NEWS & RESEARCH

Film Studies’ Program Coordinator Featured at Digital Graffiti 2014

Matt Swift, program coordinator, film studies, just returned from displaying his work at the international festival, Digital Graffiti 2014. His project, “City Lights Oglebay Park,” a film that uses movement to manipulate visual effects as a challenge to received notions of landscape, was named a finalist at the festival. Using “photon bombing” to paint moving-image art onto the iconic white walls of Alys Beach, Florida, Digital Graffiti 2014 is the first outdoor festival specifically organized to celebrate “guerrilla projection.” Swift’s film was showcased on the four main gates to the community, the first and last impression of the festival for residents, visitors and passersby alike.

 

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Ohio State and Royal Shakespeare Company to present The Tempest

In The Tempest, adapted and directed by Kelly Hunter for an audience of children with autism, six actors take the children on a journey of clowns, spirits, monsters and wizards on an island where nobody feels ordinary. The production will open at Ohio State’s Wexner Center for the Arts on July 16-17 followed by performances at WOSU@COSI in downtown Columbus on 19-20. The production is aimed toward 8-16 year olds.

 

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Five Facts about the Orton Geological Museum

At Ohio State, there is no better place to experience “time and change” than the Orton Geological Museum in Orton Hall on the Oval. One of campus’s oldest buildings, Orton Hall houses eons of geological treasures and offers the chance to see fossils, rocks and minerals collected from Ohio and all over the world.

AWARDS

ASC Communications Wins Silver Medal

Design work done by Arts and Sciences Communications Services has been recognized with a silver medal by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The entry, tote bags and buttons created for the annual Student Involvement Fair, received one of only two awards given from among 38 entries in the category. The icons on the buttons, of which there are 32, illustrate the broad scope of the arts and sciences so that any three together can visually define a major.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Reform in Chinese Higher Education

Danling Zhao, deputy director-general, Chinese Ministry of Education’s Personnel Department, will talk on “Reform in Chinese Higher Education Personnel Management,” June 19, 4-5:30 p.m., Ohio Union Round Meeting Room. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the Chinese education system, which sends hundreds of scholars and students to Ohio State each year. Contact: Patrick McAloon.

EVENTS

Through June 20

GRASP Summer Camp

Bodies at Rest: Bound Up in this Place; Hopkins Hall Gallery

June 24-July 3

The Unoccupied Hand; Hopkins Hall Gallery

 

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See more events at artsandsciences.osu.edu/events