ICE Announcements 10.12.04
ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration
<http://ice.uga.edu>
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1. Lanier Speaker Series: Ed Dimendberg
2. Networked Interactivity
3. Interface in Residence
4. Xerces Public Discussion
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1. Lanier Speaker Series: Ed Dimendberg, Author of "Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity"

 Scholar of cinema, media, architecture, urban history, and modernism Dr. Ed Dimendberg will
speak on Thursday, October 14, at 4 p.m. in Park Hall 265. His lecture, "These Are Not Exercises in
Style': Alain Resnais, Raymond Queneau, and The Song of Styrene" includes a screening of a short
1958 film by Resnais, "Le Chant du Styrene." The beautiful, poetic and rarely seen film is an
industrial documentary about the manufacture of polystyrene, with a commentary in rhymed
alexandrine verse by Queneau.

Dimendberg is Associate Professor of German Studies, Film and Video Studies, and Architecture at
the University of Michigan. This year he is Visiting Associate Professor at the University of
California, Irvine. From 1990-1998, Dimendberg was a Humanities Editor at the University of
California Press. He is on the editorial board of the journal OCTOBER, and a general editor of the
"Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism" book series. His lecture at UGA draws upon his
work-in-progress, a book on film and twentieth-century modernization. After the lecture, he will
be signing his new book "Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity" (Harvard, 2004) at a reception in
Park Hall 261.
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2. Demonstration of OSC / Formation of the Networked Interactivity Working Group, Friday,
October 15, 12:00 PM at ICE (Tanner Building room 101)

Dr. Eric Marty will demonstrate OSC, the new networking protocol for interactivity, and outline
possible areas of activity for a new Networked Interactivity Working Group. All interested faculty,
students and staff, and interested members of the community are invited to attend.

ICE is seeking to build a diverse group of artists and researchers interested in creating art,
software or working methods dealing with networked interactivity. An important focus of the
research will be the integration and exploitation of OSC in artistic applications.

We are specifically interested in individuals with any of these backgrounds:
Programmers (C, C++, Java, XML)
Visual Artists (installation and time-based art)
Composers and Musicians (computer music and interactivity)
Choreographers and Dancers
Anyone working with MaxMSP, Jitter, Flash, Director, or other multimedia or DSP environments

OSC (OpenSound Control) is a new open source protocol for high-level, expressive control of
multimedia applications. It is designed to facilitate real-time networked interactivity, and has been
implemented in all the major multimedia environments, including MaxMSP, Director and Flash. It is
also replacing MIDI and other protocols in hardware interfaces and devices.

OSC is a transport-independent protocol optimized for modern networking technology. OSC
messages can have time-tags (with sub-nanosecond resolution) that tell the receiving device when
the messages are to take effect. The protocol includes regular expression address patterns,
providing a powerful way to send messages to multiple points in a receiving application.

Further information about at <http://www.opensoundcontrol.org>

If you are unable to attend but would like to learn about OSC or participate in the Working Group,
contact Eric Marty: email: <[log in to unmask]> or (706) 296-9664
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3. Electronic performance ensemble, "interface", Curtis Bahn, Dan Trueman and Tomie Hahn,
present an evening of electronic music and multi-media performance featuring their duo
employing gestural computer controllers based on abstracted string instruments. The evening will
include "Pikapika" an interactive dance performance by Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn, "BoSSA
Nova", the new iteration of Trueman’s award winning bowed spherical speaker, as well as other
new work and spontaneous electronic improvisation.

"interface, Moving Sound Performance"
Tuesday, October 19, 8:00 p.m.
Ramsey Hall, Performing Arts Center

Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn, Artist Talk
Wednesday, October 20, 4:00 p.m.
 Dancz Center for New Music, School of Music

Tomie Hahn, "Dancing music: a case of oral transmission of Japanese dance", Colloquium
Thursday, October 21, 4:00 p.m.
Edge Hall, School of Music

 For more information, see: <http://www.interfaceimprov.net>
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4. Xerces Society Public Discussion
Tuesday, October 26 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
ICE (Tanner Building room 101)

Professor Laleh Mehran and the Xerces crew will discuss their recent installation at the Georgia
Museum of Art. All are welcome.