Video Installations to Transform University of Texas Communication Complex

Sunset to midnight, Saturday, April 29

EVENT: Students from across disciplines at The University of Texas at Austin will use the three buildings in the Jesse H. Jones Communication Center and the surrounding environment as sites for the projection and viewing of large-scale video installations.

WHEN: Sunset (about 8 p.m.) to midnight, Saturday, April 29.

WHEN: Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (southeast corner of 26th Street and Guadalupe). (Maps of the University of Texas at Austin can be obtained at www.utexas.edu/maps)

BACKGROUND: Luminocity, a semester-long investigation of the projection and reception of moving images proposed by Radio-TV-Film Assistant Professor Samantha Krukowski, will transform the physical architecture of the College of Communication complex. Students and spectators will engage in determining what happens to the sides of buildings, windows, walls, alleyways or sidewalks when they become the sites for receiving moving images.

The evening-long event will feature site-specific installations by graduate and undergraduate students studying radio-television-film, architecture, theatre and dance, and studio art and design at The University of Texas at Austin. Students featured include: Jarrod Beck, Donald Corr, Alex Dupree, Keith Fraase, Heather Gregory, Nicole Kern, Shara Lange, Sarah Lipstate, Morgan Printy, Rebecca Ramirez, David Salinas, Andrea Schelly, Sam Schonzeit, Loren Seeger, Donte Shepard, Drew Smith and Jeanne Stern.

Krukowski teaches experimental media in the Production area of the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information about her research, visit www.rasa.net.

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Contacts:
Samantha Krukowski, Ph.D.
(512) 471-4222
or
Shara Lange