ICE Announcements 2.1.11 http://ice.uga.edu --- *ICE Visiting Scholar Edward Shanken (2/15)* 1. Willson Center Roundtable (2/2) 2. 6X6 Media Arts Event: Time (2/2) 3. Fuddy Meers (2/2-6) 4. Colloquium in 18th & 19th c. Literature (2/3) 5. Lecture: Dean Hill (2/3) 6. ICE-Vision: Le Doulos (2/3) 7. Colloquium: Richard Neupert (2/4) 8. Exhibition: David Humphrey (2/4) 9. Georgia Museum of Art Events (various) 10. Fragmented Light (exhibition) 11. French Film Festival (begins 2/7) 12. Cine Screenings and Events For more listings visit http://iceannouncements.com --- *Mark your calendars for ICE visiting scholar Edward Shanken* Edward Shanken "From the Space Race to the Telematic Embrace and Beyond: A Research Trajectory" Tuesday, February 15 at 4 PM Miller Learning Center Room 171 ICE is pleased to host Edward Shanken, a leading scholar of interdisciplinary new media art, for a public lecture supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Shanken is the author of "Art and Electronic Media," a groundbreaking and critically praised survey published by Phaidon Press (2009). He is known as a dynamic speaker with the ability to weave together the histories of art, science, and technology, inspiring audiences to think beyond the traditional boundaries of the arts. For more information about Edward Shanken visit: http://artexetra.wordpress.com --- 1. Willson Center Roundtable Discussion: "The Future of Graduate Education in the Humanities Wednesday, February 2 at 4 PM 148 Miller Learning Center Hugh Ruppersburg, English, will moderate. Panelists: Ben Ehlers (History), Martin Kagel (Germanic and Slavic Studies), Nicolas Lucero (Romance Languages), Jed Rasula (English) and Susan Thomas (Musicology). Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. --- 2. 6X6 Media Arts Event: Time Wednesday, February 2 at 7 PM Cine http://hexadic.blogspot.com 6X6 is a monthly media arts event in Athens, Georgia, a cross between an art show and a film festival, first Wednesday of the month at Cine Lab. Six curated short video, film, performance, sound, or other time-based combination works. Curator Brian Hitselberger sorted through over 50 submissions, picking works from Leipzig, Germany; Oakland California; and Atlanta, Athens, and Newnan, Georgia. Hair ribbons, dancing, hand-drawn animation, stitchery, memories, and obsessive timing abound. A good time will be had by all, or at the very least, time will fly. Bring your stop watch and time the works by Patrick Twiggs, Jonathan Bouknight, Jeffrey Whittle and Jori Berman, Ellen Lake, Sydney Nettles-Coates, and Katie Armstrong. --- 3. University Theatre Performance: Fuddy Meers February 2-5 at 8 PM and February 6 at 2:30 PM Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre http://www.drama.uga.edu A quirky and uproarious comedy/mystery by David Lindsay-Abaire about a woman with a rare condition that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. $15, $12 for UGA students. Tickets: http://tickets.perfcenter.uga.edu/ --- 4. Georgia Colloquium in 18th and 19th Century Literature Thursday, February 3 at 4:30 PM Park Hall 265 "The Chapter of Accidents of the Victorian Newspaper; or, Shocking Occurrences, Omnibus Crashes, Catastrophic Fires, Coroners' Inquests, Giant Vegetables, Railway Disasters, and Unfortunate Clowns" Paul Fyfe, Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University, will deliver the first colloquium lecture of the spring semester. The lecture will begin and a reception will follow in the Park Hall Library. This event is supported by the Willson Center and the Rodney Baine Lecture Fund. --- 5. Lecture: Dean Hill Thursday, February 3 at 5 PM Miller Learning Center Room 171 Dean Hill is Director of Sustainability for greenscreen, a 3-D modular green wall trellis system product manufacture in L.A., CA. For nine years, Dean was the president and principal designer at terratecture/urban(e) design, a landscape architecture design studio specializing in high quality green design and the incorporation of contemporary sculpture in residential and commercial landscapes. --- 6. ICE-Vision: Le Doulos (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1962) Thursday, February 3 at 8 PM Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150 Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE informal weekly series, selecting a variety of world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities. "Jean-Pierre Melville's existentialized gangster films are one of the glories of the French cinema, American forms played out with European self-consciousness. This 1962 effort stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as an informer on the lam, but plot pales before Melville's detailed noir imagery of dingy hotel rooms, back alleys, and subterranean passages. Melville's love for American films (he was a man of taste as well as talent) was one of the most profound influences on the New Wave generation. In French with subtitles. 108 min." -Dave Kehr (Chicago Reader) --- 7. Colloquium: Richard Neupert Friday, Febuary 4 at 12:20 PM Fine Arts Building, Room 53 Dr. Richard Neupert will present his paper "Persepolis: 2D Animation and the Melancholy Self- Portrait." --- 8. David Humphrey: "Recent Work" Opening Reception: February 4 at 7 PM Exhibition continues February 4 to February 24 Lamar Dodd School of Art, Gallery 307 David Humphrey has received numerous awards for his paintings, drawings, installations and prints. These include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and two New York Council for the Arts Grants. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally with over 30 solo exhibitions in Canada, London, New York, California and Pittsburgh, among others. Humphrey's work can be found in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, the Carnegie Institute, the Denver Art Museum, and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. Humphrey received his BFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore and his MA from New York University. He lives and works in New York City and is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Currently he is a Senior Critic at Yale School of Art. David Humphrey was selected as a top candidate for the Lamar Dodd Distinguished Chair position because of his record of research, and his recognition in the field as an artist, writer, critic and curator. --- 9. Art Expands: Georgia Museum of Art Reopening Events Tuesday, February 1 through February 5 http://uga.edu/gamusuem Tuesday, February 1 from 10 AM to 5 PM Open to the Public Gallery Talk: Anthony Goicolea Tuesday, February 1 at 2 PM GMOA Special Reopening Lecture with Artist Beverly Pepper Wednesday, February 2 at 6 PM Ramsey Hall, Performing Arts Center UGA Student Day Thursday, February 3 from 10 AM to 5 PM Georgia Museum of Art Reopening Remixed: Student Night at GMOA Thursday, February 3 from 7 PM to 12 PM Young at Art Presents Modern Skirts Friday, February 4 at 6 PM Family Day: Reopening Celebration Saturday, February 5 from 10 AM to 2 PM --- 10. Fragmented Light Installation Miller Learning Center http://www.patriciavandalen.com Patricia Van Dalen (1955), a Venezuelan-born artist, has long been interested in abstraction, color, and the intervention of large architectural spaces. Fragmented Light (2011), created specifically for UGA's Miller Learning Center, is a composition made of brightly-colored adhesive tapes that transform the walls between the MLC's third and fourth floors. The art work accompanies students as they climb up and down the stairs, lending chromatic vibrancy to a place of study. The installation was created with the help of student and staff volunteers from UGA and the Athens community. It will be on view until May 21. --- 11. French Film Festival Begins February 7 at 8 PM Continues each Monday in February at 8 PM) Tate Theatre The festival will feature recent award-winning French films, all shown on 35mm prints. Admission is $2. Each film will be introduced by French film specialist Richard Neupert, coordinator of the film studies program in UGA's department of theatre and film studies. This year's lineup emphasizes top acting performances in movies by some of France's most critically successful and popular directors. The festival begins Feb. 7 with the World War II historical melodrama A Secret (2007) by Claude Miller, based on a true story about a man who discovers secrets about his Jewish family, the war and his origins. "It is the trio of actresses Julie Depardieu, Ludivine Sagnier and Cecile de France who make this movie sparkle and burn," said Neupert. On Feb. 14, the autobiographical film The Beaches of Agnes (2008) by Agnes Varda will be shown. Neupert refers to Varda as "certainly the most important woman filmmaker in all of film history." For her 80th birthday, Varda made a very personal, lyrical film about her life and movies as a sort of present to herself and the world. The movie includes scores of important guest appearances from Catherine Deneuve to Harrison Ford. Third in the series is a Feb. 21 offering by veteran director Claude Lelouch, Roman de gare (2007) (loosely translated to Airplane Novel), a narrative about a popular woman novelist (played by Fanny Ardant) and her ghost-writer (Dominique Pinon, from Amelie and Micmacs). "The deceptively beautiful characters and settings are complicated by jarring plot twists," said Neupert. Finally, Summer Hours (2009) by Olivier Assayas (director of last year's Carlos) will be shown Feb. 28. Neupert describes it as "a touching portrait" of the contemporary French family, whose values and traditions are in flux. The film features Juliette Binoche and is a winner of the best foreign film from the New York Film Critics Circle. --- 12. Cine Screenings and Events http://athenscine.com m o v i e s: BLUE VALENTINE - JAN 28 - FEB 3 WHITE MATERIAL - JAN 28 - FEB 3 I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS - THRU FEB 3 e v e n t s: SPECIAL PEABODY SCREENING - WED FEB 2: HOXIE: THE FIRST STAND SPECIAL SCREENING - THU FEB 3: BARKING WATER 6X6 MEDIA ARTS: TIME - WED FEB 2 e x h i b i t : - CHRIS BILHEIMER: BLACKBOARDS & SMOKEBOMBS c o m i n g - s o o n: VISCERA FILM FESTIVAL - FEB 4-5 ANOTHER YEAR - FEB 4 BARNEY'S VERSION - FEB 18 THE ILLUSIONIST - FEB 25 BLACK SWAN - TBA THE KING'S SPEECH - TBA TRUE GRIT - TBA ALL GOOD THINGS - TBA THE ROOM - LATE SHOW: FRI 2/18