Just wanted to share some interesting, and (mostly) free events at Slought Foundation here in Philadelphia. They're interesing to know about even if you can't be here...
Candace. > ---------- > From: Slought Announcements > Reply To: Slought Announcements > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Upcoming Events at Slought Foundation > > Slought Foundation is located at 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. We are > open to the public, except during installation, Wednesday through > Saturday, from 11:00am to 6:00pm. Exhibitions and events, unless noted > otherwise, are free to the public. For more information, call Aaron Levy > at 215.222.9050 or visit us on the web at http://slought.org/calendar/ > > > Public Override Void: On Poetry Engines and Prosthetic Imaginations > Opening Reception and Public Conversation featuring Jim Carpenter, Bob > Perelman, > Jean-Michel Rabaté, and Nick Montfort. > > For more information: http://slought.org/content/11199/ > Reception and Public Conversation: Thursday, April 29, 2004; 6:30-8:00pm | > Free > > Slought Foundation presents "Public override void," a vault installation > featuring Jim Carpenter's Electronic Text Composition (ETC) project, on > display from April 17-May 20, 2004. The opening reception on Thursday > April 29, 2004 from 6:30-8:30pm has been organized in conjunction with a > live presentation by Carpenter and a public conversation between Bob > Perelman, Nick Montfort, and Jean-Michel Rabaté (50 min). The installation > includes self-service poetry stations and wall panels of code, and takes > its name ("Public override void") from an actual string of code embedded > in the software program. The Electronic Text Composition Project's Poetry > Engine is a suite of software components that allow a user to generate > aesthetic texts. Drawing word associations from its language database, the > Engine's grammar uses a probability-based approach to constructing > syntactic constituents, which it aggregates into utterances, which it in > turn aggregates into compositions. Information on the public conversation > is available: http://slought.org/content/11199/ > > This event is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship of > the Philadelphia Weekly! Look for our weekly ads in this week's newspaper, > or visit: http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/promotions/ > > > > > > My Lacan is Burning: Revisiting 'Television' > Featuring Catherine Liu, Charles Shepherdson, Jean-Michel Rabaté. > Organized by Aaron Levy. > > For more information: http://slought.org/content/11175/ > Film Screening and Public Conversation: Wednesday, June 02, 2004; > 6:30-8:30pm | Free > > In 1972 Jacques-Alain Miller, then an analyst in training, approached > French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to request a television interview. "I > wanted Lacan, just once, to speak to the common man," said Miller at the > New York City 1987 colloquium organized around that interview and called > "Jacques Lacan: Television." The two-hour program, which took the form of > an interview and discourse, aired in 1973 on the French government TV > network O.R.T.F. under the title, Psychoanalysis. In a style that is > typical of Lacan's own playful, impassioned, and evasive seminar style, we > have invited theorists Catherine Liu and Charles Shepherdson to perform > this discourse live and in English, alongside a projection of the original > broadcast. A public discussion, introduced and moderated by Lacanian > theorist Jean-Michel Rabaté, Slought Foundation Senior Curator and Editor > of the new Cambridge Guide to Lacan (2003), will follow the performance. > > "When Lacan says on Television, 'I always tell the truth...' he means it. > He's making this pronouncement on TV and insofar as any talking head, > including Lacan's, can embody a voice, he speaks for television itself... > Television wants to believe that it tells the truth, the whole truth and > nothing but the truth... But Television tries to account for the > difficulty of the truth of the Real by producing its own built in > self-critique module in the form of cynicism. In this way, it tries to > cover its anxiety, which is, as Lacan has taught us, precisely the one > affect which does not deceive." -- Catherine Liu, from Lacanian Ink #3. > Catherine Liu's February 2002 Slought Foundation lecture, "To Catch a > Falling Star: Lacan Meets Warhol," engaging the original broadcast and > recording, is available online in audio format: > http://slought.org/content/11057/ > > > > > > Nancarrow for 4 Hands: Unplayable Music > Featuring Jonathan Fisher and Brenna Berman. > > Live Performance: Friday, June 18, 2004; 8:00-10:00 pm | $10.00 > For more information or to purchase tickets online: > http://slought.org/content/11185/ > > Slought Foundation presents "Transcribing Nancarrow." This live concert on > Friday June 18th, 2004, from 8:00 pm-10:00 pm, will address the > relationship between technology, temporality and performance in the work > of composer Conlon Nancarrow. Nancarrow was reputedly frustrated by the > limitations of human performers, specifically by their inability to handle > complex rhythms. "As long as I've been writing music I've been dreaming of > getting rid of the performers," he said in an interview. In this event we > present transcriptions of Nancarrow's player piano music arranged for > human piano 4 hands performance (transcriptions by Fisher). The same > selected Studies will also be performed by player piano. In addition, we > will present a series of studies for player piano alone and pieces written > for human solo piano performance. While these compositions were originally > in piano roll format, some of them have been published as sheet music and > the transcriptions are made based on the published versions. > > Recognized worldwide as one of the most innovative composers of the 20th > century, Conlon Nancarrow (1921-1997) began composing exclusively for the > player piano in the late 1940s. He studied composition with Nicolas > Slonimsky, Walter Piston, and Roger Sessions. His musical collaborators > included Elliot Carter and Aaron Copland. Nancarrow's piano works span > several volumes of studies (published by Frog Peak Music and Schott Musik > International) and are influenced by blues, jazz, and mathematical > proportion studies. The complete Studies have been recorded on the Wergo > label. In addition to his player piano works (and concerto for player > piano), Nancarrow also composed both solo and ensemble instrumental music > for human performance. > > > > > > Slought Foundation Online: > > * Slought Foundation | Slought.org > * visiting information & directions > * online audio archives > * donate online > > This message is sent to Slought Announcements list subscribers. To > unsubscribe: > http://slought.org/cgi-bin/subscribe/mojo.cgi?f=u&l=Slought_Announcements&; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]&p=8566 >
