ICE Announcements 1.26.16
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***The Sun Ra Arkestra at the Morton Theatre (2/18)***
1. Upcoming: Dada Centennial Events (begins 2/11)
2. Natalie Chanin Events (1/28-30)
3. Tom Gunning Events (1/28-29)
4. Lecture: Gallery Talk with Jonathan Wahl & Sondra Sherman (1/29)
5. Art Party: Winter Exhibition Opening Extravaganza (1/29)
6. Event: Georgia Sewn (1/30)
7. Lecture: Jock Reynolds Director of the Yale University Art Gallery (2/2)
8. Opportunity: Call for 2016 CURO Symposium Submissions (deadline 2/12)
Coming soon: the return of ICE-Vision Thursdays at 7 PM!
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***The Sun Ra Arkestra***
Thursday, February 18 at 8 PM
The Morton Theatre
Tickets: $15
Purchase online at bit.ly/1OieSiN
or at the Morton Theatre box office M-F 10 AM - 1 PM and 3 - 6 PM
The spirit of famed jazz musician, composer, poet, and bandleader Sun Ra is alive and well in the present day manifestation of the Sun Ra Arkestra under the direction of Marshall Allen, featuring a mix of classic Sun Ra big-band compositions and arrangements alongside Allen's own compositions and arrangements that are deeply rooted in the spirit of Sun Ra.
Marshall Allen, 91, joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1958 and led Sun Ra's formidable reed section for over 40 years. He assumed the helm of the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1995 after the ascension of Sun Ra in 1993 and John Gilmore in 1995. Mr. Allen continues to reside at the Sun Ra Residence in Philadelphia, composing, writing and arranging for the Arkestra much like his mentor, totally committed to a life of discipline centered totally on the study, research, and further development of Sun Ra's musical precepts.
This historic evening at the Morton Theatre will commence with a rare performance by Athens' own Flicker Orchestra, which provides live music for classic silent films.
Presented by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia, and the Helen S. Lanier Chair of the Department of English at UGA in celebration of the centennial year of Dada and experimental art for all time.
For more information about the Sun Ra Arkestra visit http://www.sunraarkestra.com
Famed jazz musician, composer, poet and bandleader Sun Ra was born on May 22, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama. He began performing professionally as a teen and, after moving to Chicago in 1945, immersed himself in jazz and the blues. Along the way, Sun Ra was influenced by space, religion and radical social movements - all of which found their way into his music. A prolific composer and record label owner, he took to wearing colorful, outlandish costumes with his band members.
One of the first, and the oldest surviving African-American built, owned, and operated vaudeville theatres in the United States, the fully restored Morton Theatre opened in 1910 and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
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1. Dada Centennial Events
Mark your calendars for a series of events to celebrate the centennial of Dada, an artistic phenomenon that began in February 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland and spread around the world! Although the venue where Dada was born closed after only four months and its acolytes scattered, the idea of Dada quickly spread to New York, where it influenced artists like Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray; to Berlin, where it inspired painters George Grosz and Hannah Hoch; and to Paris, where it dethroned previous avant-garde movements like Fauvism and Cubism while inspiring early Surrealists like Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, and Paul Eluard. The long tail of Dadaism, Rasula shows, can be traced even further, to artists as diverse as William S. Burroughs, Robert Rauschenberg, Marshall McLuhan, the Beatles, Monty Python, David Byrne, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, all of whom - along with untold others - owe a debt to the bizarre wartime escapades of the Dada vanguard.
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) and the Helen S. Lanier Chair of the Department of English at UGA present three evenings of performance and scholarship in celebration of the centennial year of Dada and experimental art for all time.
On Thursday, February 11 Flicker Theatre & Bar becomes Cabaret Voltaire 1916 with a performance by visiting artist Luciano Chessa, reenactments by students in music and theatre and film studies, and a presentation by Jed Rasula, author of "Destruction Was My Beatrice," the globe-spanning narrative of Dada published in 2015. (8 PM, free and open to the public).
Thursday, February 18 celebrates the ongoing spirt of experimental art with a rare performance by the Sun Ra Arkestra at the historic Morton Theatre. Athens' own Flicker Orchestra will open with live soundtracks for vintage experimental films. (8 PM, $15).
Thursday, February 25 return to Flicker Theatre & Bar for an evening of new works with visiting artist Bruce Andrews, students from art, music, and theatre and film studies, and the extraordinary Mind Brains! (8 PM, free and open to the public).
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2. Natalie Chanin events
Workshop: Natalie Chanin Sewing Workshop
Thursday, January 28 at 2 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art first-floor atrium
Natalie Chanin is an internationally recognized leader in the sustainable fashion movement. Based in Florence, Ala., Alabama Chanin's garments and other goods are produced with organic cotton along with repurposed and reclaimed materials. Its entire manufacturing process is designed to achieve maximum sustainability at every stage, including cultural sustainability through the preservation of hand-sewing skills among local workers.
Chanin will lead a sewing workshop in the first-floor atrium of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. A limited number of sewing kits will be available for non-students to use and share, but the public is invited to watch and listen to the 90-minute workshop whether they participate or not.
Screening: Cotton Road
Thursday, January 28 at 7:30 PM
Cine
Community presents this screening of the film Cotton Road at Cine in downtown Athens. Directed by Atlanta filmmaker Laura Kissel, Cotton Road is a new documentary on the global supply chain for the industrial production of clothing. Kissel will introduce the film and participate in an audience Q&A after the screening. A public reception will follow at Little Kings Shuffle Club, located at 223 W. Hancock Ave.
Lecture: Natalie Chanin
Friday, January 29 at 5 PM
UGA Chapel
http://willson.uga.edu/event/natalie-chanin-global-georgia-initiative/
Presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of its Global Georgia Initiative, this event will take place in the UGA Chapel.
Natalie "Alabama" Chanin is the owner and designer of Alabama Chanin. She has a degree in environmental design with a focus on industrial and craft-based textiles from North Carolina State University. Chanin continues to learn and to teach craft traditions, using them to bridge generational, economic, and cultural gaps. After graduation, Chanin worked in the junior sportswear industry on New York's Seventh Avenue, before moving abroad. For over a decade, she worked as a stylist and costume designer, travelling the globe. In 2000, Chanin returned to her home to begin the sustainable work that has become Alabama Chanin.
Chanin's visit is presented in partnership with Georgia Sewn, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
3. Tom Gunning Events
Lecture: Putting the Digital Back in Digital Cinema
Thursday, January 28 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
http://willson.uga.edu/event/tom-gunning-short-term-visiting-fellow/
Tom Gunning is among the leading scholars of film in the United States and Distinguished Service Professor of Art History and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago. In over one hundred publications, Gunning has concentrated on early cinema (from its origins to World War I) as well as on the culture of modernity from which cinema arose - relating it to still photography, stage melodrama, magic lantern shows, as well as wider cultural concerns such as the tracking of criminals, the World Expositions, and Spiritualism.
His influential concept of the "Cinema of Attractions" has related the development of cinema to other forces than storytelling, such as new experiences of space and time in modernity, and an emerging modern visual culture. The issues of film culture, the historical factors of exhibition and criticism and spectator's experience throughout film history are recurrent themes in his work. He comes to UGA as a Willson Center Visiting Fellow and as a guest of the Interdisciplinary Modernism/s Workshop faculty research cluster.
Roundtable: Animated Comic Attractions and Early Cinema
Friday, January 29 at 4 PM
Fine Arts Building Room 300
From its beginnings, cinema was influenced by other popular arts, especially caricature and comic strips. Many key filmmakers, including Emile Cohl in France and America's Winsor McCay, adapted comic strip traditions into stunning motion picture "attractions." This roundtable discusses how silent cinema reworked some of the graphic traditions and story content of comic strips from their era.
Visiting scholar Tom Gunning (University of Chicago) will join panelists Rielle Navitski (Film Studies) and Chris Pizzino (English), for this roundtable moderated by Richard Neupert (Film Studies). The discussion is free and open to the public. Gunning's visit is sponsored by a Willson Center Short Term Visiting Fellowship and the Interdisciplinary Modernism/s research cluster.
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4. Gallery Talk with Jonathan Wahl & Sondra Sherman
Friday, January 29 at 2:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Gallery 307
Artists Jonathan Wahl & Sondra Sherman will discuss their exhibition "Parallels." The gallery talk will be moderated by curator of the exhbition, Dodd Associate Professor of Jewelry and Metals Mary Hallam Pearse.
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5. Art Party: Winter Exhibition Opening Extravaganza
Friday, January 29 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art
http://art.uga.edu/events/art-party-winter-exhibition-opening-extravaganza
Join us in celebrating 4 new exhibitions at the Dodd Galleries!! 6-8pm!
- Parallels: Joanthan Wahl & Sondra Sherman
- Pictures of Us: Photographs from the Do Good Fund Collection
- Preservationist
- Potato
Plus free libations and snacks from Taziki's!! An Electrophoria DJ set!! And super fun party portrait studio!!!
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6. Event: Georgia Sewn
Saturday, January 30 at 9 PM
News Building, Press PIace,Downtown Athens
$15 ($10 students)
http://willson.uga.edu/event/georgia-sewn/
Georgia Sewn is a one-day expo of the regional fashion design industry. The goal of the expo, presented by the Athens Fashion Collective, is to connect designers to important sources and services within Georgia, and to aid in cultivating new markets and products for Georgia businesses in all areas of the fashion industry. It will feature pop-up shops, educational installations about sustainable fashion and regional sourcing, and will culminate in a fashion show of Georgia designers beginning at 8 p.m.
The expo is part of a weekend of sustainable fashion events presented by the Athens Fashion Collective and the Willson Center, which will host sustainable fashion designer and entrepreneur Natalie Chanin as part of its 2016 Global Georgia Initiative.
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7. Lecture: Jock Reynolds Director of the Yale University Art Gallery
Tuesday, February 2 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art S150 Auditorium
http://art.uga.edu/events/jock-reynolds-lecture
Teaching with Original Works of Art: Traditions of Active Learning and Collection Sharing at the Yale University Art Gallery
Jock Reynolds is the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery. He earned a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.F.A. from the University of California at Davis. From 1973 to 1983, he was an Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program at the Center for Experimental and Interdisciplinary Art at California State University at San Francisco, and also a co-founder of New Langton Arts, one of San Francisco's pioneering alternative artists' spaces. From 1983 to 1989, he served as the Executive Director of the Washington Project for the Arts, a multi-disciplinary visual artists' organization in Washington, D.C. He then became Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, in 1989, a position he held until assuming the directorship of the YUAG in 1998.
For his work as an artist, Reynolds has garnered numerous grants and awards, including two NEA Visual Artists Fellowships and multiple NEA Art in Public Places project awards. Frequently created in collaboration with his wife, Suzanne Hellmuth, his and their artworks have been exhibited broadly in the realms of visual art and theater and are represented in numerous public and private collections. Hellmuth and Reynolds have most recently been commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego to create a new work for the centennial celebration of the Panamanian Exposition and Balboa Park in the summer of 2015.
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8. Opportunity: Call for 2016 CURO Symposium Submissions
https://curo.uga.edu/symposium/sites/default/files/2016_1st_call_for_abstracts_oct15.pdf
Deadline: February 12
The Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) invites submissions from UGA undergraduate researchers for the 2016 CURO Symposium, which will be held on Monday, April 4 and Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at the Classic Center in Athens, Georgia.
Eligibility:
CURO welcomes submissions from UGA undergraduates pursuing faculty mentored research in all disciplines. The Symposium is open to all undergraduate researchers, not just those pursuing research through CURO coursework. Undergraduate researchers at various stages of the research process are encouraged to submit.
Submission:
Abstracts should be submitted only by current UGA undergraduates. We respectfully request that faculty and graduate students do not submit for undergraduates. For group research projects, one member of the group should submit an abstract. Additional members must be fellow UGA undergraduates and should be listed as co-presenters.
Abstracts should be no more than 250 words, free of spelling and grammatical errors, and contain a thesis statement, a description of methods, a statement of (anticipated) findings, and a statement of significance. Submitted abstracts must be free of footnotes, endnotes, or parenthetical citations. Submissions are limited to research conducted under the direction of a UGA faculty member.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is supported in part by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.
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