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.

Seeing Green: Art, Ecology, and Activism

Seeing Green: Art, Ecology, and Activism opens Saturday, April 12, 5:00-9:00pm at Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI.

Seeing Green encourages artists to leave the confines of the studio and take an active role with the community, to collaborate and address issues of the environment, and to open a dialog with the public. Guest curator Nicolas Lampert invited over 40 local artists to work on a project for the duration of eight months. During the month of April, 2008 the show will be exhibited at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the gallery will serve as a hub space, informing the viewer and the public of the many environmental projects taking place throughout the city, exhibiting visual work and books, screening films and holding discussions and events based around the exhibition.

Calendar:
Seeing Green opens at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI.) on Saturday, April 12, 2008, 5:00-9:00pm

Additional events:
Reading by California author Rebecca Solnit, Sunday, March 30th, 2:00pm

Curator talk by Nicolas Lampert 4:30-6:00 / Film Screening, Wednesday, April 16th, 7:00-9:00pm (Screening of 5 minute films and videos on urban ecology issues by: Lane Hall, Lisa Moline, Lindsay Holden, Brandon Bauer, Ray Chi, Laura Klein, Eddee Daniel, Suzanne Rosenblatt, Spencer Tepper, Zachary Nesgoda).

Artist/Scientist/Community Activist talk, Wednesday, April 23rd, 7:00-9:00pm
(presentations by Susan Simensky-Bietila, Chris Cornelius, RiverPulse)

Artist/Scientist/Community Activist talk, Wednesday, April 30th, 7:00-9:00pm
(presentations by Raoul Deal and Larry Adams; Mary Osmundsen, Andrea Fuentes, Jose’ Medina, Monica Gonzalez and Adolfo Garcia; Lane Hall, Lisa Moline and Dr. Rudi Strickler)

Seeing Green is co-sponsored by UWM Cultures and Communities/Institute for Service Learning Co-Sponsorship Award, the Milwaukee Arts Board, and the Windhover Foundation.

http://seeinggreenartshow.wordpress.com/

The Atlas Effect: Image Collection and Circulation in Contemporary Art

TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008
Visiting artist Charles Green talks about The Atlas Effect: Image Collection and Circulation in Contemporary Art at 2:30 pm in the Golda Meir Library (4th floor Conference Center ). Green, associate professor of contemporary art at the University of Melbourne in Australia , will discuss the ways contemporary artists use archives and archival strategies in their work. FREE! More info: www.uwm.edu/Library/News/atlas.html

“Milwaukee Moments” Photo Contest

From Gloria Gappa-Grundman, Milwaukee Press Club:

“Milwaukee Moments” Photo Contest Calls for City’s Most Memorable Snapshots
- Winners to be Featured at 162nd City Birthday Party, January 29 -

The Milwaukee Press Club announces a photo contest for the 162nd City of Milwaukee Birthday Party to be held January 29, 2008 at The Pfister Hotel.
“No doubt many in our city will be prompted to pull out the shoe box or dust off the photo album to pick out photos that represent the fun times and memorable moments that they’ve had with family and friends in Milwaukee,” said Julie Pedretti, chair of the City Birthday Party committee for The Milwaukee Press Club. “The popularity of electronic photos makes this contest so easy to enter.”
Enter Photo Contest at www.MilwaukeeMoments.com
Residents and media can view contest rules and entry instructions on the contest Web site: www.MilwaukeeMoments.com. Submissions must be uploaded electronically. All FedEx/Kinko’s locations throughout Metro Milwaukee are available to scan photos and assist residents in submitting their snapshots.
“Images have always been a powerful storytelling tool and our modern-day version of the folk tale,” said Pedretti. “Photos shared by those who were there often play a role in defining key moments in Milwaukee’s history. This year, the Milwaukee Press Club would like its members and the community of Milwaukee to celebrate that role.”

SPJ Apple and Adobe Media Workshop

The UWM student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is providing an opportunity for interested students to learn the basic skills of Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Indesign, Apple GarageBand and Apple Final Cut Pro. The workshop will be held on Monday, Dec. 3 from 7-8pm in Johnston Hall JMC computer labs (lower level).

Space is limited. Sign up sheets are located on the SPJ bulletin board across from the Journalism and Mass Communication department office (Johnston Hall, Room 117). Students can also e-mail rebeccakontowicz[at]gmail.com to make a reservation.

Colloquium: Power in the Informational State

Power in the Informational State:
The Social Effects of Information Policy

Sandra Braman
Dec. 7, 3 pm, 244 Merrill Hall


There has been a phase change—a change of state—in the extent to which governments exercise power by deliberately, explicitly, and consistently controlling information creation, processing, flows, and use. Informational power exerts its influence by altering the materials, rules, institutions, ideas, and symbols that are the means by which instrumental, structural, and symbolic forms of power are exercised. Three types of knowledge must be brought together to understand just how this change of state has come about and what it means for the exercise of power domestically and globally: In addition to knowledge of the law itself, research on the empirical world provides evidence about the policy subject (the world for which policy is made) and social theory provides an analytical foundation. Bringing these types of knowledge together makes visible the social effects of information policy as they affect identities of the state and of its citizens; the nature of social, technological, and communicative structures; the borders of those structures; and how those structures change. This talk will look at ways in which legal trends in information policy – wherever they come from across the traditional silos of the law – interact to affect society in each of these dimensions. Legal issues discussed include not only familiar topics such as intellectual property rights and privacy, but also lesser-known issues such as hybrid citizenship, the use of “functionally equivalent” borders to allow exceptions to U.S. law, research funding, census methods, and network interconnection. Such trends in information policy both manifest and trigger changes in the nature of governance itself.

RADICAL REJECT

RADICAL REJECT

“Paint the White House Black” (George Clinton)
Wanted: rejected, denied, suppressed, repressed, uncontainable ideas. This is a call for ideas that are too big, bountiful and bold. Have you ever had a project/proposal/application turned down? Received a thanks-but-no-thanks letter from an arts institution/grant dispenser/curator? This is not a show about rejection, it is a show about RADICALS who REJECT rejection, and refuse to be beat down, lie down, denied, go unheard or unseen or away. Submit your proposal, text, images, application, rejection letter, runner-up certificate or project that has been deemed too radical by the petty bougie jury/committee/overseer out there. Previous receipt of awards, grants and opportunities does not prevent you from participating. RADICAL REJECT will eventually take a printed form, so keep this in mind. Sound, video, film, etc. are welcome, but several hundred will be printed, and CD/DVD inserts may be supplied by the artist. Scripts, notes, diary entries, deleted emails, voice mail messages, torn up letters and trashed documents also welcome. Please pass this along to all who may be interested.

Submit by:
January 1, 2008
nicecookies[at]sbcglobal.net
or
RADICAL REJECT
c/o Kim Miller
2121 N. 52nd St.
Milwaukee, WI 53208
USA

AIGA UWM Driven Design Conference

2nd Bi-annual Design Conference
Saturday, November 3
UW-Milwaukee Student Union
Wisconsin Room Third Level
Registration begins at 8:30 am
Breakfast at 9:00 am
Concluding Reception at Twisted Fork, 6:00 pm

On November 3rd, the design students in the AIGA UWM chapter on campus will hold a design conference. It will feature a range of topics from screen-printing to fashion design to owning a design business and putting on a successful marketing campaign.

See conference and registration information at the AIGA UWM website, http://aigauwm.org
For further information contact Kyle Strash, AIGA UWM Event Coordinator
uwmdrivendesign07[at]yahoo[dot]com

Artist Proposes New Flag

Marc Tasman has spent much of the past year on a campaign to officially
change the design of the American flag to better reflect post-9/11 realities. On Friday October 12, 2007, he will unveil his work,
“Proposal for The New American Flag: Representing a New Constellation” at the Institute of Visual Arts (Inova/Vogel, 3253 N. Downer Ave), as part of an exhibition of work by seven artists who received Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists in 2006. The opening reception, which is free and open to the public, will take place at Inova/Vogel on Friday, October 12, from 6-9 pm and will commence with a flag raising ceremony and parade which features Tasman's three and a half year old son singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 5 pm. The Gallery will also be open on Gallery Night and Day, October 19 and 20.

Tasman’s didactic installation includes videos, posters, maps, letters to government officials, and hundreds of the new American flags ranging in scale from four inches to nine feet. Catalogue essayist Sarah Kanouse writes: “At a cursory glance, Tasman’s flag looks the same as the familiar Old Glory, but subtle changes—nineteen stripes to
reflect the naïveté of September 10, ninety-nine stars on the blue field—clue the viewer that the state of the Union has shifted. Tasman’s flag does more than materialize the supposed historical turning point of September 11, 2001. It makes visible in iconic form the beliefs that justify profound changes in far more significant pillars of our democracy: those civil liberties established in the bill of rights and human rights standards set by international law… Tasman offers it as an
opportunity to reconsider the complex relationship between the nation, its symbols, and its future.”


Pieces of the exhibition are documented at:
http://99starflag.com

A condensed version of the Post story.

Mary Louise Schumacher's Journal Sentinel blog.

JS Online- Prized Possessions.

A Scathing/Glowing Review in the Shepherd Express.

Frontpage Milwaukee post.

The Nation.

UWM Pathervision YouTube-Tasman Flag.

Susceptible to Images.

Yo Gabba Gabba - Behind The Scenes

Inexplicably delightful and hip, Yo Gabba Gabba, began airing a few weeks ago at the end of August on Nick Jr. It's trippy and smart, with its brightly colored furry finger on pulse of the independent and DIY spirit. It was imagined by Chirstian Jacobs and Scott Schultz with the intent of hooking parents and children--it worked. Mike Newman hooked me up with their production blog, Yo Blogga Blogga.

ExxonMobil: Vivoleum is made of People

The Yes Men have presented ExxonMobil's (XOM) new plan to deal with the impending energy crisis at a development conference in Calgary: Vivoleum. By converting human remains of the victims of climate change into fuel, the survivors could live comfortably for years to come. From Pete Sands:
http://www.bittertonic.com/bitter-irene/442/exxon-will-burn-people-for-fuel

McCAW/BUDSBERG at The Soap Factory

Shana McCaw and Brent Budsberg working on the BROKEN DOWN installation in their Milwaukee studio.

McCAW/BUDSBERG COLLABORATIONS
present
BROKEN DOWN
at The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Opening: June 30, 2007 at 7:00PM

Using theatrical lighting, carefully choreographed fog machines, LEDs and 1:32 scale models, "Broken Down" transforms the decaying boiler room of the Soap Factory into a murky industrial landscape. The focal point of the installation is a small-scale semi truck stopped in the middle of a bridge spanning the space. Viewed from only two portals into the space, "Broken Down" creates an unsettling vignette, set against the hulking silhouettes of defunct industry.

More like, Too Bad about Phil Leotardo

Though I personally found the choice of Journey's Don't Stop Believin' enthralling, and the cut to black inevitable, pragmatic and pregnant with the narrative that Tony Soprano survives, but as a paranoid adrenaliniac, our colleague, Mike Newman differs. He was quoted via his blog, zigzigger on Slate earlier this month about the HBO series finale. Nice work.

At Zigzigger, media studies professor Michael Z. Newman is among the let down, writing it was "[a]n end but hardly an ending. Not artful but arty, and totally unlike the classic novels to which snooty critics would so often compare the show. The show's comedy is typically darker than black, but now it's at our expense."

Memory Palaces

Memory Palaces
an installation of digital prints on found paper
new work by Lane Hall

Exhibition runs June 10 - July 29
Opening Reception on Friday, June 15, 5-7pm

Memory Palaces is a convergence of Homer, Joyce, and Google, along with decades of personal journal entries that artist/writer Lane Hall has mined with the intention of telling stories about memory and forgetting. Memory Palaces interconnects cognitive theory and historically derived memory models. Senility, narcotics, psychotropic drugs and the spirit-world are invoked as meditations upon oblivion, while writing itself is posed as a means for fixing memory to imperfect maps.

The Memory Palace is a mnemonic model which consists of interconnected rooms subtitled Lotus Eaters, Telemachiad, From A Moon With No Planets, Lost Wax, Ars Narcotica, and A Snake Men Fear To Touch.

Queer Zine Art Show

From Milo Miller:
The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) in conjunction with the Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival and Rhizome Space celebrates QZAP's third year with a film screening and Queer Zine Art Show on Friday, June 22nd in Milwaukee, WI. The 7pm film screening at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E Locust St) features queer zine pioneer Bruce La Bruce's "No Skin off My Ass" (16mm on DVD, b&w/sound, 73 min., 1991). Tickets are $2. This seminal and sweet queer punk romance features a Karen Carpenter-loving gay hairdresser who falls helplessly in love with a stray skinhead who he invites into his home. Kicking off after the screening at 8:30pm, the gallery show at Rhizome Space (3172 Bremen St) lifts art from the pages of phenomenal queer zines by artists Miss Schnookum, Lane McKiernan, Cookie Tuff, Sina Shamsavari, Rachael House, Larry Bob, and more.

Excellent Political Art: RUNNING THE NUMBERS

AN AMERICAN SELF-PORTRAIT (2006-2007)
Cell Phones, 2007
60x100"

Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day. Detail at actual size:

From Nicolas Lampert:
Nicole Schulman sent out this email recommending a show by Chris Jordan-pretty amazing digital images about consumption in the US-the series will be exhibited at the Von Lintel Gallery in New York from June 14th to the end of July.

FUSE

On May 3rd from 10am to 4pm at the UWM Student Union Concourse FUSE will have its 2nd appearance!

FUSE is an annual event that show cases the design abilities of the students in the Graphic Design Program at the Peck School of the Arts, Department of Visual Art by bringing to market innovative products for the residents and visitors of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus community.

We look forward to seeing you!

You can check out all FUSE products at:
http://www.aigauwm.org/Pages/Events/uwmevents.html#


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