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December 29, 2004
Danny Schechter
Filmmaker, Producer, Critic
Danny Schechter is a television producer and independent filmmaker who also writes and speaks about media issues. He is a co-founder and executive producer of Globalvision, a New York-based television and film production company specializing in information, entertainment and educational programming, and the executive editor of MediaChannel.org, the world's largest online media-issues network. Once a Nieman Fellow in journalism at Harvard University, where he taught in 1969, he has worked as a full time civil-rights worker, an assistant to the mayor of Detroit, and a producer for CNN. In addition, he was the producer of the ABC news magazine "20/20" for eight years, winning two Emmy awards.
Schechter's writing has appeared in leading newspapers and magazines including the Nation, New York Newsday, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Media Studies Journal, and the Village Voice, among others. He is the author of "Falun Gong's Challenge to China," "The More You Watch, The Less You Know," and "News Dissector: Passions, Pieces and Polemics."
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Writer, Satirist, Graphic Designer CHAD NACKERS was raised by a Zenith television and Betamax VCR, which weakened his mind and body and kept him off the tough streets of Appleton, Wisconsin. But all that changed in 1997 when he dropped out from the school of life, moved onto his friend's floor and began taking photos for the Onion. He has continued to contribute to the Onion by taking photos, creating Photoshop collages and writing headlines and jokes. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and two cats.
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Theater director, writer Steven Cosson is the founding Artistic Director of OBIE grant-winning theater group The Civilians. With the company, he was writer/director of Nobody’s Lunch (PS 122), Paris Commune (La Jolla Playhouse, co-authored with Michael Friedman); Gone Missing (productions in New York, London, HBO’s US Comedy Festival, US tour); and Canard, Canard, Goose? (joe’s pub/Public Theater and HERE). At Soho Rep, US premiere of Attempts on Her Life (Martin Crimp), also The Communist Dracula Pageant (Anne Washburn), and Marge (Peter Morris). Regionally, he has directed US premieres of Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love, Peter Morris’ The Square Root of Minus One; new plays by Erik Ehn, John C. Russell, and others; Measure for Measure; The Importance of Being Earnest (ACT Conservatory); The Time of Your Life (Williamstown Theatre Festival); recently Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money at Carnegie Mellon. Other original work: Fingered, (ASK Theater Projects and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts); and Close to Shore, (San Diego Rep). He is Resident Director at New Dramatists. In addiiton, he was a MacDowell Fellow, completed the NEA/TCG Career Development Program, was a Boris Sagal Fellow, and participated in the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and was a Fulbright Scholar to Colombia.December 28, 2004
Chad Nackers
Steven Cosson
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December 22, 2004
Kristin Marting
Executive Director, HERE
Over the last fifteen years, Kristin has constructed twenty works for the stage, including seven original constructions, six adaptations of novels and seven radical reworkings of classic texts. For the last ten years, Kristin has been developing a unique hybrid directorial/choreographic form which features a "gestural vocabulary" used both as an emotional signifier and as a choreographic element. She co-founded and served as co-artistic director of Tiny Mythic Theatre Company for nine years until it merged with HERE. She is a co-founder and Executive Director of HERE where she cultivates artists and programs all events for three performance spaces for an annual audience of 75,000. She graduated from New York University in 1988 with honors. She has been a guest artist and lecturer at NYU and Harvard University.
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HEREPosted by whatfelt at 09:54 PM
December 21, 2004
Najla Said
Actress, Comedian
Najla Said is a founding member of Nibras, the Arab-American theatre collective, whose inaugural production, "Sajjil (Record)" won best ensemble production at the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival. Najla is an actress, comedian, and writer whose work has appeared in such varied publications as Mizna, an Arab-American Literary Journal, and HEEB magazine. Recent theatrical appearances and collaborations include: "The Comfort And Safety Of Your Own Home" (International WOW ), "Love's Labours Lost," "She Stoops to Conquer," "God and Mr. Smith" (Kaleidoscope Theatre Co), "ReOrientalism" (Northeast Tour), "destiNATION: America" (Second Stage Theatre), and "Salome" (Lincoln Center Directors Lab). Najla has also made numerous televison and film appearances. She trained at The Shakespeare Lab at the Public Theatre and The Actors Center in New York City, and graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in comparative literature and a certificate in Theatre and Dance.
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December 20, 2004
Sophia Skiles
actor, THAW coordinator
Sophia Skiles is an events coordinator for THAW (Theaters Against War). For the past year and a half, in addition to other Steering Committee duties, she has organized the Freedom Follies, THAW's monthly pro-peace cabaret, which is held in various THAW member theater spaces. She has appeared in various off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway venues as an actor and is also an active teaching artist.
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Peter Morris
Playwright
Peter’s plays include The Age of Consent, which premiered at London’s Bush Theatre in 2002, and is published by Methuen. The play has since been staged professionally in Dublin, Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin, and Tokyo, and (inexplicably) on television in Reykjavik.
Peter is twice the winner of London’s Sunday Times Playwriting Prize (2000 and 2001). He is also a founding member and associate artist of the Obie-award-winning company The Civilians, and served as resident writer on their show Gone Missing (NY: Belt Theatre, London: Gate Theatre) and during their 2003 residency at the Public Theatre.
Television and screen work includes: “Born and Bred” (BBC1); a miniseries adaptation of John Lanchester’s novel The Debt to Pleasure (BBC2); and a screen adaptation of Paul Murray’s novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes (Film Four / Company Pictures).
He is currently working with director Robert Altman, on a 6-part television adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected (BBC / Sandcastle 5).
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The CiviliansAge of Consent
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December 19, 2004
Tina Kukielski
Curator
Tina Kukielski is Senior Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the summer of 2004, concurrent with the Republican National Convention in New York, she co-curated The Freedom Salon exhibition with Apsara DiQuinzio at Deitch Projects. Providing an open forum for the expression and consideration of critical issues facing the nation and the world at large during a significant cultural moment, The Freedom Salon brought together work by over 40 contemporary artists, including Mel Chin, Sam Durant, Yoko Ono, Martha Rosler, Julia Sher, and Olav Westphalen. At the Whitney she has co-organized The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States 1990-2003 and Tim Hawkinson with Lawrence Rinder. Tina is currently co-organizing Elisabeth Sussman’s forthcoming exhibition, Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing opening in the summer 2005. She is a Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
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Whitney Museum of American ArtPosted by whatfelt at 11:58 PM
Paper Tiger Television
Volunteer Video Collective
Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) is an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective. Through the production and distribution of our public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings, and grassroots advocacy, PTTV works to challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media. PTTV believes that increasing public awareness of the negative influence of mass media and involving people in the process of making media is mandatory for our long term goal of information equity. The goal of the work is to provide viewers with a critical understanding of the communications industry. This critical consciousness is a necessary step towards more equitable and democratic control of information resources.
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Paper Tiger TelevisionPosted by whatfelt at 11:56 PM
Marc Lepson
Artist, Curator
Marc Lepson is an interdisciplinary artist and curator living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Since the events of September 11 2001, Marc’s projects have focused on the political and emotional climate in New York City and the greater U.S. Working on his own and with activist groups, Marc has done print work for public performances such as Our Grief is Not A Cry For War (2001), as well as several street graphics projects. In 2002, he created a gallery installation examining the current climate of war and the intense scrutiny of immigrants within the U.S. The exhibition, Breathe: A meditation on claustrophobia, confinement and comfort, was excerpted in Open House: Working in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2004. His recent curatorial projects include; Watch What We Say (2004) at Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY; American Archetypes (2004) on the Visual AIDS web gallery; and Art During Wartime (2003), co-organized with Dread Scott at IT IN Space, New York, NY.
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Our Grief is Not a Cry for War" Breathe: A meditation on claustrophobia, confinement and comfortPosted by whatfelt at 11:55 PM
Apsara DiQuinzio
Curator
Apsara DiQuinzio, Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art, co-organized the Whitney’s 2004 Biennial Exhibition, curated by Chrissie Iles, Shamim M. Momin, and Debra Singer, and contributed essays on selected artists for the exhibition’s catalogue. In addition to coordinating the Whitney’s Contemporary Series and the SoundCheck series, she recently produced the performance component of the 2004 Biennial. At the Whitney, she has coordinated solo exhibitions of the work of Paul Sietsema, Sarah Sze, Irit Batsry, LOT-EK, Jennifer Pastor, and researched the documentary film series for the exhibition The American Effect, curated by Lawrence Rinder. This past summer she co-curated The Freedom Salon at Deitch Projects, a one-week exhibition that ran counter to the Republican National Convention. She has also served as a jury for several national shows.
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Whitney Museum of American ArtPosted by whatfelt at 11:50 PM
Volunteering gets you free admission to the conference!
And an all-expenses paid vacation to Maine! (As if.)
We're looking for volunteers to work 2-3 shifts of 2 hours. These can be split up so that you don't miss the workshop, panel or discussion that you really, really want to go to. Volunteers will be registering and pointing the way for conference-goers, assisting artists, cleaning up, and generally being helpful.
You can sign up to volunteer by going to the registration page and choosing a time slot.
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David Rees
Graphic Artist
David Rees has captivated readers since his post 9-11 strip Get Your War On was featured in Rolling Stone. He is a self-publishing hero & creator of other hilarious works like My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable and its follow-up My New Filing Technique Is Unstoppable. Sarcastic, painfully truthful, intelligent, and humorous at once, his creative clip-art technique has karate-chopped its way into our consciousness.
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Get Your War OnPosted by whatfelt at 06:43 PM
Image Acts
In response to the U.S.-led war in Iraq, the controversial politics and policies of President George W. Bush, ongoing strife between Palestinians and Israelis, and a wide range of other domestic and international issues, artists in New York City and elsewhere have been using their work as a platform on which to discuss matters of political and social relevance.
For this juried exhibition, Apsara DiQuinzio and Tina Kukielski, assistant curators at the Whitney Museum of American Art and co-curators of the recent "Freedom Salon" exhibition at Deitch Projects, have assembled pieces by 25 visual artists who, through paintings, installations, sculptures, and photographs, have demonstrated their critical engagement with the ethical and aesthetic considerations of politically-based art.
Jurors
Apsara DiQuinzioTina Kukielski
Artists
The Center for Tactical MagicComplacent.org
Patricia Dahlman
Cara Earl
Danielle Frank
GuerrillaGirlsBroadBand
Yoav Horesh
Simon Kahn
Marc Lepson
Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese
Yvette Mattern
Denise McMorrow
Graham Parker
Peripheral Media Projects
Michalis Pichler
Marina Potok & Wendy Tremayne
Martha Rosler
Jayce Salloum
Elin O'Hara Slavick
Gabor Wallner
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UnionDocs
Documentary Collaborative
Processing and producing documentation today, UnionDocs is a platform where a floating network of members, collaborators, and interlocutors load and unload the possibilities and problems within contemporary art, politics, and society. At regular gallery exhibitions, film screenings, public forums and live performances in our arts space at 322 Union Ave in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, members and invited individuals and organizations present documentary artworks - often 'in process' and spanning a variety of media. This docking together shapes new actions and responses. The processing of these documents becomes radio, print, video and performance products.
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Jesse ShapinsChristopher Allen
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UnionDocsPosted by whatfelt at 06:25 PM
Christopher Allen
UnionDocs
Christopher Allen is the founder of UnionDocs, a documentary collaborative, artist-run gallery, and cooperative living space. He is also a principal in the start-up art and entertainment company, Counts Media, Inc., with whom he was a lead creator of the global public art project, the Yellow Arrow. After graduating from Columbia University, Christopher worked as an associate director for Gale Gates et al. Christopher has been a host of the radio show “Art Attack” on WKCR since 2001, and has written two plays, “The Skylight Exchange” and “Stand in Scale.”
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Mike Connery
Co-Founder, Music for America
Mike Connery is a founder of Music for America and was MfA's communications director and editor-in-chief until December 2004. MfA reached over 2 million 18-30 year olds at 2,445 concerts in 2004. He is currently working with other x-MfA members on a new start-up company mixing culture and politics.
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Music for AmericaPosted by whatfelt at 03:47 PM
December 18, 2004
Jason Blackkat
DJ, Activist
Jason Blackkat is a DJ and activist devoted to building a politically-conscious dance music subculture. In 1995, he co-founded Manhattan's longest running pirate radio station, "Steal This Radio," which became an early rallying point and inspiration for the nascent micro-radio movement. Jason has organized locally and nationally against legislation that restricts dance culture, including New York’s cabaret laws and the RAVE Act. In 1996, he co-founded Blackkat, a collective of artists, musicians, and activists. He has toured and performed with several traveling soundsystems, including Spiral Tribe and Bedlam (both from the UK) and S.P.A.Z. (from San Francisco).
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(over)Throwing Political Parties - Discussion LeaderPosted by whatfelt at 10:41 PM
Arrow Chrome
DJ, Activist
Arrow Chrome is a DJ and activist whose work has focused on developing alternatives to traditional housing and environmental policy and advocating lifestyles outside of mainstream culture. In 1995, he founded the Nomadic Festival, a traveling collective of performers who combined circus, theater and anarchist politics to inspire a politically aware subculture. He has been a leader in the national movement to establish a legal micro-radio network and co-founded Manhattan's longest running pirate radio station, Steal This Radio, in 1995. Throughout the ‘90s, Arrow was actively involved in New York City’s homestead movement, which sought to transform abandoned property into low-income, tenant-controlled housing. In 1996, he co-founded Blackkat, a collective of artists, musicians, and activists nationally recognized for their groundbreaking warehouse parties. Arrow is currently developing several projects that promote awareness of biodiesel and other sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels, including B.I.O. Tour, an annual traveling public awareness campaign.
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BiotourPosted by whatfelt at 10:32 PM
Visual Resistance
Artists Collective
Visual Resistance aims to "explore the spaces where art and activism interact and help develop a visual language for political action." The collective of artists and independent media activists came together to organize the No RNC Poster Project, which covered the city this summer with thousands of protest stickers and posters. The RNC was just the beginning—their website, VisualResistance.org, is a forum open to art events and all artists as a space for discussion. VisualResistance.org features political art and innovative projects aimed at raising awareness of urgent social issues through visual media.
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visualresistance.orgPosted by whatfelt at 10:26 PM
Jennifer Miller
Performance Artist
Jennifer Miller has worked as a circus performer for twenty years, in traditional venues as well as more subversive ones. Miller began her career as a “bearded lady” in a sideshow at Coney Island. In 1989, she founded Circus Amok, a political performance troupe that continually reappropriates and reinvents the meaning of circus and its capacity for political engagement. Miller has been the subject of two documentaries: Un Cirque a New York (2002) and Juggling Gender (1992). She is an adjunct professor of Intercultural Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles and also teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
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Circus AmokPosted by whatfelt at 09:56 PM
Lea Rekow
Artist and Curator
As founding director of Gigantic ArtSpace, Lea is active in all aspects of curating, publishing and programming. She works exhaustively in film, video and interactive multimedia, and for the last decade has lived and traveled extensively in over 50 developing countries, shooting film and still photography. From this material she has produced a number of ethnographic projects which have been shown internationally. Lea was previously director of Harmonic Ranch, a new media studio in TriBeCa, and director of media programs at the Center for Peace and Human Security. She has taught as a professor of video at Pratt Institute in Manhattan, performed with Emergency Broadcast Network, and was a producer of new media for Simon and Schuster Interactive. Lea holds a Masters degree in film and digital media.
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gigantic artspacePosted by whatfelt at 08:36 PM
Dread Scott
Multidisciplinary Artist
Dread Scott is a multidisciplinary artist whose work addresses questions that are part of the public discourse. He works in a variety of media including installation, photography, sculpture, and screenprinting. In recent years, as an extension of his art, he helped produce video public service announcements against police brutality which aired on MTV and BET. In 1992, Dread was a fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. In 1995, he was awarded a Mid Atlantic National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship in Photography. In 2000 he participated in the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue directed By Anna Deavere Smith at Harvard University. That year he also worked on a Special Edition Fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop. And in 2001 he received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture and a Creative Capital Grant.
His work has been exhibited at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, the Robert Miller Gallery in New York and at DeBeyerd in the Netherlands as well as many galleries and museums around the country and internationally. His public sculptures have been installed at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York and in other locations. He has produced several posters which have been pasted on walls around the country. His work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and in the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Dread Scott websitePosted by whatfelt at 08:32 PM
Peter Kuper
Graphic Artist
Peter Kuper is a NYC-based graphic artist. His works include The System, a wordless graphic novel, Topsy Turvy, Mind's Eye, and adaptations of The Jungle and Metamorphosis. He co-founded the political comix magazine World War 3. Illustrated with Seth Tobocman, has taught at the School of Visual Arts and is also an art director of INX, a political illustration group.
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Official SitePosted by whatfelt at 08:22 PM
Mariam Ghani
Interdisciplinary Artist
Mariam Ghani works in video, installation, new media (including interactive installation and net art), and tactical media (including public dialogue performance). Her work has been supported by a Soros New Americans Fellowship, an Aaron Siskind Memorial Scholarship, net art commissions from Turbulence.org and artwurl, and residencies at Eyebeam Atelier, LMCC Workspace in the Woolworth Building and the MFA Computer Arts department at SVA, and has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1999. Recent and upcoming projects include screenings at the Liverpool Biennial, the Danish Film Institute, the d.u.m.b.o. festival, Rooftop Films, Cinema East, the New York Video Festival, the Asia Society, the Boston Center for the Arts, Smart Project Space in Amsterdam, the 13a Mostra Curtacinema in Rio de Janeiro, and transmediale.03 in Berlin; site-specific installations at the Queens Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, White Box, Exit Art, the Asian American Art Center, Eyebeam and the Bronx Museum of the Arts; artist talks and lectures at Wesleyan, SVA, Hunter, Tufts, The College of New Jersey, Bennington, and NYU; and a collaboration in multidisciplinary performance with Michael Floyd & Emily Tepper. She lives & works in Brooklyn.
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Kabul ReconstructionsPosted by whatfelt at 08:14 PM
Hillary Maroon
Musical performer and composer
Hillary Maroon is a New York City-based, performer and composer who works in a variety of musical and interdisciplinary contexts. She has performed for four years with MAROON, an alternative jazz ensemble she co-leads with keyboardist Benny Lackner. Their latest album, Who the Sky Betrays, which features special guest Marc Ribot, was just released on head fulla brains. She was also a member of Caramelize, a rock band that featured Sandra Velásquez, J Why and El Chapulín.
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Hillary MarronPosted by whatfelt at 07:59 PM
Stephan Smith
Musician and Activist
Called "an incredible songwriter and musician" by Dave Matthews, Smith is a renowned musician who performs rock, country, and rap songs seeped in the old time folk tradition. His topical songs and poetry have become local and national anthems to the activist community. Among his recordings are the 1997 single "Ballad of Abner Louima," with background vocals by Patti Smith, and his 1999 debut album, Now's The Time (Rounder/Universal).
The full-length CD New World Worder was released in June, 2003 on Smith's own Universal Hobo label (distributed by Synchronic/Caroline). Slash and Burn, his first album with a band, will be available June 8, 2004, through a new relationship between Universal Hobo and Artemis Records. Among those Smith has performed or recorded with are: Ween, Allen Ginsberg, Rufus Wainwright, Pete Seeger, Victoria Williams, Steve Earle, John Zorn, Mary Harris, Mark Ribot, and the iconoclastic legend Michael Hurley.
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StephanSmith.comPosted by whatfelt at 07:57 PM
Naomi Klein
Writer, Filmmaker
Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and author of the international bestseller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, translated in 27 languages. Her articles have appeared in publications such as The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, and Le Monde Diplomatique. Klein writes an internationally syndicated column and a collection of her work, entitled Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, was published in 2002.
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No LogoPosted by whatfelt at 07:54 PM
Avi Lewis
Filmmaker
The Take is Avi Lewis’ feature-length directorial debut. In 2002 he directed, filmed and edited Gustavo Benedetto: Presente!, a short film about a young man who was shot and killed at his first protest in Buenos Aires. Prior to directing, Lewis was the host/producer of CounterSpin on CBC Newsworld, where he presided over more than 500 nationally televised debates. In the 1990s, he hosted “The New Music” on CityTV, and pioneered MuchMusic’s political “uncoverage”, winning a Gemini award in 1993.
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The TakePosted by whatfelt at 07:53 PM
Katie Halper
Filmmaker
Katie is based in New York City, where she was born and raised. She studied history, Spanish, and film at Wesleyan University, where she graduated with high honors and Phi Beta Kappa. Katie wrote her undergraduate thesis on the Valley of the Fallen that she based on interviews she conducted while living in Madrid. Her thesis won high honors from Wesleyan as well as the award for best undergraduate work on the Spanish Civil War from the Abraham Lincoln Brigades Archive, which published part of her essay in their magazine The Volunteer. Katie has been involved in documentary filmmaking since graduating. Among other projects, Katie co-produced Embedded, the film by Tim Robbins, based on his play of the same name about media coverage of the war in Iraq, which was shown at the Venice Film festival; Katie was the associate producer of Free to Fly: the U.S.-Cuba Link, a documentary by the award-winning director Estella Bravo, about the travel between the U.S. and Cuba, which has been shown at the Havana Film Festival, the New York Havana Film Festival, and the International Los Angeles Latino film festival. Most recently, Katie was the outreach and organizing director for the documentary The Take about the workers’ movement in Argentina, by No Logo author Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis. The Take was shown in Argentina, at the Toronto film Festival, at the Venice Film Festival, and is now screening at the Film Forum in New York City. La Memoria es Vaga is Katie’s first documentary.
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La Memoria Es VagaPosted by whatfelt at 07:51 PM
Hany Abu-Assad
Filmmaker
Hany Abu-Assad worked as an airplane engineer in The Netherlands until 1998, when he began pursuing his work in film and television full-time. The Fourteenth Chick, his directorial debut, was the opening film of the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht, in 1998. Films include: Ford Transit (2002), Rana's Wedding (2002), Nazareth 2000 (2000), Der Arabieren van 2001 & Het Spijkerkwartier (documentary, 1999), The Fourteenth Chick (documentary, 1998), The 13th (short film, 1997), Onverwachte Natuur (6 episodes for Vara Television, 1996), Paper House (short film, 1992), Long days in Gaza (producer, documentary, 1991).
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Ford TransitPosted by whatfelt at 07:48 PM
Eduardo Carillo
Director
Eduardo is Colombian filmmaker. He is interested in enabling children to express ideas and experiences through the use of storytelling and computer animation. He also works as a 3D animator. Carillo has an M.A. in Computer Imaging and Animation from the Metropolitan University—London.
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Little VoicesPosted by whatfelt at 07:46 PM
Jacqueline Tarry
Visual Artist
Jacqueline Tarry brings to the visual arts a background in both Philosophy and Logic, two influences that imbue her conceptual art practice with methodical precision and a yearning for Truth. She received her BA in Philosophy from the State University College at Buffalo, NY in 1986. In 1996 Tarry joined ConjenctionArts, sharing an interest with the organization in forging social awareness through art. In partnership with Bradely McCallum, Tarry has worked with the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue at Harvard University as an artist in residence. She has developed the idea of Performative Sculpture through the works Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence and Silence, which both reflect the complexity of changing social issues, over time and from site to site. The Meta work-process involves collaborations with individuals and organizations, which change and unfurled the work. Her concurrent career as a flight attendant informs the conceptual persona “Oh-Miss!” which is to figure prominently in new project dealing with “emotional currency” and investigating the language of service.
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Bradley McCallum
Visual Artist
Bradely McCallum is an artist working in public space. During the last decade he has created site specific, civic-based artworks from collaborative process which utilizes oral history and testimony as the primary material for his work. His 1996 installation at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, CT entitled, The Manhole Cover Project: a Gun Legacy, juxtaposed public utility covers forged from the metal confiscated firearms with audio recordings of gun violence survivors. His partnership with Jacqueline Tarry in Witness: Perspectives on Police Violence gave both artists the opportunity to interpret their own contrasting experiences with police. He received his BFA from Virginia
Commonwealth University in 1989 and his MFA in Sculpture from Yale University School of ART in 1992.
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Ashley Hunt
Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, Cinematographer
Ashley Hunt is a Los Angeles-based artist and activist whose work revolves around the massive expansion of criminalization and imprisonment as strategies of global neo–liberal policy. His recent work includes a feature documentary, “CORRECTIONS” & a series of “Footnotes on Corrections,” and collaborations with grassroots organizations Critical Resistance and the Prison Moratorium Project. His work has been included at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS), the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change in Atlanta, at various community based venues as well as film & video festivals. Hunt was a fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, received his Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelors of Arts from the University of California at Irvine.
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Call for Artists
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About And So Forth: A Post-Inaugural Assembly
Amnesty International Firefly Project, Theaters Against War, Art Is Permitted Everywhere, and FELT present an out-of-the-ordinary conference on arts and activism in response to the incredible profusion of politically-engaged artistic projects, performances, and events that have been created in New York City in recent months.
ASF will focus on skills-building and the arts: artists and activists of all sorts will come together to teach and discuss innovative, creative methods for raising social and political consciousness and effecting change.
By providing a non-partisan forum in which artists and activists can share skills and strategies for raising social and political consciousness, ASF's organizers hope to reaffirm local commitment to arts activism, strengthen ties among members of New York City's artist-activist community, and address ongoing social justice concerns.
Attendies are invited to complete our questionnaire.
About the Sponsors
Amnesty International Firefly Project is affiliated with Amnesty International USA as local group #704 and as a pilot project for the Northeast Region.
Here's the AI Firefly team (and each person's role in making the conference happen):
Amiel Melnick - Coordinator
Andrea Lipps - Post-conference Publication
Elizabeth Barone - Volunteer Coordinator
Esy Casey - Graphic Designer, Panel/workshop/discussion Producer
Lara Weibgen - Image Acts Coordinator, Panel/workshop/discussion Producer
Matt Robinson - Post-conference Publication
Rosa Weinberg - Food + Signage Coordinator
Sarah Friedland - Film Festival Curator
Steffani Jemison - Coordinator
You can reach us at firefly@aifirefly.org
Posted by whatfelt at 05:53 PM
December 17, 2004
Master Example Entry
10:00 - 12:00, Location
This is a Master Example Entry which shows how to format and configure entries.
The main components of configuring your entries are:
Using the Title, Body, and Extended Entry
Publishing
Categories
The single most important thing to understand are the categories.
Every entry can have multiple secondary categories. But only one primary category.
The first thing to set is the primary category.
Due to the way things work behind the sceens, if you want an entry to show up in multiple places, such as Events + Schedule, then it is important that you choose EVENTS as your primary category. If you want entries to show up only on the schedule, and there are no details for the entry then choose Schedule
For all other things such as Artist, Exhibit, Etc, there are no multisection possibilities and so the above is not important. You should simply select the appropriate category for your entry.
All events are intended to have secondary categories. In fact, if you do not select a second category for your event it will NOT show up on the Event page!
HOW TO: Assign Secondary Categories
Before you can assign seccond cats you must first save your entry. It is best under the Post Status to select Draft when first saving. Once you have saved the entry, there will be a link for Second Cats under the Primary Cat menu. Click it and you will be given a menu.
You must give all Events a second category!
Your options are:-
Panel
Discussion
Workshop
Presentation
Selecting one of these will place your entry on the Event page under that second cat.
If you want your event to also appear on the schedule you must add "schedule" as a secondary category! AND either "saturday" OR "sunday"
Once you are done adding second cats, both Save on the short menu and again on the Entry editing page. This will make sense when you are making your entry. Basically Save Twice.
Using the Title, Body, and Extended Entry
MT gives you four places to enter text. This site uses the first Three. "Except" should not be used.
Titles appear as bold text and usually with a dotted orange underline.
Body is reserved mostly for entering the time and location of events. Although it can be used for other info in other sections. Just be awaire that this information will almost always appear directly under the order underlined title with no space between the two.
Entry is the best place to add extended text and is the place where you can use custom HTML/CSS tags to style content.
tags you can use are:
h3
a class="title"
I'm not really sure what will happen if you use h1 and h2, so I dont recommend it. I did not do any formatting for them.
h3
will bold your text without the fancy orange dotted underline. But it will use the font Trebuchet. This is a little different from justing bold tags. It also forces a line break and pads the word with space both above and below it! h3 also forces a line break. Although it does not pad the line:Here is h3
Here is Bolda class="title"
you can use in a "a" link tag. The class="title" property will cause the text within the a-tags to turn white and get the special orange underline. Here is an example using class="title". If you do not use the title attribute your links will default to this default link style.Lastly, just because you are using an a-tag to style your titles and other headlines, doesn't mean you have to link to anything. Just make your href target like this:
href="#"
That will link your link to the same page.
Authored On Time Stamp
The Authored On feature of MT is critical to your Schedule. The Schedule will automatically order events by this time stamp and the day you selected in your secondary categories. So the date and time you enter for your events are critical.
The Authored on feature at the bottom of the entry editing window has a date and 24hr time stamp. Your entries should look something like this:
2005-01-22 14:30:00
that would be the equivalent of Jan 22nd at 2:30PM! remmember its a 24hr clock with time spaces for hours:minutes:seconds.
TIP
If you have two events that happen at the same time, but you want one to list first. Give the LATER one a few seconds on the clock: EARLIER: 2005-01-22 10:30:00 LATER: 2005-01-22 10:30:10MT will either convert line breaks for you or not. If you want to have fine grain control using HTML set your convert line breaks to NONE. Otherwise, MT will kindly convert every press of the return key into a new line, like so:
new line
two hits of the return key
three hits of the return key
Woa!
Comments
You should disable comments on all postst for now!
Comments have not been styled or appropriately placed into the templates yet. Besure to set the comments to NONE on your entries.
I will enable this feature in late December when there is more time.
Publishing
There are two steps to Publishing. Saving your entry and rebuilding the website.
1. When you are all done select Publish under the POST STATUS menu at the bottom of the editing page and SAVE.
2. REBUILD the site. On the left menu is a link toward the bottom for this. Clicking will pop a menu and it will ask what you want to rebuild. It is easiest if you select to rebuild all parts of the Site.
WA-LA! YOU ARE DONE
BTW, if you break somthing you should panic, make note of what you think you broke and email ASAP! wjames5@nyc.rr.com
Posted by whatfelt at 11:39 PM
CALL FOR ARTISTS: IMAGE ACTS
Amnesty International Firefly Project, a New York City-based collective dedicated to exploring the relationship between activism and the arts, will be hosting a juried exhibition of political art on Saturday and Sunday, January 22-23, 2005. "Image Acts" will be presented as part of AND SO FORTH..., a two-day post-inaugural conference for artists and activists co-sponsored by Theaters Against War, FELT, and Art Is Permitted Everywhere.
Aspara DiQuinzio and Tina Kukielski, assistant curators at the Whitney Museum of American Art and co-curators of the recent "Freedom Salon" exhibition at Deitch Projects, will serve as jurors, selecting artists who demonstrate a serious critical engagement with the ethical and aesthetic concerns of politically-based art. They will also be present at the conference to offer their curatorial perspectives to those whom they have chosen to participate in the event.
Artists interested in submitting their work for review are invited to send a brief artist's statement and two to four JPEG images to Lara at fireflyart@gmail.com no later than December 22, 2004; applicants will be informed of the jury's decision on or before January 15, 2005.
Please note that we will not have the facilities to show video or computer work unless you can provide all your own equipment. Artists should limit their submissions to two or three pieces of reasonable size.
Deadline: December 22, 2004
Exhibition dates: January 22-23, 2005
Exhibition location: OfficeOps, 57 Thames Street, East Williamsburg
Posted by whatfelt at 10:25 PM
December 16, 2004
You can pre-register by completing this form
PRE-REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. PLEASE COME TO THE CONFERENCE AND REGISTER IN PERSON! WE'LL BE WAITING!
WE HAVE MET OUR VOLUNTEER NEEDS FOR THE WEEKEND. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SHOW OF SUPPORT.
THE POLITICAL THEATER WORKSHOP IS FULL.
The registration fee is $10 in advance or $12 at the door.
THE POLITICAL THEATER WORKSHOP IS FULL.
The registration fee is $10 in advance or $12 at the door.
If you have questions or comments, or want to plead economic hardship, please contact us at ihaveaconcern@aifirefly.org.
If there is a problem with this form please notify the website master at webmaster@aifirefly.org. Be sure to describe the problem in full, and copy and paste any error messages you may have received.
Posted by whatfelt at 01:51 PM
December 14, 2004
Lourdes Portillo
Writer, Director, Producer
Mexico-born and Chicana identified, Portillo's films have focused on the search for Latino identity. She has worked in a richly varied range of forms, from television documentary to satirical video-film collage. Portillo has collaborated extensively with noted directors Susana MuAoz and Nina Serrano and with Academy Award-winning editor Vivien Hillgrove. Working with other women artists has helped Portillo break down the proscriptions of traditional documentary making because "women, and women of color in particular, often come into filmmaking with a different set of objectives than their male counterparts." Portillo's films have received high praise at more than ten international women's film festivals.
And So Forth links
Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young WomanExternal links
Lourdes Portillo homePosted by whatfelt at 07:06 PM
OfficeOps is located at 57 Thames Street in East Williamsburg, a 3 minute walk from the Morgan stop on the L train.
Directions:
From the L train:
Take the L to the Morgan Ave stop in Brooklyn. Leave through the Morgan Ave exit at the front of the train coming from Manhattan, and use the right hand stairs as you exit the station.
Walk on Morgan Ave south towards the firehouse, crossing Grattan St.
Make a left onto Thames Street. 57 is the last steel door on the left. Push the call panel marked "OfficeOps."
Driving from 278 West via LIE or Midtown Tunnel:
Take the Morgan Ave Exit (1st Exit in Brooklyn)
Left on Morgan Ave south. for 1.3 mi
Follow Morgan Ave Directions Below:
From 278 East:
Take the Metropolitan Ave Exit
Right onto Metropolitan.
Straight about 1.2 miles passing through the shopping district
Right at Light on Morgan Ave.
Follow Directions from Morgan Ave Below:
From the Williamsburg Bridge:
Take the right ramp on the Williamsburg Bridge to the second exit, Broadway/ S. 5th Street, shortly after crossing the bridge.
Left at light at Havemyer St.
Right at the next light under the BQE overpass
Continue straight on Grand Street about 1 mile, passing through the shopping district
Right at light at Morgan Ave.
From Morgan Ave:
Cross Flushing Ave
Left at George St.
Left at Knickerbocker
Cross Flushing again
Next left on Thames St.
57 is first the building on the right
Posted by whatfelt at 07:01 PM