ICE Announcements 10.18.16
http://ice.uga.edu
1. UGA Sustainability + Arts Grant (deadline 11/14)
2. ICE Conversation: Ecovention (10/26)
3. ICE Reading Room: How Dentsu Lab Tokyo Is Rewriting the Music Video
4. ICE Events During Spotlight
5. Gallery Talk: Megan Burchett and Maddie Zerkel (10/18)
6. Lecture: Timothy F. H. Allen (10/20)
7. Poe-Tober Events
8. CURO Research Assistantships (deadline 11/1)
9. Opportunity: a2ru UGA Faculty Research Cluster Grants (deadline 11/1)
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1. Sustainability + Arts Grant
Pre-proposal deadline (optional): October 14, 2016
Final proposal deadline: November 14, 2016
http://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/students/sustainability_grants/
ICE and the Office of Sustainability invite you to apply for a Sustainability + Arts grant in conjunction with the 2016-2017 UGA Campus Sustainability Grants program. Special consideration will be given to projects incorporating sustainability + arts.
Drawn from the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to initiate projects to advance sustainability through education, research, service, and campus operations. Successful projects will address priorities outlined in UGA's 2020 Strategic Plan to actively conserve resources, educate the campus community, influence positive action for people and the environment, and provide useful research data to inform future campus sustainability efforts. Interdisciplinary projects designed to inspire, beautify and uplift - as well as to inform and conserve - are encouraged. Grants are awarded based on merit, positive impact, implementation feasibility, and available funding.
The Office of Sustainability coordinates, communicates, and advances sustainability initiatives at UGA in the areas of teaching, research, service and outreach, student engagement, and campus operations. For more information visit:
http://sustainability.uga.edu.
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2. ICE Conversation: Ecovention
Wednesday, October 26 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
How can the artistic imagination be made practical and visionary in the environmental movement? Join this ICE conversation for a survey on historical and current art projects and movements that are designed to help restore ecosystems.
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3. ICE Reading Room: How Dentsu Lab Tokyo Is Rewriting the Music Video
"Sugano admits that working with musicians is different to commercial briefs but allows the agency to use technology in way that's important and interesting for the agency overall.'The common aspect to both of these was the sense that they were a joint creation of works that involved collaboration between artist and creators and not just a simple commercial relationship. We at Dentsu Lab Tokyo are a team that researches and develops technologies and expressions through implementing actual production projects. While Bjork and Brian Eno are artists with totally different personalities, they are both pursuing the aesthetic fusion of new technologies and expressions,' he says."
By Charlotte McEleny
Link: http://www.thedrum.com/news/2016/09/21/bj-rk-s-vr-brian-eno-s-artificial-intelligence-how-dentsu-lab-tokyo-rewriting-the
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4. ICE Events During UGA Spotlight on the Arts
UGA Spotlight on the Arts
November 2-13
http://arts.uga.edu/spotlightuga2016/
***ICE Conversation: Elizabeth Corr***
Thursday, November 10 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Elizabeth Corr, Art Partnerships Manager with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), will share examples of projects that combine art, science, and environmental activism. Sponsored by Watershed UGA and ICE.
Elizabeth Corr works with artists, architects, and designers to heighten public awareness of and interest in the environmental issues that face today's communities. She launched NRDC's Artist-in-Residence program and is expanding support for NRDC's art and climate-related projects, from such organizations as the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Public Concern Foundation, and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Corr holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and gender studies and a master's degree in African studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
***Arts + Environment Roundtable***
Thursday, November 10 at 4 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 350
"How Artists, Scientists, and Environmental Activists Can Work Together"
A roundtable discussion featuring special guest Elizabeth Corr [Art Partnerships Manager with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)], Laurie Fowler [Watershed UGA/Ecology/Law], Chris Cuomo [Philosophy/Women's Studies], Lizzie King [Ecology/Forestry], Nate Nibbelink [Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR)], and moderated by Mark Callahan [ICE/Art]. Sponsored by Watershed UGA and ICE. Winners of the "Daylighting the Watersheds" Design Competition will also be announced.
***Driftmier Woods Happening***
Friday, November 11 at 11 AM
Driftmier Woods
A site-specific performance featuring sound and movement in Driftmier Woods, a small area of old-growth forest on campus adjacent to Driftmier Engineering Center.
***ICE Conversation: Stephen Wood***
Friday, November 11 at 1 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Stephen Wood is a composer, educator, and performer who travels the United States in search of inspiration from our country's wildest places. He has served as Composer-in-Residence for Cumberland Island National Seashore, the Okefenokee N.W.R., the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, Red River Gorge Geological Area, and participated in Denali N.P.'s monumental Composing in the Wilderness Field Seminar. Wood received his B.A. in Composition from The Ohio State University and his M.M. in Jazz Studies from Georgia State University.
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5. Gallery Talk: Megan Burchett and Maddie Zerkel
Tuesday, October 18 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Third Floor Suite Gallery
Megan Burchett (past ICE Graduate Research Assistant and current MFA student) and Maddie Zerkel will discuss their collaborative exhibition "Comfort Tub." For several years, both artists have been exploring the potential that exists at the intersection of paper and fiber arts. With "Comfort Tub", they focus on the domestic applications of paper and cloth to examine intimacy, familiarity, and the interior.
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6. Lecture: Timothy F. H. Allen
Thursday, October 20 at 4 PM
Miller Learning Center, Room 350
"Introducing the Concept of Profit Across Ecology"
Ecologists often speak of resource use, but not of profit. Return on effort is neglected. Ecologists are so doom and gloom because their systems are seen as going round a cycle from establishment to demise as resources run out. Sometimes they lead to death and extinction, but economists know better that resources do not run out; usually they just get more expensive in the next pass around the cycle. There are successive cycles of increasing efficiency. Some cycles are predictable from rate-dependent energy gradients (high gain), and whole other systems are predicted from rate-independent constraints on those flows (low gain). We have examples from ants, termites, birds, the Roman Empire and prevailing global ecology.
Timothy Allen is Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has been applying notions of complex systems and hierarchy theory to ecology for 35 years. His first book, Hierarchy: Perspectives for Ecological Complexity (Chicago Press, 1982) established hierarchy theory and scaling in ecology. His four other hierarchy theoretic books specialize in ecosystem analysis, or broaden across all types of ecology and beyond to the life and social sciences in general. He has published over 60 scholarly works in journals on community data analysis, agricultural systems, issues of scale, and sustainability. His latest book with T. Hoekstra is the 2015 Toward a Unified Ecology. He enters the emerging field of economic ecology with J. Tainter indicating a move beyond the information age to an age of quality global management.
Allen's lecture is part of the Complex Systems Research Seminar Series, supported by a Willson Center research seminar grant and affiliated with the Complex Systems and the Humanities Willson Center Research Cluster.
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7. Poe-tober Events
https://coe.uga.edu/poe/
Celebrate the works of Edgar Allan Poe all month during "Poe-tober" in Athens, Georgia. Almost all events are free and will engage readers of all ages. Book prizes and bookmarks will be given out at events.
Upcoming:
19 OCTOBER
Poe-tober: Poe Book Discussion
22 OCTOBER
"Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe"
26 OCTOBER
"Comics, Medicine, and Healing Through Story" Lecture and Talk with Dr. Dana Walrath
Support for this event comes from a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts along with the Athens-Clarke County Library, the Willson Center, Rose of Athens Theatre, the Last Resort Grill, and the Georgia Museum of Art.
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8. CURO Research Assistantship Awards
Deadline for Spring semester: November 1 at 4 PM
http://curo.uga.edu/students/curo_research_assistantship.html
The Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) offers UGA students the opportunity to engage in faculty-mentored research regardless of discipline, major, or GPA.
As part of an initiative to enhance the UGA learning environment, the CURO Research Assistantship Program provides 500 stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
Assistantships are one-semester awards for either Fall, Spring, or Summer. Assistantship students are encouraged to register for academic credit regardless of major, GPA, or Honors status. All Assistantship recipients are required to present their research at the spring CURO Symposium. If beneficial for their programs of study, students may conduct research with faculty members outside their department, college or school.
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9. a2ru UGA Faculty Research Cluster Grants
Deadline: November 11
http://willson.uga.edu/research/research-clusters/alliance-for-the-arts-in-research-universities-a2ru/
The a2ru Faculty Research Cluster is accepting proposals from full-time, research-budgeted faculty whose projects have the potential to further UGA's reputation as a leader in arts-based research. Projects may be creative or scholarly in form, and they may be disciplinary or interdisciplinary in scope. Grants will range from $1,000 to $3,000 and are intended to advance research projects with an eye toward external funding.
A one-page proposal describing the project and its significance should be sent, along with an attached budget, to the Willson Center ([log in to unmask]). Proposals should identify at least one possible external source of funding. Applications will be reviewed by a representative panel of faculty in the arts. Successful applicants will be required to submit at least one external grant proposal within a year of receiving funding. The Willson Center will provide assistance in proposal review and preparation.
Please contact Dr. Isabelle Loring Wallace ([log in to unmask]) with any proposal questions.
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