game. (Impossible to describe, it inexplicably includes Lego characters plus SpongeBob SquarePants on a Mario-like adventure, complete with 1980s-style, voice-synthesized narration.)
Demoing his game to a large audience, Newcomb pretends to struggle to keep the "players" in line (everything on screen is prerecorded) while dealing with the stress of constant bugs and game crashes. The audience is alternately annoyed and amused, much as you'll be if you watch the whole affair, which is essentially a postmodern performance art piece.
This is a long video, so skip around--you'll see some truly funny moments along the way.
Ricardo Domínguez/Brett Stalbaum/Micha Cárdenas: Winners of the Transnational Communities Award - Transborder Immigrant Tool
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 10:20am. Awards & HonorsWinners of the International Festival of Electronic Arts and Video
Transnational Communities Award
Artists: Ricardo Domínguez, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cárdenas and Jason Najarro
Project: Transborder Immigrant Tool (Herramienta Transfronteriza para Inmigrantes)
Each year, thousands of people attempt to traverse the unforgiving desert terrain that makes up the United States-Mexico border. Hundreds of those migrants lose their lives to the elements due to the inability to discern where they are in relation to where they have been and which direction they need to go. The goal of the project is to help reduce the number of deaths along the border by developing a common cell phone device into a navigation tool that will help migrants locate life saving resources in the desert such as water caches and safety beacons.
Elyse Montague: Recipient of the 2007 Princess Grace Foundation Award for Film
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 09/12/2007 - 10:57am. Announcement | Awards & HonorsElyse Montague
Initial Princess Grace Foundation Award:
Graduate Film Scholarship, Experimental Narrative, 2007
On October 25, 2007, the Princess Grace Foundation–USA, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, will host the annual Princess Grace Awards Gala at Sotheby’s in New York and present awards to emerging artists in theater, dance and film. The recipients are selected by a panel of experts in their respective fields and the prizes awarded are in the form of scholarships, apprenticeships and fellowships.
