Fall 2009

NJIT Communication and Media Program Student-Faculty Videography Den

Events transpire in 411 Cullimore, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

September 14

Bill Viola: The Passing (1991)

Viola juxtaposes personal pictures of his mother's death with images of his own son's birth to explore foundational and potent themes of beginnings and endings, the cycle of life and the movement of generations. An evocative exploration of personal and communal spirituality.

September 28

Jeremy Blake: Century 21 (2004)

Blake combines painting and computers to produce a techno take on traditional portraiture. Century 21, part of Blake’s Winchester Trilogy, distills and abstracts American myths of violence and spiritual reconciliation.

October 12

Bill Morrison: Decasia: The State of Decay (2004)

Morrison walks viewers through the process of deterioration (literally and figuratively) in this thought-provoking production that makes use of timeworn archival stock and sets the images against a score by musical genius Michael Gordon.

October 26

Kate Horsfield: Surveying the First Decade: “Explorations of Presence, Performance, and Audience” (1995)

Selections from Volume 1 of Horsfield’s documentary Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. 1968-1980 are featured in this session. Videos by Dan Graham, John Baldessari and others will be screened.

November 16

Lev Manovich and Andreas Kratky: Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (2005)

This project mines creative possibilities at the intersection of software culture, cinema, and architecture. At its heart is custom software and media databases: software edits movies in real time by choosing the elements from the database using rules defined by the authors.

November 30

Cell Phone Festival Highlights: The Art of Seduction (2006)

Short movies providing peeks into the wilder shores of human desire. The series was co-produced with the National Film Board of Canada as part of SHORTS IN MOTION, a series of films originally produced for video cell phones.

December 7

Screening of NJIT student works (2009)

Representative works by students enrolled in NJIT’s “Video Narrative” course this semester.