Thursday April 17 - Monday April 28
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Milwaukee Underground Film Festival Benefit
MUFF EXPLOSION 2008 @ Art Bar
722 E. Burliegh St.
Thurs. April 17. 8PM
$5 at the door. All ages, drink with ID
featuring The Lillies, Steve Wetzel and Andy Thiel
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Friday April 18 - Saturday April 19, 2008
World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media
Hefter Center, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Center for International Education will hold its annual academic conference on April 18-19, 2008. "World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media" seeks to explore the way in which various art and media practices construct our understanding and experience of the world across literal and metaphoric places, screens, and frames. It explores the capacity of art and media practices - print, film, literature, television, architecture, internet culture, and digital art - to create distinctive senses of place, space and time and endeavors to think about social relations, aesthetic orders, language systems, and citizenship within and beyond the nation-state.
The Conference will be held at the Hefter Center at 3271 North Lake Drive (a short walk from UWM's campus). Click on Directions for a map. Please note that David Wilson's lecture on Friday 18 April (7:30 - 9:00 pm) will take place in Curtin Hall, room 175.
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Friday – Sunday, April 18-20
UWM Union Theatre
2200 E. Kenwood
Part 1 1pm each day; Part 2 6pm each day
Taiga
(Ulrike Ottinger, Germany/Mongolia, in Mongolian and German w/ English
subtitles, 501 min. 35mm, 1993)
Co-presented by UWM Union Theatre & UWM Film Department
Taiga is Ulrike Ottinger’s epic 8 hour documentary shot within Mongolia. Focusing on the daily lives of the Darchad nomads and the Tuvan people of the North, Ottinger observes their shamanic rituals, celebrations, hunting expeditions and real Mongolian barbecues among other aspects of their nomadic existence amidst spellbinding landscapes. Taiga mirrors the slow, unhurried pace of Mongolian life.
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Friday, April 18, 2008 5-9 pm
Saturday, April 19, 2008 noon-5 pm
Kenilworth Square East Open House Schedule
CONTINUOUS EVENTS
At Urban Outfitters What’s Your _____? Video and Pinhole Photography by Portia Cobb’s Ethnographic Video Class
Sissel Tolaas: Fear 9 (scent-based installation, 463)
Photography: work by students of Gina Rymarcsuk, Naomi Shersty, and Tom Bamberger
Open Studios
Dick Blau (photography projects, 491)
Chris Whittaker (sculpture or video loop, 492)
Portia Cobb (screening of Trilogy, shorts works from a project using found footage mingled with her own footage, 481)
Gina Rymarcsuk & Naomi Shersty (455)
Ken Wood (painting) 479
SCHEDULED EVENTS
FRIDAY
5-6 pm: screening of Film 455 (Integrated Film Exploration) projects (Room 408)
6-7:30 pm: Sensorium: A Conversation with Sissel Tolaas and Caroline A. Jones (see below for more details) (Room 412)
8-9 pm: Roughcut screening of Chosen Towns: The Experience of Jews in Rural Wisconsin’s Diaspora (film in progress made by docUWM and UWM students) with invited audience; public & audience invited to offer feedback. RT 60 min. (Room 408)
Performances/Installations
SATURDAY
Noon-5 pm: Poetry Everywhere (mostly silent 36 min. loop on 2 screens)
Noon-5 pm: Glenn Bach open studio/rehearsal with special guest sound artists John Kannenberg, Jim Schoenecker, others. Improvised performance at 3 pm. (449)
Noon-1 pm : screening of Film 455 (Integrated Film Exploration) projects (408)
1: 15 pm: My Trip to the Beach, or Making Me into You 9 Times Over (Heather Warren Crow performance, 408) (15-20 min.)
2-5 pm: screening of Film 455 (Integrated Film Exploration) projects (408)
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Friday, April 18
6pm KSE, 4th Floor
SENSATIONAL! SENSING MEDIA ARTS THEORY AND PRACTICE
Colloquia in Conceptual Studies
Kenilworth Square East
1925 E. Kenilworth Pl.
April 18, 2008 at 6 pm (Room 412)
Sensorium
A Conversation with Sissel Tolaas and Caroline A. Jones
“Sensorium," a talk by Caroline Jones (Professor and Director of the History, Theory, Criticism Program, Department of Architecture, MIT). The talk is paired with an installation by and discussion with conceptual artist Sissel Tolaas, whose work explores the sense of smell.
April 18-19, 2008 (KSE Room 463)
Sissel Tolaas: Fear 9
scent-based installation
Gallery Night & Day
Friday, April 18, 5-9 pm
Saturday, April 19, noon-5 pm
Sissel Tolaas (b. Norway, 1961) is a Berlin-based artist who has been working,
researching and experimenting intensively with the topic of smell since 1990. She
has developed revolutionary projects with smells and fragrances based upon her own knowledge of chemical science, mathematics, linguistics and languages, and visual art. Her installations have exhibited all over the world, and she has consulted with companies and institutions such as Cartier, Louis Vuitton, COMME des GARCONS,
Estee Lauder, Chrysler Future, The Boston Consulting Group, ZH/Berlin, Bayers-Schering Inc., and the San Francisco Neurosciences Institute. In January of 2004, she established the research lab, IFF re_searchLab Berlin, on smell & communication, which is supported by IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances) Inc., New York. The Lab conducts research on the topic of smell/olfactory and smell-communication for the purpose of trying to change the existing approach to “our noses and smells and the process of smelling.“
Caroline A. Jones studies modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on its technological modes of production, distribution, and reception. Professor of art history and director of the History, Theory, Criticism Program in the Department of Architecture
at MIT, she has also worked as an essayist and curator, most recently with MIT’s List Visual Art Center on Video Trajectories. She held positions at The Museum of Modern
Art in New York (1977-83) and the Harvard University Art Museums (1983-85) prior to completing her PhD at Stanford University in 1992. Her exhibitions and/or films have been shown at MoMA and Harvard as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, and the Hara
Museum Tokyo, among other venues; her publications include Sensorium (as editor, 2006), Eyesight Alone (2005), Machine in the Studio (1996/98), and the co-edited volume Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998). A frequent contributor to Artforum, Jones’s
current research into globalism informs her next book on contemporary art, the world picture, and what she calls “biennial culture.”
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Friday 4/18: 3pm - 9pm
Saturday 4/19: 11am - 4pm
Treat yourself to an impressive photography exhibit:
FOCUS, the UWM Undergraduate Student Photography Club, is having their first group show.
Fifteen - twenty active members have worked incredibly hard to arrange and install this exhibit.
Hope to see you there!
FOCUS ~ the unveiling exhibition
C.R. Davidson Art
Marshall Building, 207 E. Buffalo St, Suite 210
414-220-9389
Show runs: 4/15 - 6/15
gallery hours: Fri & Sat 11am - 4pm, or by appointment
**Student Photography work is also on display on the third and fourth floors of
KSE for Gallery night & day.
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Monday, April 21
Screening in Intro to Experimental Media Arts 201
MUS 175 11:00am-12:50pm
- Bruce Conner's Report
- Gunvor Nelson and Debra Wiley's Schmeerguntz
- Work by Animal Farm
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Monday, April 21
7pm, UWM Union Theatre, free
CMP Film series: “Black Radical Film: Culture & Confrontation”
She’s Gotta Have It (Spike Lee, 1986)
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Thursday, April 247pm Cream City Collective, 732 E. Clarke St.
In anticipation of May Day: Catching up with Chris Marker
A bientôt j'espère
/ Be Seeing You (Mario Marret & Chris Marker; produced by SLON, 16mm on vhs, 39 min., 1968) A documentary of and a conversation with the striking workers of Rhodiaceta, a textile plant owned by the Rhone-Poulenc trust in the city of Besançon, France. Refusing to disassociate the industrial conflict from a social and cultural agenda, the striking workers' demands concerned not only salary and job security, but also the very lifestyle imposed on them by society. Produced by SLON, which translates as the "Company for the Launching of New Works. Marker was a member of this filmmaking collective from 1967-1976. Presented as part of a cross-city celebration of films by Chris Marker
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Friday, April 257pm $2 Woodland Pattern Experimental Film /Video series
Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E Locust, 414 263 5001
In anticipation of May Day: Catching up with Chris Marker
The Embassy (super8 on DVD, 21 min., 1973)
One of Chris Marker's few fiction films, The Embassy, shot in Super8 in the wake of the coup d’etat in Chile in 1972, shows political dissidents seeking refuge in a foreign embassy after a military coup d'état in an unidentified country. Over the next few days, more and more people fleeing the military assault-teachers, students, intellectuals, artists, and politicians-arrive at the embassy.
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The Sixth Side of the Pentagon (Chris Marker & François Reichenbach, 16mm on DVD, b&w/sound, 26 min., 1967) Marker’s doc on the October 21, 1967 march on the Pentagon for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. "If the five sides of the pentagon appear impregnable, attack the sixth side." -- Zen proverb
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“On vous parle de Paris: Maspero, Les mots ont?un sens” (Report on Paris: Maspero: Words have a sense.)
(16mm on DVD, in French with live English translation, b&w, 20min., 1970) A portrait of editor/publisher and political activist François Maspero, considered heroic for his stalwart publication of works challenging France’s position in Algeria. One of Marker’s contributions to a serial film magazine, a series of newreels subtitled “Magazine of Counter-Information” that was produced by the collective SLON as a way to offer an alternative media in its coverage of and commentary on world news and political, social, and cultural figures.
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Thursday, APRIL 24Climbing Poetree
7pm, UWM Union Wisconsin Room, with their two womyn production, "Hurricane Season."
Co-sponsored by the Community Media Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92z6Yx_27qs&feature=related
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Monday, April 287pm, UWM Union Theatre, free
CMP Film series: “Black Radical Film: Culture & Confrontation”Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton, 1991)
