Stevens Institute of Technology: Admissions Blog

April = Arts at Stevens

Check out a list of arts events taking place on campus throughout the month of April.

 

A Spirit of Collaboration

Stevens Institute of Technology truly lives at the crossroads of inspired collaboration, where artists and researchers meet to make the world a better, and more beautiful, place. Stevens faculty break down disciplinary walls to make way for new discoveries that bridge the artistic and the scientific.

A collaboration between Dr. H. Quynh Dinh, Department of Computer Science, and artist Ebon Fisher, Department of Art, Music, and Technology, explores "synergies between creativity and information technology, science, engineering, and design research" was recently funded by the National Science Foundation.  The project is titled "A 'Transderivational' Search Engine for Creative Analogy Generation in Mixed-Media Design." Click to continue article.

Dr. Dilhan Kilyan, Director of the Highly Filled Materials Institute in Stevens' Department of Chemical, Biomedical and Materials Engineering, is working with artist Jackie Brookner, creator of public art projects called biosculptures, "living sculptures that use the capacity of carefully chosen plants to clean and filter water."  Together, they will create new material for Brookner’s moss-covered sculptures, and Dilhan will have invented a new plastic that could be utilized for urban water runoff.

Stevens MIDI Guitar Orchestra Debuts

A group of Stevens Institute of Technology Music and Technology students are using technology to push the boundaries of music. Their recent performance was featured on Sonic State, a Web site for synthesizer buffs.

World-renowned guitarist Carlos Alomar (David Bowie) directed a group of Stevens students in a performance of Mozart’s Requiem, played on guitar synthesizers. Using MIDI (musical instrument digital interface), technology, the student’s guitars took on the sound of a full orchestra. The students, called the Mini-Midi-Magic Orchestra, performed as part of a Department of Art, Music & Technology showcase.

Watch a video of the students and Alomar during rehearsals: http://www.oneworldartists.com/stevens/mmmorchestra/index.html