Drew Schnurr, Assistant professor in Composition and Media Arts, has collaborated with various music faculty and artist Jenny Okun to produce the Augmented Reality Concert Hall, an interactive app for tablets and smart devices that seeks to use augmented reality to create a unique interactive music experience.
Kenneth Verdugo, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Dance and Theatre is developing a multimedia piece with Venezuelan composer, Jeffrey Gascon. Verdugo's contributions include projections, set pieces and participation as a percussionist on both electronic and constructed found-object instruments. He has a forthcoming article to be published by USITT (topics include: 5D Immersive Design and the new paradigm shift in narrative story creation).
David Stout is in the initial development stage of a new interactive installation project, which explores the aesthetic possibilities for evolutionary generative systems, artificial life networks and simulation environments. He is undertaking this project with creative partner, Cory Metcalf (University of Denver) and an extended team of collaborators including Jennifer Dunn (Santa Fe Institute) and Darwin Grosse (University of Denver).
Mary Lynn Babcock, Ph.D. In Dance and Professor in Department of Dance and Theatre is working on a new project which includes real time manipulation of digital media that is created for projection to be integrated into live performances. This project which is called Eclipse Project centers on the interactions between the live and virtual body as intimate players of power. Through the use of video with live performance this project will also be simultaneously presented at 2 or more remote locations.
Shane Mecklenburger, iARTA member and Assistant Professor of New Media is currently working on a collaboration with UNT's Chemistry Department, private industry, and the Department of Studio Art. His project is called ArtGunpowder Diamond in which a diamond is fabricated from carbon found in common assault rifle ammunition. It is the first installment in Cost of Opportunity, a series of diamonds fabricated from unlikely carbon-based materials such as devalued foreign currency and rainforest foliage, exposing the relationship between values and valuation.
iARTA graduate student participant Chaz Underriner, in cooperation with CEMI, UTDallas and co-curators Andrew Miller and Jonathan Jackson, has created ex mus, a quarterly concert series seeking to cultivate and establish the field of experimental music in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex.
iARTA associated faculty James Thurman (Assistant Professor of Studio Art) and Panayiotis Kokoras (Assistant Professor of Music Composition) have brought together two separate courses in metalsmithing and composition for a collaborative project. In this project, the students in the senior-level metalsmithing studio class have to create a metal object that the music composition students use to make music. In Kokoras' composition class, the students have learned to make hybrid acoustic/electronic instruments using arduino controllers and other techinques.
materialssoundmusic is a project by iARTA member, materials scientist, and composer, Marco Buongiorno Nardelli.
