Spring 2013
Upcoming Events
Symposium
Information Design and Data Visualization Boston 2013
June 20
Northeastern University Visitor Center, West Village F, Room 20
FREE
Information Design and Data Visualization Boston 2013 is presented by the College of Arts, Media and Design, the Swiss Consulate, swissnex Boston, and Northeastern Center for the Arts.
Exhibition
Swiss Style Reboot
New Perspectives for Information Design
June 1st – July 17th
Gallery 360
FREE
What is Swiss Style and why is it useful for todayʼs information designers? Swiss Style Reboot presents nine graphic design lessons by the pioneers of the Swiss Style, which is characterized by clear, simple and objective visual communication. It explores their particular relevance for todayʼs infographics, data visualizations and interactive interfaces in three parts: The Swiss Style’s DNA, Interviews, and New Research.
Past Events
Department of Theatre Musical
Company: A Musical Comedy
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth, directed by Jonathan Carr. Featuring brilliant music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Company tells the story of a great friend: Bobby, the one single guy in a sea of married friends. Women adore him, but he can’t seem to settle down. His quest for a fulfilling life is by turns hilarious, sexy, and moving, while it asks the fundamental question—why do we need each other?
Art + Design Lecture
Seth Sivak
Indiana Jones Adventure World: Making Core Gameplay for Everyone
When Zynga Boston set out to build Adventure World, they searched for a way to bring the traditional gameplay of action adventure games to the browser. Puzzles, combat and exploration needed to be distilled so that any user could understand and navigate with only a left mouse click. In this presentation Seth Sivak, lead designer of Indiana Jones Adventure World, will present lessons learned and the challenges of bringing core game mechanics to the social genre.
Center for the Arts Event
Entrepreneurship Week Discussion Series
The College of Arts, Media and Design will present a series of lectures, panels, and round table discussions as part of the University’s celebration of National Entrepreneurship Week.
Keynote Speaker: Michael Maness, Vice President for Journalism and Media Innovation for the Knight Foundation
Department of Music Concert
NU Sounds: The Music of Philippe Leroux
With Sound Icon, conducted by Jeffrey Means. Sound Icon, Boston’s most adventurous new music group, performs the work of eminent French composer Philippe Leroux. At the forefront of acoustic and live electronic music for nearly twenty years, Leroux composes work in both the purely acoustic domain as well as works involving live electronics. This special concert will feature the Boston premier of Voi(Rex), a technically demanding piece involving cutting edge electronics.
This event is funded with support from the French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, SACEM, Institut Francais and the Florence Gould Foundation.
Architecture Lecture
Gordon Stott
Because We Were Tired of Designing Fancy Bathrooms for Rich People. Or, Notes on an Attempt to Industrialize The Residential Housing Industry
The tension between the singular, unique objects (typically buildings) created by “architects” and the plural, replicable objects created by “commercial designers” points to the privileged place architecture has occupied in relation to other design fields. As economic realities make this place of privilege less tenable for architects and their clients, Connect:homes proposes an “industrialized” solution to architecture, using a system born out of years of experience in modular housing industry.
Center for the Arts & Department of Theatre Play
Can’t Scare Me: The Story of Mother Jones
Written and performed by Kaiulani Lee. Less than a hundred years ago, two million American children worked countless hours for as little 10 cents a day—their parents worked in coalmines and textile mills with no job security, few protections and no legal right to organize. Thankfully much has changed, but far too few of us remember how. One of the principal catalysts for change was an Irish-American firebrand named Mother Jones. Obie Award winner Kaiulani Lee brings Mother Jones to life. The play is drawn from documents including Mother Jones’ autobiography, her letters, speeches, interviews and transcripts.
Department of Music Concert
Boston Symphony Orchestra Community Chamber Music Series
Verdi String Quartet in E minor
Still Danzas de Panama for string quartet
Brown Music for Cello and Piano
Previn Clarinet Quintet
Hawthorne String Quartet (Ronan Lefkowitz, Si-Jing Huang, violins; Mark Ludwig, viola, Sato Knudsen, cello); Thomas Martin, clarinet
Center for the Arts & Department of Music Symposium
Beyond Notation: An Earle Brown Symposium
Northeastern Center for the Arts and the Department of Music, with support from the Earle Brown Music Foundation, present a two-day symposium on American avant-garde composer Earle Brown (1926–2002). A native of Massachusetts, Brown studied at Northeastern University and Schillinger House (now Berklee College of Music) before establishing his career in New York and Europe as a groundbreaking composer and conductor of graphic notation and “open form” music. An international group of presenters from music, art, and dance will examine the life and musical legacy of Earle Brown.
Center for the Arts Event
Roundtable Book Discussion: Artistic Literacy
Professor Nancy Kindelan
A panel of educators from Boston College and Northeastern will discuss Artistic Literacy (Palgrave Macmillan 2012) by Nancy Kindelan of the Department of Theatre. Prof. Kindelan’s book examines what role theatre studies and the arts in general should play in a contemporary undergraduate education.
Department of Theatre Play
The Seagull
February 5-9 at 8PM; February 10 at 2PM
February 12-16 at 8PM; February 17 at 2PM
Written by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Antonio Ocampo-Guzman. When famed actress Arkadina visits her family for the summer with her young lover Trigorin in tow, they become ensnared in a tragicomic tangle of romance, intrigue and unrequited love. The poetic realism of Chekhov exposes how our inability to accept life as it is leads us to waste it absurdly.
Presented by the Department of Theatre
Lecture
“James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist”
by Amanda Lawrence
Monday, February 25 at 6pm
Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor at NU School of Architecture, will discuss her new book, James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist (Yale University Press 2012), the first critical study of one of modernism’s most influential architects, presenting examinations of six of Stirling’s projects and challenging previously accepted stylistic classifications of his work.
Symposium
City Design and Sustainability Symposium
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Keynote and panel discussions on the policy, business and science of city design.
Presented by Northeastern Center for the Arts
Concert
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Community Chamber Music Series
March 1
BEETHOVEN Septet in E-flat for winds and strings, Op. 20
SCHUBERT String Trio in B-flat, D.471
March 8
HINDEMITH Quartet No. 3, Op. 22
MOZART Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K.421
Presented by the Department of Music
Conference
Resilient Coastal Leisure Environments
Hosted by Ivan Rupnik
March 13 and 14
Northeastern and Boston Society of Architects
Presented by School of Architecture
Lecture
Nader Tehrani
Recent Work
Monday, March 18 at 6pm
Shilman Hall Room 135
Nader Tehrani, Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT SA+P, will discuss his recent work.
Presented by School of Architecture
Donnie Darko
Based on the film DONNIE DARKO
Adapted for the stage by Marcus Stern
Directed by Matthew Gray
March 12-16 at 8pm; March 17 at 2pm
March 19-23 at 8pm; March 24 at 2pm
Studio Theatre
Adapted for the stage by Marcus Stern. Directed by Matthew Gray. A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that may or may not be manipulating him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.
Adapted for the stage for only the second time, this popular and iconic movie is a unique blend of traditional theatre techniques, as well as cutting edge new technologies for live storytelling. Come and explore Love, Fear and Time Travel with us.
Concert
NU Sounds: Sonic Landscapes
Trevor Wishart, Guest Composer
Saturday, April 13 at 8pm
The Fenway Center
Trevor, Wishart, Professor of Music a the Universities of Oxford and Durham (UK) and author of Sound Composition, On Sonic Art and Audible Design, presents electroacoustic works for loudspeaker orchestra.
Presented by Department of Music
Exhibition
Art + Design Annual Faculty Exhibition
March 9th – April 17th
Gallery 360, Curry Student Center
Exhibition showcasing artwork by faculty members from the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern’s College of Arts, Media and Design.
Presented by Department of Art + Design
Festival
TEDxFenway
Wednesday, April 24
The Fenway Center
The nexus of artists, creative innovators, and researchers is here. To celebrate the one year anniversary of the Fenway’s designation as the city’s first Cultural District this afternoon series presents a diverse range of thought leaders—from Boston and beyond—to explore the question: what makes up the ‘ecology’ of a great city?
Presented by the Fenway Alliance and Northeastern Center for the Arts
Exhibition
Art + Design Annual Student Exhibition
April 20th – May 28th
Gallery 360, Curry Student Center
Exhibition showcasing artwork by students from the Department of Art + Design.
Presented by Department of Art + Design
Exhibition
How Did Architects Respond Immediately After 3/11?
May 8th – June 12th
International Village
Curated by Igarashi Taro and organized by the Japan Foundation, this exhibition, planned to coincide with the first anniversary of The Great East Japan Earthquake, sets out to introduce the world to the diverse range of projects launched by architects throughout the region.