Congratulations to SVAD Student Aleisha Breter for being selected to the Atlantic Center for the Arts 24th Annual University Student Exhibition. Breter is one of four university students from around the state to be selected for this prestigious exhibition, juried by New York-based artist Diana Co...
Dr. Natalie Underberg-Goode, Associate Professor of Digital Media and Folklore, recently published a book entitled Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media. The book was co-authored by the late anthropologist Dr. Elayne Zorn and is published by the University of Texas Press. Th...
Five UCF students and two faculty members from the School of Visual Arts and Design were awarded Sony Scholarships on April 19. The Sony Scholarship is awarded to current, full-time UCF students or faculty who have shown superior academic achievement in the fields of digital and emerging media su...
Graduating seniors from the Bachelor of Science in Photography program at the University of Central Florida, Daytona, will hold their 2013 graduation exhibition which began April 20 and running through May 5 at Gallery 500, UCF Center for Emerging Media, 500 W. Livingston St., Orlando, FL, 32801....
Undergraduate Charlotte Tripson was recently featured in an article by the Vero Beach Newsweekly. Charlotte is making a name for herself in the graphic design industry.
While she wraps up her last year at UCF majoring in Web Design, Tripson is also running her own design company, Anabar Designs...
The College of Arts & Humanities proudly announces the Adler Family Fund for Excellence Scholarship. This award recognizes an outstanding graduate student in the performing or visual arts.
The winner will receive up to $1,900 toward the fall 2013 semester. Applicants must be enrolled as a full-tim...
Fragments, a new exhibition hosted by the City of Orlando Public Art Program, features art by KYLE and UCF's own Kevin Haran.
A public reception with the artists will be held on Thursday, April 18 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the rotunda of Orlando City Hall.
Fragments is an in depth look into t...
An artist's book created at UCF's Flying Horse Editions by James Siena, Sequence One, and was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in 2011, is included in their current exhibition, Abstract Generation: Now in Print.
Sequence One, which was printed and published by Flying Horse Editions, "is a han...
The J.R. Hopes Art Scholarship review committee is pleased to announce four winners from all areas of the UCF School of Visual Arts & Design. All applicants are commended for their fine work and for the excellent statements outlining their goals as artists.
This year's recipients are:
Assistant Professor Ilenia Colon Mendoza was honored with the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award for the College of Arts and Humanities at the 2013 Founder's Day Convocation. Mendoza was nominated by Margaret Ann Zaho, an art history professor in the School of Visual Art and Design. Mendo...
Sunspot Cinema Presents: SHOALS and WAKING THINGS
Filmmaker and installation artist Melika Bass in person for screening with Q & A
Friday, April 12th, 7:30 p.m.
Communication Building, Room 145
http://www.tenderarchive.com
Sponsored by:
UCF Film
UCF School of Visual Arts and Design
UCF Center for ...
Lights Out, an animation produced by the spring 2012 Animation Workshop class, has been competitively jury-selected to be shown on 15-17 March 2013 at the fourth annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, West Virginia University, Morgantown. The film was created in one semester by fo...
The Architecture program is hosting an informational session at UCF Valencia West (Building 11, Room 129) at 5:30pm on Wednesday, February 13. Come and learn more about the Architecture program, pre-requisites for the major, the admission application and Pin-Up Review.
Find out more about the pro...
The UCF Art Gallery proudly opens its doors to a three-day art benefit sponsored by UCF College of Business and Career Connections. The benefit will support Out Of The Life, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides needed counseling, art therapy, housing, professional training and developmen...
THATCamp is an "un-conference," meaning that there are no formal presentations in the various sessions. Rather it serves as a vehicle to encourage conversation and even collaboration within and across disciplines to encourage and enhance the work being done at the confluence of the Humanities an...
A STEAM Exhibition of paintings and posters created by collaborative teams of UCF art and science students heads to the Orlando Science Center this weekend for Otronicon, an interactive technology expo.
The event runs now through Monday, Jan. 21. The artworks are all inspired by cutting-edge, S...
Associate Professor of Digital Media and Folklore Dr. Natalie Underberg-Goode recently published a research article co-authored with the late Anthropologist Dr. Elayne Zorn on Exploring Peruvian Culture Through Multimedia Ethnography in a special issue of the international journal Visual Anthropo...
Don't miss the Fall Character Animation (formerly Visual Language) Specialization Open House!
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
From 6:00-8:00pm
At the Center for Emerging Media
500 W. Livingston Street
Orlando, FL 32801
(This is directly across the street from the Bob Carr Performing Arts Center i...
How can we effectively teach students to be professional artists at a time when some of society’s economic values are so unrealistic? It is true the high-end art market is thriving, but the contemporary art community is arguing whether such outrageous public auctions and private sales are good ...
Two animated short films created by the 2012 SVAD graduates of the Character Animation track were honored at the 2012 Central Florida Film Festival over Labor Day weekend. The films were shown at the West Orange Cinemas in Ocoee as part of the three-day event.
"Flower Story" won the "Paul Leder Aw...
The UCF Art Gallery is seeking volunteers for the Fall 2012 semester.
For more information please contact the UCF Gallery Coordinator Diane Daugherty at Diane.Daugherty@ucf.edu
Walk-in advising hours for August 13th - August 24th:
August 13th: 9:00am to 4:00pm
August 14th & 17th: 9:00am to 12:00pm & 2:30pm to 4:00pm
August 15th - 16th & 20th - 24th: 9:00am to 4:00pm
You must have an updated copy of your degree audit to meet with an advisor. Advisors will only be meeti...
The School of Visual Arts and Design would like to congratulate Associate Professor Robert Jones and his films Fetus Fetish, Immigrant Soldier, Unknown Soldier, Police Story and No Expectations for selection into the following National Film Festivals:
- Roswell International Film Festival for his ...
The School of Visual Arts and Design would like to congratulate Visiting Instructor Adam Lenz for his work on the film, Urban Odyssey. Adam received an editing credit for the film, which has been selected for the World Kids Foundation International Film Festival.
Chronicling four seasons of unplu...
Assistant Professor Cheryl Cabrera is proud to announce that Squeaky Business, created by the Character Animation (formerly Visual Language) Specialization class of 2011, was selected as a professional entry and screened at the New Hope Film Festival 2012, where it won the "Best Animated Short ...
How Making Love Changed Us
Screenwriter Barry Sandler discusses the 1982 gay-themed drama, actors who refused to star in it, and its lasting legacy.
BY Jeremy Kinser
July 14 2012
Screenwriter Barry Sandler was ready for a challenge. By 1980, Sandler had racked up an impressive résumé of glossy ...
UCF Forum: Art is Always a Series of Questions to Contemplate, Not Solve
By Carla Poindexter
Why do people value a painting or drawing? An elementary-school student I know recently answered: “Because when we look at art we can see how the artist felt about things.”
I continued the questioning. ...
The University of Central Florida B.S. in Photography degree program will hold its 2012 Senior Graduation Exhibition at Gallery 500, UCF Center for Emerging Media, beginning Friday, May 4th, 2012, continuing on Saturday, May 5th from 12-5pm, and Monday, May 7th from 5-7pm. An opening reception wi...
Assistant Professor Cheryl Cabrera is proud to announce that Mustache Mayhem, created by the Character Animation (formerly Visual Language) Specialization class of 2011, was selected and screened at the River Run International Film Festival 2012. The festival was held this past week on April 13th...
Date: Monday, April 23, 2012; 6:00pm-9:00pm
Location: UCF Center for Emerging Media (500 W. Livingston Street, Orlando, FL)
Cost: Free and open to the public
The Savannah International Animation Festival 2012 was held on April 13th and 14th, where alumni from the 2011 Character Animation (formerly Visual Language) Specialization joined Assistant Professor Cheryl Cabrera on two panels discussing the "making of" her two animated films: Mustache Mayhem ...
"Narcissus", an animation produced by SVAD's fall 2011 Animation Workshop class, has been competitively jury-selected to be shown on 20-21 April 2012 at the West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, West Virginia University, Morgantown. The hybrid two and three-dimensional work depicts an a...
Five University of Central Florida scientists and an internationally renowned musician were recognized as Pegasus Professors on Wednesday, April 4, 2012, during the annual Founders'' Day ceremony in the Student Union.
The award is the most prestigious a faculty member can receive at UCF. The h...
Graphic Design Junior Elizabeth Williamson designed and created a mural for an Orlando women and children's shelter run by the Salvation Army. She received the commission after winning the mural design contest sponsored by Papa John's Pizza.
"I completed my design using symbols of hope such as the...
Enrollment appointments for Summer 2012 and Fall 2012 are available for viewing in MyUCF.
Log onto https://my.ucf.edu and go to "Student Self Service" and then "Student Center." Click on the "Details" link in your "Enrollment Appointment" box to view the day and time you can begin regis...
The UCF School of Visual Arts & Design is proud to announce that BFA candidate Seth Czaplewski has been accepted with scholarship for MFA degree study in sculpture by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Notably, Seth has been accepted many weeks prio...
Laine Wyatt won Third Prize in the Professional Women Photographers' 36th Anniversary International Women's juried Exhibition. The work was jurored by Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery, NYC.
The exhibition will be held at .No Gallery, NYC, summer, 2012.
The exhibition can be found online...
Christopher Wegman has been awarded the sole Undergraduate Award from the Society for Photographic Education Southeast Region which is a $500. scholarship and registration paid in full for the National Conference in San Francisco.
The work was judged by Natalie Zelt from the Museum of Fine Arts...
Scott F. Hall and select others were invited to London in late November to create new work at SoundFjord, the United Kingdom's only dedicated sound art gallery and research unit. He concentrated on a piano built there by Collard & Collard 100+ years ago; the instrument was recently restrung but r...
On loan from Daytona State College, Departures is a juried exhibition which showcases recent photography from graduates of the University of Central Florida and Daytona State College photography program. DEPARTURES is a touring exhibition which was organized and circulated by the Southeast Museum...
SVAD recent graduate and Experimental Animation alum Andrea Jones was recently offered the job of Junior Art Director in Manhattan at Mcgarrybowen.
Mcgarrybowen is an advertising and design agency based in New York, Chicago and London. Their clients span from Disney, Burger King, The Wall Street ...
E. Brady Robinson will lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum on Sunday, August 28. She will discuss early landscape paintings on view in the Luce Foundation Center in relation to her own work, in which she explores the immediacy of capturing images made possible by modern technology.
Drs. Si-Jung (“Junâ€) Kim and Natalie Underberg presented a paper entitled: “PeruDigital: Approaching Digital Storytelling and Collaborative Interactive Media Design Through Digital Ethnography, HCI, and Digital Media†at the 2011 HCI-International Conference in Orlando, ...
Profs. Natalie Underberg, Daniel V. Novatnak, and Maria Cristina (MC) Santana presented on their work at an international videoconference entitled “Las redes sociales como una novedosa herramiento de la investigación†(“Social Networks as an Innovative Research Tool “)....
Please join us for the opening reception of the BS Photography Thesis Exhibition, 'Synecdoches', on Saturday, May 7, from 3 - 5 PM at the VAB Fine Arts Gallery. Works from 23 students will be exhibited in the gallery until May 14. You can find further information about the show and works that wil...
Vigil, the latest art video with stereo sound by SVAD faculty members Matt Dombrowski and Scott F. Hall, was jury selected and screened on Sunday, May 1, 2011, in the Gluck Theater/Mountainlair on the campus of West Virginia University, Morgantown. The event in which Vigil was included was the a...
SVAD is proud to announce that current BFA Experimental Animation major Chelsea Echols and several recent BFA Art-Animation graduates have been hard at work lately at MG Studios, Inc. on the soon to be released 2011 remake of the feature film, Conan the Barbarian. Chelsea is working in rotoscopi...
Please join us on Thursday, April 21, 2011, as selected graduate and undergraduate students in Art, Digital Media, and Architecture exhibit their creative media projects. The event provides an opportunity to see and experience leading-edge experimental media, meet potential future employees, and ...
Erin Gordon, graduating senior, Photography BS, Daytona, constructed and photographed dresses made from up / recycling materials for her 'Image, Culture, and Society' class in the fall of 2010. Those dresses were purchased by NBC Universal and will be featured in the display windows at their NBC ...
We are proud to announce that experimental animation majors, Michael Baksh and Cody Steward, have been accepted for graduate degree study at the Digital Worlds Institute, University of Florida. By bringing together the diverse talents of UF faculty, students, and staff in a multifaceted collabor...
SVAD is pleased to announce that Scott F. Hall, Associate Professor of Art, has been selected to receive a 2010-11 UCF Research Incentive Award (RIA). The RIA, formerly named the Professional Excellence Program (PEP), is a competitive award granted to honor outstanding research efforts maintaine...
The University of Central Florida's School of Visual Arts and Design is proud to present "Overload" - the 10th Annual BFA Art Exhibition under the direction of Professor Keith Kovach.
More than fifty artists will be displaying their own unique vision representing mediums ranging from the traditi...
On March 19, 2011 SVAD faculty Cheryl Cabrera presented a paper entitled How the University is changing due to animation and effects industries evolution at the 2011 Society for Animation Studies conference in Athens, Greece. The Society for Animation Studies (SAS) is an international organizatio...
SVAD is proud to announce that independent study student Matt Filiault has been accepted for summer internship with the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, where he will be working in 3D digitization. Matt is an undergraduate Anthropology major who is currently being supervised in an independent stud...
Professor Cheryl Cabrera is exhibiting her digital and traditional artwork this month in a show entitled, The Subject of Devotion. All of the artwork has been inspired by the Barbie™ doll.
Several painted pixelated images in the show plays well into the distortion of her appearance and how Barbie ...
On the weekend of March 5-6, 2011, more than 1,500 teenagers from Boys & Girls Clubs around the world convened in Orlando to experience an exciting mix of informative sessions, educational experiences, and discussion forums at a national leadership conference titled "Keystone".
One of the educati...
Assistant Professor Rudy McDaniel recently co-authored two book chapters focused on Internet theory and the Digital Divide. The first chapter, entitled From cyberspaces to cyberplaces: Image, narrative, and the psychology of place (University of Minnesota Press), explores the psychological and ...
Students in the Art BFA Emerging Media Track - Graphic Design and Experimental Animation specializations had the pleasure of visiting FIEA and House of Moves, learning the art of motion capture first hand. Students discussed art concepts and received hands-on technical experience using the moti...
SVAD is proud to announce that experimental animation majors Wendy Agudo and Judith Keeter have accepted job offers weeks prior to graduation. Wendy will be doing visual broadcast work for one of the top national cable news networks; Judith will work for Albino Raven Comics as a commission-based...
The 3D computer animated shorts Shadow Play, created by the undergraduate Visual Language Class of 2010, (a.k.a Emerging Media - Character Animation) and Atlas' Revenge, created by the undergraduate Visual Language Class of 2009, (a.k.a Emerging Media - Character Animation) will be screened at th...
UCF Digital Media senior Justin Taylor recently released an app for the iPhone called UCF Campus Map. The application was created to help new students find their way around campus, and features a map view, building list view, and augmented reality camera view that combines the iPhone built-in ca...
Visiting Assistant Professor Si Jung Kim and Visiting Instructor Matt Dombrowski, have been awarded competitive, university wide, LIFE@UCF grants for 2010. The funding for LIFE grants is provided by members through their annual tuition fees and other special donations. This year LIFE is proud t...
Announcement: Former UCF art students, Kristofer Porter and Christopher Davison's paintings and drawings will be represented by Fred Torres Collaborations Gallery, New York, at the PULSE Contemporary Art Fair, Dec. 2-5. The Ice Palace, 1400 North Miami Avenue.
The 3D computer animation short Shadow Play, created by the undergraduate Visual Language Class of 2010, (a.k.a Emerging Media - Character Animation) will be screened at the Red Stick International Animation Festival in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, November 10-13, 2010.
21 undergraduate students colla...
The University of Florida hosted the Conference on Amazonian and Andean Studies on November 5-6, 2010. The purpose of the conference is to bring together scholars throughout the U.S. and abroad who work on Amazonian and Andean studies. The conference was organized by SVAD faculty Dr. Natalie Un...
We in SVAD are proud to announce that Mocha Latte, a 3D computer animation created this past Spring in just four months in Associate Professor Scott F. Hall's Animation Workshop course by six BFA Art-Animation majors (a.k.a. Emerging Media - Experimental Animation): Joseph Barbour, Christina Fowi...
An exhibition of UCF student artworks inspired by the witty and macabre art of Edward Gorey, "University of Central Florida: The Gorey Project" is currently on view at the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) through October 31, 2010. In partnership with the OMA, faculty from the Art and Theatre Departmen...
I (Carla Poindexter), just returned early last week from a vibrant New York City Art Opening Reception that was full of the kind of shoulder to shoulder excitement only the NY art world can provide.
Former BFA 2002 graduates, Kristofer Porter and Christopher Davison, presented "Tall Tales", a larg...
SVAD faculty Dr. Natalie Underberg collaborated on a panel with faculty and public sector folklorists working in the digital humanities at the 2010 American Folklore Society convention in Nashville, TN. The American Folklore Society, founded in 1888, is dedicated to the study and communication o...
"Cu Na Mara (Hound of the Seas)", an art video with stereo sound by SVAD Visiting Instructor Matt Dombrowski and Associate Professor Scott F. Hall, will be screened on September 25, 2010, at Aktivitetshuset Projects and Kulturhaus, Flensburg, Germany, courtesy Ludomir Franczak of the Mikro Makro ...
Assistant Professor Rudy McDaniel recently guest edited a special double issue of the international journal Cognitive Technology focused on video games and cognition. Specifically, the issue focuses on "games for good," video games that impact cognition for a particular pro-social purpose. Also...
In February, the School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD) received an Undergraduate Education Pilot Project (UEPP) grant from UCF to develop an innovative new model for online instruction. The resulting course, entitled Adventures in Emerging Media, is based on the choose your own adventure novel...
We are proud to announce the launch of the new School of Visual Arts and Design (SVAD) website. SVAD brings together the faculty and staff of the former University of Central Florida Art and Digital Media departments, as well as a new 2+2+2 program in Architecture with Valencia Community College...
UCF's Digital Media Department and Art Department are hosting an exhibition of selected projects from the Digital Media Visual Language undergraduate specialization and the Art Department's MFA in Studio Art and the Computer program.
Graduate Gallery: MFA and MA students in Digital Media and MFA i...
Adam Lenz, Digital Media M.A. student, was selected as one of the winners for the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award (College of Arts and Humanities). Among his other teaching accomplishments, Mr. Lenz has played a leading role in setting up the department's video lab. He and other award win...
UCF Today's Spring 2010 newspaper edition recognizes the new School of Visual Arts and Design's (SVAD) potential to influence the local simulation and gaming industries through innovative partnerships.
Students in the new school will benefit from the expertise of Art and Digital Media faculty and ...
David Moran, Digital Media M.A. student, was selected as Best in Category Award Co-Winner for Fine Arts and Humanities at the Seventh Annual Graduate Research Forum on March 30. The title of his presentation is Setting the Record Straight: An Ethnographic Case Study of Local Gay History in Orlan...
Please join us on March 18th from 6:00 until 9:00 p.m. for the exhibit opening at City Arts Gallery, 29 S. Orange Avenue, Downtown Orlando. This is a free family affair. Bring your family and friends to admire Professor Cabrera's work in the gallery and to purchase some very original creations. P...
The Department of Anthropology and the Digital Ethnography Lab at the University of Central Florida present a Colloquium in the Anthropology Colloquium Series entitled: "Band of Brothers: Cofrad'as, Saints, and Sponsorship in Peruvian Migration." This talk is being given by Prof. Karsten Paerre...
The Digital Media department at the University of Central Florida is now using the Unreal Gaming Engine in the DIG 4324 Modeling for Real Time Systems II course. Unreal Technology, developed by Epic Games, is used in top popular games such as BioShock, Medal of Honor: Airborne, Tom Clancy's Spli...
Dr. Scott Shamp, director of the New Media Institute at the University of Georgia, will deliver a talk on Tuesday, January 26, 2010, at 3:30pm at the UCF Institute for Simulation and Training in Research Park. (map)
Dr. Shamp's talk, entitled "Personal Media / Public Good: Digital Media and Indivi...
UCF Digital Media faculty Robb Lindgren and Rudy McDaniel will be participating in a session at the Digital Media and Learning Conference in La Jolla, CA on February 18-20. The conference is supported by the MacArthur Foundation with the objective of understanding how new media technologies and ...
UCF School of Visual Arts and Design faculty Cheryl Cabrera is an integral part of the Savannah International Animation Festival (SIAF) in Savannah, Georgia this February 5-6, 2010.
In addition to being a Juror, Professor Cabrera will be presenting, "Creating Basic Computer Generated Characters an...
UCF Art Professor David Haxton will be attending a reception at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York on January 14, 2010, for artists in the permanent collection of the museum.
For more information about Professor Haxton and his work, visit the UCF Art Department website.
Flora Zárate, Peru's foremost arpillera (applique) artist, will exhibit her artwork at the UCF Women's Research Center (WRC) from September 3-October 2. The WRC is hosting an opening reception for Ms. Zárate September 3 from 3:30-6pm. The PeruVine/PeruDigital project is one of the co-host...
Digital Media Professor Charles Hughes and Research Associate Eileen Smith were recently featured in a National Science Foundation video discussing digital media and the Media Convergence Lab. They discuss their research and the benefits of interdisciplinary partnerships. See http://www.nsf.gov...
