The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) was an interdisciplinary organized research unit of

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in San Diego, California. CRCA provided support for numerous projects that intersect with the fields of

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, Art/Science collaborations, Mixed Reality, Experimental Music, Digital Audio, Immersive Art and Networked Performance over its 40 year history. CRCA was originally founded by composer Roger Reynolds as the Center for Music Experiment (CME) in 1972, and was directed for many years by F. Richard Moore. The center was renamed and the scope widened when artist and artificial intelligence pioneer Harold Cohen became Director in 1993. Projects emerging from CRCA have been seen at venues including SIGGRAPH,

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, ISEA and the Whitney Museum of Art as well as numerous museums, galleries and scientific contexts. CRCA, as an Organized Research Unit (ORU) at UCSD, ended on July 1, 2012. The functions, support and facilities that CRCA managed were folded into Calit2.

Institutional Collaborations

CRCA worked closely in collaboration with art and science institutions including Calit2, UCLA, UCSD Visual Arts Department, UCSD Music Department, UC DARNet, the Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, the

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and the UCSD School of Medicine.

Art and Science Research

Artists and researchers at CRCA have been involved in numerous technoscience research projects, such as Sheldon Brown's work on Game Design focusing on algorithmic generation of 3D game environments in Scalable City, the Software Studies Initiative's work developing data visualizations of large sets of cultural data and

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' 365 hour Becoming Dragon project, about which Katherine sweetman of San Diego City Beat said "nobody has ever 'lived' in virtual reality continuously for so long".

Highlights

People

CRCA was home to artists, scientists and theorists. Some of the people involved include:CRCA, CRCA - People, "" * Harold Cohen, Founding Director * Sheldon Brown, Past Co-Director *

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, Past Co-Director *

Diana Deutsch Diana Deutsch (born 15 February 1938) is a British-American psychologist from London, England. She is a professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and is a prominent researcher on the psychology of music. Deutsch is ...

Mark Dresser Mark Dresser (born September 26, 1952) is an American double bass player and composer. Career Dresser was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. In the 1970s, he was a member of Black Music Infinity led by Stanley Crouch and performed w ...

* Ricardo Dominguez *

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George E. Lewis George Emanuel Lewis (born July 14, 1952) is an American composer, performer, and scholar of experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ( AACM) since 1971, when he joined the organization ...

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* Elle Mehrmand *

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References

External links

Center for Research in Computing and the Arts Website

Scalable City

Software Studies Initiative

Version Journal

b.a.n.g. lab

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