[ ESC ] salon + mixer*
Electronic Social Club: a network of NYC graduate students connected by the practice of creating social dialogue through projects in media, art and design.

Friday November 14 | 7-10 pm
Hunter College | 695 Avenue
Room HN 543 | Black Box

…..new media projects, video art, web-based projects, experimental, interactive, performance, media art, installations, sound projects and games…..

Like a social club, [ ESC ] is formed around a common interest, activity or location.  We bring together MFA students from across New York City to meet and showcase their graduate art work, and to form a common network around the theme of creating social dialogue through art and media.

Programme of events to follow.   Past participants include:  ShiftSpace (shiftspace.org), the ICED Game:  I Can End Deportation (icedgame.com), and projects from Hunter College, NYU ITP, Parsons MFADT, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn PIMA, and Brooklyn Polytech.

*free and open to the public*
e. electronicsocialclub@gmail.com
www. electronicsocialclub.org

An event by EYEspeak and the students of Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA.

directions: 
6 train to 68th street or F train to 63rd Street
enter on 69th street between Park + Lexington
take the elevator or stairs to the 5th floor

last modified: November 4th, 2008; posted: November 3rd, 2008

REZONING HARLEM

Maysles Cinema Presents:

REZONING HARLEM SCREENING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 & 8 AT 7:30pm

Back by popular demand, the Maysles Cinema in Harlem is screening Rezoning Harlem  on Friday and Saturday, November 7 & 8 at 7:30pm. Directed  by IMA Students Tamara Gubernat and Natasha Florentino, Rezoning Harlem (2008)  takes a hard look at the current battle for control of 125th Street.

“Rezoning Harlem” initially grew out of a graduate course at Hunter College called, Community Media Advocacy and the Urban Environment.  As we searched for documentary ideas, we attended a public hearing on the rezoning of 125th street before the City Planning Commission. The community opposition to the plan was abundantly clear by the passionate testimony that expressed deep concerns over lack of affordable housing, the displacement of viable local businesses and the loss of a one of the world’s most famed African-American neighborhoods. We realized the critical importance of documenting the city’s political process and the community’s efforts to have a say in the future of Harlem. This film is highly significant today, as the Bloomberg Administration has signed 88 rezonings into law and continues to thrust these developer driven models of planning on traditional working class neighborhoods.
The 125th Street rezoning was an intense time line, with community meetings happening every weekend, and public hearings and committee meetings often not announced until the day before.  We were uptown in Harlem, we were downtown at City Planning and City Hall, talking to as many people as we could and filming as much as possible.  We had to unravel the often cryptic urban planning language and navigate through the various steps in the city’s legislative process.  We focused on historic preservation, small businesses, housing in Harlem and displacement, height limits, and the connection between the real estate industry and politics, and the over-arching theme: the community of Harlem was left out of the planning process.
Director’s Statement
Natasha Florentino and Tamara Gubernat

Screenings are open to the public at the suggested but not required donation of $7. The Maysles Cinema is located at 343 Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard at 127th Street (between 127th and 128th) in New York City.
2/3, 4,5,6, A,B,C,D to 125th street
Please direct all press inquiries to cinema@mayslesfilms.com, or contact Philip Maysles at 212-582-6050 ext 218

last modified: November 4th, 2008; posted: November 3rd, 2008

Works by Martin Lucas

INVASIVE SPECIES -  A fall afternoon.  A brief encounter with Phragmites australis, the common reed, and Cygnus olor, the mute swan.  In a park built as a kind of natural fantasy for North Americans of European origin, what is the difference between being ‘non-native’, and ‘native?’  In fact, what is natural and what, camera in hand, is beautiful?  2005. TRT: 5:25 

MALAWI: Cybersubsistence and Globalization  - The video lays out some of the contending forces at work as the citizens of Malawi navigate between the realities of everyday life in a very poor Sub-Saharan nation and the possibilities opened up by internet access, and new mobile communications technologies. Originally screened at the Buena Vista Arts Center in San Francisco as part of the Global Honking Ground Exhibition under the sponsorship of the Southern Exposure Gallery, and at Mobileactive08 in Johannesburg, South Africa. 2008, TRT: 16:30.

IN THE FIELDS OF FLANDERS - An installation/performance work based on panoramic transparencies of pastoral Flanders, the arena of some of the most horrible slaughter of the First World War. These images and the story that goes with them ask viewers to contemplate the geography of war: where wars are, and where they aren’t. I suggest that by going back to the origins of modern war and re-examining - “re-viewing” - that landscape we can begin to feel the dramatic militarization of modern consciousness.  First presented at the Villa Alkmaar, Rotterdam, 1996, as part of the “State of Mind” exhibition created by Jeanne v. Heeswijk, and again at The Knitting Factory, New York. (TRT: approx 60 min.)

For more information contact Martin Lucas:  mlucas@igc.org

Directions: IRT No. 6 to 68th St. Entrance on East 69th between Lexington and Park Ave.  Take elevators to 4th floor. Go left to auditorium.

last modified: October 30th, 2008; posted: October 23rd, 2008

IMA Student Dylan Gauthier Presents New Work

Dylan Gauthier, current IMA Student, will be presenting new work with Mare Liberum, a printmaking, publishing and boat-building collective.

EFA Project Space Presents:

Beyond a Memorable Fancy

October 30- December 13, 2008

Opening reception Saturday, November 1, 6-9 p.m.

Curated by: Michelle LevyArtists: Glen Baldridge, Robert Buck, Benjamin Cohen, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Ian Cooper, Jenelle Covino, Alex Dodge, Rachel Foullon, David Gatten, Dylan Gauthier, Graffiti Research Lab, Lynne Harlow, Adam Helms, Wennie Huang, Matthew Day Jackson, Heidi Neilson, Evan Roth, Jennifer Schmidt, Peter Simensky, Mary Temple, and Stephan von Muehlen.

Beyond A Memorable Fancy is an exhibition about printmaking, perception, and artistic intervention. The artists pioneer the use of print to filter and transcend the way we see the world around us. Every work dictates the reinvigoration of an idea, a revelatory moment, an expansion of the mind.EFA Project Space
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
between 8th and 9th Avenues

Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat, 12-6 PMT. 212-563-5855 x 151
projectspace@efa1.org

posted: October 21st, 2008

The Fall IMA Gathering, formerly known as the POW WOW

Mark your calenders!

The Fall Gathering, an info session for prospective and current students alike, is being held on Friday, November 21st from 5 to 7 pm in the Big Black Box, 543 Hunter north.  Among the intended excitement, the IMA course offerings for Spring 2009 will be unveiled!

More info to follow!

posted: October 1st, 2008

Thing With No Name

Sarah Friedland, IMA Grad Student

presents

Thing With No Name

Screening this week at the Woodstock Film Festival, http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com, where it has been nominated for The Haskell Wexler Award for Best Cinematography.

*Screening Times:*

Oct 4: Upstate Films II, 9:30pm

Oct 5: Woodstock Town Hall, 3:45pm

{filmmakers present at both screenings}

Upcoming screenings: Starz Denver Film Festival, http://www.denverfilm.org

Putting a face to the magnitude of suffering caused by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa––more than 5 million Africans are currently infected–– Thing With No Name follows two women in the mountains of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa through a course of antiretroviral drug therapy. While the harrowing reality of the disease is offset by the gorgeous natural surrounding and the quiet humor of these resilient women, the film pays witness to a strength of will u undone by a lack of resources and support, while urgently making the case for a more hopeful future.

Praise for Thing With No Name:

“Friedland’s [first feature] film boasts the intimate restraint of a seasoned filmmaker, supporting itself with beautiful cinematography and the power of humanity.” –indieWIRE

posted: September 17th, 2008

IMA Facebook Group

Join IMA Facebook Group
This is for faculty, students, staff, and alumni of the IMA program.

posted: September 16th, 2008

Hitting the Streets

This screening will showcase the results of an innovative workshop in which students from Hunter College’s Urban Affairs & Planning and Integrated Media Arts programs explored the use of media for community organizing aimed at improving the quality of local environments. From the fight to save Harlem from mega-developers, to the joys and realities of cycling through urban streets, these videos capture the attempts of everyday citizens and activists to shape New York City’s future, and in doing so, inspire us to action on some of the most pressing concerns facing our neighborhoods today.

FREE and open to the public. Monday September 22nd, 2008 from 6—8 PM, with RECEPTION TO FOLLOW Hunter College’s Lang Auditorium, North Building, 4th Floor. (The North Building is located on 69th Street between Park and  exington, on the south side of the street; Subway: take the 6 train to 68th Street) Sponsored by the Department of  ilm and Media Studies and the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College (CUNY). Also sponsored by  he Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development.

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