Reading Room: Conversations with 2024 MAP Fund Reviewers

Reading Room: Conversations with 2024 MAP Fund Reviewers
https://mapfund.org/conversations-with-2024-reviewers/

Taking into account the breadth across our applicant pool, we invited reviewers to draw upon their own knowledge, expertise, and understanding of MAP’s mission, bringing their whole selves to the process and actively challenging any preconceptions about what a funded project is “supposed” to look like. Rather than impose rigid parameters–which can in no way serve as an appropriate requirement for every project, nor encourage the variety of exploration that MAP champions–we invited reviewers to consider each applicant’s own standards, definitions, and goals for artistic expression.

Reading Room: Creating Knowledge in Common

Creating Knowledge in Common
Ground Works Special Collection edited by Shannon Criss, Kevin Hamilton, Mary Pat McGuire
https://groundworks.io/journal/collections/2

Universities and communities are partnering together to more fully support needs across society. Art and design practices engaged within these partnerships substantively deepen the impact of this collective work through expression, visualization, representation, and exhibition, converging multiple viewpoints into broader re-imaginings and tangible new creations with both rational and emotional force. This special collection shares stories of such partnerships and their extraordinary outcomes in areas including community health, community arts, placekeeping, climate adaptation design, food production and distribution, abolition, student learning and engagement and more.

Mini Grants 2024 -25

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects with mentorship and funding. Congratulations to the new mini grant recipients!

A call for proposals is open for 2024-25, pending the availability of funds.

Physical Methods of Creative Computation

Physical Methods of Creative Computation reimagines the computer interface as a physical, collaborative space—a “folk computer.” Through interactive installations in which participants manipulate physical objects to perform digital functions, this project seeks to bridge the gap between the tangible and the virtual, exploring how tactile engagement with technology can foster creativity and social connection in ways that conventional digital interfaces cannot. Participants will be invited to engage with the folk computer in various artistic endeavors, such as collaborative visual art creation where physical movements translate into digital brushstrokes, interactive storytelling with tangible objects triggering narrative elements, and experimental music composition using physical arrangements to manipulate sound.

Project participants

Eliana Gelman, Art and Cognitive Science
Suhan Kacholia, Artificial Intelligence

Malady Mystery Project

The Malady Mystery Project is an inquiry into the intersections of medicine, history, and performance. This project will lead to the creation of a full-length interactive mystery that takes place in the early 1890s, a dynamic time where the development of the mystery genre, modern medicine, women’s rights, and modern policing were emerging together.

Project participants

Jennifer Marks, Theatre and Film Studies
Gabrielle Sinclair Compton, Theater and Film Studies
Amy Baldwin, AU/UGA Medical Partnership
Arushi Raza, Psychology

Nature Writing as Ecologists

Nature Writing as Ecologists is an interdisciplinary workshop to explore the relationships between ecological science and creative expression, experiment with new perspectives on the living world, and practicem creative writing. The project builds on the existing infrastructure of the Odum School of Ecology and the Jill and Marvin Willis Center for Writing within the Department of English in order to foster new opportunities for artistic engagement with the natural world, as well as creative forms of science communication.

Charlotte Hovland, Ecology
Kimba Wistosky, English

Glass Enclosures

Glass Enclosures is a collaboration to develop an interactive sculpture using glass components as game pieces, and will represent an exploration of ritual objects as they intersect with game theory. Placing ash into glass marbles, pendants, or hand-blown forms is a common practice most often used to commemorate a loved one that has passed away. This project uses the tradition of cremation glassblowing to theorize about abjection and the sick body.

Caitlin La Dolce, Art
Annalee Pickett, Chemistry

Aspen Satellite DNA Art Studio

Aspen Satellite DNA Art Studio takes place at the intersection of basic science, art, and graphic design, with the objective of developing new and useful techniques of data visualization. The project will focus on the use of novel data visualization techniques to communicate data obtained in the context of the proposed scientific work (the understanding the function of aspen-specific M147 TRAs and CENH3.2 and their impact on aspen genome evolution and genetic compatibility).

Annika Kappenstein, Art
CJ Tsai, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Ran Zhou, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
Magdy Alabady, Plant Biology

Beyond Authorship: Crediting Contributors to Arts-Integrated Research with CRediT-FAIR

a2ru Webinar: Beyond Authorship: Crediting Contributors to Arts-Integrated Research with CRediT-FAIR
Friday, December 6 at 3:30 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/beyond-authorship-crediting-contributors-to-arts-integrated-research-with-credit-fair/

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

While most academic publications use an authorship model, an alternative approach is contributorship. Contributorship is more inclusive and recognizes the broader set of individuals that contribute to and enable knowledge production–a boon for arts-integrated and community-engaged research! The most widely adopted contributorship model, CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), offers a high-level taxonomy that recognizes fourteen contributor roles. However, these roles are designed with bench and lab science in mind and do not account for some of the work involved in other collaborative research. In response, Ground Works has collaboratively created a version of CRediT adapted for arts-integrated research: CRediT-FAIR. For CRediT-FAIR, we have both augmented the description of some of the original fourteen roles and added four new roles to the taxonomy so as to better include arts and arts-research practices. In this webinar, we will explore the taxonomy itself and the Ground Works pilot of it for our special edition “Creating Knowledge in Common,” which features academic/community partnerships that center the arts and design.

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
No deadline

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects and modes of collaboration. Teams must include participants from multiple academic departments and include a UGA student or faculty member to serve as a primary contact. Grant recipients are provided with a project mentor and up to $1000 in support for qualified expenses. Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis, pending the availability of funds.

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

Proposal requirements:

– Brief description of project goals

– Names and roles of collaborators

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.

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4’33” Contest 2024

4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest
Thursday, November 21 from 4-6 PM
The Athenaeum, 287 W Broad St.
https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/

An homage to John Cage’s landmark composition of the same name, the 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest highlights UGA student research in the arts. The event offers an opportunity for students to win prizes and to share their creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators and alumni throughout the university community. Awards include $433 for the grand prize winner and $150 for three runners-up.

Anyone in attendance at the live presentations on November 21 will be eligible to receive one of the NEA Big Read feature books as part of a grant by the Athens-Clarke County Library. The feature books are “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi or “The Creative Ethnographer’s Notebook” by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and Kristina Jacobsen. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

Sponsored by the UGA Arts Council, the 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest is part of UGA’s annual Spotlight on the Arts festival.

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