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Events for February 26, 2012
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Redesigning Reality
Sun, Feb 26, 2012
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Workshops & Infosessions
Admission is free. Reservations required for the workshops. To RSVP, see the workshop schedule and reservation links below.
Reuse. Recycle. Reconfigure. A week-long series will feature two hands-on workshops where participants can remix and remake everyday objects and software and alter the ways we think about technology, culture and the environment. Throughout the week, artifacts from the workshops will be featured in a gallery show that is part art exhibition and part interactive junkyard. The series will foreground reuse and sharing as fundamental to the design and creation of hybrid media work.
Even if you are unable to attend the workshops, please come by the gallery during the week to see the residuals of the first workshop or join us for a reception and presentation by participants following each workshop.
Workshop Schedule:
Scrapyard Challenge
Friday, February 24, 12 to 4 p.m.
Reception to follow.
Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki of Scrapyard Challenge will guide an afternoon of repurposing junk and refurbished electronics to create machines and robots.
To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=196 beginning Wednesday, February 1, at 9 a.m.
Still Water: What Networks Need to Thrive
Friday, March 2, 2 to 4 p.m.
Closing reception to follow.
Still Water cofounders Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais from the University of Maine will demonstrate how to hack software into unique virtual environments.
To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=198 beginning Tuesday, February 7, at 9 a.m.
Organized by Craig Dietrich (Cinematic Arts) and Steve Anderson (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by iMAP (PhD Program in Media Arts and Practice) and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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The Politics of Memory on Screen: 21st-Century Latin America and Spain
Sun, Feb 26, 2012
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Join us for a weekend of screenings and discussions that will investigate how Latin American and Spanish cinema have documented and constructed collective and personal memory. The audience will engage our relationship to the past by viewing four films: Guillermo del Toroâs internationally acclaimed Panâs Labyrinth (Spain, 2006), Natalia Almadaâs award-winning documentary El General (Mexico/USA, 2008), Cao Hamburgerâs The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (Brazil, 2006) and Germán Bergerâs My Life with Carlos (Chile, 2010). The festival will also feature screenings and announcements of the winning entries from the student video contest Los Angeles: Making Memory Visible.
Schedule of Events:
Saturday, February 25
Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall
4 p.m.: El General
Directed by Natalia Almada (Mexico/USA, 2008)
The past and the present collide as filmmaker Natalia Almada brings to life audio recordings she inherited about her great-grandfather Plutarco ElÃas Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924. In his time, Calles was called âEl Bolsheviqueâ and âEl hefe máximoâ (the foremost chief). Today, he is remembered as âel quema-curasâ (the priest-burner) and as a dictator who ruled through puppet presidents until he was exiled in 1936. Through his daughterâs recordings, El General moves between the memories of a daughter grappling with historyâs portrait of her father and the weight of his legacy on the country today. Time is blurred in this complex and visually arresting portrait of a family and country living under the shadows of the past.
6 p.m.: Reception, Queenâs Courtyard
7 p.m.: Panâs Labyrinth
Directed by Guillermo del Toro (Spain, 2006)
Q&A and roundtable discussion to follow.
Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro delivers a unique, richly imagined epicâa gothic fairy tale set against the postwar repression of Francoâs Spain. Del Toroâs sixth and most ambitious film combines historic and moral themes with visual creativity. It is a timeless tale of good and evil, bravery and sacrifice, love and loss.
Sunday, February 26
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, School of Cinematic Arts 108
2 p.m.: My Life with Carlos
Directed by Germán Berger (Chile, 2010)
Q&A with director to follow.
My Life with Carlos is the voyage of a son in search of the memory of his assassinated father. It is also the emotional history of a country that refuses to remember. It is the intimate diary of a broken family struggling to overcome tragedy. It is the minimal story of a group of men and women as told by themselves.
4 p.m.: Los Angeles: Making Memory Visible
The finalists from the student video contest Making Memory Visible contest will be screened before an awards ceremony.
Organized by Sherry Velasco (Spanish and Gender Studies), Julian Daniel Gutiérrez-Albilla (Spanish and Comparative Literature), Macarena Gómez-Barris (Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity) and Laura Isabel Serna (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by El Centro Chicano and the Latina/o Student Assembly.
El General Image: Courtesy of FAPECFT
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) - and the Ray Stark Family Theatre (SCA 108)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
