Motion Lab in ACCAD

Creative collaboration time in the lab with the fabulous Lexi Clark-Stilianos and Alex Oliszewski for an OSU library project headed up by Alan Green!

*THROWBACK* Professor Norah Zuniga Shaw Wins Ronald And Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award (January 20, 2022) "Interim Executive Dean David Horn, Dean of Arts and Humanities Dana Renga and Interim Chair Susan Van Pelt Petry surprised Professor Norah Zuniga Shaw at the Spring 2022 Department Gathering held on Zoom on January 10, 2022, with a presentation of the Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award. 'The Ratner Awards recognize faculty for making a difference in students' educations, lives and careers. Candidates are chosen for creative teaching and exemplary records of engaging, motivating and inspiring students,' according to the award website. 'Each Ratner Award includes a $10,000 cash prize, as well as a $15,000 teaching account to fund future projects....'”

Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design

*GRA Spotlight* William Yuan is a 2nd year Design Graduate student pursuing an MFA in Digital Animation and Interactive Media. He received his BFA in Art and Technology with a minor in Game Design from The Ohio State University. William's research is focused on exploring the innovative possibilities of interactive storytelling through designing engaging choices and branching narratives. He is also a Graduate Research Assistant specializing in Motion Capture. William is passionate about integrating the technology into his collaborative research projects and helping others achieve their creative vision with his technical skills.

Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design

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OASIS is the third in a series of performance and technology works created by Professor Norah Zuniga Shaw for Livable Futures. The creative team includes Byron Au Yong, internationally renowned contemporary artist who has composed an improvised song-cycle for OASIS drawing on his experience in Chinese and Korean vocal traditions and Zuniga Shaw’s background in North American folk music and Jewish ritual practices. The work responds directly to grief and loss associated with the pandemic and climate crisis and the need for both recovery and transformative change.

Resisting dominant narratives of disaster and decline, it offers a soft space for turning to toward the issues at hand. Participants are bathed in sound, stars, stories, and sensation in this 90-minute immersive experience for rest and recovery in uncertain times. Warm water flows through the themes of the work but so does mirage and the impermanence and precarity of any site of refuge on the planet today. The literal and figurative metaphors of physical and emotional oases provide fertile ground for the imagination.

accad.osu.edu/research-gallery/oasis

*THROWBACK* "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (July 16, 2019) The OSU Department of Theatre presented, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time about a teenager with autism spectrum disorder. Alex Oliszewski (Theatre / ACCAD) and lighting director Mary Tarantino (Theatre) closely collaborated on this media-intensive production of the play written by Simon Stephens which was directed by OSU Theatre professor Kevin McClatchy. This media, technology infused production was highligted in OSU's Alumni Magazine (summer 2019) and the media design created by professor Oliszewski was also featured in the July 15, 2019 on-line publication of LiveDesign."

*PAST RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT* "When I Am Little Again" was a collaboration between Kareen Balsam, a graduate student in Dance and Technology, and Vita Berezina-Blackburn, an Art and Technology graduate. When I am Little Again pieces together a fractured family history expressed in dance, video and motion capture based animation. The piece can be presented as a short film, and also as a virtual memorial - a looping installation where live dance is combined with projected media.

To learn more about this project and it's team, go to accad.osu.edu/research-gallery/when-i-am-little-again.

*THROWBACK* In April of 2019 Dr. Ching-Chun Lai, professional orchestral conductor, participated in a motion capture session at ACCAD. Dr. Lai was a visiting professor in music an associate professor at the Crane School of Music, State University of New York at Potsdam. This was the first time ACCAD has captured the movement of a professional conductor. ACCAD staff member, Vita Berezina-Blackburn explained, 'the research and collaboration potential of this rare opportunity is a chance to visualize gestural communications between the conductor and the musicians. This sheds light on the unique language crafted by a conductor to communicate the nuances of a composition and is of great value to both student conductors and music lovers.'"

*THROWBACK* Headline: Ohad Fishof & Noa Zuk Hosted by Humane Technologies Project (March 15, 2017) "Interdisciplinary artists based in Tel Aviv, Ohad Fishof and Noa Zuk joined the Humane Technologies team of collaborators at OSU in arts-driven research investigating 21st century life and livability. Zuk & Fishof have collaborated for over a decade and work in a diverse range of fields including Dance, sound performance video and installation. In February, they participated in group discussions and gave an artists talk."