Grant Information and Resources
Umbrella organization
Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation, Inc.
ID# 31-08655
After our initial advanced ruling period, Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation, Inc. was established as a tax exempt organization (501 (c) (3) on February 19, 1995. When Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation, Inc. moved from Ithaca, New York to Santa Cruz, California (2000) we decided to rebuild and refocus our activity towards online learning and a virtual community of artist support. Dr. Hester (president) gained support budgets for the organization's former physical activity (festivals, concerts, symposia, workshops, etc.) through projects presented and funded by the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) while IAA spent the next seven years building a strong web infrastructure and enormous quantities of online educational content for its Living Encyclopedia, assorted courses, and theory components. We generated little income during that period of restructuring - to avoid conflict of interest with UCSC activities - and, due to our financial inactivity, the IRS reclassified IAA as a Private Foundation and scheduled a new advance ruling period (beginning 2008).
Creative Production Synergy (CPS) is the primary division of the Interdisciplinary Artists Aggregation, Inc. IAA CPS creates exciting spaces for creative experimentation, where collaboration between art forms, technology, and cultural diversity are the dominant themes. Our mission is to foster, present, and nurture new forms of theatre, dance, music, digital media, visual arts, film, and spoken word. CPS online production and professional coaching involves music, film, choreography, creative writing, drawing, storytelling, memoir, and oral history. Our unique environment and residencies supports and develops artists and creative managers through professional online resources, development coaching, programs, residencies, learning opportunities, scholarships, and commissions.
The MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million Digital Media and Learning initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way people, especially young people, learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are critical to developing educational and other social institutions that can meet the needs of this and future generations.
The Digital Media and Learning initiative is marshaling what is already known about the field and seeding innovation for continued growth. Initial grants have supported research projects, design studies, pilot programs, and responses to policy implications.
The MacArthur Foundation is supporting the Digital Media and Learning Competition as part of its Digital Media and Learning initiative.
HASTAC
HASTAC (pronounced "haystack"; the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) is an international network of educators and digital visionaries committed to the creative development and critical understanding of new technologies in life, learning, and society. HASTAC's dual dedication is to ensure that humanistic and humane considerations are never far from technological innovation, and that education and learning are at the forefront of new digital innovation. HASTAC is committed to the idea that this complex and world-changing digital environment requires the lessons of history, reflection, introspection, theory, equity, and access that the modern humanities (broadly defined) have to offer.
The infrastructure for HASTAC has been provided largely by the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies at Duke University and the University of California Humanities Research Institute, under the leadership of Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg who co-founded HASTAC in 2003. HASTAC has taken an early leadership role in next-generation "net sciences": the computational, social, and humanistic understanding of the role of networked, distributed, digitally-supported relationships that extend throughout education, community-based learning organizations, business, and global partnerships.
Contributing to and supported by the MacArthur Foundation's monograph series on Digital Media and Learning, HASTAC has produced forums on "The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age" as well as a monograph co-written, with many collaborators, by Davidson and Goldberg. HASTAC has also been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Digital Promise Initiative as well as by the generosity of its member institutions.
The Digital Media and Learning Competition is administered by HASTAC.
Karlton W. Hester = San Francisco State University Film Team
Pre-Production Crew list:
Karlton W. Hester
Karlton E. Hester
Ryan Gee
Drew Luetjen
Rosa Moreno
Aaron Ornelas
Project title:
S.T.R.O.N.G. (possible working title)
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