ICE Announcements 2.5.19
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Ad-Verse Fest (3/1-3/2)
2. Call for Participation: Trash Music
3. Opportunity: Refocus Reality
4. Reading: Chika Unigwe (2/5)
5. Lecture: DIS (2/6)
6. Lecture: Hillary Chute (2/7)
7. Artist Talk & Community Event: Sitting with the Elders (2/9)
8. Call for Participation: Eco-Art at Lake Herrick
9. Opportunity: 3MT Info Session (2/25)
10. Opportunity: CURO Summer Fellowships (deadline 2/18)
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1. Ad-Verse Fest
Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2 at 7 PM
Downtown Athens, GA
https://www.adversefest.space
Ad-Verse Fest is a two-day festival showcasing solo and duo performers who blur the line between the musical, visual, and performative arts. Audience members will see electronic artists, quasi-pop stars, hip hop artists, drag performers, DJs and experimental composers.
Featured performers: Jennifer Vanilla, Superbody, Ripparachie, Diaspoura, Karen Meat, Taylor ALXNDR, RaFiA, and GRLwood.
Venues: Caledonia Lounge, Flicker Theatre & Bar, and Go Bar
Advanced tickets now available online $12 for both days
Day of show tickets $15 for both days or $10 for single day
Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration, Athens Area Arts Council, Flagpole Magazine, and Scorpion Beach.
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2. Call for Participation: Trash Music
How can we make music from trash?
The "Trash Music" project was recently awarded a UGA Office of Sustainability Campus Sustainability Grant to explore the intersections of music, creativity, environmentalism, and sustainability. Musical instruments are often made from new materials and nonrenewable resources. The first phase of this project will consist of building prototype instruments from reused materials. We are seeking participation in the following areas: instrument designers / builders, website design, and collaborators interested in creating related initiatives and projects. If you are interested, please contact Ciyadh Wells:
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3. Opportunity: Refocus Reality
Explore the Oculus Rift VR system with Ideas for Creative Exploration. Possible areas of exploration could include but are not limited to audience interaction, data visualization and research productivity. Lab times are available by appointment for the following days:
Mondays 8-11 AM, 7-10 PM
Wednesdays 8-10 AM, 7-10 PM
Fridays 8-10 AM, 2-5 PM
Located in the Lamar Dodd building room S160. To schedule, please contact [log in to unmask]
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4. Reading: Chika Unigwe
Tuesday, February 5 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Chika Unigwe is a Nigerian writer who now lives in the United States. She is the author of four novels, as well as numerous short stories and essays. Her books include The Phoenix, On Black Sisters' Street, Night Dancer, and The Black Messiah. In 2014, she was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature.
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5. Lecture: DIS
Wednesday, February 6 at 12:20 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
DIS is a New York-based collective composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro. Its cultural interventions are manifest across a range of media and platforms, from site-specific museum and gallery exhibitions to ongoing online projects. Most notably these include, DIS Magazine, co-founded with Nick Scholl, Patrik Sandberg and S. Adrian Massey III in 2010 as a virtual platform that examines art, fashion, music and culture, constructing and supporting new creative practices. Since being founded, the magazine has expanded into an international community of writers, photographers, musicians and DJs. Recent ventures include DISimages, 2013, a fully operational stock photography agency that enlists artists to produce images available for private and commercial use, and DISown, an ongoing retail platform and laboratory to test the current status of the art object.
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6. Lecture: Hillary Chute
Thursday, February 7 at 4:30 PM
Park Hall Room 265
"Comics as Archives: Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' and Documentary Form"
Hillary Chute is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University. She is the author of several books on comics and graphic novels. She is also associate editor of Art Spiegelman's MetaMaus (Pantheon, 2011), which won a National Jewish Book Award, among other prizes. She has written for publications such Artforum, Bookforum, The Believer, and Poetry and is a comics and graphic novels columnist for the The New York Times Book Review. Her visit is sponsored by the Willson Center, the department of English, the department of Romance languages, and the Program in Jewish Studies.
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7. Artist Talk & Community Event: Sitting with the Elders by Broderick Flanigan
Saturday, February 9 at 1:30 PM
Lyndon House Arts Center
https://www.athensclarkecounty.com/8480/Sitting-with-the-Elders-Broderick-Flanig
Broderick Flanigan will discuss his work, process and the research involved in creating "Sitting with the Elders: Stories of Black Athenians." After the artist's presentation, there will be a reception and a round table discussion with elders from the community.
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8. Call for Participation: Eco-Art at Lake Herrick
A group of UGA graduate students are piloting an environmental stewardship project at Lake Herrick, a 15-acre body of water that is part of the UGA campus, located within the Oconee Forest Park complex, near the UGA intramural fields. Opened in 1982, the lake quickly became a popular public space for swimming, boating, and fishing. However, in 2002, all water activities were prohibited at the lake due to deteriorating water quality tied to human activities at the lake and the greater watershed. With a decrease in human visitors over the last 16 years, Lake Herrick has become a haven for local wildlife. For example, citizen scientists have identified at least 200 bird species there, making it one of the most diverse sites for birds in Athens-Clarke County! Additionally, the area is home to beavers, water snakes, turtles, and many other animals.
With the dedicated efforts of the UGA Office of Sustainability and researchers, Lake Herrick reopened on October 17, 2018 to the public for passive recreation. Reopening the lake provides an important space for people to interact with nature, but human recreation often has negative effects for wildlife and environmental health.
Lake Herrick's history tells an important story of ecological restoration, resilience, and coexistence. Balancing recreational impacts with preserving the ecological integrity of this space will require environmental mindfulness of human visitors. We aim approach this with collaborative storytelling and eco-art as a medium: translating scientific research through artistic expression to inspire environmental stewardship of this beautiful space in Athens. To do this, we are organizing an eco-art event for April 2019 to showcase art that is representative of the Lake's natural history, ecological community, and the importance of natural spaces.
Currently, we are searching for interested artists, faculty, and Athens residents to collaborate with us throughout this project. The work will entail being paired with a UGA researcher to collaboratively create artwork that translates key messages from academic research that helps to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of the natural world and our place in it. And, planning a community event to showcase work, and engage with the public. With this work, we hope to create lasting partnerships with UGA faculty and local Athens artists to create an annual environmental event for Lake Herrick, and support science communication efforts generally. Are you interested in helping with this event or creating an eco-art pieces? We want to hear your ideas! You can contact us at: [log in to unmask]
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9. Three Minute Thesis Information Session
Monday, February 25 at 12:15 PM
Geography/Geology Building Room 200 C
RSVP: http://bit.ly/UGA3MT2019
UGA's Three Minute Thesis competition challenges graduate students to explain their research to non-specialist audiences in only three minutes. 3MT provides an opportunity to hone your communication skills, get feedback on your presentation style, and win cash prizes! Pizza will be provided at the information session! Please register by February 22 to provide an accurate count. All Master's and Doctoral students welcome. Students do not have to attend the info session to compete, but it is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the competition and to speak with past winners.
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10. Opportunity: CURO Summer Fellowships
Deadline: Monday, February 18 at 5 PM
http://curo.uga.edu/students/summer_fellowship.html
Each year CURO awards 30 Summer Research Fellowships to support UGA undergraduates interested in pursuing intensive, immersive, faculty-mentored research during the summer. An applicant must be a current 1st through 3rd year student who has completed a minimum of 15 in-residence credit hours at UGA. CURO Summer Fellows are awarded $3,000.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA, supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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