Principal Faculty
- Pronouns he, him, his, his, himself
- Title
- Assistant Professor
- Division Arts Division
- Department
- Digital Arts and New Media
- Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- Phone 0000000000
- Website
- Office Location
- Digital Arts Research Center, 235
- Mail Stop Digital Arts Research Center
Biography, Education and Training
A.M. Darke is an artist and game maker designing radical tools for social intervention. Still in the class war. Now in the pandemic. He’s in the combination class war and pandemic. Assistant Professor of Digital Arts and New Media, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, at UC Santa Cruz, Darke also directs The Other Lab, an interdisciplinary, intersectional feminist research space for experimental games and new media. She’s currently working on ‘Ye or Nay?, a Kanye West-themed game about Black culture, and the Open Source Afro Hair Library, a 3D model database for Black hair styles and textures.
Darke holds a B.A. in Design (’13) and an M.F.A. in Media Arts (’15), both from UCLA. Her work has been shown internationally and featured in a variety of publications, including Kill Screen, Vice, and NPR.
You can reach A.M. at darke [at] ucsc.edu and @prettydarke everywhere else. Add him on snapchat for the occasional horrifying spectacle.
