ICE Announcements 10.1.07
http://ice.uga.edu
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*Featured Event*
Opening at Cine (Fri. 10/5)
1. Oleg Grabar Lecture (Tues. 10/2)
2. David Sandlin Open Studio (Wed. 10/3)
3. Elliott Earls Workshop (call for participants)
4. Music Technology at GA Tech
5. Cine Screenings and Events
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Opening at Cine
A performance of collaborations in contemporary dance, music, and video by Andrea Trombetta
Friday, October 5, 2007 at 8:00 PM
in the Cine Lab
234 W. Hancock Avenue in downtown Athens
Admission $5
Featuring live perfomance by Mirla Criste, John Jenkinson, Jennifer Morlock, Andrea Trombetta,
Janelle Welbourne, Craig Whitehouse. Live musical accompaniment by Leslie Helpert, Kevin Hyde,
Colleen McCoy and Rob Sutherland. Sculpture and video by Sean Mills, John Powers and Jonathan
Railey.
http://athenscine.com
http://www.fabricdance.com
Supported in part by ICE.
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1. Oleg Grabar: The object in and of Islamic Art
Lecture: October 2nd, 2007, 5:30 PM
Room 117 of the Visual Arts Building
Oleg Grabar, Professor Emeritus at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, NJ, is one of the most esteemed and prolific educators in the study of Islamic art
and architecture. He began teaching and researching at the Institute in 1990 after spending his
career at the University of Michigan and Harvard University. Grabar attended the University of Paris
before earning his B.A. from Harvard College and his M.A. and Ph.D from Princeton University. His
interest in the Arabic culture came about after extensive travel in Asia and a rich education in
Oriental Languages and Literatures and the History of Art. Grabar has written eighteen books and
more than 140 articles. He has received many academic awards including the Levi Della Vida
award, in honor of distinguished scholarship in the field of Islamic Studies, from the University of
California.
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2. Open Studio: Dodd Chair, David Sandlin
October 3rd, 2007, 4:30 PM
101 South Thomas St. Art Complex
David Sandlin, 2007-2008 Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair, will hold an open studio to preview his
paintings, prints, and books.
3:00-4:30 pm: Silkscreen book show
4:30-7:30 pm: Refreshments
Open to all who are interested and would like to meet David and view his work.
Born in Ireland and raised amidst Protestant-Catholic strife in Belfast, David Sandlin has spent his
career discussing America, for all her hypocrisy and charm. His family moved to the United States
in 1972 and settled in Birmingham, Alabama, affording David the quintessential Southern
American experience. Sandlin earned his BFA from the University of Alabama in 1979; he has lived
and worked in New York for more than 25 years where his work has evolved from street art to
bumper stickers to paintings and installations. He is represented by the Gracie Mansion Gallery
and has shown stateside at La Luz de Jésus Gallery in Los Angeles, the Carl Hammer Gallery in
Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, as well as many others. He has been featured abroad in
galleries in Switzerland, Japan, Australia, and Canada. Sandlin is the author of several books; the
first, Land of 1,000 Beers, details “Sinland” which he describes as “a thematically unified body of
work—you could call it Dante’s Divine Comedy meets Hank Williams.”
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3. Elliott Earls Workshop
Call for Participants
Students from all disciplines are invited to participate in a workshop with Elliott Earls during the
week of October 15-19. For more information or to reserve a space in the workshop contact Mark
Callahan, <[log in to unmask]>. For more information about Elliott Earls, visit <http://
www.theapolloprogram.com>.
Over the course of the past two years designer and artist Elliott Earls has been working on a
feature length digital film tentatively entitled "The Saranay Motel". The film utilizes desktop
technologies including HD video and still photography, to combine motion graphics, stop-motion
animation, pop songs and film clips into an experimental film. As of July 2007, over 750 gigabytes
of material, including over 2000 photographs, has been produced for use within the film. The
material ranges from high definition 720p footage, to stop motion sequences shot with a Nikon
D-200 in raw format. The crew has shot on five distinct occasions for total of 24 days.
Earls says “in December 2005 in preparation for a looming performance at Music Hall Detroit, I
shot an eight minute long digital film in a flea-bag motel on Woodward Avenue in Detroit. Over
the course of the past eighteen months in collaboration with my band The Venomous Sons of
Jonah and a loose collection of artists, I've taken that short and built upon it.”
To view a trailer for "The Sarany Motel", visit
<http://www.theapolloprogram.com/SaranayTrailerClipF.html>
Earls explains “the 'Saranay Motel' trailer is cut to an original song entitled ‘Can't Nobody Flow,’
which I wrote in collaboration with super-producer Timothy Day and actor Jerome Evans. Tim took
the claw hammer joint ‘Cluck Old Hen’ recorded with The Venomous Sons of Jonah, mixed it with
some old-skool hip hop beats and 80s production techniques. Jerome Evans and I then
contributed our verses.”
Workshop Brief
Earls will screen scenes from the film and discuss the project with students. After discussion,
willing interdisciplinary participants will be broken into small teams to collaborate on creating a
scene for the film. The scene potentially will include original music, motion graphics, acting, props
and set design. We will assess the skill sets of the workshop participants, discuss the goals and
work in an intense fashion in an attempt to produce a viable scene for possible inclusion in the
film.
The Elliott Earls Residency is supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Lamar
Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist and Scholar Series, Lamar Dodd School of Art Galleries,
Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), and Ciné.
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4. MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MUSIC TECHNOLOGY AT GEORGIA TECH
The Music Department at Georgia Tech in Atlanta is accepting applications for its Master of
Science degree in Music Technology, which provides students with the practical skills and
theoretical understanding needed to be leaders in the design, development, and creative
implementation of music technology products and services. The program currently offers a
concentration in Computer Music Research and Engineering, focusing on the design and
development of enabling technologies in areas including networked applications, mobile devices,
music information retrieval, musical robotics, and interactive performance. This two-year, full-
time interdisciplinary degree program is conducted in close collaboration with other leading
programs at Georgia Tech, including Human Computer Interaction, Electrical Engineering,
Industrial Design, Digital Media, and Mechanical Engineering.
Generous research assistantships and tuition waivers are available to select students.
Applications for January 2008 enrollment are due by November 1, 2007. Applications for August
2008 enrollment are due February 15, 2008. Applicants should have an undergraduate degree in
Music, Computing, Engineering, or a related discipline, with a background both in performance,
composition, and/or theory, and in programming and/or engineering.
For more information about the program, the Music Technology Group, and the application
process, please visit:
http://www.music.gatech.edu/mtg/academics/
FACULTY:
PARAG CHORDIA: music information retrieval (MIR), music cognition, computational music theory,
algorithmic and interactive composition, machine hearing.
FRANK CLARK: media and music, network music.
JASON FREEMAN: algorithmic composition, network music, audience-participative musical
environments.
CHRIS MOORE: recording, production, conducting.
GIL WEINBERG : new instruments for musical expression, musical networks, machine and robotic
musicianship, sonification, music education.
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5. SCREENING EVENTS @ CINE THIS WEEK: SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 4, 2007
SHOWTIMES + MORE INFO: http://www.athenscine.com/
movies:
INTERVIEW
THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
event:
STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. w/KENOSHA KID
ATHENS PROJECT TEENSCREEN BENEFIT: OCTOBER 5 - 7
SCREENING - RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE ADAPTATION
COMING SOON:
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON
http://www.intheshadowofthemoon.com/
PIERROT LE FOU
http://www.janusfilms.com/pierrot/
A CRUDE AWAKENING
http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/
THIS IS ENGLAND
http://www.thisisenglandmovie.co.uk/#
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ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts
at the University of Georgia.
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