ICE Announcements 10.23.06 http://ice.uga.edu --- 1. Samuel Yates: The Color of Palo Alto (Tuesday at 5:30 PM) 2. Religion of the Lie: Screening and Panel Discussion (November 1) 3. Janet Murray: Game, Treasure Chest, Interactive Story (November 1) 4. iDMAa Conference (Travel Opportunity) 5. Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology (Research Opportunity) --- 1. Samuel Yates: The Color of Palo Alto Tuesday, October 24, 5:30 PM Student Learning Center Room 101 Samuel Yates will give a lively presentation on how "The Color of Palo Alto" incorporates technology, contemporary art, environmental protection, and public service into one award- winning public art project that created the nation's first photo-assisted 911 emergency response system. Samuel Yates received his Bachelor of Arts in English from UC Berkeley in 1997, and his Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts with Honors from Columbia University in 2002. His 2001 sculpture, Untitled, was named by Guinness World Records as the "tallest file cabinet on earth," and a short 30-minute documentary about his painting, "Vern," in the SFMOMA permanent collection, premiered in October 2004 at the Mill Valley Film Festival. "The Color of Palo Alto" is a public art project commissioned by the City of Palo Alto. It will travel to Los Angeles and New York for exhibition. --- ***Mark your calendars for these exciting events in the week following UGA "Fall Break"*** 2. Religion of the Lie (Orf's Baptism): Screening and Panel Discussion Wednesday, November 1 at 8:00 PM Room 53, Fine Arts Building Visiting artists Randall Packer and Charles Lane have been working throughout the semester with Theatre and Film Studies students to create an original performance/video piece set in Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery. The group will be present preliminary video and discuss the project along with a panel of respondents from the university and the community. This event is open to the public. For more information see http://www.franklin.uga.edu/news/2006/article129_06.htm. --- 3. Janet Murray, Humanities Computing Lecture: Game, Treasure Chest, Interactive Story Wednesday, November 1 at 4:00 PM 265 Park Hall Professor Janet H. Murray is an internationally recognized interactive designer, the director of Georgia Tech's Masters Degree Program in Information Design and Technology and Ph.D. in Digital Media, and a member of Georgia Tech's interdisciplinary GVU Center. She is the author of Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace. (Free Press, 1997; MIT Press 1998), which has been translated into five languages and is widely used as a roadmap to the coming broadband art, information, and entertainment environments. She is currently working on a textbook for MIT Press, Inventing the Medium: A Principled Approach to Interactive Design, and on a digital edition of the Warner Brothers classic, Casablanca, funded by NEH and in collaboration with the American Film Institute. Professor Murray received her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1974 with a dissertation on Courtship and the English novel : feminist readings in the fiction of George Meredith (Garland, 1987). As a Victorianist, she also edited Strong-minded women : and other lost voices from nineteenth-century England (Pantheon, 1982) and provided the introduction for Miss Miles, or, A tale of Yorkshire life 60 years ago (Oxford UP, 1990). --- ***From the Desk of Dr. Scott Shamp at the UGA New Media Institute*** 4. iDMAa Conference Novermber 9 - 11 National University, San Diego I have told you many times about the ultra-cool International Digital Media and Arts Association and the wild conference that is coming up in just a couple of weeks at National University in San Diego. Imagine a place where technologists, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs, and a host of other creatives come together to share ideas and make things happen. If you are a UGA person on the bubble -- wanting to go but not having the resources -- contact me (Scott Shamp, [log in to unmask]). We might be able to find some ways to help get you there -- UGA needs more of the ideas being tossed around at iDMAa. http://idmaa.org/idmaaNovember2006/ --- 5. The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology is extending its call for research proposals for researcher in residence grants to November 15, 2006. Through its Researcher in Residence Grant program, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology supports projects that not only draw on the documentation collection and archival fonds of the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D), but that also explore new ways of disseminating and interacting with documentary content. More specifically, the program aims to promote research projects that take an innovative approach to disseminating research results via data communications. For more information on this grant program and on how to submit a proposal online, we invite you to consult the program guidelines under "Funding Programs" / "Program for Researchers in Residence" on the Foundation's Web site at: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/index.php?NumPage=121 --- ICE is Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia. More announcements, opportunities, and links at http://ice.uga.edu/ forum/