ICE Announcements 10.15.03 ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration <http://ice.uga.edu> --- 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.