FILMATIC FESTIVAL
at UC San Diego Saturday, May 7, 2016
Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego
ABOUT ARTPOWER
ArtPower at UC San Diego builds creative experiences in music, dance, film, exhibition and food for our collective pleasure and inspiration. We engage diverse audiences through vibrant, challenging, multi-disciplinary performances by emerging and renowned international artists. Through extensive partnerships, ArtPower provides exciting opportunities for research, participation, and creation of new work, igniting powerful dialogue between artists, students, scholars, and the community.
ARTPOWER MISSION
1. To create co-curricular opportunities in the performing arts and film that foster learning and self-discovery, as well as personal and professional skill development. 2. To supplement and enhance the academic investigation of our students through collaborative explorations in the performing arts and film. 3. To add to the artistic and cultural life of the La Jolla and San Diego communities.
SCHEDULE WELCOME REMARKS BY LARRY SMARR 10 am | QI Auditorium (Room 1511)
Filmatic kicks off with a presentation by Larry Smarr, Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2); physicist; and a leader in the scientific computing, supercomputer applications, and internet infrastructure.
CINEMATIC VIRTUAL REALITY 10 am – 10 pm | Lobby
Experience film like never before by fully immersing yourself in a new cinematic virtual storytelling adventure created by industry leaders Felix & Paul.
Strangers with Patrick Watson
Experience a one-on-one encounter with celebrated musician Patrick Watson at his Montreal studio.
Nomads: Herders
Quietly observe the lives of nomadic yak herders in Mongolia.
Wild: The Experience
Enter the world of Fox Searchlight’s feature film Wild in an exceptionally intimate moment between Reese Witherspoon’s and Laura Dern’s characters along the Pacific Coast trail.
Jurassic World: Apatosaurus
In close proximity to a living dinosaur, Jurassic World: Apatosaurus offers a moment of awe, beauty, and danger.
CRYSTAL STAR VOYAGER AND AROMACOMPOSERTM 10 am – 10 pm | 3D Lab (Room 1607)
Never leave your chair as you travel far and wide in an immersive outer space experience that utilizes all your senses. Created by Multisensory Systems (MSS), the Crystal Star Voyager and AromaComposerTM provide dramatic new sensory experiences combining programmed sound and aroma.
FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING 10 am – 10 pm | Lobby
Figuratively Speaking is a virtual environment for exploration and contemplation. In Margaret Dolinsky’s make believe world—bulbous faces are bobbing up and down on hillsides as they are overlooking the water. Their dialogue leads the visitor through a world of fantasy where they live in play, confrontation and worship.
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SOLARIUM (CALIFORNIA PREMIERE) 10 am – 1:30 pm, 2–10 pm | Black Box Theater (Room 1507)
Solarium is a large-scale, immersive, and site-specific 4K digital video installation of the sun, using images captured by NASA spacecraft Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). With images that are eight times the resolution of an HDTV, SDO watches ultraviolet light invisible to the naked eye to track how material dances through the solar atmosphere.
SONAR (CALIFORNIA PREMIERE) 10 am – 10 pm | Lobby
An asteroid emerges from the darkness of space, sending signals. A drone dives deep into an extensive cave system in order to locate the source. Sonar is a new kind of cinematic entertainment—striking a balance between traditional movie making and interactive media. Created by artists Philipp Maas, Dominik Stockhausen, and Alexander Mass, this short film is a fully immersive, slow-paced, 360° computer-generated experience created for various virtual reality headsets.
SPECULATIVE LANDSCAPES: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CONNIE SAMARAS 10 am – 10 pm | Gallery @ Calit2 (Room1001)
Works of photography and video from three of the speculative landscape series by Connie Samaras. These exhibitions are sponsored by the Qualcomm Institute’s gallery@calit2 and the Visual Arts Department, UC San Diego.
STONEMILKER (CALIFORNIA PREMIERE) 10 am – 10 pm | Lobby
A virtual reality collaboration between Björk and Vrse.works creator Andrew Thomas Huang, Stonemilker explores the possibilities that VR holds for performance platforms outside of the traditional music video world.
LIGHTNING TALKS – ARTIST PRESENTATIONS 10:30 am | QI Auditorium (Room 1511) Gain a unique insight into each artist’s project and presentation at Filmatic.
IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE (CALIFORNIA PREMIERE) Noon – 10 pm | Performative Computing Lab (Room 1606)
Designed for room-scale virtual reality by artist Ben Vance with collaborators Sam Bird and Joel Corelitz, Irrational Exuberance is an interactive art experience that gives the viewer an intimate connection to the possibilities and wonders of space—where mysterious phenomena, hidden beauty, and the infinite await.
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QUANTUM IMAGINATION (WORLD PREMIERE) Noon – 10 pm | QI Production Studio (Room 1608)
The NanoVRTM team aims to create virtual reality tools for scientific design and simulation. The first official platform ChemVRTM launches at Filmatic 2016 with Quantum Imagination as its central piece. ChemVRTM gives users the tools to design in 3D simple organic materials that are comprised of carbon and hydrogen in an intuitive manner. Writers: Camille Laut, Micah Siegel. Developers: Oleg Utkin, Max Howard, Seth Horowitz, John Leyson, Kai Wong, Jon Topielski
UC SAN DIEGO VIRTUAL REALITY CLUB DEMONSTRATIONS 10 am – 10 pm | Lobby Noon – 10 pm | QI Production Studio (Room 1608)
UC San Diego’s first VR club is open to all students—artists, scientists, engineers, and enthusiasts alike. Check out some of the innovative 3D user interaction projects the club has been working on all year. HTC Vive demo is located in the QI Production Studio.
COLLISIONS — SYNCHRONIZED (CALIFORNIA PREMIERE) 12:30 pm, 3:30 pm, 6:30 pm, 9 pm | QI Auditorium (Room 1511) COLLISIONS—SAMSUNG GEAR VR (CALIFORNIA PREMIERE) 10 am – 10 pm | Lobby
Created by acclaimed artist Lynette Wallworth, Collisions transports audience via virtual reality to a remote desert in western Australia to witness the conflict between the Aboriginal and western culture through the story of indigenous leader Nyarri Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe. Collisions premiered in January 2016 at Sundance Film Festival and The World Economic Forum. Synchronized version presented by Two-Bit Circus. Producer: Nicole Newnham
RHODOPSIN FOR FILMATIC 1 pm, 4 pm, 6 pm, 9:30 pm | RML (Room 1613)
Especially designed for Filmatic, this reenvisioned installation employs film, light, and sound to encourage visitors to think about the process of perception. Organized by WSOHOIDPS (A SHIP IN THE WOODS), the team includes sound artist Greg Smaller, Salk Institute neurobiologist John Reynolds, and is based on the work of vision scientist Patrick Cavanagh.
INGRESS GAMING MEETUP 1:30 pm Presentation; 2:30 pm Game Starts | Black Box Theater (Room 1507)
Join Flint Dille, creative lead of Ingress, to play the augmented reality game and meet other players at this official Ingress event that will explore UC San Diego monuments and landmarks including the Stuart Collection. All attendees are encouraged to participate.
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ASSEMBLY COGNOGENESIS 2–4 pm and 8:30–10 pm | Clarke Center Lab (Room 1611)
Assembly Cognogensis is a shared virtual reality environment where two users collaborate within an artificial life world to cultivate the symbiotic relationship between imagination and the evolving environmental system. Wearing neurotechnology with a virtual reality interface, users guide the “creative evolution” of a rich audiovisual ecosystem of sounds, images, and objects. The project is created by Sheldon Brown with his lab at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination and computational neuroscientist Tim Mullen of Qusp.
AUDIO SPATIALIZATION LAB DEMOS 2–4 pm and 8:30–10 pm | Audio Spatialization Lab (Room 1604A)
Get immersed in virtual acoustic space at the state-of-the-art spatial sound lab at Calit2, highlighting recent work for a new generation of theme park 4D theaters. The new attraction is based on the critically acclaimed BioWare™ game series, Mass Effect™, which opens this spring at California’s Great America Santa Clara, California. Experience the making of immersive sound for future-generation 4D attractions and movies. Real-time acoustic simulations will take audience media experience to the next level. You won’t believe your ears! Collaborators: Peter Otto, Raphael Melgar, Jeff Sandubrae and Daniel Ross. Mass Effect and BioWare are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. or its subsidiaries.
DERIVING WORLDS (WORLD PREMIERE) 5 pm | QI Auditorium (Room 1511)
Can images be heard? Can sounds be seen? Experience the familiar in unexpected ways through musical compositions inspired by Chinese ink paintings and digitally animated calligraphy created by Pulitzer Prize nominated composer and UCSD professor Lei Liang along with cinematographer/editor Keita Funakawa (UCSD ’16).
MAKING THE PAST PRESENT 5:30 pm | QI Auditorium (Room 1511)
The ravages of time, natural and man-made disasters, pollution, fatigue, overexposure, and mismanagement have all taken a major toll on world cultural heritage. Yet there is hope. Explore the power of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics through the lens of next generation digital cinema and literally walk into the arena of scientific discovery and storytelling with UCSD Professor Falko Kuester, Director of the Calit2 Center of GRAVITY (Graphics, Visualization and Imaging Technology) and founding member of Transdisciplinary Imaging Genetics Center (TIGC).
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IT’S A VISUAL REVOLUTION! 7:30–8:30 pm | QI Auditorium (Room 1511)
We are deep in the midst of a visual revolution. Join our panel of experts from across industries and disciplines as they explore the world of cinema, advertising, cinema, social media through the lens of virtual/augmented reality and cinematic visual effects, and discuss their visions of cinema in the 22nd century. Panel guests include Benjamin Bratton (Moderator) Flint Dille (Creative lead, Ingress) Margaret Dolinsky (Figuratively Speaking) Phillipp Maas (Sonar) Nicole Newnham (Collisions, Synchronized Collisions) Jurgen Schultze (Associate Research Scientist, QI, UCSD and Marble Tracks) Kamal Sinclair (Codirector, Sundance New Frontier) Ben Vance (Irrational Exuberance) Gareth Walsh (Ursa Major)
MARBLE TRACKS 2–4 pm and 8:30–10 pm | StarCAVE (Room 1608A)
Using a virtual reality system, Marble Tracks creates an interactive 3D puzzle game. The game is created by Kai Wang, Muyu Ma, Robert Maloney, Philip Weber, and UCSD Professor Jurgen Schulze.
TUNNEL OF LIGHTS 8–10 pm | Qualcomm Institute Tunnel
Bliss out when you traverse the tunnel of lights that lead up to the Filmatic Festival at the Qualcomm Institute.
URSA MAJOR (CALIFORNIA PREMIERE) 8–10 pm | Courtyard
A three channel video projection-mapped universe created by visual artist Gareth Walsh, Ursa Major will transform Tim Hawkinson’s 180-ton Bear sculpture into a galactic spectacle of light, optical illusion, and movement. The artwork is inspired by the Ursa Major constellation, also known as the Great Bear.
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Audio Spatialization Lab 1604A
Performative Computing Lab 1606
QI Production Studio 1608
Gallery @ Calit2 1001
Lobby
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Map
Clarke Center Lab 1611
3D Lab 1607
StarCAVE 1608A
Black Box Theater 1507
RML 1613
QI Auditorium 1511
Lobby
Bear Courtyard
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ARTPOWER DONORS 2015–16 VISIONARY ($50,000+)
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation
CATALYST ($20,000–49,999)
Jon and Bobbie Gilbert George Clement Perkins Endowment The Weil Family Foundation
CREATOR ($10,000–19,999)
Epstein Family Foundation Sam B. Ersan Michael and Susanna Flaster Elaine Galinson and Herbert Solomon of the Galinson Family Foundation Eric Lasley and Judith Bachner New England Foundation for the Arts
PERFORMER ($5,000–9,999)
Amnon and Lee Ben-Yehuda Joan Jordan Bernstein Hamburger Chamber Music Series Endowment Fund
ADVOCATE ($2,500–4,999)
Ann Spira Cambell Ronald and Wynnona Goldman Mehran and Susan Goulian Renita Greenberg Alexa Kirkwood Hirsch Charles and Marilyn Perrin Edith High Sanchez and Paul Sanchez Lee and Judith Talner
GUARDIAN ($1,000–2,499)
Joyce Axelrod and Joseph Fisch Bjorn Bjerede and Josephine A. Kiernan Maureen and C. Peter Brown Nelson and Janice Byrne Carol and Jeffrey Chang Alain Cohen and Denise Warren Ruth Covell Martha and Edward Dennis Wayne and Elizabeth Dernetz Dr. Diane Everett-Barbolla Drs. Edwin and Wita Gardiner Norman J. Goldberg and Fusako Yokotobi Pat Jacoby Liz Lancaster and Eli Shefter Marvin and Reinette Levine Ruth Stern and Mort Levy Barbara and Robert Nemiroff Hans Paar and Kim Signoret-Paar Clayton and Susan Peimer 10 Program
Anne Marie Pleska and Luc Cayet Elaine and Jerry Schneider Robert and Lauren Resnik Arthur and Molli Wagner Zelda Waxenberg
SUPPORTER ($500–999)
Janice Alper and Charles Kantor Ginger and Ken Baldwin Douglas Bradley Sam and Teresa Buss Bill Coltellaro and Eric Cohen Bill Michalsky Phyllis and Ed Mirsky Nessa O’Shaughnessy Anne Otterson Edward and Arlene Pelavin Sharon Perkowski Samuel Popkin and Susan Shirk Joseph W. Watson
CONTRIBUTOR ($250–499)
K. Andrew Achterkirchen Connie and George Beardsley William and Wendy Brody Patti and Brian Carlos Jeffrey C. Donahue and Gail Donahue Meg and Allan Goldstein Carol Hinrichs Barry and Helen Lebowitz Robert and Arleen Lettas Athina Markou and Mark Geyer Joani Nelson Rod and Barbara Orth Carol Plantamura and Felix Prael Gary and Brenda Ratcliff Doug and Eva Richman Jim and Kathleen Stiven Mr. and Mrs. Eli Strich Johanna Thompson Sylvia Wechter
SPARK ($100–249)
Shirley Babior and Judith Richards Paulyne Becerra Mary L. Beebe Geoffrey Clow Ed and Edie Drcar Carol Hobson Renee D. Johnson Cynthia Kroll Jane and Herbert Lazerow Carole Leland Elaine and Howard Maltz Kate Oesterreicher Ina Page Luc R. Pelletier
Stephen and Susan Shuchter Janet Smarr Ellen Speert and Paul Henry Jimmy Tran Carey G. Wall Shirley Weaver Anonymous, In honor of Jimmy Tran
ARTPOWER STAFF DONORS Molly Clark Carolena Deutsch-Garcia Jordan Peimer Jason Smith Joanna Szu Rebecca Webb
CORPORATE SPONSORS
GRANTING ORGANIZATIONS
MEDIA SPONSOR
POWERPLAYERS PowerPlayers are an exceptional group of donors that have made a three year commitment to support ArtPower. This multi-year support is crucial to ArtPower’s continued success and growth. Joyce Axelrod Joan Bernstein Alain Cohen Martha Dennis Phyllis Epstein Elaine Galinson Bobbie Gilbert Norman Goldberg
Renita Greenberg Eric Lasley Kim Signoret-Paar Hans Paar Robert and Lauren Resnik Arthur and Molli Wagner Zelda Waxenberg Pat Weil A portion of funding for ArtPower is provided by the UC San Diego Student Services Fee Committee. Donor list as of 05.02.2016
ARTPOWER STAFF
Molly Clark, Associate Director of Artistic Planning & Education Carolena Deutsch-Garcia, Associate Director of Development John Morgan, Box Office Manager Sean Nash, Ticketing Coordinator Jordan Peimer, Executive Director Jason Smith, Production Manager Joanna Szu, Associate Director of Marketing and Communications Rebecca Webb, Film Curator
STUDENT STAFF
Grason Caldwell, Marketing Assistant Crystal K. Chan, Film Curatorial Assistant Intern Minhtri Chu, Marketing Intern Riley Dewitt-Rickards, Production Assistant Austin Eamnarangkool, Marketing Intern Keita Funakawa, Film Curatorial Assistant Camille Latzke, Marketing Intern Aileen Liang, Marketing Assistant Joyce Liang, Marketing Intern Derrick Lieu, Marketing Intern Cliff Mann, Film Curatorial Assistant Connie Oh, Marketing Intern Kendra Quinlan, Marketing Intern Emily Small, Marketing Intern Maryanee Vargas, Marketing Intern Bryant Vu, Marketing Assistant Karen Wang, Production Assistant
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PRESENTING SPONSOR
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
CAMPUS PARTNERSHIP
CONTRIBUTING SPONSOR
CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS
SAN DIEGO VIRTUAL REALITY CLUB (SDVR)
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS
FILMATIC FESTIVAL ADVISORY BOARD
The Weil Family Foundation Festival Founder Support Jon and Bobbie Gilbert Festival Founder Support Michael and Susanna Flaster Sponsor of the Crystal Star Voyager Edit and Paul Sanchez Festival Founder Support Eric Lasley and Judith Bachner Up&Coming Student Film Festival
Hector Bracho Michael Flaster Strategic Advisor Peter Otto Patty Rangel Co-curator Jurgen Schultz Stuart Volkow