ICE Grant Announcement

ICE is pleased to announce the award of a Project Development Grant to “Violet and the Gordian Unknot: A short animated film about knots”.

The project is to create a fun animated short film about knots and knot tightening, starring an inventive little girl who manages to tie a very special knot in her shoelace and a mathematically inclined snake named Colin who helps her understand knot theory. The movie will be a combination of the new knot tightening animations developed by a research group in the Department of Mathematics over the past few years with new character animation developed in collaboration with a team from the animation program in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies. ICE will support development of the project and an application to the National Science Foundation (NSF) for support to employ student animators and provide travel funds for the team to attend festival showings of the film and give associated math talks.

Participants:

Jason Cantarella, lead applicant
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics

Geometry VIGRE research group

Matt Mastin
Whitney George
Michael Berglund
Al LaPointe
Ellie Dannenberg
Jacob Rooney

Theatre and Film Studies

Josh Marsh
Alliene Bouchard
Jamie Sichel
Heather Byrd
Katie Robert
Scott Higgs

Colloquium: Girls’ Talk

Girls’ Talk
APERO Africana Brown Bag Colloquium
Wednesday, March 31 at 12:15 – 1:15 PM
African American Cultural Center, fourth floor, Memorial Hall

Hunter Parker, a graduate student in the department of theatre and film studies, discusses ‘Girls’ Talk,’ a service-learning project in Tanzania.Sponsored by African American Studies, African Studies and the African American Cultural Center.

Colloquium: Mirla Criste

Colloquium: Mirla Criste
Friday, April 2 at 12:20 PM
Fine Arts BuildingRroom 53

Theatre and Film Studies professor Mirla Criste will discuss the results of her research leave in Spring 2008, including the ICE-sponsored performance, at the Performatica Festival in Cholula/Puebla, Mexico, of Water: Drought, an original Contact Theatre work, and will discuss its role in the ongoing development of Contact Theatre.

ICE-Vision: Dead Man

ICE-Vision: Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
Thursday, April 1 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE’s informal weekly series, selecting a variety of world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities.

“A quantum leap by American independent Jim Jarmusch—a hypnotic and beautiful black-and-white western (1995). Johnny Depp plays an accountant from Cleveland named William Blake who travels west with the promise of a job to the infernal town of Machine, only to be told that the job’s been taken. After killing a man (Gabriel Byrne) in self-defense and sustaining a mortal bullet wound, Blake is guided toward death by a Native American outcast named Nobody (Gary Farmer) while a trio of bounty hunters and various others try to track him down. This masterpiece is simultaneously a mystical, highly poetic account of dying; a well-researched appreciation of Native American cultures; a frightening portrait of modern American violence and capitalist greed that refuses to traffic in the stylistic alibis of Hollywood; a warm, hilarious depiction of cross-cultural friendship; and a hallucinatory trip across the American wilderness.”
-Jonathan Rosenbaum (Chicago Reader)

ICE Grant announcement

ICE is pleased to announce the award of a Project Development Grant to “Exploring Student Development in the ‘Third Space’ Between Art and Engineering”.

This project is set in the context of an interdisciplinary studio for art and environmental engineering students and builds on work accomplished in the Synthesis of Engineering and Art for Innovative Education project that was funded under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement program. The work proposed here focuses on developing the theoretical concept of a third, interdisciplinary area of learning that emerges from, but transcends beyond the shared domains of art and engineering, a notion that surfaced as a new theme from the data collection and analysis in the NSF project. The work proposed under the ICE project aims at theoretically conceptualizing the idea of the third space to lead into the preparation of a proposal to empirically investigate this concept under the forthcoming NSF Fostering Interdisciplinary Research on Education program.

Participants:

Joachim Walther, lead applicant
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering
 
Nadia Kellam
Assistant Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
 
Tracie Costantino
Assistant Professor, Lamar Dodd School of Art
 
Bonnie Cramond
Professor, Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology
Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development

Communion: Improvisation Workshop

Communion: Improvisation Workshop
A collaborative work uniting technology and the performing arts

Monday, March 22 at 6 PM
Dancz Center for New Music
Hugh Hodgson School of Music

Communion will be presented initially as a panel discussion and workshop, with plans to follow this first event with a performance in the Athens community. This project will present improvisational art through the collaborative efforts of musicians, performers, media creators and visual artists. Improvisational techniques in movement, music, theatre and visual arts collide in a single performative moment, in a shared environment, without prior rehearsal.

The workshop coordinator, Ji Eun Moon, hopes the attendees, presenters and performers will utilize this opportunity to explore and reveal what is possible when artists of disparate disciplines meet and allow chance and impulsive response to direct their mutual journey.

Speakers include:

Mirla Criste, Contact Theatre, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film Studies
F. Tyler Burnet, Character and Clowning Improvisation. M.F.A. student in Performance
Jim McKillip, Jazz Improvisation. Member of Primetime Jazz ensemble

Each of the guest speakers offer a different specialty in improvisation and will present and discuss their practice as well as how they utilize improvisation as a creative tool. Following this presentation, attendees are invited to participate in a workshop experiment, in which we explore ways to combine these various improvisational techniques on the spot.

Attendees are invited to bring musical and percussion instruments, art and found objects, video and still cameras, theatre props and costumes, or anything that might contribute to our collaborative improvisational experiment.

For more information:

Ji Eun Moon
D.M.A Candidate in Music Composition
Graduate Research Assistant Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE)
The University of Georgia
jimoon77@uga.edu

Communion is supported in part by ICE.