ICE Announcements 11.10.03
<http://ice.uga.edu>

1. Yee-Haw Industries
2. Kunal Basu
3. Creative Capital
4. Computing Culture Group@MIT
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1. Yee-Haw Days at UGA: A Knoxvile-based fine art printshop visits Athens

In today's world of digital output, glossy offset junk mail
and catalogs, Yee-Haw Industries uses 80-year-old equipment
to produce designs that revel in the rawness of lead type and
wood against paper printing cutting-edge designs known
nation-wide. Owners Julie Belcher and Kevin Bradley combined
their talents (Julie was a designer for Seventeen magazine
and Blue Note Records and Kevin supplied the letterpress and
illustration experience) to carve an untapped niche in the
advertising world. Since then, the Country Music Hall of
Fame, the Kentucky Derby, Ralph Lauren, The Wall Street
Journal, and the A&E television network have used their
offbeat illustrations and type design. Musicians such as Trey
Anastasio of Phish, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Steve Earle,
Lucinda Williams and Greg Brown have commissioned them to
produce and CD covers Yee-Haw's work has been honored by
selection to PRINT Magazine's Regional Design Annual for five
years running and has been reviewed and featured by The
Washington Post,  AIGA Journal, Southern Living, Esquire,
American Illustration 21, and is soon to be published in The
Art of Modern Rock, the Poster Explosion (coming this moth).

Even though Yee-Haw moves in the rarified circles of national
names, they still print items such as birth and wedding
announcements along with ephemera such as "The World's
Greatest Bluesman- Robert Johnson". (see image) See website
<http://wwwyeehawindustries.com> for further prints and information.

This Monday at 7:00 p.m.  the UGA Printmaking Students
Association will host a slide lecture by Ms. Belcher and Mr.
Bradley in the Lamar Dodd Visual Arts building that will be
open to the public. Original prints will be available for
sale at the X-Ray café on Washington St. Wednesday the 12th
at 2:00 p.m.  The artists will be on hand to sign and answer
any questions during a coffee social.
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2. Kunal Basu is the International Visiting Artist 2003-2004 of the University
of Georgia’s Center for the Humanities and Arts. He is a novelist
and a fellow of Strategic Marketing at Oxford University, England.
Kunal Basu is the author of two historical novels—The Opium Clerk, a
19th century tale about an Indian clerk in the service of the British Empire,
unquestioningly and passively participating in the nefarious opium
trade, and The Miniaturist, a story about a miniature painter’s love for
his art and for his patron Akbar, the 16th century Mughal emperor of
India. The novels have received over 80 excellent reviews. The Opium
Clerk has sold over 10,000 copies and is awaiting its second UK printing.
A third novel, about 19th century scientists in London and Florence, and
a book of short stories will be ready for publication in 2004.
Kunal Basu has interviewed and read widely in about 40 newspapers and
magazines; on BBC, PBS in Canada and USA, and All India Radio; and in
several venues in Montreal, London, Oxford, Calcutta and Delhi. In August,
2003, the Shakespeare Society of Eastern India organized a seminar
on his works.
Kunal Basu has acted, too, in film in India, and on the professional stage
in Calcutta and Montreal. He has written a screenplay, Snakecharmer,
and written, directed and narrated two documentary films, Football and
The Magic Loom.
Kunal Basu has published more than a hundred academic articles in
marketing. His article on Brand Loyalty won the Best Paper Award from
the Academy of Marketing Science in 1994. He has taught in 14 countries,
held numerous research grants, designed partnership programs for
universities, and has been involved in senior executive education in both
public and private sectors. Currently, he directs the Oxford Advanced
Management Program.
For a complete schedule of events for Nov. 10- 20 visit <http://www.terry.uga.edu/mmr/
events/basu.php>
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3. Creative Capital announces new artist grant guidelines. For the 2004-05 grant round ,
Creative Capital will be awarding grants to individual artists in the fields of Visual Arts and
Film/Video . Please note the new application process this year. To apply, artists must first
complete an Inquiry Form, which will be available on this website <http://www.creative-
capital.org/> on February 16, 2004. The deadline for  completed Inquiry Forms will be March
15, 2004 .
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4. The Computing Culture research Group is now accepting applications for
admission in the Fall of 2004.  CCG is an art/technology/activism
research group within the MIT Media Lab.  Recent projects have included
the DJ I Robot Sound System, Government Information Awareness, Critical
Cartographies, Doom Monitor, Haptic Opposition, and the Afghan Explorer.
 Researchers in the group have shown and presented work from Soho to
Singapore.  The group is accepting several students for the two-year,
funded Master of Science program.  Applicants from any nation may apply.

Computing Culture is based on the premise that artists can and should
invent technologies.  We are less interested in using existing
technologies for expression than in authoring new ones, ones that might
be overlooked by the market or the interests of science and engineering
practice.  Our research results in specific works of art, but also helps
further an understanding of the relationships between art, technology,
and cultural production.  Some of the strategies that we practice
include interventions in contemporary consumer electronics, creating
special events for public situations, and applying technical development
to cultural agendas that wouldn't normally receive it.

Our emphasis is on physically and spatially embodied (rather than
screen-based) projects, and work that engenders technology with
significant social agency.  Prospective applicants may be trained in
either art, humanities, science, or engineering, but should show
crossover.  For instance, an art or humanities student should ideally be
an accomplished programmer, have machining skills, and be able to design
and fabricate electronics.  An engineering student should have done
several art projects, worked with a professional artist, or shown their
ability to author radical or unexpected technologies.  Those without a
combination of technical and critical skills need not apply.

Applications are due December 15th.  A portfolio of previous works is
required.  Information on how to apply may be found at
<http://www.media.mit.edu/mas/apply.html>