DAVID TREND
Professor (MFA in Photography/Visual Studies
Workshop
Program 1979, State University of New York, Buffalo;
PhD in Curriculum
Theory 1993, Miami University), is also Director of
University of
California Institute for Research in the Arts, the system-wide
funding
program of the UC Office of the President for arts projects
and
related research. Before arriving at UC Irvine as Chair
of its Studio
Art Department in 1997, Trend was Dean of Creative Arts
at De Anza
College in Cupertino, CA, where he developed multimedia
partnerships
with schools and corporations in Silicon Valley. Prior
to that Trend
was a faculty member and graduate program coordinator
in the
Inter-Arts Center of San Francisco State University.
During the past
15 years, Trend has been a frequent consultant for foundations,
state
arts and humanities councils, and the National Endowment
for the Arts.
Trend's teaching draws connections among the fields
of cultural
studies, critical pedagogy, and media analysis. Recent
courses he has
taught at UCI include 'Everyday Culture: Art, Media,
New
Technologies,' 'Seminar in Cultural Activism and Radical
Democracy,'
'Issues in the New Culture Wars,' 'Issues in Visual
Arts and New
Media,' and 'Origins, Purposes, and Central Issues in
K-12 Education.'
The author of over 120 articles and essays in such
periodicals as Art
in America, Cultural Studies, and Social Identities,
among others,
Trend is a former editor of the journals Afterimage
and Socialist
Review and a current editorial board member of the Journal
of
Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies. Trend's books
include
Cultural Pedagogy: Art/Education/Politics (Bergin and
Garvey, 1992),
The Crisis of Meaning in Culture and Education (University
of
Minnesota Press, 1995), Radical Democracy: Identity,
Citizenship, and
the State (Routledge, 1996), Cultural Democracy: Politics,
Media, New
Technology (State University of New York Press, 1997),
Reading
Digital Culture (Blackwell, 2001), and Welcome to Cyberschool:
Education at the Crossroads in the Information Age (Rowman
and
Littlefield, 2001). Trend's current research addresses
representations of violence and public paranoia. His
most recent essay
is 'Merchants of Death: Media Violence and American
Empire,' (Harvard
Education Review, in press).
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