Symposium:
Friday, Oct. 24-Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008

Symposium schedule

Participant Biographies

This three-day event, a part of Resolution 3: Video Praxis in Global Spaces, brings together international media scholars, video artists, media activists, art professionals, students, and other interested parties in a series of roundtable discussions, workshops, screenings, and other presentations addressing notable aspects of contemporary video. Resolution 3 includes this symposium; Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video 1986/2008, a traveling exhibition; and a forthcoming book.  The Symposium aims to bring together participants involved in the Resolution 3 book and the Narrowcast exhibition in a series of provocative, peer-to-peer exchanges.

Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pitzer College
Carol Stakenas, Executive Director, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Resolution 3 Co-Directors

Friday, October 24

Symposium Schedule
Broad Performance Space, Pitzer College

* The exhibition Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video 1986/2008 will be open during the Resolution 3 Symposium at the Nichols and Lenzner Family Art Galleries on Pitzer campus

Saturday, October 25

11:00am-11:30am Book Reading from Shoot an Iraqui by Wafaa Bilal 11:30am-12:00pm Book Signing by Wafaa Bilal Books will be available for purchase

12:30 pm-2 pm
Fantastical Catastrophe
Screening with Erica Cho, EMR, Felix Endara, Frederic Moffett, Camilo Ontiveros and others.
Moderator: Irina Contreras
Mission Abort/Rescue! We invite participants to decide what it is we should watch. Come to enjoy and participate in a program that oozes the desperate and hopeful attempts for a new political landscape. How do we historicize, collect, and ultimately hijack what has always belonged to us?

2 pm -7 pm
Open Shop

Workshop 1: Storytelling and Programming
A workshop that uses storytelling to engage and build communities.
With Suzanne Oshinsky and Maria A. Diaz.
Moderator: Ashley Hunt
Woodbury CCRD

Workshop 2: Re-imaging Histories
A workshop dealing with representing histories and counter-histories that contribute to the conception of collectives, communities or publics.
With Frédéric Moffet and Amitis Motevalli. 
Moderator: Irina Contreras
Woodbury CCRD

Workshop 3: Performative Distribution
A workshop dealing with performance that produces it’s own distribution and life, extending themselves out of established art spaces and into new publics.
With Wafaa Bilal, Eric Stanley, Chris Vargas.
Moderator: Jessica Lawless
Woodbury CCRD

7 pm Saturday–7 pm Sunday
Running Time 24:00:00
A 24-hour screening of contemporary videos that references distant and not so distant film and video history. An eclectic selection of video works from around the world, Running Time 24:00:00 is inspired by the iconic videos of the first Resolutions, and will offer videos in segments according to the time period in film and video art history that they are inspired by.
Screening curated by Micol Hebron.  Each video will screen only once.  Visitors are encouraged to bring pillows.
Paul G. Gleason Theatre

The Paul Gleason Theater can be entered through the front door facing Hollywood Blvd. or through a back door facing the back parking lot:

7pm-10pm Saturday: Front door access open to the public
10pm-9am Saturday through Sunday: Please RSVP and enter through the back door to the Paul Gleason Theater accessible through the parking lot which you enter on Wilcox Avenue
9am-7pm Sunday: Front door access open to the public

Register for 24-hour Screening

Sunday, October 26

11 am–1 pm
Politics of Transcultural Production
A roundtable discussion focusing on the different positions engendered by video, performative, and digital media works that cross the boundaries of race, gender, nationality, and culture.
With Ismail Farouk, Grant Kester, Gina Lamb/REACH LA, Amitis Motevalli, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne. 
Moderator: Jennifer Doyle

1 pm–2:30 pm
Bodies that Matter - Dialogue and Closing Discussion
A dialogue between Maria A. Diaz and Alex Villar on how artists make extensive use of their own bodies to intervene in the spaces of everyday life, particularly in relation to video.  Closing discussion and wrap-up for the symposium follows. With Maria A. Diaz, Alex Villar, and other participants of the symposium

The exhibition Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video 1986/2008 will be open during the Resolution 3 Symposium at the Nichols and Lenzner Family Art Galleries, Pitzer College.

To register for the symposium, click here. For more information, call (909) 607-7025, Pitzer College or (323) 957-1777, LACE