DESIGNING GOOD INFORMATION
During the Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 quarters, DMS and eMAD will be offering a unique joint program, “Designing Good Information.”
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs is planning a city-wide event during the summer of 2010, the Biennial of the Americas: In Good We Trust in which education will play a leading role and in this endeavor DOCA has presented a unique opportunity to the University of Denver to create content for this event. The city-wide exposition is a new model for a Biennial that creates exhibitions, events, and new tools to visualize and act upon a movement of social entrepreneurs and creative innovators who work at the intersection of science and design for the public good.
Students will work together and in collaboration with community researchers and thinkers in fields such as ecology, technology, and energy to produce visualizations, creative mappings and technologically engaging presentations to educate and inspire the Denver community and beyond to work together in creating a better future for all.
Fall 2009 - Designing Social Awareness & Introduction to Interactivity
Winter 2010 - Site Specific Design & Multimedia Authoring Tools
More information here
IRUS Intercultural Collaborative Art Show, Opening March 21st 2009
WHEN: March 21st to March 29th - Opening Reception: 6:00 PM, Saturday, March 21st
WHERE: Andenken Gallery, 2990 Larimer Street Denver Colorado 80205
Two teams of artists, one in Tehran and another in Denver have assembled under one name: IRUS (Iran - United States). Starting with our mutual respect for art, we have established collaborative projects between our groups. By mailing incomplete artworks from Tehran to Denver and from Denver to Tehran, completing them in our respective cities and sending them back, we are building a collection of completed pieces. Using the theme of "Dialogue," it is our goal to present the perspectives of each group in a respectful, trusting and encouraging manner. In this process, we are not only developing art, but also participating in a functional dialogue with each other as artists and individuals. One component of the show is the Persian story of Scheherazade alongside the stories of Mark Twain as a conceptual framework for the art, further promoting the exploration of, and interaction between the two cultures.
This functional dialogue is manifesting itself locally in conversations among individuals and globally through the modification of artwork by all the members of IRUS. Through the exhibition of our work and the documentation of the process, we will be displaying our dialogue to the public beginning March 21st. We will also have conversation at the exhibition with the telepresence of the Persian artists.
Both teams consist of artists proficient in a range of media. Through collaborative interaction we are interested in participating in dialogue. The project began when the artist community, the Kinda Collective approached Morehshin Allahyari about working with the concept of intercultural art in Iran to confront the misconceptions between our cultures. After developing and refining a basic concept, developing a proposal, and gathering a team, Allahyari invited Negin Ehtesabian, a Persian artist in Tehran, to form a team of artists. This Iranian team co-developed a proposal with the Kinda Collective to present the works of this collaboration --a unique combination of painting, video art, drawings, photographs, software, street art, and design-- in Denver in the spring of 2009, followed by a show in Tehran in the summer of 2009.
Find out more here: www.irusart.org
Dialog:City participating artist D.J. Spooky public lecture
WHEN: Monday, May 5, 2008, 5:30 PM - 7PM
WHERE: Davis Auditorium, University of Denver, Sturm Hall, 2000 E. Asbury Ave.
On May 5, 2008, Dialog:City, an official public program of the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee organized by the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, will present a free public lecture by participating artist D.J. Spooky (a.k.a. Paul Miller). The lecture will be held at Davis Auditorium on the University of Denver campus, Sturm Hall, 2000 E. Asbury Ave., beginning at 5:30 PM.
D.J. Spooky’s lecture will take cue from his award-winning Rhythm Science collection of essays (MIT Press, 2004), which explore the hidden connections between collage-based aesthetics and what D.J. Spooky likes to call the "politics of perception”. His lectures unpack some of the issues that modern artists face: intellectual property, ownership of ideas, and above all, how art navigates the complex culture of digital media. D.J. Spooky has performed in such venues as The Kennedy Center and The Acropolis and is most well-known for his celebrated performance Rebirth of a Nation.
Grant Awarded to Develop Gaming Education
University of Denver professors Scott Leutenegger, Rafael Fajardo, Debra Austin and Anneliese Andrews have been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation in order to introduce videogame design and development as an integrative curriculum in select high- schools in the Denver area. The three-year study hopes to leverage interest in game design to promote greater interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The formal project summary (in PDF format) can be found here.
New Faculty: Chris Coleman and Adrienne Russell
Chris Coleman joins us from the University of Oregon, and specializes in animation, electronics, and interactivity. Adrianne Russell comes here from University of Southern California's Annenberg Center, and specializes in emerging media tools and practices and how they impact contemporary communication culture.
FELLOWSHIP | Second Life
Feb.6.2006Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, are offering a $4,000 Fellowship for Visual and Performing Arts to a student to spend a semester or summer exploring the Second Life environment. Second Life is a 3-dimensional online world where everything is created by its residents. [+]
CABLE CENTER SUMMIT | Intellectual Property and Digital Media
Feb.2.2006The Cable Center is hosting, in conjunction with the University of Denver, the First Annual Summit on Intellectual Property and Digital Media (From Creator to Consumer: Working Together in the Digital World), on May 22 – 23, 2006. [+]
NEW DMS STUDENT GROUP
Feb.2.2006A new student organization is being formed as a resource for technical and design skills, professional networking and meeting other DMS students. Find out how you can get involved. [+]
EVENT | iDEAS Exhibition
Jan.2006Coinciding with the upcoming iDMAa conference, the iDEAS Exhibition will present digital works that explore the ways in which the concept of codes works within a variety of art, design & education contexts. [+]
A:D:A:P:T | Visiting Artists
Nov.18.2005Safety Scissors and Ben Nevile
The second installment in DMS's 2005-2006 Marsico Visiting Scholars and Artists Series. After an informative session on their use of Cycling `74's Max/Msp/Jitter, the fellas put on a great show down at the Trilogy in Boulder. Here are some pics. [+]
Southwest Global Leaders Summit
Nov.4.2005Globally conscious student leaders at the University of Denver are invited to apply for a daylong conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, called the “Southwest Global Leaders Summit: Global Solutions, Local Connections." The conference aims to equip top students with the tools to educate and facilitate discussion in their local communities about the U.S. role in the world. [+]
BBC developing audio annotation tool
Oct.2005Former BBC developer Tom Coates announced on his blog BBC's development of a tool that will allow the public to annotate BBC audio tracks with comments. Through the interface, users have the ability to select portions of the audio asset, write and description for the selection, and create tag words for labeling and association with other audio assets. [+]
Colorado Broadcasters Assocation
Oct.21.2005The Colorado Broadcasters Assocation will have a discussion panel on "The Changing Landscape of Broadcast Industry Careers". The panel will include several executives from KUSA channel 9. Anyone interested in a career in broadcasting is invited to attend. [+]
Rick Poynor speaks at CSU
Oct.12.2005The Colorado State University Department of ArtÂ’s Critic and Artist Residency Series is hosting design and visual culture critic Rick Poyner to speak about Design Criticism. [+]
Camilla Calamandrei sessions
Oct.9-10.2005Camilla Calamandrei will be viewing her film, "Prisoners in Paradise" on 10.9 and holding an in-class work session on 10.10. [+]
A:D:A:P:T | Visiting Scholar
Sept.27-29.2005 - Gene YoungbloodThe Digital Media Studies program along with Electronic Media Arts Design and the Department of Mass Communications are proud to announce the first event in our 2005-2006 Marsico Visiting Scholars and Artists Series, A:D:A:P:T. We kick off the series with two nights of lectures from Gene Youngblood, internationally known theorist of media arts and politics, and the author of the influential text, Expanded Cinema (1970). Also widely known as a pioneering voice in the media democracy movement, he has been teaching, writing and lecturing on media democracy for thirty-six years. He is currently Professor of Critical Studies in the Department of Moving Image Arts at the College of Santa Fe. [+]
Geotechnology Seminar Series
Apr.26-May.17.2005DU's Marsico Visiting Scholar Program will sponsor four upcoming seminars in the growing field of Geotechnology, specifically, Multimedia Mapping, Mobile Mapping, Virtual Landscape Mapping, and Internet Mapping. [+]
DMS Faculty in DU's ELL Colloquium
Apr.29-30.2005DMS professors Timothy Weaver and Trace Reddell will be participating in this year's colloquium of the Departments of English & Languages and Literature, exploring the theme, "Citizens of the World: Diaspora, Exile, and the City." [+]
Women's Media Pool
Feb.28-Mar.11.2005Over 60 women's media organizations from around the world have formed a Women's Media Pool that is covering the "Beijing +10" (10-year followup of the Beijing Women's Conference) in NY at the UN, Feb. 28-March 11. Tune in via the web site of the Radio Internacional Feminista to listen to live interviews, read articles, and view photo galleries. Read the full press release. [+]
transmediale.05
Feb.04-08.2005Professors Trace Reddell and Timothy Weaver have been invited to present their video work in competitive screenings at Berlin's major annual media arts festival, transmediale.05. [+]
