Multimedia festival features student work

Lathrop Hall will be overflowing with art during this year’s student-organized Festival of Interarts and Technology sponsored by the Dance Program.

The free public event, scheduled 6-10 p.m. Friday, May 5, in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave., features student-created multimedia presentations including performance, installation, original music, static art, computer art and video art.

“There has been a wonderful turnout of proposals and interest in this year’s event,” says student Cynthia Haskett, festival gallery coordinator. “The gallery and installations that are going up will be some of the best the department has seen.”

Haskett, along with students Christine Olson and A.J. Niehaus, is a member of Media Kittens, whose premiere performance can be seen at festival. Among others showing their work are seniors Dave Ferris, who will exhibit photography, and Mike Duff, who will show a performance piece.

“There’s lot of positive energy being generated among the students as we go into final rehearsals for the festival,” says senior Kelly Kivland, the performance coordinator. “I can’t wait ’til May 5, when all that energy is poured out into the works – I’m sure the audience will feel it, too.”

Kivland says the fesitval is planned and run by students from the outset. The students are in charge of everything from reserving space and equipment to scheduling rehearsals and works-in-progress showings as well as doing publicity.

Receptions are planned in the Virginia F. Harrison Parlor of Lathrop Hall, 7:30-8 p.m. and following the event. For information, call (608) 262-1691.