Announcing ICE Collab_3: March 24-26, 2003

I would like to invite you to participate in ICE Collab_3, a workshop and temporary
media lab taking place this month.

The first Collab (2001) brought together a group of artists from different disciplines to
develop works for the ICE web site. The second featured a series of performance
workshops with guests Miranda July and Circo Zero.  This year our goal is to gather
the communities of artists, programmers, engineers and designers that produce new
media at the University of Georgia and in Athens and to spark new high-tech
collaboration.

ICE Collab_3 will have three main components:

1. A presentation and public lecture by Steve Dietz, Director of New Media Initiatives
at the Walker Art Center.  Steve Dietz has played a seminal role as a curator of
digital culture, from the founding of the Digital Arts Study Collection ( http://
www.walkerart.org/gallery9/ ) at the Walker in 1998 to the upcoming  exhibition
"Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time", marking the tenth anniversary of the New York
Digital Salon ( http://www.sva.edu/salon/salon_10/index.php ) to which he also
contributed an essay entitled "Ten Dreams of Technology".

2. Informal presentations and roundtable discussions featuring UGA students, faculty
and local practitioners.  Topics may include emerging technologies, current works in
progress, web standards, usability, aesthetics, open source movements,
collaborative filtering and speculation!

3. Temporary Media Lab. Geert Lovink, in the recent publication "Dark Fiber" (MIT
Press) writes "the best way to speed up the process of production is to meet in real
space, to confront the loose, virtual connections, to engage in the complex and
messy circumstances of real-time space, to present the audience (and possible
future participants) with actual outcomes. And then go back again, in scattered
places on-line. New media are not merely storing the old. They do not only give
access to existing information. Their most lively and attractive aspect lies in their
aspect of communication, collaboration and exchange." The temporary media lab
model has been successfully employed at various European new media festivals
such as Ars Electronica and Documenta.  It exists somewhere between a Happening
and an online journal.  ICE Collab_3 participants can work together to create an
impromptu web site that tracks and represents the discussions that ensue over the 3
days of the workshop.

Please pass this information along to your colleagues, especially faculty and
students who would benefit from the proposed interdisciplinary and hands-on
approach. Most importantly, if you have specific topics or projects you would like to
present, please contact me to arrange a presentation time. This is also great
opportunity to present research and student projects in a supportive and energetic
setting.  Posters and a more formal agenda will follow.  Feel free to contact me by
email or phone, 542- 7270. ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration www.ice.uga.edu