Highlighting UC Berkeley’s collaborative achievements across all fields of the arts and design. Past made@berkeley events include:
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Tsar Bell
Friday, April 15 through Saturday, April 16, 2016
Sather Tower, UC Berkeley
Does a bell have to ring before it is truly a bell? The Russian Tsar Bell was the largest bell ever cast at over 200 tons. But in 1732, before it was even struck, this Goliath of bells broke. Its parts have been on display in the Kremlin ever since. Now, a team of UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers are making the Tsar Bell ring for the very first time.
With Finite Element Analysis (FEA), they created a computational model of what the bell would have sounded like. The recreated Tsar Bell will be “played” in concert with the UC Berkeley Carillon at Sather Tower on Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16, 2016 — just in time for Cal Day. Screen Shot 2016-03-10 at 9.45.47 AMA project by Ed Campion, Chris Chafe, Jeff Davis, Olya Dubatova, John Granzow, Jeff Lubow, Perrin Meyer, Greg Niemeyer, and James O’Brien, featuring carillon compositions by Chris Chafe, Jeff Davis and DJ Spooky, with graphics and vidoes by Olya Dubatova.
Special thanks to Romain Michon, Tiffany Ng, Lara Wolfe, Andrew Lampinen, Thomas Le, Alex Niemeyer, Meyer Sound, Berkeley Arts + Design Initiative, Berkeley Center for New Media, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley CNMAT, Stanford CCRMA, and the University of Michigan. This program is presented in partnership with made@berkeley, highlighting UC-Berkeley’s collaborative achievements across all fields of the arts and design, Meyer Sound, and the Berkeley Center for New Media.
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Change and Stillness: Bodies and Gestures within Sensor Technology
Friday, April 22, 2016
2 Sessions: 12:30pm-2:00pm or 2:30pm-4:00pm
Zellerbach Playhouse, UC Berkeley
A collaboration with Theater, Dance and Performance Studies; Cal Performances; Berkeley Center for New Media; Center for New Music and Audio Technologies; Music; Art Practice; and the ARC | Arts + Design Initiative, Change and Stillness is part open lab, part talk, and part live demonstration. This event will showcase the multi-disciplinary art making processes that utilized and engaged sensor technology for a new piece in this year’s Berkeley Dance Project, Rondo Variation: Animating Bruce Beasley’s Ring Sculptures, where sculptor and alumni Bruce Beasley’s Rondo sculptures are being choreographed via large-scale projections.
This event encourages artists, makers, dancers and classes that meet on Friday afternoons to take part in this made@berkeley event on Friday, April 22. Students will engage with the technology directly, talk with artists and researchers from Berkeley Center for New Media & the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies working with sensor technology, and engage with computer programming teams working on several campus projects. The formal choreographic version of the piece is part of Berkeley Dance Project 2016, presented by the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies April 21-30, 2016 in Zellerbach Playhouse.
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