Idea Lab Open House
Friday, April 17 from 6 – 8 PM
ICE Office, Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S160

Stop by to learn about recent Mini-Grant projects and how to get involved in UGA’s student organization for interdisciplinary art.

ICE-Vision: Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983)
Thursday, April 16 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon “Videodrome,” a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend (Deborah Harry) auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

ICE-Vision: House (Obayashi, 1977)
Thursday, April 9 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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In an effort to avoid spending time with her father and his creepy new lover, young Gorgeous (Kimiko Ikegami) resolves to visit her aunt’s remote mansion. With six of her closest friends in tow, including the musically inclined Melody (Eriko Tanaka) and the geeky Prof (Ai Matsubara), Gorgeous arrives at the estate, where supernatural events occur almost immediately. A severed head takes flight, household appliances come to life and a portrait of a cat seems to contain an evil spirit.

ICE-Vision: Tetsuo the Iron Man (Tsukamoto, 1989)
Thursday, April 2 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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A “metal fetishist” (Shin’ya Tsukamoto), driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he’s made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman (Tomoroh Taguchi) and his girlfriend (Kei Fujiwara). The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.

Sensory Overload Tech Conference
Thursday, March 26 and Friday, March 27
UGA Special Collections Library
Free and open to the public
http://www.slingshotathens.com/line-up/tech

Technologists, designers, researchers, engineers, sonification experts, and visualization masters all convene at the Slingshot Festival to demonstrate the expressions and understanding of Big Data + Data Perceptualization.

THURSDAY, MARCH 26

8:30 AM
Welcome
Visualization Video Program

9 AM
Thomas E. Potok, Founder and Leader, Computational Data Analytics Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Swimming in Big Data

10 AM
Samantha Joye, Director, ECOGIG; Professor of Marine Sciences, UGA
Assessing the ecosystem impacts of a deepwater blowout: collecting, interpreting and evaluating ecosystem-scale datasets to assess large scale environmental perturbations

11 AM
Panel: Real Big Data Applications in IT, moderated by Nikhil Srinivasan, Department of Management Information Systems, UGA

Gunnar Berger, CTO Desktops & Apps, Citrix
Micah Freedman, Director of UX, Integral Ad Science
Advertising in the Age of Big Data
Jeff Small, Technology Director, Atlanta, HUGE, Inc.
The Internet of Things – The Data Ramifications Of Everything Talking To Everything

1:30 PM
Bruce Walker, Director, Sonification Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
Method and Meaning: Useful and Usable Sonification and Auditory Display

2:30 PM
Valery Vermeulen, Visiting Professor, Erasmushogschool Brussel
Interactive sound design and synthesis as an innovative tool for music composition and performance

2:40 PM
Live Data Sonification Performance
Mikromedas: Resynthesizing space and deep space in musical context

FRIDAY, MARCH 27

9 AM
Designer’s Forum: Data Visualization

Brad Tober, Assistant Professor, Graphic Design, University of Illinois
Algorithmic/Data Aesthetics
Annelie Berner, data artist and technologist, New Inc.(an art, tech & design incubator)
The New Museum
Looking at Data through One Lens
Zane Cochran, Interaction Designer, Founder, HackBerry Lab, Berry College;
PhD Candidate, Georgia Tech Interactive Media Technology Center
Pixi – Interactive Fashion & Interface
Kyle McDonald, Interactive Telecomunications Program (ITP),
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

10:30 AM
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director, AlloSphere Research Facility, University of California, Santa Barbara
Composing in N-Dimensions: Using the Creative Process as a Computational Framework for Unfolding Complex Systems

11:30 AM
Sensory Overload Data Perceptualization Competition
Presentation of Finalists and Awards