Spring 2015
MCM Cinemathéquè Film Series
No screenings in Spring 2015, semester long hiatus.
February 2, 2015
Grisha Coleman
Lecture on Digital Media/Arts Production
"Listening as the Land Talks Back: Ecology, Embodiment, and Information in the Science Fiction of Echo::system
5:30 p.m.
Smith Buonanno 201
Reception to follow
February 5, 2015
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents
Masses and Swarms
Curated by Seth Watter
7:00 pm
Cable Car Cinema & Café
Admission $5
February 13, 2015
Tad Hirsch
Lecture on Digital Media/Arts Production
Tweaking the Technological Imaginary: Explorations in Socially Engaged Design
4:00 p.m.
Smith Buonanno 201
Reception to follow
February 24, 2015
Kelly Dobson
Lecture on Digital Media/Arts Production
Subtle Machines
4:00 p.m.
Smith Buonanno 106
Reception to follow
February 25—March 3, 2015
2015 Providence French Film Festival
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February 26, 2015 (MCM co-sponsored event)
Arab Comic Art Exhibit
Symposium—2/26 12-6pm @ Watson Joukowsky Forum
Exhibition—2/1 - 3/15 @ Watson Institute, Lobby & 2nd Floor
March 4, 2015
Robert M Ochshorn
"Moving the Image: Control and Illusion in the Media Interfaces"
11:00am
Martinos Auditorium, Room 110
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell Street
March 4, 2015
Laura Wexler
"Juxtaposition: Image, Archive and Event"
5:30-7:30pm
Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman Street
2nd Floor Seminar Room
March 12, 2015
Magic Lantern Cinema Presents
Since You've Been Gone
Curated by Nathan Lee
Doors at 7 / show at 7:30pm
Black Box Theater @ AS220
Admission $5
* Admission for Brown/RISD students is free at this venue.
http://www.magiclanterncinema.com/
March 14, 2015
MCM Graduate Student Symposium: Emerging Perspectives in Modern Culture and Media
1:00-5:00pm
Smith-Buonanno 201
April 3, 2015
a lecture by Hamid Naficy
"Iran’s Mediatic Public Diplomacy with the West: War by Other Means"
4:00 p.m.
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting St.
Reception to follow
April 16, 2015
Magic Lantern Cinema presents
Wayward Fronds
The films of Fern Silva, 2010-2014
Artist in person!
Cable Car Cinema & Café
204 S. Main Street, Providence, RI
Admission $5
April 24, 2015
Observations of Predation in Humans: A Lecture by Dr. Zira, Animal Psychologiest
Performed by Coco Fusco '82
6:00pm
Martinos Auditorium, Room 110
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell Street
Reception to follow
May 5, 2015
Photographic Archives Research Group Presents:
Issam Nassar
"Unearthing and Preserving Palestine's Visual History"
5:30-7:30pm
Digital Scholarship Lab
Rockefeller Library
May 7, 2015
MCM Graduate Student Symposium: Emerging Perspectives in Modern Culture and Media
1pm-5pm
Smith B. 201
May 22, 2015
Into the Future of Journalism with Jason Spingarn-Koff '96
A Special Reunion/Commencement Weekend Event
4-5:30
Smith Buonanno 106
95 Cushing Street
Reception to Follow
Fall 2014
September 9, 2014 (MCM co-sponsored event)
"1948 —Once Upon a Palestine" Film Series
Curated by Prof. Ariella Azoulay
5:30pm
Watson, Jowkowsky Forum
website
September 12-13, 2014
sonic.focus.3 conference
presentation / performance event series co-organized by Tony Cokes, Christoph Cox and Andrew Lison
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell Street
https://www.facebook.com/events/1479332965650870/
September 18, 2014
Magic Lantern Presents
CLICK CLICK CLICK
Curated by Faith Holland and Nora O’ Murchú
7 PM
Cable Car Cinema & Café
Providence, RI
$5
September 22-23, 2014
sonic.focus.3.5 - electronic multimedia discussion and performances co-organized by Tony Cokes and Andrew Lison
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
154 Angell Street
https://www.facebook.com/events/1481910815403326/
Following last week’s sonic.focus.3 conference, we are happy to welcome renowned German electronic musician Atom™ (Uwe Schmidt) to Brown for a conversation and performance. On Monday, September 22, he will discuss his recent work, including his album “HD” (Raster-Noton, 2013) and the unique live performances, entitled “HD/AV,” that draw from it, as well as his “Winterreise” album (Raster-Noton, 2011) and the photo series of the same name in a conversation with Tony Cokes and Andrew Lison. The following evening, he will perform a version of “HD/AV” alongside students and alumni from Brown’s MEME department presenting their own works.
September 26, 2014
MCM Cinémathèque Film Series
6:00 pm
135 Thayer Street, Room 101
September 30, 2014 (MCM co-sponsored event)
"1948 —Once Upon a Palestine" Film Series
Curated by Prof. Ariella Azoulay
5:30pm
Watson, Jowkowsky Forum
website
October 9, 2014
Magic Lantern Presents
Often During hte Day
Curated by Beth Capper and Jessica Bardsley
7pm
Cable Car Cinema
Providence, RI
$5
October 14, 2014 (co-sponsord with Theatre Arts and Performance Studies)
In preparation for Professor Butler's lecture, the Bacchae will be performed as a staged reading (key scenes with synopsis of Euripides’ play) by students and faculty of TAPS and MCM
12:00pm
Leeds Theatre, Lyman Hall
Light lunch provided
View staged reading here.
October 14, 2014 (Co-sponsored with English Department)
Roger. B. Henkle Memorial Lecture—Judith Butler
"Fallible Recognition: The Politics of Kinship in the Bacchae"
5:30 pm
Granoff Center
154 Angell Street
Martinos Auditorium, Room 110
October 28, 2014 (MCM co-sponsored event)
"1948 —Once Upon a Palestine" Film Series
Curated by Prof. Ariella Azoulay
5:30pm
Watson, Jowkowsky Forum
website
October 28, 2014
Magic Lantern Presents
Sandra Gibson & Luis Recorder
An Evening of 16mm Projection Performance
8pm
Black Box Theater @ AS220
Providence, RI
$5
October 30, 2014
MCM DUG Open House
4:30-6:30
135 Thayer Street, Room 102
https://www.facebook.com/events/584132075026251/
November 7-8, 2014
Breaking the Rules: Gender, Power and Politics in the Films of Lars Von Trier
A Brown University Conference
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street
November 11, 2014 (MCM co-sponsored event) Thomas Elsaesser Lecture
"Frankfurt Modern: Corporate Europe, Urbanism, and Sustainability"
5:30 pm
Pembroke Hall 305
172 Meeting Street
November 12, 2014 (MCM co-sponsored event) Thomas Elsaesser
"The New Frankfurt - Building and Dwelling in Film, Design and Photography"
seminar
10:00 - 11:30
Pre-registration is required. You must be logged in to your Brown email to register. Seating is very limited. Information on seminar location will accompany pre-seminar reading material.
This follow-up seminar to Thomas Elsaesser's public lecture "Frankfurt Modern: Corporate Europe, Urbanism, and Sustainability - Weimar and Now" will look at traces of the visual culture by which leading figures of Das Neue Frankfurt (notably Ernst May, Ferdinand Kramer Grete and Hans Leistikow) promoted the new lifestyle of urban modernism by way of instructional films, design prototypes and photography. Special attention will be given to the visual representation of Grete Schütte-Lihotsky's Frankfurt Kitchen.
November 11, 2014 (MCM co-sponsored event)
"1948 —Once Upon a Palestine" Film Series
Curated by Prof. Ariella Azoulay
5:30pm
Watson, Jowkowsky Forum
website
November 11, 2014
Magic Lantern Presents
Hysterics and Mentalists
Two 3D Films by Zoe Beloff
Curated by Seth Watter
8:30PM
Cable Car Cinema & Café
Providence, RI
$5
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