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"1968" Conference

April 7–8, 2006, Ithaca, New York

Ithaca College to Host Symposium on 1968

Scholars and artists from around the country will gather at Ithaca College in upstte New York on April 7 and 8, 2006 to exchange ideas, images, and open discussion at a symposium about the watershed year of 1968. The symposium represents an effort to look at a broad and dramatic historical moment with an eye toward the radical sense of possibility and inquiry that it contained.

"This event will bring together a dynamic range of scholars and media-makers whose work directly engages the period's international breadth of activism and critique — from political protest and social change to radical incursions in philosophical, mass-cultural, and avant-garde art practices," says symposium organizer Cathy Crane, assistant professor of cinema and photography.

Below is a list of programs. All of the events are free and open to the public.(1968): A SYMPOSIUM

Friday, April 7

Panel Discussion

3:00 p.m., Park Auditorium

Panelists: Petra Rethmann (McMaster University, Ontario), "'Projekt Artur': An Investigation of a Film on 1968, Militancy, and the West German Radical Left,"; George Flaherty (UC Santa Barbara), "Retrofitting the Third Culture at Tlatelolco: Architecture and Memory in Narrations of October 2, 1968"; and Sarah Lewison (San Francisco State University), "Voluntary Poverty and Land Which Is Denied to No One: Some Northern California Experiments in Open Society."

Discussants: Geoff Waite (Cornell University, German studies) and Meg Jamieson (Ithaca College, cinema and photography)

Screening and Discussion

5:30 p.m., Park Auditorium

"Portable Technologies, Contestational Media: New York State in 68," by Dara Greenwald (independent artist) and Kathy High (Rochester Institute of Technology). This screening and collaborative presentation brings together Greenwald's extensive research and preservation work on New York State video collective VideoFreeX, including her presentation of a taped interview with Black Panther Fred Hampton from the fall of 1968, with High's comparative study of 19th century utopian communities and 1960s video collectives in upstate New York, including works by Ralph Hocking (Experimental Television Center, Owego) and Steina Vasulka (Center for Media Study, Buffalo).

Saturday, April 8

Panel Discussion

11:00 a.m., Park 220

Panelists: Chris Mills (New York University), "Theatricality and Refusal: Fearing Performance in 1967"; Rochelle Haidu (University of Rochester), "The City as Cipher for the National in the Work of Chantal Akerman and Marcel Broodhaers"; and Michael Golec (Iowa State University), "A Science of Enjoyment: Ray and Charles Eames' 'Rough Sketch' and Technological Utopianism in 1968."

Discussants: Bruno Bosteels (Cornell University, Romance languages), other TBA.

Panel Discussion

2:00 p.m., Park 220

Panelists: Gerry Beegan (Rutgers University), "Tracing Che"; Colette Gaiter (Columbia College, Chicago), "Emory Douglas, the Black Panther Party's Minister of Culture"; and Branislav Jakovljevic (University of Minnesota), "Culture of Revolution and Cultural Revolution: Hair, June Unrest, and the Beginning of Yugoslavia's End."

Discussants: Alex Moon (Ithaca College, history) and Josh McPhee (independent artist, Troy, New York)

Screening and Discussion

5:00 p.m., Park Auditorium

The international, New York City-based collective CAMEL focuses its work on the intersections between art and activism, both in current organizing of collective activity and through building an archive of material documenting these histories over the past 50 years. Members of the collective will present a film and video screening that tentatively includes "Punishment Park" by Peter Watkins and Richard Leacock's "Chiefs."

Conference Wrap-up

9:00 p.m., Chanticleer Loft, 101 W. State St., Ithaca

Suzie Silver (Carnegie Mellon, School of Art) v- and d-jays a dance party at the Chanticleer Loft. Music from 1968 accompanied by visual images from 1968 mixed live.

For more information or to arrange interviews with participants, contact Cathy Crane at ccrane@ithaca.edu] or conference co-organizer Nick Muellner, assistant professor of cinema and photography, at nmuellner@ithaca.edu].

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