Ideas for Creative Exploration – University of Georgia

Pop Up Math & Design Exhibition Interest Meeting
Thursday, February 23 at 2 PM
Main Art Building Room S360

The Pop Up Math & Design Exhibition at UGA brings together art and math students to collaboratively design objects, visualizations, and interactive experiences of mathematics with a focus on topology. In topology, objects can stretch, twist, bend, and deform freely; to a topologist, a twisted rubber band and a circle are the same. With no fixed “shape” to speak of, mathematicians and artists can make creative choices of how to best represent these intriguing objects. Join us and explore an amazing world of knots, higher dimensions, and wild spaces. All undergraduates with a background in math, the arts, or design are welcome to join.

Treehouse Zine Launch Party
Friday, February 17 from 4 – 7 PM
Art Library, Main Art Building
www.treehousezine.com

Treehouse is a collaborative art zine excited to be hosting its first issue launch party! This is a community event in support of local artists where food will be provided, as well as live music, art vendors, and a zine-making workshop. Treehouse is supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration.

Idea Lab Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects with mentorship and funding. Collaborative teams must include participants from multiple disciplines and include at least one student, faculty, or staff member from UGA. Congratulations to our new mini grant recipients!

Towards Analog I/O of Generative Art

Towards Analog I/O of Generative Art will introduce analog elements into the real-time creation of generative artwork through the use of a MIDI a robotic pen-plotter.

Project participants

Sudhan Chitgopkar, Computer Science
Gerasim Iliev, Mathematics

Unwearable Soundscape

Unwearable Soundscape will develop the use of piezoelectric transducers to create a large-scale musical instrument and an immersive form of music creation that can be both improved and composed for by future innovators.

Project participants

Grayson Pynn, Music
Jacob Robertson, Engineering

“Mate”, Materia and Materiales: Math, matter and materials, a bilingual elementary school STEAM project

“Mate”, Materia and Materiales integrates STEM and Art for bilingual elementary school students through fiber arts.

Project participants

Elizabeth Dubberly, Language and Literacy Education
Emma Scott, Art

Expression of the Superorganism

Expression of the Superorganism will explore art created by ants as a post-humanist aesthetic dimension of being, reframing perceptions of the creative spirit in the natural world.

Project participants

Jiayi Guo, Art Education
Horace Zeng, Entomology

Down the Rabbit Hole

Down the Rabbit Hole is an opera composed and produced by a collaborative team of undergraduate and graduate students, based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and directed by Abigail Head.

Down The Rabbit Hole, an Opera in One Act

Friday, October 14 at 5:30 PM
UGA Performing Arts Center, Ramsey Hall

All performances are free and open to the public

Down the Rabbit Hole is a one act opera based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. This production aims to engage new audiences, particularly the young and the young at heart, with both new compositions and opera as an art form while also creating performance opportunities for undergraduate singers and instrumentalists. The familiar story, presented through whimsical music, is brought to life through this operatic retelling. Music by Bryan Wysocki and Julien Berger. Libretto by Abigail A. Head. Supported in part by an Idea Lab Mini Grant.

Athens Hip Hop Harmonic
October Residency
www.athenshiphopharmonic.com

Launched in August 2021, the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic is a multi-year collaboration between the local Hip Hop community and the UGA Hodgson School of Music. It started with a simple question: What would happen if a Hip Hop artist and a classically-trained composer co-created a piece of music? Answer: Come to these events to find out!

Featuring
Ishues + James Weidman + Jazz Combo
Cassie Chantel + Julien Berger + African American Choral Ensemble
Celest Ngeve + Ayako Pederson-Takeda + CCE
Convict Julie + Tom Hiel + Wind Symphony
Montu Miller, emcee
Connie Frigo, producer

Composition Seminar
Friday, October 7 from 4:10-5 PM
Dancz Center, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Room 264

Join the Hip Hop artists and composers to learn about their collaborative writing process and receive a sneak peak at the musical scores that will be premiered at the October 20th show.

Common Hour Event
Wednesday, October 12 from 1:50-2:40 PM
Edge Recital Hall, Hugh Hodgson School of Music

Conversation: “Where Athens Hip Hop & UGA Come Out to Play”

Meet the Hip Hop artists, composers, and ensemble directors bringing the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic to life this semester! Facilitated by Connie Frigo, producer of the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic. Artist Meet & Greet with refreshments will take place immediately following Common Hour!

The Show!
Thursday, October 20 at 7:30 PM
UGA Performing Arts Center, Hodgson Hall
FREE, no tickets required

The African American Choral Ensemble, Jazz Combo, Wind Symphony, and CCE will perform world premieres of music co-created by Cassie Chantel & Julien Berger; Ishues & James Weidman; Convict Julie & Tom Hiel; and Celest Ngeve & Ayako Pederson-Takeda.

Follow the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic:

Instagram: www.instagram.com/athenshiphopharmonic/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/athenshiphopharmonic
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXqmhqyTE8G2ke9d4-glZw

Athens Hip Hop Harmonic
Thursday, October 20 at 7:30 PM
UGA Performing Arts Center
FREE, family-friendly, no tickets required
www.athenshiphopharmonic.com

Launched in August 2021, the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic is a multi-year collaboration between the local Hip Hop community and the UGA Hodgson School of Music, supported by UGA’s Arts Lab. It is produced by saxophone professor Connie Frigo, who developed it in collaboration with Hip Hop impresario Montu Miller and Mariah Parker (aka Linqua Franqa), along with a team of other artists, educators, and supporters eager to create music together to explore their mutual artistic and cultural curiosities. They started with a simple question: What would happen if a Hip Hop artist and a classically-trained composer co-created a piece of music? Answer: Come to the show to find out!

Building upon creative partnerships that began last year, this special show — the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic’s biggest to date — features premieres of music co-created by four Hip Hop artists and four UGA composers, performed by four UGA ensembles. There are approximately 100 undergraduate and graduate student performers involved. Montu Miller will serve as emcee.

Hip Hop artists include recent Athens Music Walk of Fame inductee Ishues, the 2020 Vic Chestnutt Songwriter of the Year Cassie Chantel, compelling and soulful alternative R&B singer Convict Julie, and dynamic poet and spoken word performer Celest Ngeve.

UGA composers include piano and African American studies professor James Weidman, commercial music and media professor Tom Hiel, composition/music education major Ayako Pederson-Takeda, and composition/performance major Julien Berger.

The featured UGA ensembles include the African American Choral Ensemble, Jazz Combo, Wind Symphony, and Contemporary Chamber Ensemble.

The project’s collaborative performances can be seen and heard on the AHHH Youtube channel:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXqmhqyTE8G2ke9d4-glZw