Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts
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.
12 Aug 2022
Carson School alumna Lenosky returns for Geske Cinema Showcase
Lincoln, Neb.--The Norman A. Geske Cinema Showcase, sponsored by the Friends of The Ross, presents producer and University of Nebraska–Lincoln Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film alumna Tory Lenosky (B.F.A. 2007), at the 7:30 p.m. screening of “Resurrection” on Friday, Sept. 2 for a Q&A with the audience at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center.
11 Aug 2022
45 students selected for new Carson Center cohort
Lincoln, Neb.--Forty-five students — 25 recent high school graduates and 20 transfer students — have been selected to join the latest cohort of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.
This is the fourth and largest cohort for the center, which opened in fall 2019. There will be 125 students majoring in emerging media arts this fall.
While 35 of the 45 students hail from Nebraska, this year’s cohort also includes students from Colorado, Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma, as well as Thailand.