Clarinda Mac Low, an interdisciplinary artist who stages her work in non-traditional environments, will visit the UGA campus from October 8-9. Her visit will include an interactive performance titled Cyborg Nation at Ciné, 234 West Hancock Avenue, downtown Athens on the evening of Thursday, October 8 from 6-9 PM.

Clarinda Mac Low uses art to connect people across communities and to each other. Her collaborative performances and public art take place in theaters, city streets, and unusual sites throughout the world. Mac Low’s background includes both art and science, with degrees in Dance and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. She is a former HIV lab researcher, medical journalist, and the recipient of prestigious grants and fellowships from arts organizations such as the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, and the Dance Theater Workshop in New York.

Since 1988 Mac Low and her collaborators have presented work in New York City at performance spaces such as P.S. 122, the Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, and the Kitchen. Her recent work includes Salvage/Salvation, which explores abundance and decay, a solo multimedia project based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and Cyborg Nation, a technologically enhanced performance that takes the form of public dialogues.

During Cyborg Nation, Mac Low will wear a costume that is also a portable media environment, with a built-in miniature camera, microphone, amplifier, and video projector. The project investigates how technology both extends and limits our senses by combining remote communication in the form of email and phone messages with one-to-one conversation, providing a twenty-first-century version of the Socratic dialogue. Members of the public are invited to come to Ciné during the performance or to participate by sending messages to scope@culturepush.org or calling 646-229-7895.

Clarinda Mac Low’s UGA visit is supported by the department of Theatre and Film Studies and ICE.

For more information about Cyborg Nation visit http://culturepush.org/?q=node/150.

Cyborg Nation Performance
Thursday, October 8 from 6 – 9 PM
Ciné

Theatre and Film Studies Colloquium
Friday, October 9 at 12:20 PM
Fine Arts Building

ICE Seminar: Gaming
Tuesday, September 22
5:00 PM
Hugh Hodgson School Of Music
Dancz Hall, Room 246

Art, music, and theatre come together in the world of game development.

Casey O’Donnell has worked as a software engineer and project manager both in and out of the videogame industry.  He is currently the Athens Chapter President of the Georgia Game Developers Association.

John Kundert-Gibbs specializes in 3D computer modeling and animation, sound and media design, and dramatic writing and playwrights.  He is a professor of Theatre and Film Studies.

Brion Kennedy is a co-founder of Audio Aggregate and a member of Bit Brigade, a band that plays the soundtracks to classic Nintendo games while a gamer beats the game from start to finish.

Free and open to the public.

Directions: http://noise.uga.edu/danczdirections.html