Baumann

Last name: Baumann
Position: MFA Candidate Digital Arts New Media
Website: http://karlbaumedia.com/
Brief Bio: Karl Baumann is a MFA student in the Digital Arts New Media Program at the University of California Santa Cruz. He has a background in Film and Cultural Anthropology and his current program emphasizes interdisciplinary artistic and scholarly research and production. Karl is presently working on his thesis project Lebenverse, an interactive exhibition space for pedagogical play and physically engaging explorations of history and memory. The exhibition will be based upon his documentary research on the first Persian Gulf War and the Rodney King incident, as a way of engaging history through a critical analysis of the role of developing video and communication technologies within the fabric of contemporary socio-political structures. Karl’s work is intent on expanding the educational possibilities of documentary based media by utilizing interactive technologies that allow participants to play through or physically engage systems that represent these larger historical and social issues. Thus the project is an attempt to not only critically engage media but also explore new formal avenues for such analytic explorations.

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