My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again

My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again
Thursday, October 26 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Atrium (first floor)

https://thegeorgiareview.com/event/my-body-as-topic-coming-around-again-by-rebecca-pappas-performed-by-ellen-smith-ahern-theo-armstrong-alexis-robbins-and-taylor-zappone/

5–6 PM
Open Wrecking Event: drop by and walk around the event space to watch the choreographic process in action

6–7:30 PM
Performance and Conversation

7:30 PM
Reception

My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again is a three-volume dancework that unravels the tangled threads of white womanhood and American modern dance. Centered around Land, (In)Visibility, and Care, these dances traverse dualities of freedom/control; sincerity/satire; tenderness/violence; beauty/monstrosity.

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Arts Collaborative Mini Grants

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
No deadline

No longer accepting submissions for Fall 2023. Thank you for your proposals!

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects. Grant recipients are provided with a project liaison and are eligible for up to $1000 in support for project expenses. Collaborative teams must include participants from multiple disciplines and include at least one student, faculty, or staff member from UGA. Proposals will be reviewed monthly by an interdisciplinary selection committee, pending the availability of funds.

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

Proposal requirements:

  • Brief description of project goals (up to 300 words)
  • Names and project roles of collaborators

Proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

  • Interdisciplinary: does the project engage methods from multiple academic departments?
  • Creative: will the team generate new creative work during the project?
  • Collaborative: does the project include collaboration among the participants?
  • Feasible: is the project in a development stage that requires additional support?

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.

4’33” Competition

2023 Call for Participation: Spotlight on the Arts LIVE Research Competition 4’33”
Deadline: October 19
https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/

This competition highlights UGA student research in the arts and provides an opportunity to win award funding and to share creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators, and alumni throughout the university community. The competition is open to any graduate or undergraduate student working on an advanced project related to the literary, visual, or performing arts. On Tuesday, November 14, finalists will present their research in talks exactly four minutes and thirty-three seconds in length. Awards include $433 for the grand prize winner and $150 for three runners-up.

Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens Events

Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens Events
October 11 – 14

https://www.drama.uga.edu/news/stories/2023/visiting-artists-annie-sprinkle-beth-stephens

For the last decade, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have been creating performance under the rubric of “ecosexuality” in which they playfully provoke audiences to think differently about their relationship to the Earth: instead of imagining Earth as mother, how would we treat the Earth if we thought of it as a lover? How would our behavior change? How might we, then, co-create a more sustainable future?

This series of workshops and events introduces participants to Sprinkle and Stephens’ ecosexuality performances and their creative techniques. All activities are open to students, staff, faculty, and community.

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Conversation: Expression of the Superorganism

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Expression of the Superorganism
Friday, September 29 at noon
Lamar Dodd School of Art Bridge Gallery

Join collaborators Jiayi Guo and Haolin Zeng for a gallery talk about their project, Expression of the Superorganism. The exhibition features images, objects, and video created by Red Imported Fire Ants in collaboration with artist Jiayi Guo and biologist Haolin Zeng. Supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative and the National Science Foundation.

a2ru Webinar: AI Provocateurs

a2ru Webinar: AI Provocateurs
Thursday, October 5 at 3 PM

https://a2ru.org/event/ai-provacateurs/

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

Generative AI is emerging as the latest technology to disrupt the arts, design, and media fields. How are creative faculty responding, sometimes in unexpected ways? This webinar brings together working artists, educators, researchers, and technologists to discuss how they are exploring AI from diverse perspectives – ethically, creatively, and productively.

This panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Yvonne Houy, the Editor of Tradition-Innovations in Art, Design, and Media Higher Education. The inaugural edition of this new a2ru peer-reviewed digital journal – out in late Fall 2023 – will focus on Artificial Intelligence and possible futures for the Arts.

Image generated by the AI platform Imagine using the prompt “University professors trying to figure out how to use AI in their classes.”