ICE Announcements 1.31.17
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Seminar: From Public Art to Climate Action (1/31)
2. Lecture: Artist + Art + Audience (1/31)
3. Performance: The Long Christmas Ride Home (1/31-2/5)
4. Collaborative Performance: For You (2/1)
5. ICE Conversation: The Innocents Project (2/15)
6. ICE Reading Room: VR at Sundance
7. Opportunity: UGA IRIS Conference (deadline extended 2/1)
8. Opportunity: CURO (deadline 2/10)
9. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants (deadline 2/16)
10. Opportunity: ICE Project Grants
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1. Seminar: Translating Ecology: From Public Art to Climate Action
Tuesday, January 31 at 3:30 PM
Odum School of Ecology Auditorium
Tim Carter is the executive director of the national non-profit organization Second Nature, which facilitates sustainability in higher education through the Climate Leadership Network, now including over 600 university presidents and chancellors. He was formerly the director of Butler University's Center for Urban Ecology, where projects included collaborative installations between artists and scientists for informal science learning, creation of a community currency to encourage urban watershed conservation action, and the use of mobile device technology as an engagement strategy for residents of the city. Carter received his Ph.D. in Ecology with distinction from the Odum School of Ecology at the UGA and completed his B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As a post-doc and faculty member at UGA his work focused on the intersection between urbanization and environmental management through studies of designer ecosystems, sustainable development, environmental policy, and climate change impacts on coastal areas, including visualizing sea level rise on the Georgia coast.
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2. Lecture: Artist + Art + Audience: Looking at the Whole Equation
Tuesday, January 31 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
Susan Krane, executive director at the San Jose Museum of Art and the Juror for the Lyndon House Arts Center's 42nd Juried Exhibition, will discuss the museum world today at large. Specifically, she will engage questions that surround proactively connecting audiences with art via exploratory, casual practices for engagement that may often challenge our respective values, authority, aesthetic intentions, and critical focus. She will consider where the expectations of the artist, the curator, and the museum as a public platform converge in an era of ever-increasing demands and a growing gap between general and specialized audiences.
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3. Performance: The Long Christmas Ride Home
Begins Tuesday, January 31 at 8 PM
Through February 5
Seney-Stovall Chapel
http://www.drama.uga.edu/event/1645/the-long-christmas-ride-home
Paula Vogel's experimental play utilizes a contemporary version of bunraku puppetry in its haunting deconstruction of an "All-American" family's road trip to their grandparent's house for Christmas. Tickets are $12, $7 for students.
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4. Collaborative Performance: For You
Wednesday, February 1 from 6 - 8 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Atrium
"For You" will bring together music, sound, video, and installation art in an original composition. Groups of visitors will be hosted in 20-minute sequences during the 2-hour cyclical performance. "For You" takes participants on a symbolic journey involving a 16-foot boat, a wooden pavilion, and a room of dancing shadows and projections that deals thematically with the idea of offering and receiving.
This performance piece is the result of a unique new class format and close collaboration. Undergraduate and graduate students in Associate Professor Martijn van Wagtendonk's Thematic Inquiry course at the Lamar Dodd School of Art have taken advantage of an intensive four-week long class structure, which will culminate in this final performance. The class is collaborating with students and faculty from UGA's Hugh Hodgson School of Music to create an original musical arrangement as an integral part of the overall performance.
One inspiration for the performance comes from a piano piece called "Fur Alina" by the Estonian composer Arvo Part. According to Professor van Wagtendonk, "'Fur Alina' was dedicated to a family friend's eighteen-year-old daughter who had just gone to study in London. Its introspection calls to mind a vivid image of youth - off to explore the world. In a very similar way, this performance is called 'for you,' for as I told the students who will be part of creating this work, this work is 'for them.' " It is likewise an offering to the audience.
J. D. Burnett, Associate Director of Choral Activities at the School of Music, together with Graduate Assistant Conductor Philip Reed, have translated the original piano piece "Fur Alina" into vocalizations without words, to be performed by the Collegium Musicum, an 20-member student choir. In addition, Timothy Adams Jr., composer and Percussion Area Chair in the School of Music, has written an original composition titled for "For You." A percussion quartet of music students: Taylor Lents, Kamran Mian, Scott Davis, and Keller Steinson, coached by Kimberly Toscano Adams, will perform the piece. Their drums, echoing the old practice of relaying messages through drumming, will initiate each 20-minute cycle of the performance.
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5. ICE Conversation: The Innocents Project
Wednesday, February 15 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Join us for this conversation featuring Atlanta-based contemporary chamber ensemble Bent Frequency and guest artists Professor Allen Otte and Dr. John Lane as they discuss the collaborative and cross-disciplinary aspects of their performance project The Innocents, inspired by the photo exhibit of The Innocence Project by photographer Taryn Simon, which examines the issue of wrongful conviction in the American penal system. Simon traveled across the US photographing and interviewing individuals who had been wrongly convicted and served time for crimes they did not commit. The individuals photographed were exonerated through DNA evidence. Their performance of The Innocents takes place in the Dodd Atrium (first floor of Lamar Dodd Building) the following evening, February 16 at 6 PM. Sponsored by a Willson Center Public Impact Grant.
Full schedule: http://willson.uga.edu/event/the-innocents-project/
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6. ICE Reading Room: VR Projects at Sundance
"In an era that has recalibrated economies, redefined social realms and rewired the connection between the individual and the world, we must also reimagine what it is to be human," said Shari Frilot, Sundance senior programmer and chief curator of New Frontier. "Through virtual reality, augmented reality and various crafted immersive experiences, New Frontier this year challenges the very nature of perception and what we consider to be 'reality.'"
By Tatiana Siegel
Link: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sundance-rolls-new-frontier-lineup-vr-project-inside-an-iranian-nuclear-facility-951773
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7. Integrative Research and Ideas Symposium (IRIS)
Call for submissions deadline extended February 1
http://graduatestudents.org/guidelines
The University of Georgia Graduate-Professional Student Association is pleased to announce the Integrative Research and Ideas Symposium (IRIS), a regional interdisciplinary research conference presented with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research in addition to private and corporate partners from throughout the country. The conference will be on Monday, March 20 at the Tate Center.
The goals of IRIS 2017 are to:
- Expose students and faculty to potential cross-disciplinary collaborators.
- Foster the development of integrative methods, skills and advancements.
- Expose students and faculty mentors to unique funding resources/opportunities.
- Give recognition to outstanding, innovative, impactful research.
- Provide a unique and highly interactive interdisciplinary environment in which to dialogue, learn, and form new connections - personal, professional, and intellectual.
IRIS accepts two types of submissions - (1) individual paper submissions and (2) session submissions. Graduate-level students, faculty, and professionals conducting work or research in STEM-related fields are highly encouraged to submit. Interdisciplinary research and ideas from all fields are welcomed.
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8. CURO Opportunities
https://curo.uga.edu/
- Summer Fellowship
The 2017 CURO Summer Fellowship provides a $3000 stipend for intensive, faculty-mentored research experiences.
Proposals are due by February 10
http://curo.uga.edu/students/summer_fellowship.html
- Research Assistantship
The CURO Research Assistantship provides stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
Summer applications are due by March 22. The application can be found at: http://curo.uga.edu/students/curo_research_assistantship.html
- 2017 CURO Undergraduate Research Symposium
CURO invites submissions for its 2017 Symposium to be held on Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4, 2017. This Symposium provides undergraduates from all disciplines the opportunity to present original, faculty-mentored research and creative works. Applicants are also encouraged to apply for the Best Paper and UGA Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards.
Symposium online submission closes February 10
http://curo.uga.edu/symposium/
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9. Willson Center Grants
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Distinguished Artist or Lecturer Program
Deadline February 16
The Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer program supports individual faculty or interdisciplinary groups in bringing leading thinkers and practitioners to campus in support of ongoing and innovative research projects. The program provides a $1,500 honorarium out of which the artist or lecturer pays his or her travel expenses. Distinguished artists and lecturers are nominated by the faculty and are selected by the Willson Center's Academic Advisory Board. Faculty are encouraged to conceive of this program as an opportunity to create broader impacts that include engagement with the student body, the public, the locality and state.
Applicants are encouraged to involve more than one department; applications may include partnership with relevant departments, centers and institutes other than the Willson Center. A primary criterion is the academic excellence of the nominee and the interdisciplinary impact they will have on the UGA research community in the arts and humanities.
Lectures and locations should be coordinated through the Willson Center. In accepting the award, the faculty sponsor agrees to communicate all relevant information regarding the visitor's activities while at UGA and to credit the Willson Center in all publicity about the visitor.
Research Seminar Program
Deadline February 16
The Willson Center Research Seminar Program provides $2,000 to faculty organizing year-long interdisciplinary discussion groups on particular research topics. The funds are to be used to bring to campus scholars from other institutions. Award is following academic year.
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10. ICE Project Grants
Invitation for Letter of Inquiry
(no deadline)
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia. ICE invites Letters of Inquiry from UGA faculty and students for innovative and collaborative projects. Selected inquiries will be invited to submit a full proposal and then be considered for an ICE Project Grant.
Projects should be consistent with the ICE mission:
ICE is a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary creative projects, advanced research and critical discourse in the arts, and for creative applications of technologies, concepts, and practices found across disciplines. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. ICE enables all stages of creative activity, from concept and team formation through production, documentation, and dissemination of research.
Letter of Inquiry should be no more 500 words and sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project.
- List of proposed participants (include titles and affiliations).
- Impact of project and potential for future development.
ICE Project Selection Criteria:
- Intellectual and artistic merit
- Degree of innovation
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility under sponsorship of ICE
- Potential for future funding and development
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