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amamblog: Please join us for a special screening of Robert Smithson’s “portrait” film ‘Spiral Jetty’ on Tuesday, February 28.  The event will take place in Hallock Auditorium, Lewis Center for Environmental Studies. The screening begins at 5pm with an introduction by Denise Birkhofer, AMAM Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. The film chronicles Smithson’s process of constructing his monumental earthwork off the shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake in 1970. While the film functions as an independent artwork in itself, it also serves as a document of the ephemeral jetty, whose 1500-foot coil comprised of mud, salt crystals, and basalt rocks is subject to the effects of nature. Frequently submerged under water and eroded over time, Spiral Jetty is constantly undergoing a process of decay. This process is in keeping with Smithson’s intentions that art should reflect “entropy,” or the tendency for all matter to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity.”

amamblog:

Please join us for a special screening of Robert Smithson’s “portrait” film ‘Spiral Jetty’ on Tuesday, February 28.  The event will take place in Hallock Auditorium, Lewis Center for Environmental Studies.

The screening begins at 5pm with an introduction by Denise Birkhofer, AMAM Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. The film chronicles Smithson’s process of constructing his monumental earthwork off the shore of Utah’s Great Salt Lake in 1970.

While the film functions as an independent artwork in itself, it also serves as a document of the ephemeral jetty, whose 1500-foot coil comprised of mud, salt crystals, and basalt rocks is subject to the effects of nature. Frequently submerged under water and eroded over time, Spiral Jetty is constantly undergoing a process of decay. This process is in keeping with Smithson’s intentions that art should reflect “entropy,” or the tendency for all matter to evolve toward a state of inert uniformity.”

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Main Street Oberlin: Wednesday, November 2, 5:00-6:30 pm, King 106 on the Oberlin College...

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Wednesday, November 2, 5:00-6:30 pm, King 106 on the Oberlin College Campus there will be a Panel Discussion with filmmaker and activist Diane Nilan, Linda Arbogast, Executive Director of Oberlin Community Services, Associate Dean Adrian Bautista, Professor Clovis White, Sociology. This…

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coffeewithclarence: Remembering Communism: New York-based Russian artist Grisha Bruskin will be speaking about the non-conformist art movement in the Soviet Union, in which he is a prominent figure. His work resides in the permanent collections of the MOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the State Russian Museum and the Jewish Museum of New York, to name a select few. His on-going “Soviet Project” deals with the theme of “I and It”—the interrelationship/alienation between the individual and the collective, the citizen and the state. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18TH7:00 pm @ Classroom I, Art BuildingGrisha Bruskin, “I and It (Works from ‘The Soviet Project’)”WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19TH4:30 pm @ West Lecture Hall, Science CentrePast Imperfect: An Artist’s Memories of a Soviet Childhood Don’t miss these events!

coffeewithclarence:

Remembering Communism: New York-based Russian artist Grisha Bruskin will be speaking about the non-conformist art movement in the Soviet Union, in which he is a prominent figure. His work resides in the permanent collections of the MOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the State Russian Museum and the Jewish Museum of New York, to name a select few. His on-going “Soviet Project” deals with the theme of “I and It”—the interrelationship/alienation between the individual and the collective, the citizen and the state.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18TH
7:00 pm @ Classroom I, Art Building
Grisha Bruskin, “I and It (Works from ‘The Soviet Project’)”

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19TH
4:30 pm @ West Lecture Hall, Science Centre
Past Imperfect: An Artist’s Memories of a Soviet Childhood

Don’t miss these events!

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Lights, camera, action! Kids produce their life videos

Child development experts worry that kids who spend a lot of time with television may not get enough exercise. The kids won’t be learning important lessons, they note, and may miss opportunities to build up their physical stamina.

Those experts haven’t visited Sharon Blecher’s second grade classroom at Eastwood School. Earlier this fall, students and faculty from Oberlin College’s Apollo Outreach Initiative spent two weeks working with the second-graders to plan, script, and produce short videos.

There was no lack of energy, activity, learning, or enthusiasm.

“It’s about giving students access to tools — cameras, computers, etc. — and helping them understand media,” said Oberlin cinema studies professor Rian Brown-Orso, who with her colleagues helps OC students learn how to teach media techniques to young children. She has also coordinated media projects with the district’s high school and middle school students. The Outreach Initiative is based in the Cinema Studies Program at the college.

- Richard Baznik, Oberlin News-Tribune

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