Assistant Professor Rodney Evans, FMA, will screened his new narrative short film, Billy and Aaron, at the MIX Experimental Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Nov. 10 in New York City. The film also screen in Amsterdam on Nov. 5 to 7 at the Africa In the Picture Film Festival and in Johannesburg and Capetown in South Africa in the Out in Africa Film Festival. Billy and Aaron chronicles the personal and professional experiences of jazz composer, Billy Strayhorn. It premiered in April at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
Category Archives: Film & Media Arts
Professor Peter d’Agostino, FMA, featured in exhibition and book
coming & going: San Francisco (BART), 1978
Professor Peter d’Agostino, FMA, is featured in the exhibition “Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000,” which runs Oct. 6 to April 3, 2011, in the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.
The University of California Press book includes works by d’Agostino ranging from “The Walk Series” (1973-74) to “TRACES” (1995), videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, New York. For more information about the book, click here.
Sept. 23: FMA professor to screen documentary
Thursday, Sept. 23
7 p.m.
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
222 North 20th Street
Associate Professor LeAnn Erickson, Film and Media Arts, will screen her new documentary, Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII, Sept. 23 at the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia’s Franklin Theater.
The film shares the little-known story of a group of female mathematicians who did secret ballistics research for the U.S. Army during WWII, Erickson says. A few of these women later were integral in the programming of the first electronic computer.
The screening begins at 7 p.m. and doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Erickson will be on-hand for a question and answer session following the screening.
Free reservations can be made by calling 215-448-1254.
Click here for more information about the film
Six SCT faculty members receive provost seed grants
Of the 21 seed grants awarded this year by the Office of the Provost, six of them involve faculty members from the School of Communications and Theater.
“The seed grants continue to encourage new university collaborations and expand the depth and breadth of our interdisciplinary research and creative works, helping us advance Temple’s goal of ‘Research Excellence’ that benefits society,” said Senior Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Education Ken Blank. “These grants are important vehicles for helping faculty bring additional grant funding and recognition to Temple.”
The SCT projects are:
“Queer, Get Used to It”
Peter Reynolds, THEA
Scott Gratson, COMM
“GRID + Flow: Philadelphia and Beyond Mapping and Reimagining Urban Ecologies through the Arts and Humanities”
Alan C. Braddock, Tyler
Peter P. d’Agostino, FMA
Andrew Isenberg, CLA
“Community Collaborations: Temple University and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s PhilaPlace Project”
Christopher Harper, JOUR
Christine Woyshner, Education
Edward Trayes, JOUR
“Assessing Informality: Understanding Informal Settlements Using Participation Post-Occupancy Evaluation Techniques”
Scott Shall, Tyler
Nancy E. Morris, BTMM
“All the World is Urban: Planning in the Developing World”
Warren Bass, FMA
Howard Spodek, CLA
“Multimedia Reporting on Urban Centers in Asia and Africa”
Ron Carr, COMM at Temple University, Japan Campus
Irene Herrera, COMM at TUJ
Jean-Julien Aucouturier, CST at TUJ
Click here to see learn more about the Provost Office’s seed grants.
Professor Alter participates in festival of contemporary art in Italy
Professor Nora Alter, FMA, MMC, participated in a panel titled “Thinking About Art: New Media Art” with Gertrud Koch, Paolo Rosa and moderator Pier Luigi Sacco at the OPERE/Works Festival of Contemporary Art in Faenza, Italy, May 21-23.
Details about the event are available here.