ICE Announcements 11.1.04
ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration
<http://ice.uga.edu>
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1. "Regime Change" ATHICA Virtual Gallery launch
2. Lanier Speaker Series: Rachel Cohen
3. Alumni Electronic Music concert
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1. Regime Change: A Collection of New Media Artwork curated by Didi Dunphy
Launch Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2004
ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce the launch of Regime
Change, the fourth incarnation of its Virtual Art Gallery, <http://www.athica.org> which displays
collections of online artwork created specifically for the Internet medium.
Regime Change was curated by Athens' artist Didi Dunphy, her third such venture for ATHICA. Ms
Dunphy reviewed 50 submissions before deciding on the dozen sites included, all of which the
artists submitted with the current political environment and issues related to the upcoming
election in mind. The artists of VA v.4 are: Mark Cooley, Lionello Borean + Chiara Grandesso, Nick
Fox-Gieg, Doran Golan, Kevin Hoth, Ben McCormick and Allison Rentz.
Many of the works deal with the Iraq war, others with the election itself, and still others with the
part the Media plays in shaping opinion. Three of the artists, Kevin Hoth, Laura Floyd and Ben
McCormick are Athens locals who have shown non-virtual artworks at ATHICA, as has Nick Fox-
Gieg from West Virginia, who exhibited animations in last January's Piece Process exhibit. The
well-established new media artist team of Margaret Crane and Jon Winet, who appeared in Virtual
Art Gallery V.2., weigh-in with complex a site that links users to current electoral votes polling
data, among many other links. Other artists hail from Europe and around the nation, many
employing lush audio tracks and online movies to express their strong feelings. All share the
urgency of this vulnerable moment in our nation's history.
Ms. Dunphy states "All art is a political act. And we must act. With the 2004 elections around the
corner, our personal and global media saturated with party grand-standing, the art community is
feverously voicing fresh, strong, disturbing, satirical and much applauded opinions, many of which
are at work in these web projects. With so many strong submissions, I can only hope that this
number of significant artist investigations reflects the numbers of voters at the polls in November.
Art for a stronger America, Art for a stronger World."
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2. Lanier Speaker Series events: Rachel Cohen, author of A CHANCE MEETING: INTERTWINED LIVES
OF AMERICAN WRITERS AND ARTISTS, 1854-1967 (Random House, 2004) will give a talk on
Thursday, November 4, at 4 p.m. in Park Hall 265. She will discuss how various artists and writers
met and what was handed down through their serendipitous encounters and friendships.
A CHANCE MEETING braids the lives of 30 people in a fascinating tale of six degrees of separation.
To see who met whom in Cohen's book, see <http://pages.slc.edu/~rcohen/>. Henry Louis Gates
Jr., calls Cohen's debut book "a tour de force of literary historical imagination." Robert Pinksy
notes that it is a " wonderful, absorbing book in which information , anecdote, literary
understanding and gossip take fire and are transformed into insight." Cohen graduated from
Harvard and teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She won the 2003 PEN/Jerard
Fund Award for the manuscript of A CHANCE MEETING.
Cohen will give an informal talk on Friday, Nov. 5, at 10 a.m. in the Park Hall Library, Room 261.
She will entertain questions and talk about how she discovered her subject and came to write her
book as a blend of biography, cultural studies, and creative nonfiction. Cohen has written for THE
NEW YORKER, THE THREEPENNY REVIEW, and MCSWEENEY'S among other publications. Her essays
have appeared in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2003 and the 2003 PUSHCART ANTHOLOGY. Coffee and
accompanying snacks will be offered.
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3. On November 10, 2004, in celebration of American Music Month, the Roger and Phyllis Dancz
Center for New Music proudly presents the first Alumni Electronic Music concert.
This concert starts at 8:00 pm in Dancz Hall, the multimedia performance and rehearsal space for
the Center. Featured are works by composers Samuel Burt, Baltimore, MD; Derek Keller, San Diego,
CA; Heather Macintosh, Athens, GA; Mitchell Turner, Columbus, GA; Brian Willkie, Baton Rouge,
LA; and Steven Yi, San Francisco, CA; Also featured will be the video work of Kevin Hoth, who
currently resides in Athens, GA.
The works, which include five Georgia premieres and three world premieres, encompass
interactive electronics involving electric guitar and real-time computer-manipulated audio, video
and computer generated audio, amplified acoustic instrument and computer manipulatedsound,
stereo work derived from a sonification of electroencephalogram data, and traditional sound-
sculptures constructed using computer generated or manipulated sound. The concert is free and
open to the public.
The Roger and Phyllis Dancz Center for New Music is part of the University of Georgia School of
Music. More information about the Center, as well as directions to the Dancz Hall, can be found at
<http://noise.uga.edu>.
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