Radio scriptwriting
subject of courses
Award-winning radio scriptwriter Devin Wallace will be
teaching eight-week courses in radio theater for adults and
children ages eight through 12. beginning in late February.
The classes will expose students to old and new radio
theater forms and will include work in scriptwriting, basic
sound effects, music production, acting and recording skills
Wallace will also provide information on funding and
distribution sources in radio. Students will work on solo
and/or group projects, aiming toward possible actual broad
cast experience Teachers will be trained to use radio-theater
projects to help enliven their classrooms.
The adult class will meet Wednesday evenings from 7:30
to 10:00, beginning February 26. The children’s class will
meet Saturday mornings from 9:30 to noon, beginning March
1. The courses cost $40 for adults and $35 for children.
Chases are held at Wallace’s home. 1230 W. 10th Ave in
Eugene. For more information or to register, call 343-7095
during the evening.
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS
10:30 - 11:20 Norma Jean Germond
past presideni Oregon League of Women ‘voter*
"Hanford a kale lde sc ope of issues'
WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AT HANFORD
11:23 - 12:15 Don Paine - Phd Health and Phytic* and
manager of the Office of Emergency Preparedness
12:15 - 1:00 Dr. Robert Alvarez of 0k Enviromental
Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.
HANFORD AS A FUTURE NATIONAL REPOSITORY
2:00 - 2:30 Slide Show - U.S. Department of Energy
Panel Discusson - University Moderator
2:30 - 4:00 UO Faculty - Gail Hunt - geologist and
manager of the Waste Site Department USD O.E.
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him? her computer knowledge with her artistic
talents
“Your mind works in the same way; it's )ust
the way your hands respond that is different,’*
Craig says "The creative process is. still there
Craig has two works in the show Both an?
done on rice paper, which gives the images a
hand-finished look Her thesis involves the theme,
of rebirth. using an animated process. Craig
writes her own programs, using a VETRIX with
an Apple lie host.
Donna Cohen is another VVISTKC computer
art exhibitor. “There is something very special .
and different about working on the computer,”
she says. “The first time I worked on a computer,
I was using a new part of my brain, a part I had
never lapped before I watch the manipulation of
my picture and respond to the new image the
computer has emoted.“ . • •
The artist sits down to create The painting is
in his mind's eye. He chooses the colors he wants
to use. and the size of his brush. His palette: a
program with a possible 16.5 million colors. His
canvas: a computer screen.
Computer art It was bound to happen and
with computers becoming increasingly affordable
the idea has worked its way into the classroom..
"I think the computer has gotten a lot of bad
press:" says Craig Hickman, University assistant
professor of arl. "Most people think of data pro
cessing when they think of the computer. They
don't think of art. yet computer art is potentially
as revolutionary as photography."
Hickman and Ken O’Connell, head of the
University art department, put together "Com
puters and the Creative Process,” an exhibition
featuring work by 25 artists from across the U.S.
and Canada. The exhibit is currently on display at
Several local computer-scientists and artists spent many hours in front of the "tube" to create
works for the current computer graphics display at W.ISTBC.
Willamette- Science and Technology Center
(WISTEC). .
With its storage capacity and ability to
manipulate and modify images, the computer is a
tool that some artists have begun to use. It allows
artists to try out ideas, provided those ideas can
be reduced to numbers, images can be altered,
combined and recombined and colors from a cur
rent of 16.5 million can be chosen as artists ex
periment with relastionships of color, shape or
structure.
"Computer art is so broad, and it encom
passes so many things," Hickman says. He ex
plains that one purpose of the WISTEC show is to
demystify how computer art is created. "Normal
ly in art it is not as important how things are
made." he says.
The computer is not restricted to one
medium. With a paint program in its memory, it
becomes a paint tool; with a digitizer, it becomes
a camera; with an animation program it becomes
a movie machine and with a 3-D program it
becomes a tool to explore spatial relationships.
The computer can also be the planning tool for an
artist 's finished work — using it to design but not
necessarily produce the finished work.
Patricia Craig, a graduate student in visual
design, is using the computer for her master's
thesis dealing with animation. Craig was first in
troduced to computers through data processing at
work. She realized, after seeing a Vic-20 com
puter graphic demonstration, that she could com
The wonderful thing about computer art.
however, is that one need not know how'to pro
gram. In fact , most people who create artwork on
the computer don't write their own programs. A
person merely needs to know the basics. such as
how to communicate with the computer through
a series of ' menu" choices.
Artists can use digitized images, which
originate from a standard video camera rather
than from the computer itself The computer,
with the aid of extra hardware, converts the video
image into numerical values so it can understand
it. Hickman likens the process to dictating a pic
ture done on graph paper over the phone.
"We see the process often, such as those im
ages sent back from Voyager." Hickman says,
referring to the satellite which sent back pictures
from Uranus recently.
Computer-assisted art is yet another applica
tion of computers. Computers are being hooked
up to weaving looms, photographic enlargers,
animation cameras and power cutting tools, ac
cording to Hickman. There are some pieces in the
show that employ that style. "These pieces are
examples of how the computer can lie used in the
creative process, but not necessarily appear in the
final product.” Hickman says,
Story by Amy Moss
Photon by Harvey Young
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