UGA Arts Collaborative

UGA Research Live: Humanities & Arts as Competitive Difference
Thursday, December 12 at 2:30 PM
Zoom registration: https://research.uga.edu/research-insights/live/

The arts and humanities at UGA are engaged across campus in creating competitive difference. Our community engages with federal agencies, private foundations, and philanthropy to support diverse inquiries into all forms of creative thinking and practice, from the arts partnering with mathematics to the humanities with marine science. This conversation will share recent opportunities and innovations, and give a sense of our collective future plans.

Presenters

Nicholas Allen, Baldwin Professor in Humanities
Director, Willson Center for Humanities & Arts

Elizabeth Wright, Distinguished Research Professor of Spanish Literature
Associate Academic Director, Willson Center

Mark Callahan, Artistic Director, UGA Arts Collaborative
Associate Academic Director, Willson Center

Beyond Authorship: Crediting Contributors to Arts-Integrated Research with CRediT-FAIR

a2ru Webinar: Beyond Authorship: Crediting Contributors to Arts-Integrated Research with CRediT-FAIR
Friday, December 6 at 3:30 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/beyond-authorship-crediting-contributors-to-arts-integrated-research-with-credit-fair/

As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.

While most academic publications use an authorship model, an alternative approach is contributorship. Contributorship is more inclusive and recognizes the broader set of individuals that contribute to and enable knowledge production–a boon for arts-integrated and community-engaged research! The most widely adopted contributorship model, CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), offers a high-level taxonomy that recognizes fourteen contributor roles. However, these roles are designed with bench and lab science in mind and do not account for some of the work involved in other collaborative research. In response, Ground Works has collaboratively created a version of CRediT adapted for arts-integrated research: CRediT-FAIR. For CRediT-FAIR, we have both augmented the description of some of the original fourteen roles and added four new roles to the taxonomy so as to better include arts and arts-research practices. In this webinar, we will explore the taxonomy itself and the Ground Works pilot of it for our special edition “Creating Knowledge in Common,” which features academic/community partnerships that center the arts and design.

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
No deadline

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects and modes of collaboration. Teams must include participants from multiple academic departments and include a UGA student or faculty member to serve as a primary contact. Grant recipients are provided with a project mentor and up to $1000 in support for qualified expenses. Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis, pending the availability of funds.

Proposal form:
https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_etzPEOTYrxYiVQa

Proposal requirements:

– Brief description of project goals

– Names and roles of collaborators

The Mini Grant Program is supported by the UGA Arts Collaborative, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts. The Arts Collaborative is supported in part by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.

Spacing Out: Art & Topology

Spacing Out: Art & Topology Pop-up Museum
UGA McBay Science Library
November 6 – December 1

Opening Wednesday, November 6 from 5-7 PM

Spacing Out: Art & Topology Pop-up Museum features works that demonstrate concepts from the mathematical field of topology. The exhibition includes fabric arts, ceramics, laser-cut wooden sculpture, 3D animations, and more created by students as part of an ongoing effort to advance visualizations of intriguing geometric phenomena. Spacing Out was organized by mathematics doctoral students Alexander Tepper and Han Lou, professors David Gay (Math) and Moon Jang (Art), and graphic design students Charlize Carlisle and Caleb Burke.

This ongoing collaboration between faculty and students of the Department of Mathematics and the Lamar Dodd School of Art, developed with the UGA Arts Collaborative, is supported by a recent five-year grant from the National Science Foundation. For more information about ways to participate in future workshops and exhibitions, please contact David Gay at dgay@uga.edu.

Reading Room: Conversations with 2024 MAP Fund Reviewers

Reading Room: Conversations with 2024 MAP Fund Reviewers
https://mapfund.org/conversations-with-2024-reviewers/

Taking into account the breadth across our applicant pool, we invited reviewers to draw upon their own knowledge, expertise, and understanding of MAP’s mission, bringing their whole selves to the process and actively challenging any preconceptions about what a funded project is “supposed” to look like. Rather than impose rigid parameters–which can in no way serve as an appropriate requirement for every project, nor encourage the variety of exploration that MAP champions–we invited reviewers to consider each applicant’s own standards, definitions, and goals for artistic expression.

Reading Room: Creating Knowledge in Common

Creating Knowledge in Common
Ground Works Special Collection edited by Shannon Criss, Kevin Hamilton, Mary Pat McGuire
https://groundworks.io/journal/collections/2

Universities and communities are partnering together to more fully support needs across society. Art and design practices engaged within these partnerships substantively deepen the impact of this collective work through expression, visualization, representation, and exhibition, converging multiple viewpoints into broader re-imaginings and tangible new creations with both rational and emotional force. This special collection shares stories of such partnerships and their extraordinary outcomes in areas including community health, community arts, placekeeping, climate adaptation design, food production and distribution, abolition, student learning and engagement and more.

Mini Grants Fall 2024

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects with mentorship and funding. Congratulations to the new mini grant recipients!

A call for proposals is open for 2024-25, pending the availability of funds.

Physical Methods of Creative Computation

Physical Methods of Creative Computation reimagines the computer interface as a physical, collaborative space—a “folk computer.” Through interactive installations in which participants manipulate physical objects to perform digital functions, this project seeks to bridge the gap between the tangible and the virtual, exploring how tactile engagement with technology can foster creativity and social connection in ways that conventional digital interfaces cannot. Participants will be invited to engage with the folk computer in various artistic endeavors, such as collaborative visual art creation where physical movements translate into digital brushstrokes, interactive storytelling with tangible objects triggering narrative elements, and experimental music composition using physical arrangements to manipulate sound.

Project participants

Eliana Gelman, Art and Cognitive Science
Suhan Kacholia, Artificial Intelligence