UGA Arts Collaborative

Organoids team is growing

Organoids team is growing

A small team of artists and scientists are expanding their collaborative research with support from the UGA Arts Collaborative. The “Organoids” project received a mini grant to develop prototypes and arts-integrative methods to create organoids, three-dimensional cellular structures which are developed from pluripotent stem cells. Project leaders Dr. Nadja Zeltner (Center for Molecular Medicine) and Martijn van Wagtendonk (Lamar Dodd School of Art) were inspired by the complexity of organoid models that grow in three dimensions and invite novel methods of representation. Organoid structures are of interest in seeking solutions for problems including adrenal gland insufficiency, understanding human embryonic development, and how hormone regulation impacts diseases such as PTSD. Now the team includes faculty and students in art, dance, molecular medicine, engineering, animal science, and cellular biology.

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.

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.

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.”