LOCALLY GROAN - You Have Homework To Do! Ta Da! at UWM Union Theater

On May 8, 2008, The Archaeology of the Recent Future Association presents Locally Groan, You Have Homework To Do! Ta Da! ‐ an evening of new films, videos, and live performance by over 25 local Milwaukee artists. “Locally Grown” screenings, held at the UWM Union Theater, are always free & open to the public. This year’s festival will be a little different in that local artists were asked to complete an “assignment”, and make a new piece especially for the show. So, instead of curating, the curators handed out some homework. Specifically, participants were asked to complete one of two assignments: Using only one 100-foot roll of 16mm film or three minutes of video, create a film and present it with a recorded or live soundtrack. Inspired by Dadaist exquisite corpses and madcap collaborations, the hope is that the assignment's "rules" will create a joyful challenge for the makers as well as inspire an unexpected new piece for us all to enjoy. The results will be revealed at a screening on MAY 8, 2008, in a celebration of our community's ingenuity, sweetness, humor, and talent.

Participating Artists:
Jesus Ali, Sam Augustine, Trevor Berman, Jeremy Bessoff, Anne Bisone, Robyn Braun, Ray Chi, Portia Cobb, Brent Coughenour, Jamal Currie, Allison Halter, Kati Katchever, Kelly Kirshtner, Laura Klein, Xav Leplae, Andrea Maio, A. Bill Miller, Erik Peterson, Kate Raney, Mat Rapaport, Joseph Reeves, Ryan Szarnowski, Marc Tasman, Chris Thompson, Renato Umali, Celeste Verhelst, Steve Wetzel

For more information, visit: citizenandneighbor.blogspot.com, or email: citizenandneighbor@gmail.com

Poetry Everywhere, on Transit TV, too

Sounds like a festival, with a bus showing videos, balloons, and free food from Cafe Hollander--fun for the entire family:

A launch party for Poetry Everywhere, a locally grown national project will be Tuesday April 29, 7pm, Downer Avenue - Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop (2559 N. Downer Ave).

Fifteen animated Poetry Everywhere films created by students working with docUWM, a documentary media center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the university's creative writing program, in association with the Poetry Foundation, will debut online and on Transit TV throughout the coming months. Aiming to focus a new generation of filmmakers on poetry as subject matter, the project encouraged film students to read widely from the canon of contemporary poetry and, working closely with poets and scholars, effectively translate poetry to the screen using an array of film and animation techniques. The docUWM films feature a wide range of contemporary poems and poets, including Lucille Clifton's "mulberry fields," Robert Creeley's "The Language," and Lyn Hejinian's "Eleven Eyes."

More info:

Journal Sentinel
PBS/WGBH
Poetry Foundation

iTunes

More info on the event is at Harry Schwartz's website.

World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media

From Lane Hall:
This next week we have some great speakers coming in for the Center for International Education conference, "World Making: Art and Politics in Global Media" that Patrice Petro and Lane Hall have organized. Students and faculty welcome and encouraged at the Friday and Saturday events.

Also, David Wilson (creative force behind the "Museum of Jurassic Technology" in Los Angeles) will give the keynote lecture for the conference. (wikipedia entry)

David's lecture is on Friday 18 April from 7:30-9:00 pm in Curtin 175. He
will be discussing his ongoing film project about the Russian Space
Program, and will show his work in the special way that only David Wilson
can. This is a lecture not to be missed!

Sound Effects: Gender, Race and the Cultural Work of NPR

Via Carol Stabile:


This Friday, April 4:
Jason Loviglio, Director of Media and Communications Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County will speak in the History conference room, Holton 341, 3:30-5.

"Sound Effects: Gender, Race and the Cultural Work of NPR"

This talk is sponsored by: the History Department, Cultures and Communities, Journalism & Mass Communication, and Comparative Ethnic Studies. Light refreshments will be served.