Hi ALL,

I wanted to remind everyone that a CMS candidate Ayhan Aytes will give
a talk today at 3:45-4:45pm in 217 McGuffey Hall. He studies the
history and cultural impact of artificial intelligence and has a
strong background in computer science and engineering. His talk is
entitled, "Mechanical Turk: "Oriental" Automata and the Mechanization
of the Mind." If you can't make the talk, he is meeting with Artie in
Laws from 1:15 to 2pm, and then has open drop-in time in Williams Hall
room 232 from 2:45-3:15pm. I hope some of you can make it!

Also, I wanted to announce that Paige Sarlin will be visiting this
Friday--another CMS candidate who is interested in AIMS, the The
School of Creative Arts, etc.. See info below about her talk and
background!!

Best,
Braxton

Paige Sarlin
2:15-3:15pm, Friday Feb. 1st
160 Williams Hall
Title: “Convention and Critique: The Documentary Interview in an Expanded Field”
This paper will consider the representation of the media interview in
three different formats, the fiction film, the video installation, and
the social sculpture. These examples (Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon (2008),
Omer Fast’s The Casting (2007), and Jeremy Deller’s It is What it is:
Conversations about Iraq (2009)) illustrate the contemporary
significance of the interview as a media form and demonstrate the ways
in which the expansion of the field of documentary practices relates
to a critique of dominant media conventions.

Bio:
Paige Sarlin is an artist, filmmaker, scholar, and political activist.
She holds a Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University
and an M.F.A. in Film/Video/New Media from the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago.  Her feature-length documentary film, The Last
Slide Projector, premiered at the Rotterdam International Film
Festival in 2007 and screened at Anthology Film Archives in 2008.
From 1999 to 2010, she was an active participant in the 16Beaver Group
in New York City, a platform for the discussion of the intersection of
art and politics. Her writings have been published in October,
Re-Thinking Marxism, Reviews in Cultural Theory, The Journal of
Aesthetics and Protest, and Framework: A Journal of Film and Culture.
She is at work on a book-length manuscript entitled Interview-Work:
The Genealogy of a Media Form.  She is currently a Visiting Assistant
Professor in the Department of Media Study at University at Buffalo,
SUNY. Website: http://paigesarlin.info/