The movie that kicks off the 2012 Santa Cruz Film Festival is California State of Mind, a documentary from the points of view of his grand-daughters. Listen to an interview with the filmmaker Sascha Rice and the film’s producer Hillary Armstrong (who are the two grand-daughters of Brown). They joined Art Studio’s Kirby Scudder by phone for this interview. Santa Cruz Film Festival website.
Dancer and teacher Micha Scott. Photo by Steve DiBartolomeo
By Kirby Scudder
Cat Willis wants to broaden the possibilities for dance in the Monterey Bay area. At her new studio you could learn Senegalese, Carribean or hip-hop dancing. She told KUSP’s Kirby Scudder the goal is for students to learn from professional artists.
Graeme Divine presenting his talk "Social Games are DEAD!" at UCSC. Source: design3.com
By Kirby Scudder
Graeme Divine worked on some of the most popular video games in recent decades. Now he’s going solo and establishing a new game company in Santa Cruz. The initials in Santa Cruz’s new video game company “GRL games” stand either for Giant Robot Lizard or Graeme Roque Lori – the names of the members of the Divine family who run the company. Graeme speaks with KUSP’s Kirby Scudder about a life in game design.
With the first two stages completed, the Tannery Arts Center is now focused on raising the funds for the final phase three – which would include a 200 seat performing arts theater.
Art Stdio’s Kirby Scudder spoke with the Center’s new Executive Director Rachel Anne Goodman, for an update on the project.
Assemblage is a French term describing the artistic process that consists of making three dimensional or two dimensional artistic compositions by assembling found objects.
The duo of Marc Gould and Noah Gould have been producing figurative expressions as the Art Enemys since 1999. From their studio in Aptos they create both on canvas and in 3D colorful, vivid compositions using all forms of recycled media.
Art Enemys are both vibrant and thought provoking, the works conjure up visions of Modern Art and hints to a unwritten future. Theare currently in an exhibition at Leeds Family Gallery at 123 locust St. in Downtown Santa Cruz.
She was a Fulbright Scholar and a Woodrow Wilson Designate. She is a writer whose work has appeared in journals, newspapers, and magazines, such as The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Environment, California Lawyer, and Science and Global Security.
She has a long-term interest in the role of science in shaping a new politics and has worked in this area for a European environmental think tank in Rome, the Ford Foundation, and the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress, where she co-invented (with R. Stephen Berry of the National Academy of Sciences) a novel procedure called “Scientific Mediation.” This procedure permits government agencies to make intelligent policy decisions in areas where the relevant science is crucial yet controversial. Scientific Mediation aims not to resolve scientific disputes, which can only be done by scientific research, but to make the essence of the disputed issue transparent to the non-scientists making the actual policy decision. She has consulted on its use for the state governments of California and Wisconsin, private corporations and organizations, and the government of Sweden, where Scientific Mediation has become standard procedure in the Ministry of Industry.
