ATLAS Advisory Board 2014-2015

  James Bradbury, undergraduate student representative Kathie Broyles – Broyles Consulting Richard L. Byyny, M.D. – , ATLAS Co-Founder; Executive Director, Health Policy Center, University of Colorado Hospital; Former CU-Boulder Chancellor Karen Diener – Vice President of Business Development, Defense and Intelligence Unit, DigitalGlobe Jill Van Matre Dupré – ATLAS Associate Director Herbert Fenster – Attorney/Senior Partner, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (Co-Chair) Richard Foy – Principal Partner, …

BLOrk is the Ensemble-in-Residence of the ATLAS Center for Media, Arts and Performance

The emergence of the laptop orchestra in the last several years has given composers and improvisers innovative tools for creating novel musical experiences. BLOrk continues this tradition of sound technology and performing arts innovation by building on the research and performances of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) and the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk). In its performances, BLOrk partners with leading …

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Two Works in Progress

Christo, an internationally renowned artist, discussed his creative process and two works in progress on Oct. 17, 2013, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Over the River is a plan to suspend 5.9 miles of silvery, luminous fabric panels high above the Arkansas River in south-central Colorado. The Mastaba, a project for Abu Dhabi, will be the largest sculpture …

The Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrk) is the ensemble-in-residence of the Center for Media, Arts and Performance

The emergence of the laptop orchestra in the last several years has given composers and improvisers innovative tools for creating novel musical experiences. BLOrk continues this tradition of sound technology and performing arts innovation by building on the research and performances of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk) and the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk). In its performances, BLOrk partners with leading …

ATLAS Speaker Series: Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick, an international performer, composer and an iconic figure in the field of electronic music, discussed the interaction between analog and digital technology, the electronic sequencer and lighting design used in performance during an ATLAS Speaker Series event on April 26, 2012. Subotnick also presented an overview of the technology behind Silver Apples of the Moon, his pioneering work, …

Ph.D. student Heather Underwood wins top graduate student award in ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals

  ATLAS Ph.D. student Heather Underwood has won the first-place graduate student award in the prestigious Grand Finals of the 2013 Student Research Competition (SRC) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for her research paper entitled “The PartoPen: Using Digital Pen Software to Improve Birth Attendant Training and Maternal Outcomes in Kenya.” Underwood is developing the PartoPen, which is …