The Institute's third Creative Leave Colloquium will take place Thursday, Feb. 15 in the Faculty Center from 4-6 pm. All Institute members, including faculty, staff, and students, are invited to attend. Come discuss new work by CalArts faculty!
Presenters:
Ashley Hunt (School of Art) will discuss the final work in his trilogy of films featuring prisons that are scheduled for closure, all of which think and write alongside abolitionist activists and scholars about the future life that these ruins can feed rather than stifle; and a parallel book project of photography and writing.
Steve Lehman (The Herb Alpert School of Music) will present a brief discussion of his composition Ex Machina for 15 musicians and live, interactive electronics. This work was co-commissioned by the Orchestre National de Jazz in France and the IRCAM center for electronic music in Paris during Lehman's creative leave.
Craig Smith (School of Film/Video) will discuss his work on “non-specific narratives” with found sound and images; building electronic circuits for analog sound processing; and research into historical sound effects and the history of film sound, particularly in animation.
Nick Deyoe (The Herb Alpert School of Music) will discuss his participation in and management of three recording projects and planned album releases for groups he is active with: wasteLAnd, Aston & Deyoe Duo, and KillDry; and his research on performance programs at peer institutions, which will feed into the reimagining of the Instrumental Arts specialization within the School of Music.
Norman Klein (School of Critical Studies) will discuss two book projects: a “history of forgetting” for Brooklyn, New York, titled Jumping off the Half-Moon Hotel; and the expansion of his media novel, The Imaginary 20th Century, into a stand-alone print edition.