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Ruth West juries ACM SIGGRAPH 2016

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Professor Ruth West is serving as a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Art Papers Jury. The summer conference in Anaheim, California is the 43rd annual conference, held July 24-28, 2016. The conference is coupled with an exhibition in which visitors can “Get up-close and hands-on with the newest hardware systems, software tools,...
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Art-Science Collaboration Awarded $100,000 Keck Futures Grant

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xREZ Art + Science Lab to host Leonardo LASER Series

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xREZ Art + Science Lab is officially a designated host for the Leonardo/ISAST LASER series! Beginning in Sept. 2016, the UNT LASER will be hosted by xREZ Art + Science Lab and held twice each year in the spring and fall semesters. The events will include an informal mix and mingle rendezvous hour followed by...
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Anthropology’s Take on Tech and Gender

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Meghan wants to join the Peace Corps, return to Mongolia someday, and she is looking for research that scratches the right itch. Meghan Kajihara is an anthropology major and UNT graduate who spent a large part of her college career at xREZ Art + Science Lab working on the Segmentation team, discovering how experts...
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Smart Architecture: Built Environments as Educators

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xREZ Art + Science Lab member Aaron Davis is trying to find out how the buildings where we live, work, and play can teach us about sustainability, natural resources, consumption, energy, and the environment. He wants to test the hypothesis, how can designed features and the buildings themselves contribute to...
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Christopher Lee Appointed UNT System Student Regent

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xREZ Art + Science Lab alumnus Christopher Lee has been appointed as the UNT System Student Regent, which means he represents the UNT Denton campus, UNT Dallas and the UNT Health Science Center in Ft. Worth in discussions with the UNT System Board of Regents. Statewide appointments are announced by the Office...
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Meghan Kajihara on the Short List for Yale Internship

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xREZ Art + Science Lab member Meghan Kajihara is on the short list of students interviewing this week for the Yale University Human Relations Area Files internship. If selected, Kajihara will live in New Haven, CT for one year doing cultural anthropological research and helping maintain Yale’s “database of culture”. Founded in...
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xREZ Lab Members on UTD “Creative Disturbance” Podcast

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xREZ Art + Science Lab members Amelia Jaycen and Bobby Nash are “Voices” on the Creative Disturbance podcast. They had the opportunity to chat on-air with Roger Malina, director of the ArtSci Lab at UTD and two French artists hosted by UTD’s Centraltrak following an “Ideas Watering Hole,” a weekly...
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Ermir Bejo Wins ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award

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On April 1st, 2016, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announced the recipients of the 2016 Morton Gould Young Composer Award, dedicated to encouraging young people in the creation of concert music. Of the over 700 applicants, xREZ Art + Science Lab’s Ermir Bejo was one of...
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Art + Science. Cool! But What is It?

Featured, Rendezvous March 2016, REZcast

The intersection of art + science is not a place to which a map can be drawn. Its practitioners won’t give you a neat definition of the field or summarize the nut graph of its literature. They will tell you that it’s not about answering the question, “What is art...
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Big Issues in Art + Science

Featured, TxHATS March 2016

On Mar. 30, 2016 the TxHATS (Humanities, Art, Technology, Science) network gathered in Denton, Tx to initiate conversations across disciplines and exchange new ideas. After a series of presentations of North Texas art + science projects, TxHATS members coalesced around free-forming discussion groups to whiteboard ideas and put solutions on the table. The TxHATS...
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Art + Science, On The Agenda

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“So here’s how crazy things have gotten here at the National Academy of Sciences: We want to test this idea…that there is value in an integrated educational experience in science, humanities, and art.” –Tom Rudin According to Rendezvous moderator JD Talasek, Art + Science is on the agenda. Talasek traveled to North...
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Coding: The Creative Medium of Our Time

Featured, Rendezvous March 2016, REZcast

Ira Greenberg treats himself like a computer. His is the art + science of using coding as a paintbrush and exploring the iterative process of creation. Working generatively, Ira creates art using code and algorithms that are art themselves. The self-dubbed “coding evangelist” believes that coding is the creative mode of our...
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Making Art with a Purpose

Featured, Rendezvous March 2016, REZcast

One could argue Janeil Engelstad is all purpose, but that would underrate her contributions to the world. Janeil is creative, dedicated and deeply caring. She uses art and science everyday to create new networks, care for the environment, help different communities, and create new ways of interacting with the world...
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Industry + Academia + Community Partnerships

Featured, TxHATS March 2016

What are they keys to successfully initiating and sustaining industry, academia, and community partnerships? At the TxHATS Network Meeting held Mar. 30, 2016 a round table discussion dissected this question. The panel consisted of Katherine Wagner, CEO for the Business Council for the Arts, Craig Orris Taylor, Senior Account Executive at...
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