ICE announcements 3.15.04
ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. ICE joins Rhizome.org
2. The Next Idea grant opportunity
3. CORE concert information
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1. This week ICE joins Rhizome.org, an online platform for the global new media art community.
Rhizome.org connects, supports, and educates the new media art community and the public
through email services, web site and outreach events—using the Internet to facilitate a critical
dialog that is accessible, inclusive and ongoing, and to build community across geographic and
cultural borders. ICE members will be provided with login information by request. For more
information visit <http://rhizome.org> or email <[log in to unmask]> .
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2. UGA Department of Dance presents CORE Concert Dance Company's Spring Collection 2003,
March 524-27 at 8:00 p.m., held at the New Dance Theatre, Dance Building on Sanford Drive. For
tickets call or visit the Tate Student Center Ticket Counter, 542-8074, M-F, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Prices are $8 student/senior citizen, $12 adult and all seating is general admission.
CORE will premiere Another Metal Garden, choreographed by Sean Curran UGA Center for
Humanities and Arts 2003 Distinguished Guest. Curran is acclaimed for his performing with Artist.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Stomp. Elsie Smith, formerly of Cirque de Soleil,
trained CORE members to perform on double trapeze, lyre and aerial silk in Misunderstood-A
Tribute to Nina Simone. UGA CORE alum Matt Kent and Emily Milam Kent returned to re-stage
Alruane choreographed by founding Co-artistic directors of worldwide acclaimed Pilobolus Dance
Theatre, Alison Chase and Moses Pendleton. Kent is in his eighth year of performing for stage and
television audiences all over the world with the award winning Pilobolus Dance Theatre. CORE will
perform 5 Degrees of Separation, presented in New York City for three consecutive years 2001
-2003. The Seasons Change Again was originally created for the 1996 Olympic Games ARTS '96
CORE performance. The retro-futuristic piece is performed to an original electronic music score
composed by Dr. Leonard Ball, School of Music. Temporary Excursions with a Relative Departure in
Mind is a collaborative project with choreography by Bala Sarasvati, digital animation by visual
artist Mark Callahan, and compositions by Philip Glass performed by the UGA Philip Glass
Ensemble, led by Ryan Burruss, School of Music. The work was selected to be performed
November 2003 for the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS) Mosaic 25th
Anniversary Celebration at Judson Memorial Church in New York. Guest performers include Chris
Eckenroth and Matthew Ross of UGA and CAPOEIRA ATHENS and Nicole Mermans of CANOPY of
Athens.
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3. Don´t miss this chance! Due to the tremendous response, the deadline for submitting entries to
the Prix Ars Electronica, the u19 category and [the next idea] grant has been extended to March
26, 2004.
Discovering ideas for tomorrow in young minds today is the aim of this grant supported by
Voestalpine and focusing on the intersection of art and technology. The category’s target group
includes students at universities, art schools, technical schools, and other educational institutions
as well as creatives from all over the world, aged 19–27, who have developed as-yet-unproduced
concepts in the fields of media art, media design or media technology. The winner receives a
stipend in the amount of 7,500 Euro and will be invited to spend a term as Researcher and Artist
in Residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Judging will be done by a panel of experts.
The Ars Electronica Futurelab makes its resources and its staff’s expertise available to support the
realization of the project during the term of residency. The awarded concept or the completed
work will be presented in the Prix Ars Electronica’s “CyberArts 2004” catalog and as part of the Ars
Electronica Exhibition at the 2004 Ars Electronica Festival. Strongly committed to an
interdisciplinary approach, and as part of an international network of collaborating institutional
associates, the Ars Electronica Futurelab carries out its R&D projects together with artists and
scientists from all over the world.
For more information visit <http://www.aec.at>
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