Serena Lin Bush, Speak Easy (Who's on First), 2004
 
 
FOTOFEST - PANEL DISCUSSION / SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
      
EXIT THE WAITING ROOM - CONTEMPORARY MEDIA ART IN HOUSTON   
March 31 - 7 p.m.     
DiverseWorks Art Space - 1117 East Freeway
FREE
 
Where does media art and installation live, in exhibition and collection? How is it supported? Who is the audience? Who are the makers?
 
Not long ago, media art in Texas was implicated as "...a medium that is not a medium but a composite practice" an art form that had failed to develop a system of distribution, exhibition, or a market that could sustain artist growth and development.*
 
In response, a diverse panel of media artists, curators, and collectors will revisit Houston's media arts past, survey current practices, and look at the region's future. 
 
Panelists include: Serena Lin Bush, artist; Duncan Ganley, artist; Andrea Grover, Founder and Director - Aurora Picture Show; James Harithas, Founder and Director - Art Car Museum, The Station; Brian Wesley Heiss, artist and lecturer, Rice University; Jeanne Klein, collector; Michael Galbreth, artist; Eileen Maxson, artist; Gabriela Rangel, Assistant Curator of Latin American Art, MFAH, and Jeff Shore, artist. Moderated by Kimberly Davenport, Gallery Director, Rice University Gallery.
 
*Birringer, Johannes. "Burn Media Burn: (Texas) Video Art."ArtLies:A Texas Art Journal. Number 25, Winter 1999-2000.
 
Organized by Serena Lin Bush
 

 

TEXAS WATER

Curated by Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP)

April 9, 7 p.m.

Museum of Fine Arts - Brown Auditorium Theatre - 1001 Bissonnet Street

$6

 

SWAMP presents a juried program of Texas film and videomakers’ response to the FotoFest theme of Water.  Comprised of works received through an open call for submissions, the most outstanding works will receive awards from an expert panel after a special screening at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. These winners will be considered for broadcast during the 29th season of the PBS series The Territory, sponsored by SWAMP.

 

Additionally, a number of these works are being screened on a continuing basis at Talento Bilingue de Houston, a Latino cultural arts center located in Houston's historic Second Ward through April 16, 2004.  
 
 
CELEBRATING WATER
LOOKING AT THE GLOBAL CRISIS

February 29 - April 16, 2004 - Houston, Texas
 DOCUMENTARY
 PERFORMANCE
 EXPERIMENTAL / AVANT-GARDE
 PANEL DISCUSSION /
   SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
 CINEMA
 TELEVISION BROADCASTS
 
 
 
 
    PRESENTED BY:
        Angelika Film Center
        Aurora Picture Show
        HoustonPBS (KUHT-TV)
 
 
 
    HOSTED BY:
        The Artery
        The Axiom
        Lawndale Arts Center
 
 
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