Idea Lab Conversation: AI Future

Idea Lab Conversation: AI Future
Tuesday, April 4 at 2:30 PM
Main Art Building Room S360

How will artists use new technologies?

Join Eliana Gelman, Aryan Thakur, and Sudhan Chitgopkar for a conversation about their creative practices and Idea Lab-supported projects incorporating VR, AI, and robotics. Gelman and Thakur are co-creators of Treehouse Zine, an art publication exploring the intersection of virtual reality experience and storytelling. Chitgopkar’s project Towards Analog combines generative art and mathematics.

Idea Lab Conversation: Creative Placemaking

Idea Lab Conversation: Creative Placemaking
Thursday, March 16 at 2 PM
Main Art Building Room S360

How can collaborations in the arts promote community understanding?

Join Connie Frigo, a professor of saxophone and co-founder of the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic, a partnership between UGA and the local Hip Hop community. She is an organizer of interdisciplinary arts events with a focus on the creative process, social justice advocacy, and community engagement.

https://www.athenshiphopharmonic.com

The Idea Lab student organization is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA.

Math & Design Interest Meeting

Pop Up Math & Design Exhibition Interest Meeting
Thursday, February 23 at 2 PM
Main Art Building Room S360

The Pop Up Math & Design Exhibition at UGA brings together art and math students to collaboratively design objects, visualizations, and interactive experiences of mathematics with a focus on topology. In topology, objects can stretch, twist, bend, and deform freely; to a topologist, a twisted rubber band and a circle are the same. With no fixed “shape” to speak of, mathematicians and artists can make creative choices of how to best represent these intriguing objects. Join us and explore an amazing world of knots, higher dimensions, and wild spaces. All undergraduates with a background in math, the arts, or design are welcome to join.

Webinar: Artists and Scholars Changing Culture, Creating Change

Webinar: Artists and Scholars Changing Culture, Creating Change
Thursday, February 23 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/artists-and-scholars-changing-culture-creating-change-findings-from-an-imagining-america-research-initiative/

As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible to attend

We invite you to Part I of a two part webinar series, co-hosted by Imagining America and a2ru.

The words ‘culture change’ are commonly used by those who aim to hold academic institutions accountable to supporting and recognizing public artmaking and scholarship. But what does it actually mean?

Continue reading “Webinar: Artists and Scholars Changing Culture, Creating Change”

Rebecca Kamen events

Rebecca Kamen Events


Public Lecture
Wednesday, March 1 at 6 PM
Main Art Building Room S151

Idea Lab Conversation
Thursday, March 2 at 2 PM
Main Art Building Room S360

How do artists and scientists work together?

Rebecca Kamen, sculptor and lecturer on the intersections of art and science, seeks ‘the truth’ through observation. Her artwork is informed by wide-ranging research into cosmology, history, philosophy, and by connecting common threads that flow across various scientific fields to capture and re-imagine what the scientists see.

https://rebeccakamen.com

Through the lens: A digital depiction of dyslexia
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/through-lens-digital-depiction-dyslexia

The Idea Lab student organization is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. Rebecca Kamen’s visit is supported by the UGA School of Art Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series.
https://art.uga.edu

Reading Room: Remember the Future

Remember the Future, a podcast by ART.COOP
https://rememberthefuture.buzzsprout.com

Art.coop invites listeners to Remember the Future together by listening to the stories of artists and culture bearers who know that the practices of the Solidarity Economy are not some new technology, but actually are ways of being in relationship with people and planet that are as old as time. They are our ancestral practices. In this 7 episode narrative pilot, listeners learn: You don’t have to be a starving artist or a sell out. You can find work where you joyfully live your values and pay the bills. We meet QTBIPOC creatives who are firing their bosses, freeing the land, electing themselves, and building livelihoods based on care, cooperation, mutual aid, and solidarity. Every other episode grounds listeners in a practice-based offering to activate the solidarity economy in their body, in their community, and in their context today.