Published: January 26, 2015
Electronics Alive VIII Opens at UT Tuesday, Jan. 27
Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 27, The University of Tampa’s Scarfone/Hartley Gallery will present Electronics Alive VIII, a biennial invitational exhibition of computer animations, digital video, interactive digital work and virtual spaces from around the world. The exhibition will run through March 6 and is free and open to the public.
The exhibition features works by UT professors as well as artists from across the globe, including Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Japan, Iran, Israel, Netherlands, Poland and the UK.
Dozens of short and experimental films will be on continuous view throughout the exhibition, including a one-night only viewing of the French short film Lune et le Loup by Tomas Leroux, Patrick Delage and Olivier Pinol on Thursday, Jan. 29, at 6 p.m.
In addition, several exhibiting artists will offer lectures or presentations during the exhibition:
- Thursday, Jan. 29, 6 p.m., Gallery Talk by Danny Olda, art critic, Toward a New Fountain: How Digital Art Could Rebuild the Art World by Destroying It; showing of Lune et le Loup.
- Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2 p.m., Gallery Talk by David Andrade, What It’s Like Running an Animation Studio
- Thursday, Feb. 5, 1 p.m., Gallery Talk by Evan Meaney, Glitches
- Thursday, Feb. 12, 7 p.m., Electronics Alive VIII Animation Festival, special event at Hillsborough Community College Performing Arts Building, Mainstage Theater, Palm Avenue and 15th Street
- Feb. 15–19, times TBA, showing of Walking Drawings by Everton Wright
- Monday, Feb. 16, 1 p.m., Gallery Talk with film projection
- Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1 p.m. Workshop with Kendra Frorup, UT associate professor of art
- Tuesday, Feb. 24, 3 p.m. Gallery Talk by Mikhail Mansion, new media artist, musician, engineer and educator, Displaced Seismic Rays (interactive sculpture)
The gallery is located at the R.K. Bailey Art Studios, 310 North Boulevard, and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. There is no charge for admission.
For more information, go to http://ealive.utarts.com or contact Dorothy Cowden, gallery director, at dcowden@ut.edu or (813) 253-6217.
On Friday, April 17, a panel of four industry professionals will present the obstacles and challenges faced in today’s business environment related to whistleblowing.
The panel will be held at The University of Tampa Sykes College of Business, Room 234, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. This “Hot Seat Event” is sponsored by UT’s Center for Ethics. The public is invited, and there is no charge for the event.University of Tampa film students will screen their work at the first annual Moon Dance Film Festival at UT’s Reeves Theater on Tuesday, April 14, at 8:30 p.m.
Aaron Walker, assistant professor of communication, said the festival is an opportunity for UT students both to screen their work and to curate the best work of their peers.“It’s fully student-run, so it shows how deeply the students care about celebrating the strong work of their peers, but also shows how much desire there is for our FMA students to create venues of success for one another,” Walker said. “It’s a terrific collaboration, and will be a terrific party for film. Plus, the movies are great.”
The Sustainable Business Coalition of Tampa Bay Inc. and The University of Tampa Center for Ethics is calling for nominations for their annual Sustainable Business Awards, which will be held on Wednesday, June 10, at The University of Tampa’s Vaughn Center.
Now in its seventh year, the Sustainable Business Awards, sponsored by the Sustany Foundation, recognize and honor for-profit businesses in the Tampa Bay area that engage in practices that increase economic opportunities and improve the environment and community.