"Interactivities: Conversations with Media Artists and Theorists"
2 pm ** FREE ** CURTIN 175
Liz Phillips, College of Art & Design, SUNY/Purchase, interactive audio artist and Paula Rabinowitz, Professor of English, American Studies, Cultural Studies, and Women's Studies, University of Minnesota
"Tuning/Interacting/Collaborating"
Liz Phillips is a multimedia artist of sound-based responsive installations who has combined audio and visual art forms with new technologies for the past 38 years. Her work has been exhibited at numerous art museums, alternative spaces, festivals, and public spaces, including The Whitney Museum of American Art , the Jewish Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Spoleto Festival USA, the Walker Art Center, Ars Electronica, Jacob's Pillow, and The Kitchen and presented in public spaces by organizations as diverse as the Cleveland Orchestra, IBM Japan, Creative Time, and the World Financial Center. Phillips teaches "Interactive Media/Sound" in the Art & Design Department at the State University of New York at Purchase.
Paula Rabinowitz is Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Minnesota, holding the Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities. She is a cultural historian whose work explores the interconnections among media, gender, narrative and image in modern and contemporary American culture. Her books include Black and White and Noir: America's Pulp Modernism, They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary and Labor and Desire: Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America.
Together Liz Phillips and Paula Rabinowitz investigate the history of the many forms of collaboration with an audience both before and since the advent of digital electronic interfaces, examining the dimensions of engagement that move a work from responsive to interactive to collaborative.
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UWM Union Theatre
March 2-4
Cinemas of the Scattered African Diaspora: Africa Beyond
presented by the Community Media Project
7pm ** FREE **
Dry Season/Daratt
(by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun - France/Chad, 2006, 95 minutes)
Part of the New Crowned Hope series to commemorate Mozart’s 250th anniversary, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s stark drama plays like an African variation on the Dardennes’ Le Fils. After the announcement of an amnesty on crimes committed during Chad’s civil war, country-boy Atim (Ali Bacha Barkaï) comes to the capital to avenge the murder of his father. But he must weigh the possibility of forgiving the killer, Nassara (Youssouf Djaoro), a baker who has tried to atone for his past. Haroun’s portrayal of Atim’s dilemma boasts both nuance and force. JA - eyeweekly.com
