ICE Announcements 11.3.03
ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration
<http://ice.uga.edu>
1. Clayton Eshleman
2. All Day and All Night
3. UGA Philip Glass Ensemble
4. Creative Commons contest
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1. Lanier Speakers Series: "Upper Paleolithic Imagination and the Construction of the
Underworld" Clayton Eshleman, esteemed poet, prize-winning translator, founder/editor of
seminal poetry magazines Caterpillar and Sulfur, and Professor Emeritus at East Michigan
University will give a lecture and slide presentation on the prehistoric cave art of the
Dordogne and other caves in southwestern Europe. On Eshleman's exploration of cave art,
Gary Snyder says, "with visionary imagination, informed poetic speculation, deep insight,
breathtaking leaps of mind, Eshleman draws out the underground of myth, psychology,
prehistory, and the first turn of the human mind toward the modern." Park Hall 265 at 4:30
p.m. Reception follows in Room 261.
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2. All day and All night: an interactive multi-media installation by Kit Hughes
Part I: Friday, November 7 -- Tuesday, November 18, 2003
Part II: Thursday December 4 - Saturday December 13, 2003
Saturday, November 8, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Opening Reception
Special Hours for this exhibit:
Monday - Wednesday 6:00 - 9:00 p.m., Thursday & Friday 3:00 - 9:00 p.m., Saturday &
Sunday 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Schedule of Affiliated Events:
- Saturday, November 8, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Opening Reception. Free
- Friday, November 14, 8:00 - 9:00 p.m. Music TBA (Pay-What-You-Can: Suggested Donation
$7.00)
- Tuesday, November 18, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Closing party for All day and All night (Part I)
ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art is pleased to present All day and All night, an
interactive multi-media installation by Kit Hughes which targets American consumer culture.
Americans are bombarded with hundreds of commercials each day. This leads the artist to
wonder, "what if I could buy everything I see on TV?"
Hughes exhibition answers this question by filling the gallery with a plethora of products, all
of which were advertised within a 24-hour period. This warped shopping spree includes
viewers in a spectacle of production and consumption. Participants are invited to scan the
actual products on a barcode reader, triggering a multimedia barrage that includes pre-
recorded commercial footage, edited views of specific products and a projection of the
related advertisement. Audio recordings of prank phone calls with 1-800 Customer Service
Representatives play as viewers are treated to extreme close-ups of the commercial actors
euphoric expressions.
But that's not all. Visitors then receive a printed ticket, good for one round of paintball
ammunition in the "firing range" section of the exhibition. The experience culminates in firing
away at a blank canvas installed in the gallery.
Hughes, who is currently a student in UGA's Lamar Dodd School of Art Digital Media,
proposed All Day and All Night to the ATHICA board last summer during their open call for
submissions. Due to its scale and ambitious nature, they decided to give Mr. Hughes'
installation a solo run, the first of its kind in the gallery's short history of exhibiting
challenging contemporary art (ATHICA debuted in March 2002). Hughes has shown his
conceptual projects at venues throughout the southeast region since 1998, including the
Fugitive Art Center in Nashville and the Murfreesboro Art Center, also in Tennessee. Before
returning to art school in 2002, Hughes worked for large corporations creating packaging
designs, an experience that obviously informs this piece. Hughes is also a net artist who has
received a grant from the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) for his
Tagging project, an online tool for covering downtown Athens in virtual graffiti, which will
debut in the spring of 2004.
Part I of All day and All night will run from November 7th through the 18th, with an opening
reception on November 8th from 7:00-9:00 PM. Part II, a second installment of All day and All
night, will run December 4th through the 13th. It will feature new holiday commercials and
fresh paintball ammunition. A December Closing Party and Paintball Art Raffle will serve as an
ATHICA fundraiser, with the paintball paintings produced by recipients to be raffled off as
Holiday gifts.
All day and All night is supported in part by a project grant from Ideas for Creative
Exploration (ICE).
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3. The UGA Phillip Glass Ensemble (Ryan Burruss, Director): will perform at Dancz Hall (2nd
floor Music Building) at 5:00 PM Monday, November 10 and Wednesday, November 12, 2003.
The music will consist entirely of Glass' film works, drawn from The Hours, Truman Show,
Candyman, Bent, Powaqqatsi, and Mishima.
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4. Creative Commons Moving Image Contest: create, or mash-up, a moving image that
explains Creative Commons mission, using your favorite moving image authoring tool, such
as Flash, iMovie, or Final Cut Pro. Entries can contain video, animated images, text, and
audio. We welcome and encourage the use of other people's work, provided that you have
permission or the work is Creative Commons-licensed or public domain. The entry should be
2 minutes or less. All entries must be licensed under a Creative Commons license of your
choosing by time of entry. Top prizes include a computer, DV Camera, and an iPod.
Deadline for entries is December 31st 2003. <http://creativecommons.org/contest/>
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