A useful primer on the law for those who make independent films.

Christiane Paul Coming to Milwaukee

Digital arts curator, critic, and author Christiane Paul, of the Whitney Museum, will be speaking in Milwaukee on April 29.
Fotofest
rhizome.org memeber profile
CRUMB interview
sessions.edu
Books by Paul at Amazon

Women in Hip Hop: Turning the Tables & Making History

Tuesday, April 26, 2005
7-9p.m.
UWM Union Ballroom
An entertainment extravaganza highlighting five fabulous women representing the five different elements of Hip Hop Culture: Break Dancer, MC, DJ, Poet and Graffiti Artist. Our guests, Break Dancer, Natacha; DJ, AMDJ, AMPMPM; MC, Dawn; Poet, Blue; and Graffiti Artist, Fallacy Armstrong, will talk about women and Hip Hop and showcase their talents.

For more information:

Contact the Women's Resource Center at 229-2852.
wmncntr[at]aux.uwm.edu

Banksy Smuggles Art Into NY Museums

A shadowy British graffiti artist who calls himself Banksy has carried his own humorous artworks into four New York institutions - the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the American Museum of Natural History - and attached them with some sort of adhesive to the walls, alongside other paintings and exhibits.

Pictures of the illicit art installations, apparently taken by an accomplice of Banksy, were posted yesterday at woostercollective.com, a site that has become a repository of pictures of graffiti and other street and urban art. Some of the pictures show a bearded man in an overcoat and hat, looking a little like Inspector Jacques Clouseau, hanging his paintings in the museums.
NYTIMES article
MSN article
Here's a link to a piece that NPR's All Things Considered did on Bansky that Jesus Ali heard and sent to me. The elusive artist even calls in for a phone interview from an "undisclosed location."

Symptomology

The Art History Gallery is showing work by UWM Journalism and Mass Communication graduate student Nicholas Grider through April 5th in its gallery, 154 Mitchell Hall.

The show features works on paper, sound and video installations and photos based on material sourced from the internet or mass media. The show explores the visual anthropology and linguistic construction of illness and disability as it is filtered through mass media.

The material covers everything from treatments of online personality tests and sounds of the rainforest cds to pictures Dustin Hoffman took during the filming of Rain Man.

There will be a gallery talk and short film showing on Wednesday, March 30th at 7:30pm.

A few relevant links:

http://www.schizophrenia.com


A classic personality test. Try reading the sentences as a running monologue.


This last one features a freeware program that "reads" any text you put into it.

P. Amitai performing at the Knitting Factory

Milwaukee's own, Paul Amitai will be in New York next week performing at the Knitting Factory
Monday, March 21, 8 p.m.

He'll be in the "Tap Bar" (there are many rooms in the venue).
Knitting Factory is located at 74 Leonard St. in Tribeca.

Vocals, guitar and electronics

Here's a link to some MP3s in case you'd like a taste...

BENEFIT FOR CONTINUED TSUNAMI RELIEF

From E.M.Schoen:
Here's one for you. My artist collective is putting on an art benefit this
weekend. Check it:

BENEFIT FOR CONTINUED TSUNAMI RELIEF
by Painted Love

@ Bar Lulu - 2261 S. Howell
(Howell/KK and Lincoln)
Saturday March 12
9pm - 2am

Bands: Annie Hall * Paul Amitai * Electric Pants
DJs: Flavor Dave * Prince Ruff * Big Squeeze

and a SILENT AUCTION of AFFORDABLE ART donated by local artists.

EVERY piece starts @ $5; winners are announced at midnight.

$5 at the door / $3 for donating artists.
All proceeds go to Architecture for Humanity.

moreinfo: painted-love[at]hotmail.com

Math Goes Hollywood for the 2005 Marden Lecture at UWM

From Laura Hunt, MILWAUKEE — What’s driving today’s fully digital films, such as “Finding Nemo” and “The Incredibles”? A leading computer scientist and head of research at Pixar Animation Studios says it’s math.

Tony DeRose will give a free public lecture on the topic on Thursday, March 10 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). “Math in the Movies,” the 16th annual Marden Lecture on Mathematics, begins at 4 p.m. in room 150 of Bolton Hall (map), 3210 N. Maryland Ave.

Filmmaking is undergoing a digital revolution brought on by advances in areas such as computational physics and computer graphics. DeRose’s talk will provide a behind-the-scenes look at digital filmmaking with particular emphasis on the role that mathematics – from algebraic algorithms to chaos math – plays in the revolution.

The event is co-sponsored by the UWM Department of Mathematical Sciences, the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the College of Letters and Science. A reception will follow the talk in room E495A of the Engineering Math Sciences Building, 3200 N. Cramer St.

Sheba Chhachhi: Bearing Witness: Art and Testimony

Friday, March 4:

Sheba Chhachhi: “Bearing Witness: Art and Testimony"
3 p.m., Mitchell Hall, Room 191, 3203 N. Downer Ave.

Center for 21st Century Studies’ Art and Public Space colloquium features a guest lecture by Sheba Chhachhi, a multimedia installation artist, photographer, sculptor, writer, and feminist activist based in New Delhi, recently an artist in residence at the University of California, Berkeley.

Co-sponsored by the Department of English, Center for 21st Century Studies, The William F. Vilas Trust Estate, and the Women’s Resource Center. 414-229-4141.

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee student AIGA chapter conference, DRIVEN, March 12

This from Mark Schwanke
AIGA UWM FUNdraising Coordinator
www.aigauwm.org
mws@uwm.edu
You can email your questions to aiga-driven@uwm.edu.

Also, included in conference registration for only ten bucks, is a wicked T-shirt.
It's like you buy a t-shirt and the conference is free.
AIGA is the American Institue of Graphic Artists.
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See the AIGA UWM website for details on the agenda and registration. Registration deadline is March 7th, so don’t hesitate. We are extremely excited to host Michael Strassburger from the award winning Seattle based design firm Modern Dog.

Also presenting: Ty Lettau from Macromedia and Patrick Castro from Quad Creative.