Welcome: Fall 2008

Welcome to a new semester at UGA! If you are new to ICE, please take a few moments to explore the site and learn about some of the current and past projects and events. You may also be interested in joining the ICE listserv, a weekly email announcement with local events and opportunities in the arts.

Fall 2008 finds the ICE Studio in a new location, on the first floor of the just-completed Lamar Dodd School of Art in the Performing and Visual Arts Center, adjacent to the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and the Georgia Museum of Art. The ICE Web site has a new format and a new Annoucements blog features events and opportunity listings formerly available only on the listserv. With several projects already in progress, we look forward to announcing a new call for proposals for ICE Grants later this semester.

Please also welcome the first recipients of Graduate Assistantships in Interdisciplinary Arts Research: Ji Eun Moon (Music), Hunter Parker (Theatre and Film Studies), and Marie Porterfield (Art). These three exceptional candidates will develop creative research under the auspices of ICE, including collaborative work across disciplines and facilitating collaborative projects and proposals with faculty, students, and community members.

New ICE Studio

The ICE Studio is open in its new location! Formerly housed in the historic Tanner Building on UGA’s North Campus, ICE is now located on the first floor of the just-completed Lamar Dodd School of Art in the Performing and Visual Arts Center, adjacent to the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and the Georgia Museum of Art. 

A New Dissonance

A New Dissonance: Translating Ben Johnston’s 10th String Quartet
2007-2008 ICE Project Grant
Jon Roy
Graduate Candidate
Lamar Dodd School of Art

A New Dissonance will document the preparation, rehearsal and performance of Ben Johnston’s 10th String Quartet, providing insight to the creative process of Johnston and his unique notation methods. Ben Johnston was born in Macon, Georgia in 1926 and studied with music legends Harry Partch, John Cage and Darius Milhaud. Johnston is currently Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Illinois, where he taught composition and theory from 1951-1983. Jon Roy, an MFA candidate in Art, will combine his background in visual art, film and music to enable a historic staging of the composition by the Kepler Quartet in Madison, Wisconsin. Performed only once before, the 10th String Quartet has been developed further by Johnston using computer-generated MIDI realizations. Roy will translate the composition’s microtonal acoustical principals to other disciplines, such as film and color theory, making the the results available via the Web and DVD.

For more information visit: http://newdissonance.com/

Ben Johnston

Satellite Dishes, Moveable Walls, and a Snowscape

Maryn Vance

Satellite Dishes, Moveable Walls, and a Snowscape
2007-2008 ICE Project Grant
Jonathan Vance
Undergraduate Candidate
Computer Science

Satellite Dishes, Moveable Walls, and a Snowscape will explore the potential of multi-point interactive whiteboards using the Nintendo Wiimote, used in conjunction with live performance. The project will bring together a group of dancers, musicians, set builders, costume designers and lighting technicians, organized by Jonathan (BS candidate, Computer Science) and Maryn Vance (BFA Dance).

A sketch from the project will be performed during the Adventures in Mysticism Music Show on May 31 at ATHICA.

Elliott Earls Residency Catalog

Elliott Earls
at
The University of Georgia

32-page booklet designed by Elliott Earls documenting his UGA residency during October, 2007. Free copies available at the ICE Studio!

Elliott Earls first gained international recognition as a designer of digital typography in the 1990s and expanded his practice to include one-person performances utilizing interactive technology of his own design, earning a prestigious Emerging Artist Grant from The Wooster Group in New York. In 1995, Earls formed the Apollo Program, a studio devoted to experimentation with nonlinear digital video, spoken word poetry, music composition and design. Earls’ work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals around the world, and is featured in the permanent collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. In 2001, Earls was appointed designer-in-residence and head of the 2-D Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. While at Cranbrook his artistic practice has continued to broaden by using film production as a method to generate digital photography, sculpture, paintings, and the music of his band, The Venomous Sons of Jonah.

The Elliott Earls Residency is supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries, Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), and Ciné.

For more information about Earls, visit http://www.theapolloprogram.com