Dissolution Room: Premiere ScreeningFriday, November 13, 2026Digital Visualization Theater, Jordan HallJoin us for the premiere screening of Dissolution Room, a collaborative audiovisual project by Cecilia Kim and David Bird that explores the cave as a framework for memory, geological time, and data accumulation. Presented in the Digital Visualization Theater, a state-of-the-art dome projection space with immersive surround sound, Dissolution Room transforms the theater into a cave of its own. This reimagined space unfolds in sedimentary layers, exploring the connections between human activity, digital storage, and cultural memory.Premiere Screening and Reception6:00 p.m. - Screening followed by a conversation with the artists and a receptionAdditional Screenings2:00–5:30 p.m - Screenings will loop every half hour for those unable to attend the evening event.Cecilia Kim is a video artist, who collects and archives stories in the form of digital videos. Kim has exhibited nationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (VA), The Kreeger Museum (DC), Hamiltonian Artists (DC), Kaplan Gallery (MD), The Immigrant Artist Biennial (NY), and internationally, in CICA Museum (Gimpo, Korea), and Pluripotent Art Space (Seoul, Korea). Kim was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Kunstnarhuset Messen, among others. Kim was a recipient of the The Trawick Prize, Washington Project for the Arts Wherewithal Grant, and Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is an Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Notre Dame.David Bird is a composer, producer, and multimedia artist. His work explores the dramatic potential of electroacoustic and multimedia environments, often highlighting the relationships between technology and the individual. His compositions have been performed at venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and at festivals including the Gaudeamus Festival, Wien Modern, Donaueschinger Musiktage, and the MATA Festival. His work has received praise from outlets such as The New York Times, The Wire, Textura, and Best of Bandcamp. He is the recipient of a 2021 Fromm Music Foundation Commission from Harvard University, the 2021 Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellowship, a 2018 Austrian Federal Chancellery / KulturKontakt Austria Artist Residency, the 2018 Giga-Hertz Award (Honorable Mention), the Prix CIME 2025 Electroacoustic Competition (Honorable Mention), the 2016 BMI Student Composer Award, and a 2016 Gaudeamus Award nomination. Bird currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Digital Media at the University of Notre Dame.