ICE Announcements 10.15.03
ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration <http://ice.uga.edu>
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Congratulations to the new recipients of 2003-2004 ICE Project Grants. A total of $16,500
was distributed in the form of partial support for six projects chosen by the ICE Selection
Committee. The projects and lead applicants are as follows:

- All Day and All Night (Kit Hughes), an interactive installation that explores the tenets of
capitalism, marketing, technology, art on the primary framework of digital media.

-E.L.I. Nomad (Christian Croft), E.L.I., or Electro-Linguistic Imaginator, is a mobile computer
module that moves about unlikely environments speaking randomly generated poetry in
exchange for new vocabulary words for his database. Through a series of public
interventions, the E.L.I. artists will develop a documentary, website, and a book covering their
travels.

-Paradise Hotel (Cal Clements), Using Richard Foreman's play, Paradise Hotel, as a framework
for collaboration to bring together readers, actors, and artists in a series of performances.
The play interrogates sexuality along philosophical and psychoanalytical lines and explores
body-machine interactivity, the displacement of the subject, and the persistence of
humanistic fantasies.

-Scenes from the X-Ray Cafe CD Series (Joe Silva), the first in a series of several CD
compilations of local sound and digital media artists participating in regular performance
events at the X-Ray Cafe. CDs will contain unreleased/exclusive tracks, multimedia elements
and original artwork and will culminate in an annual performance event.

-Sporangium (Eric Marty), a collaborative sound and sculpture installation that envelops the
viewer in a surreal environment of blood-red floral forms and ethereal, organic sound. The
viewer/listener interacts with the visual-tactile-aural environment, stepping on rubber forms
and influencing the sound through hidden sensors.

-Temporary Excursions with a Relative Departure in Mind (Bala Sarasvati), a collaborative
project that involves artists and performers from music, dance and art disciplines, joined
together to create and present a performance featuring original choreography, stage design,
and live renditions of Philip Glass compositions.

The projects were selected from eighteen proposals based on the following criteria:

- Intellectual and artistic merit
- Feasibility of the project under sponsorship of ICE
- Involvement of UGA students
 -Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Degree of innovation
- Potential for future funding and development

More information, opportunities for involvement, and presentation dates will appear soon on
the ICE web site and listserv.