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Design | Media Arts

Rebeca Méndez, Department Chair

The UCLA Department of Design Media Arts (DMA) strives to educate conscientious designers and media artists and to create socially and culturally relevant work. DMA's renowned faculty guide students to develop truly contemporary practices in typography, graphic design, branding, digital fabrication/printing, photography/video, video games and 3D modeling, virtual/augmented reality, art+science, social and environmental practice, public arts, media archeology and theory, creative coding, interaction, electronics, and interface design. We make our work public in galleries and laboratories, as social media, on large screens, smart phones and game consoles, in media installations, performances and public spaces, as websites, posters, books and magazines. 

Bachelor of Arts

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Portrait of student: Rayce Alijah Aaronson

Artist currently located in Los Angeles. Specialized in design, filmmaking, editing, painting, and photography.

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I want my work to be a show of embracing any and all weird ideas we come up with no matter how ridiculous they may seem.

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Portrait of student: Ella Roze Bandouveris

Ella Roze Bandouveris (b. 2001, Los Angeles) is a multimedia artist and designer interested in sculptural objects and visual familiarity.

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Portrait of student: Henry Barbera

Barbera is a multidisciplinary designer with a focus on 3D and its future applications. Inspired by natural systems, he attempts to create fantastical versions of our reality.

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Portrait of student: Sascha Genea Barnes

My name is Sascha Barnes and I love combining visual and auditory forms of art. I illustrate album covers and create motion graphics for musicians

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Portrait of student: Paige Ryann Brunson

I specialize in entertainment design and concept art. I love visual storytelling and exploring immersive environments. A huge thanks to my friends & family for the endless support.

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Portrait of student: Alice Jennie Chen

Alice Chen is a Design/Media Arts major and Cognitive Science minor who is interested in making games, creating characters, telling stories, and animating.

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Portrait of student: Charlie Chica

I play with bending perspective when I design visual experiences and stories, and am now focused on hybrid-media performance based on illusion-heavy dance forms and generative art.

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Portrait of student: Christine Kao

A queer Taiwanese photojournalist, I love telling stories through photo essays and bookmaking. How memories stay with and impact people intrigue me and inspire my work!

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Portrait of student: Collette Youjung Lee

I am a multimedia designer specializing in print, motion graphics, branding, and web design. Through my work, I am dedicated to creating experiences for others to enjoy.

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Portrait of student: Justin Uhgene Lee

I have focused primarily on graphic design, 3D modeling, and game design and continue to expand on these facets of design after graduation.

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Portrait of student: Ruth Grace Lee

Ruth Lee is a product designer and aspiring chef whose life is driven by both digital and culinary creativity. Her interests include HCI research, education and holistic wellness.

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Portrait of student: Karrington Anastasia Lewis

Karrington Lewis is a Los Angeles-based artist. Her work utilizes physical, digital and gaming media to reimagine Black girlhood and vibrant youthful aesthetics.

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Portrait of student: Qiao Li

Constantly drawn to contradictions and complexities, exploring themes of impermanence, light, and the depths of the human soul that are both personal and universally resonant.

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Portrait of student: Sophie V Lin

Sophie is an aspiring designer who is on a mission to learn and explore more about technology and art.

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Portrait of student: Chuyu Liu

Justin Chuyu Liu is a designer. His interest in spatial, sonic, imagery, and metaphoric fields channels into works that undergo and examine the conditions of life and its vicinity.

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Portrait of student: Lala Luo

Lala Luo is a writer, filmmaker, satirist, and anarchist. She raises four cats and a dog.

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Portrait of student: Alexia Magdaleno

Alexia Magdaleno is a multi-media Mexican artist, and first-gen university student from Salinas California, focusing on speculative, social, and sustainable arts practices.

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Portrait of student: Anika Riya Murthy

Anika Murthy is a multimedia artist whose work explores the South Asian diaspora through intergenerational memory & the study of archives, craft traditions, and design.

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My work revolves around graphic design, photography, and video. Commercially geared towards fashion and entertainment, while personally exploring experiments for pondering.

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Portrait of student: Vivian Nguyen

Vivian is a UX and visual designer. Her work focuses on her cultural and social background, connecting her DMA studies with her minors in Digital Humanities and Asian Languages.

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Portrait of student: Ashley Dawn Ong

Ashley Ong is a third generation Chinese and Korean American creative. She is interested in storytelling through all forms and mediums, particularly graphic design and writing.

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Sejun Park is a multidisciplinary designer and creative generalist passionate about 3D design, physical fabrication, and exploring the gray areas in between digital work & reality.

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Portrait of student: Sherrie Lynn Richman

XR Media major & community builder, Sherrie Richman, works in storytelling/tech. Awarded at SFVR, Google hackathons & also wrote & directed, Juke Box Hero feature (2023) release.

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Portrait of student: Fabian Rios

Fabian Rios is an Los Angeles based artist focused on music, photography and graphic design. Their work touches on an array of social commentary with a variety of aesthetics.

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Portrait of student: Jessica Adriana Rivera

Jessica Adriana Rivera is a multimedia artist and designer from Los Angeles, California.

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Portrait of student: Priscilla Sanabia

A fixed force in my inclination towards creating has always been the achievable impact design could have in engaging a wide range of people.

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An innovative digital designer who seamlessly combines aesthetics and functionality, creating visually stunning and user-friendly designs that leave a lasting impact.

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Portrait of student: Anne Fatima Syed

Anne-Fatima Syed is a Pakistani-American artist who aspires to use visual communication to bring attention to marginalized stories.

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Portrait of student: Yuting Tao

As an experimental interactive installation artist, Yuting Tao dedicates to her identity and insight into society, reexamining culture, and technology in our life.

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Portrait of student: Serena Duanning Tie

I want to thank every single person who has ever shown me kindness. It took each one of you to get me to where I am today.

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Portrait of student: Charles Tran

Charles Tran is an artist based in Los Angeles who is interested in set design and production design. His work often includes water, flowers, and all things pretty.

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Portrait of student: Kathleen Yang

Kathleen Yang is an aspiring designer from the Bay Area, California. She is interested in the intersection of art, technology, and psychology.

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Master of Fine Arts

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Portrait of student: Hyun Cho

Hyun Cho is a Seoul and LA-based artist and a game maker. Cho makes interactive art pieces about communication in virtual spaces.

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Portrait of student: Eunice Choi

Eunice Choi is an artist and designer who creates objects as an instrument to understand the experience we take for granted in our daily lives.

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I am a game maker && media artist. I make strange games free of cybernetic traps, and of armored knights.

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Maya Man is an artist whose work focuses on contemporary identity culture on the internet.

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Portrait of student: Bobby Joe Smith

Bobby Joe Smith III is a Black and Lakota media artist and graphic designer from the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe.

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Portrait of student: Henrik Soederstroem

Henrik Soederstroem is an artist from Stockholm, Sweden. His multi-media installations engage with reality and virtuality as a metaphor for systems of meaning-making.

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Portrait of student: Ariel Uzal

I’m an artist and educator from Patagonia, Argentina. I’m interested in access to education, the history of labor, and social justice.

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Portrait of student: Wiley Ramsey Wiggins

Wiley Wiggins is an artist and curator engaged with a history of digital games and visionary architecture.

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Portrait of student: Camille Wong

Camille Wong (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist invested in finding invisible dynamics of power embedded in technologies, social infrastructures, and the built environment.

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My artwork delves into the cultural, historical, and technological memory of Korean Diaspora through CG Immersive Media, Experimental Animation, and Video Performance.

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Portrait of student: Tengchao Zhou

Born 1990, a generative artist, game maker and educator. His art is about queer studies and gay Chinese literature. He employs machine intelligence and is inspired by nature.

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