By Jill Yesko, University Relations
Contact: (336) 334-5371
Posted 3-10-08
Graffiti Research Lab
GREENSBORO, NC – Hundreds of artists, architects, researchers, design professional and entrepreneurs from North Carolina and beyond are expected to gather at UNCG for a two-day symposium titled “Between the Lines: Innovation in Art, Architecture and Design.”
The symposium includes presentations and exhibitions by internationally acclaimed artists, architects and designers along with a design and technology expo.
DATS will take place on campus Thursday to Saturday, March 27-29. All events are free and open to the public, however pre-registration is required. Visit http://dats.uncg.edu for registration and symposium information.
Featured presenters and exhibitors include:
• Maggie Orth, a pioneer in the field of interactive textiles and electronic fashions
• Dennis Quaintance, president of Quaintance-Weaver Restaurants and Hotels and chief designer of Greensboro’s Proximity Hotel, one of the “greenest” new hotels in the country
• Mackey J. McDonald, CEO of VF Corporation
• Evan Roth and James Powderly of Graffiti Research Lab, developers of a “laser-tag” system to project images onto buildings and other public surfaces
• Ben Radatz of mk12, a filmmaking collective whose film “mk12’s History of America” merging design with experimental storytelling, was shown at the Sundance Film Festival
• Mick Ebeling of the Ebeling Group, a production company representing cutting edge design collectives
• Predock and Frane Architects, a California-based research and design studio that has designed for the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Venice Biennale
• Christopher Baker, an artist who uses interactive architectural projections, social technology and ideological networks to explore the urban landscape
• Lead Pencil Studio, a duo that creates conceptual art by reinventing the built environment
Participants will be invited to participate in projection work by Graffiti Research Lab and Christopher Baker at the Jackson Library at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. A screening of the film “Charles Laughlin: An Artist with a Camera” by Dr. Michael Frierson, broadcasting and cinema professor, will take place at 7 p.m., on Friday in Elliott University Center Auditorium.
“The symposium is an opportunity to recognize the creative accomplishments of the Triad and will provide an inspirational exchange of innovative ideas, practices and technologies,” said Dr. Amy Lixl-Purcell, associate professor in the Department of Art and the symposium’s coordinator.
DATS began in 2004 at the North Carolina School for the Arts in Winston-Salem. Since then, it has grown into a celebration of the Triad’s reputation as a center for creativity, design and technology.
DATS sponsors include: UNCG’s BELL Initiative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Arts, the UNCG Office of Research and Private/Public Sector Partnerships, the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Human Environmental Sciences, the departments of Art, Interior Architecture and Consumer Apparel Retail Studies, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, the Design Group and Calloway Johnson Moore & West.
