Past Events

ATLAS fall graduation will be held in the Cofrin Auditorium and will be followed by a casual reception in the lobby.

Critical Media Practices faculty and graduate students present an exciting visual and auditory experience of media art in the 21st century.

Learn lighting techniques, colored gels, posed and candid styles to creatively capture portraits!

Don’t miss this chance to learn how one of America’s most iconic brands leverages innovative social and digital media strategies to fuel growth.

Learn to tell stories through different mediums, including photography, video, games, animation and comics.

Explore the relationship between the visual and aural, and how each can affect our perception of the other, during this world premiere by doctoral composers.

Learn to repair cell phones and other broken hardware at this free workshop.

Get started with Drupal as a framework for web development, and learn ways to contribute back to the open-source project.

Get an inside look into the the future of virtual reality/augmented reality.

Bring a project, enjoy treats and learn about the BTU lab at this event, which is open to all.

Come play and learn about the Arduino microcontroller, with simple sensors, buttons, LEDs and motors!

Learn to master light-painting photography, while incorporating drones as an additional layer of creativity.

Hear Feinberg, a Boulder native, speak about how Pixar’s upcoming COCO animation movie was produced.

Learn about the Technology, Arts & Media engineering major, a new and exciting degree that blends science and technology with art and design.

Join a laboratory and studio tour, peruse demos and meet our faculty members and graduate students, to experience our finest research and creative work!

Earth scientists and aerial dancers present a cerebral and kinesthetic meditation on earth system processes.

Learn to build a professional web presence, with emphasis on curating and building a digital portfolio.

Dive deep into graphic design and branding in this free, three-day workshop.

Make mechanized monstrosities and kinetic creatures in this hauntingly fun paper-engineering workshop!

Learn to build your personal brand at the second installation of The Business of Creativity.

Kimbal Musk will speak about his pursuit to make “real food” accessible to all.

Learn how to solder, and make your own light-up badge!

Learn to use the power of imagery to tell your story.

Take a tour, meet with instructors and learn about our programs that blend creativity and technology in exciting ways!

Join composer and Shakuhachi player Aidan Cook and the Altius String Quartet for a cosmic meditation on the nature of sound and space.

Experience the Bridge Mixed Reality headset, which seamlessly blends physical and virtual reality.

Instead of throwing old clothing away, learn to repair or re-purpose it at this sewing workshop.

Learn Adobe Creative Suite in a fun weekend workshop.

Learn how to make displays with impressive semi-holographic effects!

Join a lively discussion on the challenges and opportunities of launching and sustaining successful creative careers.

Doctoral composers present an evening of world premieres using 8-channel sound, acoustic instruments, lights and video.

BTU Open Hack Night is back. Bring a project, or just come hang out. Treats to fuel your hacking! Blow Things Up!!

Dive into a sonic world that blends field recordings, drone, noise, ethereal electronics, and fleeting beats.

Get solid hands-on experience with hardware and software at this free workshop series, open to the community and intended for all levels of experience.

TAM Instructor Arielle Hein speaks at TEDxMileHigh 2017: Point of Departure

Ruthe Farmer, former senior policy advisor for tech inclusion in the Obama administration, will share her story of championing inclusion and diversity for technology.

May, 2017 ATLAS graduates recognition ceremony.

Don’t miss this rich synthesis of design and technology, amplifying innovation in engineering and the arts.

This multimedia exploration of resonance examines what could happen when we break down the barriers between differing perspectives.

Come to this hands-on workshop to learn about and design interactive technology for man’s best friend.

Learn about 360 video as a new tool for creating impactful experiences with speaker Nich Whitaker.

Come to Cabal Gallery for an intermixture of Art and Science projects from CU-Boulder students.

Come play homespun video games at this lively, offbeat community event that harkens back to the heyday of video arcades.

Hack outdated computer mice, create low-tech sensors, and explore the political ideology of interfaces in this hands-on workshop.

Graduating in May? ATLAS grad programs offer unique opportunities. Enjoy free pizza, meet current students and explore (and expand) your options!

Come to this Ask Me Anything session with Rob Duarte to ask about art, technology, and the political ideology built into user interfaces.

Bionic fingers that “feel,” prosthetic limbs with motors controlled by the user’s mind: science fiction no more.

Attend a session of the Conference of World Affairs in the ATLAS Black Box Experimental Studio.

Come check out the ATLAS Institute and Technology, Arts and Media programs during Admitted Students Day!

Research meets fantasy in Theory of Flight, a performance by Anna Lindemann, a composer and artist trained in evolutionary and developmental biology.

Come to this hands-on workshop to expand your user experience (UX) thinking to portable devices with facilitator Drew Cogbill.

Stop by for pizza and conversation with artist Eric Burke, who will be installing new public art in the south stairwell of the ATLAS building this week.

Go back to the past and enjoy your favorite retro videogames.

Tackle common 3D printing problems. Learn tips and tricks to making more robust prints. Dive deeper into G Code.

Boldy going where no laptop orchestra has gone before, BLOrk explores the integration of acoustic and electronic instruments.

Learn more about acceleration techniques using GPUs to render complex 3D environments with applications in gaming, 3D morphing, animation, and virtual reality.

Bring a project or just come hang out. Eat Pi Day pie. Blow Things Up!

Learn more about fabrication tools, and augmenting the physical world!

Dead ends, void zones and semi-porous borders fill a split-screen video, pairing inside and around West Bank tunnels with an Israeli bypass road and its surroundings.

MALfunction: A series of intimate events that question where media and society, research and practice meet. Each MALfunction features one researcher and one artist whose projects examine a similar technological theme.

View the latest digital photographic images created by current Technology Arts & Media students and curated by TAM instructor Kevin Hoth at an opening reception celebrating the monthlong exhibit.

This multimedia solo violin program, arranged and performed by Leslee Smucker, delves into the essence of human emotion—stated through ancient models of poetry, music and art in a modern context.

A space of confluence where researchers from across academia, along with local business and policy innovators, discuss the design, development and deployment of remote and in-situ sensing systems. Moderated by Jill Dupré.

Learn, build and share with other students at T9Hacks, a hackathon geared towards women as well as newbies to the hackathon world. It’s free, all food is provided, and it’s all-night long.

This electro-acoustic event features Swiss-American guest composer Katharina Rosenberger, a piano solo by Hsing-ay Hsu, Pendulum director, and CU Boulder composers and performers.

MALfunction is a series of intimate events that question where media and society, research and practice meet. Each MALfunction features one researcher and one artist whose projects examine a similar technological theme. MALfunction #4’s topic: Consciousness

Arielle Hein shares strategies for documenting your work so it can be incorporated into an effective digital portfolio.

Graduating in May? ATLAS grad programs offer unique opportunities. Enjoy free pizza, meet current students and explore (and expand) your options.

Anthem for the Ancestors, a collaboration between musician and storyteller Leon Joseph Littlebird and the Carpe Diem String Quartet, tells the history of the first peoples from a Native perspective.

Learn more about how to interact with your Arduino!

An exploration into what might have happened if someone had listened to Hamlet’s Ophelia, and learned her song.

Learn about basic electronics including how to program an Arduino!

Are you graduating in December? Please join us for a brief reception and gathering for our graduates.

Don’t miss this rich synthesis of design and technology, amplifying innovation in engineering and the arts.

Come play on the old Ataris and Ninetendos – retro style!

A panel discussion on the Evolution of Advertising moderated by ATLAS’s Associate Director Jill Dupré.

Frantically hack on your homework projects as we enter the end of the semester!

Join a discussion with Disney animators Hyrum Osmond and David G. Derrick, Jr about the production Moana.

The latest in a series of intimate events that question where media and society, research and practice meet. Each MALfunction features one researcher (Maya Livio) and one artist (Ondine Geary) whose projects examine a similar technological theme.

With the advent of $50 smartphones, we can finally design software applications to fight poverty, disease and illiteracy in the developing world.

Original music, dance, video and technology from Kevin Michael Olson and Hunter Ewen

Learn what Hackathon is.

Learn how to make plaster casts to mold physical objects with Zach Jocobson-Weaver of MomoTono Inc.

Interested in creating cross-platform, mobile compliant animations for the web? CSS Animations are simple way to add motion and visual interest to your web designs.

Always Human Tapes pause their non-stop release schedule to bring you two uncompromising live A/V shows at Boulder’s Atlas Black Box Theater.

Always Human Tapes pause their non-stop release schedule to bring you two uncompromising live A/V shows at Boulder’s Atlas Black Box Theater.

Spooky Open Hack Nights. It will be very spoopy.

Learn the flow of using Git in the command line to keep track of your code project history and how to collaborate with others on GitHub.

Interested in a TAM Major, Minor, or Certificate? Come to a TAM Info Session and learn more!

Interested in a TAM Major, Minor, or Certificate? Come to a TAM Info Session and learn more!

The second in a series of intimate events that question where media and society, research and practice meet. This week, one artist (JP Merz) and one researcher (Nathan Schneider) discuss technology.

A hands-on workshop with TAM Assistant Professor Joel Swanson to address some common pitfalls in resumé design, and to make your resumé stand out from everyone else’s.

Join a lively discussion on the challenges and opportunities of launching and sustaining successful creative careers.

Bobby Schnabel, a co-founder of ATLAS, shares his observations on contemporary shifts in computer science as part of Computer Science Colloquium.

Twine is the easy-to-use interactive fiction tool helps designers make some of the most original and interesting games around. No programming experience needed.

Come learn more about majors in the College of Engineering and Applied Science!

The JACK Quartet is considered by many to be the best contemporary music-focused string quartet in the world.

Interested in a TAM Major, Minor, or Certificate? Come to a TAM Info Session and learn more!

Cycling ’74’s David Zicarelli on software and the arts: 4:00 in the ATLAS BTU (Blow Things Up) Lab (ATLAS Room 113)

Sandra will be holding a pizza and questions session with ATLAS students in the North stairwell during her installation of an art piece.

Interested in a TAM Major, Minor, or Certificate? Come to a TAM Info Session and learn more!

Bring a Project! Eat Cake! Party!

Join us as we kickoff the 9th year of the CU New Venture Challenge (NVC)! Come be a part of the legacy of entrepreneurship, collaboration and fun that is the NVC. Space is limited, so register now.

A Liminal Space is a transdisciplinary collaboration between artists Ana Baer, Heike Salzer and Rosely Conz. The production utilizes dance and video projections to create captivating, kinesthetic poetry.

“What Can Sexting Teach Us About Consent?” and “Intimacy Idiot” are the first of a series of intimate events that question where media and society, research and practice meet.

A film extravaganza, dedicated to works that merge the beauty of dance with the innovations of cinematic art.

Explore intersections and interactions between digital and material.

Celebrating graduation with a brief ceremony and casual reception.

A celebration of all the technological magic students have created over the semester. ATLAS invites you to see, explore and create!

A multimedia exploration of nature and pattern, light and music, comes to the ATLAS Black Box studio as part of the Conference on World Affairs.

BLOrk performs music inspired by electronic dance music and rave culture, blending acoustic and electronic instruments, as well as laptops and sound software.

Nigel Sharp, Global Entrepreneur In Residence (GEIR) at CU–Boulder, holds office hours in ATLAS.

Learn how to design and make a customized box enclosure using a laser cutter.

A women’s hackathon promoting gender diversity in technology.

Are you interested in building useful, witty or confusing internet bots? Come learn how to make a Twitter Bot with Matt Bethancourt.

Add computing and digital technology skills to your major. Get details about declaring as a TAM major, minor or certificate student.

An alluring fusion of projection, dance and spoken word, The Distance of the Moon is inspired by the science-fiction story of the same name by Italo Calvino.

Explore new creative approaches to making music with ATLAS PhD Candidate Jiffer Harriman.

British artist Anna Dumitriu shares her blend of biology, microbiology and art, and Alex May discusses his creative work in digital technologies, including video mapping and interactive installations.

Meet the artist, share pizza and celebrate public, interactive art!

Four CU composers present an evening of new multimedia sound works

Celebrating the accomplishments of three PhD candidates, two MS recipients and 40 TAM students.

An exciting showcase of all things ATLAS, including a wide range of projects in creative technology and design.

Five artists of Helander Dance tell their stories using interactive video, physical theater and a musical fusion of jazz, classical, artpunk and technopop.

Trying to improve interactions with mobile customers? Ready to dive into the mobile app market? This workshop can help you move forward with your mobile presence.

NewCo is a one-day, jam-packed schedule of over 60 in-house sessions at local companies, including CU Boulder and the ATLAS BTU Lab (2:30 p.m.). Students use discount code “GoBuffs” to get free silver passes.

Hear about the entrepreneurial journey of TeamSnap CEO Dave DuPont, including lessons learned during his 20 years in technology leadership positions.

What can a handful of ATLAS students and “genius” kinetic sculptor and sound artist create in four days?

Hands-on casting workshop with Zack Jacobson-Weaver.

Tadashi Tokieda explores magic tricks, geometry, engineering and properties of random media.

Intel Lab’s Ram Narayanswamy discusses upcoming innovations in digital photography.

Aerial dance, character-based performance, multimedia, interactive technology and live digital music.

Get information about ATLAS graduate degree opportunities.

New York-based DJ and sound artist Lori Napoleon converts vintage telephone equipment into synthesizers and sequencers.

Award winning dancer Michelle Ellsworth performs her new, off-the-wall performance, complete with drones, a typewriter and multimedia.

The culmination of ATLAS Summer Experimental Music Week, featuring avant-garde, experimental electronic music by some of the most respected pioneers in the field, the Finale Performance in the Black Box Studio includes works by Phillippe Manoury together with vocalist Juliana Snapper, as well as performances by Miller Puckette and pianist Eric Lindemann.

Beginning in the 1980’s Manoury, Puckette, and Lindemann worked together at IRCAM in Paris under the direction of Pierre Boulez. They are pioneers in the use of live interactive computer electronics, and their technologies and methods are used throughout the world today in music and the performing arts. This is a rare opportunity to see these musician technologists perform together. Free and open to the public.

6:30 pm    Pre-Concert Talk Back—A brief conversation and introduction by the performers, providing context and background for the works to be performed.

7:00 pm    Concert begins

Dichterliebe I-VII, X-XII Robert Schumann

Juliana Snapper, soprano
Philippe Manoury, piano

En Echo, Philippe Manoury
Juliana Snapper, soprano
Miller Puckette, computer

Intermission

Illud Etiam Philippe Manoury
Juliana Snapper, soprano
Miller Puckette, computer

Four Russian Songs Igor Stravinsky
Juliana Snapper, soprano
Eric Lindemann, piano

Performing Artists

Miller Smith Puckette is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts and professor of music at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994. To many, Puckette is best known as the author of Max, a visual programming language for music and multimedia, which he developed while working at IRCAM in the late 1980s. He also authored Pure Data (Pd), a graphical programming language for real-time audio and video performancing, and for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works. After authoring the core platform, Puckette made Pd open source, allowing a global community of developers to enrich Pd with a wealth of functionality.

Philippe Manoury was born in Tulle and studied composition at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris . He undertook studies in computer assisted composition with Pierre Barbaud , and joined IRCAM as a composer and electronic music researcher in 1980. From 2004 until 2012, Manoury served on the composition faculty at the University of California, San Diego , where he taught composition, electronic music, and analysis. Manoury’s work is influenced by Pierre Boulez , Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis, and his early work combines serial punctualism with the densely massed elements characteristic of Stockhausen and Xenakis, and the paintings of Jackson Pollock. 

Juliana Snapper is an opera singer, voice researcher and artist. Snapper creates performances and installations that push the physical and expressive capacities of the singing body. She combines radical vocal techniques, composition, improvisation, and intermedia dynamics alone and in collaboration. In May 2009, she collaborated with composer Andrew Infanti and costume designer Susan Matheson on the premiere of the world’s first underwater opera, You Who Will Emerge from the Flood, at the Victoria Baths in Manchester, U.K

Eric Lindemann, longtime Boulder resident, began working with his first music synthesizer in 1970, a large analog Moog. He began designing electronic music machines in 1981. For most of this time he was frustrated by the lack of expression achievable through electronic music. In 1983 he began working with samplers, and in 1988 he experimented with physical modeling. In 1997, he returned to the problem of music synthesis, intent on creating an authentically expressive music synthesizer. The result of this work is Synful Orchestra, which launched in 2002.

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Computer music researcher and ATLAS visiting faculty member Miller Puckette and visiting artist soprano Juliana Snapper present an experimental program of live electronic music and live full-dome projection. The program matches experimental electronic art music from the 1960s with contemporary performance practice.

Join Miller S. Puckette and his experimental computer music class for a round of interactive demonstrations. Free and open to the public.

The ATLAS Institute joins the College of Music to host a casual reception and happy hour in the ATLAS Black Box Experimental Studio for an invitation-only event that brings our communities together to celebrate our guests and share ideas for blending science, technology, art and music that expand possibilities for creative expression.

A symposium featuring short presentations by some of the most respected pioneers working in the field of computer music.

During the week of August 3-7, the ATLAS Institute is proud to host a week-long festival of avant garde experimental electronic music, featuring some of the nations most respected and adventurous pioneers of the field.

As part of CU-Boulder’s Faculty-In-Residence Summer Term, the ATLAS Institute offers a rare opportunity to take a class in Pure Data (Pd)—one of the most versatile and innovative digital creation tools available today—led by its creator, Miller Puckette.