Colloquia in Conceptual Studies
Sensational! Sensing Media Arts – Theory and Practice
Kenilworth Square East
1925 E. Kenilworth Pl., 4th Floor
Tom Recchion & Jonathon Rosen
Radio Nurse: live audio-visual
Contamination and Disintegration
TOM RECCHION has been an artist/composer/art director in Southern California since the 1970’s. He is the co-creator & co-founder of the legendary art & music collective the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). His early practice in low-tech sonic exploration presaged many of the genre’s exciting developments of the last quarter century: record manipulation, tape loops, free improvisation, found and invented instruments, installation, and more. He has worked with many musicians—Keiji Haino, David Toop, Max Eastley, Jad Fair & Half Japanese, Oren Ambarchi, Jim Thirwell, John Duncan, Christian Marclay and Sonic Youth to name a few. He is currently in 3 groups: Extended Organ with artists Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Joe Potts and Fredrik Nilsen, Smegma in which he is “Victor Sparks,” and a trio called The Rodney Forest with Ju Suk Reet Meate and Oblivia (from Smegma). He also occasionally writes for WIRE magazine and has many recordings released on Cortical, Idea, Birdman (US), Touch (UK), Schoolmap (Italy), PSF (Japan), Meuww Muzak (Belgium) and other labels. Most recently he released 78 The Incandescent Phonograph and The Song of Mister Phonograph on a 10” 78 RPM with a grant from the City of Pasadena’s Cultural Affairs and received a commission from the Kronos Quartet. Currently he holds the position of Sr. Creative Director for EMI/Capitol Records.
His latest solo CD, Sweetly Doing Nothing, is listed in Artforum’s December 2007 Year in Review issue as one of the 10 best music events of the year. He is very tired.
JONATHON ROSEN is a painter/illustrator/film maker based in Brooklyn, NY. He makes books, drawings, paintings & animation. His work employs an obsession with medical, mechanical & carnivalesque. Collaborators & venues include: Tim Burton (Sleepy Hollow), PS.1 Museum LIC, Queens, Museum of Contemporary Art, LA., McSweeney’s, The New York Times, Paraphrase, MTV, Sony Music, Time Magazine.
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The Digital Dancing ImageDance and Digital Media Class Showing
with Cecelia Condit and Luc Vanier
7pm *FREE*
Kennilworth Square East, Studio 660
Presented by Dance and Film Departments
with special thanks to the Theater Department
For more information call 229 2571 or email danceinfo@uwm.edu
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UWM Union Theater
7pm
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
(Hei Yan Quan, Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan/France/Austria, in Malay, Mandarin and Bengali w/ English St. , 115 min., 35mm, 2007)
Homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur , Hsiao Kang is robbed, beaten and left for dead. Rawang, an immigrant worker living in the shell of an abandoned building finds and nurses him. Rawang`s feelings for his patient may or may not be sexual, but there's definitely something like lust in the eyes of Chyi, a waitress in a run-down old coffee shop, for Hsiao Kang. And so a triangle forms as a blanket of noxious fog settles on the city and everyone has trouble breathing. Simultaneously erotic and comical, the film underpins director Tsai's deadpan allegory with hints of social realism.
9pm
Lights in the Dusk
(Laitakaupungin Valot - Aki Kaurismäki, Finland, in Finnish and Russian w English St., 78 min., 35mm, 2007)
Milwaukee Premiere!
Lights in the Dusk concludes Kaurismäki's ‘loser trilogy'. The first film focused on unemployment and the second on homelessness, this final installment is about loneliness. Koistinen, a night watchman searches the hard world for a small crack to crawl in through, but both his fellow beings and the faceless apparatus of the society conspire to crush his modest hopes. His longing for love leaves Koistinen open to exploitation and framed for a robbery. This dark jewel of a film glows with genuine warmth and a small but enriching glimmer of hope.
