Special Presentations, Lectures, Master Classes, Workshops

Special Presentations, Lectures, Master Classes, Workshops
All events are on the Ithaca College campus unless otherwise noted.

Daniel Binelli
Master Class on Argentine Tango
Monday March 31, 11:00 a.m. –1 p.m.
Presser Rehearsal Hall, 3102 Whalen CenterTBA
Bandoneón virtuoso and composer Binelli unpacks counterpoint and other musical structures in tango.

Gretjen Clausing
Precious Places and Camouflage
Wednesday, April 2, 1:00–2:40 p.m.
281 Park Hall
Screenings from one of the most comprehensive community media projects in the United States that uses the video documentary as a storytelling medium. Neighborhood residents come together to document the oral histories of their communities. (With program director, producer, and IC alumna Clausing)

Gretjen Clausing
Precious Places and Counterpoint
Thursday, April 3, 4:00–5:15 p.m.
Location TBA
Selections from Scribe Video Center’s Precious Places Community History Project reveal bypassed neighborhood sites as bright landmarks that surprise and inspire residents and visitors alike. (With program director, producer, and IC alumna Clausing)

Gretjen Clausing
Precious Places and Gastronomica
Friday, April 4, 2:00 p.m.
Park Hall Auditorium
Selections from Precious Places showcase collaborations with community groups engaging in grassroots gastronomica. (With program director, producer, and IC alumna Clausing)

Lloyd Fales
Return to Penguin City Screening and Workshop with Scientists
Thursday, April 3, 1:10–4:00 p.m.
Screening, New Business School Building 111, 1:10-2:35; Workshop, 2:40-4:00, Center for
Natural Sciences 115.
This Ithaca premiere screening of  Return to Penquin City supplies counterpoint to most tales of global warming by focusing on penguins in Antarctica and the researchers who live with them, followed by a post-screening workshop with director Fales and a group of scientists researching environmental disasters.

Lloyd Fales
Science, nature and adventure films career workshop with producer/director Lloyd Fales
Friday, April 4, 12-1 
Park 332 

Ariana Gerstein and Montieth McCollum
Screening of Milk and Post-Screening Discussion with the Directors
Monday, March 31, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Park Hall Auditorium
Learn firsthand at this Ithaca premiere how experimental documentary filmmakers image and think about one facet of gastronomica nearly everyone has tasted—milk.

Steve Gordon
How to Get Your Break Workshop
Friday, April 4, 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Park Hall Auditorium
Featuring Lloyd Fales, Leslie Daniels, and other festival guests
A panel of entertainment industry pros answers the question every student asks at one point or another: how do I get my break?

Dale Hudson and Sharon Lin Tay
ubuntu.kuqala on Camouflage
Wednesday, April 2, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Location TBA
Presentation on the 2008 FLEFF online exhibition by the cocurators, Dale Hudson and Sharon Lin Tay

Dale Hudson
ubuntu.kuqala on Counterpoint
Thursday, 10:50-12:05
Presentation and discussion of the Hub, witness.org’s user-generated international human rights portal, from the 2008 FLEFF online exhibition by the cocurator, Dale Hudson

Sorayya Khan
A Topography of Banda Aceh: Notes from a Journey
Friday, April 4, 10:30 a.m.
Handwerker Gallery
Reading and slideshow about Banda Aceh, Indonesia, and the tsunami by novelist and nonfiction writer Sorayya Khan

Ulises Mejias
Counterpoint Games States
Wednesday, April 2, 4:00–5:40 p.m.
227 Park Hall
Special presentation and exhibition of the 2008 FLEFF games exhibition, with curator Ulises Mejias

Ulises Mejias
Alternate Realities, Simulated Risks: Games, Politics, Action
Friday, April 4, 1:00 p.m.
Park Hall Auditorium
Special presentation and workshop probing how serious games are counterpoint—or not, with FLEFF games curator Mejias

Tim Murray
Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Tuesday, April 1, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Park Hall Auditorium
Lecture, exhibition, and workshop on the new frontiers of international new media art

Lisa Patti
Pop Culture as Genocidal Camouflage
Tuesday, April 1, 7:00–8:40 p.m.
285 Park Hall
Special screening and audience discussion on archives, histories, and popular cultures as camouflage

Claudia Pederson
Gastronomic Games
Thursday, April 3, 6:50–9:30 p.m.
58 Hill Center
A workshop on how games, health, nutrition, and food can cook up controversies and new content with new media scholar Claudia Pederson

Peter Rothbart
West Side Story: To Assimilate or Not to Assimilate, It's  Still the Question.
Monday, March 31, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
Park Auditorium
Pre-concert lecture on race, ethnicity, immigration, and identities in West Side Story by music historian and composer Peter Rothbart

Stephanie Rothenberg
Usernomics 1.0: Rethinking Our Relationship to Technology
Thursday, April 3, 1:10–2:35 p.m.
309 Friends Hall
Americans spent over $155 billion on electronics products in 2007. Where do all the old iPods, iBooks, and Playstations go? Usernomics 1.0 examines the social and ecological consequences caused by the outsourcing of electronic waste—e-waste. Creative alternatives employed through waste reclamation, recycling, and reuse will be discussed in this workshop with new media artist Stephanie Rothenberg.

Stephanie Rothenberg, Sharon Lin Tay, Dale Hudson, and Nick Knouf
Digital Counterpoints: Performance and Networked Media
Thursday, April 3, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Park Hall Auditorium
Special presentation on thinking and acting in digital counterpoint, with loads of show and tell of examples, forms, and tactics

Stephanie Rothenberg
The School of Perpetual Training Workshop
Friday, April 4, 3:15 p.m.
Park Hall Auditorium
The School of Perpetual Training is a multifaceted project that uses game-based models to examine the production of play and the politics of labor through the culture of digital gaming. New media artist Stephanie Rothenberg presents two recent components of the project—a virtual sweatshop created in the 3D social networking environment of Second Life and a mock corporate training program that uses motion detection and requires full-range of body motion to train.

Sarah Rubenstein-Gillis
Reel Milk: Uncovering Breastfeeding in American Movies
Monday, March 31, 4:00–6:30 p.m.
277 Park Hall
A lecture with film clips exposing six decades of Hollywood’s representations of breastfeeding

John Scott
Scouts Are Cancelled
Saturday, April 5, 4:00 p.m.
Cinemapolis (downtown Ithaca)
Ithaca premiere screening of this award-winning documentary about Nova Scotia, poetry, and call centers with director John Scott

Sharon Lin Tay
ubuntu.kuqala on Gastronomica
Thursday, April 3, 2:35–3:50 p.m.
281 Park Hall
Gastronomical musings by online artists guided by FLEFF online cocurator Sharon Lin Tay

Sharon Lin Tay and Dale Hudson
ubuntu.kuqala
Friday, April 4, 9:00 a.m.
Handwerker Gallery
Guided tour through the 2008 online exhibition with cocurators Tay and Hudson, with audience discussion of selected pieces

Gossa Tsegaye
The Jungle’s Edge
Wednesday, April 2, 5:25 p.m.
Room 111, School of Business Building
Screening of a documentary about a clandestine Ithaca neighborhood, with director Gossa Tsegaye

John Valadez
The Last Conquistador
Sunday, April 6, 2:00 p.m.
Cinemapolis (downtown Ithaca)
Ithaca premiere of a feature-length documentary about the point-counterpoint between statues, Texas, Latinos, and Native Americans with documentary director John Valadez