Multimedia Immersive Theater

The UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program presents unforgetting, the culminating exhibition of the 2022 MFA cohort.

unforgetting captures the essence of the five individual voices that have formed out of two years of concentrated artistic research and development at DANM.
Common threads of lost histories, hidden realties, and hauntings permeate the works. The artists are questioning and actively participating in the destruction of old systems of oppression by imagining new systems in their place. Envisaging a better outcome, one that arises by refusing to accept continuing erasures of histories and identities, they engage with technologies and digital media as forms with which to critique the very systems of oppression that engender them, a kind of subversive turning inside out of digital media. What results is socially engaged, politically conscious and deeply empathetic experiences which, rather than confront or exclude, effectively draw diverse audiences into these processes.