Month: February 2010

Cancelled: Emerging Media Lecture Series: Katherine Behar


This Event has been cancelled.

Monday, April 12th from 8:00 – 9:00 PM

Location: 502, Hunter North

Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her
installations, performances, and videos mix high and low technologies to portray
the condition of living sensuously in digital media. Katherine has participated
in shows at art centers such as Chicago Cultural Center, De Balie Centre for
Culture and Politics in Amsterdam, and The National Museum of Art in
Cluj-Napoca; at festivals including CamouFlash in Dresden, the Mediations
Biennale in Poznan, the Digital Live Art Festival in Leeds, PostsovkhoZ 6 in
Mooste, Estonia, and PSi, Conflux, and the D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge
Festival, all in New York; and at galleries including Maryland Art Place in
Baltimore, Interval in Manchester, CANADA in New York, and the Dorsch Gallery in
Miami, among others. In addition to making her own work, Katherine is part of
two long-term collaborations, the performance art group Disorientalism with
Marianne M. Kim, and RSI, an art and technology team with Ben Chang and Silvia Ruzanka. Katherine teaches Digital Art at Pace University.

More Information: http://katherinebehar.com/

Emerging Media Lecture Series: Jeremiah Johnson

Tuesday, March 23rd From 8:30 – 9:30PM

Location: 502, Hunter North

Jeremiah Johnson is a computer musician and new media artist based in New York
City. His work is focused primarily on the use of low-bit electronics,
repurposing them for creative expression and leveraging their inherent
limitations. Currently he is studying the aesthetics and informatics of
destructive processes, data corruption, accidents and software glitches. Johnson
is co-founder of the 8bitpeoples artist collective, co-curator of the annual
Blip Festival, and has performed over 150 shows worldwide under the name
Nullsleep.

More Information: http://www.nullsleep.com/

F&M Society Screening and Reception

The Department of Film and Media Studies and The Film and Media Society will be hosting a
screening and reception to welcome a group of students and faculty visiting from
the Institute for Media at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht,
Holland. We’ll be showing a selection of work from students in our Department,
as well as work by the students from Utrecht.

Tuesday, February 16th, 7:00PM – 9:00PM.

Location: 502 Hunter North,