The Center for Media Design will take one of its latest projectsto Indianapolis this weekend.
Digital Image and Sound Collaborative Urban Showcase is anhour-long digital-media presentation at Indianapolis Artsgardenfeaturing 13 audio and video art projects by Ball State studentsand faculty in the electronic art and music engineering technologyprograms.
The work "Polis," a collaboration from John Fillwalk, assistantprofessor in electronic art, and Joseph Harchanko, assistantprofessor in music theory and composition, will be on display. Theseven-minute video will show the urban setting around Indianapolisand Chicago and the community that lives there.
"It's bringing in the urban architecture and breaking down thenotion of inside and outside," Fillwalk said. "It is a piece thatreacts and energizes the space."
The digital video will be shown on three 9-by-12 screens.
Harchanko said the technology breaks down the space and time inart and changes the way people listen to music.
"DISCUS is something that you are immersed in instead of justbeing in front of," Harchanko said. "You are not just sitting andlistening to it, but you're inside it."
Harchanko and Fillwalk said they want people to come to theconcert to see beautiful images and hear digital sound.
"We're going to do something that you're not going to hear onMTV," Harchanko said.
The digital music will still have some familiarities, like realexpression and drama.
Harchanko said DISCUS is for everyone.
"I'm not writing music only for classical-music audience,"Harchanko said. "I don't want the public to have a preconceptionthat they have an idea of what music is supposed to be."
Harchanko said it is fine if the audience doesn't want to callthe digital sound "music" and rather call it "sound art." Digitalart is created for the audience to enjoy.
Fillwalk and Harchanko agreed that the Indianapolis Artsgardenhas a real cross section of the public -- young and old people fromdifferent socioeconomic classes.
"DISCUS is a response to the urban environment and willcomplement the urban setting in which it will be performed,"Fillwalk said.
Eight other collaborative works from students will presentdigital sound, digital video and Maya 3-D animation.
"Altered Shape" is a digital art video recorded by art studentKristine King and scored by MET student Aaron Brocken. The digitalart shows a body image. He wants to create sound to augment andcomplement the digital video and let the audience experience thecreation of new sound.
"Selah" is the collaboration between art student Zack Bent andMET student Josh Arnold. It is a five-minute digital video thatdepicts Bent's personal struggle of worshiping Christ in the midstof inner and outer turmoil.
"The difficulty with video, as with all digital art, is thatthere are many options or forks in the road," Bent said. "You haveto have a keen sense of where you are going and the intuition toexplore your way through the creation of a video."
While Bent works on visual image, Arnold scores music for"Selah." Arnold said he likes digital sound because he can createan atmosphere and drama for the digital art.
"I create the mood and bring out the emotion," Arnold said.
DISCUS is free to the public and is sponsored by Ball State'sCenter for Media Design and the Indianapolis Arts Council.
The performance begins at 7 p.m. and is followed by an encoreperformance at 8 p.m.
The Indianapolis Artsgarden is located above the intersection ofWashington and Illinois streets.
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