Movies & Beyond: Connecting Digital Creativity Across Disciplines

Hosted by the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film

New technologies, especially new media and digital art forms, are rapidly changing the way we interact with our world and creating opportunities never before imagined. These fast-paced changes are expanding the potential of film and emerging media to connect with the creativity of scientists, lawyers, journalists, engineers, entrepreneurs, designers and others in powerful new ways.

UNL has an exciting opportunity to envision a new future for the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film that will draw on the talents of faculty and students from many disciplines. Movies & Beyond: Connecting Digital Creativity Across Disciplines, is a retreat to bring together faculty to explore the creative intersections of film and emerging media with design, journalism, computational thinking, technology, science and other disciplines.

You might be an historian who envisions building a digital world of the distant past, a molecular biologist who wants to make a movie of a chemical reaction or a sociologist with compelling data and a story perfect for a documentary. Or you might be a computer scientist with the skills to help build the digital world, a laser scientist who can capture an ultrafast reaction, or a film maker seeking a story. The goal of this retreat is to bring you together.

The Movies & Beyond retreat will begin Nov. 16 with a reception and dinner at the Lied Commons and continue at Nebraska Innovation Campus on Nov. 17 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The retreat will feature nationally recognized speakers, including Elizabeth Daley, Dean of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; breakout sessions around key interdisciplinary topic areas; and discussion groups to define how developing connections across disciplines can create students who will innovate in many professional fields using film and emerging media.

Retreat sponsored by Office of the Chancellor, Office of Research and Economic Development and the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts

Schedule

6:00 p.m.

Registration and networking cocktail reception

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Lied Commons

7:00 p.m.

Dinner, hosted by Chancellor Harvey Perlman

Featuring:

An introduction to the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film
Presentation by Ira Greenberg, Director, Center of Creative Computation, Southern Methodist University

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Lied Commons

7:30 a.m.

Registration and networking breakfast

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Nebraska Innovation Campus Banquet Hall

8:30 a.m.

Welcome and retreat overview

Charles O’Connor, Dean, Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts

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Nebraska Innovation Campus Banquet Hall

8:50 a.m.

Retreat charge and introduction of keynote speaker

Chancellor Harvey Perlman

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Nebraska Innovation Campus Banquet Hall

9:00 a.m.

Keynote presentation

Dr. Elizabeth Daley, Dean, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California

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Nebraska Innovation Campus Banquet Hall

10:00 a.m.

Networking break

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10:30 a.m.

Design Thinking Workshop: “Imagining the Future of Film and Emerging Media @ UNL”

The workshop will use design thinking, a process that draws from design disciplines to innovate in complexity. It will be facilitated by Virajita Singh, Senior Research Fellow, Program Lead, Design Thinking @ College of Design, and Monica Bruning, Managing Director, jCenter for Innovative Higher Education, both from the University of Minnesota, and their creative team. Join us for hands-on creative action!

Session 1: Empathy + Define

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Nebraska Innovation Campus Banquet Hall

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

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Nebraska Innovation Campus Banquet Hall

1:00 p.m.

Design Thinking Workshop

Session 2: Ideate + Prototype + Present

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Nebraska Innovation Campus Banquet Hall