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Marketplace of Ideas: Culture Jamming in the Visual Arts
April 4 - May 17, 1998
An exhibition of work by artists who appropriate images from popular culture to
subvert the manipulation of identity in an age of over-consumption.
Featuring
And Disneyland After Dark, an installation by Peter Fend and Kate
Glazer, Denise Hawrysio, Frans Jacobi, Joachim Koester, and Soren Martinsen.
Opening Reception
Gallery Hours
This exhibition is free and open to the public, and the galleries are
handicapped accesible.
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Lectures
Friday, April 3, 1998 6:00 p.m., in galleries Gallery talk by Frans Jacobi and Nadine Wasserman
If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall: Making Sense of America's Shopping Centers James Farrell, professor of history and director of American Studies, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Professor Farrell was the first O.C. and Patricia Boldt Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities at St. Olaf.
Haute Coupure: Responsibility and Resistance to Pop Culture Scott Schaffer, Ph.D. candidate, social and political thought, York University, Toronto
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Films
Tuesday, April 7, 1998 7:00 p.m., Wriston Art Center Auditorium
Spin Pirated satellite feeds and TV out-takes appropriated from network satellite feeds unravel the tightly spun fabric of television, a system that silences public debates and furthers the intolerance of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors, and televangelists who manufacture the news.
The motto of this fast-paced, often hilarious documentary that examines the changing attitudes towards multi-media plagiarism is "Copyright Infringement is Your Best Entertainment Value." This film presents a collage of interviews, illegally "borrowed" samplings, and legal cases, providing examples of each that range from a record company's lawsuit against an independent rock band's satirical samplings to cellular phone scanners to "billboard bandits."
7:00 p.m., Wriston Art Center Auditorium
They Live After finding a pair of glasses, Frank sees his world in a whole new way--as the lenses allow him to see through many illusions. He finds that the human race has been infiltrated by mind-controlling aliens who appear to be normal, upwardly mobile, conservative capitalists. The story follows him as he tries to prove what he sees, while being chased by both the police and the aliens.
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