UGA Arts Collaborative

Our New Silence Performance 3/30

Performance: Our New Silence
Saturday, March 30 at 8 PM
Hugh Hodgson Hall
Free and open to the public

This musical performance connects the cultures of Java, Indonesia and Athens, Georgia, two distant locations with vital and influential music histories. The pieces performed will be reimaginings, remixes, and intermixes of the traditional music of Java, Indonesia, recorded by ICE Graduate Research Assistant Kai Riedl and engineer Suny Lyons of the band Electrophoria. In addition to Electrophoria performing a handful of songs from their upcoming release this spring, Saturday’s performance will feature a variety of local musicians including powerkompany, Revien, and Killick. Additional performers include UGA faculty and students in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and the entire show will be recorded for a later broadcast on Javanese radio.

The Our New Silence Project includes a diverse group of collaborating musicians in Athens, Georgia who began remixing and reimagining the songs from Javasounds (http://www.javasounds.org) within the context of original pop, ambient, electronic, and experimental music. The project includes the work of artists such as Peter Buck (REM) and Kate Pierson (The B52s), Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink (Azure Ray), Bill Doss and John Fernandez (The Olivia Tremor Control), Graham Ulicny (Reptar), and many more.

This performance is supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

ICE-Vision: Pickpocket

ICE-Vision: Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959)
Wednesday, March 20 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

“Robert Bresson made this short electrifying study in 1959; it’s one of his greatest and purest films, full of hushed transgression and sudden grace. A petty thief (Martin Lasalle) becomes addicted to the art and thrill of picking pockets. He loses his friends and fiancee, and begins to live like a monk, concentrating his entire being on his obsessional, increasingly devotional acts of theft. If the film seems familiar, that’s because Paul Schrader recycled great chunks of it in his scripts for Taxi Driver, American Gigolo, and Raging Bull. But the original retains its awesome, austere power.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

ecoartlab

eco*art*lab
Climate Change: Conveying Realities
March 23 – April 27, 2013
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 11 AM – 4 PM
Thursdays from 11 AM – 6 PM
Sundays from 11 AM- 1 PM
297 Prince Ave. (Bottleworks Complex)
http://ecoartlab.wordpress.com

eco*art*lab, a pop-up environmental art gallery and learning space in Athens, presents “Climate Change: Conveying Realities.” The exhibition opens on March 23, and will be on display through April 27. The show features over twenty visual, sound, and video artists from all over the US and beyond. Artists include Aviva Rahmani (NY), Christopher Hodges (Chicago, IL), June Julian (NYU art professor), Brendan Baylor (Iowa), Jane Garver (Atlanta, GA), Hortense Le Calvez (Greece), Benjamin Aron (Boston), and Adam Forrester (Athens, GA).

The show is curated by Chris Cuomo, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, and an internationally recognized scholar working on the social, political, and ethical dimensions of climate change. Supported in part by an ICE Project Grant.

ICE-Vision Double Feature: A Night of Beat Cinema

ICE-Vision Double Feature: A Night of Beat Cinema
Wednesday, March 6 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

Pull My Daisy (Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank, 1959)
The Flower Thief (Ron Rice, 1960) Rarely screened

Starring Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso and written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, Pull My Daisy is the influential underground film by the still photographers Leslie and Frank. This impulsively watchable film has a loose and musical structure; if anything, it chronicles the lifestyle of the Beats and their playfully inane aesthetic in New York City.

The Flower Thief is, according to P. Adams Sitney, “the purest expression of Beat cinema.” This avant-garde feature stars the first true Beat star, poet and actor Taylor Mead, as an affable wanderer in Ron Rice’s only complete film. Rarely-screened, it chronicles the last days of the San Francisco Renaissance and remains a classic of underground cinema.

2012-2013 ICE Project Grant Awards

Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is pleased to announce the 2012-2013 ICE Project Grant recipients. The awards reflect emerging research interests in the arts, creativity studies, interactive technology, and the sciences. ICE will support the new projects through various stages of development with funding from the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR).

Using Self-Efficacy in Classical Music Training to Increase Students’ Creativity
(Flow)

The project will investigate whether greater self-efficacy through critical thinking during the process of practicing and rehearsing will yield greater performance results on stage. Working in collaboration with the department of Educational Psychology, participants will create a self-study that focuses on personal practice time, lessons, coachings, public and graded performances and the rigorous behind-the-scenes stages of the process of preparing classical music for a performance – the ups, downs, in-betweens, disagreements, agreements, compromises, sacrifices, failures, and successes.

Participants:

Dr. Connie Frigo, Assistant Professor of Saxophone
Hugh Hodgson School of Music

Dr. Bonnie Cramond, Professor, Educational Psychology and Information Technology
Director of Torrance Center for Creative Studies

Garrett Jaeger, PhD Student
Educational Psychology and Information Technology

Alicia Welch, PhD Student
Educational Psychology and Information Technology

Biofeedback Performance Suit Prototype

The project will create a biofeedback suit that will allow an individual dancer a level of co-improvisational influence over the soundtrack of their performance. This project will utilize choreography, medical equipment, and wireless smart textile technology to assimilate the biofeedback of a performer with the traditional notions of music and dance recital.

Participants:

Chris Howe, BFA Candidate
Lamar Dodd School of Art

Jayma Lallathin, PhD Student
Department of Kinesiology

Alex Squires, Graduate Candidate
College of Engineering

Samantha Tankersley, BFA Candidate
Department of Dance

Visualizing Firefly Biology

The goal of this collaborative project to educate the public about fireflies through the creation of firefly website, which will include visualization of their fascinating biology, as well as a translation of the scientific information about the flashing behavior of different firefly species from abstract tables into short animations of flashing fireflies in their natural habitats.

Participants:

Kathrin Stanger-Hall, Associate Professor
Department of Plant Biology

Mike Hussey, Associate Professor
Department of Theatre and Film Studies

ICE-Vision: The King of Marvin Gardens

ICE-Vision: The King of Marvin Gardens (Bob Rafelson, 1972)
Wednesday, February 27 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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ICE-Vision continues with Film Studies major Daniel LoPilato’s weekly selections of eclectic, idiosyncratic, psychotronic, or otherwise eccentric excursions into world cinema.

Jack Nicholson stars as a talkshow radio jockey alongside Bruce Dern, his con artist brother, who hatches a real estate scheme in Atlantic City. An under-appreciated classic of the “New Hollywood,” this talky and reticent drama illustrates the style of filmmaking the offbeat (and commercially unsuccessful) studio BBS-Productions cultivated during the late sixties and early seventies, helping to launch the careers of screen legends like Nicholson, Peter Bogdanavich, and Dennis Hopper.