1/16/20: Samira Harnish and Women of the World

After achieving his dream of being a video gamer artist and reaching the top at Blizzard Entertainment, Josh Singh was faced with the reality of what it takes to make it: time and constantly hitting the mark. After leaving and helping make League of Legends the game it is today, Josh finds himself climbing the ladder, both up and down, eventually leading back up to the top of the industry as the Art Director for Marvel Entertainment.

Josh attended BYU-Hawaii, earning an Associate of General Studies in 2001, and studied Graphic Design at Eagle Gate Technical College in Murray, UT. Since graduating, he has worked as a senior character artist at Sony Online Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment, and Riot Games, as well as other companies. In addition to being Art Director for Marvel Entertainment, he has also been an Art Director for Wavedash Games, where he built their art department entirely from scratch, and Brazilian gaming company Wildlife Games, which taught him a working proficiency in Portuguese. He has worked on such notable projects as Titan Quest, Project Titan (the predecessor to Overwatch), League of Legends, Legends of Runeterra, and Icons: Combat Arena, and Tennis Clash. He has been with Marvel Entertainment since September 2021, where he has been an Art Director for Marvel Snap, Marvel's Midnight Suns, and Marvel's Spider-Man 2. In 2011, he was named a Master Artist by online art community CGHub (a honor with such weight that it has a history of being used to gain a US O-1B Visa, given to those who have extraordinary artistic ability) and was an instructor of a Masterclass at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects (the “MIT of VFX”) in 2013. Josh also speaks fluent Fijian. 

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On Friday, 10 October 1800, a ragtag group of artists and Jacobins were arrested at the Paris Opéra, accused of plotting to stab First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte in his box. In the coming weeks the suspected ringleaders of this so-called Conspiracy of Daggers were swiftly tried, convicted, and guillotined as a warning to other would-be assassins. But how guilty were they? Although the regime prosecuted its case confidently, its critics from the beginning insisted that the accused were little more than patsies goaded into the crime by an undercover agent. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including official proceedings, firsthand accounts, architectural plans, secret British intelligence reports, as well as letters and scores in the French National Library and the Paris Opéra archives—this lecture reopens the case and argues that the “conspiracy” was likely an elaborate set-up by the authorities and that the opera performed on that fateful evening played a key role in entrapping and foiling the assassins.

Douglas L. Ipson is Assistant Professor of Music History and Theory at Southern Utah University. He received a Ph.D. in music history at the University of Chicago after earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from Brigham Young University. A specialist in nineteenth-century Italian opera—especially its political aspects—he has been published in the Cambridge Opera Journal and is a contributor to The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia (2013). He is preparing the critical edition of the opera La battaglia di Legnano for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, published by the University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi. His other areas of scholarly interest include Shakespeare and opera, the sixteenth-century Italian madrigal, and opera in revolutionary and Napoleonic France. He is also a composer and arranger whose works have performed across the United States and internationally. He is a native of St. George, Utah.

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We are joined by the creators Gerald C. Rivers (Morehouse College Alumni) and Charles Holt (Rhodes College) on the APEX Radio Hour Podcast Hour to discuss. 

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Sarah Ford is a Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Photographer, Storyteller, Meditation Teacher, and Spiritual Care counselor. Sarah has extensive Hollywood, entertainment agency experience as an Art Director designing posters from start to finish for film and television such as Hidden Figures, Spider-Man Homecoming, The Martian, Orange is the New Black, and American Horror Story. A multidisciplinary artist, she addresses contemporary issues with skills ranging from Movie Poster Design to Documentary Photography. Her unique passion for spiritual care and art connects with all beings and storytelling from a compassionate perspective. As a Secular Buddhist, she engages the intersections of topics such as; identity, climate crisis, inner creativity, trauma resilience, recovery, somatic healing, mentoring, and imagination.*** Eccles APEX Website: https://www.suu.edu/apex

A civil dialogue discussion will focus on whether or not the government should regulate artificial intelligence (AI). We have four guests who feel vastly different about regulation and AI, so it promises to be a robust and civil dialogue. *** Eccles APEX Website: https://www.suu.edu/apex

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Laurel Braitman is the Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Stanford School of Medicine, as well as the New York Times bestselling author of Animal Madness and her memoir What Looks Like Bravery. In the Medicine and the Muse program at Stanford, she works with medical students and professionals to reintroduce the power of storytelling to the healthcare field. Laurel holds a Ph.D. in Science, Technology, and Society from MIT, and is a Senior TED Fellow. She’s the founder of Writing Medicine, a global community of writing healthcare professionals.*** Eccles APEX Website: https://www.suu.edu/apex

Ed Latimore is a former professional heavyweight boxer, national amateur boxing champion, competitive chess player, and bestselling author. Holds a B.A. in physics from Duquesne University and is a veteran of the United States Army. Ed’s writing focuses on self-development, realizing your potential, and sobriety — all of which he approaches from personal experience, overcoming poverty and addiction.*** Eccles APEX Website: https://www.suu.edu/apex