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Sheldon Brown: UC San Diego and IBM Launch Center for Next-Generation Digital Media to Power Tomorrow's Virtual Worlds - Calit2
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 2:04pm. Announcement | ReviewUC San Diego and IBM Launch Center for Next-Generation Digital Media to Power Tomorrow's Virtual Worlds
IBM Shared University Research Award of a System z10 Mainframe Computer Will Support New UCSD Campus Center
San Diego, CA and Armonk, NY, March 17, 2009 -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego today announced plans for a new campus center dedicated to inventing the next generation of virtual worlds, multiple player online games, and high fidelity digital cinema, using one of the world's most sophisticated computer servers -- the IBM System z mainframe.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) provided a Shared University Research (SUR) award to help the university jump-start its new Center for Next-Generation Digital Media on the UC San Diego campus. In addition to multiple peripherals and additional support, the IBM award consists of the company's newest System z10 Enterprise Class server with the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.).
"Students will have access to IBM's newest hybrid computing system with blazingly fast and powerful capabilities. UCSD students can now tap into security features and 'specialty engines' designed to handle a new generation of virtual world applications, where massive numbers of simultaneous users can share a single environment," said Bernie Meyerson, IBM Fellow and vice president of Systems and Technology Group.
"We want to facilitate the invention of the next generation of digital media," said Sheldon Brown, a visual arts professor at UC San Diego. "By significantly increasing the experiential richness of virtual worlds, we think they will become a proving ground for creating and interconnecting digital media of all forms, starting with games and cinema. As virtual worlds and digital cinema develop more visual sophistication and cultural literacy about how we use them, they will start to intersect and will become much richer and more complex."
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Sheldon Brown: IBM And UC San Diego Partnering For Virtual Worlds Research - Virtual Worlds News
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 1:45pm. Announcement | ReviewIBM And UC San Diego Partnering For Virtual Worlds Research
(http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2009/03/ibm-and-uc-san-diego-partnering-for-virtual-worlds-research.html)
Virtual Worlds News on March 17, 2009
The University of California, San Diego, announced plans today for a new center dedicated to researching virtual worlds, MMOGs, and digital cinema. The Center for Next-Generation Digital Media is being kicked off with an IBM Shared University Research award as well as equipment, including an IBM System z10 Enterprise Class server.
Initially, UCSD's Experimental Game Lab team, led by visual arts professor Sheldon Brown, a visual arts professor at UC San Diego, will develop and operate a virtual world based on Brown's museum installation "Scalable City." [Pictured above] The goal is to open it up to thousands of simultaneous users in an environment "more visually and behaviorally complex [...] than current efforts as seen in Second Life, The Sims or other massively multiplayer online role-playing games, such as World of Warcraft."
IBM and Brown hope that the server will provide the computing power necessary to have a truly unified virtual world, where users can interact in real time with more objects and concurrent users. It's the same problem that Qube and Redbedlam are hoping to solve through their development toolkit, announced earlier this month.
UC San Diego researchers are also working on multi-core processors for client-side efforts, including Intel's Larrabee and the IBM Cell processor. Last year, Stanford also drew $6 million from Sun Microsystems, AMD, Nvidia, IBM, HP, and Intel, in part to study parallel processing for virtual worlds. For networking, UCSD is collaborating with Peking University to study virtual-world serving between San Diego and Beijing.
The effort seems geared at a wide variety of applications, from consumer and business worlds to machinima--all of which stand to benefit from larger, richer, more stable worlds.
"We want to facilitate the invention of the next generation of digital media," said Brown. "By significantly increasing the experiential richness of virtual worlds, we think they will become a proving ground for creating and interconnecting digital media of all forms, starting with games and cinema. As virtual worlds and digital cinema develop more visual sophistication and cultural literacy about how we use them, they will start to intersect and will become much richer and more complex."
Sheldon Brown: UCSD, IBM Launch Digital Media Center - HPC Wire
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 1:17pm. Announcement | ReviewUCSD, IBM Launch Digital Media Center
HPC Wire on March 17, 2009
IBM Shared University Research Award of a System z10 Mainframe computer will support new UCSD Campus Center
SAN DIEGO, Calif., and ARMONK, NY, March 17 -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego today announced plans for a new campus center dedicated to invent the next generation of virtual worlds, multiple player online games, and high fidelity digital cinema, using one of the world's most sophisticated computer servers -- the IBM System z mainframe.
"....We want to facilitate the invention of the next generation of digital media," said Sheldon Brown, a visual arts professor at UC San Diego. "By significantly increasing the experiential richness of virtual worlds, we think they will become a proving ground for creating and interconnecting digital media of all forms, starting with games and cinema. As virtual worlds and digital cinema develop more visual sophistication and cultural literacy about how we use them, they will start to intersect and will become much richer and more complex...."
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Complete story on HPC Wire at:
http://www.hpcwire.com/industry/academia/UCSD-IBM-Launch-Digital-Media-Center-41373362.html
Roberto Tejada wins in the book competition of the Creative Capital Grants
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 11:34am. Announcement | Awards & HonorsCREATIVE CAPITAL GRANTS
(http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews2-24-09.asp)
artnet News, February 24, 2009
Fear not, cash-strapped arts writers -- help is on the way! After a three-year pilot program, the Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation has announced that it is renewing its successful "Arts Writers Grant Program" for another five years. The program is one of the few games in town for writers looking for support.
The good news came appended to more good news, the winners of the 2009 round of grants, some $635,000 for a variety of authors, critics and even bloggers, in awards ranging from $7,000 to $50,000. Winners in the "book" category -- the most competitive, we are told -- are C. Carr, Darby English, Joseph Grigely, Branden Joseph, Douglas Kahn, Jonathan Katz, Julian Myers and Edgar Arceneaux, Lyle Rexer, Joan Rothfuss, Judith Stein, Roberto Tejada and Jonathan Weinberg.
Alumni Caleb Waldorf and Sara Lewison: Ceci n'est pas une CAA at The Public School
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 1:11pm. AnnouncementAlumni Caleb Waldorf and Sarah Lewison
Ceci n'est pas une CAA at
February 27 & 28, 2009
The Public School/TELIC Arts Exchange, 972B Chung King Road, Los Angeles 90012
The Public School is hosting its own conference with many of the same amazing people who are visiting Los Angeles for CAA. This conference will be free; it will be modeled as a long, open, informal conversation, occasionally interrupted by screenings and short presentations; and it will encourage as much overlap, cross-pollination, and running over time as possible. Drop in and drop out when you can - the following schedule is a guide to what might be happening.
Laida Lertxundi: Xperimenta 2009, Biennial Symposium - Feb 23-26th '09, Barcelona, Spain
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 02/19/2009 - 2:23pm. Announcement | Faculty Show
Laida Lertxundi
Xperimenta 2009, Biennial Symposium
contemporary glances at experimental cinema
February 26 to March 1, 2009
Free entrance, but there is a fee to attend workshops.
CCCB, Montalegre 5, Barcelona 08001, Spain
The biennial symposium Xperimenta, devoted to the discussion and debate of the current state of experimental cinema will hold its second edition next February 26th-March 1st in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). Titled 'Contemporary Glances at Experimental Cinema', the event will comprise several round tables and debates, screenings, and a performance and workshop on 16mm film directed by Bruce McClure.
Among the participants in the several events that will take place will be filmmakers as Peter Tscherkassky, Gunvor Nelson, Abigail Child, Lisl Ponger, Craig Baldwin and Claudio Caldini, Laida Lertxundi, Yann Beauvais, Eve Heller, Peter Thomas, Michael Zryd, Duncan Reekie
Xperimenta is a two-yearly proposal in which several experts from around the world (including teachers, cinema producers, programmers, distributors and archivists amongst others) gather in Barcelona to discuss current questions of experimental cinema. Three days to feel the pulse of generational, technological and epistemological changes of the last decades.
The full schedule is available at the Xperimenta '09 web page at:
http://www.expcinema.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=359%3Axperimenta-09&catid=1&Itemid=19&lang=en
UCSD Visual Arts partners with SD's leading cultural organizations for the Beyond the Border Int'l Contemporary Art Fair 2009
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 1:44pm. AnnouncementIntroducing the Inaugural Beyond the Border International Contemporary Art Fair, San Diego a 3-Day Event That Will Take Place Sept. 2-4, 2009
(http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb1958514.htm)
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) February 5, 2009 -- San Diego's first Beyond the Border International Contemporary Art Fair, Sept. 2-4, will feature 40 exhibitors from around the world showcasing over 500 works of art created by more than 200 established and emerging contemporary artists.
The public is invited to attend the event, which marks the first time that these international galleries with investment-grade art will be presented in San Diego. VIP Tickets and Day Pass tickets can be purchased by contacting BTB-Art, Inc: info (at) beyondtheborder-art (dot) com.
The 3-day contemporary art fair will be held at The Grand Del Mar, San Diego's newest luxury resort in Coastal North San Diego County. The event is designed to attract international, national and regional art collectors. The Art of Living event, running simultaneously with the art fair at the resort, will spotlight the talents of the world's most promising winemakers and chefs, and feature exhibitors of luxury cars, watches and contemporary furniture among other luxury items.
Kim MacConnels wins 2009 Recognition of Excellence in the Visual Arts
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 10:18am. Announcement | Awards & HonorsSan Diego Art Prize:
Recognition of Excellence in the Visual Arts
presented by San Diego Visual Arts Network and SanDiegoArtist.com
at the L Street Fine Art Gallery of the Omni Hotel
Award Recipients for 2009
Kim MacConnel with emerging artist TBD
Richard Allen Morris with emerging artist TBD
The SD ART PRIZE is dedicated to the idea that the visual arts are a necessary and rewarding ingredient of any world-class city and a building block of the lifestyle of its residents. Conceived to promote and encourage dialogue, reflection and social interaction about San Diego’s artistic and cultural life, this annual award honors artistic expression. The SD ART PRIZE, a cash prize with exhibition opportunities, spotlights established San Diego artists and pairs them with emerging artists each season whose outstanding achievements in the field of Visual Arts merit the recognition.
Over the course of the year, a series of exhibits featuring the recipients will run simultaneously at the L Street Gallery at the Omni Hotel, and on the websites: SanDiegoArtist.com and SDVisualArts.net (SDVAN). Each exhibition will pair an established artist with an emerging artist. The final exhibition features work by all recognized recipients of the SD ART PRIZE for that season.
For more information, please visit the San Diego Art Prize web page at:
http://www.sdvisualarts.net/sdvan_new/artprize.php
Raul Guerrero: ''Who Do You Love'' - A San Diego Visual Arts Network Presentation
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 11/12/2008 - 10:57am. Announcement | Faculty ShowWho Do You Love?
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Public Opening: 8-9PM
Exhibition Runs: Nov. 22nd - February 4th, 2009
L Street Fine Art Gallery, 628 L Street (Across from the Omni San Diego Hotel), San Diego, CA 92101
This special showing of the Movers & Shakers exhibition will spotlight some of San Diego's cultural leaders and also provide an opportunity to commission an artist to paint a portrait for someone you love! 10% of proceeds will benefit the San Diego Art Prize.
Featuring works by: Raymond Ellstad | Patricia Bean | Mireille des Rosiers | Dan Camp | Alida Cervantes | Gerrit Greve | Raul Guerrero | Pamela Jaeger | Phillipp Scholz Ritterman | Jeff Yeomans
UAG Presents Fear Minus One
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 2:56pm. Announcement | Events
University Art Gallery
Fear Minus One
Exhibition runs November 14, 2008 through January 11, 2009
Artists: Spencer Finch, Graham Gussin, Gabriel Lester, Takeshi Murata, and Christian Tomaszewski
University Art Gallery, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093
Fear Minus One focuses on five artists whose work use existing films as their source, particularly in this selection, movies that have a sense of foreboding or fear as part of their dynamic. Through their interaction with the original material the form has become changed, but the original remains strongly referenced, be it as the result of an act of translation, transcription, editing or recreation.
The University Art Gallery ( http://uag.ucsd.edu/ ) is open Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm.
The University Art Gallery will be closed from 22 December 2008 to 4 January 2009.
For further information please ring 858 534 2107 or email uag@ucsd.edu.
