Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE)

ICE Studio window installation by Daisy Whelan.
Angora, Vanessa, Pomona, Chardonel
Icelandic sheep fleece, wool, and mohair
Fall 2010

Welcome to a new semester at UGA! If you are new to ICE, please take a few moments to explore the site and learn about some of the current and past projects and events. You may also be interested in joining the ICE listserv, a weekly email announcement with local events and opportunities in the arts.

Please also welcome our new recipients of Graduate Assistantships in Interdisciplinary Arts Research: Rachel Debuque (Art), Tifany Lee (Theatre and Film Studies), and Mike Krzyzaniak (Music). These three exceptional candidates will develop creative research under the auspices of ICE, including collaborative work across disciplines and facilitating collaborative projects and proposals with faculty, students, and community members.

Here is a sneak peek at AUX volume 2, an ICE-sponsored publishing project. Printmaking/Book Arts graduate candidate Dave Savino is seen here screenprinting a CD package design featuring art by UGA alumnus Joshua Ray Stephens. Click here for information about volume 1.

Read the full report here (212k download):

FY10 Annual Report

ICE is pleased to announce the award of a Project Development Grant to “Sound Imaging: Sonar and Art”.

The project is a collaboration between artists and scientists who use sonar to image experimental works of art placed in aquatic environments. ICE will support development of the project and an application to the Harpo Foundation.

Participants:

RG Brown, lead applicant
Professor, Lamar Dodd School of Art

Ervan Garrison
Professor, Department of Geology

Daniel Celluci
BFA candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art

Members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SKIO)

ICE is pleased to announce the award of a Project Development Grant to “Our New Silence”.

The collaborative music project remixes, reinterprets, and incorporates traditional Indonesian music to create new music compositions. The traditional recordings used are from the Javasounds music series recorded by Kai Riedl. Over the past two years, Riedl has provided select local and UGA musicians with carefully prepared segments of traditional Indonesian music, leading to new musical compositions for a variety of performances on the UGA campus and around Athens. These compositions represented the variety of musical perspectives — ranging from pop music to highly experimental sound design — found amongst the wealth of creativity in the UGA and the Athens communities, offering an inventive cross-cultural musical dialogue. ICE will support development of the project and an application for a MAP Fund grant.

For more information visit ournewsilence.com and javasounds.org

Participants:

Kai Riedl, lead applicant
Instructor, Department of Religion

Jean Kidula
Associate Professor, Hugh Hodgson School of Music

Various artists from the Athens and Indonesia