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Hello!
We are very pleased to invite you to attend the 2024 ICARE CoNavigator Poster Sessions! Come learn about the ICARE trainees research and enjoy some free snacks on Friday, February 23rd, 2024!
Event Details
What is
ICARE?
ICARE
(Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research in the Environment) is a
cross-sector network of environmental scientists and engineers committed to
increasing the diversity of the environmental workforce and engaging
communities in local environmental research in and around Baltimore. We
administer an NSF-funded research training grant for UMBC masters students in
environmental sciences and engineering, and this luncheon will celebrate our
amazing trainees and their research networks.
What is CoNavigator?
CoNavigator is a hands-on 3-dimensional concept-mapping tool developed by
scientists in Copenhagen, and we use it to map out trainee research projects.
Trainees will conavigate their projects with their research mentor teams for
half the day and present a poster during the other half.
We hope you can join us! If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to icare@umbc.edu!
Sincerely,
The ICARE Team
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Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle
Fine Arts Building, 105
Baltimore, MD 21250
(410) 455-3188
Images: 1. Header: Chunky golden text of exhibition logo. 2. At the center of a colorful graphic design is a white circle with the text "Artistic Methods." A star diagram encircles the central title. Wooden disks, with individual researchers' names hand-printed on them, rest on the points of the star. Colorful overlapping circles surround the star at the perimeter of this square-cropped image.
]]>We have a very exciting series of conversations hosted within the context of a course in a course in the department, AMST 430/680 "Seminar in American Signs: Place-Based Artistic Research" This public humanities seminar explores the work of of contemporary artists and other cultural practitioners whose work responds to place-based contexts. Events are below-- mark your calendars!
Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC (CADVC) hosts an exploratory research residency that allows artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. Artists In Residence (AIRs) are invited to pursue open-ended outcomes, and their engagements may develop into workshops, artworks, or other future projects.
This season, CADVC welcomes three low-residency AIRs who are developing research and creative projects in UMBC and Baltimore. The visiting artists will offer programs open to the general public in the UMBC Lion Brothers building in downtown Baltimore.
Paul Rucker
Paul Rucker is a multimedia visual artist, composer, and musician. His practice often integrates live performance, original musical compositions, and visual art installation. For over two decades, Rucker has used his own brand of art making as a social practice, which illuminates the legacy of enslavement and its relationship to the US prison industrial complex.An avid collector of artifacts and archives, Rucker holds more than 15,000 pieces about the history of the United States. Items that address false narratives of US history and the strategic withholding of historical events are used as a tool of "demonization for colonization." His research visit to Baltimore will focus on Baltimore County and the history of "coordinated exclusion."
February 13, 5:30pm: Join Paul Rucker and artist Kim Rice in a public discussion about their research into the history of urban redlining.Rucker and Rice will discuss a project-in-process focused on discriminatory real estate practices and the power of art to change spatial injustice.
Spaces are limited. RSVP required at this link:
https://forms.gle/FC5K2aADQM8Ufg1S8.
Tomashi Jackson
Tomashi Jackson is an expanded field painter whose multimedia work investigates the links between history, materiality, and current events. In her residency at CADVC, which began in 2022, she has been developing a body of research focused on the history of and advocacy for alternative art spaces. This work builds on Jackson's existing research that she calls the "Pedagogy Study Hall" project. The project is ongoing.
February 20, 5:30pm: Join Tomashi Jackson for a discussion about her present research. Jackson will be in conversation with Dr. Nicole King, Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture at UMBC. Spaces are limited. RSVP required at this link: https://forms.gle/wqSCicNmUHYCvApb9.
Levester Williams is a multimedia artist whose artistic production is rooted in explorations of the relationships between the material and social worlds. His sculptural work and multichannel video projects have been exhibited in museums and art spaces nationally and internationally. In the 2023-2024 academic year, Williams is making a series of visits to UMBC and Baltimore to complete a new filmic work under the project title "dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore." Williams is researching the histories of Cockeysville (Maryland) marble, a material used in many salient objects in the local built environment, including the Washington Monument and iconic exterior steps of Baltimore rowhomes. The movement art documented in Williams's film is an embodied consideration of the labor histories, and mythologies, surrounding this complex material. In Williams's words, the project underscores the "intertwined history of African-Americans' plight to self-determined agency and full citizenship, and a rather benign stone."
March 5, 6pm: Levester Williams will be in conversation with collaborators on his current work in progress, "dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore"(2021-2024). Other discussants will be announced.
Spaces are limited. RSVP required at this link: https://forms.gle/cV5xEnT572A2e9zNA
On today’s episode we hear from Dr. Leigh Goetschius, Data Scientist Advanced, Dr. Fei Han, Principal Data Scientist and Affiliate Assistant Professor in the UMBC Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, and Dr. Morgan Henderson, Principal Data Scientist and Affiliate Assistant Professor in the UMBC Department of Economics. Together, these researchers form the UMBC Hilltop Institute Analytics Research team. Our conversation focuses on their work in creating predictive models in the field of healthcare.
Campus Connections
On Campus Connections, our Production Assistant Jean Kim brings us a project by Dr. Zoe McLaren, whose article is titled "Data Driven COVID-19 Policy is More than a One-Size Fits All Approach."
Check out the following links for more information on UMBC, CS3, and our host:
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Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship. Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno, and our production intern is Jean Kim. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland. Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance. Make sure to follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.
]]>National Security 2024 Information Session & Alumni Panel - Tuesday, March 5 at 6:00 p.m. ET - REGISTER TODAY
I encourage you to consider participating in this upcoming seminar! If you have questions, feel free to reach out to info@twc.edu.
Looking to explore the protection of U.S. interests at home, abroad and online? Join The Washington Center (TWC), for the upcoming National Security seminar! This program will be held in Washington, D.C. May 14-22.
During this one-week seminar, you'll interact with experts and public figures, go behind the scenes of organizations throughout the city, discover new career paths and come away with a competitive advantage in your resume.
Best of all, if you're a state resident of Maryland, you're eligible to receive a full scholarship! Eligible students will receive funding to cover the full cost of the program and student housing at TWC's Residential and Academic Facility. Recipients will also be given a $300 stipend to help cover food and travel expenses.
Ready to find out more? Attend an information session where you'll learn about the seminar and hear from alumni about their experience. Mark your calendar and register below:
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Join us for Infinite Transformations, a multimedia, transdisciplinary installation presented in conjunction with performances by Baltimore Dance Project on February 9 and 10. Conceived by Foad Hamidi (assistant professor of information systems) and Linda Dusman (professor of music) and created as part of an Imaging Research Center (IRC) Faculty Fellowship, the project brings together the fields of bio art, audio design, and visualizations, with a creative team involving Lee Boot, Ryan Zuber, and Alan Wonneberger, and with choreography by Carol Hess.
Infinite Transformations can be viewed in the Dance Technology Studio, located in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building on the second floor off the Linehan Concert Hall lobby. The installation will open at 6:30 p.m. both evenings, and will include a repeating dance portion from 7:20 to 7:50 p.m.
