Events
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Fail Safe Performance Series #2
November 17, 2019 2:00 PM–November 17, 2019 5:00 PM
Fail-Safe is a recurring variety performance show.
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Gyorgyi Galik
November 14, 2019 5:00–6:30 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry Co-presented with the Carnegie Mellon Imaginaries Lab
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Curator’s Tour: Intersections
November 9, 2019 12:30 PM–November 9, 2019 1:30 PM
Join us for a curator’s tour of INTERSECTIONS — The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry’s 30th anniversary exhibition. STUDIO Director…
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B*A Presentations
November 7, 2019 5:00 PM–November 7, 2019 7:00 PM
Please join us this Thursday November 7th 2019 from 5-7 pm for B★A Presentations at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative…
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Morehshin Allahyari
October 17, 2019 5:00–7:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry Co-Presented with the CMU Miller Institute of Contemporary Art
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Benedikt Groß
October 14, 2019 5:00–6:30 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry Co-Presented with the CMU School of Design
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INTERSECTIONS Opening Reception
October 11, 2019 6:00 PM–October 11, 2019 8:00 PM
The 30th-anniversary exhibition of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
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Amelia Bande
September 6, 2019 10:00–1:00 PM
Steiner Workshop (Participation Restricted — Not open to the Public)
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Marie Foulston
September 5, 2019 6:30–8:00 PM
Steiner Workshop (Participation Restricted — Not open to the Public)
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Teddy Cruz & Fonna Forman
September 5, 2019 5:00–7:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Alan Warburton
September 3, 2019 6:30–8:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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empathy machine
August 30, 2019–August 31, 2019
Click here for tickets and more information An evening-length quintet, empathy machine is an imagined future, a beginning, an ending,…
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Fail-Safe Performance Series
June 22, 2019 7:30–9:00 PM
Fail-Safe is a (new) recurring variety performance show. Fail-Safe invites artists with works-in-progress to present new performances in a supportive…
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Artists for President 2020
May 7, 2019 5:00–7:00 PM
Book release party! With readings, videos, performances, and more Featuring students in Prof. Angela Washko’s Art & Activism course Throughout…
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Sandy Stone
April 17, 2019 5:00–7:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Laine Nooney
April 11, 2019 5:00–7:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Elizabeth Hénaff
April 4, 2019 5:00–7:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Kyle Machulis
March 21, 2019 5:00–7:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Kamal Sinclair
March 4, 2019 5:00–7:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Igor Vamos
February 27, 2019 5:00–7:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Arts in Society
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Stephanie Dinkins
February 4, 2019 6:30–8:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry Co-Presented with the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art
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Processing Community Day @ Pittsburgh
January 25, 2019–January 26, 2019
Processing Community Day @ PGH
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Totally True: Documentary Storytelling Final Projects
December 13, 2018 11:00–1:00 PM
Thursday, December 13th at 11:00 AM the Frank-Ratchy STUDIO for Creative Inquiry will play host to students from Richard Pell’s…
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Addie Wagenknecht
November 12, 2018 5:00–6:30 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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teamLab
November 6, 2018 6:30–8:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Robin Sloan
November 1, 2018 5:00–6:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry Co-presented with the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English and the dSHARP Center.
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Memo Akten
October 8, 2018 5:00–6:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Claudia Hart
October 3, 2018 5:00–6:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry Co-presented with the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art
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Mrs. Kasha Davis
September 13, 2018 5:00–7:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Snoozefest: Nocturnal Electronic Music Amidst Inflatable Environments
April 29, 2018 12:00 AM–April 29, 2018 8:00 AM
Sleep amidst giant inflatable artworks in an all-night, subtonal, subconscious experience! Carnegie Mellon’s Exploded Ensemble and the CMU Inflatables &…
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Mimi Onuoha
April 24, 2018–April 24, 2018
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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B★A Presentations 2018
April 11, 2018 5:00–7:00 PM
This event is free and open to the public. The B★A Presentations are an evening of short five-minute artist talks by…
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Kelli Anderson
April 10, 2018 6:30 PM–April 10, 2018 8:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Jenny Odell
March 29, 2018 6:30–8:00 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Bruce Sterling
March 7, 2018 5:00–6:30 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Angela Washko Plays “The Game: The Game”
February 28, 2018 5:00–6:30 PM
The Game: The Game is a video game presenting the practices of several prominent seduction coaches (aka pick-up artists) through the…
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Gene Kogan
February 5, 2018 5:00 PM–February 5, 2018 6:30 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Pamelia Stickney
January 25, 2018 6:00–7:30 PM
Steiner Lecture in Creative Inquiry
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Elysia Crampton in Conversation
October 6, 2017 6:00–1:00 AM
Elysia Crampton is an Aymara-American experimental electronic musician and poet currently living in northern California. Her work is known for…
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Panel Discussion: The artist in the lab, the scientist in the studio
September 28, 2017 5:00–6:30 PM
Part of the Worlds Within exhibition, this event is co-presented by the Miller Gallery and the Hunt Institute for Botanical…
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Performance: BEAR and The Unreliable Bestiary — Deke Weaver
September 22, 2017 12:00–1:30 PM
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. This event is made possible in…
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Artist Lecture: Bill Shannon
September 12, 2017 6:30–8:00 PM
Bill Shannon is an interdisciplinary artist and maker who explores body-centric work through video installation, sculpture, linguistics, sociology, choreography, dance and politics. Bill has been…
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Sputter, or The Domestication of Earth Energy
September 8, 2017 6:00–7:30 PM
A performance by Elia Vargas and Celeste Neuhaus This event is free and open to the public. The world was changed in 1859, when…
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Pittonkatonk: Mayday Brass BBQ & Potluck
May 6, 2017 1:00–11:00 PM
Webpage: www.pittonkatonk.org Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/402412510109169/ Indiegogo campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pittonkatonk-2017-a-may-day-brass-bbq-music-education#/ This event is free and open to the public. What is PITTONKATONK? Pittonkatonk is…
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Experimental Capture Exhibition
May 4, 2017 5:00–7:00 PM
Professor Golan Levin and (TA) Claire Hentschker present an exhibition of student projects from “Experimental Capture”, an interdisciplinary course in…
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The CMU Laptop Orchestra
April 30, 2017 2:30 PM–April 30, 2017 4:00 PM
This event is free and open to the public. The CMU Laptop Orchestra returns for a concert of interactive networked…
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Tim Lawrence // Artist Lecture and Afterparty
April 19, 2017 5:00–12:00 AM
// ARTIST LECTURE // 5:00 PM Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry CFA 111, Carnegie Mellon University // AFTERPARTY & RECORD…
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B★A Presentations
March 31, 2017 4:30 PM–March 31, 2017 6:30 PM
The B★A Presentations is an evening of short, five-minute artist talks by students from the CMU School of Art and…
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Machine Learning for Artists and Designers: Creative Applications of Deep Learning with TensorFlow, with Parag K. Mital
March 24, 2017–March 25, 2017
Abstract AI has found it way into nearly every aspect of our lives, from dictating our news, to fighting our…
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AWC Lab Workshop: Afrofuturist Archives with Iyapo Repository
March 20, 2017 5:00–7:00 PM
Join us for this Artist Talk and Make Session with Iyapo Repository, presented by VIA as part of the AWC…
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Wick Editor Make Things Night
March 9, 2017 6:00–12:00 AM
Developed by CMU students Zach Rispoli and Luca Damasco, The Wick Editor is a free, online, Flash-like tool that can…
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Cybersecurity Clinic for Activists
March 5, 2017 3:00–4:30 PM
Are you worried about your emails showing up on Wikileaks? What if your constituents’ home addresses were leaked, or your…
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Artist Lecture: L. M. Bogad
March 1, 2017 5:00–6:30 PM
This event is free and open to the public. This event is sponsored by the Center for the Arts in…
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Artist Lecture: Paolo Ciuccarelli of DensityDesign
February 21, 2017 5:00–6:30 PM
Join us for this public lecture on Digital Humanities + Design by Paolo Ciuccarelli of the DensityDesign lab. This talk coincides with the Density…
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Artist Lecture: Ranjit Bhatnagar
February 14, 2017 5:00–6:30 PM
Ranjit Bhatnagar discovered sound art around age 14, listening to weird late night programs on KPFA. He now works with interactive…
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Annina Rüst – A Piece of the Pie Chart: Feminist Robotics
January 25, 2017 5:00–6:30 PM
This Visiting Artist Lecture is presented in partnership with the Miller Gallery and the Carnegie Mellon University School of Art.…
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Taeyoon Choi Artist Lecture
April 3, 2014 5:00–7:00 PM
NYC-based artist Taeyoon Choi presents his influential work as founder of the School for Poetic Computation (NYC) and the Making…
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Marcin Jakubowski: Open Source Ecology Lecture
April 2, 2014 6:30–8:00 PM
TED Senior Fellow Marcin Jakubowski, founder of the Open Source Ecology initiative, presents the open-source Global Village Construction Set, a “starter kit for civilization.” At…
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CLOUDS: Pittsburgh Premiere
March 20, 2014 5:00–6:00 PM
James George and Jonathan Minard present the Pittsburgh premiere of CLOUDS — the world’s first 3D, interactive, generative, documentary film. Free admission / refreshments will…
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Trans-Q TV Presentation
February 11, 2014 4:30 PM–February 11, 2014 6:00 PM
Suzie Silver (creator/producer) and Scott Andrew (producer) present a frisky account of TQTV and screen highlights from upcoming episodes. Trans-Q…
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Nancy Cheng: Shaping Light with Folded Surfaces
February 5, 2014 4:00–6:00 PM
CoDE Lab (CFA 213) hosts Material Technologies Workshop_ Shaping Light with Folded Surfaces, led by Professor Nancy Cheng, a Visiting…
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Lorrie Faith Cranor: Computers, Quilts, & Privacy
November 1, 2013 12:30–1:30 PM
Join us in the STUDIO on Friday, November 1 from 12:30-1:30pm for a talk by quilt artist and STUDIO Fellow…
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Creative Coding on the RaspberryPi with openFrameworks
October 11, 2013–October 13, 2013
Join us for a weekend of teaching, learning, hacking and making with the RaspberryPi and openFrameworks. Events include two workshops,…
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Mark Allen Artist Lecture
October 2, 2013 5:00–6:30 PM
The LA Times writes that Mark Allen is “Nikola Tesla by way of P.T. Barnum, with a dash of ‘The…
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Heather Kelley Artist Lecture
September 18, 2013 5:00–6:30 PM
Indie game designer/artist Heather Kelley lectures about designing playful experiences, games-as-art, and her newest research in olfactory play experiences. Heather…
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Aaron Koblin: Data for Storytelling and Art
April 10, 2013 4:30–6:00 PM
Aaron Koblin, renowned new-media artist and Director of the Data Arts Team at Google’s Creative Lab, will present a lecture…
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wats:ON? – NOISE
April 4, 2013–April 6, 2013
The Jill Watson Festival Across the Arts returns to the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University, 04-06 April…
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February 7, 2013–February 8, 2013
A conference on the autonomy of architecture, code, fabrication, material, morphology, robots, mechanic desire, and a computational theory initialized and chaired…
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STUDIO Receives NEA Grant to Support Artist Residencies
December 21, 2012–December 12, 2012
The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry is honored to be one of 832 non-profit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA…
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Listening Spaces
October 19, 2012 11:00–5:30 PM
As part of the project Listening Spaces a symposium and workshop on 21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture…
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A Double-Exhibition of Interactive and Digitally Fabricated Arts
May 3, 2012 5:00 PM–May 3, 2012 7:30 PM
Students from Prof. Golan Levin’s “Interactive Art and Computational Design” class, and from Prof. Ali Momeni’s “Digital Fabrication for the…
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NEUROPHOTO Exhibition
May 3, 2012–May 3, 2012
An exhibition of photographs inspired and informed by neuroscience, developed with support from the Center for the Neural Basis of…
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Lecture: Conflict Kitchen
April 18, 2012 5:00 PM–April 18, 2012 6:30 PM
Please join CMU Associate Professor of Art Jon Rubin and Culinary Director Robert Sayre for a discussion on Conflict Kitchen, a…
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wats:ON? – TRANSFORMER
April 12, 2012–April 14, 2012
The wats:ON? Festival Across the Arts returns for its 2012 edition, TRANSFORMER, coordinated by Pablo Garcia and Spike Wolff and…
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Grand Opening: Center For PostNatural History
March 2, 2012–March 2, 2012
The Center for PostNatural History announces the Grand Opening of its permanent exhibition facility in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on March 2nd,…
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Release of Maréorama Resurrected
October 22, 2011 12:00 AM–October 22, 2011 12:00 AM
The STUDIO is delighted to announce the release of “Maréorama Resurrected: An Illustrated Lecture” by media archeologist Erkki Huhtamo –…
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Art && Code: 3D
October 21, 2011–October 23, 2011
Half maker’s festival, half academic symposium, Art && Code: DIY 3D Sensing and Visualization (#artandcode) was a festival and…
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Roger Dannenberg Lecture: Music Understanding and the Future of Music
September 22, 2011 3:30–5:00 PM
Music understanding is the automatic recognition of pattern and structure in music. Music understanding problems include (1) matching and searching…
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Deep…Space…Robots
June 11, 2011 6:30–9:00 PM
Michael Pisano and STUDIO staff member Jonathan Minard are the principals of deepspeed media and lead the documentation of the…
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Too Shallow for Diving: the 21st Century is Treading Water
May 14, 2011–July 28, 2011
Six past fellows of the STUDIO will participate in an exhibition at the American Jewish Museum in Pittsburgh, focusing on water. The…
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Levin and Witt Class Final Exhibition
April 28, 2011 4:00–7:00 PM
See Two Class Final Shows At Once! : “Interactive Art and Computational Design”, taught by Golan Levin “Digital Fabrication for…
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One day in Pittsburgh/ One day in Hiroshima
April 22, 2011 8:00–11:00 PM
Former fellow, Mayumi Matsuo, will coordinate a cross-pacific communication, using Skype, between Pittsburgh and Hiroshima to raise awareness about family…
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Announcement: Andrew Kaiser’s Astro-Ballet in Paris
April 21, 2011–April 21, 2011
A new ballet composition by Andrew D. Kaiser, an artist working on the STUDIO supported Moon Arts Project, will be…
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Fellows and Staff at GA/GI 2011
April 1, 2011–April 2, 2011
STUDIO Artist Research Associate, Amisha Gadani and Research fellows, Rich Pell and David Bear will present their work at the…
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Wats:ON Festival – SPEED
March 17, 2011–March 19, 2011
Notions of speed in contemporary culture are often tied to technology and its impacts on everyday life. All events are…
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OpenFrameworks Developer Presentation Series
January 11, 2011–January 14, 2011
More images on Flickr In association with the first international OpenFrameworks World-Wide Developers Meeting, some of the world’s leading computational…
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Pell and Pedercini Class Final Exhibition
December 10, 2010 4:00–6:00 PM
Final Exhibition of the following classes: “Game Design for Artists, Mavericks, and Troublemakers”, taught by Visiting Professor Paolo Pedercini “Concept…
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STUDIO Event Series Presents: the Punto y Raya Festival
October 12, 2010–October 12, 2010
This event is made possible with additional support from the CMU School of Art.
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STUDIO Event Series Presents: Jer Thorp
October 5, 2010 5:00–6:00 PM
Jer Thorp is a computational designer, artist and educator concerned with the visualization of large data and the many-folded boundaries…
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VIA Festival Presents: A Circuit Bending Workshop with Michael Johnsen
October 1, 2010 1:00–3:00 PM
Join Pittsburgh’s own circuit-bending master Michael Johnsen for a workshop on how to Have Your Way With Mics and Speakers!…
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STUDIO Event Series and VIA Festival Present: Kyle McDonald
October 1, 2010 12:00–1:00 PM
Kyle's presentation is presented in collaboration with Pittsburgh's VIA Music & New Media Festival October 1-3, 2010 / www.via-pgh.com
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Pittsburgh Gigapanorama Photo Shoot
September 23, 2010 11:00–3:00 PM
On September 23rd an ultra-high-resolution panoramic photo of Pittsburgh was taken from the top of the U.S. Steel Tower. The…
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“Arghonoon” + Introduction to Persian Music
April 29, 2010–April 29, 2010
In early 2010, Professor Reza Vali lectured about the history of Persian music, presented his project Arghonoon, and then welcomed…
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Jill Watson Festival Across the Arts
March 17, 2010–March 20, 2010
The STUDIO hosted the 2010 Wats:ON Festival, which brought interdisciplinary artistic innovators to campus to share their insights through a diverse…
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Gibson/Recorder Live Cinema Performance
March 3, 2010 6:30–8:00 PM
Performance + Artists’ Presentation Free admission. Open to the public. With snacks. The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, once again partners…
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Eric Singer: Robots, Slime, Propane and Other Ways to Make Strange Musical Instruments
February 17, 2010 6:30–7:30 PM
Eric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer and the Founder and Director of LEMUR — the League of…
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Mobile Art && Code
November 6, 2009–November 8, 2009
Art && Code was an event series and educational conference dedicated to the democratization of computer programming for artists, young…
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Contestational Cartographies Symposium
August 28, 2009–December 6, 2009
Maps represent, maps reveal, maps entice, maps distort. They selectively omit, they unwittingly exaggerate, and they even make outright lies.…
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Art && Code
March 7, 2009–March 9, 2009
Art && Code was an event series and educational conference. The first conference was concerned with programming environments for artists,…