ICE Announcements 8.17.04
ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration
<http://ice.uga.edu>
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1. Paradise Hotel open house
2. Visiting artist Laetitia Sonami
3. International festivals
4. X-Ray Cafe web launch
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1. The cast and crew of "Paradise Hotel" invite you to an open house on Wednesday, August 25
from 7-8 PM at ICE (Tanner Building room 101).
The project team has been in-residence at the ICE studio, where they are developing and building
interactive stage elements utilizing Max/MSP software. Many of the hand-crafted props will be on
display also. The project uses Richard Foreman's play, Paradise Hotel, as a framework for
collaboration to bring together readers, actors, and artists in a series of performances running
from September 9 to 11 at the Little Kings Club in downtown Athens. Paradise Hotel is supported
in part by a project grant from ICE.
All are welcome to the open house. For more about the project visit the ICE web site or contact
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2. Mark your calendars for visiting artist Laetitia Sonami from October 25-26. Laetitia Sonami's
visit is made possible by the support of ICE, the Department of Dance, and the Lamar Dodd School
of Art Visiting Artist and Scholar Series.
Monday, October 25, 2004, 1:30 PM, Workshop, Room 129, Visual Arts Building
Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 7:00 PM, Performance, "The Appearance of Silence", New Dance
Theater
Laetitia Sonami was born in France and settled in the US in 1975 to pursue her interest in the
growing field of electronic music. Her work combines text, music, found sound and video in works
which have been described as "performance novels." She uses sophisticated technologies to create
an intimate, spontaneous art form that transcends technology.
For the past several years she has developed and adapted new gestural controllers to musical
performance and composition. Her latest creation, developed at STEIM in Amsterdam, is the Lady's
Glove, a black lycra sensor-embedded glove that tracks the slightest motion of each finger, the
hand and the arm. A performance with the Glove is a small dance wherein movements shape
music.
She has performed in festivals across the US, Canada, Europe and Japan, including Ars Electronica
in Linz, the Bourges Music Festival in France, Sonambiente in Berlin, Interlink in Japan, Other
Minds in San Francisco, and in New York at the Bang-on-a Can festival and the Kitchen.
Recent awards include the Alpert Award in the Arts (2002), Foundation for Contemporary
Performance Arts Award (2000), the Civitella Ranieri Fellowship (2000), Studio Pass-Harvestworks
residency (2001) and a Creative Work Fund award (2000) for a collaboration with Nick Bertoni and
the Tinkers Workshop.
Her music has been released on Nonesuch, Music and Arts Program of America, TellUs 26, and
Frog Peak Music. A solo CD is scheduled for release on Lovely Music Ltd.
Sonami lives in Oakland, California and is currently a guest lecturer at the San Francisco Art
Institute. For more information visit <http://www.sonami.net/>
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3. Two international festivals featuring innovative new work are taking place this month:
*Ars Electronica 2004
TIMESHIFT - The World in Twenty-Five Years
Linz, Thu 2 - Tue 7 September
<http://www.aec.at/timeshift>
"TIMESHIFT - The World in Twenty-Five Years" is the title of the 2004
festival for art, technology and society; transformation, upheaval and the
future are its programmatic concepts. The point of departure is reflection
upon the past 25 years; the aim is to identify the developments that promise
to be the driving forces in art, technology and society over the next
quarter century.
Will key technologies like nanotechnology lead to another technological
revolution that will change our lives as fundamentally as digital media have
done? What areas of social confrontation can we anticipate? Does the way we
deal with new technologies change in light of our ever-increasing experience
or do we still lapse into the same automatic reaction mechanisms of
enthusiasm for or hostility towards innovation?
What conclusions can be drawn from the past and utilized in addressing these
emerging issues? Ars Electronica has 25 years of development and experience
behind it, and has amassed an enormous archive documenting its unique
breadth as a discussion forum. On the basis of the experience thus gained
and in keeping with its mission as an instrument of social analysis, Ars
Electronica 2004 will also be dedicated to the question of whether ongoing
social development-in the sense of a learning curve derived from the past
and applied to the future-is possible.
*ISEA2004
<http://www.isea2004.net/>
For one week in mid August 2004 Baltic Sea becomes the center of electronic music, new media
research, art and design. ISEA2004 is the 12th Symposium on Electronic Arts, organised for the
first time in two capital cities and a ferry between them.
ISEA2004 CRUISE connects Baltic cities (Helsinki, Stockholm, Mariehamn, Tallinn) with a
substantial programme that mixes an excellent line up of electronic music with sound art,
networking sessions, performances and interactive installations. 1400 participants enjoying the
programme turn Silja Opera ferry into an amazing hub for new media creative practices and
industries. ISEA2004 CRUISE is a great party where you can talk, dance, drink, eat, sunbathe and
relax with the most innovative group of peole that have ever set on sail.
ISEA2004 is a unique opportunity to experience new technologies and their cultural practices. The
"new" is always afloat, yet we feel that there is a strong need also to keep one's feet grounded.
ISEA2004 higlights the latest work in wireless, networked and wearable in the cultural domain of
new media. We emphasize experience over technology, history and analytical vision over hype.
In Tallinn and in Helsinki, ISEA2004 focuses, besides the conferences, on several public interfaces:
the exibition, concerts, and work in the city space. We expect 1600 hundred professionals and
nearly 200 000 visitors to attend different parts of the event. In order for research and innovation
in new technologies to matter, it needs to be something that people can experience and find
meaningful in their every day lives. This is what ISEA2004 is about: the culture of new
technologies.
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4. Check out the newly launched X-Ray Cafe web site, <http://www.xraycafe.com>. The site was
designed this summer by UGA student Kim Kirby, and features the experimental images and
sounds of several UGA students and independent artists. Last year ICE supported the production
of a CD-ROM called "Scenes from the X-Ray Cafe Vol. 1", which is available from the new web site.
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