Now Is The Winter: Symposium Schedule

NOTE: All symposium events will take place in Room 220 of the Roy H Park School of Communications.

Friday, October 26, 2007

12:00 pm: Panel Session #1

Introductory Remarks by Nicholas Muellner

Factography from Agit to Obit
Devin Fore, Professor

I will Attempt to Describe: Thoughts on Performance and its Documentation
Sharon Hayes

3:45 pm: Panel Sesion #2

Is Norma Still Alive? Sketches for a Chronicle of Moscow Cultural Economy
Andrey Kovalyev

From the Sinking of the Lusitania to Homeland Security: A Century of Animated Propoganda
Jackie Goss

7pm: Screening

Next Horizons
curated by Masha Godovannaya

Saturday, October 27, 2007

11:30 pm: Panel Session #3

Nashi Ludi/Our People
Diane Neumaier

American Cinema’s Last Underground
Ed Halter

Response to the exhibition: Signal Trouble
Madeleine Reich Casad

2:30 pm: Signal Trouble, Handwerker Gallery

Gallery talk by exhibiting artists:
Sharon Hayes
Paul Swenbeck
Marian Zhunin

• Madeleine Reich Casad, doctoral candidate, Comparative Literature, Cornell University writes about contemporary media, and personal and political memory. She will give a talk about the works in the exhibition, Signal Trouble.

• Devin Fore, Assistant Professor, Departments of German and Slavic Studies, Princeton University, will present a scholarly paper on the links between obituary and documentary forms in 1920s Soviet Russia.

• Masha Godovannaya, Lecturer, Smolniy College of Liberal Arts and Science, St. Petersburg, internationally exhibited filmmaker and film curator, will present a curated screening of contemporary Russian experimental film and video work.

• Jacqueline Goss, Associate Professor, Film and Electronic Arts, Bard College, will present a paper on the contemporary use of animation in propaganda.

• Ed Halter, author of From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games and staff critic for the Village Voice, will present a paper on the political dimension of the experimental film movement in the 1990s.

• Sharon Hayes, Lecturer, School of Art, The Cooper Union, will present a lecture about the relationship between documentation and event, as well as a gallery talk about her installation, After/Before, at Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery

• Andrey Kovalev, Lecturer in Fine Arts, Moscow Lomonosov State University, will present a paper on art, money and media in contemporary Russia.

• Diane Neumaier, Professor, Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University, will present a paper on the impact of early post-soviet Russian culture on her work as a visual artist in the United States.

• Michael Robinson, Independent Filmmaker and Curator, Chicago, IL, will present a screening of US experimental film and video work.

• Paul Swenbeck, Independent Artist, Philadelphia, PA, will present a gallery talk about his installation, The Green Thumb of Salem, at Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery.

• Marian Zhunin, Independent Artist, Moscow, Russia, will present a gallery talk about his installation, Scrim, at Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery.