OPEN GENRE | Modes of Experimental Media, New York, USA

OPEN GENRE | Modes of Experimental Media

Friday, July 19, 2019 Program begins at 1pm
There is no cost for admission.

Alex Cole will lead a group discussion focused on trends in experimental video making and how these new directions inform self-image, influence media, and genre.  He will explore the definitions assigned to video-poetry, poetryfilm, video art, and experimental filmmaking and how these associations relate with various progressive states of media. The goal is to activate the audience through dialogue in an investigation of how and why genre is applied to assorted creative approaches. Cole will share the following films as reference:

· THE FAMILY HOME (d. Chad Attie, U.S., 2017)
· OPERATION CASTLE (d. Filip Gabriel Pudło, Poland, 2013)
· WHA_I_l_OLD YOU A __ORY IN A LANGUAGE I _AN _EAR (media artist. Liza Sylvestre, U.S., 2015)

ALEX COLE, received a BFA from the Expanded Media Program at Alfred University, a Bachelor of Art in Film Studies and Video Production from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Masters in Depth Psychology and Media Art from Pacifica Graduate Institute~ Alex is a practicing video artist, university professor, and media theorist.  He owns Sun Echo Media in Rochester NY which is a post and production facility providing media services for a diverse client base. He is a guest curator with The Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts and produces media for fine art programs internationally. Alex is currently a lecturer at Alfred State College in the digital media and animation department as well as an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University within the Department of Transmedia.

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

THE SHEEN CENTER FOR THOUGHT AND CULTURE
18 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012

OPEN GENRE takes place in room: Vibrant Studio