{"68738":{"#nid":"68738","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Launches Artist In Residence Program with The Open Ended Group","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Center for Music Technology, in collaboration with the Schools of Music, Architecture and Industrial Design, has launched an Artist-In-Residence program with renowned digital artists, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/openendedgroup.com\/\u0022\u003EThe Open Ended Group\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAs part of the program, artists will make periodic campus visits to develop a collaborative artistic and musical project with College of Architecture students and faculty, to be performed and showcased in a high-profile exhibition setting.\u0026nbsp; This year\u2019s program revolves around the Drawn Together project, an immersive and interactive 3D music- and art-making drawing desk, culminating in a public performance early 2012. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u201cThe main goal of the project is to expose students to collaborating with leading professional artists, bringing Georgia Tech\u2019s unique skills and experience in music technology, architecture and design into the project,\u201d said Center for Music Technology director Gil Weinberg. \u201cStudents exploring career paths as professional music technology and digital artists will gain unparalleled experience and mind-expanding perspectives on life as a professional artist.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Drawn Together project is a natural extension of Listening Machines, our annual student-produced concert that integrates interactive musical work with interactive 3D visual experiences,\u201d he added.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Open Ended Group is made up of artist and artificial intelligence researcher Marc Downie, digital artist Shelley Eshkar and digital artist and writer Paul Kaiser. Their works for stage, screen, gallery, print and public space have been exhibited around the world, most recently at the Lincoln Center in New York, ZKM in Karlsruhe Germany, The Museum of Moving Images in New York and the International Chekhov Festival in Moscow.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe Open Ended Group has an aesthetic and philosophy complementary to ours\u2014collaborative, human-machine interaction art works,\u201d explained Weinberg.\u0026nbsp; \u201cFor future artists-in-residents, genre and media will continue to be far less important than the potential to inspire and expand the scope of the musical and artistic work happening at Georgia Tech.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollaborative artistic and musical projects will be performed and showcased in high-profile exhibition settings.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Collaborative artistic and musical projects will be performed and showcased in high-profile exhibition settings."}],"uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2011-07-08 09:57:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:44","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68737":{"id":"68737","type":"image","title":"Drawn Together Project","body":null,"created":"1449177201","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:21","changed":"1475894597","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:17","alt":"Drawn Together Project","file":{"fid":"193347","name":"drawn_together1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/drawn_together1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/drawn_together1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":367774,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/drawn_together1_0.jpg?itok=xZIU8Xmw"}}},"media_ids":["68737"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"148","name":"Music and Music Technology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1178","name":"Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology"},{"id":"11923","name":"georgia tech school of music"},{"id":"13616","name":"Open Ended Group"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:teri.nagel@coa.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ETeri Nagel\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech College of Architecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-2156\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}