Events This Week

There is a free workshop that we (​BioPresence<http://u.osu.edu/biopresence/> and Art Department) are hosting for students, faculty and staff. Thursday, Oct 29, 2pm – 4pm – Making Music With Animal Recordings – David Rothenberg will teach us how to transform digitized animal vocalizations into electronic music for humans to enjoy. Meet us in the Department of Art computer lab in Hopkins Hall, room 180. He will be using audio samples from the Borror Lab of Bioacoustics and manipulating them with the software Ableton Live and Amadeus, which we have installed on the lab computers temporarily. Please share with your students and friends who have an interest in this. It will be first come, first served. We have 20 seats in the computer lab. You are welcome to bring your own laptop – just download the free demo versions of Ableton Live and Amadeus.

And there are so many great art events happening this week!

WED & THURS – talk and workshop by David Rothenberg:

Making Music With Animals

Lecture/Performance: Oct 28th, 2015 at 4:30pm –  Music More than Human –  David Rothenberg will be presenting a free lecture on his work at the Wexner Center for the Arts<http://wexarts.org/public-programs/david-rothenberg?language=en>.

Workshop: Oct 29, 2015 from 2pm – 4pm – Making Music With Animal Recordings – David Rothenberg will teach us how to transform digitized animal vocalizations into electronic music for humans to enjoy. Meet us in the Department of Art computer lab in Hopkins Hall, room 180.

Philosopher, musician and long­time editor of the ecological journal T​erra Nova,​ David Rothenberg<https://davidrothenberg.wordpress.com/> has, for many years now, been pursuing a project to play music with other living species: birds, whales, insects and others. He has written about the project in a series of award­ winning books, including W​hy Birds Sing​ (2006), T​housand ­Mile  Song​(2010),​ [rothenberg] Survival of the Beautiful: Art, Science and Evolution​(2013), and B​ug Music (2014). H​is latest CD featuring live performances with nightingales is​ B​erlin Bülbül,​made together with​ Korhan Erel,​ came out in June of 2015.

Rothenberg’s visit is sponsored by the Humanities Institute as part of the 2015­16 COMPAS discussion theme on Sustainability. It is co­sponsored by the Living Culture Initiative (Art), the School of Music, ​BioPresence<http://u.osu.edu/biopresence/> (a project of Animal Worlds in the Arts, Sciences and the Humanities), and the Borror Laboratory of BioAcoustics.

FRIDAY – closing reception & performances of Interventions at the Pearl Conrad Gallery in Mansfield, OH:

The Fuse Factory’s annual juried exhibition proudly presents technology-based new media and digital arts, along with a series of hand-on art workshops and lectures. The exhibition runs from Friday, September 28 2015 to October 30 2015 at the Pearl Conard Art Gallery, located on The Ohio State University at Mansfield campus. The exhibition’s closing reception is Friday, October 30 2015 at the Pearl Conard Art Gallery from 7-9pm.

Our 2015 exhibition explores the theme of INTERVENTIONS featuring artists’ works that examine how scientific methodology intervenes between art and science; how art contributes to scientific research; how technological interventions create artistic spectacles within the intersection of art and technology; the aesthetic discourses between the natural and the technological/”unnatural”; and the use of technological interventions in which organic objects/beings integrate with inorganic mechanical systems and interspecies, to name a few.http://fuse2015.thefusefactory.org/