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Emerging Young Artists 2016 Invitational Exhibition
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: 34 Participating schools: over 150 exhibited pieces!
The College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) has the pleasure to present the Emerging Young Artists 2016 Invitational Exhibition at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
The exhibition will be on view in the CVPA Campus Gallery on the first floor of the CVPA building at UMass Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth from January 25 to February 6, 2016. An opening reception for the exhibiting young artists, their art teachers, the UMass Dartmouth community, and the general public will be held on Saturday, February 6th, from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Awards will be presented at 2:30 pm. Parking for the event is Lot 7.
The College of Visual and Performing Arts is thrilled to host this 4th annual high school invitational exhibition and to showcase the artwork of many of the region's talented art students. The Emerging Young Artists 2016 Invitational Exhibition recognizes the exceptional merit of high school art students from thirty-four high school art programs in Massachusetts. The EYA 2016 exhibiting schools are: Abington High School, Acton-Boxborough Regional High School, Auburn High School, Belmont High School, Bishop Connolly High School, Bishop Feehan High School, Bishop Fenwick High School, Bishop Stang High School, Bourne High School, Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School, Brockton High School, CATS Academy Boston, Chelmsford High School, Dartmouth High School, Dennis Yarmouth Regional High School, Fairhaven High School, Falmouth High School, Marlborough High School, New Bedford High School, Northampton High School, Oakmont Regional High School, Old Rochester Regional High School, Pembroke High School, Revere High School, Seekonk High School, Shawsheen Valley Technical High School, Shrewsbury High School, Silver Lake Regional High School, Somerset Berkley Regional High School, Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School, Wachusett Regional High School, Wayland High School, West Boylston Middle High School and Westport High School. The participating schools were invited to be part of the exhibition for the long-term commitment they have demonstrated to art education and for the quality of work that comes from their art programs. The art teachers from these high schools were asked to select artwork in any media (drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, film, video, printmaking, graphic design, etc.) from their best students to be included in this group exhibition. The result is a marvelous exhibition that showcases the talents of these young artists.
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- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
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DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DISSERTATION DEFENSE BY: Abdelnaser O. Rashwan
- Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A
- Cost: free
- Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Description: TOPIC: QUALITY-DRIVEN SECURE ROUTING FOR WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA SENSOR NETWORKS USING SECRET SHARING
LOCATION: Lester W. Cory Conference Room, Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A
ABSTRACT:
Security and video quality are progressively significant attributes for wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSN). Most existing research considers security and video quality separately. However, it is crucial to integrate security and video quality for video transmission because delivering video data across a secure path does not often meet video quality requirements. Applying secret sharing algorithms on a data packet and delivering it through disjoint multipaths can be considered as a typical security approach. However, using the general concept of secret sharing is not efficient when large size video data are routed. Therefore, in the first part of the dissertation, a new security and quality aware routing protocol (SQAR) is proposed to address these issues. Security and video quality are jointly considered in wireless multimedia networks by a proposed video distortion model based on a new secret image sharing scheme. In SQAR, a secret image sharing is only applied on the intra-frames (I-Frame) of the video codec H.264, which can significantly reduce the transmission overheads. The performance results show that SQAR scheme can achieve better trade-off between the security and quality over the traditional routing protocols.
The second part of the dissertation investigates the joint performance optimization of network lifetime and video distortion for WMSN. To balance the tradeoff between minimizing video distortion and maximizing network lifetime, a multi-objective cross-layer optimization framework is proposed. The approach not only extends network lifetime but also achieves optimal video quality, where the source encoding and link rates are jointly examined, formulating a weighted convex optimization problem. In the context of security, a secret scheme that couples secret sharing and multipath routing is developed to provide reliable security. Additionally, a specific video distortion model, including source rate and link rate is proposed. Lastly decentralized algorithms are implemented using subgradient methods to solve the multi-objective optimization problem. Experimental results demonstrate the optimal tradeoff performance. It is shown that the proposed scheme can accomplish a longer network lifetime with much less video distortion compared to existing approaches.
NOTE: All ECE Graduate Students are ENCOURAGED to attend.
All interested parties are invited to attend. Open to the public.
Advisor: Dr. Honggang Wang
Committee Members:
Dr. Liudong Xing and Dr. Howard E. Michel, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering; Dr. Haiping Xu, Computer and Information Science; Dr. Xinming Huang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
*For further information, please contact Dr. Honggang Wang at 508.999.8469 or via email at hwang1@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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International Film Series
- Location: CVPA Auditorium
, CVPA-153
- Contact: CITS: Computing & Information Technology Services
- Description: Traitors: (Morocco, 2015) Malika, leader of the Traitors, an all-female rock band, has a strong vision of the world and her place in it. In Arabic and French with English subtitles.
- Topical Areas: General Public, English
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Wendy Wahl: ConTexts / Exhibition
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Wendy Wahl: ConTexts. Paper in 2D and 3D
Reception: AHA! Night, Dec 10, 6-8 pm, Artist Talk 7 PM
The exhibition ConTexts at the University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents a series of work by Wendy Wahl created from re-purposed encyclopedias. Her 2D works, made of hundreds of rolled paper strips glued onto a wooden panel, are sculpted into complex, repetitive reliefs. When light hits, they create an amazing universe that changes in surprising ways as the visitor walks by, often revealing an underlying geometry. In Wahl's newest work created for the exhibition, she uses the tops of the pages with golden edges taken from old Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedias. Ms. Wahl's 3D pieces, enhanced by shadow-producing light and made from cut pages released from its binding, might remind visitors of underwater creatures with tentacles reaching out from the walls or into the gallery space. ConTexts brings new and inspiring meaning to the phrase 'reading a page'.
For the last ten years Wendy Wahl's studio work has included a series that is created from thousands of pages of discarded and some now out of print volumes that include the Encyclopaedia Britannica, World Book, Collier's, Funk and Wagnalls and a variety of Dictionaries. The outcome of this work is an expression of her view of the connections between nature and culture. Wahl's interest is considering the associations between the tree of life, defined as the patterns of relationships that link all earthâ's species and the tree of knowledge, defined as the connected branches of human thought realized in the form of writing and speaking. This work is part of an ongoing experiment that uses the potency of printed text on paper. She is using a cultural artifact as her material for many reasons that include its unique physical qualities, the meanings that it carries and to recognize its existence. By restructuring familiar elements that in a particular format belongs to a collective consciousness, Wahl is commenting on an aspect of our station in time.
Wendy Wahl's work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of private and public collections including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY and the RISD Museum. In 2010, she was selected for Networks, a project documenting Rhode Island artists through video and exhibition. The same year, she was commissioned to create a piece for the entrance of SOFA (Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art exposition) at the Park Avenue Armory, NY. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, the Newport Art Museum, RI and Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA. She has received artist fellowship awards from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the US Ambassador to Tashkent, Uzbekistan selected her work for his residence through the Art in Embassy Program. She has been recognized in numerous publications including Art News, Boston Globe, Casa Vogue, Providence Journal, Metropolis, The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The New Yorker, the Britannica blog, the Curated Object and The Wall Street Journal. Currently she is a lecturer at The New School - Parson's, Department of Constructed Environments. She received an MAE in Textile Art from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA in Art from California State University at Northridge. She resides in Rhode Island with her husband, John Dunnigan, and their daughter, Hannah. Wendy Wahl was born in Los Angeles, California in 1961
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The exhibition is curated by Viera Levitt, Gallery Director and is open through Feb 14, 2016.
University Art Gallery
UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
umassd.edu/universityartgallery
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
Gallery exhibitions are open Mon-Sat from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sun 9 am to 5 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month). Closed for holidays on Nov 26, Dec 25 and Jan 1. Free admission.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1632707470317313/
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Poetry, Visual Arts
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