UGA Arts Collaborative

Mini Grant Awards 2015-2016

Idea Lab is pleased to announce two new Mini Grant recipients. The projects were selected based on creative merit, collaborative and interdisciplinary reach, and feasibility. Each project team will be assigned a mentor from ICE, will receive regular feedback from Idea Lab members, and will make a presentation as part of the ICE Conversation Series. The Idea Lab Mini Grants are sponsored by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE).

Connect

The collaborators of Connect will develop a sound art composition integrated with the everyday use of smartphone technology. Phase One of the project involves the implementation of an early version of an app at a live concert to assist the performers in adapting to the new demands of integrating the technology into their work. Phase Two aims at an experimental audience-technology-performer integrated premier performance at the Dancz Center for New Music. Phase Three aims at a larger concert work including a wind ensemble and interactive technology.

Participants

Cody Brookshire, DMA student, Music Composition
Richard Saney, undergraduate, Computer Science
Jake Reeves, undergraduate, Genetics
Tyler Ehrlich, MM student, Music Conducting

Hyphenated American

Hyphenated American is a two-part art production utilizing musicians, film-makers, visual artists, and writers to construct a story about the experiences of a first-generation Hispanic-American. The project aims to convey the story of students and local community members who find themselves belonging to both Hispanic and American cultures and to turn an innovative collaborative lens to their struggles with identity and with a unique set of societal pressures. The first part of the project will be an interactive web site that will allow Hispanics who would like to share their experiences but are not part of the performative aspect of the project to do so. The second part is a performance event to be held in downtown Athens in 2016. The performance will be a collaborative event including spoken word, visual art, and original music composition.

Participants

Monique Osorio, undergraduate, Music Composition and Theory, Psychology
Anita Guevara, undergraduate, Social Work
Sestina Real, undergraduate, Women’s Studies and African American Studies
Orlando Burgos Pimental, undergraduate, Advertising

Picturing Home

Picturing Home will bring awareness to the many families in the Athens area affected by the deportation of a family member or loved one. Using the concept of photovoice, twenty families from the Hispanic community will use disposable cameras to document moments that they wish to share about their experiences with deportation. The project will culminate in a curated exhibition of photographs as well as testimonials that will allow the Athens community to engage in dialogue about an issue that deeply impacts many local families.

Participants

Ashley Meadow, PhD student, Sociology
Mary Adams, PhD student, Sociology
Erin Mazzei, graduate student, Photography
Pablo Lapegna, Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Patricia Richards, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies
Alejandra Calva, PORTAL Manager, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute

Kit Hughes in Inc.

November 4, 2015
Inc.
link to full article

link to Kit’s ICE project

How This Entrepreneur’s Fast-Growing Business Started as an Art Project

During art school, I worked on a project where I bought every product advertised in 24 hours of network television. I learned volumes: among other things, most advertising and marketing is simply a bunch of levers and knobs that are pulled and turned to make emotional connections. I wanted to show the power in manipulating those emotional connections. It was kind of like playing with people in a gallery, trying to come up with ways to get them to engage with each other and make them happy. That was the spark for Look-Listen.

ICE-Vision: In the Mood for Love

ICE-Vision: In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 2001)
Thursday, October 29 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S150
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Seen your share of European and American cinema? Want to check out films from the other 85% of the world’s population? Join philosophy major Thomas Finan as he explores movies produced outside of the Western canon.

For his first film since the 1997 Hong Kong handover, auteur filmmaker Wong Kar-wai directs this moody period drama about unrequited love that, like his earlier work, swoons with romantic melancholy. Set in a Shanghaiese enclave in Hong Kong in 1962, the film centers on two young couples who rent adjacent rooms in a cramped and crowded tenement. Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) works as a secretary in an export company while her husband’s job at a Japanese multinational keeps him away on extended business trips. Across the hall, Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) works as a newspaper editor and is married to a woman who is also frequently out of town. Neither respective spouse is ever shown in full, instead they are shot from the back or obscured by walls and furniture. Li-zhen and Chow soon strike up a cordial — if tenative — friendship. The pair slowly fall in love in spite of their determination to uphold their end of their marital vows. In the Mood for Love, which was screened in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, barely made it to the fest’s final slot; Wong Kar-wai was reportedly shooting scenes in Cambodia a week prior to the festival.

ICE-Vision: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

ICE-Vision: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2011)
Thursday, October 22 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S150
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ICE Conversation Series: George Scheer

ICE Conversation Series: George Scheer
Tuesday, October 20 at 4 PM
ICE Office, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S160
http://www.goelsewhere.org

How do you describe a space that never stops changing? The Elsewhere Museum, once a thrift store, is a living museum that hosts 50 artists from all over the world year-round. Join visiting artist George Scheer, Director of Elsewhere Museum, to talk about this unique and ever-evolving art space.

ICE-Vision 10th Anniversary Edition: True Stories

ICE-Vision 10th Anniversary Edition*: True Stories (Byrne, 1986)
Thursday, October 15 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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Talking Heads front man David Byrne co-wrote, composed, directed and stars in this quirky musical journey into the odder side of small-town America. Unforgettable performances from Spalding Gray, John Goodman, Pops Staples and more!

*ICE-Vision 2006 selection by Micki Davis