{"519141":{"#nid":"519141","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Gallery Exhibition Showcases Atlanta\u2019s Emerging Downtown Arts Scene","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA gallery exhibition sponsored in part by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u2019s Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;ran from March 31 \u2013 April 2 at Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMORE LIGHT: Media Art from Atlanta\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;featured work by 15 Atlanta artists, including Georgia Tech faculty and students, and focused on the moving image.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe exhibition was in conjunction with the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cmstudies.org\/page\/upcoming_conference\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESociety for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) annual conference\u003C\/a\u003E, which was held in Atlanta this year. Nearly 2,000 scholars, artists, and curators from North America and Europe attended the conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re serving two audiences with this exhibition,\u201d said Gregory Zinman, co-curator of\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMORE LIGHT\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. \u201cOne is the art community of Atlanta; we wanted to do an exhibition that we hadn\u2019t quite seen in Atlanta, which was to focus solely on media arts and ideas of different forms of the moving image. We also want to show off the Atlanta community to this other audience, which is all of these visiting folks coming in for the conference who may be less familiar with what\u2019s going on in Atlanta.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVisitors of the exhibition saw works using 16 mm film, augmented reality, video games, and even larger than life projections from the rooftop of the gallery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe\u2019re used to looking at images and movies on our phones, tablets, laptops, or when we go to the cinema. But there are so many other manifestations of the moving image that we can think about, and the way technology shapes those images,\u201d said Zinman. \u201cSo if you decide to use a VCR, how is it different than a digital projector? We wanted to get people to think about that by putting all of these different methods and materials in conversation with one another.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech-related works included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMOSAIC: Mobile Cinematics\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Jay Bolter, professor and director of Computational Media, and Maria Engberg, associate professor of media technology at Malm\u00f6 University in Sweden, which uses audio interviews, Twitter streams, and Flickr images to create a mosaic that probes people\u2019s use of these mediums.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ENightmare\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Digital Media master\u2019s student Kristan Woolford, an experimental observational documentary that merges archival video and footage of the protest of Troy Davis\u2019 execution at The Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in 2011. Woolford uses a first-person perspective to immerse the audience into the protest experience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPioneering video artist Dara Birnbaum contributed newly-digitized documentation of her now-lost\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ERio VideoWall\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(1989), commissioned for the Rio Shopping and Entertainment Complex, once located at the corner of Piedmont and North Avenue. The\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EVideoWall\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;was the first public artwork of its kind in the United States, combining an unedited live-stream from CNN glimpsed through the moving silhouettes of mall patrons with a video record of the site\u2019s natural landscape from the time before the mall\u2019s construction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEyedrum Art and Music Gallery hosted the exhibition, which spanned all of the gallery\u2019s spaces, including the music room, gallery, and rooftop. Eyedrum has been the center of the Atlanta arts community for over 20 years and is part of an emerging arts scene in downtown Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Southeast has been long underrepresented in the national conversation around the arts. It\u2019s underrepresented at major museums; it\u2019s certainly underrepresented as soon as you get outside of the United States,\u201d Zinman said. \u201cI don\u2019t mind beating the drum a little bit as a point of pride to say, there\u2019s a lot of great work being done here, take a look.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA gallery exhibition sponsored in part by Georgia Tech\u2019s Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication opened to the public in late March.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A gallery exhibition sponsored in part by Georgia Tech\u2019s Ivan Allen College School of Literature, Media, and Communication opened to the public in late March."}],"uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2016-03-30 14:12:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:14","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-03-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"516771":{"id":"516771","type":"image","title":"MORE LIGHT: Media Art from Atlanta","body":null,"created":"1458923959","gmt_created":"2016-03-25 16:39:19","changed":"1475895282","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:42","alt":"MORE LIGHT: Media Art from Atlanta","file":{"fid":"206011","name":"1azdxc9.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1azdxc9.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/1azdxc9.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":736691,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/1azdxc9.jpg?itok=euH_-pUe"}}},"media_ids":["516771"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/morelight.lmc.gatech.edu\/","title":"More Light Information"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Il8skBLjXY","title":"More Light Teaser Video"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1597","name":"Augmented Reality"},{"id":"4694","name":"digital art"},{"id":"5581","name":"eyedrum"},{"id":"171871","name":"media art"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E404.894.1720\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}