Now is the Winter Symposium, October 25-27

10/16/07

Ithaca College will host Now is the Winter, a symposium that will bring together a discrete group of scholars, artists, and curators from the United States and Russia for two days of papers, screenings, an exhibition, and discussions October 25-27.

Participants will include U.S. scholars and artists with a sustained interest in Russian media and culture, as well as Russian participants looking actively at the United States and global movements within these areas. The symposium is linked to an international exhibition, Now Is The Winter, that was on display in Moscow in May and June 2007.

Now Is The Winter
Media, Art, and Politics in the Contemporary United States and Russia
An International Symposium, Exhibition, and Screening Program

October 25-27, 2007

Roy H. Park School of Communications, Ithaca College
Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College
Cornell Cinema, Cornell University

All events are open the public (except: regular price admission will be charged at Cornell Cinema screenings).


Schedule of Events:

Thursday, October 25

5:00-7:00 p.m.
Exhibition opening: Signal Trouble, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College.

Friday, October 26

Noon
Symposium Session #1 at Park Hall 220

Introductory remarks by Nicholas Muellner, assistant professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts at the Park School.

Devin Fore, assistant professor, Departments of German and Slavic Studies, Princeton University, will present a scholarly paper on the links between obituary and documentary forms in 1920s Soviet Russia.

Sharon Hayes, lecturer, School of Art, The Cooper Union, will present a lecture about the relationship between documentation and event in history.

3:45 p.m.
Symposium Session #2 at Park Hall 220

Jacqueline Goss, associate professor, film and electronic arts, Bard College, will present a paper on the contemporary use of animation in propaganda.

Andrey Kovalev, lecturer in fine arts, Moscow Lomonosov State University, will present a paper on art, money, and media in contemporary Russia.

7:00 p.m.
Screening #1 at Cornell Cinema
Next Horizon: a program of recent Russian experimental film, video, and animation curated by Masha Godovannaya, Smolniy College, St. Petersburg. Godovannaya is an internationally exhibited filmmaker and film curator.

Saturday, October 27

11:30 a.m.
Symposium Session #3 at Park Hall 220

Diane Neumaier, professor, Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University, will present a paper on the impact of early post-Soviet Russian culture on her work as a visual artist in the United States.

Ed Halter, author of From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games and staff critic for the Village Voice, will present a paper on the political dimension of the experimental film movement in the 1990s.

Madeleine Reich Casad, doctoral candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University, will present a critical response to the works in the new Handwerker Gallery exhibition, Signal Trouble.

2:45 p.m.
Signal Trouble, Handwerker Gallery
Gallery talk by exhibiting artists

Sharon Hayes, lecturer, School of Art, The Cooper Union

Paul Swenbeck, independent artist, Philadelphia

Marian Zhunin, independent artist, Moscow

5:00 p.m.
Screening #2 at Cornell Cinema
Together We Slope -- a program of contemporary U.S. film and video work. Curated by Michael Robinson, an independent filmmaker and curator from Chicago.

This project is organized by Nicholas Muellner. A detailed schedule and project information will be available at: https://www.ithaca.edu/rhp/niw

Direct inquiries can be sent to Nicholas Muellner at [mailto:nmuellner@ithaca.edu].

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