Cosponsored with UO Libraries, UO Arts and Administration Program, School of Journalism and Communication, Cinema Studies Program

This two-day symposium within Cinema Pacific will feature guests Rick Prelinger, Mark Hosler, and DeeDee Halleck, all pioneering media artists who are also archivists and activists. They plunder archival and commercial media to provoke critical reflection by audiences on mainstream culture and its alternatives.

Mark Hosler

Mark Hosler will present a lecture/performance on his “Adventures in Illegal Art.”

Hosler is a founding member of the group Negativland, an experimental music and sound collage band that Hosler started in 1979 while he was still in high school. The group released several of their recordings throughout the 1980s, but reached a wider audience in 1987 with the release of their album Escape from Noise. The group was featured in San Francisco filmmaker Craig Baldwin’s Sonic Outlaws (1995). Hosler has diligently promoted the reform of copyright laws, writing for publications such as Billboard Magazine, Keyboard Magazine, and NYU Law Commentator, and lecturing at institutions of higher learning such as MIT, Yale, and New York University, as well as venues all over the world. He and members of Negativland have made records, CDs, video, fine art, books, radio, and live performances using appropriated sound, images, and texts. Mixing corporately owned works with original works and music of their own, Negativland’s final products act as creative and expressive examinations of mass media and culture.

 

Rick Prelinger

Rick Prelinger’s Thursday lecture will be called “Confessions of an Outsider Archivist.” He will talk about the past, present and future of archives and collecting institutions (especially moving image and digital collections). Themes will include: how ephemera has moved from the cultural periphery to the center and increased the public appeal and allure of archives; how personal materials are overtaking institutionally-created materials as a center of interest; how archives have shed their crypt-like nature and gained the fascination of the public; and archives as a prism for addressing and understanding cultural change.

The Friday screening will be Lost Landscapes Of Detroit, Year 2 (73 min., HD, digital), an all-new feature-length compilation of home movies, industrial films, outtakes, and newsreels exploring the landscape and psycho-geography of Detroit as it was.
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Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer, filmmaker, and outsider librarian. Rick has partnered with the Internet Archive (of which he is a board member) to make 2,100 (soon to be 4,000) films available online for free viewing, downloading, and reuse. His archival feature Panorama Ephemera (2004) played in venues around the world. He frequently speaks on the future of archives and issues relating to archival access and regeneration.

DeeDee Halleck

DeeDee Halleck is a longtime media activist, speaker, and filmmaker. At Cinema Pacific, she will present a program celebrating the 30th anniversary of Paper Tiger TV, the non-profit national public access program of media criticism Halleck founded in 1981. She will also screen her feature-length film, The Gringo in Mañanaland. Composed of several hundred clips from over eighty different American films, we are witness to the differing portrayals of Latin America on film throughout the time period of 1910 to 1960. The Gringo in Mañanaland is equal parts adventure, propaganda, documentary, musical, and historical case study.

When Halleck was a teenager in high school, she worked at a commercial animation house where she inked animations for commercials. Her 1965 short Mural on Our Street was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subjects. In 1970, Halleck began a career teaching cinema at various institutions such as New York University, Rutgers University, and University of California, San Diego. In 1981, Halleck co-founded the Paper Tiger TV Collective in New York City, an open media collective involved in raising media literacy and challenging corporate control over broadcast mediums. Paper Tiger Television is a non-profit organization that strives for information-equity and seeks to involve people in the process of making media and raising awareness of negative influences in mass media. DeeDee remains a devoted media activist today.

Schedule

Thursday, April 19

12:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.: Mark Hosler presentation : Adventures in Illegal Art (JSMA Lecture Room)
2:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.: Rick Prelinger lecture: “Confessions of an Outsider Archivist” (JSMA Lecture Room)
4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.: DeeDee Halleck screening: The Gringo in Mañanaland (JSMA Lecture Room)
9:00 p.m.: Media Mashers (Re)Mixer in Fringe Festival (Broadway Commerce Building, 44 W. Broadway)

Friday, April 20

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.: Forum on “Media Mashers” with Mark Hosler, Rick Prelinger, DeeDee Halleck (115 Lawrence Hall)
2:00 p.m.: Paper Tiger TV 30th Anniversary Screening with DeeDee Halleck (Knight, Proctor 41)
4:00 p.m.: Rick Prelinger screening: Lost Landscapes of Detroit (Bijou Art Cinemas)