Angie Eng(in collaboration with Atau Tanaka, Akio Mokuno, Hoppy Kamiyama and Celeste Hastings) had the Transmedia performance/installation premiere ofIconoclashgiftsfeldԻChasers: Yojimbo versus Fistful of Dollarsat Roulette in New York City on March 21. Eng was awarded ato support this project.
Laura Kimpresented on the panelSection 512 Safe Harbor: Challenges and Opportunities in User-Generated Contentat an event hosted by the Silicon Flatirons. Next, she will participate in an exhibitiontitled,Be Somebody, as part ofSerial Box Projects in Columbia, Missouri. Kim was a Partial Fellowship Awardee (in collaboration with Jen Liu of ATLAS) for the study,Promontory Project: A Case Study of the Annihilation of Time and Space. The award comes from NEST, the Nature, Environment, Science & Technology Studio for the Arts.
Maya Liviowas awarded a full fellowship at NEST--the Nature, Environment, Science & Technology Studio for the Arts--for the project,Panoramic Methods: New Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research. She was also awarded a Marcella G. Hertzog Memorial Scholarship. In addition,Professional Artist Magazinerecently interviewed Livio about media art animation. She continues to program the Media Archaeology Lab 2018 Residency Program and she curated three upcoming events in theMALfunctionlecture series on research, art and technology. She also organized an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for the fourth year, which was hosted at ŷڱƵ Art Museum onMarch 8, 2018. Finally, Livio wrote a catalogue essay forRachel Stuckey: Good Days and Bad Days on the Internet,published in tandem with her solo exhibition at Women and Their Work Gallery in Austin, Texas.
Ryan Ruehlen's sound essay,Narrative Currents,was made in collaboration with Mark Amerika and was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal,MATLIT Vol 5: Vox Media. Ruehlen & Amerika's hybrid concept album,2057,is available at. Ruehlen recently performed withFlinching Eye Collectivein Salt Lake City at theUtah Museum of Contemporary Art/ University of Utah, and with Adan De La Garza atDenver Art Museum. He will return to UMoCA for a solo performance and exhibition of his work,Georhythmic Drift Music,from Aug. 2018 through Nov. 2018.
Libi Strieglwas awarded the McReynold's Memorial Scholarship, which she will use to pursue a project around tech attachment for her dissertation. She presented her work on adversarial tech relationships at MALfunction #7, Interface onMarch 1. She also presented on several Eco-DH projects at the Global Digital Humanities event at Michigan State onMarch 22. This semester, Striegl hosted an ongoing series of events at the BTU lab titled, Take It Apart-ies, along with another Retro Games Night.
Niki Tulkwas a finalist for the. She also had an article on Australian Poets Gwen Harwood and Alison Croggon titled"What (M)Other Can I Be?“accepted for publication inAntipodes:A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature. Tulk was awarded the Wolle Fund Grant for travel research tovisitand interview multimedia installation artist Ann Hamilton this Spring. Finally, Tulk's production of“Eurydice” by Sarah Ruhl (she was director and designer), as part of ŷڱƵ Presents, won several Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Awards, including awards for direction, design, performance mentoring, costume, stage management and ensemble work.