Check-in and Registration | 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Registrants may check in at this time to receive your festival badges and programs. Stations will be open for those who plan to register on-site. Coffee provided for festival participants.
Campus Y
Please bring your printed event registration confirmation page with your confirmation number and your University ID, if applicable, to receive the discounted admission rate

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Interactive Project Exhibitions | 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Enjoy student, faculty and community interactive projects and art.
Venues:

• Faculty Projects: Wilson Library, The Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Library
• Electro-Acoustic Music Exhibition: FedEx Global Education Center, Peacock Atrium
• Student Projects: The James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence at Graham Memorial, Kresge Foundation Common Room
• Art of Gaming: Hanes Art Center, The John and June Alcott Gallery
  

This event is free and open to the public


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Hands-On Workshop: Create Wikis Using PB Works | 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
During this hands-on session, participants will create a wiki (Web site) using PBworks.com. Sites for adding multimedia content will also be explored.
Peabody Hall, Mercer Reynolds Computer Lab (Room 02)
Lee Adcock, doctoral student, UNC School of Education, and former secondary social studies teacher
Festival badge required for entry

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Panel: Changing Forms of Publication | 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
New technologies have made possible mass publication on a scale never before encountered in our culture, breeding new possibilities for—and questions about—authorship and form. This panel examines how technology has transformed the practices of publication.
Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Auditorium
Panelists:

• Phillip Edwards (moderator), UNC School of Information and Library Science faculty
• Jonathan Cox, external and internal marketing communications manager for self-publishing firm Lulu
• Shelby Shanks, N.C. State Libraries lawyer librarian and director of the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Center
• Mark Simpson-Vos, UNC Press acquisitions editor
• Markus Wust, N.C. State Libraries digital collections and preservation librarian at the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Center

Festival badge required for entry

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Panel: Capturing Performance vs. Capturing Sound | 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Zenph Sound Innovations is a Triangle-based software company that has created a scientific process for producing re-performances® of music.  Zenph employees and UNC faculty explore the process and business philosophy behind re-performance and the future implications this technology has for art, for education, for entertainment technology and for IP law.
Hyde Hall, University Room
Panelists:

• Eric Hirsh (moderator), director of instrument research, Zenph Sound Innovations
• Mark Katz, UNC associate professor of music
• Laurie McNeil, UNC professor of physics
• Mayron Tsong, UNC associate professor of piano
• John Q. Walker, chairman and founder, Zenph Sound Innovations

Festival badge required for entry

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K-12 Teacher Translational Session | 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Educators will “translate” festival discussions into practical approaches and ideas K-12 teachers can implement in their own classrooms.
Peabody Hall, Room 206
Facilitators:

• Lee Adcock, former secondary social studies teacher and doctoral student of education at UNC
• Cheryl Mason Bolick, UNC School of Education associate professor, coordinator of the Elementary Education program and director of the Research Triangle Schools Partnerships
• John Lee, N.C. State College of Education associate professor of social studies and middle grades education
• Hiller Spires, N.C. State College of Education professor, founding director of The William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation and Friday Institute Senior Research Fellow

Festival badge required for entry, *entry restricted to K-12 guests*

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Festival on the Hill: The Art and Culture of the DJ | 1:15 to 6:00 p.m.
This symposium explores the concept of DJ artists as musicians and turntables as their musical instruments. Scholars and DJs will discuss “The Art and Culture of the DJ” and the impact of digital technologies on the art through a series of presentations and roundtable discussions.
Hyde Hall, University Room
Participants:

• Mark Katz, Festival on the Hill coordinator, UNC associate professor of music
• Mark Butler, music theorist, Northwestern University Bienen School of Music associate professor and University of Texas at Austin 2009-10 Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow and visiting associate professor
• Rayvon Fouché, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign associate professor of history, research associate professor at the Information Trust Institute and Center for Advanced Study resident associate
• Larisa Mann/DJ Ripley, University of California, Berkeley doctoral candidate in jurisprudence and social policy and journalist on technology and rights issues
• DJ Radar, world-renowned turntablist (Phoenix, Ariz.)
• Oliver Wang, California State University, Long Beach assistant professor of sociology, journalist and long-time DJ who performs as O-Dub
• Raúl Yañez, composer, pianist, bandleader and teacher (Phoenix, Ariz.)

This event is free and open to the public

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Hands-on Workshop: Introduction to VoiceThread |1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Learn ways in which VoiceThread can be used by K-12 teachers, in particular, to develop a classroom community centered around engagement, collaboration and critical inquiry.
Peabody Hall, Mercer Reynolds Computer Lab (Room 02)
Lee Adcock, former secondary social studies teacher and doctoral student of education at UNC
Festival badge required for entry

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Hands-on Workshop: Introduction to VoiceThread |2:45 to 3:45 p.m.
Learn ways in which VoiceThread can be used by K-12 teachers, in particular, to develop a classroom community centered around engagement, collaboration and critical inquiry.
Peabody Hall, Mercer Reynolds Computer Lab (Room 02)
Lee Adcock, former secondary social studies teacher and doctoral student of education at UNC
Festival badge required for entry

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Keynote: Gaming and the Future of the Arts and Humanities | 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.
Jesper Juul, International game theorist, NYU Game Center visiting professor
As of 2010, more than 50% of the general population plays digital games on a regular basis. Juul argues that video games derive their power from the way they fit into our everyday lives. The meaning of a video game comes not just from its theme, but from the way it fits into social situations and the way it lets players experience personal development, failure and success, firsthand.
Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Auditorium
Festival badge required for entry

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Panel: Game as Medium | 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Game engines, the software systems designed for the creation and development of video games, have made their way into a variety of uses and fields. This panel will discuss some alternative uses of game engines, as panelists present their current game engine research in art, art history and mobile computing. Keynote speaker Jesper Juul will join the discussion, offering his theoretical perspective.
Person Hall
Panelists:

• Joyce Rudinsky (moderator), electronic media artist, UNC associate professor of communication studies, RENCI domain scientist for arts and humanities and Institute for the Arts and Humanities associate director for digital arts and humanities
• Casey Alt, Duke University visiting assistant professor of the practice in the department of art, art history and visual studies and founder and CEO of the social media corporation VacilLogix™
• Jesper Juul, international game theorist and NYU Game Center visiting professor
• Adriana de Souza e Silva, N.C. State assistant professor in the department of communication, director of the Mobile Gaming Research Lab, affiliated faculty at the Digital Games Research Center, and faculty in the Science, Technology and Society Program
• Pinar Yoldas, Visiting artist at Duke University Visual Studies department
  

Festival badge required for entry

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Interactive Project Exhibition | 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Enjoy faculty interactive projects from Carolina and Duke University researchers. The program’s Festival Components section describes which projects show at each venue.
ITS-Manning, The Renaissance Computing Institute
This event is free and open to the public

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The Bathysphere: Motion Capture as Art | 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Interactive Project Exhibition: Experience an underwater opera with motion-capture technology.
Project Leaders: Francesca Talenti, UNC communication studies, and Greg Welch, UNC computer science
Gerrard Hall
This event is free and open to the public

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Soundbyte: Readymade Digital Tools and the Potential of Creating New Tools | 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Both Lombardi and Seaman have been interested in the creation of tools as a way for artists and researchers to create and/or augment their art and research. Lombardi has been central in the development of OpenCobalt, a new digital tool that enables high-level virtual authoring potentials. Seaman has also developed a virtual “World Generator,” a “Hybrid Invention Generator” and is currently working on an “Insight Engine” that might be used for research/and or art creation. They discuss their work and the potential development of future tools.
Hyde Hall, Incubator
Bill Seaman, media artist and scholar, Duke University professor in the art, art history and visual studies department
in conversation with
Julian Lombardi, Duke University Office of Information Technology assistant vice president, ISIS research scholar and adjunct faculty member in computer science
Festival badge required for entry

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Festival on the Hill: Charanga Carolina Performance with DJ Radar and Raúl Yañez | 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Following Thursday’s rehearsal, Charanga Carolina performs with DJ Radar on turntables and composer Raúl Yañez on the piano. Charanga Carolina is UNC’s student ensemble that plays Cuban and salsa music under the direction of David García, assistant professor of music at Carolina. Expect dancing during this lively performance.
Gerrard Hall
This event is free and open to the public

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The Virtual Performance Factory | 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
Interactive Project Exhibition: Experience a performance environment existing in the borderlands of real and virtual space in this live simulation of a video game.
Project Leader: Joseph Megel, UNC communication studies, in conjunction with Icarus Studios, a gaming company in Cary, NC
Swain Hall, Studio 6
Festival badge required for entry

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Carolina Performing Arts Presents STREB:Brave Collaborative Performance | 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
STREB:Brave is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between New York choreographer Elizabeth Streb, founder of the innovative STREB Dance Company; composer David Van Teighem; and the MIT Media Lab. STREB’s virtuosic, daredevil performers will interact with robotics, investigating physical concepts such as ways to occupy traditionally unoccupied surfaces—ceilings, walls and trusses; challenging gravity; and investigating high-speed vertical motion in the face of centrifugal force.
Memorial Hall
Tickets for this performance are not included in festival registration and must be purchased either in person through the Memorial Hall Box Office or by phone: (919) 843-3333. Prices for the STREB:Brave performance are as follows:
  General Public: $40 | $35 | $25 | $20
  UNC Students: $10