ICE Announcements 10.10.16
http://ice.uga.edu
*** This Friday is the deadline for Daylighting the Watersheds ***
1. Daylighting the Watersheds Design Competition (deadline 10/14)
2. ICE Site-Specific Performance Information Session (10/10)
3. UGA Sustainability + Arts Grant (deadline 11/14)
4. ICE Reading Room: Duchamp's Spinning Optical Experiments
5. Performance: The Skin of Our Teeth (10/11-16)
6. Screening: Su Friedrich (10/11)
7. Lecture: Michael Leja (10/11)
8. Opening and Gallery Talk: Chris Taylor (10/13)
9. Poe-Tober Events
10. ICE Events during Spotlight
11. Opportunity: 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Competition (deadline today at 5 PM)
12. Opportunity: a2ru UGA Faculty Research Cluster Grants (deadline 11/1)
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1. ***ICE is partnering with Watershed UGA to offer two $1000 cash prizes for concept designs for site-specific creative projects on campus. Anyone may apply and all proposals will be exhibited during UGA Spotlight on the Arts.***
Daylighting the Watersheds UGA Design Competition
Deadline: October 14
Two $1,000 cash prizes
Download application: http://watershed.uga.edu/daylighting.pdf
http://watershed.uga.edu
Student teams are invited to participate in the Daylighting the Watersheds design competition to raise awareness about streams that flow through the UGA campus and to support the mission of Watershed UGA by creating a community ethic for the restoration of campus streams. Two projects will be selected to receive cash prizes of $1,000 each.
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2. ICE Site-Specific Performance Information Session
Monday, October 10 at 1 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Atrium
ICE is developing a collaborative, site-specific, sound and movement performance in a small area of old-growth forest on campus to take place during Spotlight on the Arts. Movers, dancers, and performance artists interested in exploring the connections - resonant or dissonant - between movement, music, and bodies (both earth and human) are welcome. The session will include a series of movement tasks that are informing the movement-based performance of the Driftmier Woods Happening (come prepared to move!). For more information or if a potential participant cannot attend, please contact Elizabeth Rogers <[log in to unmask]>.
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3. Sustainability + Arts Grant
Pre-proposal deadline (optional): October 14, 2016
Final proposal deadline: November 14, 2016
http://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/students/sustainability_grants/
ICE and the Office of Sustainability invite you to apply for a Sustainability + Arts grant in conjunction with the 2016-2017 UGA Campus Sustainability Grants program. Special consideration will be given to projects incorporating sustainability + arts.
Drawn from the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to initiate projects to advance sustainability through education, research, service, and campus operations. Successful projects will address priorities outlined in UGA's 2020 Strategic Plan to actively conserve resources, educate the campus community, influence positive action for people and the environment, and provide useful research data to inform future campus sustainability efforts. Interdisciplinary projects designed to inspire, beautify and uplift - as well as to inform and conserve - are encouraged. Grants are awarded based on merit, positive impact, implementation feasibility, and available funding.
The Office of Sustainability coordinates, communicates, and advances sustainability initiatives at UGA in the areas of teaching, research, service and outreach, student engagement, and campus operations. For more information visit:
http://sustainability.uga.edu.
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4. ICE Reading Room: Duchamp's Spinning Optical Experiments
"In 1935, Marcel Duchamp set up a booth at the Concours Lepine, a French fair for inventors promoting their latest gadgets that still occurs to this day. In between a stand of instant vegetable choppers and another of trash compactors, the Surrealist debuted a series of objects merging his interests in science and art: his Rotoreliefs, decorated discs made to spin on a turntable as optical entertainment."
By Claire Voon
Link: http://hyperallergic.com/323582/duchamps-spinning-optical-experiments/
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5. Performance: The Skin of Our Teeth
Tuesday, October 11 at 8 PM
Wednesday, October 12 at 8 PM
Thursday, October 13 at 8 PM
Friday, October 14 at 8 PM
Sunday, October 16 at 2:30 PM
Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre (Room 55)
Written by Thornton Wilder. Directed by George Contini. This Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy follows a "typical" American family as they traverse history itself, from the Ice Age to the present day. Along the way they face success, failure, mystery, and discover that human civilization isn't all that it's cracked up to be.Tickets are $12, $7 for students.
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6. Screening: Su Friedrich
Tuesday, October 11 at 4 PM
Fine Arts Building, Balcony Theatre
Su Friedrich will present a screening of her films First Comes Love (1991, 20 min.) and Gut Renovation (2012, 80 min.). She will introduce the films and answer audience questions following the screening. The Institute for Women's Studies Library (Gilbert Hall, Lumpkin Street Entrance) will host a discussion and brunch reception with Friedrich from 8:30-10 a.m. Wednesday, October 12.
Friedrich is Professor of Visual Arts at Princeton University. She has produced and directed twenty-three 16mm films and digital videos since 1978, including Queen Takes Pawn (2013), Gut Renovation (2012), From the Ground Up (2007), The Odds of Recovery (2002), Hide and Seek (1996), First Comes Love (1991), Sink or Swim (1990), Damned If You Don't (1987), and The Ties That Bind (1984). She is the writer, director, cinematographer, sound recordist, and editor of all but one of her films. In 2015, Friedrich's autobiographical documentary Sink or Swim was added to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. Friedrich's visit to UGA is sponsored by the Willson Center, the President's Venture Fund, the Film Studies Program, the Department of Romance Languages, and the Institute for Women's Studies.
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7. Lecture: Dr. Michael Leja
Tuesday, October 11 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, S151
"An Archaeology of Picture Culture"
It will be an investigation of the beginnings of the mass circulation of pictures in the United States, which happens in the early/mid-19th century and initiates the picture-saturated culture we now inhabit. Michael Leja (Ph.D., Harvard) studies the visual arts in various media (painting, sculpture, film, photography, prints, illustrations) in the 19th and 20th centuries, primarily in the United States. His work is interdisciplinary and strives to understand visual artifacts in relation to contemporary cultural, social, political, and intellectual developments. He is especially interested in examining the interactions between works of art and particular audiences.
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8. Opening and Gallery Talk: Chris Taylor
Thursday, October 13 at 4:30 PM
Jackson Street Building Circle Gallery
Chris Taylor is a sculptor and professor at the University of Alabama, Huntsville whose work has deep cultural roots in religion, music, and sport in the Southeastern United States. He considers the South to be fertile ground for his interest in spectatorship. Churches, theaters, race tracks, gymnasiums and music halls - the gargantuan, the unheralded and the banal - offer a myriad of imagery and experience that coincide with his artistic pursuits. Taylor is a graduate of The Ohio State University and holds an MFA in sculpture from the New York College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
The Stands: Environmental Sculpture by Chris Taylor
October 13-December 13, 2016
The Circle Gallery, located in the Jackson Street Building on UGA's North Campus, is an inspiring venue for art that engages, informs, and entertains visitors interested in environmental design. A diverse selection of seven shows per year reflects our college's interdisciplinary character. From landscape architecture, to historic preservation, to planning and design, the Circle Gallery strives to enrich the experiences of our students and the community.
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9. Poe-tober Events
https://coe.uga.edu/poe/
Celebrate the works of Edgar Allan Poe all month during "Poe-tober" in Athens, Georgia. Almost all events are free and will engage readers of all ages. Book prizes and bookmarks will be given out at events.
Upcoming this week:
12 OCTOBER
Quoth the Raven Mask-Making Workshop
15 OCTOBER
Juried Poe-tober Art Awards and Exhibition
16 OCTOBER
Poe-tober: Boo-le-Bark on Boulevard
Support for this event comes from a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts along with the Athens-Clarke County Library, the Willson Center, Rose of Athens Theatre, the Last Resort Grill, and the Georgia Museum of Art.
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10. ICE Events During UGA Spotlight on the Arts
UGA Spotlight on the Arts
November 2-13
http://arts.uga.edu/spotlightuga2016/
ICE Conversation: Elizabeth Corr
Thursday, November 10 at Noon
ICE, Lamar Dodd building room S160
Elizabeth Corr, Art Partnerships Manager with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), will share examples of projects that combine art, science, and environmental activism. Sponsored by Watershed UGA and ICE.
Elizabeth Corr works with artists, architects, and designers to heighten public awareness of and interest in the environmental issues that face today's communities. She launched NRDC's Artist-in-Residence program and is expanding support for NRDC's art and climate-related projects, from such organizations as the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Public Concern Foundation, and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Corr holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and gender studies and a master's degree in African studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
Arts + Environment Roundtable
Thursday, November 10 at 4 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 350
"How Artists, Scientists, and Environmental Activists Can Work Together"
A roundtable discussion featuring special guest Elizabeth Corr [Art Partnerships Manager with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)], Laurie Fowler [Watershed UGA], Chris Cuomo [Philosophy/Women's Studies], Lizzie King [Ecology/Forestry], Nate Nibbelink [Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR)], and moderated by Mark Callahan [ICE]. Sponsored by Watershed UGA and ICE. Winners of the "Daylighting the Watersheds" Design Competition will also be announced.
Driftmier Woods Happening
Friday, November 11 at 11 AM
Driftmier Woods
A site-specific performance featuring sound and movement in Driftmier Woods, a small area of old-growth forest on campus adjacent to Driftmier Engineering Center.
ICE Conversation: Stephen Wood
Thursday, November 11 at 1 PM
ICE, Lamar Dodd building room S160
Stephen Wood is a composer, educator, and performer who travels the United States in search of inspiration from our country's wildest places. He has served as Composer-in-Residence for Cumberland Island National Seashore, the Okefenokee N.W.R., the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, Red River Gorge Geological Area, and participated in Denali N.P.'s monumental Composing in the Wilderness Field Seminar. Wood received his B.A. in Composition from The Ohio State University and his M.M. in Jazz Studies from Georgia State University.
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11. 4 minutes, 33 seconds
Spotlight on Scholarship in the Arts Competition
Deadline: Monday, October 10 at 5 PM
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebmGkLwW1uLFa9YT1drBGblBk2cn7Ko9Nlqwvn6EVHiC-sJQ/viewform
This competition highlights scholarly research by UGA students about any art form or combination of art forms, including (but not restricted to): visual art, music, theatre, dance, film, literature, media arts, performance art, or arts education. The focus of this competition is not on original works of art created by the students, but on historical, theoretical, and critical research about art.
This competition provides an opportunity for students to present their research in a clear and compelling way to other students, faculty and administrators throughout the university. Students may present their research in two ways:
4'33" Thesis Presentations:
This competition is open to UGA graduate students in any department. Students will present an oral presentation about their research, no longer than four minutes and thirty-three seconds in length, accompanied by Powerpoint slides. (Note that the media should be used to support and illustrate the live presentation, not as a substitute for it.)
Poster Exhibit:
This competition is open to UGA graduate students in any department as well as undergraduate students working on CURO projects. Students will be provided with a 4' x 4' area (half of a 4' x 8' table) to present their research. The exhibits will typically consist of a poster-board displays and/or a laptop presentation (students must provide their own laptops), but can include other visual aids. If the exhibit includes audio, headphone must be provided. (Note that presentations must be self-powered; power outlets will not be available.)
Prizes:
The winner of the 4'33" Thesis competition will receive $433, and a prize of $144.33 each will be awarded to the top three Poster Exhibits. A panel of distinguished faculty from disciplines both within and outside the arts will judge the competitions.
When and Where:
November 4, Fine Arts Building. The Poster Exhibits will be on display in the Fine Arts Lobby between 2:30 and 4:15 pm. The 4'33" Thesis Competition will take place in the Balcony Theatre (room 400) from 4:33-5:33 pm.
Please contact Camie Williams at [log in to unmask] with any questions.
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12. a2ru UGA Faculty Research Cluster Grants
Deadline: November 11
http://willson.uga.edu/research/research-clusters/alliance-for-the-arts-in-research-universities-a2ru/
The a2ru Faculty Research Cluster is accepting proposals from full-time, research-budgeted faculty whose projects have the potential to further UGA's reputation as a leader in arts-based research. Projects may be creative or scholarly in form, and they may be disciplinary or interdisciplinary in scope. Grants will range from $1,000 to $3,000 and are intended to advance research projects with an eye toward external funding.
A one-page proposal describing the project and its significance should be sent, along with an attached budget, to the Willson Center ([log in to unmask]). Proposals should identify at least one possible external source of funding. Applications will be reviewed by a representative panel of faculty in the arts. Successful applicants will be required to submit at least one external grant proposal within a year of receiving funding. The Willson Center will provide assistance in proposal review and preparation.
Please contact Dr. Isabelle Loring Wallace ([log in to unmask]) with any proposal questions.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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