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FMA Professor Peter d’Agostino’s work will be shown as part of an exhibit at ICA, London, from April 3 to June 10, 2012.

Remote Control includes a range of work by artists who explore the way television shapes contemporary culture, and also highlights a number of contemporaries who are responding to the mediums digital convergence. Coinciding with the digital switchover in the UK, the exhibition marks the end of analog broadcasting—a milestone in the evolution of television. The exhibition includes significant works that examine how television has changed the way artists engage with material and form, and how adopting techniques … Read more »

Associate Professor Rea Tajiri, FMA, will participate in a two-day symposium, “Women, Social Justice, Documentary,” March 31 and April 1 at Smith College in Northampton, Mass.

She will be part of a panel discussion entitled “Experimental Documentary: What Does Social Justice Look Like?” with fellow film and video artists Su Friedrich of Princeton University and Barbara Hammer.

The keynote address will feature documentary filmmaker Lourdes Portillo, Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Senorita Extraviada.

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“And the Oscar goes to…”

Like millions of people around the world, Film and Media Arts Assistant Professor Mark Rosenthal will be awaiting to hear the end of that sentence Feb. 26 during the Academy Awards broadcast. But unlike a majority of the viewers, he’ll know which nominees have received at least one vote in each category.

He voted for them.

Rosenthal, the only member of the Academy at the School of Communications and Theater, is a screenwriter, with films such as Mona Lisa Smile, Superman IV, Star Trek VI and Planet of the Apes (2001) on his … Read more »