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Contact: Sari Krosinsky, 277-5813
Laurie Mellas, 277-5915, lmellas@unm.edu
October 10, 2005
ARTS Lab and OVPRED to hold faculty colloquium on digital media's impact at UNM
The University of New Mexico Art, Research, Technology, and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) and Office for the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED) are planning a full day conference for faculty, Digital Media's Impact on Research and Education at UNM to address this challenge and how ARTS Lab can help further the educational and research goals of the university community. UNM's new ARTS Lab is a key part of the Governor's Media Industries Strategic Project and received $3 million of seed funding from the legislature.
The colloquium will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 21 in Student Union Building Ballroom B. The morning will include an introduction to the ARTS Lab and some of its projects and will feature a talk by Ken Perlin, director of NYU's Media Research Laboratory and Academy Award Winner for Technical Achievement. The afternoon will be split between two interdisciplinary workshops, one on media-related research and the other on curricular impacts of media and the ARTS Lab.
The ARTS Lab and OVPRED encourage education and research faculty to take the opportunity to find out more about the ARTS Lab and learn how to get involved, as well as lend their voices and talents to shaping how UNM responds to emerging media technology.
The ARTS Lab is presently building the "Garage," a unique interdisciplinary space that will be shared with the Center for High Performance Computing in the Galles Building. Garage features include a black box experimental studio, rendering and animation hardware and software, a motion capture system and an experimental multi-projector dome. More information can be found at http://artslab.unm.edu/.
To register for the event online, visit http://artslab.unm.edu/registration. For further information, contact Ed Angel at angel@cs.unm.edu or 277-2186 or Eric Whitmore at 277-2253 or whitmore@unm.edu. The schedule for the day is as follows:
ARTS Lab COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULE
8:30 9 a.m.: Sign-in; light food with fruit, snacks and coffee.
9 9:15 a.m.: Introductions from UNM Administration.
9:15 10 a.m.: ARTS Lab History, Overview and Vision from Director Ed Angel.
10 10:15 am: Break
10:15 11 a.m.: Keynote: The Future of Interactive Narrative. Ken Perlin, professor and founding director of the Media Research Laboratory, within the Department of Computer Science at New York University . Director of the NYU Center for Advanced Technology from 1994-2004 and featured artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art in January 2004.
11 11:15 a.m.: Break
11:15 a.m. 12 p.m.: Review of current and ongoing project work at ARTS Lab.
12 1 p.m.: Lunch
1:15 2:30 p.m.: Panel session on digital and interactive media in support and as a subject for research in the arts, humanities and sciences.
2:30 2:45 p.m.: Break
2:45 4 p.m.: Panel on making interdisciplinary classes and projects work in the university environment.
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