CoffeeLab
Maxwell Hall 420 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesJoin CARI, Friday, September 1st between 10am-12pm in Maxwell Hall for the first CoffeeLab of the semester, a series of open house events for UA faculty and staff interested in interdisciplinary collaborative arts research. During this come-and-go event, learn more about the initiative, meet CARI Faculty Fellows, discuss your research ideas and learn what others are working on during these informal gatherings in Maxwell Hall.
Border Disturbance
Maxwell Hall 420 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesIn the 1990s, Electronic Disturbance Theatre (EDT) made groundbreaking work at the intersection of art, activism, and the budding cyberspace. It developed a form of artistic direct action (Electronic Civil Disobedience), using cybernetic performance to make marginalized political issues visible. These practices developed into border disturbance actions, from the US-Mexican borderlands to the skies of Germany. The triangulation of virtual spaces, contemporary art and performance, and borders remain a potent and important space of disturbance today. Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of [...]
Concert With John Bischoff, Analog and Digital Electronics
Maxwell Hall 420 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesJoin CARI for a concert with John Bischoff (analog and digital electronics) on October 5th at 7pm in Maxwell Hall. Bischoff will perform 3 electronic solos that incorporate custom analog circuits in dialog with laptop synthesis. Sonic attributes in one domain inform the unfolding of music in the other as the ebb and flow of performance detail spontaneously generates form. This event is co-sponsored by the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative and New College.
Presentation on Gothic polychromy, the materiality of color: The case of Notre-Dame de Paris
Maxwell Hall 420 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesJoin us in Maxwell Hall on October 30th, 2023 for a presentation by Stéphanie Duchêne, Chemist and Art Historian – Mural Painting and Polychrome Research Division in the French National Historic Monuments Research Laboratory (Laboratoire de recherche des monuments historiques). Over recent decades, studies related to the restoration of Gothic cathedral portals have revealed a rich, even if fragmentary, medieval polychromy. The Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques (LRMH) has been entrusted with the task of analyzing most of these remnants. A substantial archive, comprising [...]
CoffeeLab
Maxwell Hall 420 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesJoin CARI for CoffeeLab, a series of open house events for UA faculty and staff interested in interdisciplinary collaborative arts research. Learn more about the initiative, meet CARI Faculty Fellows, discuss your research ideas and learn what others are working on during these informal gatherings in Maxwell Hall.
CoffeeLab
Maxwell Hall 420 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesJoin CARI for CoffeeLab, a series of open house events for UA faculty and staff interested in interdisciplinary collaborative arts research. Learn more about the initiative, meet CARI Faculty Fellows, discuss your research ideas and learn what others are working on during these informal gatherings in Maxwell Hall.
Dear Sister: Panel Discussion
Dance Theatre (English Hall) 428 Colonial Dr., Tuscsaloosa, AL, United StatesJoin a panel discussion on the triumphs and challenges faced by Black Female Artists that parallel characters in the new film The Color Purple.
Time, Land, Mystery, Memory, Humor and Hope: A Performative Talk and Conversation with Ann Carlson
Maxwell Hall 420 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesAnn Carlson is an interdisciplinary artist whose work borrows from the disciplines of dance and performance as well as visual, conceptual and social art practices. Her work as a whole is engaged with flattening traditional hierarchies, and throwing off the guardrails of who gets access to the contemporary dance/art experiences. She is the recipient of many awards for her work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Dance Project Award, and a Creative Capital Award. Working with more questions than answers, [...]
CoffeeLab
Maxwell Hall 420 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesJoin CARI for CoffeeLab, a series of open house events for UA faculty and staff interested in interdisciplinary collaborative arts research. Learn more about the initiative, meet CARI Faculty Fellows, discuss your research ideas and learn what others are working on during these informal gatherings in Maxwell Hall.
Religion as a Creative Context: A cross-disciplinary conversation with CARI Fellows Brandon Colvin and Merinda Simmons
Maxwell Hall 420 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesReligious Studies scholar Merinda Simmons and filmmaker Brandon Colvin use the latter's new film, THE WORLD DROPS DEAD, and a handful of other cinematic texts to explore and articulate how religious practices, spaces, relationships, and perspectives provide unique and powerful contexts for narrative filmmaking. Brandon Colvin Merinda Simmons