UT IDeA sposored events, events, jobs/internships, announcement, call for entry, links
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UT IDeA sponsored events:

Draw/Re-Draw
Part One: October 17th-November 4th, 2005

Draw/Re-Draw will be an experiment in two parts. Part one, "Draw," will consist of a series of seminars/ workshops, revolving around the activity of drawing, viewed from the perspective of varying disciplines. Each seminar/workshop will have a short discussion component followed by a "making" component, and will be lead by a differnt professot. Part two of the event, "Re-draw," will consist of small interdisciplinary teams who will use the results of part one ("Draw") as raw material for making a new work (for example, a team might take the figure drawings from a workshop to use as generative material to make an animated film). The results will then be exhibited in a gallery show which will document the workshops as well as the final artifacts.


Design Division alumni panel talk and informal portfolio review
Friday November 18th, 4:00 pm, Art Building, room # TBA

Graduates of the design division will speak in a panel setting about how their postgraduate experiences led them to the jobs they have now, and give advice on how students of the design division can better prepare themselves for the job market before graduation.

Following the panel talk will be an informal portfolio review. Students can bring their portfolio's and get critical input from the alumni regarding content relevance/breadth, clarity, professionalism, etc.


every Friday, 12:00pm-2:00pm in the Design computer lab, Art building, UT Austin

Photoshop ACE certification seminars, covering the topics required for ACE certification. This is an 11 part seminar series that is intended to fully prepare participants for the Photoshop ACE certifaction exam(which is free for UT students to take).


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Events


Math group, Dr. Jack Calcut discussing relativity
Saturday October 8th, 2005, PAI 3.02 (On the UT campus)



"Sustainability as Security" Conference, @ UT Austin, October 5-9,
2005.

This 3rd Annual Conference, which is almost entirely student-organized, will feature about a hundred speakers from across the United States and the world, to address sustainability issues along four tracks: environment, business, technology, and education. It is hosted by Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW,)a national non-profit organization with a network of more than three thousand professionals and
students working to reduce poverty and improve global sustainability.

The conference themes include: water quality & supply . green building .
sustainable materials . youth action . nanotechnology . education . digital
divide . global ethics . renewable energy . microfinance . food security .
social entrepreneurship . For more information, including the conference program, list of speakers and online registration, please visit the conference website:
www.esustainableworld.org/conference.

You can also contact Sameer Kamal at esw@engr.utexas.edu.
President, Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW)
http://www.engr.utexas.edu/esw


“I Want To Go To Graduate School, But I Don’t Know Where To Begin: An Oveview of Graduate School Resources”
Panel discussion with Lynn Chang, Career Exploration Center; Isabel Montemayor, Academic Enrichment Services; Stephanie Crouch, Natural Sciences; and Teresa York, Academic Enrichment Services
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:00-6:00 p.m. SSB G1.310 (Glen Maloney Room)

Attending this session will help you learn more about the numerous graduate school resources available on the UT campus, including paper and electronic resources, human resources, and programs to assist with graduate school applications and visits.

Other workshops this semester include:

“Exploring Graduate School: Is It For Me?” presented by Luis Guevara, Office of Graduate Studies
Tuesday, October 11 5:00-6:00 pm, SSB G1.310 (Glen Maloney Room)

“Putting It All Together: The Graduate School Application Process,” presented by Teresa York, Graduate Assistant
Tuesday, October 27 4:00-5:00 pm, SSB G1.310 (Glen Maloney Room)

“Graduate School Entrance Exams,” presented by Matthew Dempsey, Princeton Review
Wednesday, November 9 4:30-5:30 pm, SSB G1.310 (Glen Maloney Room)

“Writing the Personal Statement,” presented by the UT Undergraduate Writing Center
Tuesday, November 22 4:30-5:30pm, SSB G1.310 (Glen Maloney Room)

Please mark you calendars now and plan to attend these beneficial sessions! If you are interested in attending any of the above workshops, please RSVP to Teresa York by phone or email. For more information about any workshop, the ACE Program, or other services offered by AES, please contact Teresa York, at 471-1205 or tyork@mail.utexas.edu.

Teresa York, MAE
Doctoral Student
Department of Linguistics
Graduate Assistant
ACE and Mentor Program
Academic Enrichment Services
University of Texas at Austin
Office of the Dean of Students
Student Services Building 4.104
1 University Station A5800
Austin, TX 78712-0175
512-471-1205 (phone)
512-232-3963 (fax)


Austin Green Art and The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum present renowned sculptor Mari Shields, who will design, build onsite, and install a large-scale sculpture made from fallen trees.

Shields will present her body of work, and provide a personal tour of the work-in-progress at an informal Artist Talkback. The Umlauf’s young professionals group, the Torchbearers, will host the unveiling of the artwork at a free gala event.

WHEN: Artist Talkback with Mari Shields – Wednesday, September 21st • 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. • FREE
Art Opening – Wednesday, September 28th • 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. • FREE

WHERE: The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum
605 Robert E. Lee Road • Austin, TX 78704

BACKGROUND: Austin Green Art is a nonprofit initiative to enhance Austin culture through public art that reflects Austin’s love of the environment.
www.austingreenart.org

The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum is a non-profit organization founded around the work of American sculptor Charles Umlauf, and dedicated to providing educational experiences that encourage the understanding and appreciation of sculpture.
www.umlaufsculpture.org

For more information, contact:
Raul Garza
512. 415. 8825
www.austingreenart.org
raul@tkoadvertising.com


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Job/internships


BODHI YOGA (close to UT) is in need of a web designer to help redesign the site www.bodhiyoga.com. The owner is looking for something that can be designed with backend administration for easy updating. It could also be done in Dreamweaver. The owner is willing to pay and will also give some trade for yoga. Great offer! Please email a resume with contact info and weblinks to portfolio or other web work to:

Malia Davis
Marketing and Events Manager
malia@blazertag.com


Innternships are available with the Texas Department of Agriculture
(TDA)

Available in Austin, Lubbock, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and San Juan; sub offices in Amarillo, El Paso, Tyler and Corpus Christi; seed laboratories in Lubbock, Stephenville and Giddings; a metrology lab in Giddings; a pesticide lab in College Station; and export facilities in Del Rio, El Paso, Laredo, Eagle Pass and
Brownsville.

To qualify for an internship, the student must have completed at least 15 hours in courses that pertain to the internship. For further information on the internship program and how to apply, please reference the http://www.agr.state.tx.us/about/intern/adm_internmain.htm>TDA home page.


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Announcements


AIGA Design Conference 2005 online archive, now available
http://www.kottke.org/order/aiga-2005


New UT Organization for Print Design students

Have you taken a print design class in the journalism school? Do you have an interest in learning more about design or improving your skills? Then come meet students just like you who enjoy designing for print publications (newspaper/magazines/etc.). Possible SND events may include one-on-ones with professional print designers and portfolio critiques, field trips, design and software workshops, etc. This is a brand new club so it is open to ideas.

If you want to learn more about the national organization, you can go to http://www.snd.org. If you'd like more information about the UT chapter, contact:
Amy Zerba, amyzerba@yahoo.com
Journalism Grad student


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Call for Entry


Microsoft Research Sponsors Female Academic Scholarships to the
Women's Game Conference
Microsoft Research is providing ten female college students an
all-expense-paid opportunity to attend the Women's Game Conference taking
place in Austin, Texas on October 26-27, 2005. Attendees will also be able
to attend the Game Writers Conference and Austin Game Conference.

Microsoft Research is sponsoring 10 female students majoring in computer
science - with a concentration in game development and research - to attend
the Women's Game Conference. The selected Scholarship winners will be
invited to convene during a luncheon to meet with an industry luminary and
discuss first-hand the issues surrounding female game developers and career
opportunities in this field. These students will also be able to attend the
Austin Game Conference and the Game Writers Conference. The Austin Game
Conference is the leading conference for developers of mobile, MMOG and next
generation console games. The Game Writers Conference is dedicated to the
art and craft of game writing.

Microsoft Research is committed to fostering the growth of women game
developers in this emerging space and developing career paths for those with
keen interests. The goal is to gain knowledge on how Microsoft Research can
attract more women into the critical fields necessary to move computer
science, and fields such as game development, forward.

Students interested in being considered for a complementary pass should
complete the following query and e-mail responses to:
Cynthia@gameconference.com by Sept. 30, 2005.

1) Full contact information:
Name, e-mail, school, major, areas of studies, address, phone number

2) Tell us about yourself (200-word maximum)

3) Brief essay about your interest in game development, research conducted
in this field, or your insights on the importance of women game developers
(350-word maximum)

Selected Scholarship winners will be announced at the beginning of October
and will be required to submit a post-event paper discussing their
experience and providing feedback on the Women's Game Conference.

For questions regarding this opportunity, send e-mail to Cynthia Freese,
cynthia@gameconference.com .


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Links


Spencer Tunick: Documenting the live nude in public. http://spencertunick.com/

For those interested in PHP security (woo ya'!): http://phpsec.org/projects/guide/

~ A Female Sensibility ~ Sept. 26-Oct. 3 issue of Newsweek
Videogame makers have ignored half their potential market. Now they're having a second look, and altering the possibilities of gaming. The video game industry's bias against women is so ingrained that the size of the current female market is largely unknown, report Paris Bureau Chief Christopher Dickey and Special Correspondent Nick Summers. However, analysts now expect that to change as companies look to grab market share by basing more user experiences around the interpersonal relationships that made games like "The Sims" such a hit with women.

A great/free resource for digital sound and video media.
__ U B U W E B __http://ubu.com

Andrea Zittel on design + art.
Because of her interest in industrial design, Ms. Zittel has been embraced
by shelter magazines as the art world's answer to Philippe Starck. But she
rejects this label and has declined requests to have her designs
mass-produced. "I am not a designer - designers have a social
responsibility to provide solutions," she said. "Art is more about asking
questions."

Art: tugboats, floating islands, and pirates!