EVENTS
Winter 2009 Digital Media Demo Day, December 9, 2009, 4:00-7:00 PM
Event Date/Time: December 9, 2009, 4:00 pm
Location: Skiles Building and affiliated facilities
We will present many exciting demos at this year's event, including on-going projects in Interactive Narrative, Interactive Television, Tangible Media, Experimental Games, and Digital Film. Students and faculty will present projects from our research groups, including:
Adaptive Digital Media (ADAM) Lab
Augmented Environments Lab
Digital World and Image Group
eTV Prototyping Group
Emergent Game Group
Experimental Game Lab
Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab
Public Design Workshop
Synaesthetic Media Lab
Refreshments will be served. Please direct inquiries to Matthew McIntyre at 404-385-7551 or at matthew.mcintyre@lcc.gatech.edu. Everyone is welcome. Please feel free to circulate this.
Information Session for Applicants to the Graduate Program in Digital Media
Event Date/Time: December 9, 2009, 2:00 pm
Location: Skiles 349
Information Session for Applicants to the Graduate Program in Digital Media 2:00-3:00PM, Wednesday, December 9, 2009, in Skiles 349.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Matthew McIntyre at matthew.mcintyre@lcc.gatech.edu or at 404-385-7551.
Amanda Gable to Read at Tech on November 5
Event Date/Time: November 5, 2009, 4:30 pm
Location: Georgia Tech Library, East Commons, 4:30 p.m.
The Georgia Tech Library welcomes Amanda Gable, first-time novelist and former Georgia Tech instructor (Brittain Fellow) and administrator. Dr. Gable has published short stories in The North American Review , The Crescent Review , Kalliope , and elsewhere, and has been awarded several residency fellowships.
Gable's novel, The Confederate General Rides North was published in August 2009 by Scribner/Simon & Schuster.
Twelfth Night Continues through November 14
Event Date/Time: November 2, 2009, 8:00 pm
Location: DramaTech
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night , directed by LCC Professor Robert Wood, runs through Saturday, November 14. To reserve tickets, go to DramaTech .
Dr. Wood observes of the play:
“O you are too full of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a distempered appetite.” So says Olivia to the play’s scapegoat, oblivious to the irony of attributing Illyria’s besetting fault to Malvolio alone. The Duke Orsino persists in a futile bid for Olivia’s hand. She fends him off by means of seemingly perpetual mourning for her deceased brother. The arrival of shipwrecked twins provides the occasion to break the stalemate and generate renewal from confusion. Viola’s decision to disguise herself as her twin brother Sebastian, undertaken in a spirit of adventure, involves her in a dilemma that brings her close to confessing her secret on more than one occasion, though recognition as always waits for Act V.
The love plot of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is complemented by a collection of comic mischief makers: Sir Toby Belch, the drunken uncle; Feste, the Fool; Fabian, the willing co-conspirator; and Maria, Olivia’s gentlewoman, very much a woman but far from gentle. The pretentious Malvolio and the hapless Sir Andrew Aguecheek become the victims of an escalating series of practical jokes.
Twelfth Night , which takes its name from the last night of the twelve days of Christmas is often referred to as a bittersweet comedy and has of late taken a turn to the dark side. This production endeavors to bring to the play the exuberance that young actors can provide. My belief, unshaken even after three decades of teaching, is that youth is more inclined to folly than to vice.
The performance of Twelfth Night is dedicated to the memory of Dean James Dull. We have conceived and rehearsed the play with the joy and laughter that was always reflected in his genial spirit.
How to Think About Narrative and Interactivity
Event Date/Time: October 19, 2009, 12:00 am
Location: Skiles 002
How to Think About Narrative and Interactivity
A symposium featuring:
Prof. Espen Aarseth, Professor of Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen, and author of Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Prof. Janet Murray, Director of the Digital Media Graduate Studies program in Literature, Communication, and Culture
Prof. Fox Harrell, Assistant Professor in the Digital Media graduate program in LCC
Each panelist will speak for 15 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of mutual questioning and responses from the audience.
Live Streaming of the event available here
French Film Series
Event Date/Time: September 28, 2009, 12:00 am
Location: Clary Theater, Oct. 13, 15, 16, 22, and 26 at 7 pm
Flight of the Red Balloon , October 13
The Class , October 15
Days of Glory, October 16
The Dreamlife of Angels , October 22
Hate , October 26
This film series is made possible by UniverCine and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
Visit CinemaTech for more details and see the promotional materials for this event here and here.
Crawford's Class to Present Walden as Pecha Kucha
Event Date/Time: September 11, 2009, 12:00 am
Location: Library East Commons, Tuesday September 15 at 11 a.m.
Hugh Crawford’s LCC 3823HP “The Thoreau House Project” will present Thoreau's Walden as Pecha Kucha.
Pecha Kucha follows a simple formula: 20 slides for 20 seconds each. Each presentation lasts 6 minutes 40 seconds, so, by dividing the book into 7 sections, the class will dash through Walden . Definitely not the Walden you studied in the 10th grade.
Everyone is invited to re-visit a 19th century American classic re-mediated in a 21st century form.
LCC and Tech's Writing and Communication Program to Host Atlanta Zombie Symposium
Event Date/Time: September 8, 2009, 12:00 am
Location: Clary Theatre, 1-3:45 on September 12
The day will feature a number of planned events. Of most significant academic interest is a panel followed by a reception in the Clary Theater from 1:00-3:45 on Saturday, September 12. The panel, "The Zombie Perceived: Religion, Media, and Society," will feature Dr. Dianne Stewart (Dept. of Religion, Emory), Lazslo Xalieri (an independent writer), and Dr. Andrea Wood, Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow. The symposium organizer, Stan Woodard (a local artist), will moderate.
For information on other events see Zombie Flyer .
LCC Poets in the News
Event Date/Time: August 19, 2009, 12:00 am
Location: Various Locations
Over the next couple months, LCC’s poets will be busy sharing their work.
Karen Head, author of Sassing (WordTech Press, 2009), My Paris Year , winner of All Nations Press's Editors' Choice for Excellence in Poetry Award (2009), and Shadow Boxes (All Nations Press, 2003) will read at Outwrite Bookstore & Coffeehouse on August 25 at 7:30.
Head and Robert E. Wood, author of Gorizia Notebook (2009)and, most recently, of three poems in Blue Fifth Review will read at the Decatur Library on September 29 at 7:15 and at Callanwolde on October 14 at 8:15.
LCC’s Writing Group, which consists of Head, Wood, J.C. Reilly and Blake Leland, are reading at the Decatur Book Festival on the Java Monkey Stage from 2:00-4:00 p.m.
VarietyTech/Let's Try This! Improv Summer 2009 Show
Event Date/Time: June 5, 2009, 8:00 pm
Location:
Singing, dancing, acting, improv. These are the four ingredients to a spectacle of entertainment. Come and join us as VarietyTech and Let's Try This! perform their own special mix.
Find out more about VarietyTech and Let's Try This!.
Performances:
* Fri Jun 05 2009 at 08:00 PM * Sat Jun 06 2009 at 08:00 PM
Ph.D. and Master's Commencement Ceremony
Event Date/Time: May 1, 2009, 7:00 pm
Location: Georgia Dome
School of LCC congratulates Spring 2009 Ph.D. and Master`s graduates!
Spring 2009 Digital Media Demo Day
Event Date/Time: April 29, 2009, 4:00 pm
Location: the Skiles Classroom Building
We have many exciting demos to show off at this year's event, including extraordinary student and faculty projects in Interactive Narrative, Tangible Media, Experimental Games, Interactive Television, and Digital Film. We will be showing projects developed in the eTV Prototyping Group, the Synaesthetic Media Lab, the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab, the Adaptive Digital Media Lab, the Public Design Workshop, the Emergent Game Group, and the Digital World and Image Group. All visitors may register at the Digital Media Spring 09 Demo Day website. Please direct inquiries to Matthew McIntyre at 404-385-7551 or at matthew.mcintyre@lcc.gatech.edu.
Virtual Nineteenth-Century World's Fair
Event Date/Time: April 23, 2009, 8:30 am
Location: Library East Commons
Each group chose one nineteenth-century technology to research for the semester. The final product for each group is a web-page & presentation on the chosen technology, showing not just how that technology works, but also why it was invented, what narratives does that technology tell about the culture/society/political landscape of its time, how or why it is better than other technologies preceding it, etc. (The projects include technologies like the light bulb, alternating current, Pullman Palace Cars, indoor skating rinks.) A web page acts both as a hub to all the group's web projects as well as a place for more information about the assignment details: Virtual Fair . The student projects haven't been uploaded yet, but the axle of the Ferris Wheel links to the project's assignment sheet, and the administration building to the right links to the page detailing student research strategies.
Virtual Nineteenth-Century World's Fair
Event Date/Time: April 20, 2009, 12:00 am
Location: Library East Commons, Thursday April 23, 8:30 - 1:30
Each group chose one nineteenth-century technology to research for the semester. The final product for each group is a web-page & presentation on the chosen technology, showing not just how that technology works, but also why it was invented, what narratives does that technology tell about the culture/society/political landscape of its time, how or why it is better than other technologies preceding it, etc. (The projects include technologies like the light bulb, alternating current, Pullman Palace Cars, indoor skating rinks.)
A web page acts both as a hub to all the group's web projects as well as a place for more information about the assignment details: Virtual Fair . The student projects haven't been uploaded yet, but the axle of the Ferris Wheel links to the project's assignment sheet, and the administration building to the right links to the page detailing student research strategies.
DramaTech Production of Jekyll and Hyde
Event Date/Time: April 3, 2009, 8:00 pm
Location:
An epic battle between good and evil, Jekyll and Hyde tells a tale about a brilliant doctor whose experiments with human personality go awry. Convinced the cure for his father's mental illness lies in the separation of Man's evil nature from his good, Dr. Henry Jekyll unwittingly unleashes his own dark side, wreaking havoc in the streets of late 19th century London as the savage, maniacal Edward Hyde. Performances: Mar 27 2009 at 08:00 PM; Mar 28 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 01 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 02 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 03 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 04 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 08 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 09 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 10 2009 at 08:00 PM; Apr 11 2009 at 08:00 PM DramaTech
Ph.D. and Master's Commencement Ceremony
Event Date/Time: December 12, 2008, 7:00 pm
Location: Alexander Memorial Coliseum
School of LCC congratulates recent Ph.D. and Master`s graduates!
VarietyTech / Let's Try This! Fall 2008
Event Date/Time: August 20, 2008, 12:00 am
Location: DramaTech
Singing, dancing, acting, improv. These are the four ingredients to a spectacle of entertainment. Come and join us as VarietyTech and Let's Try This! perform their own special mix.
Performances:Oct 16 2008 at 08:00 PM; Oct 17 2008 at 08:00 PM; Oct 18 2008 at 08:00 PM
DramaTech
French and African Film Series: GAMES OF LOVE AND CHANCE (L'ESQUIVE, Kediche, 2003, 117mn) – DATE MOVIE – Thursday, October 25 - 7pm
Event Date/Time: October 3, 2007, 12:00 am
Location: CLARY THEATER OF THE GEORGIA TECH STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER
Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actress (Sara Forestier), César Awards (2005) Set in a bleak suburban housing project, Games of Love and Chance follows a group of teenagers, poor and immigrant for the most part. Many are involved in a class production of Marivaux’s 18th-century classic “Les jeux de l’amour et du hasard.” The rehearsals, both in and out of the classroom, are often the stage for their daily interactions. Krimo, whose dad is in prison, leaves his long-time girlfriend to pursue Lydia, a petulant girl who plays the lead role. Although he has no theater experience and the performance is days away, his infatuation leads him to take the part of Arlequin to play opposite Lydia – making a fool of himself in the process. Arguments among the group quickly surface as Krimo’s sudden love interest turns into a source of gossip and tension. “Using non-professional actors who are astonishingly fresh and vigorous, [Abdellatif Kechiche] manages to mesh reality and hope together. “Games of Love and Chance” describes the world as it is and dreams as they should be.” Pierre Murat, Télérama Film at Tech
Drama Tech Production of "What Happened to Mr. Sugarlumpkins," Summer 2008
Event Date/Time: July 16, 2007, 12:00 am
Location: DT Main-stage
June 27, 28, July 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 - 2008
Drama Tech Production of "Urine Town," Spring 2008
Event Date/Time: July 16, 2007, 12:00 am
Location: DT Main-stage
April 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19