Angie Eng听(in collaboration with Atau Tanaka, Akio Mokuno, Hoppy Kamiyama and Celeste Hastings) had the Transmedia performance/installation premiere of听Iconoclashgiftsfeld听补苍诲听Chasers: Yojimbo versus Fistful of Dollars听at Roulette in New York City on March 21. Eng was awarded a听听to support this project.
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Laura Kim听presented on the panel听Section 512 Safe Harbor: Challenges and Opportunities in User-Generated Content听at an event hosted by the Silicon Flatirons. Next, she will participate in an exhibition听titled,听Be Somebody, as part of听Serial Box Projects in Columbia, Missouri. Kim was a Partial Fellowship Awardee (in collaboration with Jen Liu of ATLAS) for the study,听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.
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Maya Livio听was awarded a full fellowship at NEST--the Nature, Environment, Science & Technology Studio for the Arts--for the project,听Panoramic Methods: New Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research. She was also awarded a Marcella G. Hertzog Memorial Scholarship. In addition,听Professional Artist Magazine听recently interviewed Livio about media art animation. She continues to program the Media Archaeology Lab 2018 Residency Program and she curated three upcoming events in the听MALfunction听lecture series on research, art and technology. She also organized an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon for the fourth year, which was hosted at 抖阴旅行射 Art Museum on听March 8, 2018. Finally, Livio wrote a catalogue essay for听Rachel Stuckey: Good Days and Bad Days on the Internet,听published in tandem with her solo exhibition at Women and Their Work Gallery in Austin, Texas.
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Ryan Ruehlen's sound essay,听Narrative Currents,听was made in collaboration with Mark Amerika and was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal,听MATLIT Vol 5: Vox Media.听 Ruehlen & Amerika's hybrid concept album,听2057,听is available at听. Ruehlen recently performed with听Flinching Eye Collective听in Salt Lake City at the听Utah Museum of Contemporary Art听/ University of Utah, and with Adan De La Garza at听Denver Art Museum. He will return to UMoCA for a solo performance and exhibition of his work,听Georhythmic Drift Music,听from Aug. 2018 through Nov. 2018.
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Libi Striegl听was 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 on听March 1. She also presented on several Eco-DH projects at the Global Digital Humanities event at Michigan State on听March 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.听
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Niki Tulk听was a finalist for the听. She also had an article on Australian Poets Gwen Harwood and Alison Croggon titled听"What (M)Other Can I Be?听鈥溙齛ccepted for publication in听Antipodes:听听A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature. Tulk was awarded the Wolle Fund Grant for travel research to听visit听and interview multimedia installation artist Ann Hamilton this Spring. Finally, Tulk's production of听鈥淓urydice鈥� by Sarah Ruhl (she was director and designer), as part of 抖阴旅行射 Presents, won several Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Awards, including awards for direction, design, performance mentoring, costume, stage management and ensemble work.听