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[Nettime-bold] UPCOMING MEDIA SERIES: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
As Hunter's Department of Film & Media launches its new MFA program in Integrated Media Arts, we invite you to a series of presentations by artists in a wide range of media. We hope you can join us. THE UNTAMED SIGNAL CUTTING-EDGE MEDIA CREATORS at the IDA K. LANG HALL HUNTER COLLEGE, SPRING 2002 Media, talk & refreshments All events begin at 6pm and are FREE! Ida K. Lang Hall, Rm. 424, N. Building, Hunter College 68th St. at Lexington Ave., New York 6 Train to 68th St. (212) 772-4949 http://filmmedia.hunter.cuny.edu Schedule: (detailed descriptions follow) Fri. February 8 - Gail Pellett (with Ken Hurwitz) Fri. March 1 - Sasha Abramsky Tues. March 12 - Mitch McCabe Wed. March 13 - Elisabeth Subrin Tues. April 2 - Phil Bertelsen Fri. April 19 - Keith Sanborn Mon. April 22 - Adrienne Klein Thurs. April 25 - Kathleen Brandt & Brian Lonsway Fri. April 26 - Lana Lin Wed. May 8 - G.H. Hovagimyan ________________________________________ Fri. February 8 Gail Pellett (with Ken Hurwitz) Gail Pellett's powerful video documentaries have explored some of the most pressing social issues of our time. At Hunter, Pellett will present her most recent work, JUSTICE & THE GENERALS, which examines the killing of three nuns and a Catholic lay worker in El Salvador twenty years ago. Offering insights into complex legal issues, it investigates the generals, now living in Florida, who are being sued for command responsibility in the atrocity. Ms. Pellett has worked for many years as one of Bill Moyers' senior producers at PBS. Hurwitz is a lawyer on the case. Presented by Stuart Ewen. ________________________________________ Fri. March 1 Sasha Abramsky Award-winning journalist Sasha Abramsky uses immersion reportage to bring alive the political forces that have led America's prison and jail population to increase more than four fold in the past twenty years. His new book, HARD TIME BLUES, deftly explores the War on Drugs, the Rockefeller Laws, and the growth of the SuperMax Prisons which have helped to incarcerate 2 million US citizens. His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone and the Village Voice. Presented by Peter Parisi. ________________________________________ Tues. March 12 Mitch McCabe Mitch McCabe's film work has boldly combined autobiography with more fictionalized elements. Her work has consistently drawn attention at a number of film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and New Director/New Films at MOMA. McCabe's 1995 film, PLAYING THE PART, is an angst-ridden but humorous essay which puts the quirks of her traditional family life in Grosse Pointe, Michigan into counterpoint with her gay life in Boston. The film won an Academy Award and the Special Jury Prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. McCabe is currently finishing her first feature, THIS CORROSION. Presented by Joe McElhaney. ________________________________________ Wed. March 13 Elisabeth Subrin Elisabeth Subrin's films examine intersections of history and subjectivity within female biography. Her award-winning works have been acclaimed by the Village Voice, Art Forum and Film Comment. In response to her most recent work, 'The Fancy', the New York Times had this to say: 'One of the most moving evocations of a person... Ms. Subrin confers immortality on her subject while making vivid her irrevocable absence.' Presented by Michael Gitlin. ________________________________________ Tues. April 2 Phil Bertelsen Student Academy Award winning filmmaker Phil Bertelsen was a Spike Lee Fellow at New York University before beginning his current PBS sponsored project MATTERS OF RACE. He moves fluidly between narrative and documentary approaches to the media. Bertelsen's documentary, SUNSHINE, won numerous awards at festivals around the country. He is currently writing a screenplay for the notoriously iconoclastic producers at Good Machine. Presented by Tami Gold. ________________________________________ Fri. April 19 Keith Sanborn Working in a wide range of media, Keith Sanborn explores the zone where public images meet private perceptions. 'I consider myself a graduate of Catholicism,' says Sanborn, 'and I believe the visual and intellectual aspects of my particular education cause me to cultivate a theory of religion and ecstacy.' Sanborn's work has been exhibited widely, including the Walker Art Gallery, MOMA, Anthology Film Archives, Eiszeit Kino, and the Toronto International Film Festival. Presented by Lynne Sachs. ________________________________________ Mon. April 22 Adrienne Klein Adrienne Klein is an artist and curator with a special interest in the intersection of art and science. She has shown extensively in the United States and Europe, including nine solo exhibitions. She has served on the Board of Governors of the New York Foundation for the Arts and curated exhibitions for Union College, New York University and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She is the editor of the online bulletin of Art and Science Collaborations. Says Klein: 'Around my artwork there is often the whiff of a science project. I make work that explores our senses and the relationship between our corporeal bodies and the products of our intellect.' Presented by Andrea Polli. ________________________________________ Thurs. April 25 Kathleen Brandt & Brian Lonsway Teaming up with a new multimedia work, 'Chroma-Space: contesting contested spaces with the color blue,' included in this year's Franklin Furnace 'Future of the Present' performance series, Kathleen Brandt and Brian Lonsway will present video, installation, and performance projects which use chroma-key technologies to politically engage privately owned public space. Kathleen Brandt is an installation artist who has exhibited widely, experimenting with a range of materials from microscopes to rubber. Brian Lonsway has written extensively on informatics and is an assistant professor and Director of Informatics and Architecture at the School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. Presented by Andrea Polli. ________________________________________ Fri. April 26 Lana Lin Lana Lin is a Taiwanese American artist whose motion pictures engage the problematic nature of cross-cultural expression of experience. The inadequacy and rewards of translation provide the foundation for much of her work. Her piece, EVERYTHING IS NOT THE SAME, utilizes speech recognition software and psychoanalysis as colliding systems that categorize and condition human behavior. The case study of Anna O., whose hysterical symptoms included a unique speech disorder, is dictated to a computer that generates a transcript that is both frustrating and revelatory. Presented by Michael Gitlin. ________________________________________ Wed. May 8 G.H. Hovagimyan Noted for his vespertine take on computer sexuality, celebrating the plagiarism of clowns, and the 'art dirt' of 'art people,' G.H. Hovagimyan is an experimental artist with roots in the New York punk and video movements. His recent works operate in hybrid areas between networked performance, interactive installation and sound art. He has exhibited work throughout the USA and France, including Eyebeam Atelier, Franklin Furnace, and the Musee D'Art Contemporain, Marseille and is included in this year's Franklin Furnace 'Future of the Present' performance series. Presented by Andrea Polli. _____________________________________________________________ Coordinated by Elisa Sverdlova, Lynn Sachs, Andrea Polli, Ebon Fisher and the Faculty at the Dept. of Film & Media Studies, Hunter College. Sponsored by the Student Film & Video Society Hunter College, New York. Thanks to Franklin Furnace, Martha Wilson, and Tiffany Ludwig. _____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold