| Spectres of
the Spectrum | Inter-Media and Techno-Utopianism
| Negativland: Our Favorite Things
| How to Draw a Bunny |
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Spectres of the Spectrum
Description: Craig
Baldwin will host the regional premiere of his
Spectres of the Spectrum, a feature-length 16mm film
utilizing old 'kinescopes' (filmed records of early TV broadcasts
before the advent of videotape, mostly from the late Fifties'
educational show called 'Science in Action') to create an
eerie, haunted "media-archaeology" zone for a sci-fi time-travel
tale. Live-action actors search for a hidden electromagnetic
secret to save the planet from a futuristic war-machine, inspired
by HAARP
(High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program).
Craig Baldwin's interest in recontextualization of found
imagery led him to the theories of the Situationist International
and to various practices of copy-art, mail art, 'zines, altered
billboards, and other creative interventions beyond the fringe
of the traditional fine-arts curriculum. His films have screened
all over the world, including The Roxie (San Francisco), Museum
of Modern Art (New York), Rotterdam, Deep Dish TV, Film Forum
(New York), William Paterson College (New Jersey), Austin
Film Society, London Filmmakers Co-op, Marin County Film Festival
and Coolidge Corner Cinema in Boston. His films include Sonic
Outlaws, Tribulation
99: Alien Anomalies Under America, and most recently,
Spectres
of the Spectrum.
Craig Baldwin will also be hosting the Press
Play to Agitate: Pirates, Parodists, and the Prank-Documentary
presentation.
Further Information:
Date: Wednesday,
9/18
Time: 7pm-9pm
Location: Western
Carolina University (Natural Sciences Auditorium)
Cost: Free
Co-sponsor: WCU Art
Department
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Inter-Media and Techno-Utopianism:
The Visual Initiatives of Stan VanDerBeek
Description: From
San Francisco's Other
Cinema project, Craig Baldwin traces the development of
the multiple thematic and stylistic strands in Black Mountain
College alum Stan
VanDerBeek's mind-boggling oeuvre, whilst relishing the
sheer excess of his visual imagination. Formal shifts from
collage-animations to computer-graphics to performance-mixes
will be explored in a 2 hour lecture-demo that will include
most of these films, and more TBA: "Skullduggery", "Blacks
and Whites, Days and Nights", "Science Friction", "Breathdeath",
"Panels for the Walls of the World", "Newsreel of Dreams",
"Poemfield". The last half-hour of the the presentation will
consider a range of contemporary makers who have taken up
VanDerBeek's aesthetic legacy of the energized media-collage.
Craig Baldwin will also be hosting the Press
Play to Agitate: Pirates, Parodists, and the Prank-Documentary
presentation.
Further Information:
Date: Thursday, 9/19
Time: 9pm-11pm
Location: Fine
Arts Theater
Cost: $7
Co-sponsor: Western
Carolina University Art Department and the Fine Arts Theater
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Negativland: Our Favorite Things
Description: A 90-minute
film/lecture presentation by Mark Hosler, founding member
of Negativland.
Mark will be in person to present the program, with Q and
A to follow. Made by Negativland in collaboration with various
other experimental filmmakers, "Our Favorite Things"
is a funny and entertaining presentation of a series of short
videos in which Negativland carries its love for found sounds
and their critical re-use of mass culture over into the world
of experimental movie making.
This video formatted lecture presentation illustrates the
many creative projects, hoaxes, pranks and "culture jamming"
that Negativland has been doing since 1980. The presentation
covers issues of media literacy, creative and humorous anti-corporate
art/activism, the role of advertising and corporate power
in our lives, intellectual property issues, and the evolution
of art, law and resistance in a media saturated multi-national
world.
Even if you've never heard of Negativland, if you are interested
in these issues you are sure to find this presentation worth
your time and attention. None of the short films shown will
ever be seen on MTV and much of it is visually in the same
legal grey area that Negativland has explored with sound for
the last 20 years.
Further Information:
Date: Friday, 9/20
Time: 11pm-1am
Location: Fine
Arts Theater
Cost: $7
Co-sponsor: UNCA Mass
Communication Department and Fine Arts Theater
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Mark Hosler
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Some the members of Negativland.
(Photo by Negativland)
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How to Draw a Bunny
Description: How
to Draw a Bunny explores the fascinating, often hilarious,
and always enigmatic world of artist and underground icon
Ray Johnson. A "Pop Art mystery movie", the film is framed
by Johnson's mysterious suicide on Friday, January 13th, 1995,
the puzzling circumstances of which left both his intimate
admirers and the general public wondering if this was a final
"performance". Little has been written about him, yet the
man who many have dubbed "the most famous unknown artist"
was considered a genius whose career spanned nearly fifty
years and whose collages have been exhibited in major museums
around the world.
The Ray Johnson Memorial
Exhibition will also be up for the festival.
Further Information:
Dates: Saturday, 9/21
Time: 1pm-2:30pm
Location: Fine
Arts Theater
Cost: $5
Co-sponsor: Fine Arts
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Ray Johnson
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