Artists and Alumni

Selected sites created by Arts & Technology alumni:
  • Strange Fiction
  • Beck, The Web Site
  • Los Programadores
  • La Comunidad
  • Medical Mall
  • Laurel Springs School
  • International Pages of Art and Culture
  • Between Worlds
  • Whose Image is This?
  • SBHS ESL Department
    		• Welcome to the Artists & Alumni page where we pay tribute to the artists associated with the Arts & Technology Workshop, and the students and emerging artists who have participated. Some have moved on and now work art, information systems, and new media, where computers and art merge. Some are still associated with our program, helping those who follow. We thank those artists who have helped build our educational programs, and are proud to have played a small part in our alumni's success.
    Selected Artists and Alumni:

    Victoria Vesna 

    Adolfo Tapia

    Visual artist Adolfo has worked selflessly to pass on his drawing talents to students, and in the process advanced his own mastery of the tools of digital art.

    Raul Audelo

    Raul brings his energy for social activism and art to our Workshop, contributing to our Comunidad website, coordinating our HomeMade exhibition which features Latino community artists, and offering continual one-on-one mentor support to our students.


    Ken Fields

    Truck


    Truck turned an internship at software developer MetaTools into a profession and now designs web sites for Rock Stars. Following is a press release from Billboard's Julie Taraska, October 27, 1998:

    Most new albums get delivered by trucks. The new Beck album is being delivered -- in part -- on a Web site (www.beck.com) overseen by a fan named Truck. The new album, "Mutations," will be released Nov. 3 by DGC/Geffen. However, the track "Tropicalia" is already available on the site and 30-second RealAudio samples of other cuts from the album are being added every few days.

    Presiding over the mini-release is the Santa Barbara, Calif.-based fan known as Truck, 19, who launched a site dedicated to all things Beck in 1995. Just over a year ago, Beck's management deemed www.beck-web.com the artist's official Internet address, with Truck as its webmaster. According to DGC, the site will soon feature photos from the "Mutations" recording sessions and an interview with Beck.

    Macduff Everton

    Julian Abrajan

    Julian handles computers for an electronic supply company and continues to participate in our program of video instruction.

    Antonio Galaviz

    Antonio remains a mentor to younger students. He is self-employed in the desktop publishing business. Each year he leads a group of our Latino student artists in the design and construction of floats for Santa Barbara's annual Summer Solstice parade, building giant computers and recreating pre-Columbian scenes.

    Jorge Aguilar
    Jorge's a "A" student who went off to the University of Georgia pursuing a degree in philosophy. Once in a while we hear from him. Maybe he'll give us his web address one of these days!

    Michael Bosshard

    Michael from Switzerland has settled in the Bay Area and started his own web-based photography service.

    Kia Kaveh


    Kia joined us during our association with UCSB Art Studio. He's been under the tutelage of Victoria Vesna, as well as a participant in our program. Kia has launched sites for Laurel Springs School and others. Went off to manage info systems for SB City College and a marketing firm in Santa Barbara. Now he's working in SF's Multimedia Gulch. His mother worries about him in Farsi, but he's doing OK.

    Damaso Abrajan


    Damaso is art director for a bimonthly print magazine (launched as an Arts & Tech project) for the National Association of Hispanic Radio Programmers -- and repositions each issue for the web. He created our La Comunidad website for the benefit of the Spanish-speaking community.

    Jesse Burden


    Jesse studied Film at UCSB, did web work for Quincy Jones and the Academy Awards, designed CD covers for Neil Young, then came back to teach some of our younger students and put a facelift on this web site. He's now in New York making movies, print graphics, and websites.

    Ben Hernaez


    Ben studied with us in the 7th and 8th grades, then went on the the Multimedia Academy at Santa Barbara High. He is currently in the Multimedia program at Santa Barbara City College, learning to program in Perl.