ATEC Alumnus Hosts Dallas’ First BeMyApp Event
February 24-26 marked Dallas’ first annual BeMyApp event, a mobile app design and development competition. Idea generators, developers, and designers of all ages and skill levels collaborated to create a functioning app in just 48 hours. Ben Morrow, a UT Dallas Arts and Technology alumnus and cofounder of Liquid, organized and hosted the Dallas BeMyApp event. On Friday evening, 17 people pitched their ideas in 60 seconds to the designers and developers. The top six were chosen by vote and … Read more
Artist Transcends Boundaries Between Music, Space and Memory
Deborah Aschheim’s art crosses boundaries and traditional subjects – she connects the invisible worlds of memory and sound with the tangible reality of bodies and buildings. Her exhibit, Method of Loci, opens at CentralTrak on Saturday, March 10, at 8 p.m. The show takes it name from a method of memory enhancement that uses visualization to organize and recall information. The project has led her to collaborate with musicians as well as neuroscientists. “I’m very excited to be presenting Deborah Aschheim’s work to … Read more
Virtual Texans Celebrate Centenary of Birth of Alan Turing
The Arts and Technology program will participate in a high-tech, 24-hour international multimedia show honoring the father of computer science, Alan Turing. On March 23 and 24, UT Dallas Arts and Technology faculty members Dr. Marjorie Zielke and Dr. Roger Malina, professor Judy LeFlore of University of Texas at Arlington and ATEC students Sanger Doane and Steven “Slade” Jansa, will participate as virtual Texans in a worldwide streaming extravaganza celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing. Alan Turing … Read more
A New Way to Make Friends Enemies: EnemyGraph
A new Facebook application developed by a team in the UT Dallas Emerging Media and Communications program allows users to now list enemies as opposed to just friends. While Facebook runs queries to find affinities, EnemyGraph runs dissonance queries to point out a difference you have with a friend and offer it up for conversation. EnemyGraph, an app that explores social dissonance on Facebook, is the creation of EMAC faculty Dean Terry, developed by Emerging Media and Communications graduate student Bradley Griffith, … Read more
Upcoming ATEC Faculty Candidate Presentations
Students, staff and faculty are invited to candidate presentations for various faculty positions in Arts and Technology. Candidates will offer a presentation based upon their individual research interests. The following candidates are slated to present for the week of March 5-9, 2012. All presentations will be held in the ATEC Conference Room (ATEC 1.606). Erik Palmer, PhD Candidate for Assistant Professor in Networked Communication and Social Media Dr. Palmer will present a talk on Tuesday, March 6 at 2 p.m. in ATEC 1.606 entitled The … Read more
ATEC Students Release iPhone Game
Ninja Nuggets: Kamikaze Kapers — a strategic, turn-based puzzle game developed by Arts and Technology students Steven Foskett and Chris Krueger — has been released on Apple’s App Store. The game features a scientist captured by a clan of sentient chicken nuggets and forced to undergo rigorous training to help them fight a war against their ancient rivals. The player’s job is to deploy the clan’s secret weapon: honorable kamikaze warriors who explode into highly volatile sauce, “the deadliest substance … Read more
Applications Welcome for Undergrad Arts and Technology Scholarship
Undergraduate Arts and Technology or Emerging Media and Communication students may apply for a scholarship funded by the Metroplex Technology Business Council 2008 Tech Titan Award and the Greater Texas Foundation. Download an application The award will be a total of $2,000 for one year towards tuition, or $1,000 per fall and spring semester. All applications are due no later than March 15, 2012. Requirements for application: Students must be Arts and Technology or Emerging Media and Communication majors. Scholarships will … Read more
Video Game to Help U.S. Troops Wins New Award
Honor is Arts and Technology Research Project’s Third National Honor in 2 Years For the third time in two years, the First Person Cultural Trainer (FPCT), a research project from the UT Dallas Arts and Technology(ATEC) program, has won a national award for serious gaming. FPCT received the Best Game award in the Government Category of the 2011 Serious Games Showcase and Challenge. FPCT is sponsored by U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command G-2 Intelligence Support (TRADOC). The Serious Games … Read more
Exhibit to Examine Sound as Art and Image
The School of Arts and Humanities opens its spring season by examining the relationship between sound and art with the mixed-media exhibit Sonic Architectonic. Curated by visual arts faculty member Lorraine Tady, the exhibit features both local and national artists who work directly with noise or frequency, examining what is heard or felt through sound waves, and some who work with images that suggest sound. Other artists in the exhibit anticipate our relationship to sound by addressing our expectations and … Read more
Prof’s Exhibit Combines Art, Science and Technology
Using the ancient myth of Orpheus, video projection and three-dimensional sound, a UT Dallas professor is examining the relationship of sound to perception of movement in Acoustic Shadows, an Exploration of the Sense of Space. Acoustic Shadows is an audio-visual immersive and interactive installation that depicts Orpheus surrounded by shadows of the underworld consumed by the shadow of his wife, Eurydice. In the myth, the gifted and musical Orpheus travels to the underworld after his wife dies to beg Hades to allow … Read more
