In her recent art and technology teaching and research, Professor Jennifer Way chaired the first ever research session featuring undergraduate students’ creative research in art and technology for UNT Scholars Day. In addition, she mentored the publication of one students’ art and technology projects and accompanying essay in The Eagle Feather, UNT’s interdisciplinary research journal featuring high quality undergraduate research. Dr. Way has completed a thirty-page essay contextualizing the project in the history and present state researching women and technology in the visual arts, with emphasis on feminist methods in history of technology research. It is in press as “Back to the Future: Women Art Technology,” in Radhika Gajjala, editor,Cyberfeminism Digital Formations Series (Peter Lang, 2012). Also, she presented a lecture, “Back to the Future: Women Art Technology,” at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), Dallas and served as a manuscript reviewer for the UK organiztion CHart, Computers and the History of Art 's publication, Chart Yearbook.

Dr.Way is presenting her paper, “Women Art Technology: subjects of convergence,” in the session, 'Feminisms of Multitudes', at the annual conference of the Association of Art Historians, UK. The session will look at the new alliances imagined, pursued and actualized by contemporary feminism in the fields of art practice, art theory and history, curating and activism.

Since the start of the Fall semester, professor Jon Nelson has received honorable mention in two international composition competitions. His work "Just After the Rain" was selected as a finalist in the Joensuu Soundscape Composition Competition 2011 (Joensuu,Finland) and his "Turbulen Blue" received honorable mention in Portugal's Electroacoustic Competition Música Viva 2011. This work, which makes extensive use of Nelson's recent research forays into physical modeling, was also performed on September 22 at the Channel Noise V Festival at Georgia Southern University. It was also presented in concert along with his work "objet sonore/objet cinétique" at the October 24 Cinema for the Ears concert at Louisiana State University where he served as a guest composer.Nelson's percussion quartet and tape work "Other Terrains" is being presented in concert by the IRAMA Percussion Ensemble at UNT on October 31 and by the Sibelius Academy Percussion Ensemble in Helsinki, Finland on November 1.

Nelson is also working to complete two new compositions: "Bebop in the Forest of Lonely Rhythms" for flute and interactive electronics and "Inside a Cloud of Butterflies" for guitar and interactive electronics. These two works swill be premiered during Spring of 2012.

Professor David Schwartz has signed a contract with Routledge, UK to publish his next book: Strangest Thing: An Introduction to Electronic Art through the Teachings of Jacques Lacan. The book explores a wide range of electronic art through the writings of Jacques Lacan. There are four chapters: 1) bodies, 2) voices, 3) eyes, and 4) signifiers. The art works include videos, 3D animations,  installations, screen-based applications, ubiquitous / physical computing, and  sound art. The psychoanalytic references are from Lacan’s seminars and collected writings, in addition to works of other psychoanalysts / writers.

David Stout, Cory Metcalf, Jenny Vogel, and Morehshin Allahyari will be participating in Currents festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico:

El Umbral by David Stout and Cory Metcalf

David Stout and Cory Metcalf, iARTA research artists, present the world premiere of El Umbral, an interactive video installation at the CURRENTS International media arts festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The work pays homage to twentieth century surrealist painting in the form of an anti-monument to the deepening surveillance state.