Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
14 Oct 2022 By Kathe C. Andersen
Hazell, Ganzel return for Carson Lecture Series program Oct. 30
Lincoln, Neb.--The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film’s Carson Lecture Series returns Sunday, Oct. 30 at 3:30 p.m. in the Swanson Auditorium of the Nebraska Union at 14th and R sts. on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln city campus.
12 Oct 2022
2 faculty from UNL are fellows at MIT Worlding incubator
Lincoln, Neb.—University of Nebraska–Lincoln Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Ash Eliza Smith and Associate Professor of English Kwakiutl Dreher were fellows at the inaugural WORLDLING, a first-of-its kind research and development initiative that explores climate futures at the intersection of documentary, land-use planning, speculative modeling and game-engine technologies.
It is a partnership between Unity Software/the Unity Charitable Fund and the Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab.
10 Oct 2022
Interdisciplinary artist Vanouse in residence in the Carson Center
Lincoln, Neb.--Interdisciplinary artist Paul Vanouse will be in residence in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and will present at IGNITE on Friday, Oct. 21 at 12:30 p.m.
The IGNITE colloquium involves guest lectures, workshops and seminars around creative and professional development. IGNITE is free and open to the public.
07 Oct 2022
Endacott screenplay earns film festival honors
Lincoln, Neb.--Professor of Film Richard Endacott has earned film festival success for his screenplay “Turn Over.”
The script has won Best Dramatic Short Script at the Cowpokes International Film Festival in Harrah, Oklahoma; Writer’s Block Award (Best Short Script) at the Snake Alley Festival of Film in Burlington, Iowa; and Best Short Script in the Copa Shorts Film Festival in Maricopa, Arizona.
28 Sep 2022 By Kathe C. Andersen
EMA students work at VR experience at Tribeca Film Festival
Lincoln, Neb.--Eight emerging media arts students traveled to New York City to work at the premiere of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s “Evolver” at the Tribeca Film Festival’s immersive festival in June.
“Evolver” is a collective virtual reality experience that drops audiences deep inside the landscape of a body, following the flow of oxygen through our branching ecosystem, to a single “breathing” cell. It becomes clear that breath not only sparks life, but also connects us to the natural world through the cycle of respiration.
28 Sep 2022 By Kathe C. Andersen
Twomey presents Three Stage Drawing Transfer research at SIGGRAPH
Lincoln, Neb.--Robert Twomey, assistant professor of emerging media arts in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, presented his research project, “Three Stage Drawing Transfer” at SIGGRAPH in August.
SIGGRAPH is the premier conference for computer graphics and interactive techniques worldwide. The conference showcases new technologies and applications.
In addition to presenting and publishing his research, Twomey also showed Three Stage Drawing Transfer in the art gallery program at the conference.
28 Sep 2022 By Kathe C. Andersen
First EMA study abroad course takes students to London
Lincoln, Neb.--Eleven students in the Emerging Media Arts program in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts traveled to London last May for the study abroad course, “Story Abroad: Future Fictions, London, U.K.,” led by Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Ash Eliza Smith with Carson Center Founding Director Megan Elliott.
“We were using the city as a kind of laboratory,” Smith said. “The city is very generous with giving lots of material, stories and viewpoints of the world. It was a total immersion out in the streets of London every day.”
22 Sep 2022
Fleming co-creates groundbreaking ‘The Wilds’
Lincoln, Neb.--“I think what audiences can be sure to expect is a very engaging event that has a lot of immersive qualities; is highly experimental; is sonic, kinetic and visual; and touches upon both our most primary, innate being and our potential in an uncertain future.”
This is the description of “The Wilds” by Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Jesse Fleming, who created this groundbreaking new performance experience with acclaimed choreographer Laurel Jenkins and Grammy-nominated producer/composer Lewis Pesacov.
07 Sep 2022 By Kathe C. Andersen
EMA senior interns with L.A. Clippers
Lincoln, Neb.--Emerging Media Arts senior Sam Rice interned this summer with the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers in their digital media department as a video producer.
24 Aug 2022
Carson Center, Black Public Media launch emerging media residency program
Lincoln, Neb.--The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and Black Public Media (BPM) announced the first cohort of their new residency program, called the Black Public Media Residency at the Carson Center. The recipients, who are all developing creative technology projects, are artist Johannes Barfield, of Albuquerque, New Mexico; educator Rae Phillips, of Shreveport, Louisiana; and artist Andrea Walls, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.