NOISEFOLD PRESENTS LIVE CINEMA PERFORMANCE
Posted on | October 5, 2009 | Comments Off
The interactive media ensemble Noisefold featuring new (iARTA) faculty member, David Stout and guest artist Cory Metcalf will perform Alchimia. Alchimia is a live cinema work exploring real-time procedural animation and audio-visual transcoding systems to evoke bio-mimetic forms and behaviors. The concert takes place at 8 p.m. Oct. 12 (Monday) in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theatre, UNT Music Building, located at 415 Avenue C, Room 1001.
Click here for images from a previous Noisefold performance.
iARTA-LEAP Symposium
Posted on | July 22, 2009 | Comments Off
iARTA, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts, will open the 2010 academic year on August 27 and 28th with the iARTA LEAP symposium. Bringing togther a stellar group of international experts, iARTA LEAP (Leadership Perspectives on Technology and Art Research) will host two days of discussions, work and break out sessions, at the Gateway Center at UNT. The event is coordinated by iARTA faculty members David Bithell of the College of Music and Jennifer Way of the College of Visual Arts and Design, and made possible by funding provided by the UNT Hispanic and Global Initiatives Fund, the College of Visual Arts and Design, and the College of Music. All events are free open to the public.
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See below for complete schedule.
Thursday, August 27 2009:
3:45-6:00 Gateway Ballroom – Introductions and General Session
“Making art and technology collaborations happen within institutions”
Friday, August 28 2009:
9:30-10:50 Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater (MUSIC 1001) – Student Session
“Extending your practice with interdisciplinary media”
Presentation of creative work from guest panelists.
2:00-3:00 Gateway 42, 43, 47, 48 – Breakout Sessions – Topics to include: “Physical resources: the contemporary infrastructure of new media institutions”, “Funding models for interdisciplinary arts and technology”, “Pedagogical approaches to new media”, and “Archiving and facilitating research by artists and scholars”
3:30-6:00pm Gateway Ballroom – Closing Session
“Trans-disciplinary dialog and curricula”
Open question and answer session.
Panelists Include:
Chris Csikszentmihályi
Director of the MIT Media Lab’s Computing Culture group. He also directs the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, which develops new technologies and techniques to strengthen geographic communities.
Stephen Boyd Davis
Stephen Boyd Davis is Director of the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, Middlesex University, UK. The Centre focuses on interdisciplinary work in digital media.
Alain Depocas
Alain Depocas is the Head of Research and Documentation Centre, The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, Montreal, Quebec.
Dick Riijken
Dick Rijken is Director of STEIM in Amsterdam. In addition, he is the chair of an official EU workgroup on the creative and cultural industries, which focuses on national and European policies, and he is a professor
at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, where he researches innovation in the traditional culture sector.
Mark Tribe
Mark Tribe is an artist and curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics. In 1996, he founded Rhizome.org, an online resource for new media artists. His art work has been exhibited at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, and the Park Avenue Armory in New York City and he has organized curatorial projects for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, and inSite_05.
Belgian Table Setting
Posted on | October 2, 2008 | Comments Off
David Bithell, iARTA coordinator, will be heading to Belgium to perform his work Table Setting at the Ghent International Film Festival’s “Almost Cinema” exposition on October 14th, 2008. This work and others, collaboratively created and performed with Ali Momeni of the University of Minnesota, will be used as the starting point for a hands on workshop taught for students of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent.
Global Rivers Project
Posted on | October 2, 2008 | Comments Off
Melinda Levin, Department Chair of Radio Television and Film at UNT, is the Co-Executive Producer of a feature length documentary called the Global Rivers Project. Here is her brief description of the project:
“We had crews in India, Brazil, Serbia, Slovakia and the U.S. documenting the cultures and communities on 5 major rivers, including the Rio Grande, Amazon, Mississippi, Danube and Ganges. In addition to the film, the production tested high-definition workflow on an international, documentary production.”
Partial funding and support was provided by Panasonic, Avid Technologies and B&H Photo/Video in NYC. This film will premiere in Beijing, China in November.
Stockhausen’s Stimmung – Open Dress Rehearsal
Posted on | October 1, 2008 | Comments Off
Title: Stockhausen’s Stimmung – Open Dress Rehearsal
Location: MEIT (Music 1001)
Description: Open dress rehearsal of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Stimmung, directed by Joseph Klein for Voices of Change
Start Time: 8 pm
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Lecture – Stockhausen’s “Stimmung”
Posted on | October 1, 2008 | Comments Off
Title: Lecture – Stockhausen’s Stimmung
Location: MEIT (Music 1001)
Description: Faculty composer Joseph Klein discusses Karlheinz Stockhausen\’s Stimmung for six voices, in a Voices of Change concert preview
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2008-10-06
End Time: 12:00
CEMI Centerpieces Concert
Posted on | September 18, 2008 | Comments Off
Title: CEMI Centerpieces Concert
Location: MEIT (Music 1001)
Description: Guest composer Jeffrey Stolet and new works from CEMI, including a premiere by Cindy McTee
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2008-09-29
iARTA one of 6 New Research Clusters at UNT
Posted on | September 9, 2008 | Comments Off
iARTA was formally adopted as one of six interdisciplinary areas to be supported at the University of North Texas under the new Research Cluster program. Over $25 million dollars has been pledged to support these initiatives over the coming years. You can read the full press release here.