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Cutting-edge musicians and artists from across the nation\nwill converge on Transylvania University next month for the Studio 300 Digital\nArt and Music Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The public is invited to this biennial event from Oct. 3-4 in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. The festival will feature interactive installations, artist talks and concerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get the details<\/a>, including event times and days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Named after the university’s “300” N. Broadway address, the festival will give the Lexington community and Transylvania students a front-row seat to the national digital music and arts scene. It ties in to the university’s Digital Liberal Arts<\/a> initiative, which teaches students to use technology across a wide range of disciplines \u2014 including art and music \u2014 and provides them with the spaces and latest equipment to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the festival, students will meet the artists and\nmusicians and experience their works and performances up close. “It makes\nit real for them,” said Timothy Polashek, music professor and co-director\nof the festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transylvania senior Emily Nance will be more than just an\nobserver during the event when she presents video game design work she created\nthrough a summer internship<\/a>. She worked for Super Soul, a Lexington company\nassociated with the nonprofit RunJumpDev. John Meister, co-founder of both\nSuper Soul and RunJumpDev<\/a>, will set up\ncomputer hardware at Studio 300 for visitors to play games they’ve produced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installed throughout Mitchell Fine Arts, the festival’s art\nexhibits will incorporate the latest technology. “The installations are\nprimarily interactive and fun,” Polashek said. For instance, at the\nmultimedia installation “I, You, We<\/a>,”\nartist Cecilia Suhr will invite visitors to stand in front of a camera\nprojecting their faces onto an animated display, which she will manipulate\nelectronically through notes she plays on her cello and violin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lauren Sarah Hayes, a Scottish musician and sound artist, will perform in the Club Electromusic concert at Al\u2019s Bar as part of Transylvania’s Studio 300 festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Other events will include an interactive, surround sound concert with electro-acoustic instruments in Haggin Auditorium \u2014 and there’ll be Club Electromusic performances at nearby Al’s Bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polashek said he expects 20-30 artists and musicians from New York to California to participate in the festival. A work by Polashek will be performed, and art professor Zo\u00e9 Strecker\u2019s exhibition \u201cForest Portals<\/a>\u201d will be on display in Morlan Gallery. Other participants with Transy ties include music professor Larry Barnes and music technology major Adam Dees ’21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studio 300 is part of the university’s New\nFrontiers<\/a> feature event series, which, along with some of the festival\u2019s works,\nfocuses on this year’s campus theme of resilience<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event also celebrates the liberal arts values of\ncreativity, open-mindedness and making surprising connections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s special about the Studio 300 Digital Art and Music\nfestival is that it is an intense and interdisciplinary examination of how\nrapidly evolving technology is constantly supplying new opportunities for\ncreative expression,\u201d Polashek said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Mitchell\nFine Arts Center<\/a> is off West Fourth Street on Transylvania’s campus. Plenty\nof free, nearby parking<\/a>\nis available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n