TODAY and TOMORROW!!!!
Soapbox-It’s a mass performance revolving around issues of free speech. Everyone who wants to speak is given a soapbox and one minute of free speech….
SOAPBOX EVENT
CONVERGENCE CENTER AT PARK AVENUE ARMORY
643 PARK AVENUE BETWEEN 66TH AND 67TH STREETS
One Box = One Minute of Free Speech
Come and speak your mind!
26th September 12-3pm
27th September, 3-6PM
interesting nytimes article on the role of programs like photoshop in re-envisioning history and what it says about ‘american’ notions of truth and photography. link to the article here.
I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop.
REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester. But removing him from a dozen years of vacation photographs took only hours, with some deft mouse work from a willing friend who was proficient in Photoshop, the popular digital-image editing program.
Like a Stalin-era technician in the Kremlin removing all traces of an out-of-favor official from state photos, the friend erased the husband from numerous cherished pictures taken on cruises and at Caribbean cottages, where he had been standing alongside Ms. Horn, now 50, and other traveling companions.
“In my own reality, I know that these things did happen,” Ms. Horn said. But “without him in them, I can display them. I can look at those pictures and think of the laughter we were sharing, the places we went to.”
“This new reality,” she added, “is a lot more pleasant.”
High Risk Citizen
VIDEO EXHIBITION @ ART IN GENERAL
04.17.08—05.03.08
Organized by Mary Billyou and Eva Díaz.
High Risk Citizen explores forms of political resistance and public engagement today, as considered by contemporary artists working in film and video. The works in the exhibition move between depressed responses to the ways in which collective, political efficaciousness has been curtailed, and euphoric re-imaginings of sites of robust social and civic culture.
Expression = Life
VIDEO SCREENING AND PANEL
APRIL 18TH, 7:00PM @ CANTOR FILM CENTER
On April 18th, a video screening and panel discussion with ACT UP members, filmmakers, and media theorists entitled “Expression = Life: ACT UP, Video and the AIDS Crisis,” will be held at the Cantor Film Center of New York University. Activists, filmmakers, and media theorists will be on hand to discuss the history and significance of this powerful, grassroots work, and how it contributed to movement organizing and the culture of resistance that evolved from this crisis period.
I’m looking forwad to the Sahara Chronicle coming up at CINEMAEAST. See the info and the clip below. You can also find out more about Ursula Biemann at her website.
CINEMAEAST FILM SERIES SHOWCASES RENOWNED CURATOR, SCHOLAR AND VIDEO-ARTIST URSULA BIEMANN
SAHARA CHRONICLE, highlighting international politics of mobility
February 8, 2008 New York, NY — ArteEast’s 2008 CinemaEast Series today announced plans to premier “Sahara Chronicle” at this season spring series at Cantor Film Center. The program takes place on Friday, February 29 at 6:30 pm with video-artist, curator, and scholar Ursula Biemann in person to present and discuss her work.
Premiering in New York, Ursula Biemann presents Sahara Chronicle, a video collection documenting the present sub-Saharan exodus towards Europe and the interdependence of migrations with international politics of mobility. Videos include Desert Truck Terminal, Interview Adawa, Tuareg Border Guides, Iron Ore Train and Deportation Prison Laayoune and show the major gates and nodes of the trans-Saharan migration network in Morocco, Niger, and Mauritania. Sahara Chronicle is part of The Maghreb Connection, an exhibition and research project directed by Biemann involving activists, scholars, and artists who live in different Mediterranean countries. For more information on this project visit www.geobodies.org.
WHAT: Sahara Chronicle, presentation and discussion by Ursula Biemann. Switzerland, 2006/7.
WHEN: Friday, February 29, 6:30 P.M.
WHERE: Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8 Street (between Broadway and University Place), New York.
6 train to Astor Place, R train to 8th Street, B/D/V/F/A/C/E to West 4th Street.For more information about the CinemaEast 2008 Spring Series, please visit http://www.arteeast.org/pages/cinemaeast/series/spring-2008/
Compiled from fragments of the Patriot Act and interesting stuff said during the post-screening discussion with the filmmakers involved in “Charged in the Name of Terror,” screened May 20th as part of the Documentary Bodega Series.
Edited/Shot by Johanna Linsley.
Check out this story on NPR’s All Things Considered, featuring our former co-conspirator Paul Kiel, now a reporter/blogger for the political blog Talking Points Memo. The blog - and specifically the investigative reporting sub-blog TPM Muckraker (which Paul edits) - is credited with breaking the recent Alberto Gonzales/US attorney firings story. As the All Things Considered piece points out, a pretty concrete indicator of the mainstream sea change blogging and participatory media are effecting. Cheers.
