Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE)

AUX is pleased to announce a performance and workshop by legendary German experimental music group Faust. Tickets are available now at Schoolkids Records or via the 40 Watt Club Web site for the Saturday, October 10 performance with Athens’ own Circulatory System and special guests at the 40 Watt Club.

Faust will present a workshop the following day at 2 PM at the Cine Lab in downtown Athens, for concert ticket holders and UGA students and faculty (limited seating, first come, first served).

Sponsored by AUX, Orange Twin Records, Ciné, and Nuci’s Space. AUX produces experimental arts events and publications and  is supported in part by ICE.

For more information about Faust in Athens visit: auxfestival.com

For more information about Faust visit: faust-pages.com

“There is no group more mythical than Faust,” wrote Julian Cope in his book Krautrocksampler, which detailed the pivotal influence the German band exerted over the development of ambient and industrial textures. Producer/overseer Uwe Nettelbeck, a onetime music journalist, formed Faust in Wumme, Germany, in 1971 with founding members Hans Joachim Irmler, Jean Hervé Peron, Werner “Zappi” Diermaier, Rudolf Sosna, Gunther Wusthoff, and Armulf Meifert. Upon receiving advance money from their label, Nettelbeckconverted an old schoolhouse into a recording studio, where the group spent the first several months of its existence in almost total isolation, honing its unique cacophonous sound with the aid of occasional guests like minimalist composer Tony Conrad and members of Slapp Happy.

Read more on Allmusic.com.

Clarinda Mac Low, an interdisciplinary artist who stages her work in non-traditional environments, will visit the UGA campus from October 8-9. Her visit will include an interactive performance titled Cyborg Nation at Ciné, 234 West Hancock Avenue, downtown Athens on the evening of Thursday, October 8 from 6-9 PM.

Clarinda Mac Low uses art to connect people across communities and to each other. Her collaborative performances and public art take place in theaters, city streets, and unusual sites throughout the world. Mac Low’s background includes both art and science, with degrees in Dance and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. She is a former HIV lab researcher, medical journalist, and the recipient of prestigious grants and fellowships from arts organizations such as the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, and the Dance Theater Workshop in New York.

Since 1988 Mac Low and her collaborators have presented work in New York City at performance spaces such as P.S. 122, the Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, and the Kitchen. Her recent work includes Salvage/Salvation, which explores abundance and decay, a solo multimedia project based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and Cyborg Nation, a technologically enhanced performance that takes the form of public dialogues.

During Cyborg Nation, Mac Low will wear a costume that is also a portable media environment, with a built-in miniature camera, microphone, amplifier, and video projector. The project investigates how technology both extends and limits our senses by combining remote communication in the form of email and phone messages with one-to-one conversation, providing a twenty-first-century version of the Socratic dialogue. Members of the public are invited to come to Ciné during the performance or to participate by sending messages to scope@culturepush.org or calling 646-229-7895.

Clarinda Mac Low’s UGA visit is supported by the department of Theatre and Film Studies and ICE.

For more information about Cyborg Nation visit culturepush.org/?q=node/150.

Cyborg Nation Performance
Thursday, October 8 from 6 – 9 PM
Ciné

Theatre and Film Studies Colloquium
Friday, October 9 at 12:20 PM
Fine Arts Building

Opening Moves
Thursday, September 10
4-6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Courtyard

A cross-campus movement experience with all invited to attend!

Brazilian choreographer and arts leader Regina Miranda, CEO and arts and culture director of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York City, will serve as the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Visiting Artist on the University of Georgia campus Sept. 8–11.

Miranda is an internationally known choreographer, dance curator and author, as well as former artistic director of the Choreographic Centre in Rio de Janeiro and a former member of the Brazil Council for the Arts. She is the author of Expressive Movement, Body/Space, and Laban Lead: Leadership as Art.

The Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies is a non-profit organization that has been training movement observers, teachers and coaches for more than 30 years. Centered in New York City, its international network includes more than a thousand certified movement analysts who apply movement analysis to help change the way people perform, communicate, observe, learn and negotiate. The institute works with students in such fields as health care, the performing arts, sports, education, diplomacy, leadership studies and communications.

“It is such a pleasure to introduce to UGA such a leading international figure of arts, dance and the Laban Movement Analysis world. Ms. Miranda is tri-lingual, multifaceted and lives in three cities [Rio de Janeiro, New York City and San Francisco] with multiple activities going on at all times,” said Bala Sarasvati, artistic director, choreographer and Jane Willson Professor in Arts in the department of dance at UGA.

Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanties and Arts at UGA.

Zachary Lieberman Residency
March 16-20, 2009

Zachary Lieberman Residency
March 16-20, 2009

The Zachary Lieberman Residency, hosted by ICE, continues this week with lectures, workshops, and an exhibition.  Zach will be offering public workshops on beginning and advanced coding and talk about how he creates art with technology. Feel free to drop by ICE and the gallery this week during the exhibition installation to meet Zach and collaborator Taeyoon Choi.

1. Public Lecture/Performace: “Making the Invisible Visible”
Tuesday, March 17 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S151

2. Workshop: “Hello World: Beginners’ Level Computer Programming for Art”
Wednesday, March 18 at 11 AM and 5 PM (everyone is welcome for one or both sessions, bring laptop computer)
ICE Studio, Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S160

3. Dance Department Lecture
Thursday, March 19 at 11:00 AM
Dance Building Media Center & Classroom

4. Workshop: “Advanced Code/ Introduction to openFrameworks”
Thursday, March 19 at 6 PM (everyone is welcome, bring laptop computer)
ICE Studio, Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S160

5. Theatre and Film Studies Colloquium
Friday, March 20 at 12:20 PM
Fine Arts Building Room 53

6. Exhibition: “Point A to Point B”
Opening Reception/Gallery Tour Friday, March 20 from 5-7 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Gallery 101
Exhibition continues until March 28

Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is pleased to host Zachary Lieberman for an exhibition and week-long residency at the University of Georgia, supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. For more information about Zachary Lieberman visit: http://thesystemis.com

Zachary Lieberman’s work uses technology in a playful and enigmatic way to explore the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. He creates performances, installations, and on-line works that investigate gestural input, augmentation of the body, and kinetic response.

Working with collaborator Golan Levin, he created a series of installations – “Remark” and “Hidden Worlds” – which presented different interpretations of what the voice might look like if we could see our own speech. These were followed with “Messa Di Voce,” a concert performance in which the speech, shouts and songs of two abstract vocalists were radically augmented in real-time by interactive visualization software. The collaborators have toured and exhibited their works widely, much to the delight of their audiences. Lieberman’s installation / performance “Drawn,” in which live painted forms appear to come to life, rising off the page and reacting to the world around them, recently won awards in the Ars Electronica and CYNETart competitions. Most recently, he presented “Opensourcery,” collaboration with Spanish magician Mago Julian, in which open source software is combined with traditional close-magic to create a completely new realm of tricks.

Lieberman has held artist residencies at Ars Electronica Futurelab, Eyebeam, Dance Theater Workshop, and most recently at the Hangar Center for the Arts, Barcelona.

Lieberman is currently developing a suite of software for disabled students that transforms their movement into an audio-visual response as a means for performance and self-expression. He is also collaborating with Theo Watson on an open source toolkit, openFrameworks, for creative coding in c++.

Sound Source: Jason Freeman
Public Presentation
April 25, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Visual Arts Building Room 116

Jason Freeman is an Assistant Professor of Music in the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology whose work employs cutting-edge technology and unconventional notation to transform audiences and musicians into compositional collaborators.

In addition to his public presentation, he will be discussing his software from 1 PM – 3 PM on Friday in room 129 of the Visual Arts building.

For more information visit: jasonfreeman.net.

ICE is pleased to announce a special week-long event with visiting artist Elliott Earls.

Workshop
First session: Monday, October 15 at 3 p.m.
ICE Studio, Tanner Building room 101

Students from all disciplines are invited to participate in a workshop with Elliott Earls beginning Monday at 3 p.m. at ICE. Earls will screen scenes from his feature length film in progress “The Saranay Motel” and discuss the project with students. After discussion, willing interdisciplinary participants will be broken into small teams to collaborate on creating a scene for the film. The scene potentially will include original music, motion graphics, acting, props and set design.

Public Lecture
Tuesday, October 16 at 5:30 p.m.
Student Learning Center Room 102
Free and open to the public.

In a world gone mad with fundamentalism, fascism and fear, Elliott Earls attempts to draw parallels between the artists of the post World War I avant-garde and the present day. Utilizing his own work as a springboard for discussion, Earls highlights the critical and timely relevance of the work of German artist John Heartfield, and discusses an interdisciplinary approach to work. In a presentation replete with motion graphics, experimental film clips and music, Earls outlines a potential role for the contemporary artist that draws inspiration from the bravery of Heartfield. Earls also discusses his approach to integrating performance, music, objects and graphics into a unified and cohesive body of work.

Performance and Film Screening
Thursday, October 18
Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave. in downtown Athens

Performances at 8 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
$5.00 or $2.00 with student ID
Advance tickets available at Cine box office, (706) 353-3343

Film screening at 8 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

The work of UGA visiting artist Elliott Earls will be featured in a special evening of events at Ciné, downtown Athens’ art house theater and cafe, on Thursday, October 18. Earls will perform two live sets in a program entitled “Excerpts from The Saranay Motel” and screen digital video from “Catfish” and his current work in progress, “The Saranay Motel”.

In May of 2002, Earls, in association with Emigre Inc. released “Catfish”, a 55-minute film on DVD. “Catfish” traces Earls work from the lab to the stage in a highly manipulated digital film incorporating, animation, stop motion photography, drawing, typography and live action into a seamless performance documentary. “The Saranay Motel”, begun in late 2005, is a work in progress comprised of four basic elements: a feature length digital film, art objects, a performance piece, and music.

Departmental Colloquium
Friday, October 19 at 12:20 p.m.
Room 53, Fine Arts Building
Free and open to the public.

Earls will discuss his career as a performance artist in a Theatre and Film Studies departmental colloquium.

Exhibition
Elliott Earls: Selected work from “Bull and Wounded Horse” and “The Saranay Motel”
Opening Reception: October 19, from 6 – 8 p.m.
Main Gallery
Visual Arts Building
Free and open to the public.

Objects accompany all of Earls’ work along with his music, performance, and posters, he creates works of substantial materials and finishes. On exhibition at Lamar Dodd School of Art Main Gallery will be artifacts from the processes of his two most recent projects, “Bull and Wounded Horse”, which incorporates traditional media, including two bronze busts, and “The Saranay Motel”, from which Earls exhibits large digital photographs.

About Elliott Earls
Elliott Earls first gained international recognition as a designer of digital typography in the 1990s and expanded his practice to include one-person performances utilizing interactive technology of his own design, earning a prestigious Emerging Artist Grant from The Wooster Group in New York. In 1995, Earls formed the Apollo Program, a studio devoted to experimentation with nonlinear digital video, spoken word poetry, music composition and design. Earls’ work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals around the world, and is featured in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. In 2001, Earls was appointed designer-in-residence and head of the 2-D Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. While at Cranbrook his artistic practice has continued to broaden by using film production as a method to generate digital photography, sculpture, paintings, and the music of his band, The Venomous Sons of Jonah.

The Elliott Earls Residency is supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), and Ciné.

For more information about Earls, visit www.theapolloprogram.com.