The UGA Arts Council is excited to announce its inaugural 4 minutes, 33 seconds: Spotlight on Scholarship competition.
The event, which will award two prizes of $433 each, will give the campus community insight into the scholarship and research in the arts conducted by University of Georgia graduate students.
For the competition, graduate students have 4 minutes, 33 seconds to describe their research. They can use up to 33 visual aid slides to help explain the topic. The event is scheduled for 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, in the Chapel, as part of the Spotlight on the Arts festival.
The Spotlight event is inspired by John Cage’s landmark 1952 composition 4’33,” which calls for a pianist simply to sit silently at a piano for exactly 4 minutes and 33 seconds. Cage’s 4’33” challenged audiences to reconsider the function of art and the borders between traditional art disciplines and between artistic practice and philosophy.
Points will be awarded based on performance, originality and passion, as well as conciseness, comprehension, engagement and the ability to convey the research to a non-specialist audience. Sound and props are permitted.
Two winners will be chosen: one by a panel of faculty within and outside the arts and another chosen as an audience favorite.
