ICE Announcements 1.27.09
http://ice.uga.edu
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*ICE Amoeba (2/2)*
1. Iris Eichenberg Lecture (1/27)
2. The Underpants (1/27-31)
3. UGA Opera Ensemble (1/27-8)
4. Global Game Jam (1/27, 2/1)
5. ICE-Vision: Cremaster 3 (1/29)
6. Georgia Poetry Circuit (1/29)
7. Sean Curran Company (1/30)
8. Running on Empty Opening (1/31)
9. VOX Reading Series (2/2)
10. French Film Fest (2/2)
11. Cine Screenings
More event and opportunity listings available at:
http://ice.uga.edu/announcements
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*ICE Amoeba*
Monday, February 2 at 1 PM
ICE (Room S160, Lamar Dodd School of Art)
Amoeba is a newly formed UGA Student Organization, whose purpose is to create a network of
undergraduate and graduate students interested in interdisciplinary arts collaboration. Interested
students are invited to join our online community: http://ugaice.ning.com
Members will meet bi-monthly to discuss ideas and plan events and creative projects while
supporting a variety of interdisciplinary projects, performances, exhibitions, and installations
throughout the University and Athens community.
Amoeba is a student network within Ideas for Creative Exploration, and is run by the ICE Graduate
Research Assistants: Hunter Parker ([log in to unmask]), Marie Porterfield ([log in to unmask]), and Ji
Eun Moon ([log in to unmask]).
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1. Iris Eichenberg
Lecture: January 27th, 2009, 5:30 PM
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. S151 Lamar Dodd School of Art
After graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 1994, Iris Eichenberg worked
as an independent artist and art educator, as well as a part-time curator, and co-organizer of art-
related events. She began teaching jewelry in 1996 at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, and has given
numerous workshops at various art academies in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America.
Eichenberg became Head of the Jewelry Department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2000, a
position she held until accepting an appointment as Artist in Residence and Head of the
Metalsmithing Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 2007.
Iris Eichenberg has regularly exhibited her work since 1994 can be found in museums in various
European countries as well as the United States, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam,
the Schmuck Museum in Pforzheim (Germany), the Fondation National d'Art Contemporain in Paris
(France), the Mint Museum in Charlotte (North Carolina), and the Rotasa Foundation in Mill Valley
(California).
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2. THE UNDERPANTS
When: Jan 27-31 @ 8:00 pm Feb 1 @ 2:30 pm
Where: The Cellar Theatre, Fine Arts Building
This farce by Steve Martin, one of the funniest men in America, is adapted from German playwright
Carl Sternheim's 1910 social satire. The play is loads of fun and just a little titillating.
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3. Concert: UGA Opera Ensemble "Il Campanello di Notte" - 8:00 pm
Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall, UGA Performing Arts Center, http://www.uga.edu/pac
The UGA Opera Ensemble, under the direction of Frederick Burchinal, will perform Donizettis one-
act opera, Il Campanello diNotte (The Night Bell) Tuesday, January 27, and Wednesday, January 28,
8:00p.m. at the UGA Performing Arts Center.The performances are free and open to the public.
Sung in English, the production will feature original costumes and sets. The cast features Jason
Blanton, Ronaldo Steiner, Erin Ward, Lauren Haymore, Daniel Johnson and an ensemble of
excellent singers. The musical preparation andpiano/harpsichord accompaniment are done by
Garydi Pasquasio with stage direction by Burchinal. Burchinal, a continuous presence at the
Metropolitan Operasince his debut as Macbeth in 1988, has been named the first recipient of the
Wyatt and Margaret Anderson Professorship in the Arts at the University of Georgia's Hugh
Hodgson School of Music.
Based on an original French story, Le sonnette denuit, the opera takes placein Naples, Italy. Don
Annibale Pistacchio (Bass-Baritone) is an old apothecary whohas just married the young Serafina
(Soprano) while Enrico (Baritone), Serafina's former lover,constantly interrupts the wedding night
showing up in several disguises andcalling at Pistacchio's drugstore by ringing the night bell,
asking theunfortunate groom a preposterous list of prescriptions.
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4. Global Game Jam (GGJ) Details & Organizational Meeting
From 5:00 p.m. on Friday January 30th, until 5:00 p.m. Sunday, February 1st, more than 1,000
college students, faculty and members of the game industry will join together for a 48 hour game
building marathon, in the first Global Game Jam (GGJ). Participants will be given the details of the
game design theme, constraints and mechanics allowed when the clock reaches 5:00 p.m. local
time in each region. As the time zones change, so will the constraints, mitigating any advantage
location might give one team over another. While individual and regional Game Jams have been
held in the last few years, there has never been one the size and scope of the GGJ.
Here is the basic breakdown: A group of dedicated game designers, artists, engineers, and sound
techs are going to design a game in 48 hours. We will spend two days straight, from Friday at 5PM
to Sunday at 5PM, in the New Media Institute Lab in the Grady College. We will receive instructions
for themes, design, and constraints at 5PM, and will split into teams to design several game
prototypes. If anyone you know might be interested, they MUST attend the last informational
meeting on Tuesday, Jan 27, at 6:00PM at the Pub at Gameday, downtown Athens. All participants
MUST be 18 years of age or older, and serious about game design; there are no other constraints.
Participants are strongly encouraged to bring snacks and sleeping bags to the Jam, as sleep
schedules might become quite irregular, due to the unique nature of the event. For general
information, go to http://globalgamejam.org. Any further questions can be directed to Casey
O'Donnell, Athens Chapter IGDA President , at [log in to unmask]
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5. ICE-Vision: Cremaster 3 part 1
Thursday, January 29 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
ICE-Vision returns with a series of informal screenings on Wednesday nights in the auditorium of
the new Lamar Dodd School of Art (first floor, room S150). BFA candidates Ash Sechler, Daniel
Osborne, and Eddie Whelan select titles touching upon culture, science, and art. This week's
selection is:
Cremaster 3. Part One (Mathew Barney, 2002, 93 min.)
"Giant cavemen stalk the meek through a rear projection landscape. Driverless automobiles smash
a predecessor into a chrome mouth piece. Such is the wordless world of Matthew Barney's
CREMASTER 3"
The five-part epic culminates, oddly enough, in CREMASTER 3, one of a myriad of peculiarities in
the avant-garde series that moved from the museum circuit to packed art houses. Intrigue leads
to mayhem for taskmasters toiling in a highly stylized Chrysler building. At the forefront is a blue
collar man (sculptor Richard Serra) whose work in the immaculate building is rewarded with a
horse muzzling, knocking his teeth out. A bizarre operation is performed, replacing his jaw with a
chrome implant. While this proletariat's innards seep out, a wayward savage (Barney) appears.
Upon proving his worth, he also is bestowed chrome, a medal. A violent conclusion hammers
home the idea of man's fruitless search during a chaotic Guggenheim hootenanny complete with a
kick line, a nude cheetah lady (double amputee Aimee Mullins), and a war between punk bands
Agnostic Front and Murphy's Law. This narrative of Barney's three-hour series finale is less
important than juxtaposition and iconography in a film obsessed with medallions, triangular
blocks, and the pentagonal Chrysler logo. -(Rotten Tomatoes)
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6. 1/29/2009 Poets Michael Waters and Kevin Vaughn, live in downtown Athens!
The Georgia Review is proud to be the local sponsor for the Georgia Poetry Circuit, which brings
nationally-renowned poets to the state each year and supports a tour of colleges and universities.
The next reading is Thursday, January 29th, 7pm, at Cine BarCafeCinema, 234 West Hancock
Street in downtown Athens.
MICHAEL WATERS is the touring poet, and he'll be joined by our own KEVIN VAUGHN. Michael
Waterss eight books of poetry include Darling Vulgarity (2006finalist for the Los Angeles Times
Book Prize), Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (2001finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize), and
Green Ash, Red Maple, Black Gum (1997) from BOA Editions, and Bountiful (1992), The Burden
Lifters (1989), and Anniversary of the Air (1985) from Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poems
have appeared in numerous journals, including The Georgia Review, Poetry, Yale Review, Paris
Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, American Poetry Review, and Rolling
Stone. In 2004 he chaired the poetry panel for the National Book Award. The recipient of
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation, and four
Pushcart Prizes, he teaches at Monmouth University in New Jersey and in the New England College
MFA Program. In January 2009, Waters joins the faculty of the Drew University MFA Program.
Kevin Vaughn is a poet and Ph.D. student at UGA. He is a former Fulbright Fellow to Poland's
historic Jagiellonian University and a current fellow of the Cave Canem Foundation. Kevin holds an
MFA in poetry from Columbia University and is the recipient of artistic residencies and fellowships
from around the world. He lives in Paris, France, and Athens, GA. These are both excellent poets,
and we're thrilled to have them on the same bill. A sample poem by Michael Waters, The Bells (first
published in the Summer 2006 issue of The Georgia Review), can be found on The Georgia Review
Blog:
http://tgrblog.blogspot.com/
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7. Friday, January 30, 2009
Contemporary Dance Performance: Sean Curran Company. Sponsored by the UGA Performing Arts
Center. A dynamic new dance company founded by Sen Curran, an original member of Stomp.
Curran began his dance training with traditional Irish step dancing and went on to be a dancer
with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Tickets $19, $24. 8:00 p.m. Hodgson Hall,
Performing Arts Center. Contact 706-542-4400
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8. ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc.proudly presents:
Running on Empty: the fossil fuel addiction
curated by Bart King with featured artist: Christoph Gielen from New York City/Bonn, Germany
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 31
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
-with yummies provided by White Tiger Gourmet
The exhibit runs January 31-March 22, 2009
Gallery Hours:
Thursday 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.
ATHICA's 30th exhibition brings you artwork and industrial products inspired by the energy crisis
we face, and by the solutions that could help us survive.
Running on Empty includes photography, print, large-scale painting, mosaic, video, installation,
digital imaging and more by 17 artists and groups selected from more than 50 submissions from
across the U.S., South America, Europe and Asia.
A majority of the exhibition focuses directly or indirectly on oilthat most visible fuel of
contemporary life, brought to our attention on a weekly or even daily basis, as we fill the gas
tanks of vehicles on which we rely so heavily for transportation and commerce. Factor in heating
oil and petroleum-based plastics that pervade our daily lives, and theres no denying that
standards of living in industrialized nations have floated upwards on a rising sea of crude.
However, oil supplies are finite, and some experts believe the needle on the global tank has
already passed the halfway markknown as peak oiland is rapidly moving toward the big, red E. No
one knows exactly when, but the International Energy Agency (IEA), to which countries around the
world turn for statistics and projections, admitted in 2008 that oil production would top out and
begin to decline in the near future. This abrupt about-face from the IEAs business-as-usual
outlook in previous years is detailed in the 2008 World Energy Outlook report. For the first time,
figures in this annual report were based on actual studies of 800 oil fields around the world. It
concludes that under the most optimistic scenarios and with massive financial investments to tap
remaining oil supplies, global oil production will still decrease an alarming two-thirds by 2030
due to dwindling suppliesdown from current rates of roughly 73 million barrels a day to a mere 25
million.
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9. Monday, February 2, 8pm at Cine
CAROLINE NOBLE WHITBECK
Carolines book, Our Classical Heritage: A Homing Device, was the 2006 winner of Switchback
Books' Gatewood Prize as selected by judge Arielle Greenberg. She holds a BA in Classics (Latin)
from Harvard College and an MFA from Brown University. Born and raised in New York City, she
currently resides in Philadelphia, where she is working toward a PhD in Comparative Literature
and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her short play "Woof" was produced off-
Broadway as part of the Young Playwrights Festival 2000, and her poems have appeared in Horse
Less Review, Lumina, Elimae, Cab/Net, and Word For/Word.
JEN TYNES
lives in Denver, Colorado, and edits horseless press. She is the author or co-author of the
following books and chapbooks: Heron/Girlfriend (Coconut Books, 2008), See Also Electric Light
(Dancing Girl Press, 2007), The Ohio System (w/Erika Howsare, Octopus Books, 2006), The End Of
Rude Handles (Red Morning Press, 2005), and Found in Nature (horse less press, 2004).
MICHAEL TOD EDGERTON
has had poems published in such journals as New American Writing, Denver Quarterly, Chelsea,
Fell Swoop, New Orleans Review, Skanky Possum, Eoagh, Word For/Word, Exquisite Corpse, and in
Through the Gap: An Anthology of Contemporary Kentucky Poetry. Cole Swensen chose his poem
"Vitreous Hide (This Restless Abolition of Distances)" as the winner of the 7th annual Boston
Review poetry contest; Rusty Morrison and Susanne Dyckman chose his poem Embogue for the
2005 Five Fingers Review poetry contest. He earned an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University
in 2006, and is currently a doctoral student in English at UGA.
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10. UGA French Film Festival
When: Feb 2, 9, 16, 23, Mar 2 @ 8:00 pm
Where: Tate Center Theater
The UGA FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL returns this winter, for six consecutive Monday nights, beginning
January 26th, at 8PM in the Tate Center theater. $1 for students.
Feb 2: Coeurs / Private Fears in Public Places (Alain Resnais, 2006)
Feb 9: Une vieille maitresse / The Last Mistress (Catherine Briellat, 2007)
Feb 16: La Question humaine / Heartbeat Detector (Nicolas Klotz, 2007)
Feb 23: Le voyage du ballon rouge / Flight of Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2007)
March 2: Banlieue 13 / District B13 Pierre Morel, 2004)
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11. THIS WEEK @ CINE: JAN 20-29, 2008
SHOWTIMES + MORE INFO: athenscine.com
movies thru 1/29:
IVE LOVED YOU SO LONG
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
movies opening 1/23:
THE READER
events:
19th ANNUAL MENTAL HEALTH BENEFIT - 1/25-31
SCREENING: IN A DREAM - TUE/THU 1/27-29
GEORGIA REVIEW READING SERIES - THU 1/29
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