Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE)

Futures of the Book Symposium
Saturday, April 27 from 9 AM – 5 PM
Russell Special Collections Library

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This interdisciplinary seminar aims to explore the nature of the book in all its forms, across time and space. The event will pose fundamental questions regarding the nature of books, how cultural attitudes toward books and bookmaking have changed, and digital media’s recuperation or killing of print media. The seminar will also investigate and analyze the various media that contribute to the production of books such as ink, e-ink, paper, screen, manuscript, print, pixels, binding, and book arts, as well as the production processes themselves.

Featured speaker Brian Croxall, an Emory University English professor whose research explores representations of technology within fiction and philosophy, will deliver a talk titled “Harder Better Faster Stronger: Books from the Future.” His work in the digital humanities uses geospatial tools to plot literary events and he writes about integrating digital tools with his teaching in journals such as “Writing and Pedagogy” and the Chronicle of Higher Education’s blog, “ProfHacker.” He co-edited an issue of “Neo-Victorian Studies” on the subject of steampunk and is a cluster editor for the #alt-academy project.

The symposium will also include a workshop on futurist books led by Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at UGA; a UGA faculty panel featuring Eileen Wallace, Mark Callahan, Elizabeth Davis, and Christopher Eaket; and an exhibition curated by doctoral students in English.

The event is sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), the Department of English, the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, and the University of Georgia Libraries. Free and open to the public.

Schedule of Events

9 – 11 AM Curation and Creation
Eileen Wallace (Lamar Dodd School of Art), Elizabeth Davis (English), Mark Callahan (Ideas for Creative Exploration), Christopher Eaket (Theatre and Film Studies / English). Chair: Toby Graham (Special Collections, UGA)

11 – 11:15 Coffee break (provided)

11:15 – 12:30 Plenary talk: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: The Book of the Future
Brian Croxall (Emory University)

12:30 – 2:30 Lunch break

2:30 – 3:00 Graduate-curated exhibition presentation in the gallery, 2nd floor

3:00 – 3:15 Coffee break (provided)

3:15 – 5 Futurist Books workshop, led by Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English

ICE-Vision: Day for Night (Francois Truffaut, 1973)
Wednesday, April 24 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

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ICE-Vision returns after a two-week hiatus with one of Francois Truffaut’s most memorable films. This self-reflexive movie-about-movies features Truffaut himself as the director of a doomed film production, with Jean-Pierre Léaud as his young lead. At twenty-nine in Day for Night, Léaud first appeared before Truffaut’s camera as fifteen year-old Antoine Doinel in The 400 Blows. Part documentary and part experiment, this tribute to the art of cinema is a charming deconstruction of filmmaking itself and an excellent send-off to this semester’s ICE-Vision screenings.

Many thanks to Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato for an exciting year of ICE screenings!

Congratulations to Clara Hoag, recipient of a GSA award for Hortisculpture, an ICE-sponsored project.

 
Graduate Student Association
Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Friday, April 12 from 9 AM – 5 PM
Tate Student Center, First Floor
www.ugagsa.com

The purpose of our annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference (IRC) is to bring together diverse avenues of graduate research that address local and global issues, while making an impact on society. This focus allows the GSA to bring together a multitude of graduate students from across the 16 college and school disciplines found on the Athens campus. We hope to provide a nurturing environment where graduate students from our campus and beyond can present their research to a receptive audience comprised of graduate scholars, undergraduate students, and faculty members from a variety of disciplines. For this year’s conference, the GSA has invited creative responses to, and a broad array of interpretations of a conference theme “Unity through diversity: Collaboration, Creativity, and Contribution.”

Lecture: Engaging New Audiences
Wednesday, April 17 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

Julia Forbes is the Shannon Landing Amos Head of Museum Interpretation and Digital Engagement at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, where she develops exhibitions and participates in the creation of interactive spaces for families in a wide range of museum settings. In 2011 Forbes led the team that developed the High’s award-winning smartphone app “ArtClix.” Forbes previously held education positions at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington National Cathedral, the Walters Art Museum, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. She served as the Eastern Region Director in the Education Division of the National Art Education Association, and was honored as the Eastern Museum Educator of the Year for 1998. She has degrees in Art History and Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Master’s degree from the George Washington University in Art History/Museum Training.

Sponsored by the National Art Education Association Student Chapter at UGA and Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA.

ICE-Vision: Empire of Passion (Nagisa Oshima, 1976)
Wednesday, April 3 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

Nagisa Oshima, chameleon filmmaker of the Japanese New Wave, directs this period drama about the murder of an innocent man by his young wife and her lover. After his death, the film “flirts with supernatural horror: visions of the dead man begin to drive his widow around the bend, and when she and her accomplice come together between the sheets, their sex is desperate with remorse” (J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader). The haunted refrain of a crying infant recalls an array of guilt-ridden literary works– “Macbeth,” “Crime and Punishment,” the classic story “Sleepy” by Chekhov–in this chilling and expertly-composed work from one of the late masters of Japanese cinema.

ICE-Vision: Alice (Jan Svankmajer, 1988)
Wednesday, March 27 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

“Czech puppet animator Jan Svankmajer began making shorts in 1964, but not until 1988 was he able to realize his dream of a feature adapting Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The world on the other side of Svankmajer’s looking glass is hilariously macabre: taxidermy is the controlling metaphor, as a live-action Alice (Kristyna Kohoutova) descends an elevatorlike rabbit hole following a white rabbit that’s broken out of its glass display case. She enters a subterranean house populated by bizarre creatures constructed from small animals—mammal skulls top off bird or reptile torsos, and in one scene Alice is attacked by a shopping cart with bird wings and clawing feet… With its episodic structure, Carroll’s story is the perfect vehicle for Svankmajer’s dark, 30s-style surrealism.” – J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader