Meeting Agenda Update 15 October and Intersections/Gatherings reminder

Hello everyone

Below, you will find a link to an updated agenda for the upcoming ASTeRIX meeting (tomorrow) – same agenda that was distributed, last week, but with a few changes and additional embedded link: “New draft policy for university centres”, which will require ASTeRIX, and all other centres or institutions, to revisit their applications to become a university centre.

In addition, the ASTeRIX Gathering no. 1 takes place on Thursday.  The SAAG has indicated that they will make hardcopies of the readings available.  Tomorrow (Tuesday) is the scheduled delivery date for the limited number of hardcopies, which we’ll put in the mailroom. In the meantime, feel free to access an unformatted electronic PDF copy. Please come to the Reading Group, which is normally quite intimate and informal.  Light refreshments served.

Lastly, please, at your earliest convenience, respond to the messages about “Intersections” and “Gatherings”, if you were one of the respondents to the May Questionnaire, in which we asked for proposals for “Intersections” and “Gatherings” (recent e-mails dated 7 October). It’s still early days and so, we would enjoy having everyone’s feedback on our “Intersections” and “Gatherings” series.

Upcoming:
15 October Meeting Agenda

Past:
19 September Meeting Agenda
19 September Meeting Minutes

 
Thank you,
Art, Sound, & Technology Research IntersecXions (ASTeRIX)

asterix@uleth.ca

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Object studies and more at the SAAG Gathering+ on October 17, 2019

 

This inaugural Gathering+ event will be presented in partnership with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery’s (SAAG) Bletcher Hour Reading Group on Thursday, October 17 from 6:00 – 7:00pm.

ASTeRIX members Mia van Leeuwen (Fine Arts – Drama) and D. Andrew Stewart (Fine Arts – Music) will be providing context about their art practices and objects studies in relation to the extracts from the following readings.

In Praise of Shadow (Tanizaki, 1933)
The Tears of Things (Schwenger, 2006)
Free Play, Sex and Violins (Nachmanovitch, 1990)
Death and Performing Objects (John Bell)
Guide to Sound Objects, Reduced Listening (Chion, 2009)
View with a Grain of Sand (Szymborska, 1995)

If you can attend, the SAAG is able to provide the reading extracts for you. Traditionally, they provide a limited number of printed and custom-bound copies. If you’d like a copy, or would prefer to receive an electronic version, please let us know at asterix@uleth.ca

Of course, reading everything upfront is not a necessity … we would enjoy seeing you at this ASTeRIX gathering very much. Light refreshments provided.

Gathering+ Presented by ASTeRIX in partnership with SAAG
Thursday, October 17
6:00-7:00pm
601 3rd Ave South

The SAAG’s critical reading group, The Bletcher Hour, is named after the gallery’s first librarian, Mary Hazel Bletcher. Regular readings relate to current exhibitions and dig a little deeper, exploring key themes in the exhibited works.

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Graduate student “Intersections” workshop

Developing a multi-day workshop for interdisciplinary R-C in the spirt of the 2014 New Media Intersections with Evelyn Eastmond. Co-taught, collaboratively led, bringing into play present-day R-C projects and activities of the workshop leaders. Alternatively, directed by a prominent scholar-artist invited to the university by ASTERIX. The workshop can be a launchpad for an FFA inter-departmental, co-instructed, studio and project-based course on interactive art. Moreover, the workshop can include, for example, project development and dissemination strategies, leading students toward exhibiting at Crossing Boundaries 2020.

People

Administration

INTERIM DIRECTOR

Lee Burckes
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – Drama
Research interests: lighting design, scenography, digital media and creation
Web link: leeburckesdesign.com

STEERING COMMITTEE

Mary Ingraham
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts Dean
Research interests: largely connected to culture in Canada, and her interests are historical and contemporary, critical and pedagogical, and include collaborations with Indigenous communities in BC and Alberta on creative and archival projects
Web link: https://www.uleth.ca/fine-arts/profile/dr-mary-i-ingraham

Dana Cooley
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – New Media
Research interests: material and aesthetic manifestations of the intangible and ephemeral, natural frequencies and energies in art / sound art, ecologies of empathy and cultures of compassion, art and ecology, expanded cinema & paracinema, embodied interaction
Web link: danacooley.net

Leanne Elias
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – New Media
Research interests: Data visualization, data physicalization, community engagement, inter/cross disciplinary exploration
Web link: datavizexperiments.org

Arlan N. Schultz
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – Music
Research interests: music composition, computer assisted composition, real-time audio spatialization, electronics for music applications, philosophy of music Composition
Web link: arlanschultz.com

D. Andrew Stewart
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – Music & Digital Audio Arts
Research interests: composition, performance practices, digital musical instruments, live electronics, gesture-controlled audio systems
Web link: dandrewstewart.ca

Julia Wasilewski
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – Drama
Research interests: intersection between traditional design conventions and contemporary renewable approaches in an effort to embrace sustainable theatre-making
Web link: https://www.juliawasilewski.com/about

GRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE

Tyler Stewart (M.A. track)
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Arts & Sciences – Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (Sociology/Fine Arts)
Research interests: sound, affect, unisonality, silence, aurality, nationalism, settler-colonialism
Web link: teestewww.com

Affiliated Researchers

SCHOLAR MEMBERS

Victoria Baster
Amanda Berg
Georg Boenn
Rolf Boon
Lance Chong
Christine Clark
Athena Elafros
Denton Fredrickson
Beth Gerwin
Monique Giroux
James Graham
Aaron Gruber
Ryan Harper-Brown
Bryn Hewko
David Hinger
Mary Kavanagh
Kimberly Mair
Annie Martin
Paul McKenzie-Jones
Mary-Anne McTrowe
David Miller
Josephine Mills
Kelly Morris
Deanna Oye
Gulden Ozcan
Brad Parker
Amandine Pras
Daniela Sirbu
A William Smith
Darlene St Georges
Matthew Tata
Aaron Taylor
Jackson Two Bears
Mia Van Leeuwen
Peter Visentin
Janey Youngdahl
John Zhang

STUDENT MEMBERS

Sonny Brewer (Music)
Leo Brooks (IM)
Katherine Challacombe (Music)
Keely Crow Eagle (Drama)
Courtney Faulkner (Art)
Kylie Fineday (Art)
Tisha Gilbert (Drama)
Jordan Hanas
Georgia Jeffrey (Drama)
Courtney McDermott (IM)
Harley Morman
Amber Morrison (Art)
Anna Nikolova (New Media)
Lorne Power (Art)
Meghan Rennie (New Media/Management)
Nicole Riedmueller (Art)
Migueltzinta Solis (CSPT)
Tyler Stewart (CSPT)
Michelle Sylvestre (New Media)
Yvonne Tiger

PARTNER MEMBERS

Breeanne Fuller
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – Conservatory of Music, Director
Research interests: early childhood, communities of practice
Web link: uleth.ca/music-conservatory

Tyler Heaton
Web link: https://ulethnewmedia.com/current-grad-research/tyler-heaton/

James Phelan
Affiliation: Alberta Media

Kristy Trinier
Affiliation: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Executive Director
Research interests: sound art, design, collaborative practice
Web link: kristytrinier.ca

Centre statements

Mission

ASTERIX supports the research and creation of objects, narratives, and experiences that investigate the intersections of the arts and technology.

ASTERIX provides the infrastructure (space, equipment, training, collaborative opportunities, residencies, exhibitions, performances, workshops) to make ULethbridge an internationally recognized destination for those (academics, artists, industry, general public) interested in critically and creatively exploring, through a transdisciplinary research-creation lens, the ramifications of emergent technologies.

ASTERIX brings together educators, researchers, students, artists, and the community at large to work across disciplines, fostering training/mentorship and collaborative research opportunities which will be transformational for Southern Alberta.

Vision

Generating necessary dialogues around pressing concerns of our time, ASTERIX will invite communities to participate in rethinking what is possible. ASTERIX’s speculative approach is not about a rigid methodology with expected outcomes. Rather, we are interested in what emerges in the process of thinking through, of constructing “critical fabulations” of what might be. The collaborations, conversations, as well as the construction of the “results,” can lead to real social change.

2019 ASTeRIX Community Questionnaire Report

 

 

 

In May, 2019, we asked the ASTeRIX community to complete an on-line questionnaire in order to understand better the community’s research interests and to survey scholar-artists with respect to proposals for the future development of the centre, Art, Sound, & TEchnology Research IntersecXions (ASTeRIX), which is a Type B Research Centre in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge. It supports research-creation across all departments in the Faculty of Fine Arts and includes, but is not limited to, investigating the intersections of technology and the arts. The remainder of this document includes results from the questionnaire and provides a report of the community members’ responses. Continue reading “2019 ASTeRIX Community Questionnaire Report”

2019 ASTeRIX Questionnaire Results and Activities

 

 

We have 40+ cross-disciplinary members, including members beyond the Faculty of Fine and Arts and members representing independent organisations.

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New Graduate Student Assistant

Tyler Stewart (Cultural, Social and Political Thought, 1st-year MA) has joined ASTeRIX. We’re very pleased, and fortunate, to have Tyler’s support and talent during these formative years. Welcome Tyler!

Questionnaire

The results of the ASTeRIX community questionnaire are now available. We appreciate the time that you took to complete the questionnaire; your feedback is essential. Please write to us directly, if you have any concerns about the interpretation and the editing of your questionnaire feedback.

Activities Fall 2019

Reforming of the steering committee

An outcome of the May ASTeRIX AGM was a strong expression to maintain a formal Steering Committee. A big thank you to those of you who responded to the steering committee section of the questionnaire.

Big Bang

Several scholar-artists from the ASTeRIX community are involved in the “Big Bang” public opening and research showcase of the Science and Academic Building (Arlan, Leanne, Dana, Monique, D. Andrew). If you are participating, please let us know.

Gatherings – We’d love to see you  :  )

The flexible committee and meeting structure proposed in February  has been re-named:  “Gatherings”. Please come to ASTeRIX Gathering No. 1, which is schedule for Thursday, 17 October, 6 to 7pm, at the SAAG. ASTeRIX members (Mia and D. Andrew) will be participating in the Bletcher Hour Reading Group, and supplying the extracts for this informal gathering of community members.

In Praise of Shadow (Tanizaki, 1933)
The Tears of Things (Schwenger, 2006)
Free Play, Sex and Violins (Nachmanovitch, 1990)
Death and Performing Objects (John Bell)
Guide to Sound Objects, Reduced Listening (Chion, 2009)
View with a Grain of Sand (Szymborska, 1995)

Shortly, we will be in contact with those questionnaire participants who offered suggestions for Gathering topics. We would like to align the topics with the tentative dates proposed in the questionnaire (below). However, we also want to find dates that work for everyone, if possible.

Thursday, Nov. 28
Thursday, Jan. 23
Thursday, Mar. 5
Tuesday, 14 April (ASTERIX AGM)

Crossing Boundaries

Members from the ASTeRIX community will present in this year’s Crossing Boundaries: Languages | Landscapes | Algorithms (Leanne, Denton, Jackson, Aaron, Amandine, Tyler, Dana, Mia, D. Andrew, Arlan, Daniela, Bryn). Presently, there is a call for proposals to all students.  Please, if you have a student, who you think will benefit from this experience, please ask him or her to consider submitting a work.

Website

Website development is ongoing. If you were unable to complete the questionnaire, and you would like to be identified on the ASTeRIX website, please send us an e-mail  and include as many of these details as you feel comfortable sharing.  Importantly, please respond to the request for keywords.

Professional title –
Name –
Institutional affiliation –
Faculty –
Department –
Work phone –
Mobile phone –
Work e-mail –
Website –

Two to five keywords and/or topics that represent your areas of research, teaching, and/or artistic practice –

Thank you for your interest and your contributions,

Dr. D. Andrew Stewart, Director
Art, Sound, & Technology Research IntersecXions (ASTeRIX)

asterix@uleth.ca

Please write to asterix@uleth.ca, if you want to be removed from the ASTERIX e-mail list.

 

ASTeRIX Steering Committee

Lee Burckes
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – Drama
Keywords: lighting design, scenography, digital media and creation
Web link: leeburckesdesign.com

Dana Cooley
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – New Media
Keywords: material and aesthetic manifestations of the intangible and ephemeral, natural frequencies and energies in art / sound art, ecologies of empathy and cultures of compassion, art and ecology, expanded cinema & paracinema, embodied interaction
Web link: danacooley.net

Leanne Elias
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – New Media
Keywords: data visualization, data physicalization, community engagement, inter/cross disciplinary exploration
Web link: datavizexperiments.org

Breeanne Fuller
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – Conservatory of Music, Director
Keywords: early childhood, communities of practice
Web link: uleth.ca/music-conservatory

Mary Kavanagh
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – Art
Keywords: visual art, conceptual art, feminist theory and practice, post-atomic studies, nuclear, anthropocene
Web link: marykavanagh.ca

Paul McKenzie-Jones
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Arts and Sciences – Indigenous Studies
Keywords: Indigenous pop cultures, Indigenous activism
Web link: uleth.academia.edu/PaulMcKenzieJones

James Phelan
Affiliation: Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society, Director (Lethbridge)
Keywords: music, technology, video art, local artist-run collectives
Web link: amaas.ca/about/current-board/

Arlan N. Schultz
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – Music
Keywords: music composition, computer assisted composition, real-time audio spatialization, electronics for music applications, philosophy of music Composition
Web link: arlanschultz.com

D. Andrew Stewart
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – Music & Digital Audio Arts
Keywords: composition, performance practices, digital musical instruments, live electronics, gesture-controlled audio systems
Web link: dandrewstewart.ca

Tyler Stewart
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Cultural, Social, and Political Thought
Keywords: sound, affect, unisonality, silence, aurality, nationalism, settler-colonialism
Web link: teestewww.com

Julia Wasilewski
Affiliation: University of Lethbridge, Fine Arts – Drama
Keywords: TBC
Web link: juliawasilewski.com

2019 ASTeRIX SAB Proposals

 

 

Hello,

Thank you for responding to the ASTERIX Community Questionnaire.  Your feedback is so invaluable and is much appreciated.  I’ll be in touch with summative points, shortly.  For now, the remainder of this message is about the SAB Grand Opening, specifically.

For those of you who responded to the questionnaire section on the SAB Grand Opening, I’ll be in touch with you directly. The next step is completing a technical specifications form for your proposed contribution on-line.

For the SAB Grand Opening (13-14 September) I have proposed that a display/information booth be erected for ASTERIX. If you want to be involved in the SAB opening and you didn’t submit any ideas via the Community Questionnaire, we could still use your participation at the ASTERIX information booth. We need a few volunteers, please.  I see the role of participants as discussing the general objectives of ASTERIX with the local Lethbridge and university communities, and then, talking about your research-creation (and that of your colleagues). My goal is to produce a video and image “showreel” of FFA research and creation, which can be presented at the booth.

Lastly, I recently had an impromptu walk-through of the SAB, guided my Tony Montina. The large size of rooms and corridors, size of in-class student workspaces, and the general visibility into numerous labs is impressive. Here’s a shot of the main atrium with suspended rooms.

 

 

Dr. D. Andrew Stewart, Director
Art, Sound, & TEchnology Research IntersecXions (ASTERIX)

Please write to asterix@uleth.ca, if you want to be removed from the ASTERIX e-mail list.

 

2019 ASTeRIX Community Questionnaire

 

Hello everyone,

In an effort to develop a strategy for ASTERIX activities in 2019/2020, would you be willing to give me feedback via this questionnaire, please: 2019 ASTERIX Community Questionnaire, accessible at:
<https://uleth.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ezJFVw1oIgot8cB>

Some sections may require a more detailed response. Feel free to read through the questionnaire first and then, use the back arrow to return to sections you wish to answer. Some highlights:

  • SAB planning committee interested in proposals from ASTERIX community for opening outreach events
  • ASTERIX supports gatherings based on nascent concepts and works-in-progress
  • ASTERIX would like to develop a workshop series for students

In addition, please reply to this e-mail, if you are interest in having a SAB tour this month. Limited spots so please respond at your earliest convenience. One goal will be to identify the spaces being used for the SAB opening events.

Thank you

Past:
16 April ASTERIX AGM Agenda and Director’s Report
28 March Meeting Agenda and Report
15 February Meeting Agenda and Report

 

Dr. D. Andrew Stewart, Director
Art, Sound, & TEchnology Research IntersecXions (ASTERIX)

Please write to asterix@uleth.ca, if you want to be removed from the ASTERIX e-mail list.