This is a page solely devoted to the Media Arts and Technology program at the University of California Santa Barbara. I found out about the program when trying to find more information on Erbe-Verb and its creator Tom Erbe, and the more I look at it the cooler it seems. Just read their about blurb:
Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at UCSB is a transdisciplinary graduate program that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, electronic music and digital art research, practice, production, and theory. Created by faculty in both the College of Engineering and the College of Letters and Science, MAT offers an unparalleled opportunity for working at the frontiers of art, science, and technology, where new art forms are born and new expressive media are invented.
In MAT, we seek to define and to create the future of media art and media technology. Our research explores the limits of what is possible in technologically sophisticated art and media, both from an artistic and an engineering viewpoint. Combining art, science, engineering, and theory, MAT graduate studies provide students with a combination of critical and technical tools that prepare them for leadership roles in artistic, engineering, production/direction, educational, and research contexts.
DOESN’T THAT SOUND EXACTLY LIKE WHAT I’M INTERESTED IN?! LIKE, WORD FOR WORD?! LIKE, TO A SCARY EXTENT???
Anyway, they have a graduate program, but as you can see, this post is tagged with “I’m Not Going To Grad School” so that’s mostly irrelevant. But they hold interesting-sounding Seminars on things like “Blue Sky Sensing: Solarception in Art and Science”, and click on the “WEB ARCHIVE” button for seminars like HACK THE PLANET (which claims to be “A biographical presentation of Michael Candys practice as he attempts to brute-force an understanding of technology”). Videos available on Vimeo.
Also check out their Research Labs page.