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January 24, 2000
THE V-DAY 2000 COLLEGE INITIATIVE COMES TO UMBC WITH A REPEAT PERFORMANCE OF EVE ENSLER'S PLAY,
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES
V-Day is an international campaign to end sexual violence against women and to proclaim Valentine's Day as the day to celebrate women and demand the end of abuse. Sponsored by UMBC's Theatre Council of Majors, V-Day will be celebrated at UMBC with a repeat performance of Eve Ensler's play, The Vagina Monologues. All proceeds will benefit a local women's charity organization.
Baltimore, MD - Since 1997, performances of Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues have brought attention to issues of violence against women to international audiences. In a concerted effort to stop the violence and abuse of women, February 14th has been designated V-Day, an initiative Ensler began "to raise awareness and funds to support grass roots and international organizations engaged in ending violence against women and girls and offer shelter to those who have been violated."
UMBC's Theatre Council of Majors will join numerous college campuses and organizations world-wide by presenting a repeat performance of Ensler's play on Monday, February 14th. The Vagina Monologues enjoyed a highly successful run at UMBC in November, 1999; the original cast from that production will reunite to celebrate V-Day.
Lauded as "a funny, heartbreaking work" by critic Susan Thomsen, The Vagina Monologues asks its audience to listen to honest, moving and often hilarious stories from a broad spectrum of women. From interviews with over 200 women of all ages and from all social-economic classes, Ensler created a play using personal narratives infused with universal resonance. Accessible to all audience members, the work gives hope to those who have been victims of violence and hatred and realizes the inherent need within us all to celebrate our uniqueness and humanity without humiliation.
Proceeds from this UMBC production will benefit the Baltimore based House of Ruth shelter. Tickets are $5 for students, $10 general admission.
For information, please call the UMBC Theatre box office at (410) 455-2476.
For general information about the play, V-Day and other upcoming national performances, please visit http://www.feminist.com/vday/html/about/index.htm.
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UMBC'S DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ARTS
AND BALTIMORE'S CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM PRESENT
VIDEO ART 2000: A SYMPOSIUM
This collaboratively organized symposium will bring together internationally recognized video artists, curators and critics for a wide ranging program of presentations, panel discussions and screenings of the four winning videos in Video Art 2000's open competition.
Baltimore, MD - UMBC's Department of Visual Art and Baltimore's Contemporary Museum present Video Art 2000, a day long symposium intended to increase understanding, interest and appreciation of video art. The event will take place on UMBC's campus in room 306 of the Fine Arts Building.
The symposium features presentations by internationally recognized artists, curators and critics. Combining presentations and panel discussions with video screenings, participants will address the development of video from an analog to a digital format. Hosted by Vin Grabill, UMBC's Interim Chair of the Department of Visual Arts and Gary Sangster, Director of the Contemporary, the program is scheduled to include the following panel discussions:
· Revisiting History: Video and Analog
Panel discussion featuring William Judson, Curator of Film and Video at the Carnegie Museum of Art; Joan Jonas, artist; and Martha Rosler, artist and Professor of Art Photography, Video and Criticism at Rutgers University.
· Exploring New Directions: Video and Digital
Panel discussion featuring Don Ritter, Professor of Art History and Associate Professor of Computer Graphics and Interactive Media at Pratt Institute; Philip Mallory Jones, artist and Professor of Art at Arizona State University; Peter D'Agostino, artist and Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University; and Lisa Moren, artist and Professor of Visual Arts at UMBC.
Both of these discussions will be led by Frazer Ward, artist and Assistant Professor of Art History at the Maryland Institute, College of Art.
Following a reception, the four winning videos in the Video Art 2000 competition will be screened. Entrants were asked to submit works that commented on the history and progression of video as art. The winning videos will be installed at the Contemporary Museum from March 6 through June 6, 2000 in the Holliday Street Window Galleries in the Baltimore Street Parking Garage as a component in this survey of contemporary video art.
Registration is required for this symposium.
Pre-registration (Before February 1): $40 general admission, $25 UMBC students and Contemporary Museum members.
Registration (after February 1): $50 general admission; $35 UMBC students and Contemporary Museum members. To register, please call the Contemporary Museum at (410) 783-5720, ext. 102.
For more information or directions to UMBC, please call 410-455-2065. Visit the UMBC homepage at http://www.umbc.edu/ for all press releases and calendar information.
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THE ALBIN O.KUHN LIBRARY GALLERY PRESENTS
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: THE ARTIST'S LANDSCAPE -- PHOTOGRAPHS BY TODD WEBB
In an intimate and brilliant view of one artists' life seen through the eyes of another, this exhibition draws on Todd Webb's thirty year photographic record of O'Keeffe's life and the Southwest landscapes, rooms, and artifacts that filled her most famous compositions.
Baltimore, MD - UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery is proud to host the exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape -- Photographs By Todd Webb. In an intimate and brilliant view of one artists' life seen through the eyes of another, this exhibition draws on Todd Webb's thirty year photographic record of O'Keeffe's life and the Southwest landscapes, rooms, and artifacts that filled her most famous compositions. The earliest of these photographs dates from 1955 and the most recent from 1981. The exhibition, organized and circulated by the Los Angeles based organization Curatorial Assistance and curated by Jack Woody, has traveled since its inception in 1989 to over 20 international sites. It rests for a limited engagement at the Kuhn Library Gallery from January 31 through March 11.
In 1946, after studying photography in Detroit under Ansel Adams, Webb met and became friends with Arthur Stieglitz and O'Keeffe in New York. It was Stieglitz who said that Webb's work "has a tenderness without sentimentality;" an admirable trait which earned him many one person shows both in the States and Europe after the Second World War. From 1955 until 1969, Webb worked for the United Nations while continuing to function as an independent freelance photographer. He earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography consecutively in 1955 and 1956, and was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship in 1979. Today, Webb lives and continues to work in Maine.
Throughout his career, many publications and exhibitions have highlighted Webb's intense yet sensitive compositions. In addition to this 30 year portfolio of O'Keeffe's environment, Webb has documented New York City and Parisian architecture; early Western trails and the landscape of the frontier; and Texas public buildings of the nineteenth century.
As he composed elegant yet accessible photographs of place, Webb also focused his lens on the people and human aspects of locales, drawing his unsentimental attention to the people who inhabited his world. His photographs of the everyday people in Harlem, New York, were included in the 1968 exhibition "Harlem On My Mind," shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and more recently, the 1984 exhibition "Subjektive Fotografie: Images of the 50s" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Publications that focus on Webb's work include Gold Strikes and Gold Towns (1961); 19th Century Texas Homes (1966); and Photographs of New York and Paris, 1946-1960 (1985). The catalogue Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist and Her Landscape which accompanies this exhibition is available for reference in the Library's Special Collections.
As an artist, Webb acknowledges the accountable uses of photography, conceding that "a photograph can often be used to illustrate a statement. But," he admits, "a photograph can be a statement without any explanatory treatise. Creative photography does not have anything to do with location, projects or causes as such, yet it can involve any one of them…a creative photograph is one seen through the photographer."
This exhibition was made possible at UMBC in part by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery is open Monday Friday, 12 - 4:30 p.m., Thursday until 8 p.m., and Saturday 1 - 5 p.m. For more information, please call (410) 455-2270.
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January 21, 2000
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January 18, 2000
PHOENIX DANCE COMPANY PERFORMS FEBRUARY 16, 17, 18 & 19 AT 8 P.M. IN THE UMBC THEATRE
The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates the dawning of a new millenium with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby, and Jeanine Durning.
The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates the dawning of a new millenium with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby, and Jeanine Durning.
This year\\'s program features a premiere of a dance and video collaboration between Hess and visual arts professor Vin Grabill, as well as the premiere of a new work choreographed by Doug Hamby.
Also performed will be Dissolve, a solo piece choreographed by New York-based artist Jeanine Dunning. This highly reflective, yet very kinetic, emotional work was choreographed specifically for UMBC professor Sandra Lacey. It is based on movement of ideas of transformation: solid to liquid, physical to emotional, with shifts of emotional overlay. It explores the emergence of the self in the delicate balance between appearance and disappearance and how we choose to reveal ourselves to others. Other works include Point of Departure choreographed by Hess, which integrates video images with live dance, and Calamus, a dance, video and sound collaboration between Hamby, visual arts professor Steve Bradley (sound) and Imaging and Digital Art graduate student Deborah Gorski (video). After a performance at DC-based Dance Place this summer, an enthusiastic review of this piece by the Washington Post said that \\"...the concept worked brilliantly.\\" Admission to all performances is $10 general and $6 for students and seniors. For information and reservations, please call the Department of Dance Box Office at (410) 455-6240. Public parking is available. For more information or directions to UMBC, please call (410) 455-6240 or (410) 455-2065.
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PHOENIX DANCE COMPANY PERFORMANCES FEBRUARY 16 THROUGH 19 AT THE UMBC THEATRE
The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates a new year with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby and Jeanine Durning.
Baltimore, MD - The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates a new year with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby and Jeanine Durning.
This year's program features a premiere of a dance and video collaboration between Hess and visual arts professor Vin Grabill, as well as the premiere of a new work choreographed by Hamby.
Also performed will be Dissolve a solo piece choreographed by New York-based artist Jeanine Dunning. This highly reflective, yet very kinetic, emotional work was choreographed specifically for UMBC professor Sandra Lacey. It is based on movement of ideas of transformation: solid to liquid, physical to emotional, with shifts of emotional overlay. It explores the emergence of the self in the delicate balance between appearance and disappearance and how we choose to reveal ourselves to others.
Other works include Point of Departure choreographed by Hess, which integrates video images with live dance, and Calamus a dance, video and sound collaboration between Hamby, visual arts professor Steve Bradley (sound) and Imaging and Digital Art graduate student Deborah Gorski (video). After a performance at DC-based Dance Place this summer, an enthusiastic review of this piece by the Washington Post said that "...the concept worked brilliantly."
Admission to all performances is $10 general and $6 for students and seniors. For information and reservations, please call the Department of Dance Box Office at (410) 455-6240.
Public parking is available.
For more information or directions to UMBC, please call (410) 455-6240.
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PHOENIX DANCE COMPANY PERFORMANCES AT UMBC THEATER
The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates the dawning of a new millenium with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby, and Jeanine Durning.
Baltimore - The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates the dawning of a new millenium with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby, and Jeanine Durning. This year's program features a premiere of a dance and video collaboration between Hess and visual arts professor Vin Grabill, as well as the premiere of a new work choreographed by Doug Hamby. Also performed will be "Dissolve," a solo piece choreographed by New York-based artist Jeanine Dunning. This highly reflective, yet very kinetic, emotional work was choreographed specifically for UMBC professor Sandra Lacey. It is based on movement of ideas of transformation: solid to liquid, physical to emotional, with shifts of emotional overlay. It explores the emergence of the self in the delicate balance between appearance and disappearance and how we choose to reveal ourselves to others. Other works include "Point of Departure" choreographed by Hess, which integrates video images with live dance, and "Calamus," a dance, video and sound collaboration between Hamby, visual arts professor Steve Bradley (sound) and Imaging and Digital Art graduate student Deborah Gorski (video). After a performance at DC-based Dance Place this summer, an enthusiastic review of this piece by the Washington Post said that "...the concept worked brilliantly." Admission to all performances is $10 general and $6 for students and seniors. For information and reservations, please call the Department of Dance Box Office at (410) 455-6240. Public parking is available. For more information or directions to UMBC, please call 410-455-6240.
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January 05, 2000
THREE NEW FIRMS JOIN UMBC TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Israel-based biotech company IntelliGene is among three new firms at the UMBC Technology Center.
Israel-based biotech firm IntelliGene is among three new companies that have joined the UMBC Technology Center.
IntelliGene is establishing a product development facility at the Technology Center. The company is marketing low-cost, rapid, ultra-sensitive and simple-to-use tests to identify non-viral sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
IntelliGene\\'s first tests will use a direct ribozyme assay technique to detect chlamydia and gonorrhea in urine. The company plans to market the tests to hospitals and large physician practices. The tests are point-of-care, yielding results during a patient visit. Currently patients must wait several days for results from a ship-away lab.
IntelliGene came to UMBC as a result of an economic development trade mission to Israel set in motion by the Maryland/ Israel Development Center (MIDC). Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development biotech specialist Martha Connelly also helped steer IntelliGene toward the UMBC center.
In addition to its Jerusalem research labs, the firm has a U.S. division in Hartford, Connecticut. IntelliGene also collaborates with faculty at the University of Maryland Biotech Institute (UMBI) on product development.
Another UMBC Technology Center tenant, international biotech training organization PDA, also helped connect IntelliGene to Baltimore. Dr. Mike Korcynski, director of PDA, had previously worked with IntelliGene USA\\'s VP of Operations and Engineering David Bach. When Bach, an Ellicott City resident, was tapped to lead a new division in Baltimore, the UMBC Technology Center\\'s Catonsville location was a natural fit.
The second newcomer to the UMBC center is Columbia Technologies, LLC, an integrated environmental sampling, testing and analysis firm. The company identifies emerging technologies for the environmental market, assists in product development and then deploys the technologies to industry and environmental consulting firms. Columbia is working with UMBC chemistry faculty to further develop new chemical sensors, data management systems, and Internet based applications.
\\"Our partnership with the UMBC Technology Center provides an excellent opportunity to tap the research capabilities of the university faculty and staff,\\" said Columbia co-principal John Sohl. \\"This helps solve the difficult problem facing most small business owners of doing the research and development required for new products and services.\\"
The third new arrival at UMBC is Chromatin 1, which supports biomedical advances in the growing field of chromatin research. Chromatin, or the active form of chromosomes in cells, acts as the on-off control switch for genes. \\"This gene regulation is of central importance in biology, and chromatin research is yielding significant insights into many normal and abnormal processes,\\" said Chromatin president Jim Wagner.
The company will offer purified cellular and chromatin components, reagents and other experimental tools for researchers working with chromatin. \\"We were attracted to the incubator program at UMBC because of the relatively low costs, the support services offered, and the possibility of interaction with other scientists,\\" said Wagner.
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THREE NEW FIRMS JOIN UMBC TECHNOLOGY CENTER
Israel-based biotech company IntelliGene is among three new firms at the UMBC Technology Center.
Israel-based biotech firm IntelliGene is among three new companies that have joined the UMBC Technology Center.
IntelliGene is establishing a product development facility at the Technology Center. The company is marketing low-cost, rapid, ultra-sensitive and simple-to-use tests to identify non-viral sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
IntelliGene\\'s first tests will use a direct ribozyme assay technique to detect chlamydia and gonorrhea in urine. The company plans to market the tests to hospitals and large physician practices. The tests are point-of-care, yielding results during a patient visit. Currently patients must wait several days for results from a ship-away lab.
IntelliGene came to UMBC as a result of an economic development trade mission to Israel set in motion by the Maryland/ Israel Development Center (MIDC). Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development biotech specialist Martha Connelly also helped steer IntelliGene toward the UMBC center.
In addition to its Jerusalem research labs, the firm has a U.S. division in Hartford, Connecticut. IntelliGene also collaborates with faculty at the University of Maryland Biotech Institute (UMBI) on product development.
Another UMBC Technology Center tenant, international biotech training organization PDA, also helped connect IntelliGene to Baltimore. Dr. Mike Korcynski, director of PDA, had previously worked with IntelliGene USA\\'s VP of Operations and Engineering David Bach. When Bach, an Ellicott City resident, was tapped to lead a new division in Baltimore, the UMBC Technology Center\\'s Catonsville location was a natural fit.
The second newcomer to the UMBC center is Columbia Technologies, LLC, an integrated environmental sampling, testing and analysis firm. The company identifies emerging technologies for the environmental market, assists in product development and then deploys the technologies to industry and environmental consulting firms. Columbia is working with UMBC chemistry faculty to further develop new chemical sensors, data management systems, and Internet based applications.
\\"Our partnership with the UMBC Technology Center provides an excellent opportunity to tap the research capabilities of the university faculty and staff,\\" said Columbia co-principal John Sohl. \\"This helps solve the difficult problem facing most small business owners of doing the research and development required for new products and services.\\"
The third new arrival at UMBC is Chromatin 1, which supports biomedical advances in the growing field of chromatin research. Chromatin, or the active form of chromosomes in cells, acts as the on-off control switch for genes. \\"This gene regulation is of central importance in biology, and chromatin research is yielding significant insights into many normal and abnormal processes,\\" said Chromatin president Jim Wagner.
The company will offer purified cellular and chromatin components, reagents and other experimental tools for researchers working with chromatin. \\"We were attracted to the incubator program at UMBC because of the relatively low costs, the support services offered, and the possibility of interaction with other scientists,\\" said Wagner.
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