North Quad Programming - University of Michigan

Join us for North Quad Programming hosting the Ann Arbor Film Festival's Off The Screen programming in North Quad's Space 2435, a collection of new media, video, live performance, and art installations that are either ongoing during festival week or happen at a specific time. Off The Screen also includes panel discussions, workshops, and presentations by friends and artists of the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

TUESDAY 3/25
Reception
4–6pm

Attack from Space! with Live Score
4:30pm
Performance by Joo Won Park

WEDNESDAY 3/26
Programmers Roundtable
11am–12pm
Roundtable moderated by Bree Andruzzi

Film Art Forum
3–5pm
Lightning rounds, moderator TBA

FRIDAY 3/28
New Voices Film Jam
10:30am
Salon moderated by Chris McNamara

Student Lunch Mixer
12pm
Students only, RSVP in advance at aafilmfest.org/students

Reanimating the Past: From Analog to Digital
3pm
Presentation by David Lebrun

SATURDAY 3/29
The Joy of LOOPing
9am–12pm
All ages workshop by Pickle Fort Film Collective

SUNDAY 3/30
AAFF Screener Social
10am
Salon hosted by Angela Lenhardt

What the Hell Was That?
10:30–11:30am
Panel moderated by Daniel Herbert

Off The Screen Installations
OFF THE SCREEN INSTALLATIONS (ONGOING)
paSSive poWer 4D 360 VR by JB Ghuman, Jr. – A sonic visual VR experience exploring human existence.

If I Could Take Me from That Room, I Would Never Give Me Back by Kym McDaniel – Mixed media installation with 3-channel video and salvaged extension cords symbolizing a body in constant transformation.

Impermanence | 13 by Rory Scott – Augmented reality compilation of works from 2010-2023, reflecting both personal and technological growth.

New Voices screening room with student work from AAFF partnering colleges and universities

For a full schedule of events and screenings, go to www.aafilmfest.org/

The Asian Languages and Culture department is holding a 90 minute workshop in North Quad's Space 2435 today (2/11) from 6 - 7:30 p.m. for students to experience hands-on taiko drumming. Vocationist Stuart Paton from the Burlington Taiko group will instruct the students in the Japanese art form that involves playing large wooden drums in a group. The artist in residence will also answer questions during a Q&A after the drumming.
https://burlingtontaiko.org/artist-in-residence/

As a welcome back to the semester and a way to help shake off those winter blues, North Quad Programming invites you to a "Winter Semester Mindfulness Play Day" event! Simply stop by Space 2435 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, January 16th and enjoy snacks and cozy beverages while getting creative with one of the many activities we will have available for everyone in the room.

Join Computational Social Science on Friday, November 15 from 3 - 4:30 p.m. in North Quad’s Space 2435 for a great opportunity to meet people, build community, learn more about computational social science, or potentially find future collaborators. In past semesters they've had attendees from Information, CSE, MIDAS, Complex Systems, Public Health, Ross, and other units at UM, and they're always trying to reach out to more CSS researchers across campus!
The mixer will include catering from Happy Wok (spring rolls and other snacks!), and you can indicate the types of structured activities you'd be interested in on the RSVP form. The mixer will consist of some structured activities, with some time for unstructured socializing in the last half. Feel free to come to part or all of the event!

RSVP to join: https://bit.ly/3YhVh1a

Flu season is upon us and North Quad residents, faculty, and staff can get their flu shot vaccine in Space 2435 on Tuesday, November 5 from 1 - 4p.m.. It’s easy to get flu vaccines on the U-M Ann Arbor campus through a collaboration with University Health & Counseling and MHealthy.

-No appointment is necessary; clinics are drop-in only.

-U-M students and campus faculty and staff can participate. Michigan Medicine employees, learners and volunteers should contact Occupational Health Services.

-You must be at least 18 years old.

-Clinics are available across campus from mid-September to early December.

When preparing for the vaccination clinic, be sure to:

-Wear appropriate clothing so the vaccine can be administered in your upper arm.

-Bring your insurance cards, including your prescription insurance.

-If your health insurance does not cover vaccinations or if you are not using insurance, the out-of-pocket cost for a 2024 flu vaccination is $44.

-If you are feeling ill, wait until you are feeling better to get vaccinated. We are unable to vaccinate anyone with a fever over 100.5° F.

-Please wear a mask if you are experiencing a rash or new cough.

North Quad Programming is always excited to welcome diverse, innovative, and multimedia focused organizations and events to our Shared Spaces!

This Sunday 9/8 the Collaborative Lab for Advancing Work in Space (CLAWS) group will be coming to Space 2435 for a mass meeting so students to learn more about their work designing and developing a augmented reality equipment for astronauts in NASA’s SUITS Challenge (https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/spacesuit-user-interface-technologies-for-students/ ).

Learn more about CLAWS at their first Mass Meeting on Sunday 9/8 from 5-6 PM at North Quad Space 2435.

CLAWS is a multidisciplinary group of 85 students. The software development team competes in the NASA SUITS Challenge, which tasks university groups with building an augmented reality (AR) helmet interface and mission control center to support astronauts exploring the lunar surface. In May 2025, the team will travel to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas to test and present their application to NASA. The team also hosts several social, outreach, and professional development events throughout the year.

Join the CLAWS Interest Form

(https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDrd9hNuG8efQfBOVXmEQf04fMFpJwerfVWH6ttYcA9LM9UA/viewform?usp=sf_link)

for recruitment updates.

CLAWS Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/claws_um/ )

CLAWS Website (https://claws.engin.umich.edu/ )

Apply Now:

CLAWS Application Fall 2024 (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-OfELPL4jYtdqMfLkjI7E9J6SQscUZpqdSTL8IsOaHa1vhw/viewform?usp=sf_link)

Welcome back students, faculty, and staff to a new academic year at U-M and new year of fresh, innovative programming in North Quad’s Shared Spaces!
Keep up with upcoming events by signing up for the North Quad Programming monthly newsletter (http://eepurl.com/gc2YoX ) and find out how to reserve your own event by going to our website (northquad.umich.edu/reservations)!

North Quad Programming welcomes the Ann Arbor Film Festival's Off the Screen! multimedia installations to North Quad's Space 2435! Today from 4-6 p.m. there will be the opening reception along with a performance by David Olson, an Ann Arbor born multidisciplinary artist who brings his work "Grafica Harmolodica" to North Quad.
Based on video shot by Olson of avant-garde musician and composer Ornette Coleman performing in Harmolodic Studio in 2003, the installation is less documentation of that performance than visual improvisation on musical ideas. Using Space 2435's six monitors and wall projection along with large-scale prints, the installation presents graphic compositions created 20 years later when the video was remixed to the original performance soundtrack. The installation will launch with a live VJ mix of media elements at 4:30 p.m..
This a free event that is open to all. Everyone is welcome to enjoy the food, the Film Festival installations, and this unique artistic experience!

North Quad Programming and The Ann Arbor Film Festival are happy to welcome back Off The Screen! (OTS!) installations to the 62nd AAFF next week in North Quad's Space 2435. The Off the Screen! programming are meant to expose attendees to intermedia art, OTS! is free, open to the public, and in-person only unless otherwise noted.

This years' OTS! program includes live performances, new media installations, and other intermedia moving image artworks. OTS! engages artists, festival attendees, the general public, students and educators. The program provides opportunities for constituents to experience expanded cinema art, and to more deeply engage with festival subject matter, as well as each other.

Ann Arbor Film Festival runs Tuesday, April 6 - Sunday, April 31. You can see the full schedule of events here: https://www.aafilmfest.org/62-schedule-page

North Quad Programming welcomes the Ann Arbor Film Festival to Space 2435 from March 26 - 31. The AAFF is the oldest avant-garde and experimental film festival in North America, founded by George Manupelli in 1963. Internationally recognized as a premiere forum for independent filmmakers and artists, each year's festival engages audiences with remarkable cinematic experiences. The six-day festival presents 40 programs with more than 180 films from over 20 countries of all lengths and genres, including experimental, animation, documentary, fiction, and performance-based works.
Off the Screen! events in North Quad's Space 2435 include installations, student work, film talks, and an artist reception open to everyone.

The exciting and wonderfully experimental 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival (https://www.aafilmfest.org/) is back (March 26-31), and with it come complimentary tickets!
North Quad Programming is giving away 15 tickets to any screening of your choice on a first come first serve basis.

To qualify:

-Subscribe to our monthly newsletter (if you haven't done so yet).

North Quad Programming monthly newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gc2YoX

-Follow North Quad Programming on social media and either like or comment on our last post.
https://www.instagram.com/umnorthquad/
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https://twitter.com/UMnorthquad

Once you qualify, contact our Programming Assistant Colum Slevin at [email protected] to arrange pick up while supplies last. Tickets will need to be picked up in person from the North Quad Programming office in North Quad by Friday March 22nd.