iARTA News

Guest artist Ivo Bol (NL) joins the UNT Sound Art class for an evening of performance, installation and multi-channel sound works. Ivo Bol is from Amsterdam, where he is active as a composer, intermedia collaborator and performer. Ivo will present several works including a demonstration of live sampling and improvisation using live instruments responding to physical gestures. The event includes graduate and under-graduate artists and composers from both the College of Visual Arts and the College of Music. Presentations include interactive sound installations, sound sculpture, noise performance and multi-channel sound works.

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 Gajjalaeditor,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.

Professor Nadav Assor's piece called Coms Device will be screened at Art Toronto International Art Fair, Oct 27-31 2011:

Art Toronto 2011: Toronto International Art Fair

Opening Night Preview, a benefit for the Art Gallery of Ontario

Thursday October 27, 2011

http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/10218

In Coms Device a performer re-delivers in realtime an improvised version of a monologue she listens to via an ipod, about an incident involving an invented digital scanning device in an Israeli army checkpoint in Palestine, and related events. She is only visible through her reflection in the camera-person's eyeball (he is also the one who recorded the original monologue). The image is aquired via a lo-fi version of an eye-tracking camera rig, such as is normally used for psychology and market research.

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.

On Wednesday, September 28, at 5 pm, Professor Jenny Vogel gave a talk
at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth as part of the Modern Graduate
Series 2011–2012. Jenny Vogel is a new media artist, working in
photography, video, and performance art. Her work explores the world as
viewed through the lenses of contemporary communication technology, the
media, and historical preconceptions. She received her MFA from Hunter
College, New York City (2003), and is currently an assistant professor
of New Media Art in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the
University of North Texas. For Modern Graduate Series, Vogel discusses
her influences and the underlying themes of her studio practice, such as
self-induced voyeurism and the curious history of webcams, the dark
beauty of a mediated planet, the failure of capturing the experience of
history, and humanity in a prefabricated world.

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.

Two Evenings: Sept. 26 + 27 at 8:00 PM in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia TheaterSponsored by the UNT College of Music, CEMI and iARTA

NoiseFold presents selected movements from “Untitled Suite” (2011) and NoiseFold 2.0(2010).
The performance brings together the hybrid cinema and sound art of NoiseFold with renowncellist, composer and musical innovator Frances-Marie Uitti. Working at the confluence ofalgorithmic processes and instrumental improvisation, NoiseFold crafts live cinema as acontemporary musical form. The project is facilitated by a complex audio-visual software systemdesigned by the artists that generates or breeds a seemingly infinite array of virtual agents.The resulting sound is not a separate aural accompaniment but rather the direct sonificationof the visual mathematic data itself. Thus the performers interact with semi-autonomous visualforms to grow, and sculpt the sonic content of the performance. Recently Metcalf and Stouthave expanded their work to include adventurous interactions with accomplished acousticinstrumentalists. Frances-Marie Uitti, a riveting performer known for her groundbreakingdevelopment of multi-bowed playing technique, interacts within this audio-visual environment tocoax a rich universe of poetic behavior into being.
[ www.noisefold.com ][ www.uitti.org/index.html ][ http://iarta.unt.edu ]

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.

A narrative of glitches and beautiful failures. This video explores the terrifying as well as the creative potential of error.

With the help of its collaborative research clusters, UNT is making strides toward becoming a major research university. In 2008, the university launched the first phase of the research cluster initiative with the goals of advancing research, strengthening the state's economy and developing technology vital to addressing today's most pressing needs. With two years' momentum behind them, these clusters have attracted top faculty and students and continued groundbreaking research. UNT expanded its commitment to the initiative in the fall by investing in four new research teams and five areas of strategic development. Learn more about the clusters' premier researchers and advancements in the Spring 2011 issue of The North Texan.

iARTA: iARTA faculty member David Stout with guest artist Cory Metcalf debut NoiseFold, an interactive media ensemble, in UNT's Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater. (Photo by Michael Clements)

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