ICE Announcements 9.7.04
ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration
<http://ice.uga.edu>
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1. Paradise Hotel opens
2. ATHICA call for entries
3. Skewed Triangulation
4. Spectropolis
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1. Paradise Hotel opens this Thursday!
"Paradise Hotel", an experimental play by Richard Foreman, will be performed in Athens, Sept. 9
-11. The production features the collaborative talents of University of Georgia students and local
artists who have been working together for almost one year. Paradise Hotel is supported in part by
the department of drama and Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), a multidisciplinary initiative for
advanced research in the arts at UGA.
Richard Foreman is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in New York City, an eight-
time Obie award winner and recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. His plays often feature absurd
and unconventional methods intended to stun and awaken the audience. "Paradise Hotel", written
in 1998, combines wit, unusual props and overtly sexual poses and language.
“The play interrogates sexuality along philosophical and psychoanalytical lines and explores body-
machine interactivity, the displacement of the subject, and the persistence of humanistic
fantasies,” said Cal Clements, a part-time instructor at UGA and the individual who originated the
Athens production of "Paradise Hotel". Clements engaged UGA drama students Joshua Waterstone
and Ben Coolik to further the direction and design of the play.
“The play seeks not to provide answers but to provoke questions,” said play director Waterstone.
"Paradise Hotel" is staged on a rotating set, where the actors mix spoken lines with prerecorded
audio and interact with custom stage elements triggered by electronic sensors. The actors use
stylized poses and language to reveal personality traits, like puppets in an eerie and exciting
world.
Coolik, who is seeking an MFA in design and technology at UGA, created a three-dimensional
bull’s-eye target that incorporates lights, sensors and an air compressor that inflates balloons on
cue. It is controlled using a computer, programmed by Coolik, which causes the target to react to
the actors as they approach.
"Paradise Hotel" will be presented at the Little Kings Club, located at 223 Hancock Avenue in
downtown Athens, Sept. 9-11, with nightly performances at 8 and 10 p.m. Tickets are $8 for
general admission and $6 with student ID.
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2. Call for Entries, v.4, ATHICA Virtual Art Gallery
"Regime Change"
ATHICA, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, welcomes submissions of web-site artist projects
to be featured at ATHICA's Virtual Art Gallery, Version 3 entitled, "Regime Change".
Submissions should be web based artworks, created and designed specifically for the internet
arena expressing an opinion of our current political environment and related issues surrounding
the upcoming election.
Deadline - October 1, 2004. Please forward html address of artist project, artist statement, and
art- based resume to Didi Dunphy, ATHICA Virtual Art Curator, at <[log in to unmask]>.
Launch date for the new selections in the Virtual Art Gallery at ATHICA is October 27, 2004. For
more information visit <http://www.athica.org>.
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3. Thursday, September 9th, dancer Julie Rothschild and cellist Heather McIntosh will perform in
conjunction with "Skewed Triangulation", an installation by Andi Steele.
Chase St. Warehouse, Unit 3
Gallery will be open from 7-10pm
Performance will start at 8:00pm
Questions:< [log in to unmask]>
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4.Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City is a three-day event (OCT 1-3, 2004) in Lower
Manhattan that highlights the diverse ways artists, technical innovators and activists are using
communication technologies to generate urban experiences and public voice. The increasing
presence of mobile communication technologies is transforming the ways we live, construct and
move through our built environment. The participants of Spectropolis make obvious or play with
this shift, creating new urban perceptions and social interactions with cell phones, laptops,
wireless internet, PDAs and radio.
In addition to twelve projects presented in City Hall Park, there will be several hands-on
workshops and two panels free to the public.
Spectropolis is curated by Wayne Ashley, LMCC's curator of new media and public programs, and
artists Yury Gitman and Brooke Singer.
Spectropolis is produced by Dana Spiegel, Director of NYCwireless, Jordan Silbert, and Jordan
Schuster; and co-sponsored by the Downtown Alliance, NYCwireless, and the Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council.
The Brooklyn Museum, Pace University and the New School University are generously hosting
Spectropolis events.
For more information, please visit <http://www.spectropolis.info>.
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