March 4, 6, 19th and 20th -- CIA Events!

*** These events are open to the public.

Hella Hybrid Series
TIME- Digital Arts
Brett Kashmere
Wednesday, March 4
7:00 PM
Aitken Auditorium - CIA Gund - 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland

Brett Kashmere is a Pittsburgh- based filmmaker, curator, and casual cultural historian. His work combines traditional research methods with hybrid interfaces, handmade equipment, and materialist aesthetics. Through intricate experimental documentaries and unadorned camera movies, Kashmere explores the intersection of history and (counter-) memory, geographies of identity, and the politics of representation. His films, videos, scholarship, and curated programs have been presented at festivals, conferences and venues internationally and used in university curricula. The film scholar Thomas Waugh writes that Kashmere’s essay-film Valery’s Ankle “may well give momentum (and integrity) to the discourses of sports, masculinity, and nationalism in Canadian cinemas.” Kashmere currently teaches in the Cinema Studies Program at Oberlin College in Ohio and is the founding editor of INCITE! Journal of Experimental Media & Radical Aesthetics.

http://www.brettkashmere.com

http://www.incite-online.net

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Lunch on Fridays and Key Foundation Diversity Visiting Artist:
Jason Pierce
Friday, March 6
12:15 pm
Ohio Bell Auditorium - CIA Gund Building - 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland

A 2005 graduate from The Cleveland Institute of Art's TIME program, Jason
Pierce has worked as an Art Director with Wunderman Team Detroit since 2006.
Jason works in Brand Development and assists in envisioning advertising names
for some of the biggest firms in the country.

Sponsored by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments, Lunch on Fridays is free and open to the public. Pizza is served for the audience. Venues unless otherwise noted are located in CIA’s Gund building at 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.

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Bickford Visiting Artist Program in conjunction with Cinematheque
Screening of Strange Culture
A film by native Clevelander Lynn Hershman Leeson – the subject of the film is a visiting artist Steve Kurtz (speaking on Friday at 2 pm)
Thursday, March 19
5 pm
Aitken Auditorium

This showing of the film will be free for all CIA and Case community members and $5.00 to the general public. The viewing time has been set at 4 pm to allow time for those who wish to attend the Cleveland Film Festival. All proceeds benefit Cinematheque.

CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH

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** Outside the Institute and also on March 19 opening reception for “The Way We Live Now” at the Cleveland Foundation’s Hanna Building, 1422 Euclid Ave, Suite 1300, featuring students from the Institute – 5 to 7 pm.
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Bickford Visiting Artist
Steve Kurtz
Friday, March 20
2:15 pm (Talk starts at 2:30 pm)
Aitken Auditorium

Kurtz is the subject of Leeson’s documentary Strange Culture.
Steve Kurtz is a noted artist and founding member of the participatory theater group Critical Art Ensemble. He currently teaches at the University of Buffalo, The State University of New York, and is a former professor with Carnegie Mellon. Kurtz came to national and international attention when, in 2004, on reporting the death of his wife, Hope Kurtz, he was subsequently arrested on suspicion of bioterrorism. Strange Culture tells the bizarre tale of how an artist, in possession of recognizably benign bacteria used in museum and gallery exhibits, became the target of a criminal investigation driven by the U.S. Patriot Act.

CIA Gund Building, 11141 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH