By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–In a first-of-its-kind for research, printmaking student and IT support staffer Kathryn Combs is using eye-tracking software to examine how audiences look at art, and to produce works that span the gulf between art and technology. And it all started with deodorant. Two years ago, as Combs strolled through a local …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–IU Southeast welcomes trailblazing multimedia artist, performer and thinker Rosanna Raymond to campus for a workshop and two public lectures exploring her complex and dynamic vision uniting traditional elements of the Samoan world-view with forms from the creative edge. Better buckle up. Raymond’s presentations are unpredictable, provocative, powerful. They combine …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–The SpaceLab is “Go!” IU Southeast’s diminutive display space for student art has blasted off for another voyage through the academic calendar. As described tongue-in-cheek on its website, the SpaceLab is a “reusable laboratory that allows artists to perform experiments in standard gravity in Earth orbit.” It is located in Knobview …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Fall in! Basic training is taking place this week at IU Southeast. Instead of pull-ups, sit-ups, climbing walls, obstacle courses and mud, these “boot camps” are focused on math and writing. Incoming freshmen from across the disciplines are taking part in workshops designed to test their command of basic skills …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—In the mid-1950s, Mildred Kemp discovered the trombone at Eastern High School in Louisville, Ky. Within a decade, the Prospect native was playing the instrument in the American Symphony Orchestra in New York City under famed conductor Leopold Stokowski, moonlighting in other orchestras and on Broadway, and giving lessons at …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Seven IU Southeast faculty have received IU Trustees Teaching Awards for the 2016 calendar year. The IU Trustees Teaching Awards were first awarded in 2000-2001 to recognize and enhance excellent teaching, especially at the undergraduate level. The awards are open to tenured and tenure-track faculty, as well as full-time lecturers …
FULL STORYWhat’s new at IU Southeast? The Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies in Arts and Humanities (B.I.S.) at IU Southeast is the only undergraduate liberal studies degree program in the Louisville metro area. It provides excellent multidisciplinary preparation in the Arts and Humanities while allowing students the flexibility to concentrate in areas that are relevant to their …
FULL STORYTammy Voigt Professor of Practice in Strategic Communication School of Arts and Letters By Steven Krolak TEL 440, Advertising Strategies, is an evening class for students with senior standing. Most of them have jobs and other outside commitments, before or after or both. Sometimes it’s an effort to fit …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—It’s probably safe to say that tens of millions of people in over 200 countries have seen Coca-Cola’s ad campaign, “Taste the Feeling.” The ads premiered in Jan., 2016 and the campaign hit stride during last year’s Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The music for the uplifting, …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—When the dancers of Louisville Ballet move through the complex choreography of “Human Abstract” this week, they will inhabit a space suggested in large measure by the work of Tiffany Carbonneau, assistant professor of art, digital art and interactive media at IU Southeast. Carbonneau and fellow artists Andrew Cozzens and …
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