See creative works, kinetic projects and interactive computing installations. Meet students, technologists and artists from several ATLAS and engineering classes. Ask questions. Get a glimpse of our future. Enjoy light refreshments.
Projects can be seen in the ATLAS main lobby, first floor hallway and
the downstairs Black Box theater plus its lobby, basement level B2.
Discover and explore projects from a wide variety of Engineering and ATLAS classes:
- Big Data (CSCI 4830)
- Computer Animation (ATLS 4809)
- Information and Communication Technology
for Development (ATLS 5900) - Digital Media 1 (ATLS 3010)
- Rapid Prototyping (CSCI 4830)
- Transmedia Storytelling: Wildfire (ATLS 4519)
- Physical Computing 2 (ATLS 3519)
- TAM Capstone Projects (ATLS 4010)
- Computing Technologies for Sport and Play (CSCI 4830)
- ATLAS PhD Candidate Research Projects:
- – Simone Hyater-Adams (physics and STEM education in underrepresented communities)
- – Katherine Goodman (learning, neuroscience and computer science)
- – Jo White (crisis informatics and disaster response)
- – Jeffrey Harriman (interactive technologies, music and education)
- – Brittany Kos (computational thinking for non-engineering students)
- – Jackie Cameron, Abhishek Narula and Michael Skirpan (dynamics of firefly synchronization)
- – Zack Jacobson-Weaver (hacking for social justice!)
5-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, ATLAS lobby and downstairs Black Box theater; get directions.
ATLAS thanks Twitter for their event sponsorship.
What Else Will Be Crowdsourced?
From Amazon to Yelp and TripAdvisor to Netflix, we depend on crowdsourcing to inform many of our consumer choices; at the same time, companies are increasingly looking to crowdsourcing to build brand loyalty and refine marketing strategies. What else can we crowdsource? Come join a dynamic, crowdsourced conversation on the topic led by John Winsor, a nationally recognized leader in open innovation and the founder and CEO of Boulder-based creative agency, Victors & Spoils.
4 p.m. Wednesday, April 22
Cofrin Auditorium (ATLAS 100)
What’s Next in Wearable Tech?
Asta Roseway will discuss the rapidly evolving fields of human computer interaction, affective computing and wearable technologies. Among other topics, she’ll discuss the potential of wearable technology to break bad habits and assist individuals with disabilities.
Roseway’s highly regarded ‘Printing Dress’ (ISWC 2011 Expo winner) is a combination of fashion and technology designed to provoke questions around wearable displays, privacy, and social impact. She is a co-founder of studio99, a Microsoft Research effort designed to bring art and technology practices closer together.
4 p.m. Monday, April 20, Cofrin Auditorium (ATLAS 100)
Communikey (CMKY) Concert: Solar Mythologies
Artist/performers Neel and Clinker will explore the fully immersive sound and light technologies of the ATLAS Black Box theater.
Neel will perform his Colorado debut Phobos, an audiovisual masterpiece and one of 2014′s finest album releases. He may be best known for his work as part of the Italian techno duo, Voices From The Lake.
Clinker will round out the night with Peregration, a musical journey coupled with video elements all controlled live from the artist’s dais. This improvisational piece will take us through a dramatic arc from turmoil and grief to contemplation and suspense.
Learn about other events of the
Communikey Festival of Interdisciplinary Arts.
6:45 p.m. Friday, April 17, Black Box theater, downstairs B2
Creative Technology Today Symposium
Four Power-Packed 30-Min Out-Of-The-Box Talks
Join us four power-packed short talks by emerging leaders working in the field of creative technologies. More…
NEW PATHWAYS TO CS | DIGITAL ARTS AND CODING
HIGH PERFORMANCE MICROROBOTICS | DEMOCRATIZING ELECTRONICS
When: 11:30 – 2:00 PM, Thursday, March 19 2015
Where: Roser ATLAS Building, Cofrin Auditorium (ATLS 100)
Game Design and Development
Megan Fox, programmer and CEO of Glass Bottom Games, will discuss game design and development.4 p.m. Monday, March 2
Cofrin Auditorium (ATLAS 100)
BTU Open House
Explore ATLAS’ BTU Lab and discover CU’s newest student community of makers, builders, creators and tinkers. The lab is home to classes and projects in physical computing and creative technologies. Cup cakes!!
5–6:30 p.m. March 3
ATLAS BTU Lab (ENVD 234)
Let’s Talk Toys
A panel discussion on invention, design, engineering, manufacturing and marketing of advanced electronic toys today. Featuring Ian Bernstein (Sphero), Yuichiro Katsumoto (CUTE Center), Eric Schweikardt (Modular Robotics), Nathan Seidle (Sparkfun), Kentaro Yasu (CUTE Center) and their toys!
4 p.m. Friday, March 4
Cofrin Auditorium (ATLAS 100)
TAM Wednesday Workshop: Image Glitching 101
This Image Glitching Workshop will cover how to hack image file data in order to alter images in a compelling, “chance-positive” way.
7–9 p.m. Wednesday, March 4
ATLS 113
Registration required
BS-TAM and ATLAS Updates
Join ATLAS’ Mark Gross and Joel Swanson for an exciting look at explorations in creative technologies at the ATLAS Institute today! New things are coming to ATLAS, including the new BS-TAM major. We’d like to share what we’ve been up to. If you’re a student, you can decide whether this new program is right for you.
5 p.m. Thursday, March 5
Black Box Theater, Roser ATLAS building, lowest basement level
Otaku and Cool Japan
Visiting speakers from Japan, Kazunori “Uhyo” Sugiura and Masaaki “Saikawa” Sato provide an introduction to the Otaku culture and comike. Learn more about the rising popularity and trends in the manga and anime communities. Join us for an engaging look at the gaming industry today around the globe and see what lies ahead.
4 p.m. Friday, March 6
Black Box Theater, Roser ATLAS building, lowest basement level
Putting inexpensive technologies to work in emerging economies has the potential to impact the lives of hundreds of millions, according to Wayan Vota, a technologist in the field of information and communications technology for development (ICTD). Bring your 3D thoughts, idea drones and opinion sensors to this exploration of ICT for development in 2015 and beyond.
About the speaker: Wayan Vota is passionate about the role information and communication technology can play in accelerating the social and economic advancement of the developing world, Technology Advisor at FHI 360’s TechLab. Previously, he was senior staff at Development Gateway, Inveneo, and IESC Geekcorps, and a consultant to infoDev at the World Bank. He co-founded Kurante, ICTworks, ICT4Djobs, ICT4Drinks, Technology Salon, Educational Technology Debate, and OLPC News.
4 p.m. Monday, February 9, Cofrin Auditorium (ATLAS 100)
Entrepreneurs Unplugged features NCWIT’s Lucy Sanders
Silicon Flatirons and ATLAS moderators Brad Feld and Jill Dupré welcome Lucy Sanders, co-founder and CEO of the National Center for Women in IT (NCWIT).
Join us for discussion of entrepreneurship and leadership as Sanders shares her experiences as accomplished computer scientist and technology executive. She will discuss the career path that led her to co-found and lead NCWIT, a national organization inspiring the next generation of young women to careers in computer science.
Cofrin Auditorium (ATLAS 100)
Wednesday, 6 p.m. January 28
The Launch of New Social Network Ello
Join Ello co-founders Paul Budnitz, Todd Berger and Lucian Föhr
as they discuss their journey to the anti-Facebook!
Last year a new social network busted onto the scene and toppled the status quo. Meet the team that did it! Ello co-founders, including entrepreneur Paul Budnitz and Boulder-based designers Todd Berger and Lucian Föhr, will discuss their new venture and how it is redefining privacy and the digital community.
4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, ATLAS 100, Cofrin Auditorium, 1st floor
See creative works, kinetic projects, interactive ideas and computing installations. Meet students working in all kinds of creative technologies. Enjoy light refreshments. Explore the projects of these ATLAS and Engineering classes:
– Big Data/HCI
– Electronic Music Instrument Design
– ICTD Project Laboratory
– Physical Computing
– Advanced Digital Media (DM-2)
– TAM Capstone Projects
– Human Centered Computing Foundations and more.
5-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, ATLAS lobby
and downstairs Black Box theater
ATLAS thanks Twitter for their event sponsorship.
time ÷ space = performance + installation
Facilitated by CU-Boulder faculty member Frances Charteris, the performance and installation will showcase the work of 12 multimedia artists. Free and open to the public.
7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, Black Box theater
Enjoy a reception and refreshments after the event.
Poemedia 2.0
New literary interactive environment & performance
Immerse yourself in a rich sound and visual environment of spoken word, text, poetry, music, animated graphics and nature in this interactive montage. Abstract and realistic imagery plus text will be projected on printed poems, mesh screens, mylar – and even on audience members – as they stroll through and investigate the multimedia space.
Speak into a microphone and hear your voice become part of the interactive sound montage.
Poemedia 2.0 is a continuation and evolution of an earlier installation produced in 2010 by Aaron Angello and Erin Costello. See their earlier work. Free and open to the public.
7-9 p.m. Friday & Saturday, Dec. 5 & 6, Black Box
The ATLAS Graduate Program Open House
Learn more about ATLAS graduate programs – the Ph.D. and master’s degree. Enjoy light refreshments, meet, network and talk to current master’s students.
4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, ATLAS 100
The ATLAS Speaker Series presents:
Revi Sterling
ICTD Today: How technology is
changing humanitarian work
Learn about the tremendous changes, opportunities and trends in the Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICTD) field.
• Which development efforts show the most promise for changing lives and livelihoods?
• What communities, groups or regions are still missing out on the benefits of technology?
• Where are we making progress to address these gaps?
The speaker, Revi Sterling, is the founding director of the ATLAS practitioner-based ICTD track, the only program of its kind in the United States.
Previously, Sterling served as a software engineer and program manager at Microsoft, where she also spearheaded the corporation’s efforts in gender equity in computing. She currently works with graduate students on field projects in Africa, India, South America and the United States.
Sterling is the distinguished recipient of the national 2012 Anita Borg Women of Vision ABIE Award for Social Impact. Learn more about the ATLAS graduate program.
4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, ATLAS 100
Following the talk, attend a reception celebrating the 5th anniversary of the ATLAS Master’s Program and the ICTD track.
MediaLive 2014 Concert
Discover three multimedia innovators
See audiovisual performances by artists Josh Ott (New York), John Gunther (CU-Boulder) and Light Surgeons (London & Malaysia). The performance is part of the annual three-day festival MediaLive 2014
(Friday to Sunday, Nov. 14-16) of multimedia art produced by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts (BMoCA).
– Light Surgeons is a creative studio that produces and performs on the world stage. They develop new forms of cross-disciplinary artworks through the fusion of film production, animation, motion design plus the creative use of code and cutting edge tools.
They call their work “live cinema” as their forms are cinematic, rich in imagery, with much of the choice of sound and image made in the moment by several behind-the-screen artists/technologists. Visit: http://www.lightsurgeons.com/.
– Joshue Ott, a NYC-based visualist, creates cinematic visual improvisations, performed live and projected in large scale. Ott composes ephemeral yet memorable images that reside and evolve somewhere between minimalism and psychedelia. He turns sound into vision creating a multi-sensory, in-the-moment experience. Visit: http://superdraw.intervalstudios.com/.
– John Gunther is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who explores all forms of jazz from traditional to avant-garde. In addition, he is well-versed in classical music, world music and experimental electronic music. He is a founder and current co-director of the Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrk). Visit: http://www.johngunthermusic.com/.
Purchase tickets: $20. Get more details about the three-day MediaLive festival.
7-9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15, downstairs Black Box theater
Maker’s Collective Meeting
Technology & Creativity Lab
Participate in a student gathering with physical computing, interactivity, digital design, 3D printing, hacking, electronic art, making new neat stuff and… free pizza! Learn more.
5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, ATLAS BTU Lab, ENVD 234 (across the street from the Roser ATLAS building)
Wendy DuBow
Really, Why Are There Fewer Women in Tech?
Mythbusting and How to Shift the Status Quo
Look around your computing and engineering classes, your hi-tech startups and your tech departments. Chances are you will see very few women.
Wendy DuBow will share why many common explanations for the lack of women in techology are not true. Learn what research points to as key factors. Get a deeper understanding of the societal forces at work, information to dispel common myths, plus techniques you can use to help shift the status quo.
DuBow is a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Women & Technology, NCWIT.org. Their gender diversity efforts help increase the participation of girls and women in computing.
4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, ATLAS 100
Ojo – multi-genre, multi-media dance performance
Kim Olson, director of the dance company Sweet Edge, Nathan Montgomery, director of Syzygy Butoh and videographer Ana Baer Carillo collaborate for their second multimedia dance performance in the ATLAS Black Box theater.
Choreographer Olson presents a dynamic style of dance with an ensemble that includes dancers Sarah Bowers, Ondine Geary, Sonya Smith and Kate Speer.
Montgomery offers his unique aesthetic of Japanese Butoh and Ritual Dance working with a male trio. Baer’s video will bring an additional dimension of graphics and motion to the evening.
Purchase tickets. Get information.
Visit: http://ojothreshold.bpt.me/.
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Nov. 7-8, Black Box theater
You are invited to enjoy these two ATLAS Homecoming events.
Both are free and open to the public.
An ATLAS Ph.D. Panel Discussion:
Education, Innovation & Technology
Explore the new trends, opportunities and hurdles of education in the digital age. The panel will feature graduate students from the ATLAS Technology, Media and Society Ph.D. program and will be moderated by Mark D. Gross, Director of the ATLAS Institute. 
Learn more about the Ph.D. student panelists. Enjoy an informal reception afterwards in the ATLAS lobby. Meet graduate students from the ATLAS Technology, Media and Society Ph.D. program.
4-5 p.m. Friday,
Oct. 24, ATLAS 100, Cofrin Auditorium,
first floor
ATLAS Concert & Film Screening:
The Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrk)
Performs Live Music for Horror Film
Come by and see something truly different! The Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrk) uses traditional acoustic instruments plus electronic instruments combined with and modified by the creative use of laptops and software. The performing artists/musicians are students and faculty of CU’s College of Music and directed by faculty members John Gunther and John Drumheller.
They will perform live original music for the screening of the silent film “The Call of Cthulhu.” The film is the first adaptation of the famous H.P. Lovecraft story and uses Mythoscope, a blend of vintage and modern filming techniques intended to produce the look of a 1920s-era film.
7:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, downstairs Black Box theater,
lowest basement level, B2
The two events above are part of CU’s Homecoming weekend.
See a full schedule of Back to Boulder events. The ATLAS Speaker Series presents a
Documentary Film: The Internet’s Own Boy,
with a Reception and Panel Discussion
See the story of the life and tragic death of
Aaron Swartz, internet prodigy/activist
Panel Discussion on Civil Liberties, Open Source Software and Technology – Panelists include:
– Alicia Gibb, Executive Director, Open Source Hardware Association
and CU ATLAS Instructor
– Paul Ohm, CU Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
– Blake Reid, CU Law Professor
– Michael Skirpan, CU Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
Aaron Swartz, programming prodigy, helped create the Web feed format RSS, technology that helps make Web content freely available.
In 2011, he was prosecuted for cyber-crimes – accused of illegally downloading literary and scientific journals at M.I.T.
In 2013, at the age of 26, Aaron Swartz committed suicide.
In the wake of his death, questions arise. To what extent shall we have unrestricted access to the Internet? How shall the law protect us online? When is a prosecution overreaching?
See an interview with the film’s director, Brian Knappenberger.
Read about computer crime law reform.
Free and open to the public. Seating is limited and reservations are recommended. RSVP: http://TheInternetsOwnBoy.rsvpify.com
Co-sponsors: ATLAS Institute, Silicon Flatirons Student Group and the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic (TLPC); photo credit: Sage Ross, license: CC BY-SA 2.0
5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, ATLAS 100, Cofrin Auditorium, first floor
- Film Screening 5-6:45 p.m.
- Reception 6:45-7:15 p.m.
- Panel Discussion 7:15-8 p.m.
World Premiere Multimedia Concert:
The Four Pillars Appearing from the Equal D…
This latest work from New York based Minimalist composer Randy Gibson was commissioned by renowned long-duration pianist
R. Andrew Lee. Visit: www.avantmedia.org.
Tickets: $10 general admission; free for current CU students;
$5 for non-CU students. Seating is limited and first-come, first-served. Purchase tickets, reserve your seat, visit: http://randy-gibson.com/tickets.
Over the three hours of this World Premiere performance, Lee will improvise within a formalized structure, exploring the overtone content of each D on the piano, in combinations and alone, creating, with the aid of electronics, a visceral whirling mass of tones from which melodies and rhythms can soar to the stars.
Inspired by his guru La Monte Young, The Four Pillars Appearing from the Equal D under Resonating Apparitions of the Eternal Process in the Midwinter Starfield, will be presented with video projections by Oscar H. Scott, Gibson’s longtime visual collaborator.
8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, ATLAS Black Box theater
Brian Baker
Experience Design:
How do we build what people love?
When designing or building a new product, how deeply do you consider the behaviors of your user?
What emotions do they experience when holding your product? How do we build in more of what users and customers love? That’s what experience design is about: creating what people love.
Brian Baker began his career leading the number-one usability firm in San Francisco in the 1990’s. Today, he serves as the Managing Partner of the experience design and product development company First User Group in Boulder.
4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13, ATLAS 100
ATLAS Speaker Series
Jed Paulson
How User Generated Content (UGC) can Drive Sales and Build Strong Brands
Explore the creative, effective use of UGC in a top retailer’s eCommerce marketing strategy.
Launched in 2013, Free People’s fully shoppable iOS mobile app includes a program called FP Me, a social network that allows customers to share inspiration and styling photos, view an Instagram-like gallery and interact in numerous ways. Jed Paulson will discuss the role of the app in launching a social engagement program, as well as the effects of the FP Me program on the brand and its customers.
Paulson is a CU alum and Director of Marketing & eCommerce for Free People, a women’s specialty apparel and accessories retailer within the Urban Outfitters Inc. portfolio. He joined Free People in 2010 and previously held technology and marketing leadership roles at eBay and Accenture.
4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, ATLAS 100
Michele Weslander-Quaid
Google: Creating a Culture of Innovation
How do we create environments that encourage creativity and innovation?
Michele Weslander-Quaid will discuss Google’s culture of innovation and creativity as well as the successful approaches to complex issues that come when work environments encourage collaboration and interdisciplinary teams. She will share insights and recommendations drawing from more than 20 years of leading change and innovation in both industry and government.
Before joining Google, Weslander-Quaid’s work included 10 years in industry as an image scientist and chief engineer.
She also served in the U.S. government in various leadership roles. Read more of her bio and an article about her in Entrepreneur Magazine.
4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, ATLAS 100
ATLAS BTU Lab + Hacker Space
Launch Party/Open House
ATLAS is launching the new BTU Lab in the Environmental Design Building, room 234. It’s a great new hacker space and teaching lab for creative technology projects. You’re invited to see the lab, enjoy food and refreshments, check out the student projects and create something fun!
6-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, Environmental Design building (ENVD) room 234
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
Discover a niche film festival dedicated to works that merge the beauty of dance with the innovations of cinematic art. Now in its 11th year. See films from 12 countries. Visit: http://sanssoucifest.org
Friday & Saturday, Sept. 5-6, ATLAS Black Box theater
Video installation opens 7 p.m
Film screenings in Black Box begin 7:30 p.m.
Enjoy a completely different film program at each screening.
See additional films at these other venues:
• Sundays, Sept. 21 & Oct. 19, afternoon screenings, Boedecker Theater, Dairy Center for the Arts, tickets: $6-11, visit: https://tickets.thedairy.org/online; call: 303-444-7328
• 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6, Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, free admission
SLAB – theater production
Born of the debris of Hurricane Katrina, SLAB explores the essential human need to create narrative as a means of survival and transition, honoring what we can take with us when there is nothing else to take: our story.
SLAB is a play adapted by Gleason Bauer and Emily K. Harrison from the novel by Selah Saterstrom. The production features Mark Collins, Lauren Dennis, Emily K. Harrison, Paige Lynn Larson, Hadley Mays and Cage Sebastian Pierre. The play is being produced by squareproducttheatre.org. Tickets are on sale at
http://slab.brownpapertickets.com.
8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, July 31-August 16
CU’s New Opera Workshop: The Master
Renowned Irish author Colm Tóibín (KAH-lum toe-BEEN), Italian composer Alberto Caruso and Ron Daniels, associate director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, will join forces at CU Opera’s New Opera Workshop, Friday-Sunday, June 13-15 in the downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater.
The trio will work with College of Music student artists on Tóibín’s adaptation of his 2006 novel, “The Master”—a finalist for the prestigious Booker Prize. The opera deals with the American author, Henry James.
“Like certain of the characters in his novels,” says Leigh Holman, co-director of CU NOW, “James was hidden and secretive. Director, Ron Daniels, calls the opera ‘an unrequited ghost/love story.’ This should translate powerfully to the operatic stage.”
On Saturday night, June 14, the performance will be recorded.
“You’ll see us with stands and mics, recording this piece live,” Holman says. “It’s a rare opportunity to observe the process of creation and to share those observations with the creators.”
Each performance will be followed by a question and answer session.
For further information, call 303-492-6576
7:30 p.m. Friday & Saturday, June 13 & 14,
2 p.m. Sunday, June 15, downstairs Black Box theater
Composer Fellows’ Concert
A part of CU Now’s Opera Workshop (see below), CU NOW’s Composer Fellows Institute is a new initiative linking select CU student-composers with composer Alberto Caruso, the CU composition faculty and the CU NOW musical and direction staff
to create new vocal works for the stage.
The 2014 Fellows include Chelsea Komschlies, Ryan Connell, Raechel Sherwood, Trevor Villwock, and Dan Cox. Their musical, theatrical scenes will be featured in this new concert.
Free and open to the public.
2-4 p.m. Sunday, June 8, downstairs Black Box theater
Fieldwork Performing Arts Showing
Enjoy the works-in-progress of local artists in dance, music, theater, film, storytelling and more – a culmination of work developed through an artist development process called FIELDWORK.
The evening will begin with a demonstration of a specific feedback process which leads into a performance of the artwork-in-progress.
A talkback with the artists will follow.
Photos of the three artists who are facilitating the Fieldwork Performing Arts Showing (from upper left and clockwise) – Sonya Smith, Chrissy Nelson and Hugh Lobel
The evening will be facilitated by artists:
– Hugh Lobel, composer, CU-Boulder College of Music doctoral candidate and artist/producer of the April 2014 production, The Pain of Becoming.
– Chrissy Nelson, interdisciplinary dance artist and choreographer, CU-Boulder MFA in Dance and artist/producer of the April 2012 production, cLementines & cHocolate.
– Sonya Smith, aerial dance artist, CU-Boulder MFA candidate and artist/producer of the January 2014 production, Beneath the Text.
The artists’ productions listed above, like the upcoming work-in-progress Bloom, were all presented in the downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater, lowest basement level, B2, CU-Boulder campus.
Free and open to the public. (Check back to see whether a reservations or RSVP system is put into place to reserve your seat.)
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 28, downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater, lowest basement level, B2
Six Groups of Students Present their Projects at the First ATLAS Expo 2014
ATLAS and engineering students from six different classes will informally exhibit their digital/physical projects, works-in-progress and interface explorations during the ATLAS Expo Spring 2014 from 5:30-7 p.m. Monday, May 5, in the ATLAS Black Box theater.
Light refreshments will be served, sponsored by http://gnip.com.
Student works from the following classes will be exhibited:
• HCC Foundations/User-Centered Design 1 (CSCI 3002)
Instructor: Clayton Lewis, Professor of Computer Science
and ATLAS Faculty Fellow
• ATLAS Physical Computing (ATLS 3519)
Instructor: Jeffrey “Jiffer” Harriman, ATLAS Ph.D. student
• ATLAS Big Data (ATLS 4519 & CSCI 4830)
Instructor: Greg Greenstreet, VP Engineering, Gnip
• Rapid Prototyping (CSCI 4830)
Instructor: Tom Yeh, Assistant Professor, Department
of Computer Science and ATLAS Faculty Fellow
• Digital Media 2 (ATLS 3020)
Instructor: Hyunjoo “Joo” Oh, ATLAS Ph.D. student
• TAM Capstone Projects (ATLS 4010)
Instructor: Ian Hales, TAM Instructor
The event is free and open to the public.
Light refreshments will be served, sponsored by Gnip.
5:30-7 p.m. Monday, May 5, downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater, lowest basement level, B2
Fleeting – Performance & Installation
Working across disciplines, artists/students in Frances Charteris’ Integrated Media Arts Program (ARTS – 4104/5104) create raw experimental and experiential pieces that explore time and space in the absence of a fourth wall. These multimedia works incorporate dance, digital and light projections, music, sound, sculpture and fabric to tease meaning from everyday practices and obsessions.
7:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater, lowest basement level, B2
Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrk) Performs Live Music for Silent Film
The Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrk) will perform live original music for the showing of the silent film “The Call of Cthulhu.” The film is the first adaptation of the famous H.P. Lovecraft story and uses Mythoscope, a blend of vintage and modern filming techniques intended to produce the look of a 1920s-era film. BLOrk uses acoustic and electric instruments combined with laptops and software.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 26, downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater, lowest basement level, B2
ATLAS Speaker Series
Computational Thinking and Thinking about Computing
Jeannette M. Wing is corporate vice president at Microsoft Research. She has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University since 1985, where she twice served as head of the Computer Science Department.
She was the assistant director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation.
Wing received her SB, SM and PhD degrees from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology.
4-5 p.m. Thursday, April 17, downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater, lowest basement level, B2
ATLAS Speaker Series
Ruth West – The Integration of Art & Science
Ruth West is an interdisciplinary media artist/researcher working with emerging technologies. She envisions a future in which art/science integration allows us to open new portals of imagination, knowledge and communication across cultures. Her work has been presented or featured in SIGGRAPH, WIRED Magazine’s NextFest, UCLA Fowler Museum, CAA, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the American Journal of Human Genetics, Genomics, Leonardo, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, NPR’s The Connection, NY Times, Genome News Network, AMINIMA and Artweek. Learn more about Ruth West.
4 p.m. Monday, April 14, ATLAS 100
Conference on World Affairs (CWA)
Monday – Friday, April 7-11
Enjoy dozens of free panel discussions and presentations on a wide range of topics at various locations across campus, including the downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater. Learn more.
Ecdysis- Installation/Performance by Sougwen Chung
Sougwen Chung is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores transitional edges. Her artistic practice spans installation, sculpture, still image, drawing, and performance, informing her multi-faceted approach to experiential art.
Her work has been featured in exhibitions in North America, Europe and Asia. Recent venues include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Geneva, Switzerland and 319 Scholes in Brooklyn, New York. Additionally, Chung has been featured in The New Yorker, Dazed and Confused, Cool Hunting and The Creators Project.
This event/installation is part of the annual Communikey (CMKY) Festival, April 10-13, 2014. The festival brings performers and artists from around the world who are focused on sound, new music, the visual arts and the innovative use of electronic technologies.
This downstairs ATLAS Black Box theater event is free and open to the public. Other CMKY events require the purchase of a festival pass and/or individual tickets. Learn more about Sougwen Chung.
1-5 p.m. Saturday, April 12, downstairs Black Box theater
ATLAS Speaker Series
Drones, War & Privacy
presented by photographer Tomas van Houtryve and Harper’s Magazine art director Stacey D. Clarkson
In the words of the Harper’s magazine art director Stacey D. Clarkson (also a CU alumna):
“Tomas’ photo essay is 16 pages long—the longest in our history—and explores questions of domestic and foreign drone policy in an elegant and creative way. 
Tomas made the work by attaching his camera to a drone he bought on Amazon and photographing landscapes across the US. As he explains, the technology for drone photography is ahead of the laws on it….so he has created this work in a moment when laws about drone usage are being drafted. The project is timely and forward-thinking.”
A text portion of the Harper’s Magazine article is available here.
4:15 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, ATLAS 100
Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Peter Hudson, M.D.,
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of iTriage
Silicon Flatirons, ATLAS, Kurtz Fargo LLP, and the Boulder Software Club present Peter Hudson M.D. as our featured entrepreneur. Hudson is a physician and entrepreneur with over 15 years experience founding and growing healthcare-related businesses. His focus has been on creating efficiencies within the healthcare delivery system, and empowering healthcare consumers with technology. Dr. Hudson has been a serial entrepreneur with four exits (three to public companies), a healthcare investment banker with lots of sell-side and buy-side experience, and has served as the managing partner of large emergency medical practices. He was listed as one of the 12 Entrepreneurs Reinventing Healthcare in CNN Money in 2012.
6:15-7:45 p.m. Tuesday, April 8
University of Colorado Law School, Room 101
The Pain of Becoming – multimedia concert with dance
This free performance debut examines the threads that connect the ego to the self. Produced by College of Music doctoral student and ATLAS fellow Hugh Lobel, the performance features eight musicians, four dancers and live, real-time video. Choreography by CU MFA Chrissy Nelson. Videography by CU alumnus Kyle Monks.
Seating is limited & first-come, first-served. Reservations recommended. Reserve your seat, www.brownpapertickets.com/event/609451.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, April 4-5, downstairs Black Box theater
ATLAS master’s students discuss practicum internship semester
See the interdisciplinary work of students of the ATLAS Institute Master of Science in Information and Communication Technology for Development (MS-ICTD).
Hawra Rabaan
– worked with Dar Si-Hmad for Development, an NGO located in Southern Morocco. She helped develop a client-end monitoring application for the fog-harvesting system infrastructure implanted in the Anti-Atlas Mountains.
Aaron Vimont
– worked with the National Center for Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) to develop an online interactive story. Designed as a learning tool, it focused on a middle school student who uses critical thinking and simple engineering concepts to solve problems.
Alexis Wagnon
– worked with ISET-International on communication strategies for their publications and projects. She assisted with dissemination campaigns through online outlets and showcased their projects by creating media and strategic messaging.
4 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, ATLAS 100
For a video of the presentations, click here.
ATLAS Speaker Series
Ann Mei Chang – Information Communications Technology for Development: Oasis or Mirage?
Ann Mei Chang, an eight-year senior engineering veteran of Google, spoke on information communications technology for development (ICT4D): policy, practice, and practicalities, during an ATLAS Speaker Series presentation on March 31. As chief innovation officer at Mercy Corps, she builds highly scalable social enterprises and leverages mobile/internet to improve the lives of the poor. Previously, at the U.S. Department of State, she served as the senior advisor for Women and Technology in the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues.
There, she helped bridge the gender gap in access to mobile phones and the Internet, leveraging technology in improving the lives of female populations in developing countries and increasing the representation of women in the technology sector. At Google, she oversaw 20x growth of Google’s mobile business in just three years, delivering over $1B in annualized revenues.
For a video of her presentation, click here.
ATLAS Master’s Program Open House
Design your degree to fit your strengths, vision and passion. Increase your opportunities and skills for a sustainable, effective impact in the international development field.
Learn about the ATLAS Master of Science in Information and Communication and Technology for Development (MS-ICTD) at the Open House. Find out if this program is for you. See a video overview and get
more information.
Listen to ATLAS graduate students discuss their experience, projects, objectives and diverse backgrounds. Revi Sterling, MS-ICTD program director, will be available to answer your questions.
4 p.m. Thursday, March 6, ATLAS 229, second floor
Brakhage Center Symposium
Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Guy Maddin joins JJ Murphy for the 10th Annual Brakhage Center Symposium. They will explore Maddin’s work in the context of new approaches to independent cinema production.
Events take place at several locations on campus. A partial list of events located at ATLAS are below.
Downstairs Black Box theater, lowest basement level, B2
Friday, March 7
10 a.m. All-day installation of director Guy Maddin’s film Only Dream Things
Saturday, March 8
1 p.m. Stage Séance – Director Guy Maddin puts 10 actors in a trance on stage, directs them and makes a film.
3 p.m. ATLAS 100, Cofrin Auditorium, ground floor Selected shorts
with Guy Maddin and discussions with JJ Murphy
Pendulum New Music
This CU College of Music concert will feature original electro-acoustic music composed and performed by artists Jess Garrett, Sara Corry, Nathan Hall and Hugh Lobel.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, downstairs Black Box theater
The Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrk)
BLOrk will play the music of Sun Ra (1914-1993), a prolific jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher. The performance will feature special guests Trace Reddell producing video graphics and poet Tremaine-Maurice-Thomas performing his hip-hop meditations.
BLOrk, directed by CU faculty John Gunther and John Drumheller, features performers using traditional instruments blended with or modified by controllers, laptops and new technologies.
Visit: http://www.colorado.edu/atlas/blork/.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1, downstairs Black Box theater
Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Larry Gold, Founder and Chairman of the Board of SomaLogic
Silicon Flatirons, ATLAS, and Kurtz Fargo LLP present Larry Gold as our featured entrepreneur. Gold is the founder and chairman of the board, and past CEO of SomaLogic. Prior to SomaLogic, he also founded NeXagen, Inc., which later became NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In 1999, NeXstar merged with Gilead Sciences, Inc. to form a global organization committed to the discovery, development and commercialization of novel products that treat infectious diseases.
6:15-7:45 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, University of Colorado Law School, Room 101
ATLAS Speaker Series
Jer Thorp – Making Data Beautifully Meaningful
Working at the intersection of science, art and design, Jer Thorp stretches the possibilities of infographics. He will speak about data visualization, information design and opportunities to make data more useful, meaningful and accessible. How do we dig through our increasingly vast terrain of data? How do we put data in a human context? How can data build empathy?
He is the co-founder of the Office for Creative Research and an adjunct professor at New York University’s ITP program.
From 2010 to 2012, he was the data artist in residence at the New York Times R&D Group. Learn more.
4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, ATLAS 100
For a video of his presentation, click here.
Sensory Preservation Chamber
A multimedia double-feature that promises
to be creatively unconventional in its aesthetics, two multimedia groups will perform separate 10-15 minute sets and then collaborate as a super-group.
Sex Milk Instrument, a four-piece band using digital and analog
technology, will create a rich sonic textural landscape
accompanied by modified black and white video graphics of the
silent movie Faust.
Nano Twin will produce a colorful, visually oriented experience
with sound using cathode ray tube televisions.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Feb. 14-15, downstairs Black Box theater
Settle: Multi-media, multi-generational dance theater
Settle is a collaboration of 13 dancers of several generations, original acoustic and synthesized music plus video graphics that echo the objects and themes seen onstage. While using common symbols of domesticity and family tradition, Settle is inspired by fundamental life choices. Do we settle down with someone? Do we follow our own heart’s ambition? Click here for free tickets.
7:30 p.m. this Friday – Saturday, Jan. 17-18.
Randi Zuckerberg
Randi Zuckerberg, author of Dot Complicated: Untangling our Wired Lives, is the founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media and editor-in-chief of Dot Complicated. She was an early executive at Facebook and created and ran the social media pioneer’s marketing programs, led the company’s U.S. election and international politics strategy and created Facebook’s live streaming video capability during the 2008 Presidential Inauguration.
Get a FREE copy of her new book – Dot Complicated: Untangling our Wired Lives – FREE to the first 100 attendees.
She was nominated for an Emmy in 2011 for her innovative coverage of the 2010 mid-term elections that integrated online and TV coverage in unique formats. Since starting Zuckerberg Media, Randi has produced shows and digital experiences for BeachMint, the Clinton Global Initiative, Cirque du Soleil, Bravo and Conde Nast. She is also the sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Among the topics to be included in her talk:
• Finding the balance between one’s offline and online life.
• Social media’s future, opportunities and challenges.
• Silicon valley, tech culture and the participation of women.
• How do we manage technology’s benefits and distractions?
• Privacy, personal life and peace-of-mind.
This talk is presented in cooperation with the Air Force Reserve.
4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, ATLAS 100