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TOCHKA: A Screening and Discussion with the Artists
Thu, Sep 01, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
The Japanese artist team TOCHKA, featuring artists Kazue Monno and Takeshi Nagata, will present a screening and discussion of their work. Their PIKA PIKA workshops have spawned a DIY âlightning doodleâ subculture that has gone viral! Their presentation will explore pop-up art in public spaces, low-tech choices in a high-tech world and cross-cultural communication aided by YouTube and social media. TOCHKAâs goal is to bring joy and inspire people to work together across cultural, ethnic and linguistic differences.
About the Artists
Takeshi Nagata and Kazue Monno, a.k.a. TOCHKA, have been creating music videos, short animated films and comics for about ten years. After graduating from the Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2000, their artistic collaboration began with works of frame-by-frame clay animation and hand-drawn short animated movies. From there the duo shifted toward an experimental approach to computer graphicsâbased imagery. They are best known for their light-animation projects. Using simple flashlights, LEDs and long exposures with a digital still camera at night, they create colorful, playful doodle animations. They have received numerous awards and have screened their work at major animation festivals, including the Mostra-Mundo Festival in Brazil, the Annecy International Animation Festival in France, the New York Film Festival, the Platform International Animation Festival in the United States and the Japan Media Arts Festival.
Organized by Lisa Mann, Trixy Sweetvittles and Richard Weinberg (Animation & Digital Arts).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) - Ray Stark Family Theatre (SCA 108)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Fri, Sep 02, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...Mon, Sep 05, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 9, 2011. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online. http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2012
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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FYE Meet Your Advisors reception
Wed, Sep 07, 2011 @ 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Receptions & Special Events
First Year Excellence - Meet Your Advisor Reception
Now that you've had a couple weeks to get acclimated to Viterbi and USC, it's time to reconnect with your first year advisor. Please join us to mingle with your fellow first year students as well as your FYE advisor. We will have food, games, and prizes!
FYE - Meet Your Advisor Reception
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Time: 5:00 to 6:30pm
Location: E-Quad
If you will be attending, please RSVP by emailing viterbi.studentservices@usc.edu with "RSVP FYE Meet Your Advisor" in the subject line. Hope to see you there!Location: E-Quad
Audiences: Freshmen Only
Contact: Jeffrey Teng
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The Mad 7: A Mystical Comedy with Ecstatic Dance
Wed, Sep 07, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:15 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Refreshments will be served.
âHymanâs one-man performance piece transports the Orthodoxy of that Hasidic tale to secular America... his transformations reveal the essence of character in simple choreographic strokes.ââThe Jerusalem Post
Yehuda Hyman, one of Americaâs great storytellers, is a playwright, actor, poet, choreographer and dancer whose work explores the intersection of theatre, dance, poetry, myth and mysticism. He will perform The Mad 7, a modern-day riff on The Seven Beggars, a Jewish folktale written more than two centuries ago by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Written by Hyman and directed by Mara Isaacs, The Mad 7 tells the epic tale of Elliot Green, a San Francisco office drone turned reluctant hero who embarks on a strange and mystical quest. Through music, dance and uniquely personal storytelling, Hyman offers a hilarious, offbeat and moving story of spiritual awakening and self-discovery.
The Mad 7 was originally developed at the Rhodopi Theatre Institute in Bulgaria and premiered at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, in 2008. The show was performed to rave reviews at the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival.
The performance will be followed by a discussion with Hyman.Location: Scene Dock Theatre (SCD) - Scene Dock Theatre
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Now You See It: Using the Science of Attention to Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn
A Lecture by Cathy N. Davidson
Thu, Sep 08, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
When Cathy N. Davidson and Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics called it a waste of money. Yet when students found academic uses for the brand-new music devices in virtually every discipline, the iPod experiment proved to be a classic example of the power of disruptionâa way of refocusing attention to illuminate unseen possibilities. This idea will be at the heart of Davidsonâs talk, which will draw from her recently published and critically acclaimed book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work and Learn. Exploring cutting-edge research on the brain, she shows how the phenomenon of âattention blindnessâ shapes our lives, and how it has led to one of the greatest problems of our historical moment: although we email, blog, tweet and text as if by instinct, too many of us toil in schools and workplaces designed for the last century, not the one we live in. We can change that. This inspiring talk will help us think in historical, theoretical and practical ways about how we as individuals and as institutions can learn new ways to thrive in our interactive, digital and global world.
Cathy N. Davidson served from 1998 until 2006 as vice provost for interdisciplinary studies at Duke University, where she helped create the Program in Information Science + Information Studies and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. In 2002, she cofounded HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory or âhaystackâ), a virtual network of innovators that directs the annual $2 million HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions. She holds two distinguished chairs at Duke and has published more than twenty books, including Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America, Closing: The Life and Death of an American and The Future of Thinking. In 2010, President Obama nominated her to a six-year term on the National Council on the Humanities.
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Remixing Everyday Life: Connected with Tiffany Shlain
Thursday, November 10, 7 p.m.
The Ray Stark Family Theatre, School of Cinematic Arts 108
For more info, click here.
Presented as part of the series âRemixing Our Worlds,â organized by Phil Ethington (History) and Tara McPherson (Cinematic Arts). Co-sponsored by the Center for Transformative Scholarship.
Photo: Duke Photography
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) - The Ray Stark Family Theatre (SCA 108)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Lost Lounge: A Performance by Split Britches
Fri, Sep 09, 2011 @ 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Ah, nostalgiaânot what it used to be. Even the most wistful memories of a bygone time seem threatened by the wrecking ball of a greed-driven culture and sped-up lives. What does it mean to miss something? Who are we when the very geography we remember is no longer around to orient us? Split Britches, one of the first professional feminist theatre companies, will consider such questions with deconstructive charm and comely defiance in Lost Lounge, a behind-the-scenes peek into the labor and romance of two lounge-act performers, accompanied on keyboards by Vivian Stoll. Retrieving and repurposing long-forgotten source material, including songs from the 1950s lounge duo Louis Prima and Keely Smith and text from the 1971 film Le Chat, they locate the place of memory, and the memory of place, in our need to look toward the future.
Split Britches, founded in 1980 by Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver with Deb Margolin, formulated a groundbreaking postmodern practice that inspired a generation of artists and scholars. Since 1994 Shaw and Weaver have been the primary members of the company and have become known for âa long line of smart, thrillingly well-executed performance piecesâ (Katherine Dieckmann, The Village Voice). They tour throughout the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe and have conducted residencies at universities throughout the United States, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Taiwan Womenâs Theatre Festival. An anthology of their scripts, Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance, edited by Sue-Ellen Case, was published by Routledge in 1996 and won a Lambda Literary Award.
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Performing Gender: A Workshop with Split Britches
Wednesday, September 7, 3 p.m.
Doheny Memorial Library, Intellectual Commons, Room 233
Admission is free. Reservations required.
To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=175 beginning Tuesday, August 23, at 9 a.m.
Focusing on the performance of gender, Split Britches will lead a hands-on workshop designed to give participants the tools to create their own performance based on the ordinary details of our lives and the extraordinary fantasies of our imaginations.
Organized by Jack Halberstam (English) and Macarena Gómez-Barris (Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Ground Zero Performance Cafe
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Mon, Sep 12, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 9, 2011. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online. http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2012
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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A Revolutionary Project: Cuba from Walker Evans to Now
Fri, Sep 16, 2011 @ 12:00 PM - 05:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Open to USC students only. Admission is free. Reservations required.
To RSVP, click here http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=176 beginning Monday, August 29, at 9 a.m. See below for details.*
*This trip is for current USC students only. You must use the provided transportation to participate. Space is limited and advance registration is required. RSVP at the link above beginning Monday, August 29, at 9 a.m. Check-in for the event will begin at 11:15 a.m. on campus. Buses will depart at 12 p.m. and return to campus at 5 p.m. Lunch will be provided at check-in.
Visit the Getty Center, a cultural landmark and home to one of the worldâs most intriguing art collections. Experience breathtaking views and tour an exhibition exploring Cuban history through the eyes of photographers. The exhibition brings together Walker Evansâs views of pre-Castro Cuba in the 1930s with those of Cubans who participated in the 1959 revolution and contemporary foreign artists exploring the island nation since the end of Soviet support in the 1990s. Together the works span reportage, portraiture, landscape and street photography, demonstrating a diverse international range of perspectives.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Getty Center, Los Angeles
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Bent to the Flame: A Night with Tennessee Williams
Fri, Sep 16, 2011 @ 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Thursday, August 25, at 9 a.m.
Ticket Reservations:
Friday, September 16, 7:30 p.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=177
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=177
Saturday, September 17, 7:30 p.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=178
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=178
Reception to follow both shows.
âMesmerizing . . . riotously funny . . . a remarkable piece of theater.âânytheatre.com
âTompos comes so close to Williamsâs essence that it is nothing short of astounding.ââTheatreMania.com
A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerieâfrom 1934 to his death in 1983, the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of these iconic plays, Tennessee Williams, carried on a âlove affairâ with a man heâd never met, American poet Hart Crane, who had committed suicide years before Williams discovered his work. Nevertheless, Williamsâs devotion to Crane and his poetry shaped his work and personal life in ways that inspired and yet nearly destroyed him.
Based on events described in Williamsâs essay âThe Catastrophe of Success,â Bent to the Flame uses Craneâs poetry and Williamsâs personal anecdotes and comments on the work to explore the nature of creativity and the congeniality between these two great artists. A provocative, humorous and inspiring portrait, Bent to the Flame offers a deeper revelation of both menâs lives as the playwright dares to bend to the creative flame.
Named Outstanding Solo Show at the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival, Bent to the Flame has been performed around the country, including special productions at the 23rd Annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans, the 5th Annual Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival in Provincetown, MA, and, most recently, the Tennessee Williams Centennial Festival in Washington, D.C.
Following the performance, Brian Parsons, head of undergraduate acting at USC, will lead a Q&A with writer/performer Doug Tompos, director Michael Michetti and esteemed USC professors Brighde Mullins and David Roman.
To see excerpts from Bent to the Flame, go to http://www.dougtompos.com/media/bent.mov.
Organized by Brian Parsons and Doug Tompos (Theatre).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: 24th Street Theatre, 1117 West 24th Street, Los Angeles
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Bent to the Flame: A Night with Tennessee Williams
Sat, Sep 17, 2011 @ 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Thursday, August 25, at 9 a.m.
Ticket Reservations:
Friday, September 16, 7:30 p.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=177
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=177
Saturday, September 17, 7:30 p.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=178
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=178
Reception to follow both shows.
âMesmerizing . . . riotously funny . . . a remarkable piece of theater.âânytheatre.com
âTompos comes so close to Williamsâs essence that it is nothing short of astounding.ââTheatreMania.com
A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerieâfrom 1934 to his death in 1983, the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of these iconic plays, Tennessee Williams, carried on a âlove affairâ with a man heâd never met, American poet Hart Crane, who had committed suicide years before Williams discovered his work. Nevertheless, Williamsâs devotion to Crane and his poetry shaped his work and personal life in ways that inspired and yet nearly destroyed him.
Based on events described in Williamsâs essay âThe Catastrophe of Success,â Bent to the Flame uses Craneâs poetry and Williamsâs personal anecdotes and comments on the work to explore the nature of creativity and the congeniality between these two great artists. A provocative, humorous and inspiring portrait, Bent to the Flame offers a deeper revelation of both menâs lives as the playwright dares to bend to the creative flame.
Named Outstanding Solo Show at the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival, Bent to the Flame has been performed around the country, including special productions at the 23rd Annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans, the 5th Annual Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival in Provincetown, MA, and, most recently, the Tennessee Williams Centennial Festival in Washington, D.C.
Following the performance, Brian Parsons, head of undergraduate acting at USC, will lead a Q&A with writer/performer Doug Tompos, director Michael Michetti and esteemed USC professors Brighde Mullins and David Roman.
To see excerpts from Bent to the Flame, go to http://www.dougtompos.com/media/bent.mov.
Organized by Brian Parsons and Doug Tompos (Theatre).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: 24th Street Theatre, 1117 West 24th Street, Los Angeles
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Sep 19, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Mon, Sep 19, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 9, 2011. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online. http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2012
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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Pasadena City College University Transfer Day
Mon, Sep 19, 2011 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Viterbi Transfer Admission Counselor, Christine Hsieh from the USC Viterbi Office of Admission, will be attending the Pasadena City College University Day. Please stop by the USC Viterbi table to learn how you can get started on your engineering courses at your current institution and more about the admission process.
Location: Pasadena City College
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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Glendale Community College Transfer Day
Tue, Sep 20, 2011 @ 10:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Viterbi Transfer Admission Counselor, Christine Hsieh from the USC Viterbi Office of Admission, will be attending the Glendale Community College Transfer Day. Please stop by the USC Viterbi table to learn how you can get started on your engineering courses at your current institution and more about the admission process.
Location: Glendale Community College
Audiences: Undergraduate Transfer Applicants
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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Viterbi Transfer Admisison Presentation at Glendale Community College
Tue, Sep 20, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Following the GCC transfer fair Viterbi Transfer Advisor, Christine Hsieh will provide a presentation from 2pm - 3pm at GCC in room CR 234. The presentation that will go over admission & transfer transfer process as well transferable coursework.
Location: Glendale Community College
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Undergraduate Admission
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Words in Public Spaces: An Evening with Jenny Holzer, A Visions and Voices Signature Event
Tue, Sep 20, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Wednesday, August 24, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=179
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=179
Reception to follow.
For more than 30 years, Jenny Holzer has presented her work in public places and international exhibitions, including 7 World Trade Center, the Reichstag, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Incorporating text on T-shirts, posters, plaques, LED signs, the landscape and architecture, her work challenges ignorance and violence with humor, kindness and moral courage. In 1999, Holzer created Blacklist, a treasure located in its own landscaped garden in front of the USC Fisher Museum. The installation encourages discussion of the First Amendment and the blacklist era while promoting vigilance and personal responsibility in exercising and defending the civil liberties granted under the Constitution. Join us as one of the countryâs most celebrated contemporary artists returns to USC to reflect on her work and the importance of language in public spaces. Following her presentation, Holzer will participate in a conversation with Elizabeth Garrett, law professor and USC Provost, and Alice Echols, English professor and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at USC, about public art and American democracy.
Co-sponsored by the USC Fisher Museum of Art.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: May Ormerod Harris Hall, Quinn Wing & Fisher Gallery (HAR) - USC Fisher Museum of Art
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Googled: The Future of Media
Thu, Sep 22, 2011 @ 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Please check http://usc.edu/visionsandvoices for reservation information.
Reception to follow.
In his best-selling book, Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, author and New Yorker media columnist Ken Auletta argues that traditional media businesses are being disrupted and undergoing a transformative shift caused by Google, media convergence, social media and the interactivity of new media. He will discuss how social media developed, why it has been such a disruptive force and what that could mean now that Google and other companies have changed the rules of the game for traditional media. Auletta will chart where Google and all mediaâs future is headed when news becomes a commodity. What are some of the economic models that may develop? What role will engineers play in content creation? What can entrepreneurs learn from this creative destruction?
Auletta, the author of eleven books, including five best sellers, has been called âthe James Bond of the media worldâ by Businessweek. His profiles of media personalities such as Rupert Murdoch, Harvey Weinstein, Sumner Redstone, Barry Diller and Bill Gates have distinguished him as Americaâs premier media reporter.
The presentation will be followed by a discussion on the future of communication and journalism, what it means to our democracy and where the digital wave is taking us.
Organized by the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Annenberg School For Communication (ASC) - Annenberg Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Getting Graphic: A Lecture and Workshop on the History of Graphic Design in Queer Activism
Fri, Sep 23, 2011 @ 11:00 AM - 02:30 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Institute for Multimedia Literacy
746 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles
ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
909 West Adams Boulevard
Admission is free.
Event Schedule and Locations:
11 a.m.: Lecture by Nate Schulman, Institute for Multimedia Literacy
12 p.m.: Lunch, ONE Archives
1:30 p.m.: Workshop with Nate Schulman
A series of events will be presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945â1980 at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The events will foster discussions about LGBT histories, queer art and aesthetics and archival practices in contemporary art.
The Getting Graphic event will feature writer and designer Nate Schulman. He will present a lecture on graphic-design strategies in queer activism followed by a hands-on workshop inspired by archival materials at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. The workshop will focus on design strategies utilized by early queer activists in the postâWorld War II era, a period of queer activism often overshadowed by AIDS activism in the 1980s and 1990s. Schulmanâs lecture, along with a brief introduction by an archivist from the ONE Archives, will expose students to rare archival materials and historical approaches for raising consciousness.
For more information about Cruising the Archive, go to www.onearchives.org
Organized by Joseph Hawkins, Mia Locks, David Frantz and the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy and the Gettyâs Pacific Standard Time initiative.
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.eduLocation: Institute for Multimedia Literacy and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Moving Images: A Conversation with Laurie Simmons and Lena Dunham
Fri, Sep 23, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reception to follow.
Since the mid-1970s, internationally recognized artist Laurie Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, dummies, mannequins and, occasionally, people to create images with intensely psychological subtexts. In 2006, she produced and directed her first film, The Music of Regret starring Meryl Streep. Lena Dunham, director of the film Tiny Furniture, is one of todayâs most talented young filmmakers. Simmons and Dunham are also mother and daughter. Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, Simmons plays Dunhamâs mother in Tiny Furniture, which is filmed in Simmonsâs real home/studio. Join us as Simmons and Dunham come together for a fun and fascinating conversation about narrative, genre and image making across generations.
About the Artists
Laurie Simmonsâs photographic-based works are collected by many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Hara Museum in Tokyo. Simmons was featured in Season 4 of the PBS series Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century. Her most recent exhibition was at Salon 94 Bowery, NYC, entitled The Love Doll: Days 1â30.
Lena Dunham has quickly established herself as a formidable talent among todayâs top young filmmakers. At only 24 years old, Dunham wrote, directed and starred in her second feature film, Tiny Furniture, which won Best Narrative Feature at the 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival and received Independent Spirit Award nominations for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay. Dunham is currently working on the HBO comedy series Girls. She created the series and directed the pilot and three additional episodes. In addition to starring in Girls, she will serve as executive producer and writer.
Organized by Rochelle Steiner (Dean, Fine Arts) and Howard Rodman (Cinematic Arts).
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) - The Ray Stark Family Theatre (SCA 108)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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AMBULANTE Film Festival
Sat, Sep 24, 2011
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reservations required. Reservations will be accepted beginning Tuesday, August 30, at 9 a.m. Please check http://usc/edu/visionsandvoices for an updated festival schedule and to RSVP.
Founded in 2005 by Gael GarcÃa Bernal, Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz, AMBULANTE is a nonprofit organization focused on producing, distributing and exhibiting documentaries in Mexico. Each year, the AMBULANTE organization, in collaboration with Canana, Cinépolis and the Morelia International Film Festival, organizes a touring film festival that brings more than 70 documentaries to nearly 200 venues across twelve states in Mexico. Join us as AMBULANTE comes to Los Angeles for the first time! This festival features groundbreaking international documentaries, both current and classic, that are socially or cinematically important. By traveling with these works, sharing them in different cities and towns and bringing communities together, AMBULANTE fosters a critical vision, generating a collective consciousness about how we perceive and understand our realities.
SCREENING SCHEDULE
Schedule is subject to change. Discussions with the filmmakers will accompany each screening!
Saturday, September 24
El Ambulante (Argentina, 2009, 84 minutes)
Directed by Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano and Adriana Yurcovich
Benda Bilili! (France, 2010, 84 minutes)
Directed by Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye
Sunday, September 25
12 Onzas (Mexico, 2010, 54 minutes)
Directed by Patricio Serna
The Two Escobars (Colombia-USA, 100 minutes)
Directed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist
ABOUT THE FILMS AND FILMMAKERS
El Ambulante (The Peddler)
Driving his dilapidated car, a man arrives at a small village. He proposes to the village authorities that he make a feature film with the village people, including the authorities themselves, as main characters. In return, the traveler only asks for lodging and meals until the filmâs release, 30 days later. The offer is accepted and for the next month, the small town lives by the rhythm set by the lonely filmmaker.
Bios:
Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano and Adriana Yurcovich live in Buenos Aires. In the last few years, they have worked together in several audiovisual projects, taking turns as the director, producer, director of photography and assistant director. Lucas Marcheggianoâs films include 4 a cero, Route 3, Speed Bump and The Pond. Eduardo de la Sernaâs films include Snailsâ Shelter, A Good Business, Medical History, Without Your Eyes, The War and Scarecrow 21. Adriana Yurcovichâs films include A Glass of Soda Water, Different, End of Year, Seed Stitch, Other Times, Search, I Was Told Not to Look and Mouth Shut.
Benda Bilili! (Beyond Appearances)
Ricky has a dream: to make Staff Benda Bilili the best band in Kinshasa, Congo. Roger, a street child, wants to join these stars of the ghetto, who get around in customized tricycles due to a physical disability. Together, they must avoid the pitfalls of the street, stay united and find hope in the music. From the first rehearsals five years before to their triumph in international festivals, Benda Bilili! is the story of a dream come true.
Bios:
In 2004, Renaud Barret was directing a small advertising agency and Florent de La Tullaye was an international photojournalist. Tired of what they were doing, they went to Kinshasa made a television documentary called Jupiterâs Dance. In 2008, they made a documentary about the boxers in the ghetto, Victoire Terminus, Kinshasaâs Boxers. When they met the members of the band Staff Benda Bilili, Barret and de La Tullaye decided to help them with the album production and film the process.
12 Onzas (12 Ounces)
To make it the top you have to take many blows, since only one out of 3,000 boxers becomes successful. Diego, Tony and Brandon, along their managers Mudo and Curita, hope to become champions in one of the two amateur boxing tournaments in Monterrey, Mexico, while struggling to move ahead in life and make something out of themselves in a city plagued by violence.
Bio:
Patricio Serna Salazar studied communications at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. He received an MA in documentary filmmaking at the Universiatat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and an MFA in film at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He has written and directed several short films that have been screened at Sundance, Huesca, Clermont-Ferrand, Huelva, Cinema Jove, Aspen and Morelia, among others. His films include Escapista, El Toro, Mating Call, Tromba Dâoro, Bailén 58 and Chupacabras.
The Two Escobars
While rival drug cartels warred in the streets and the countryâs murder rate climbed to the highest in the world, the Colombian national soccer team set out to blaze a new image for their country. What followed was a mysteriously rapid rise to glory, as the team catapulted out of decades of obscurity to become one of the best teams in the world. Central to this success were two men named Escobar: Andrés, the captain and poster child of the national team, and Pablo, the infamous drug baron who pioneered the phenomenon known in the underworld as ânarco-soccer.â
Bios:
Jeff Zimbalist graduated from Brown University with a degree in modern culture and media. Michael Zimbalist graduated from Wesleyan University and trained as an actor at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. They are both Emmy Awardânominated writers, directors and editors. Their films have been broadcast on television and theatrically distributed around the world. Their documentaries on third-world development issues for clients such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the John Templeton Foundation have received multiple awards.
Co-sponsored by the Latina/o Student Assembly.Location: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) - The Ray Stark Family Theatre (SCA 108)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Viterbi Career Conference
Sat, Sep 24, 2011 @ 08:30 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Receptions & Special Events
The Viterbi Career Conference, designed specifically for Viterbi undergraduates, takes place once each fall. The conference provides an invaluable opportunity for all students, freshmen through seniors, to develop job search skills and to connect with company representatives and alumni.
Registration information can be found: http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/careers/students/conference.htmMore Information: 113 Career Conference Registration Form.pdf
Location: Town & Gown
Audiences: All Viterbi Undergraduate Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
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AMBULANTE Film Festival
Sun, Sep 25, 2011
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reservations required. Reservations will be accepted beginning Tuesday, August 30, at 9 a.m. Please check http://usc/edu/visionsandvoices for an updated festival schedule and to RSVP.
Founded in 2005 by Gael GarcÃa Bernal, Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz, AMBULANTE is a nonprofit organization focused on producing, distributing and exhibiting documentaries in Mexico. Each year, the AMBULANTE organization, in collaboration with Canana, Cinépolis and the Morelia International Film Festival, organizes a touring film festival that brings more than 70 documentaries to nearly 200 venues across twelve states in Mexico. Join us as AMBULANTE comes to Los Angeles for the first time! This festival features groundbreaking international documentaries, both current and classic, that are socially or cinematically important. By traveling with these works, sharing them in different cities and towns and bringing communities together, AMBULANTE fosters a critical vision, generating a collective consciousness about how we perceive and understand our realities.
SCREENING SCHEDULE
Schedule is subject to change. Discussions with the filmmakers will accompany each screening!
Saturday, September 24
El Ambulante (Argentina, 2009, 84 minutes)
Directed by Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano and Adriana Yurcovich
Benda Bilili! (France, 2010, 84 minutes)
Directed by Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye
Sunday, September 25
12 Onzas (Mexico, 2010, 54 minutes)
Directed by Patricio Serna
The Two Escobars (Colombia-USA, 100 minutes)
Directed by Jeff and Michael Zimbalist
ABOUT THE FILMS AND FILMMAKERS
El Ambulante (The Peddler)
Driving his dilapidated car, a man arrives at a small village. He proposes to the village authorities that he make a feature film with the village people, including the authorities themselves, as main characters. In return, the traveler only asks for lodging and meals until the filmâs release, 30 days later. The offer is accepted and for the next month, the small town lives by the rhythm set by the lonely filmmaker.
Bios:
Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano and Adriana Yurcovich live in Buenos Aires. In the last few years, they have worked together in several audiovisual projects, taking turns as the director, producer, director of photography and assistant director. Lucas Marcheggianoâs films include 4 a cero, Route 3, Speed Bump and The Pond. Eduardo de la Sernaâs films include Snailsâ Shelter, A Good Business, Medical History, Without Your Eyes, The War and Scarecrow 21. Adriana Yurcovichâs films include A Glass of Soda Water, Different, End of Year, Seed Stitch, Other Times, Search, I Was Told Not to Look and Mouth Shut.
Benda Bilili! (Beyond Appearances)
Ricky has a dream: to make Staff Benda Bilili the best band in Kinshasa, Congo. Roger, a street child, wants to join these stars of the ghetto, who get around in customized tricycles due to a physical disability. Together, they must avoid the pitfalls of the street, stay united and find hope in the music. From the first rehearsals five years before to their triumph in international festivals, Benda Bilili! is the story of a dream come true.
Bios:
In 2004, Renaud Barret was directing a small advertising agency and Florent de La Tullaye was an international photojournalist. Tired of what they were doing, they went to Kinshasa made a television documentary called Jupiterâs Dance. In 2008, they made a documentary about the boxers in the ghetto, Victoire Terminus, Kinshasaâs Boxers. When they met the members of the band Staff Benda Bilili, Barret and de La Tullaye decided to help them with the album production and film the process.
12 Onzas (12 Ounces)
To make it the top you have to take many blows, since only one out of 3,000 boxers becomes successful. Diego, Tony and Brandon, along their managers Mudo and Curita, hope to become champions in one of the two amateur boxing tournaments in Monterrey, Mexico, while struggling to move ahead in life and make something out of themselves in a city plagued by violence.
Bio:
Patricio Serna Salazar studied communications at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. He received an MA in documentary filmmaking at the Universiatat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and an MFA in film at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. He has written and directed several short films that have been screened at Sundance, Huesca, Clermont-Ferrand, Huelva, Cinema Jove, Aspen and Morelia, among others. His films include Escapista, El Toro, Mating Call, Tromba Dâoro, Bailén 58 and Chupacabras.
The Two Escobars
While rival drug cartels warred in the streets and the countryâs murder rate climbed to the highest in the world, the Colombian national soccer team set out to blaze a new image for their country. What followed was a mysteriously rapid rise to glory, as the team catapulted out of decades of obscurity to become one of the best teams in the world. Central to this success were two men named Escobar: Andrés, the captain and poster child of the national team, and Pablo, the infamous drug baron who pioneered the phenomenon known in the underworld as ânarco-soccer.â
Bios:
Jeff Zimbalist graduated from Brown University with a degree in modern culture and media. Michael Zimbalist graduated from Wesleyan University and trained as an actor at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. They are both Emmy Awardânominated writers, directors and editors. Their films have been broadcast on television and theatrically distributed around the world. Their documentaries on third-world development issues for clients such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and the John Templeton Foundation have received multiple awards.
Co-sponsored by the Latina/o Student Assembly.Location: School Of Cinematic Arts (SCA) - The Ray Stark Family Theatre (SCA 108)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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An Evening with Iranian Animator Noureddin ZarrinKelk
Sun, Sep 25, 2011 @ 02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free.
Reception to follow, sponsored by the Farhang Association.
The USC School of Cinematic Arts invites you to participate in a retrospective screening and conversation with Noureddin ZarrinKelk, widely regarded as the father of Iranian animation. The event will include the North American premiere of his most recent film, Bani Adam.
Noureddin ZarrinKelk was born into a family of traditional Persian painters and calligraphers. In fact his last name means âGolden Penâ in Persian. But Noureddin, affectionately called Noori, also had a daring eye for adapting modern subjects, and perhaps it was also his fate to reimagine this 13th-century art form in a new light, as Noor means âlight.â
He started his career at 16, drawing caricatures for Iranian magazines. After earning a Ph.D. in pharmacology, he worked as an illustrator trying to change the long-held tradition of imageless textbooks in Iran. While working at Iranâs Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, Noori saw how animated film can engage young audiences. He went to Belgium to study animation with Raoul Servais and was soon making films for children. He has since advanced Iranian animation almost singlehandedly by founding the countryâs first animation school in 1974 and Iranâs branch of the International Animated Film Society in 1987.
Noori possesses a special humor which exists in all of his work. In The Mad, Mad, Mad World (1975), he portrays each continent on the globe transforming into a variety of animals barking or squawking at neighboring countries. But Noori is hesitant to speak about Iranian politics. Instead he works to encode profound political and social messages in his films, while sharing the culture and history of his country with a worldwide audience. His films express the need for global peace and understanding. In his latest film, Bani Adam (2011), he brings together world leaders to recite a poem by 13th-century Persian poet Saâadi about our common humanity.
Throughout his career, Noureddin ZarrinKelk has helped to find a distinct place for animation and graphic art in the broad field of painting. And Iranian artists are increasingly recognized and received with great respect worldwide, in large part because of Nouredddinâs persistence and hard work. His creativity in animation and graphics is interwoven with powerful peculiarities of Iranian art and soul, making him one of the most renowned representatives of his country. At the same time, his art, with universal values, designates him as an artist of the world.
To see a short ZarrinKelk retrospective video, go to http://vimeo.com/27276390.
Sponsored by the USC School of Cinematic Arts, John C. Hench Animation and Digital Arts, Interactive Media Division, SoCiArts: Socially Conscious Arts and Farhang Foundation: the Iranian-American Heritage Foundation of Southern California.
For more information, contact Lisa Mann at emann@usc.edu or 213-740-2804 or Kurosh ValaNejad at kvalanejad@cinema.usc.edu or 310-488-6830.
Location: Eileen L. Norris Cinema Theatre (NCT) -
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
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Meet USC: Admission Presentation, Campus Tour, & Engineering Talk
Mon, Sep 26, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid. Reservations are required for Meet USC. This program occurs twice, once at 8:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. Please visit https://esdweb.esd.usc.edu/unresrsvp/MeetUSC.aspx to check availability and make an appointment. Be sure to list an Engineering major as your "intended major" on the webform!
Location: Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) - USC Admission Office
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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On Campus Freshmen Admission Interviews continue...
Mon, Sep 26, 2011
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Receptions & Special Events
Personal Admission Interviews are available to freshmen applicants throughout the Fall practically every weekday until December 9, 2011. Freshman applicant interviews are not required as part of the admission process, however we would like to meet as many of our applicants as possible. All interview appointments are scheduled online. http://viterbi.usc.edu/admission/freshman/interviews/
Audiences: Freshmen Applicants for Fall 2012
Contact: Viterbi Admission
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An Evening of Poetry and Music with Dana Gioia: A Visions and Voices Signature Event
Tue, Sep 27, 2011 @ 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Receptions & Special Events
Admission is free. Reservations required. To RSVP, click on the links below beginning Tuesday, August 30, at 9 a.m. Seating is general admission.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserve.php?RSVPEvtCode=180
General Public: To RSVP, click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/visionsandvoices/RSVP/reserveGeneral_Multi.php?RSVPEvtCode=180
Reception to follow.
Please join USC President C. L. Max Nikias and Provost Elizabeth Garrett in welcoming internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet Dana Gioia to USC in his new role as Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture. This celebratory evening will feature Gioia in conversation with University Professor Kevin Starr to illuminate Gioiaâs unique and influential career, comprising his fifteen years as a marketing executive at General Foods; his provocative 1991 essay âCan Poetry Matter?,â in which he argued that poets and poetry are necessary ingredients of an educated society; his poetry collections, literary anthologies and opera libretti, including his collection Interrogations at Noon, which won the 2002 American Book Award; and his two terms as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, where he created initiatives such as The Big Read and Poetry Out Loud. Readings by Gioia and musical performances will be interspersed throughout the evening. Special guest artists will include Grammy-nominated baritone and USC Thornton School professor Rod Gilfry.
Photo: © Lynn Goldsmith
For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu
Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) - Bovard Auditorium
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Daria Yudacufski
