| Press Play
to Agitate: Pirates, Parodists, and the Prank-Documentary
| Frederick Sommer and Black Mountain College
| Innovative Approaches to Education
| The Interaction of Arts and Poetry
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Press Play to Agitate:
Pirates, Parodists, and the Prank-Documentary
Description: Discussion
with underground filmmaker Craig Baldwin about media pirates
and pranks. The presentation will feature numerous excerpts
from Baldwin's Sonic
Outlaws.
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.
Further Information:
Date: Wednesday,
9/18
Time: 10-12am
Location: Western
Carolina University (Belk Hall, Room 278)
Cost: Free
Co-sponsor: Western
Carolina University
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Craig Baldwin
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Frederick Sommer and Black Mountain
College
Description: Eric
Baden, photographer and photo instructor at Warren Wilson
College, will give a slide lecture at the Asheville Art Museum
about photographer Frederick Sommer. Though not at BMC himself,
Sommer was a friend and contemporary of photographers Harry
Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Jonathan Williams who were at
BMC and was scheduled to have work in the final edition of
the Black Mountain Review, which was never printed. One of
Sommer's images was used on the cover of Charles Olson's Maximus
Poems. He created musical scores based on visual principles
in an interesting parallel to John Cage's work with musical
composition. He had an inquisitive mind and was a creative
genius and shares much in common with the Black Mountain College
spirit.
Further Information:
Date: Friday, 9/20
Time: 6pm
Location: Asheville
Art Museum
Cost: Free with Museum
Admission
Co-sponsor: Warren
Wilson College and the Asheville Art Museum
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Max Ernst
by Frederick Sommer
1946
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Beyond Black Mountain College:
Innovative Approaches to Education
Description: Why
has Black Mountain College (1933-56) achieved legendary status
as an incubator of uncommonly smart and creative people? Can
Black Mountain College's successes be used as a model for
today's educational institutions? What are the innovative
educational practices of our time and what lies ahead? What
role can the internet play? This panel discussion will investigate
these questions and others with experienced educators and
a former BMC student. Participants include Sue Spayth Riley,
BMC student (1938-41) and specialist in early childhood education,
Greg
Ulmer of the European
Graduate School, Carol Flake, editor of Holistic Education:
Principles, Perspectives and Practices, Peter Clemm teacher
of many years at Waldorf Schools around the U.S. and Helen
Nagan, art teacher at Buncombe Community School East. Moderator,
Dr. D. Newton Smith, Professor, English Department, WCU.
Date: Saturday,
9/21
Time: 11am
Location: UNCA
Owen Conference Center
Cost: Free
Co-sponsors: UNCA
Cultural and Special Events Committee and the European Graduate
School
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The Interaction of Arts and Poetry
at Black Mountain College
Description: Professor
Newt Smith of Western Carolina University explores the synergies
which developed in the explorations in the visual arts, performing
arts, and poetry at Black Mountain College.
Date: Sunday, 9/22
Time: 1:30pm-2:30pm
Location: Black
Mountain Center for the Arts Gallery
Cost: Free with Brunch
Co-sponsor: Western
Carolina University
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