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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:20

Screening — Altered States: Recent Experimental Cinema, with Vanessa O’Neill in person

Location:San Francisco

7:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Vincent Grenier, Jim Jennings, Vanessa O’Neill, Ben Russell, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Jonathan Schwartz, Fred Worden (U.S., 2007-2009). New works evoke altered states, whether observing phenomena of the physical world or contemplating interior transformations. (60 mins)
Part of the PFA series Alternative Visions.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:19

Screening — Silent Country, and Discussion with Maja Oelschlägel

Location:San Francisco

5:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Andreas Dresen (Germany, 1992). Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we look back with Andreas Dresen’s droll take on that pivotal moment, centered around a provincial East German production of Waiting for Godot. (98 mins)
Part of the PFA Series ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:18

Screening — The Sound of the Sea

Location:San Francisco

3:00 p.m., PFA Theater
Miguelanxo Prado (Spain/Portugal, 2007). A drowned sailor journeys through a fantastical underwater realm to find his true love in this breathtaking animated film by an award-winning Spanish graphic novelist. (75 mins)
Part of the PFA Series New Spanish Cinema.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:17

Conversation — Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm’s Reach, with Fred Brathwaite, Keith Hufnagel, Barry McGee, Ari Marcopoulos in person

Location:San Francisco

3:00 p.m., Museum Theater
The vibrant worlds of graffiti art, skateboarding, and hip-hop are vividly chronicled in the photography of Ari Marcopoulos. Three leading personalities from these different but overlapping scenes will converge at BAM for an expanded look at the photographer’s work. Following an illustrated presentation ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:16

Screening — The Shame

Location:San Francisco

8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
David Planell (Spain, 2009). A young couple find their relationship changing after they adopt an emotionally dysfunctional Peruvian boy. Winner, Best Film, Malaga Film Festival. (107 mins)
Part of the PFA Series New Spanish Cinema.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:12

Screening — Intermezzo

Location:San Francisco

6:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Gustaf Molander (Sweden, 1936). In the Swedish romantic melodrama that landed her a Hollywood contract, Bergman plays a budding pianist swept off her feet by a renowned violinist. (93 mins)
Part of the PFA Series A Woman’s Face: Ingrid Bergman in Europe.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:06

Book Launch — MATRIX/Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art

Location:San Francisco

7:00 p.m., Gallery B
Created in collaboration with the award-winning design firm Project Projects, this new book chronicles the thirty-year history of the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art through a collage of archival materials and interviews.

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 20:04

Screening — Camino

Location:San Francisco

Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
8:30 p.m., PFA Theater
Javier Fesser (Spain, 2009). This controversial critique of religious fanaticism in general and the Opus Dei sect in particular follows the fate of a young girl diagnosed with cancer. Awarded Best Film, Director, and Screenplay at Spain’s ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 19:07

Call for Abstracts - 10th Annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Graduate Student Conference

Location:New York

10th Annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Graduate Student Conference

The Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference at the New School in New York City, NY, is a venue for students to present interdisciplinary, theoretical, and critical approaches to a broad range of media studies. Since the initial conference in ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 18:46

A Slice of Pie with Alanna Heiss

Location:New York

EXHIBITION TALK

A Slice of Pie with Alanna Heiss

Wednesday, November 11, 6:30 pm

Alanna Heiss, artist Nancy Hwang and curator Sandra Skurvida will speak about the changing and alternative functions of art spaces. Heiss will share her trailblazing experience of the alternative space movement in New York since ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 15:26

Postgravity Art :: Syntapiens

Location:New York

Tickets $10: http://tinyurl.com/yjkcln8

As part of the citywide biennial performance art festival, PERFORMA 09, Eyebeam presents Postgravity Art :: Syntapiens. Signifying the 50-year time span of their multimedia theater project, Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Zupančič, and Miha Turšič will stage a 50-hour event at Eyebeam. The performers will take ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 13:23

Elements of Water, Main Gallery Photo Show

Location:US

The Center for Fine Art Photography announces
Elements of Water
Deadline November 17, 2009, Midnight PST
All submissions taken online at www.c4fap.org
Water is both physical and symbolic. It can be a destructive force and a life giving element. Without it we would not survive, but too much ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 11:33

Artivistic: TURN*ON Reviewed by Gabriel Menotti on Furtherfield.

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This year's edition of Artivistic (Montreal 15-17 October), brings the fields of art, politics and academia together under the theme of TURN*ON - according to its curatorial statement, 'a fragile bridge extending, over a valley of which the depth you cannot ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 10:38

LEGAMi_@_Futuro Remoto (Robot Art)

Location:IT

LEGAMI
Robot Art Installation
Luigi Pagliarini & Mr. BD

The LEGAMI (meaning: bonds/links/ties/liaisons/relationships) Robot Art Installation presents itself as a somehow naive and ironical art piece that, at the same, explore different meanings, and in particular invokes
an adequate reflection on the existing relationship amongst human ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 10:16

Brazilian Velvet Gold Mine - Sub>midialogy.

Article by Ricardo Ruiz on Furtherfield.

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Since 2005, a series of radical conferences has taken place around Brazil, organized on a discussion list: Sub>midialogy - the art of re:volving knowledge logos by practices and disorienting practices by the immersion in sub-knowledge ...

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Posted Nov. 6 2009 08:14

Call for entries: JavaMuseum 2010 - Celebrate!

Location:DE

Call for proposals
ongoing from 1 September 2009-1September 2010

Celebrate!

2010 - 10 Years JavaMuseum -
JavaMuseum - Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, but that's not all –>
in addition [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010, as well.

On this ...

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