Media & Studio Arts Symposium
Time-Based Arts & Technology
Dance of the Heart (concert)
February 17, 2019 | 8:00 PM
Riverside Arts Center (Dance Studio), 76 North Huron Ypsilanti, MI
Artists: Erik Gottesman, Robert Spalding Newcomb & Ken Kozora
Description: Erik Gottesman performs with Robert Spalding Newcomb, Associate Director of Media & Studio Arts at the Duderstadt Center, and Ken Kozora in a second performance of ‘Dance of the Heart’, a structured improvisational piece for three musicians, which was premiered at the same venue in March 2018.
Featured instrumentation includes: (Robert) nylon string MIDI guitar, amplified sitar, (Ken) trumpet, electronic and acoustic percussion, (Erik) analog synthesizers, bio-sensors (EEG and Theremin style gesture proximity controllers), bamboo flute, shortwave, and more!
The Lamplighter:
An Experiment in Drawing & Sound and Other Featured Works
February 13 – March 1, 2019
Installation in Central Collaboration Area
Featuring
The Lamplighter: An Experiment in Drawing & Sound (2018)
Artists: Pete Schulte and Andrew Raffo Dewar
Description: Drawing: Graphite, Ink, on Paper / Sound: Four Channel Digital Audio File and Loudspeakers
The exhibition’s featured installation comprises a single drawing by Schulte and a quadraphonic sound installation by Dewar that sonifies and orchestrates real-time brainwave and electrodermal bio-data generated by Schulte as he produced the displayed drawing. Audio recordings from a piezo microphone attached to Schulte’s drawing board, and a device which captured the electromagnetic sounds generated by his electric pencil sharpener also appear as both treated and untreated sound objects.
Other Works
Black Girlhood and Math
Artists: Maisie Gholson and M-Des C4
Description: In collaboration with the fourth cohort of the master’s of integrative design (C4) in the Stamps School of Art, Maisie Gholson’s project under development endeavors to make visible the experiences of young Black girls in mathematics classrooms. Black girls in mathematics education operate as an invisiblized demographic, who are often relegated to margins within educational research. This work uses binaural audio (3D sound) to construct the meanings of Blackgirlness and mathematics for two young Black girls, known to the listener as Shawna and Mia, during a short walk through the school hallway. Future work entails the development of mathematics classroom-based scenes to support beginning teachers in hearing the complexity of young children’s identity construction as mathematics learners.
BioArtography and Textile Design
Artists: Christianne Myers
Description: Costume designer Christianne Myers’ project in progress is a partnership with the U-M BioArtography program to design and create textiles using images of cells. Additionally, using these images, she is learning new digital fabrication techniques to integrate into course work next year. Future projects include using repeating patterns in astrophotography, flora, and cells as a prompt for creative work. Working with her this term are Hannah Winkler, BFA ’22 and Imman Suleiman, Masters candidate in Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. In this exhibit: help match the repeated patterns found in nature: Xray Flowers and BioArtography.