Oxy Videotheque Presents Kenneth Tam - Video Encounters & Social Art Practice
April 3: 7-9 PM in Choi Auditorium
Join us for evening of screening and conversation with Los Angeles artist Kenneth Tam on contemporary currents in video and social art practices. Tam is curator of The Trouble Between Us, the group video exhibition up in Occidental's Weingart Galleries through April 19. His own work uses digital video and social media to explore the social impacts and possibilities of these very technological advancements. Posting personals ads on classified sites on the Internet, Tam solicits participants for collaborative video projects. He and these strangers then produce short, provocative video works that challenge us to examine the tensions between connection and isolation, the familiar and the grotesque, as well as anonymity and exhibitionism, that characterize our contemporary social media moment. More at: http://www.oralvisual.com
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Oxy Videotheque: Electronic Art & Activism 1967-2014 is the theme of Occidental Media Arts & Culture Program's Spring, 2014 Cinematheque series. In a digital moment where terms such as “cinema” and “film” are becoming increasingly blurred, this series focuses on video, the electronic medium that has precipitated much of that change. From its analog origins, to digital and now web-based iterations, video has profoundly transformed cinematic ideas of authorship, audience, aesthetics, and agency. Moving from early guerrilla video collectives and community-based video activism, to database documentary and video performance art, this series of spring events invites participants to explore the politics, poetics, and potentials of video.
The series website with full details and schedule of events is now live at: http://oxymac.com/cinematheque
A printable campus map is accessible at:http://www.oxy.edu/sites/default/files/assets/OXYmap.pdf
McKinnon/Johnson Hall is # 2 on the printable campus map, in the center of campus. The map indicates a number of different general parking options on campus.
This series is made possible with generous support from the Remsen-Bird Fund.