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2008/2009 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Faculty Awards
Prof. Malcolm MacIver (Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering) for "Scale: an Interspecies Collaborative Audio Installation"
2006/2007 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Faculty Awards
Prof. Pamela Bannos (Art Theory and Practice) for "Hidden Truths: Lincoln Part and the Chicago City Cemetery, Then and Now"
Prof. Michael Rakowitz (Art Theory and Practice) for "The invisible enemy should not exist"
Prof. Debra Tolchinsky (Radio/Television/Film) for "The Horror Show," an artists' book/catalog to accompany an exhibition at the Chicago City Arts Gallery (www.chicagocityarts.org) and on the web at Secondlife.com
Prof. Patrick Wong (Communication Sciences and Disorders) for "Neuroscience and Metalistening in Music"
2004/2005 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Faculty Awards
Prof. Jeanne Dunning (Art Theory and Practice), with guidance from Neurology and Psychiatry at Northwestern's Medical School for "Alien Hand," a film exploring real-life instances of stroke patients who become dissociated from parts of their own bodies.
Prof. David Schoenbrun (History), Prof. Kearsley Stewart (Anthropology), Harlan Wallach (Academic Technology) for "Meaning, Value, and Art: Contemporary Glass Trade Beads in Africa, Europe, and the USA," a web based project that will document meanings and values attached to glass trade beads by master glass artists, consumers, and traders in Ghana, Italy, and the USA.
Prof. Jay Alan Yim (Music Composition), Prof. Ian Horswill (Computer Science), Prof. Marlena Novak (Art Theory and Practice) for "Verge upon Verge," an artistic inquiry into the ways in which visual perception combined with sound cognition can dynamically alter the mind's ability to grasp a visual sequence.
2003/2004 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Faculty Awards
Prof. Michael Elyanow (Radio/Television/Film), Jeremy Cohen (Naked Eye Theatre), Prof. Cindy Gold (Theatre), Andre Pleuss (sound designer), Mikhael Garver (choreographer), Kathy Eldon (journalist), Patty Kim (journalist), and students from theatre from Medill for 12 Volt Heart, a play based on the life of photojournalist Dan Eldon.
Prof. Sarah Fraser (Art History) and Gendun Dargay (painter and teacher) along with Sichuan University's Center for Tibetan Studies to develop a multimedia, interactive approach to the teaching and research of Thangka Painting in Tibet.
Prof. Dave Tolchinsky (Radio/Television/Film) and Debra Tolchinsky (independent artist) for "Going Up," an interactive installation of synchronized monitors in the Norris elevators, inspired by the controversey surrounding recent limb-lengthening procedures.
2002/2003 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Faculty Awards
Prof. Michelle Citron (RTF) with Amnon Wolman (Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music) for "Mixed Greens," an interactive new media artwork that is a meditation on the complexities of identity.
Prof. Ana Puga (Theatre), Jill Wissmiller (RTF), Prof. Jorge Coronado (Spanish and Portuguese), Martine Balmaceda (director, New York) for "Finished from the Start/Hechos Consumados," which will use workshops, performances, and symposium to explore the use of video to enhance the cross-cultural experience of a bilingual production of a work by Chilean playwright Juan Radrigan.
Dan Zellner (Digital Media Services, NU Library), Prof. Sandra Richards (Theatre), Kathryn Farley (Performance Studies), Sam Ball (Theatre), and David Saltz (University of Georgia) for "The DuSable Project," a media-intensive live performance event that tells the story of Jean Baptiste du Sable, Chicago's first non-native settler.
2001/2002 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Faculty Awards
Prof. Dawn Mora (Theatre), Prof. Dominic Missimi (Music Theatre), Prof. Lara Teeter (Music Theatre), and Beth Austin (Radio/TV/Film) for "Flatt Out," a series of DVDs archiving the work of the American television choreographer Ernest Flatt, to be available for classroom use.
Prof. Magy Seif El-Nasr (Computer Science), Prof. Mary Poole (Theatre), Jessica Lacher (Radio/TV/Film) for "Mirage," an interactive experience where a participant acts as a character within a drama.
Prof. Lisa Boggio (Hematology/Oncology, Medical School) and David Lachman (Art Theory and Practice) for "Compelling Evidence," a series of video installations that address the tension between subjectivity and objectivity in scientific medicine, displayed in public areas of the Northwestern University Medical School.
Prof. Craig Kinzer (Theatre) and Helene Cixous (Avalon Distinguished Professor of Humanities) for a workshop production of "Drums on the Dike," involving faculty and students from Theatre, Dance, Performance Studies, and Music.
1999/2000 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Faculty Awards
Paul Berliner (Music) with faculty from Music Composition, Performance Studies, and Radio/TV/Film for A Library in Flames, a multimedia performance piece about the plight of musicians during Zimbabwe's war of liberation/civil war and its aftermath.
Jennifer Walshe (Music) and Benjamin Meyer (Radio/TV/Film) for the creation and performance of a piece for live musicians with projected images.
Prof. Ian Horswill (Computer Science and the Center for Art and Technology) with Annette Barbier (Radio/TV/Film and the Center for Art and Techology), David Mickenberg (Block Museum) and Gary Kendall (Music) for "Portal." Working with students, they will design, construct, and create the first piece of artwork for a computer controlled display system embedded in the doors of the new Block Museum.
Prof. Pamela Bannos (Art Theory and Practice) and Prof. Farhad Zadeh (Physics and Astronomy) for a project and exhibition presenting three approaches to rendering "space" - astronomical optical images (visible space), astronomical radio images (invisible space), and original fabricated photographs (imagined space).
Mireille Rosello (French and Italian), James Ferolo (MultiMedia Learning Center), Prof. Janine Spencer (French and Italian), and Mathew Taylor (MultiMedia Learning Center) for "Passport Please," a web-based simulation which examines the nature and dynamics of the immigration process.
1998/1999 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Faculty Awards
Prof. Sarah Fraser (Art History) and William Parod (Academic Technologies) to help develop interactive, 3-D models of 10th century Chinese Buddhist cave temples, in collaboration with Fan Jinshi (Dunhuang Research Institute).
Paul Hertz (Information Technologies), with Joe Reitzer (University of Illinois) and Marcus Thiebaux (USC) for the creation of "Airplay," an interactive, virtual orchestra.
Prof. Thomas Simpson (French and Italian) and Melissa Kievman (Theatre) for "Sintesi Teatrali," a bi-lingual performance of Italian Futurist Theatre with students from CAS and Speech.
Prof. Jeanne Dunning (Art Theory and Practice), Leslie Dick (Novelist), Prof. Hollis Clayson (Art History), and Tania Modleski (feminist and cultural theorist) for a collaborative art book about art and criticism.
Prof. Judy Ledgerwood (Art Theory and Practice) and Jason Pickelman (JNL Graphics) to use printing technology to simulate painting.
1997/1998 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Faculty Awards
Prof. Mary Zimmerman (Performance Studies), Eric Rosen (Performance Studies), Kyle Hall (About Face Theatre, Chicago) for an adaptation and performance of Proust’s "Remembrances of Things Past."
Prof. Marlena Novak (Art Theory and Practice), Michael (Art History), and Frances-Marie Uitti (cellist) for a collaborative venture in light-construction, two-bowed cello and prose poetry.
Annette Barbier (Radio/TV/Film), Sam Ball (Theatre), Prof. Peter Webster (Music Academic Studies and Composition), Dave Tolchinsky (Radio/TV/Film) and others for the creation of an interactive CDROM which will explore the various meanings of home.
Robin Lakes (Dance) and Prof. John Buccheri (Music Academic Studies and Composition) for a project exploring rhythm and time in music and dance.
Prof. Judy Ledgerwood (Art Theory and Practice) for a student printmaking workshop in response to a poem by Reginald Gibbons (English poet and editor of TriQuarterly magazine).
1996/1997 Recipients of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts Faculty Awards
David Mickenberg (Block Museum), Prof. Jerry Goldman (Political Science), and Prof. Peter Hayes (History) for "The Last Expression: Art from the Archives of Auschwitz", a website that will provide a multimedia, interactive environment to understand the role that the arts play in periods of severe cultural constraint.
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