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Announcements: The Archive

HERE ARE SOME OLD ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM MARCH

Thursday 03.18

Screenings at 5:30 pm: Hollis Frampton, "Gloria!" (1979);
Stan Brakhage, "Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde" (1989)

Lecture at 6:00 pm: P. Adams Sitney, "The Relics of Modernism"

P. Adams Sitney is a figure of immense distinction in the world of avant-garde cinema. During the 1960s he was a member of the editorial staff at Film Culture magazine, which at the time was the preeminent forum in the United States for writing on independent cinema. In 1969 he participated in the founding of Anthology Film Archives, the first museum devoted to the preservation, study, and exhibition of film art. He has lectured on and taught the history of cinema as a visual art for forty years and has been Professor of Visual Studies at Princeton University since 1980. Professor Sitney is the author of two very influential anthologies, Film Culture Reader (1970, second edition 2000) and Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of History and Criticism (1978). His Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000 (1974, third edition 2002) is the definitive study of the history and aesthetics of experimental cinema in the United States. His most recent books include Modernist Montage: The Obscurity of Vision in Literature and Cinema (1990), a volume of essays on cinema's relation to key issues in modernist aesthetics, and Vital Crises in Italian Cinema: Iconography/Stylistics/Politics (1995). Professor Sitney is celebrated as a lecturer. On March 18 Professor Sitney's topic will be collage in the work of the filmmakers Hollis Frampton and Stan Brakhage. The lecture will be preceded by a screening of two short films: Frampton's Gloria! (1979) and Brakhage's Visions in Meditation #2: Mesa Verde (1989). This event is co-sponsored by the Special Lectures Committee.

Friday 03.19

COLLAGE NOW! AT THE MCGUFFEY ART CENTER

The student component of the collage initiative is up and ready for viewing through March 31!
The art student reception and award ceremony will occur this Friday at 4 pm.
The McGuffey Art Center is located at 210 Second Street, NW.
Hours: TUESDAY - SATURDAY 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; SUNDAY 1:00 p.m. to 5:00p.m.; MONDAY- Closed.
For further information on the "Collage Initiative" see http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/collage/

Monday 03.23

David Golumbia will give a talk on "The Nonstandard Web" between noon and 2 pm, as part of the Media Studies Lecture Series. This event will be held in the English Department Faculty Lounge on the 2nd Floor of Bryan Hall. Here is a short summary of his remarks:

Like the printed book before it, the World Wide Web emerges both as a mass medium created by global capital and one defined and shaped by vernacular cultures. The history of print shows the extent to which vernacular cultural practices are required by governing administrations to create mass media, despite the administrative desirability of standardized cultural practices and languages. Today there exists a profound tension on the web between a wide range of nonstandardized practices and a no less wide range of standardized ones. Modern ideology suggests that technological and communicative progress would be served by streamlining the web so as to take full advantage of its degree of standardization, and proposals for technological innovation on the web often follow this logic. Looking back at the history of print and analytically at the range of phenomena on the web, it is arguable that another option is to work to maximize the channels of nonstandard communication opened by the web. Keeping in mind the insights that critical views of the history of print culture make available, it is arguable that the web provides means of resistance to the cultural standardization toward which mass media seems inevitably to lead.

Members of the seminar are encouraged to attend Michelle Smith's screening at Vinegar Hill immediately afterwards. Her film, "Like All Bad Men, He Looks Attractive- They Say," while not strictly animation, incorporates certain principles of animated works in achieving a unique collage aesthetic of its own.

HELP!!

I need 4 volunteers to help out with ERICA ad testing on friday.

1. The test is in Olsson 114B in the E-School

2. The test is only 15 minutes long

3. It basically consists of looking at advertisements on a computer screen

4. The test is easy and fun

please if you can help me out it would be greatly appreciated. the time slots run from 9-10:30. just email me your name, available time, and email id if you can do it. thank you so much. and there may be special compensations next class for anyone who participates!! my email is efm7f@virginia.edu

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site out of mind feature film series

sunday 03.14.2004
school of architecture
Goodbye South Goodbye [Hou Hsiao-hsien | 1996]
campbell hall | 158 | three pm

TONIGHT'S SEMINAR DISCUSSION LOCATION WILL BE CLEMONS 407

'Tis Week 6 already. It will come and go in an instant, ephemera-like. Fortunately for us, a new medium will help to preserve its record. To the announcements, then.

Unfortunately, we won't be able to hold class at the Vinegar Hill Theater after all. Please plan to meet for at Clemons 407 as per usual for this week's seminar discussion. We will run from shortly after 6 until shortly before 7, which should get the conversation started while still allowing those who are interested to make it to the Prelinger event in time.

STUDENT SHOW AT THE MCGUFFEY ARTS CENTER

Collage pieces may be large class collages or individual works. Collage pieces must be submitted prior to March 1st. You should plan the installation between March 1st- 4th. The exhibition will launch at noon on Friday, March 5th 2004 at the McGuffey Arts Center, 2nd Floor Gallery. Artwork will be juried and winning pieces will be awarded at the exhibition's reception on March 19th. This exhibition also allows students to participate in the "Collage Initiative" that is happening at the museum and many art departments during Spring 2004. For further information on the "Collage Initiative" see http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/collage/

Coordinators of the Collage Show are:

KiKi Slaughter- kes2a@virginia.edu (434) 981-0621
Isabelle Abbot-ipa3w@virginia.edu (434) 960-9352
Marisa Taylor-mlt3h@virginia.edu (434) 825-4249

DOUBLE HOO RESEARCH GRANT— ANY TAKERS?

Note also the existence of the Double Hoo Research Grant. Applications are due by March 19. Anyone interested in joining forces to continue the exploration of collage and new media beyond this semester? If so, speak to me after this week's discussion or send me an e-mail sometime this week— it would be good to start putting a plan together before spring break begins.

EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF 04.02.23

Tuesday, February 24

The Virginia Film Society has joined with the Robertson Media Center to bring Rick Prelinger, archeologist of archival media, to Charlottesville. On Tuesday, February 24 at 7p.m, he will screen and discuss a selection of Ephemeral Films From the Prelinger Collection at Vinegar Hill Theatre.¾ Tickets are $7.50 and free for Film Society members, and available at the door.

As Joyce Slatton (Freezerbox) hails, "Prelinger has a fascination with what he calls the 'bastard genres,' the thousands of promotional, educational, and industrial films created to whip up consumer frenzies, educate the school kiddies, and train employees to flog company products more properly." Prelinger's program of revealing, and often hilarious, industrial and educational films was an audience favorite in the 1994 Virginia Film Festival.

In 1983, Rick Prelinger founded the Prelinger Archives in New York City. Over the next twenty years, the Archives grew into a collection of over 48,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division acquired Prelinger's film collection.

The Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 4,000 titles on videotape and a smaller collection of film materials acquired subsequent to the Library of Congress transaction. Its goal is to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere. Included are films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions.

Now that the Archives have moved to the Library of Congress, Rick is working with the Internet Archive to develop online moving image libraries and an all-archival feature film for release in early 2004. He also works with Archive Films/Getty Images to catalog material available for sale and market stock footage from the collection.

Among the many films Prelinger will show at his February 24th program, two emerge squarely from the collage tradition. PERVERSION FOR PROFIT, a standup anti-pornography lecture produced to titillate and frighten ordinary Americans, achieves a high level of prurience through its unintentionally skillful deployment of the cut-up. IN THE SUBURBS, produced by the innovative producer On Film, Inc. (one-time employer of Stan Brakhage, Len Lye and Stan Vanderbeek) liberally mixes black and white and color, stills and motion, and sound and silence in the manner of the 1950s avant-garde, all in the service of selling suburban readers to advertisers.

Wednesday, February 25

Rick Prelinger will give a free talk at noon in Clemons Library Room 407 on online access to archival films.

Thursday, February 26

The Media Studies Lecture Series continues at noon in the English Department Faculty Lounge on the second floor (229) of Bryan Hall. The talk, by Professor Aniko Bodroghkozy, is titled "The Chosen Instrument of the Revolution?": Television News Coverage of the Civil Rights Movement." The abstract is as follows:

At a symposium held in 1965 examining the role played by television in the civil rights movement, one CBS reporter stated: "the Negro revolution of the 1960s could not have occurred without the television coverage that brought it to almost every home in the land." NBC's Washington Bureau chief went even farther: "Negroes are the architects, bricklayers, carpenters, and welders of this revolution. Television is their chosen instrument." To what extent was television news and documentary programming 'the chosen instrument' of the black freedom struggle during the heyday of the movement between 1955-65? This talk will suggest a more complicated picture. Focusing on two controversial news documentaries reported by two of the most highly esteemed broadcast journalists of the period, we will explore the problematic issues of broadcast 'objectivity,' editorializing, and advocacy. We will also examine the dilemma of the national television networks' need to construct a national audience while not offending local/regional norms and how these conflicting needs constrained broadcast TV journalists' ability to comment on network television's first major domestic story.

Sunday, February 29

Be sure to attend a screening of The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, a 2003 documentary re: the failed April 2002 coup attempt against Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain. It's part of OffScreen's Film Series for the semester, and it will be showing at 7 pm and 9.30 pm.

HOW TO PREPARE: TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES (FOR NOW), OR, AUTHOR-EXPLORE AS YOU WILL

Here we are in Week 5. Our discussion will run until 7.30, as we agreed to last Tuesday.

A special computer needs to be set up in the Robertson Media Center in order to view the hypertext novels on the syllabus. See what happens when the new media artist succumbs to the profit motive rather than furthering the open source initiative? Planned obsolescence overtakes the collage aesthetic and relegates the hypertext on CD-ROM to the technological trash heap. Should've kept it accessible to the masses...

Anyway. It looks like a computer should be up and running at some point on Monday. Make an effort to check one of the novels out if you get a chance late Monday or Tuesday before 6 pm (or even sometime before next week's meeting). At the very least, try to prepare for our seminar discussion this Tuesday by

a) taking a look at Coover's essays (or Landow's, or Moulthrop's, or Ziegfeld's, etc.)
b) getting a sense of what Christian Marclay will be up to during the course of his visit (as per WIRED's recent perspective on his Video Quartet)
c) authoring-exploring as per usual on the weekly page, around the seminar portal, and beyond. EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF 04.02.15

Sunday, February 15th

The McIntire Department of Music presents the Annual TechnoSonics Concert, a free performance starting at 8:00 PM in Old Cabell Hall.

This concert brings a sampling of brand new digital and multimedia musical performance. There will be a variety of computer music videos, live performance, and even a poetry reading by UVA English Dept. faculty Deborah MacDowell. Matthew Burtner will perform his dis(Appearnances) for violin, electric violin and virtual violin, and NY violist Rozanna Weinberger will give the US premiere of Judith Shatin's, Penelope's Song, with viola and electronics, the latter from a recording of a woman weaving on a wooden loom.

Monday, February 16

Christian Marclay will rock on Andy Miller's show on WTJU 91.1 FM at 2.30 pm and again at 3.30 pm. For more on Marclay see the events below for Tuesday.

Tuesday, February 17th

The Virginia Festival Film Society will bring the pioneer turntablist and multimedia artist Christian Marclay to Charlottesville for a live lecture, luncheon and music performance.

At noon, Marclay will give a Lunch/Gallery Talk at the UVA Art Museum. This free event, sponsored by the Fringe Festival, will provide the chance to hear Marclay speak on his piece, Telephones, and to talk to him at a reception immediately following.

Through February 29, Marclay's Telephones, a collage of edited film clips of telephone conversations ranging from Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder to Kevin Smith's Clerks will be on view at the U.Va. Art Museum.

At 3:30 p.m., Marclay will deliver a slide, audio and video lecture on his music and visual art at U.Va.'s Newcomb Theater. Admission to the lecture is free.

At 8:00 p.m., Marclay will perform live with djTRIO, joined by improvisational turntable musicians Marina Rosenfeld and Toshio Kajiwara. The performance will be held at the Jefferson Theater. Tickets are $12.00 adults and $8.00 students (free for Film Society members) and can be purchased at the door.

Sometimes referred to as the "Dada DJ," Marclay has led djTRIO, an avant-garde group of musicians, since 1997, collaborating with a variety of other artists on multiple turntables to create a multimedia experience of sound and video. Marclay makes a point to always emphasize the ensemble's sound over the individual's solo, allowing the turntables to fill the performance space with an arrangement of sound varying from dissonant and haunting to familiar and even nostalgic. Mark Jenkins of The Washington Post compares the work to "nature sounds, 12-tone compositions, and the tuning of a radio dial." The force of the group's presentation is compounded by live videos of the artists switching records, controlling the mixers, and manipulating the turntables. These videos are projected behind the three artists on multiple screens in the darkened space.

Fellow turntable performance artists Marina Rosenfeld and Toshio Kajiwara accompany Marclay for his Charlottesville performance. Their sound compositions, live performances, and installations have been presented internationally, by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Kitchen, Artists Space, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, to name a few. Rosenfeld in particular has worked to introduce the modern turntable musician to the traditional orchestra.

Marclay and his group do not fit the mold of the traditional hip hop DJ, scratching and skipping records to an obvious rhythm. Marclay actually incorporates skips and pops to his presentation by abusing his records. He has been known to cover the floor of his performances with the vinyl records, so that they are put to use only after the audience has stepped on them, breaking a record and reconstructing it for use, and mailing records without covers, creating what he calls a "theater of found sound."

The event is cosponsored by the Robertson Media Center, the Fringe Festival, College of Arts and Sciences, McIntire Department of Music, UVA School of Architecture, American Studies Program, Parents Program, Artspace, UVA Art Museum, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and is part of the SAMPLE THIS series of collage art events.

Friday, February 20th

Djinji Brown: Hiphop DJ and producer, will give a lecture titled "From the Record Store, to the Studio, to the Streets Around the Globe!" at 3:30pm in Wilson 301.

He will perform at 9pm at Plan 9 on the Corner.

See what the Village Voice had to say about Brown's latest CD and its roots in Charlottesville!

Also on Friday, February 20th, be sure to check out the Art Media Circus titled Alan Greenspan In Art/As Art, by Aunspaugh Artist Erin Crowe, on display in Monroe Hall at the Comm School between 5 and 7 pm.

Through Sunday, February 22

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