On June 12, 2016, social media was a chaotic twister of emotions: worry, suspense, grief, and anger, amongst others, whirled around the internet as news reports confirmed 49 deaths and 53 injuries at Pulse Night Club; the worst mass shooting in America to date. A little over a year later, as queer souls dance through the end of Pride Month,
We have some wonderful video from SpaceTension, DAHI’s recent collaboration with the Dance Program. DAHI director Rich Rath, wrote the software for the virtual instrument that the dancers play with their bodies and motions to create the music that they are dancing to. This project arose from Rich’s long-time work on the software, and a conversation Kara Miller, professor of Dance,
MemoryHouse: Dreams FRI NOVEMBER 11 AT 7:30 P.M. SAT NOVEMBER 12 AT 2 P.M. & 7:30 P.M. SUN NOVEMBER 13 AT 2 P.M. & 4:30 P.M. UHM DANCE + TECHNOLOGY CONCERT SPECIAL LOCATION: Galleries of Dance + New Media inside Kennedy Theatre Co-directed by Kara Miller and Amy Schiffner This visual journey explores the immensity of love and memory
Both archives and silences take many shapes, and poet Julia Wieting, a PhD student in English here at UH Mānoa, has turned her art toward auditioning an archive of silences rooted in poetry and place. She has created a chapbook with poems written at seven places around campus, contemplating the sounds and silences of each. Wieting is drawing on the
Our series of interviews continues with Director of University Art Galleries & John Young Museum of Art at University of Hawaii at Manoa, Rod Bengston. Rod shares some of his history working with digital media from the perspective of the arts, and cites artist-technologists Golan Levin and Philomène Longpré as influences. He also talks about the first exhibition in the
Our series of interviews continues with University of Hawaii at Manoa graphic design instructor Ara Feducia. With a nod to digital pioneers like April Greiman, Ara compresses design history to prepare us for the idea of infinite resolution: a near future of design communication that is no longer limited by the two dimensional real estate of the page… we will
Get to know some of the folks involved in the UH Manoa Digital Arts and Humanities Initiative. We kick off this series of short interviews with electronic media and expanded arts professor Peter Chamberlain of the Art Department. Peter talks about the transition from analog to digital media in the arts, his own recent show at the Honolulu Museum of
