UCSB PRIMAVERA -
A Festival of Contemporary Arts and Digital Media MON., APRIL 21 - SAT., APRIL 26, various times & locations, Evening concerts: $15/Gen, $7/Stu - Tickets at the door This annual festival of contemporary arts and digital media will highlight UCSB's own JoAnn Kuchera-Morin. The festival will also feature UCSB's Ensemble for Contemporary Music on April 22 & 23 and new electro-acoustic compositions from the CREATE studios on April 24, as well as An Evening of Improvisation, directed by Patrick Lindley, a student composition concert, installations, site specific performance art, and new works for video, drama, and dance! Also featured will be tours on April 26 of the CNSI Allosphere, Professor JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director.
(Visit: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/allosphere/, or
http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/primavera.)
Activities involving Professor Kuchera-Morin will include:
A LECTURE-DEMONSTRATION
by JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
"Works and Research including Time and Again for flute and interactive electronics and the UCSB CNSI Allosphere"
Wed., April 23 from 3-5 p.m. in UCSB Music Room 1145, FREE The lecture demonstration will include a video tape of the March 2007 performance by Jill Felber of Time and Again at the Eastman School of Music.
CREATE Concert
Thursday, April 24, 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall $15/Gen, $7/Stu - Tickets at the door UCSB's Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) presents a concert featuring new electroacoustic and multimedia works, including JoAnn Kuchera-Morin's Aquaforms.
ALLOSPHERE TOURS
led by JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Part of the 2008 All-Gaucho Reunion
Saturday, April 26, 2-4 p.m., FREE
CNSI Allosphere, Elings Hall, call 893-7001 for information
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JoAnn Kuchera-Morin - biography
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is a composer, Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music, and a researcher in multi-modal media systems, content and facilities design. She created, built, and designed the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology and is the Center Director since its inception in 1986. Her years of experience in digital media research led to the creation of a multi-million dollar sponsored research program for the University of California, the Digital Media Innovation Program. She was Chief Scientist of the Program from 1998 to 2003. In 2000 she began the creation, design, and development of a Digital Media Center within the California Nanosystems Institute. The culmination of her design is the Allosphere Research Laboratory, a three-story metal sphere inside an echo-free cube, designed for immersive, interactive scientific and artistic investigation of multi-dimensional data sets.
A composer of mixed media works, she received her Ph.D. in 1984 from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. Her current music research is focusing on a general purpose interface for control of digital information through natural performance gesture. A composer of primarily electro-acoustic works, her music has been performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
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PRIMAVERA
April 21-26, 2008
UCSB Festival of Contemporary Arts and Digital Media
Complete list of events:
For more information, please call (805)893-7001 or visit http://www.ccs.ucsb.edu/primavera
Concerts in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall:
$15/general, $7/students unless noted; tickets at the door only
An Evening of Improvisation - Patrick Lindley, Director April 21, 7:00 PM - featuring performance artist Pali-X-Mano.
oso - math rock americana
April 21, 8:30 PM (approximate), FREE
Ensemble for Contemporary Music - Jeremy Haladyna, Director April 22, 4:00 PM:
Works by Peter Racine Fricker, Emil Margolis, Chad Skopp and others.
April 23, 7:00 PM:
Works by Joel Feigin, Jeremy Haladyna, Leslie Hogan, Kyle Ukes, and others.
CREATE Concert - JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director - Curtis Roads, Associate Director April 24, 8:00 PM: New electro-acoustic works including JoAnn Kuchera-Morin's Aquaforms.
Sounds and Motion: New Works by UCSB Students Brian Hansen & Salman Bakht, Directors April 25, 7:00 PM: Works by Aftab, Skopp, Schunk, Saxon, Bakht, Crawshaw, & McLeran, for acoustic instruments, electronics, video, and dance.
Installations, Performance Art, Theater, and Dance - FREE:
The Carillon at UC Santa Barbara - composed and performed by James Orsher April 21, 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM, Storke Tower
Amaludus - a sound installation by Clarence Barlow April 21-24, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, College of Creative Studies Gallery
Interarts Installation - mentored by Leslie Hogan & Valerie Huston April 21-May 2, Sculpture Garden adjacent the University Art Museum
An Evening of Solo Performance Pieces - Jeff Mills, Director April 23, 8:00 PM, Studio Theater (adjacent the Hatlen Theater)
Trojan Women - a sound installation by Christopher Jette & James Orsher April 23, 9:00 PM (approximate), Storke Plaza
Art Music Video screenings - mentored and curated by Graham Wakefield April 24, 4:00 PM, Old Little Theater (see website for add'l screenings)
Bits and Pieces: An Evening of Dance and Physical Theatre - Jeff Mills, Director April 24, 8:00 PM, Theater Dance 1507
Origin - by Ron Sedgwick
April 25, 4:00, 5:00, and 6:00 PM, Old Little Theater
Special Events with JoAnn Kuchera-Morin - FREE
Works and Research, including Time and Again for flute and interactive electronics and the UCSB CNSI Allosphere - a lecture-demonstration by JoAnn Kuchera-Morin April 23, 3:00 - 5:00 PM, Music 1145
CNSI Allosphere Tours - JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director April 26, 2:00 - 4:00 PM, California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) Allosphere
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Media Arts & Technology
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
www.mat.ucsb.edu