Jer Thorp, the co-founder of the Office for Creative Research and an adjunct professor at New York University’s ITP program, talked about how to make data more useful and artistic during an ATLAS Speaker Series talk in February 2014. His presentation, entitled Making Dada Beautifully Meaningful, included talking about visualization, information design and opportunities to make data more useful, meaningful …
Nano Twin Mixes Technologies Old and New in Multimedia Performance
Nano Twin produced a colorful, visually oriented experience with sound using cathode ray tube televisions and other technologies in a multimedia performance in the ATLAS Black Box in February 2014. The four-piece Colorado group wove auditory improvisations with technical-informational spoken word compositions. The performance included technologies from the past several decades, including a record player, televisions and something not usually …
Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Performance a Metaphor for Genetics
Boulder’s Aerial Dance company performed a new interactive aerial dance and video performance, entitled “Mapping,” in the ATLAS Black Box theater on July 27 as part of the 2013 Aerial Dance Festival. Inspired by socio-political issues surrounding genetic mapping, the production incorporated interactive computer graphics that simulated the flow of liquids. The computer-generated graphics, projected wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling in the …
Vintage computer and video game console sounds drive video performance
Phillip Stearns, an electronics media artist based in Brooklyn, NY, performed his piece “Protochiptune” in the ATLAS Black Box theater after a concert by the Bowed Piano Ensemble on November 11, 2013. He used a “breadboard instrument” that produced sounds of vintage computers and video game consoles while simultaneously producing video from the same signal. The video consisted of rich, …
Randi Zuckerberg Talks About her Silicon Valley Journey
Randi Zuckerberg talked about her personal journey through Silicon Valley, including her experience during the early days of Facebook, and her adventures creating her own new media company, Zuckerberg Media, at an ATLAS Speaker Series event. Zuckerberg, who is the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, also talked about how technology shaped her career and how it is influencing every …
Jiffer Harriman Combines Technology with New Musical Instruments
Jiffer Harriman, an ATLAS PhD student whose research interests combine music and technology, talks about his work during an ATLAS Advisory Board meeting. Harriman is interested in creating new physical and digital interactions and interfaces that expand the languages of music and the arts. His research aims to broaden access to the electronic and digital tools of interaction design with …
ICTD Master’s Practicum Project Presentations, Fall 2013
Graduate students in the ATLAS Master of Science in Information and Communication Technology for Development (MS-ICTD) program presented the work they’ve accomplished during their practicum semester on Nov. 20, 2013. A video of their presentations is on the ATLAS YouTube channel here. Matt Hulse worked as a researcher in the World Bank headquarters, Washington D.C. As part of the International …
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 …
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