Commissioned Works

Performances, openings, exhibitions, concerts and community events are free, and open to the public. Paid registration required for full attendance at the daily paper sessions.

Thursday, February 25

Snow Yunxue Fu and Luke Hampton

"Still" video installation

The architectural video installation project Still finds Edwin Abbott’s novel Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions as a primary inspiration, a story centered on two-dimensional geometric figure, a Square who is occupying a land of flatness, but through a series of encounters with a higher dimensional being who is a sphere discovering a greater reality outside of his own limited gates of perceptions. Likewise, the virtually rendered work of Snow Yunxue Fu thrives to guide the viewers into a metaphorical higher dimensional world, where the artwork becomes necessary physical symbols for the viewer’s physical perception in relation to the greater reality, and the installation function as a port.

Snow Fu & Luke Hampton
@snow_fu Snow Fu Luke Hampton @snowyunxuefu Snow Fu Snow Fu

4:30 - 6 p.m., White Box Gallery, Cummings third floor

ARCOS Dance Company

"ANNI" (Archival Narrative Network Initiative)

ANNI is a transmedia artwork combining interactive public installation, live performance, and an online exhibit. The installation will collect audio responses from symposium participants under the guise of an artificially intelligent time capsule project, which caters its prompts specifically to individual contributors. This audio will then be processed and mixed live into a multimedia dance performance and presented as scattered remnants of the spacebound time capsule in a future in which humanity has left Earth. Collected material will also be accessible online where viewers will be able remix it themselves. Simultaneously presenting a speculative science-fiction narrative and an experimental, living mini-documentary about the community and moment in which it is performed, ANNI will explore questions of human control over the curation of information and the value of human intuition in identifying signal in the noise of an increasingly algorithmic, data-driven social system.

ARCOS Dance Company
@ARCOSDance ARCOS Dance @ARCOSDance

4:30 - 6 p.m., Fortune Recital Hall, Cummings First Floor

Friday, February 26

Snow Yunxue Fu and Luke Hampton

"Still" video installation

Snow Fu & Luke Hampton
@snow_fu Snow Fu Luke Hampton @snowyunxuefu Snow Fu Snow Fu

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., White Box Gallery, Cummings third floor

Alexander Dupuis and Kristin Hayter

"APPARITION COIL"

APPARITION COIL examines the concept of Pareidolia, a phenomenon that occurs when the brain attempts to create significance where none exists. Patterns of great and small import arise from the chaos around us: figures in symmetrical blots of ink, spirit voices in radio noise, even a man in the surface of the moon. APPARITION COIL explores these effects through an improvised Pareidolic duet between sound and image, placing two performers in a shifting, abstract conversation. The sonic world originates with a live voice processed through electronics while the visuals are performed through custom video feedback software. The performers continually interpret and expand on their audiovisual interactions, delving into the emergent patterns and associations of these processes. This journey of reinterpretation and feedback births dream-logic juxtapositions, finding Rorschach’s blots pulsing behind black metal screams and cathedral choirs singing under psychedelic kaleidoscope windows.

Alexander Dupuis & Kristin Hayter
@sandordupuis

8 p.m., Evans Hall

ARCOS Dance Company

"ANNI" (Archival Narrative Network Initiative)

ARCOS Dance Company
@ARCOSDance ARCOS Dance @ARCOSDance

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Fortune Recital Hall, Cummings First Floor

Saturday, February 27

Snow Yunxue Fu and Luke Hampton

"Still" video installation

Snow Fu & Luke Hampton
@snow_fu Snow Fu Luke Hampton @snowyunxuefu Snow Fu Snow Fu

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., White Box Gallery, Cummings third floor

ARCOS Dance Company

"ANNI" (Archival Narrative Network Initiative)

ANNI is a transmedia artwork combining an interactive public installation, live performance, and online exhibit. The installation will collect audio via an artificially intelligent time capsule interface, which interacts with participants to tailor highly individualized responses about the nature of humanity. The audio recordings will then be mixed live into a multimedia dance performance as well as becoming accessible online, where viewers will be able remix it themselves. Simultaneously presenting a speculative science-fiction narrative and an experimental, mini-documentary about the community and moment in which it is performed, ANNI will explore questions of consciousness and control over the curation of information, the gulf between digital data and embodied human experience, and the value of intuition in identifying signal in the noise.

ARCOS Dance Company
@ARCOSDance ARCOS Dance @ARCOSDance

5 p.m., Evans Hall

Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology

P: 860-439-2001 E: cat@conncoll.edu

Mailing Address

Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology
Connecticut College
Box 5233
270 Mohegan Avenue
New London, CT 06320

Campus Locations

Seminar and student work space:
768 Williams Street

Administrative Office:
Pink House, 740 Williams Street

Computer Lab: Olin 214

Acting Director

Steve Luber
sluber@conncoll.edu

Administrative Assistant

Alison Cook
acook4@conncoll.edu

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