ICE Announcements 11.3.04
ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration
<http://ice.uga.edu>
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1. Rachel Cohen lecture and Coffee Hour
2. Cinema Roundtable
3. 1+1 Digital Media exit show
4. ATHICA performance event
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1. Lanier Speaker Series lecture: “Keeping Company with a Few American Writers and Artists.”
Rachel Cohen. 4 p.m. 265 Park Hall.
Lanier Speaker Coffee Hour: Rachel Cohen. 10 a.m. 261 Park Hall.
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2. Cinema Roundtable: “Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Films.” Horace Newcomb
(telecommunications), Nina Martin (Emory University), Karla Oeler (Emory University), and Richard
Neupert (theatre and film studies) will explore issues of genre, gender, and violence in Quentin
Tarantino’s Kill Bill films. Friday, November 5 at 4 p.m. 150 Student Learning Center.
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3. "1+1" Digital Media Exit Show
Installations by Jason Huff + Toujour Byrd
Lamar Dodd School of Art Courtyard and Foyer
Reception and special performance: Friday, Nov. 5th, 7-9pm
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4. Relative Closing Performance Event & NEGAD Thank You Party: with The Athens Boy's Choir &
Ronnie Cramer, visiting artist from Denver, Colorado.
Saturday, November 6th, 2004,
8:00 - 9:15 p.m.
Doors open to the public 7:30 p.m. for gallery viewing.
6:30 P.M. NEGAD VOLUNTEER THANK YOU PARTY
Suggested donation $6.00 - $9.00 NEGAD Volunteers FREE!
ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art is tickled to offer an evening of performance by
The Athens Boy's Choir and visiting New Media artist Ronnie Cramer, from Denver, Colorado. The
event serves both as a closing party for the Relative: Photographing Domesticity exhibition and as
a Thank You shout-out from ATHICA to the many NEGAD volunteers who mobilized citizens to
vote against the antigay marriage amendment (Amendment No.1) on this year's state ballot
(NEGAD is the Northeast Georgia component of GAD (Georgians Against Discrimination).
Come enjoy the cuting-edge offerings of The Athens Boy's Choir and see a live, extended version
of Ronnie Cramer's popular animation-sound piece, 'Pillow Girl.' Mr. Cramer will be visiting us
from Denver, Colorado.
The Athens Boy's Choir, a "queer, political, poetry spittiní duo that jointly and individually create
spoken word" will make a rare early-evening appearance. Comprised of young locals Katz and
Rocket who became friends while attending the University of Georgia, they are familiar to many
Athenians from their cutting-edge gender-fluid performances, which they describe as "personal,
societal, and political, designed to make you rattle your cage, pound your chest and stand up and
roar." Since their start at the ATHICA Lesbian Emergences
Closing in April 2003, they have performed at numerous Southeastern clubs and festivals such as
Atlanta Gay Pride, Ladyfest South and Idapalooza and have shared stages with The Butchies,
Danielle Howle, and Poets of HBO's Def poetry jam. Signed last summer to Daemon Records, the
Atlanta-based label founded by the Indigo Girls' Amy Ray, their latest release "Rhapsody in T" has
received rave reviews nationwide. They will be performing a set with some new pieces created
especially with the Relative exhibit theme in mind.
Ronnie Cramer is a New Media artist who will be visiting ATHICA from Denver, Colorado to
perform a live, extended version of Pillow Girl, a morphing video-animation of nearly two hundred
lurid, vintage paperback covers, accompanied by a haunting soundtrack, which has been
enthralling ATHICA visitors. Pillow Girl began in February 2004 as a sound-art piece created for
the 2004 Risqué Invitational at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. The image files were
scanned and synthesized, processed and remixed to create the electronic soundscape. The video
component, which the Columbus Ledger-Examiner described as "A disorienting kaleidoscope
around the sultry female form," was subsequently developed and went on to debut at the Raetihi
Film Festival in New Zealand. It has since appeared at over a dozen venues in the US and abroad,
including London's Raindance Festival and the Coney Island Film Festival in Brooklyn, where it was
named Best Experimental Film. Cramer, a practicing artist for twenty-five years, has exhibited his
galleries and museums across the country (including over forty shows in 2003-04 alone). Cramer's
music has achieved airplay on over 100 radio stations nationwide and his critically acclaimed films
have been screened at festivals around the world and sold thousands of copies on videocassette
and DVD. As a performer he has appeared at such diverse venues as NYC's legendary punk club
CBGB to Miami University, where he performed Pillow Girl live at the Interactive Media Forum in
early October. ATHICA is delighted to be hosting its second live incarnation.
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