ICE Announcements 10.18.11
http://ice.uga.edu
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ICE-Sponsored
1. ICE Seminar: Robotics (10/24)
2. Idea Lab Meeting (10/20)
3. ICE-Vision: The Tenant (10/20)
Events and Opportunities
1. Musical: I Love You Because (10/18 & 10/20)
2. Documentary Filmmaking Workshop (10/19)
3. Lamar Dodd School of Art Open House (10/20)
4. Lecture: Sudan Neill (10/20)
5. Lecture: William Eiland (10/20)
6. Reading: Ida Stewart's "Gloss" (10/20)
7. Roundtable: Life is a Dream (10/21)
8. DanceATHENS Concert (10/22)
9. A Heifetz Celebration (10/23-24)
10. Playwrights Workshop (10/24)
11. VOX Readings (10/24-25)
12. Cine Screenings and Events
For more listings visit http://iceannouncements.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ideasforcreativeexploration
Twitter: http://twitter.com/iceuga
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ICE-Sponsored
1. *ICE Seminar Next Monday*
ICE Seminar: Robotics
Monday, October 24 at 7 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 248
Researchers from a wide array of disciplines will present their work with robotics in a seminar
hosted by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research
in the arts at the University of Georgia. This event is free and open to the public.
Dr. David Z. Saltz is the Head of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, and the Executive
Director of ICE. He is a specialist in modern drama, performance theory, the philosophy of art, and
directing. His primary research focus has been the interaction between live performance and digital
media, including robots.
Dr. Walter D. Potter is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Artificial Intelligence
Institute. He is a member of the robotics research group, the main focus of which is the
development of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).
Dr. Jason Cantarella is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at UGA. his mathematical interests lie
between geometry and topology, including optimal geometry problems such as "What is the shape
of a tight knot?" He is also interested in the arts, especially in computer graphics and in sculpture.
Dr. Chi Thai is an Associate Professor of biological and agricultural engineering. His areas of
specialty include spectroscopy and spectral imaging for biosystems, computer-mediated learning
technologies, and educational humanoid robotics. Additionally, he is a robotics instructor for the
UGA-Duke TIP program and directs the Robotics Club at UGA.
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2. Idea Lab Meeting
Thursday, October 20 at 5 PM
ICE, Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S160
Idea Lab student organization meets the first and third Thursday of each month, from 5 to 6 PM
and everyone is invited. The meetings are a semi-informal mixture of business, event planning,
discussion of artistic and intellectual topics, and critique / show-and-tell.
Mission: The purpose of the Idea Lab shall be to create a network of undergraduate and graduate
students interested in interdisciplinary arts collaboration. Members will plan events and create
projects. The Idea Lab is a student network within Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE).
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3. ICE-Vision: The Tenant (Roman Polanski, 1976)
Thursday, October 20 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE's informal weekly series, selecting a variety of
world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities.
"Roman Polanski's 1976 English-language, Paris-set creepfest was adapted from a novel by the
French graphic artist Topor, but it may be the director's quintessential movie. It's an exercise in
urban paranoia and mental disintegration that echoes or anticipates everything from Repulsion and
Rosemary's Baby to Bitter Moon and The Pianist. Indeed, the movie is a true psychodrama: Polanski
himself plays the eponymous protagonist, a furtive Polish-born Frenchman named Trelkovsky who
rents the apartment of a recent suicide and is gradually driven mad by his mysteriously hostile
neighbors." -J. Hoberman (Village Voice)
"Movies about madness tend to lose me after a certain point. The tension vanishes when one
realizes that any absurdity, any trick, is available to the film maker. The director and his audience
must share a set of rules for what passes for ordinary behavior if suspense is to be maintained.
These rules do not exist in 'The Tenant.'" -New York Times
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Events and Opportunities
1. Musical: I Love You Because
Tuesday, October 18 and Thursday, October 20 at 8 PM
Fine Arts Building Arena Theatre
"I Love You Because" is a modern day musical love story that follows a group of New Yorkers whose
connections will test their beliefs about love and the expectations of what they want out of their
lives. Music by Joshua Salzman, Book & Lyrics by Ryan Cunningham.
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2. Documentary Filmmaking Workshop
Wednesday, October 19 at 7 PM
Miller Learning Center, Room 207
Learn how to develop a documentary from award winning filmmaker, Jennifer Smith. The producer
and director has worked on several projects, from developing documentaries for U2 to working on
the feature Rush Hour. All experience and interests levels welcome.
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3. Lamar Dodd School of Art Open House
Thursday, October 20 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Main Building
Students in Printmaking, Photography, and Art X invite you to visit their facilities. Work by students
in Jewelry & Metals will also be featured in a hybrid version of the runway and tableau vivant.
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4. The Texture of Ideas: Dynamic Symmetry in the Handwoven Textiles of Mary Crovatt Hambidge
Thursday, October 20 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art
This lecture will be held in S150 in the at 5pm
As Vice President of Collections and Exhibitions at the Atlanta History Center, Susan Neill oversees
curatorial functions, collections, exhibitions, and three historic houses. She also serves as the
Curator of Textiles and Social History, a collection comprised of more than 10,000 textiles,
clothing, and personal accessories.
In 2003, Neill curated the Center's award-winning exhibition Gone with the Girdle: Freedom,
Restraint & Power in Women's Dress, which featured sixty-five mannequins, along with a host of
accessories, images, and accounts from women in their own words. Soon after, she co-authored a
related book of historic photographs called "Women in Atlanta" with Staci Catron-Sullivan.
Currently, Neill is researching handwoven textiles by Mary Crovatt Hambidge and her north
Georgia workshop, the Weavers of Rabun.
Before joining the Center's staff in 1999, she spent two years as the Hope B. McCormick Costume
Fellow at the Chicago Historical Society, where she developed exhibitions featuring twentieth-
century designer fashions. While earning an M.A. in cultural anthropology at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Neill worked with a collection of textiles from around the globe. She has
presented her research at numerous professional conferences and serves on the board of the
Costume Society of America.
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5. Lecture: "The Sacred and the Profane in Nashville's Mother Church, The Ryman Auditorium"
Thursday, October 20 at 4 PM
Miller Learning Center, Room 150
Georgia Museum of Art director William Underwood Eiland will present his lecture "The Sacred and
the Profane in Nashville's Mother Church, The Ryman Auditorium." Co-sponsored by the Georgia
Museum of Art and the Willson Center for Humanities and the Arts.
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6. Book release reading for Ida Stewart's Gloss
Thursday, October 20 at 7:30 PM
Avid Bookshop, 493 Prince Avenue
Ida Stewart, PhD creative writing student at UGA, will read from her new book of poetry, Gloss. This
reading is the first of the Avid Poetry Series, a new series of poetry readings at Avid Bookshop,
which will occur throughout the fall and continue into Spring 2012. Gloss won the 2011 Perugia
Press Prize for a first or second book of poetry by a woman. Ida's poems have also appeared in
number of journals, including FIELD, The Laurel Review, Linebreak, and The Journal, and have been
nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A native of West Virginia, she holds an MFA in creative writing from
The Ohio State University.
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7. Department Colloquium: Life is a Dream Roundtable
Friday, Oct 21 at 12:20 PM
Fine Arts Building, Room 53
Drs. Dana Bultman and Diego del Pozo from the Department of Romance Languages join Marla
Carlson and George Pate to discuss their adaptation of Life is a Dream, the University Theatre
production directed by Dr. Carlson, and its relation to the Early Modern Spanish dramatic sources.
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8. Lecture: "Building Bridges: Discovering the Ways between Visual and Verbal Worlds"
Friday, October 21 at 12:20 PM
Miller Learning Center, Room 214
Dr. Laura Otis, Professor of English at Emory University, will discuss her current work on verbal and
visual thinking. Laura Otis will be talking about her current research project, an interview-based
study examining how people vary as individuals in the ways they use words and images in their
thinking. She will begin by teasing out the ties between her previous work on the nineteenth
century and her new work. Inspired by personal variations she has observed in teaching, Otis has
interviewed scientists, novelists, poets, engineers, artists, dancers, designers, and many other
creative people to gather stories about how greatly the experience of thought can vary. In her talk,
she will provide an overview and some highlights of her encounters with these creative minds. In
this research, she has found no support for popular notions that either men or women, scientists
or artists, are either more visually or verbally inclined. The results indicate instead that visual and
verbal can't be sustained as separate categories, and the best way to approach differences in
individual thought styles--outside of the laboratory--is to examine the ways that individuals
combine words and images in their creative endeavors. Because part of the project involves
creating "portraits" that will take readers in to individual human minds, it is also a literary study,
related to fiction-writing and literary interpretation.
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9. DanceATHENS Dance Concert
Saturday, October 22nd, at 4 PM and 7:30 PM
Morton Theatre
Athens' 11th annual dance concert uniting the dance community and highlighting the diversity of
Athens dance. FEATURING: Charleston Dance Project, CDP2, Classic City Dance, Commerce School
of Dance, Contact Dance Company, Dancefx Concert Dance Company, Dancefx KinderCompany,
Dancefx Junior Company, FX2 and FX3 Performance Companies, Georgia Dance Team, The Modern
Pin Ups, North Georgia Academy of Dance Elite Dancers, Oconee Youth School of Performance,
Pamoja, Project 7, Slow Jamz, Studio Dance Academy, Soundfx, Sweet Dreams, SWUNG, Tap
Ensemble at Dancefx, Terpsicore, UGA Ballroom Performance Group, UGA Ballet Ensemble, UGA
CORE Concert Dance Company, The UGA Red Hotz, UGA Tap Dawgs, UGA Tango Club, UGA Wesley
Dance Ministry, and special guest, swagger crew.
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10. Performance: A Heifetz Celebration
Sunday, October 23 at 3 PM
Hodgson Concert Hall
Arnold Steinhardt and Seymour Lipkin begin UGA's two-day exploration of the life and music of
Jascha Heifetz with a musical tribute to the legendary violinist. Steinhardt, a founding member and
first violin of the acclaimed Guarneri String Quartet until the ensemble's retirement in 2009, has
appeared throughout North America and Europe as a recitalist and soloist with numerous leading
orchestras. Lipkin, who performed with Heifetz on a sixty-concert tour, has enjoyed a remarkable
career both as a pianist and a conductor and was for many years the Assistant Conductor of the
New York Philharmonic. A pre-concert lecture will be given by John Maltese, the leading American
authority on Heifetz.
Jascha Heifetz: God's Fiddler
Monday, October 24 at 8 PM
Hodgson Concert Hall
The premiere of Peter Rosen's film, the first full-length film biography of Violinist Jascha Heifetz.
Heifetz is widely regarded as the greatest violinist of the twentieth- century. He revolutionized the
way people play the violin and had a powerful influence on generations of violinists. Isaac Stern
called his playing "the single most powerful violinistic influence in the twentieth century." Itzhak
Perlman says simply that Heifetz is the 'God' of all violinists. Drawing on exhaustive research, rare
period photographs, and family home movies made in Los Angeles and all over the world, the
award-winning filmmaker Peter Rosen has produced the first full- length film biography of the
world's most renowned violinist. Enjoy the Georgia premiere of this fascinating new film as part of
UGA's celebration of the legacy of Jascha Heifetz.
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11. Athens Playwrights Workshop
Monday October 24, at 7 PM
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Writers will bring in sections of plays that are in process (no more than ten pages at a time). We
will begin each session with exploratory exercises (improvisations, or The Six Line as suggested by
Jeffrey Sweet and Michael Wright) and then move to more developed scene which will be read by
members of the workshop. After each writer has a chance to hear his or her work read, we will
engage in a conversation about the piece, and where the writer is in his or her process.
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12. VOX Reading Series Poetry Extravaganza
Monday, October 24 and Tuesday, October 25 at 7:30 PM
Monday: Avid Bookshop, 493 Prince Avenue
Tuesday: Cine
On Monday evening, San Francisco poet D.A. Powell will read from his work. D. A. Powell's books
include Cocktails and Chronic, both of which were finalists for the Publishing Triangle and National
Book Critics Circle Awards. Powell's honors include the Gold Medal in Poetry from the California
Commonwealth Club and the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry, as well as fellowships from the
Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. A former Briggs-Copeland
Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University, Powell has taught at Columbia University, University of
Iowa's Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Davidson College. He lives in San Francisco. On Tuesday,
Authors Dorothea Lasky, Travis Nichols, and Monica Fambrough will read from their work.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of two full-length collections of poetry: AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and
Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). She is also the author of five chapbooks: Poetry is Not a Project
(Ugly Duckling Presse), 2010), Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker's Wife (2006),
Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2005), and Alphabets and Potraits (Anchorite Press, 2004). Born in St. Louis
in 1978, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Laurel Review,
Columbia Poetry Review, Crowd, 6x6, Boston Review, Phoebe, Lungfull, Octopus, Coconut, Small
Town, Typo, Fou, and Carve, among others. Travis Nichols is the author of two collections of
poetry--Iowa (Letter Machine Editions) and See Me Improving (Copper Canyon Press)--and the
novel Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder (Coffee House Press). He is associate editor at the
Poetry Foundation, as well as editor of the online magazine Weird Deer. He regularly contributes
to The Believer, Paste, The Stranger, and The Huffington Post. Monica Fambrough grew up in
Mableton, Georgia. She attended the University of Georgia and UMass Amherst and spent four
years on the staff at Wave Books. Her chapbook Black Beauty is available from Katalanche Press,
and other poems appear in Glitterpony, jubilat, and the anthologies Poets on Painters and Poems
about Horses.
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13. Cine Screenings and Events
http://athenscine.com
m o v i e s
THE FUTURE - OCT 14-20
DRIVE - OCT 14-20
BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST - OCT 14-20
CRAZY STUPID LOVE - THRU OCT 20
e v e n t s
LUNCHES FOR LITERACY - WED OCT 19
VHS LOCAL FILM SCREENING - THU OCT 20
c o m i n g - s o o n
MYSTERIES OF LISBON - OCT 21-27
CINE CLASSIC: PSYCHO - OCT 21-31
CINE CLASSIC: AMERICAN GRAFFITI - NOV 4
DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHT SERIES:
2046 - WONG KAR WAI - NOV 8
MELANCHOLIA - LARS VON TRIER - DEC 6
TAKE SHELTER - NOVEMBER
THE SKIN I LIVE IN - NOVEMBER
CINEKIDS: THE IRON GIANT - NOVEMBER
THE ROOM - MONTHLY LATE SHOW OCT 21
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