DJ Spooky and Terra Nova at IUS this week.

IU Southeast's Common Experience program, whose 2008-09 theme is "Greening of Earth: Whose Responsibility?" brings DJ Spooky to town this week in what this writer might, in a giddier moment, describe as the coolest thing to ever happen on campus.

And make no mistake, I'm jazzed. Work like Spooky's drove me into and out of graduate school. Conceptual artist, musician, writer, college professor - he's reason enough to own a computer.

He'll be doing a lecture about his work and a performance on consecutive days. I'll be at both. You should be, too.

Tickets are available from the Ogle Center.


Lecture - Rhythm Science

Thursday, October 2, 2008, 7:30 PM

Admission: Free. Tickets are required.

Learn how DJ Spooky(Paul Miller) puts together his multimedia presentations. He will explore the hidden connections between collage based aesthetics and what Miller likes to call the "politics of perception." His lectures unpack some of the issues that modern artists face: intellectual property, ownership of ideas, and above all, how art navigates the complex culture of digital media. The lecture is free and open to the public, however, tickets are required.


The Terra Nova Suite
Sinfonia Antarctica

Friday, October 3, 2008, 7:30 PM

Admission: Regular - $25

DJ Spooky/Paul D. Miller's large scale multimedia performance work will is an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. The Antarctic Suite transforms Miller's first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass. Miller's field recordings from a portable studio, set up to capture the acoustic qualities of Antarctic ice forms, reflect a changing and even vanishing environment under duress. Coupled with visual material from Getty Images' vast collection, The Antarctic Suite is a seventy minute performance, creating a unique and powerful moment around man's relationship with nature.




Watch this space early next week for news of a local artistic and environmental response as well.

* Manifesto image courtesy of the artist.