Upcoming Events
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.
The ATLAS Black Box is downstairs, lowest basement level, B2. The Cofrin auditorium is located off the main ATLAS lobby.
The Pendulum New Music Concert Series
presents electro-acoustic performances featuring CU composers and performers including:
Cole Ingraham, live electronics and visuals; John Drumheller, composition faculty, will perform with Nicolo Spera, guitar faculty, combining 10-string guitar with electronics; Hugh Lobel, piano, narrator and electronics (computer and 2/4 speakers); and Nathan Hall, video projection of a percussion quartet.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, Black Box
BLOrk (Boulder Laptop Orchestra)
is an eclectic ensemble of musicians equipped with laptops, hemispherical speakers, traditional instruments and MIDI controllers. They will perform a variety of original pieces under the direction of John Gunther, an assistant professor of jazz studies at CU. Often their work is accompanied by multimedia floor to ceiling digital projected graphics and live dance.
7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, Black Box
Charming Hostess
Tickets: $5 for students; $10 in advance for the general public; $15 at the door. Click here to purchase tickets. This Oakland-based group will perform their original work, The Ginzburg Geography, a concert based on the life and work of Italian anti-fascists Natalia and Leone Ginzburg. The concert will include music from Italian Jewish liturgy, the oldest and most remote in Europe, as well as Italian anti-fascist songs, work chants and resistance anthems. To learn more about the group, visit http://charminghostess.us/.
7:30 & 9 p.m. Thursday, March 8, Black Box
Stories
See experiments in storytelling encompassing performance, prose, music, cinema and visual arts. Featuring: Flash Fiction Authors including Kona Morris, filmmakers Alex Cox and Sarah Jane Biagini, BLOrk (Boulder Laptop Orchestra), choreographers Lauren Michelle Beale and Brooke Gessay, media artist Mark McCoin and slideshows by poet David Antin. Presented by the Brakhage Center, a part of CU's Film Studies and the Art and Art History departments. Free and open to the public.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 10, Black Box
ATLAS Speaker Series: How the End of Moore's Law is Changing the Landscape of Innovation
Moore’s Law is an observation made in 1965 by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double each year. Andrew A. Chien will discuss the technical factors behind the end of Moore’s law, speculate about the new landscape that will emerge and its impact on innovation. Chien is the William Eckhardt Professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago.
The ATLAS Speaker Series is made possible by a generous donation by Idit Harel Caperton and Anat Harel.
5 p.m. Monday, March 12, Cofrin Auditorium
There Can Only Be One
is a multimedia performance conceived and produced by MFA dance students Lauren Beale and Brooke Gessay in collaboration with Ana Baer Carrillo.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, March 16-17, Black Box
ATLAS Speaker Series:
The Challenges of our Growing Population
Eric Rasmussen will look into the impact of increasing populations on cities and the challenges that result when people migrate into cities from the villages and farms of the world, including poverty, malnutrition, and disaster vulnerability. Eric Rasmussen is a clinical physician and research professor for environmental security and global medicine at San Diego State University.
The ATLAS Speaker Series is made possible by a generous donation by Idit Harel Caperton and Anat Harel.
5 p.m. Monday, March 19, Cofrin Auditorium
LIGHT: A Musical Journey
is a five-movement musical work that explores various concepts of light from the spiritual and emotional to the physical. Scored for chamber orchestra, children's choir, rock band, male octet and soloists, each group will express a different aspect of light. The concept of light will transform as the piece progresses, meandering through different instrumentations, tonal centers, styles, textures and media. The piece is written and directed by College of Music instructor Kari Kraakevik.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, April 6-7, Black Box
ATLAS Speaker Series: Can the Multiplayer Classroom Revolutionize Teaching?
Lee Sheldon, author of The Multiplayer Classroom, will look at the synergy between video game design and education occurring when students come to class to play and learn. Sheldon is associate professor and co-director of the Games and Simulation Arts program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His talk is entitled "Video Game Design & Education: Can the Multiplayer Classroom Revolutionize Teaching?"
The ATLAS Speaker Series is made possible by a generous donation by Idit Harel Caperton and Anat Harel.
5 p.m. Monday, April 9, Cofrin Auditorium
Double Feature of Multimedia Dance
Two MFA dance candidates share the evening with their original productions, each incorporating contemporary movement, improvisation, projected images, digital technology and live music. S is for. . . , directed by Cristina Goletti, is a duo for man and woman who push their emotional boundaries while exploring the politics of gender. (d)well, by Chrissy Nelson, is a collaborative multimedia dance piece.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Black Box
ATLAS Speaker Series:
The Past, Present and Future of Electronic Music
Morton Subotnick, an international performer, composer and an iconic figure in the field of electronic music, will discuss the history and future of music and technology. He is also performing as part of CU’s Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts. Subotnick was the first music director of the Lincoln Center Rep Company in the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York.
The ATLAS Speaker Series is made possible by a generous donation by Idit Harel Caperton and Anat Harel.
5 p.m. Thursday, April 26, Black Box
The Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts (CMKY)
will feature a series of concerts and workshops including a performance by electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick. He will perform Silver Apples of the Moon, commemorating the 45th anniversary of his groundbreaking work, which was been inducted into the Library of Congress. Vocalist Lesley Flanigan will also perform. Visit http://www.communikey.us for other festival events and workshops.
7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26, Black Box
Past events
ATLAS Speaker Series: Applied Technology,
Design and Creativity
Mark D. Gross, a professor of computational design at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture and a former CU professor, will discuss the design process, do-it-yourself technologies, the Maker Movement, modular robotics, creativity and the interdisciplinary use of technology and computing. His talk is entitled "Applied Technology, Design & Creativity (or, let’s talk about making really cool stuff!)."
ATLAS Speaker Series: Mark Gross (click here for video)
The ATLAS Speaker Series is made possible by a generous donation by Idit Harel Caperton and Anat Harel.
5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, Cofrin Auditorium
I Am Watch Television Zombie
is an interdisciplinary production that explores our addiction to television with a team of 20 actors, musicians, technicians and aerial dancers. With no seating, audience members will wade through a transformed theater space waist-deep in balloons, immersed in thousands of animated TV images projected on four walls.
The show's rich mix of aerial dancers, actors, live music and thousands of moving images and balloons may create moments of sensory overload, overwhelm and laughter.
The production was conceived and produced by Hunter Ewen, a CU doctoral candidate in music and Nicole Predki of Frequent Flyers (MFA Dance 2009). As there will be no general seating, those with disabilities are asked to email
hunter.ewen@gmail.com for arrangements that will allow them to be seated during the show.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Feb. 3-4
ATLAS Speaker Series: The Challenges of Our Growing World Population
In a talk entitled "The Web and Social Media: Separating the Noise from the Notable," Carmel Hagen will explore people's growing need to be online, connect with others and share the smallest details of their lives. Her discussion will cover the good and bad of the tweets, links, feeds and Facebook statuses flying through the Web. Hagen is a CU alumna, TEDx speaker and Boulder-based consultant in the fields of social media, branding and marketing.
ATLAS Speaker Series: Carmel Hagen, The Web and Social Media (click here for video)
The ATLAS Speaker Series is made possible by a generous donation by Idit Harel Caperton and Anat Harel.
5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, Cofrin Auditorium
ATLAS Speaker Series: SMRT DNA Sequencing
Mark Maxham, an engineer and software manager at Pacific Biosciences, led the software team that developed the DNA sequencing technology, Single-Molecule Real-Time (SMRT). The PacBio RS product represents the integration of innovations in many distinct disciplines. In a talk entitled "SMRT DNA Sequencing: Technologies Driving Development," Maxham will discuss how this technology was developed and the biological applications enabled by SMRT in medicine, agriculture and biofuels.
ATLAS Speaker Series: Mark Maxham: SMRT DNA Sequencing (click here for video)
The ATLAS Speaker Series is made possible by a generous donation by Idit Harel Caperton and Anat Harel.
5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 30, Cofrin Auditorium
Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Nancy Phillips, ViaWest co-founder & COO
Silicon Flatirons, ATLAS and ITP present Nancy Phillips as featured entrepreneur with moderator Brad Bernthal.
As co-founder and COO, Nancy Phillips has a vested interest in establishing ViaWest as a leader in the market. Phillips, who has over 15 years of management experience in technology, oversees ViaWest's operations, engineering and technical support divisions.
Previously VP of Operations for RMI.net, Phillips was integral in managing the company's network and technical growth. Prior to helping this struggling Internet Service Provider back to profitability, Phillips also was vice president of operations for ITC Worldwide (now Genesys Conferencing) and was senior vice president of operations for ConferTech International (now Global Crossing).
Networking reception to follow.
6:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, Cofrin Auditorium, room 100
Avant Guerre
A multi-media performance evoking multi-eras, it is produced in collaboration with 11 dancers, a cinematographer, composer/artist Albert Mathais, choreographer/producers Mollie Wolf and Judd Tank. "Using modern media, we reference the past to create a feeling of timelessness," director Wolf explained.
8 p.m. Thursday - Friday, Nov. 17-18
ATLAS Speaker Series: Smart Phones for Poor Farmers
5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, ATLAS 100
Heather Thorne will talk about her Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICTD) work, which is focused on using smart phones to create sustainable models for delivery of services and micro-businesses. Thorne leads Grameen Foundation's AppLab Indonesia and Uganda programs, the Community Knowledge Worker mobile agriculture program, and advises on other mobile innovation programs.
ATLAS Speaker Series: Smart Phones for Poor Farmers (click here for video)
The ATLAS Speaker Series is made possible by a generous donation by Idit Harel Caperton and Anat Harel.
Vantage Points
An original, immersive, multi-sensory exploration of abstract video and sound by artist/composer Cole Ingraham. The performance includes live instrumentalists, synthesized sounds and a combination of 2D and 3D animated graphics. Ingraham is a doctoral student in CU’s College
of Music.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Oct. 28 – 29, ATLAS Black Box theater
Black & White
A coming of age story told through multi-media dance, theater and video performed by choreographer Gabriel Masson in collaboration with video artist Tara Rynders. Masson is assistant professor in CU's Department of Theatre and Dance. Rynders is an MFA student in multimedia dance.
8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, ATLAS Black Box
Note: For mature audiences.
Striking the Match
A new Web-based performance by writer/performer Beth Osnes using performance to ignite positive social change. Striking the Match uses performance to illuminate soial issues in a new light through short, single-issue performances that are mostly humorous, quirky or just offer a different perspective (most under 2 minutes). Osnes hopes people will share the performances throughout the Web and internet to help ignite positive social change. The performance will be streamed live at http://www.strikingthematch.org.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, ATLAS Black Box theater
Casanova at Twilight
An original musical theater piece written by Bill Mooney who for
14-years was a cast member of ABC's All My Children as well as a performer both on and off-Broadway. See the tale of Casanova's exploits, based on his autobiography. Music is composed and conducted by Hunter Ewen, a doctoral student in CU’s College of Music. Singer/actors include baritone and CU graduate Garrett Smith as young Casanova and Leigh Holman, director of CU’s Opera Department, who plays one of Casanova’s loves.
7:30 p.m. Friday - Saturday, Sept. 23 - 24, Sept. 30 - Oct. 1
2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25 & Oct. 2, ATLAS Black Box theater
Tickets are $30 and available at the CU Presents Box Office
(located in the University Club) or buy tickets online at cupresents.org.
Phone: 303-492-8008 or email: musictix@colorado.edu.
Note: For mature audiences.
One Laptop Per Child, solar-based
wi-fi and ICT for development
A practitioner and an academic share insights and wisdom gained from two semesters, three trips and two deployments of student teams in Haiti.
Laura Hosman and Bruce Baikie discuss leading, proposing and deploying development projects in developing nations and in underserved and impoverished regions. This film and dance event is a niche film festival specializing in dance cinema as an art form and incorporating live performance. With an expansive definition of dance and an appreciation for experimental and interdisciplinary forms, this unique festival presents a wide variety of film and video in a wide range of venues, plus performance. Visit http://sanssoucifest.org/.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 9 in the ATLAS Black Box Studio
7 p.m. Friday, April 29
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. May 1, Sunday, ATLAS Black Box
Note: The ATLAS Black Box is located downstairs, lowest basement level B2.
Cofrin Auditorium (room 100) is on the ground floor; enter from the lobby.
Issues discussed may include -
- Team-building and promoting initiative and accountability in students.
- Building project-based courses.
- Fundraising, grant writing & publicity.
- Opportunities to lead vs. facilitate.
- Planning for project sustainability, travel and deployment.
- Administrative and ethical challenges.
Laura Hosman is assistant professor of political science in the department of social sciences at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Bruce Baikie currently heads Green WiFi, a solar powered WiFi network technology company, and was a long-term member of Sun Microsystems' Telecom & NEP industry team.
ATLAS Speaker Series: One Laptop Per Child (video)
5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26, ATLAS Cofrin Auditorium, room 100, ground floor; enter through lobby
Presented as part of the ATLAS Speaker Series, made possible by a generous donation by Idit Harel Caperton & Anat Harel.
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
7:30 p.m. Sept. 16 - 17, Friday - Saturday, ATLAS Black Box theater
Concert: Andy Hill and Renée Safier
Folk/rock artists Andy Hill and Renée Safier, founders of the L.A.- based band Hard Rain, perform more than 200 concerts a year. Their 11 independent CD releases have won them numerous awards including "Best Duo/Group" from the International Acoustic Music Awards.
In Colorado, Safier's prodigious blues and jazz vocals won the acoustic blues competition at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2005.
They will perform at ATLAS with E-town bassist Chris Engleman, Bruce Springsteen-sideman Marty Rifkin on pedal steel and electric guitar and Denver's Mike Marlier on drums.
Get more details and reserve your seats
here.
Visit their website: http://www.andyandrenee.com/.
What have reviewers said about Andy Hill and Renée Safier?
"America's best kept secret."
- B. Noel Barr, Random Lengths
"Andy Hill is rapidly becoming a songwriter to watch..."
- Michael Sullivan, Here, There and Everywhere E-Zine
"Safier's voice... drips with an aching sensitivity filtered through delicate beauty and a fragility that would break and disappear in less capable hands..."
- Mark S. Tucker, Folk Music Exchange
Note: Views of the performance may be occasionally obstructed by a camera crew taping the concert.
Also, it is possible that faces of audience members may be captured on video and/or in photography taken during the concert.
Your attendance at the concert shall imply your permission to have your image captured in video and/or photography by ATLAS staff and/or their agents, and used in ATLAS Institute or University or third party print and/or video materials. Such images may be viewed on the web, in other media and elsewhere.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday,
June 3-4
ATLAS Black Box
Tyrannosaurus Sex (and other truths) takes the audience on a journey that begins millions of years ago and arrives at the present day. We follow a lead character from a time of reptiles to the various stages of growth that brings us to adulthood–all on a path marked by chaos, passion and growing consciousness.
With drama, humor and song, the production recalls the joyful, light moments of early childhood mixed with darker scenes of sadness, confusion and loss. We watch the lead character confront those day-to-day events that shape us, take away our innocence and confound our best intentions. And see emerging growth and self-acceptance as well.
Live music from an ensemble of musicians will amplify and illuminate this coming-of-age story. A few of the original songs are jazz/blues oriented. Music accompanies the spoken dramatic scenes, heightening mood and emotion. Colorful, changing multimedia images will fill an entire wall of the theater and provide further context and content.
“The production attempts to depict our universal desires, passions or life energy– those ever-changing forces shared by all life through all of time. It’s the energy that pushes green shoots out of the ground, gets us out of bed every morning and keeps the adrenaline flowing,” writer, director and producer Ira Liss explained.
Commenting on the title of the production, Liss continued, “It’s fun to open the show with a tyrannosaurus character. The idea of a giant reptile brings something monumental or mythic to the stage.” He added with a smile, “Also, you don’t see a lot of eloquent, passionate dinosaurs speaking onstage that often. It could be memorable.”
Admission is Seating is limited. Reservations recommended. Reserve your seats: http://othertruths.eventbrite.com/.
About the artist/producer:
For more than 20 years, Ira Liss has performed solo concerts and musical comedy one-man shows in NYC, Arizona and Colorado – including the Boulder International Fringe Festival where he won an audience-choice award. He has performed at various venues around Boulder, Denver and NYC and is a member of Boulder Playback Theater.
Carnivals and Snowstorms
7 & 9 p.m. Saturday, April 30, ATLAS Black Box
Carnivals and Snowstorms, an interdisciplinary theater production, explores the nature of dreams, memory and the afterlife.
The production is designed to evoke an otherworldly atmosphere of haunting nostalgia and beauty.
To achieve this, it uses an all encompassing projection screen that immerses the audience in film and graphics of another time and place, a set design derived from vintage carnival booths, the elegance of 1930s-inspired costumes and retro-inspired choreography.
The production will utilize projected images that contribute to the ambience and mood of the piece, novel and experimental video surfaces, and direct interaction between live performers and film.
Vinitski concluded, "Carnivals and Snowstorms aims to demonstrate a new voice in multimedia that successfully merges theater and technology in a unique style."
Admission is Seating is limited.
Get more details and reserve
your seats here.
Film: The Survivor and the Translator
See a free screening and discussion of Leeny Sack's solo theater piece, "The Survivor and The Translator." The piece is about not having experienced the Holocaust, by a daughter of concentration camp survivors, in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. A question and answer session with the artist will follow the screening.
About the artist:
Leeny Sack was a member of Richard Schechner's seminal Performance Group."The Survivor and The Translator" came out of the Performance Group, and was subsequently produced nationally and internationally, including at the first World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in Jerusalem in 1981. The piece is published in several anthologies of Holocaust theatre works and women's solo performance.
Get more details
here.
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