ICE Announcements 10.30.18
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Idea Lab Mini Grants Info Session (10/30)
2. Lecture: Elizabeth Corr (10/31)
3. a2ru National Conference Events (11/1-3)
4. Lecture: Aviva Rahmani (10/31)
5. Frankenread (10/31)
6. UGA Spotlight on the Arts Events (11/1-11)
7. The Rosetta Theatre Project (11/2)
8. 4 minutes, 33 seconds: Spotlight on Scholarship (11/7)
9. Workshop: Arduino from Scratch (register for 11/7)
10. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/12)
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants Info Session
Tuesday, October 30 at 10 AM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Call for Proposals
Deadline: November 5 at 5 PM
Idea Lab is a UGA student organization committed to providing an open, interdisciplinary platform for engagement in arts. UGA students from all disciplines are invited to apply for funding up to $500 to support new creative and collaborative projects. Special consideration will be given to projects that address the theme "Cultivating Community."
Grant proposals should be sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project (500 word maximum)
- List of project participants (include titles and affiliations)
- Name of lead applicant (include major and year of study)
- Impact of project
- Timeline of project
- Itemized budget
Selection Criteria:
- Creative merit
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility
Lead applicant must be UGA student. Collaborative teams may include students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. Deadline for grant proposals is Monday, November 5 at 5 PM.
The Idea Lab Mini Grant Program is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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2. Lecture: Elizabeth Corr
Wednesday, October 31 at 3:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
"The Case for Collaboration: How NRDC Works with Artists to Bolster Environmental Advocacy"
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 is the Director of Art Partnerships at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an international environmental nonprofit organization with over three million members. Corr launched the NRDC's Artist-in-Residence program, an innovative platform for thoughtful and sustained collaboration between artists and environmental leaders. As a curator she has worked with artists such as Jenny Kendler, Sipho Mabona, Antonin Fourneau, and the Luftwerk collective. Corr holds a master's degree in African Studies and a bachelor's degree in psychology and gender/women's studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was recently nominated for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award, recognizing scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, activists, or artists who stand poised to make a game-changing difference. Supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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3. a2ru National Conference
November 1-3
University of Georgia
https://www.a2ru.org/events/2018-national-conference/
UGA will host the 2018 National Conference for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) on the theme of "Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability." The conference will be held in partnership with the UGA Arts Council and in conjunction with the November Spotlight on the Arts festival.
The 2018 theme, Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability, is an invitation to explore the relationship between creativity and diverse cultural locations, by framing discussions about design, resilience, and sustainability in context of interdisciplinary artistic and environmental practice. The theme offers an opportunity to think broadly about the ecology of the arts and their environments, in terms of performance, design, and engineering. A land and sea grant institution inextricable from the town of Athens and the broader ecologies of Georgia and the Southeast, the University of Georgia will provide a rich context for thinking creatively about Arts Environments globally.
Free public sessions:
a2ru Plenary Session
Thursday, November 1 at Noon
UGA Center for Continuing Education, Mahler Hall
"The Art of Resilience: What's at Stake for Integrating the Arts and Sciences to Achieve Sustainability and Resilience in the Anthropocene"
Participants in this free, public plenary session of the a2ru National Conference are Cassandra Fraser, professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia; Paul Shrivastava, chief sustainability officer at Penn State University; and Sha Xin Wei, professor and director of the School of Arts, Media + Engineering at Arizona State University.
a2ru Plenary Session
Friday, November 2 at 9 AM
UGA Center for Continuing Education, Mahler Hall
Rebecca Rutstein and Samantha Joye: "Expeditions, Experiments, and the Ocean: Arts and Sciences at Sea"
Rebecca Rutstein is an artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, installation, and public art and explores abstraction inspired by science, data and maps. Samantha Joye's research examines the complex feedbacks that drive elemental cycling in coastal and open ocean environments, and the effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbances on critical environmental processes to gain a better understanding of how future changes will affect ecosystem functioning. Her work in deep sea extreme environments explores how microbial processes interact with geological and physical processes.
a2ru Plenary Session
Saturday, November 3 at 4 PM
UGA Center for Continuing Education, Mahler Hall
"Promoting the Arts to Full Partner: A Discussion About Deep Arts Integration on Campus from Various Leadership Perspectives"
Participants in this free, public plenary session of the a2ru National Conference are Peter Linett, chairman and chief idea officer of Slover Linett Audience Research; and Harry J. Elam, Jr., the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, senior vice provost for education, vice president for the arts, and the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University.
Closing event: Human and the Machine
Saturday, November 3 at 8 PM
Georgia Theatre
Free with RSVP
http://humanandthemachine.moogfest.com
The 2018 a2ru conference closing event is presented by Moogfest in partnership with the UGA Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech.
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4. Lecture: Aviva Rahmani
Wednesday, October 31 at 12:20 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
Aviva Rahmani began her career as a performance artist, founding and directing the American Ritual Theatre (1968-1971), performing throughout California. She graduated from California Institute of the Arts and received a PhD from Plymouth University, UK, Rahmani has presented workshops on her theoretical approach to environmental restoration and her transdisciplinary work has been exhibited internationally including in The Independent Museum of Contemporary Art (IMCA), Cyprus with the National Centres of Contemporary Art (NCCA), Ekaterinburg and Moscow, Russian Federation, KRICT, Daejeon, Korea, the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO.
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5. Frankenread: A Halloween Event
Wednesday, October 31
UGA Main Library and Cine
On October 31st UGA will take part in Frankenreads: an international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein organized by the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the NEH. The Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literary is sponsoring a nearly-complete reading of the novel in collaboration with the Main Library, The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Theatre and Film Studies Department, and the Undergraduate English Association.
Our nearly complete reading of the novel will begin at 8 AM in the newly renovated cafe on the bottom floor of UGA's Main Library and continue until 6 PM. In the spirit of the novel's multiple voices, readers will be drawn from across the campus and the larger Athens community. Our reading will be accompanied by a slideshow of images drawn from popular culture and curated by Dr. Christopher Pizzino. The final 30 minutes of this epic readathon will take place at Cine, just prior to a free screening of The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
In addition to this epic "read-a-thon," the library will host a movie marathon throughout the day, as well as a Monster Parts Scavenger Hunt. During the entire month of October, the Main Library will present curated exhibits of Frankenstein texts and related curricular materials. Participants and sponsors from the library include Emily McGinn (Digital Humanities Coordinator, UGA Willson Center Digital Humanities Lab), Diane Trap (Reference Librarian and Graphic Specialist, UGA Main Library), and Amy Watts (Reference and Instruction Librarian, UGA Main Library).
If you are interested in signing up for a 10-minute reading opportunity, please contact Dr. Roxanne Eberle ([log in to unmask]) or Dr. Casie LeGette ([log in to unmask]).
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6. UGA Spotlight on the Arts (11/1-11)
November 1 -11
Full event calendar:
https://arts.uga.edu/spotlightuga2018/
UGA will celebrate the visual, literary and performing arts on campus this November during the seventh annual Spotlight on the Arts festival, which features dozens of events and exhibitions.
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7. The Rosetta Theatre Project
Friday, November 2 from 3:30 - 7 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Dancz Center Room 264
During this interactive event, two actors performers will silently perform two scenes in alternation for several hours: one from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and the other from Moliere's Tartuffe. A real-time motion capture system will generate four animations from the live performance, representing a distinct culture, time period, and artistic style, with distinct character models, scenery and costumes. Spectators will have an opportunity to watch any scene straight through in each of its variations or to switch back and forth between them at will. After each hour, the performance will pause for a panel discussion with the contributing artists.
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8. 4 minutes, 33 seconds: Spotlight on Scholarship
Wednesday, November 7 at 7 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
This fifth-annual competition features student research in the arts. Poster competition entries will be on display Nov. 1-7 at the Georgia Museum of Art, and prizes will be awarded in the poster and presentation categories.
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9. Arduino from Scratch: a workshop for beginners
Wednesday, November 7 at 2 PM
Science Library Makerspace
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform for artists, designers, hobbyists, tech lovers, and anyone interested in making. Synthesizers, robots, and e-textiles can all be made with Arduino!
In this workshop, presented by Ariel Ackerly, Makerspace Associate and Andrew Johnson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, you'll learn the basics of circuitry, an overview of the hardware and software of Arduino, and we'll code our boards to do something cool! No prior knowledge of Arduino is needed and all hardware and peripherals will be provided. Open to all UGA undergraduate and graduate students.
Space is limited and reservations may be made by emailing [log in to unmask]
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10. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants
Pre-proposals deadline: October 12
Deadline: November 12 at 9 AM
http://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/sustainability-grants/
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. Special consideration will be given to projects incorporating sustainability + arts. 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.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA, supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
facebook.com/ideasforcreativeexploration
For more events and opportunities visit:
art.uga.edu
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english.uga.edu
flagpole.com
georgiamuseum.org
music.uga.edu
pac.uga.edu
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