FLEFF? Take a course...or two
The 2006 Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, scheduled March 30-April 6, will include a variety of special events, including screenings, installations, lectures and mini-courses. Every school on campus is offering a special mini-course. Take a look at these amazing options and contact the professor to sign up:
School of Business
Sustainable Enterprise and Environmental Challenges
882-22200-01-B2
Dr. David Saiia, Assistant Professor,
Contact: dsaiia@ithaca.edu, 274-1915
1 Credit Mini Course
Time and Location: TBA
This course will explore the theory and design of sustainable enterprise. Using the experience of the Fundacion Maquipucuna in Ecuador, this course will examine existing and proposed sustainable micro-enterprises and the environmental and social problems that arise as these businesses unfold. This course will draw on written text, field experience and film (highlighting the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival) to provide sources for information and perspective. This course is available to all students interested in participating in the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival and also those students interested in probing sustainability issues. This class will also serve as a preparatory class for students that will be traveling to Ecuador in May and will be assessed at two credits for students planning study abroad in the program.
Dr. David H. Saiia, Ph.D.,is an Assistant Professor in the School of Business. He is offering this class to further explore ideas about sustainable business practices. Dr. Saiia has been involved in sustainability projects nearly 20 years including experience on the Island of Guam, in Singapore and most recently in Ecuador. In Ecuador, he is working with Fundacion Maquipucuna to establish sustainable micro-enterprises as part of a comprehensive sustainability strategy for the Choco-Andean Region of Ecuador. As part of this long-term project, Dr. Saiia will be taking I.C. students to Ecuador to assist with the implementation of this sustainability strategy. The Sustainable Enterprise and
Environmental Challenges course will be introduce students to this exciting field of study.
School of Health Sciences and Human Performance
Contagions and Contaminations
640-39901
Dr. Stewart Auyash, Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Physical Education
Contact: auyash@ithaca.edu, 274-1213
1 Credit Mini Course
Time and Location: TBA
The course will engage students in discussion and debate around the connections between health, disease, politics, art, and diversity related to the films and activities of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. First,students will participate directly in the preparation of and research for an artistic installation by landscape designer Mary Zebell. Second, students will view, discuss, and write about the films, videos, as well as the artistic installations. Among the public health films students will see include Darwin’s Nightmare, a documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania'sLake Victoria, and Chagas- A Hidden Affliction, which chronicles a parasitic disease affecting nearly 700,000 people and killing 14,000 in Central and South America each year. Students are expected to participate in the installation, view the films, discuss the health implications of the Festival’s events, and write about those aspects of particular interest to them.
Dr. Stewart Auyash, MPH, PhD, is an associate professor of public health policy in the Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education. He conducts research, writes, and teaches courses on the connections between public health, health communication, international politics, and culture. He has recently been working on the transnational media representations of SARS, avian flu, AIDS, and other mobile diseases. He participated in World AIDS Day in Namibia. He has lectured in Singapore, China, Canada, England and United States about international public health and communications.
School of Humanities and Sciences
Installation Art Practicum
376-29100
Dr. Cheryl Kramer, Assistant Professor, Art History
Contact: 274−3548; ckramer@ithaca.edu
1-Credit mini course, Pass/Fail
Block II Spring 2006
Rooms: Handwerker Gallery and Classroom TBA
Class size: 10
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor is required. Sophomore standing required.
Installation art is a genre of Western Contemporary art that came to prominence in the 1970s. Installation artists use sculptural material and other media to modify the way in which a viewer experiences a particular space. In this instance landscape designer Mary Zebell uses the ephemeral material of snow fencing to represent the collective loss we as a society face from contemporary tragedies such as the Iraqi War and the AIDS crisis, which affect not only individuals and communities, but on humanity. This mini-course provides students with the opportunity to work with Handwerker Gallery Director Cheryl Kramer and artist Mary Zebell in preparing, installing and striking The Count, a site-specific installation in conjunction with the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Students are required to complete a series of readings and lectures/demonstrations prior to working on the installation. Students must submit a reading journal and a reflective journal. Readings: Nicolas De Oliveira et al, Installation Art in the New Millennium: The Empire of the Senses (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2004) and Claire Bishop, Installation Art: A Critical History (New York: Routledge, 2005).
Dr. Cheryl Kramer received her PhD in Art History from the University of Saint Andrews (Scotland) with a research specialty in the Russian avant-garde. She specifically researches the depiction of outsiders in the neo-primitivist works of Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova. Currently the Director of the Handwerker Gallery and an Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College, Dr. Kramer teachescourses on Contemporary Art, Museum Studies and Russian Art.
School of Music
Cultural Ecology
555-27100
Dr. Peter Rothbart, Professor, Music Theory, History, Composition
rothbart@ithaca.edu, 274-1497
1 credit mini course
Time and location: Selected Tuesdays, 1:10-2:00,
Whalen Center for Music room 4206.
Prerequisite: 1 course in liberal arts, one course in fine arts.
This course will examine the philosophic, sociological and artistic issues surrounding the transmission and assimilation of cultures. Through the prisms of film, music and dance, we will ask more questions than we answer about the relationships between cultural diversity, sustainability, assimilation, artistic integrity, authenticity, novelty and creativity. Students should be prepared for active participation in group discussions and a significant amount of readings, listenings and viewings in conjunction with the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Attendance at many of the Festival events is required.
Dr. Peter Rothbart is a Professor of Music Theory, History and Composition, and Director of Electroacoustic and Recording Studies at the Ithaca College School of Music. He is active as a composer, performer, writer and artist, with performances and art shows throughout the US, Europe and Russia. He has published over 300 articles and is currently at work on two books about film music. His music is published by Seesaw Press, Lorenzo Music and the International Trumpet Guild.
Roy H. Park School of Communications
Hacking, Bending and Recycling the Media
224-29210-01
Prof. Simon Tarr, Assistant Professor, Cinema and Photography
starr@ithaca.edu, 274-7003
1 credit mini course
Thurs, 9:25-10:15am, beginning in January
Location: Not yet determined.
This mini-course involves the study of the political economy of media technology, innovation and design, and introduces students to methods of creating and modifying hardware and software to suit specific media art applications. Through analysis of digital rights management systems, legal tactics, marketing campaigns, and the devices themselves, students will examine their own relationship to technology and how that interaction effects the global media economy and the environment. This course will be offered as a part of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. It will culminate in a live media performance incorporating methods and technologies developed in the class. In concert with the Smithsonian Institution's Human Studies Film Archives at the National Museum of Natural History, in the first partnership of its kind with undergraduates, students from all areas at Ithaca College will participate in tactical video projects that illuminate local environmental issues.
Prof. Simon Tarr made his first movie at the age of eight. The strip of film wasfashioned from sandwich bags. The projector was a shoebox and a lamp, the lens was a magnifying glass on a toilet paper tube. The film premiered on the wall of his bedroom, and melted. Since then, Simon Tarr’s eleven films have been screened on every continent (yes, even Antarctica) in hundreds of film festivals. Rubicon, Tarr’s first feature, has received wide acclaim as groundbreaking avant-garde digital animation, while Quark
Star has crossed over and won awards as new media art and a popular video podcast.
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival is supported through a major collaboration between the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Additional support is provided by the School of Business, the School of Humanities and Sciences, the School of Health Science and Human Performance, and the School of Music. The festival is a campus-wide event featuring screenings, lectures, performances, exhibitions, and installations. The mini-courses are supported through the generosity of each of the schools on the Ithaca College campus in an effort to explore sustainability in all of its social, political, aesthetic, technological and ecological dimensions. For more information on the festival, please contact co-directors Dr. Patricia R. Zimmermann, patty@ithaca.edu and Dr. Tom Shevory, shevory@ithaca.edu
School of Business
Sustainable Enterprise and Environmental Challenges
882-22200-01-B2
Dr. David Saiia, Assistant Professor,
Contact: dsaiia@ithaca.edu, 274-1915
1 Credit Mini Course
Time and Location: TBA
This course will explore the theory and design of sustainable enterprise. Using the experience of the Fundacion Maquipucuna in Ecuador, this course will examine existing and proposed sustainable micro-enterprises and the environmental and social problems that arise as these businesses unfold. This course will draw on written text, field experience and film (highlighting the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival) to provide sources for information and perspective. This course is available to all students interested in participating in the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival and also those students interested in probing sustainability issues. This class will also serve as a preparatory class for students that will be traveling to Ecuador in May and will be assessed at two credits for students planning study abroad in the program.
Dr. David H. Saiia, Ph.D.,is an Assistant Professor in the School of Business. He is offering this class to further explore ideas about sustainable business practices. Dr. Saiia has been involved in sustainability projects nearly 20 years including experience on the Island of Guam, in Singapore and most recently in Ecuador. In Ecuador, he is working with Fundacion Maquipucuna to establish sustainable micro-enterprises as part of a comprehensive sustainability strategy for the Choco-Andean Region of Ecuador. As part of this long-term project, Dr. Saiia will be taking I.C. students to Ecuador to assist with the implementation of this sustainability strategy. The Sustainable Enterprise and
Environmental Challenges course will be introduce students to this exciting field of study.
School of Health Sciences and Human Performance
Contagions and Contaminations
640-39901
Dr. Stewart Auyash, Associate Professor, Health Promotion and Physical Education
Contact: auyash@ithaca.edu, 274-1213
1 Credit Mini Course
Time and Location: TBA
The course will engage students in discussion and debate around the connections between health, disease, politics, art, and diversity related to the films and activities of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. First,students will participate directly in the preparation of and research for an artistic installation by landscape designer Mary Zebell. Second, students will view, discuss, and write about the films, videos, as well as the artistic installations. Among the public health films students will see include Darwin’s Nightmare, a documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania'sLake Victoria, and Chagas- A Hidden Affliction, which chronicles a parasitic disease affecting nearly 700,000 people and killing 14,000 in Central and South America each year. Students are expected to participate in the installation, view the films, discuss the health implications of the Festival’s events, and write about those aspects of particular interest to them.
Dr. Stewart Auyash, MPH, PhD, is an associate professor of public health policy in the Department of Health Promotion and Physical Education. He conducts research, writes, and teaches courses on the connections between public health, health communication, international politics, and culture. He has recently been working on the transnational media representations of SARS, avian flu, AIDS, and other mobile diseases. He participated in World AIDS Day in Namibia. He has lectured in Singapore, China, Canada, England and United States about international public health and communications.
School of Humanities and Sciences
Installation Art Practicum
376-29100
Dr. Cheryl Kramer, Assistant Professor, Art History
Contact: 274−3548; ckramer@ithaca.edu
1-Credit mini course, Pass/Fail
Block II Spring 2006
Rooms: Handwerker Gallery and Classroom TBA
Class size: 10
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor is required. Sophomore standing required.
Installation art is a genre of Western Contemporary art that came to prominence in the 1970s. Installation artists use sculptural material and other media to modify the way in which a viewer experiences a particular space. In this instance landscape designer Mary Zebell uses the ephemeral material of snow fencing to represent the collective loss we as a society face from contemporary tragedies such as the Iraqi War and the AIDS crisis, which affect not only individuals and communities, but on humanity. This mini-course provides students with the opportunity to work with Handwerker Gallery Director Cheryl Kramer and artist Mary Zebell in preparing, installing and striking The Count, a site-specific installation in conjunction with the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Students are required to complete a series of readings and lectures/demonstrations prior to working on the installation. Students must submit a reading journal and a reflective journal. Readings: Nicolas De Oliveira et al, Installation Art in the New Millennium: The Empire of the Senses (New York: Thames and Hudson, 2004) and Claire Bishop, Installation Art: A Critical History (New York: Routledge, 2005).
Dr. Cheryl Kramer received her PhD in Art History from the University of Saint Andrews (Scotland) with a research specialty in the Russian avant-garde. She specifically researches the depiction of outsiders in the neo-primitivist works of Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova. Currently the Director of the Handwerker Gallery and an Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College, Dr. Kramer teachescourses on Contemporary Art, Museum Studies and Russian Art.
School of Music
Cultural Ecology
555-27100
Dr. Peter Rothbart, Professor, Music Theory, History, Composition
rothbart@ithaca.edu, 274-1497
1 credit mini course
Time and location: Selected Tuesdays, 1:10-2:00,
Whalen Center for Music room 4206.
Prerequisite: 1 course in liberal arts, one course in fine arts.
This course will examine the philosophic, sociological and artistic issues surrounding the transmission and assimilation of cultures. Through the prisms of film, music and dance, we will ask more questions than we answer about the relationships between cultural diversity, sustainability, assimilation, artistic integrity, authenticity, novelty and creativity. Students should be prepared for active participation in group discussions and a significant amount of readings, listenings and viewings in conjunction with the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. Attendance at many of the Festival events is required.
Dr. Peter Rothbart is a Professor of Music Theory, History and Composition, and Director of Electroacoustic and Recording Studies at the Ithaca College School of Music. He is active as a composer, performer, writer and artist, with performances and art shows throughout the US, Europe and Russia. He has published over 300 articles and is currently at work on two books about film music. His music is published by Seesaw Press, Lorenzo Music and the International Trumpet Guild.
Roy H. Park School of Communications
Hacking, Bending and Recycling the Media
224-29210-01
Prof. Simon Tarr, Assistant Professor, Cinema and Photography
starr@ithaca.edu, 274-7003
1 credit mini course
Thurs, 9:25-10:15am, beginning in January
Location: Not yet determined.
This mini-course involves the study of the political economy of media technology, innovation and design, and introduces students to methods of creating and modifying hardware and software to suit specific media art applications. Through analysis of digital rights management systems, legal tactics, marketing campaigns, and the devices themselves, students will examine their own relationship to technology and how that interaction effects the global media economy and the environment. This course will be offered as a part of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. It will culminate in a live media performance incorporating methods and technologies developed in the class. In concert with the Smithsonian Institution's Human Studies Film Archives at the National Museum of Natural History, in the first partnership of its kind with undergraduates, students from all areas at Ithaca College will participate in tactical video projects that illuminate local environmental issues.
Prof. Simon Tarr made his first movie at the age of eight. The strip of film wasfashioned from sandwich bags. The projector was a shoebox and a lamp, the lens was a magnifying glass on a toilet paper tube. The film premiered on the wall of his bedroom, and melted. Since then, Simon Tarr’s eleven films have been screened on every continent (yes, even Antarctica) in hundreds of film festivals. Rubicon, Tarr’s first feature, has received wide acclaim as groundbreaking avant-garde digital animation, while Quark
Star has crossed over and won awards as new media art and a popular video podcast.
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival is supported through a major collaboration between the Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the Roy H. Park School of Communications. Additional support is provided by the School of Business, the School of Humanities and Sciences, the School of Health Science and Human Performance, and the School of Music. The festival is a campus-wide event featuring screenings, lectures, performances, exhibitions, and installations. The mini-courses are supported through the generosity of each of the schools on the Ithaca College campus in an effort to explore sustainability in all of its social, political, aesthetic, technological and ecological dimensions. For more information on the festival, please contact co-directors Dr. Patricia R. Zimmermann, patty@ithaca.edu and Dr. Tom Shevory, shevory@ithaca.edu
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