PASARELA @ FIX University Satellite

Âlvaro Barrios @ FIX University

"Alvaro Barrios - Marcel Duchamp admirer dialogs with Kieth Haring"

Left: "Untitled (The Wedding Present)", 2008

Right "Untitled, 2007

Although the Colombian artist Alvaro Barrios has a great admiration for Marcel Duchamp, expressed here at his left work, he also dialogs with other artists. Mr. Haring at the right is Keith Haring.

Confused?

Hmmm... if so I will give the clues at the next posts.

Art is a also a dialog with the past and sometimes if we don't know the reference we don't understand. This is one of the reasons some people say "Is it Art?"

ÁLVARO BARRIOS

(Cartagena, 1945- 2007). Cursó estudios de artes en la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Barranquilla y arquitectura en la Universidad del Atlántico. Posteriormente realizó cursos de Historia del Arte en en Perugia y en la Fundación Giorgio Cini de Venecia. Se ha desempeñado como catedrático de arte en varias universidades.

Artista de gran versatilidad, ha trabajado composiciones surrealistas, conceptuales y pop en sus cuadros. Como dibujante notable ha involucrado elementos del comic en su obra. Según sus palabras “todo el arte contemporáneo ha dejado improntas en su universo pictórico”.

Entre sus más notables exposiciones señalamos: Galería Marta Traba, Bogotá (1968); Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena (1987); Museo La Tertulia de Cali (1969, 1980 y 1990); Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (1967, 1968, 1977, 1986 y 1999), y Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires (2000).

Ha participado en las siguientes exposiciones internacionales: VII Bienal de Paris (1971); IX Bienal de Tokio (1974); XIII Bienal de Sao Paulo (1975). Recibió la Medalla de Oro de la IX Bienal de Tokio (1974); el Premio de la priemra Trienal Latinoamericana de Grabado, Buenos Aires (1979), y el Premio Luis Caballero, Galería Santafé, Bogotá (1998).

En 2001 obtuvo el Premio Latinoamericano de Pintura y Técnicas Mixtas de la primera Bienal de Buenos Aires, Argentina con su serie “Los Cincuenta Caminos de la Vida"

CaliWood @ III Festival Internacional de Cine

III Festival Internacional de Cine de Cali:

1. SELECCIÓN OFICIAL
•PANORAMA INTERNACIONAL: Aquí participan largometrajes internacionales (argumentales y documentales) premiadas o exhibidas en otros festivales internacionales de primer orden.
•PANORAMA NACIONAL: estarán participando los mejores largometrajes nacionales (argumentales y documentales) recientes.

2. FUNDIDO A NEGRO
Muestra representativa de cine africano y afroamericano. El Festival propone una Sección Especial dentro de su programación sobre el tema Afro que dé cuenta del cine del continente africano así como del cine afroamericano de nuestro continente.

3. MIRADA RETROSPECTIVA
Será el espacio para tener las. Mejores retrospectivas de destacados directores internacionales.

4. ENSEÑE A VER
Esta sección presenta producciones de escuelas de cine y facultades de comunicación que en esta oportunidad exhibirá los trabajos de la Universidad del Cine FUC de Buenos Aires.

5. ANÍMATE
Es la muestra de cine de animación

6. CINEMA EXPANDIDO
Se presenta un cine experimental, videoarte y nuevas tecnologías.

7. CINE-MÓVIL
Son las películas hecha para teléfonos móviles

8. MUESTRA DE MUESTRA
Aquí se realizará la muestra Internacional Documental

9. FX
Es la muestra representativa de efectos especiales

10. Muestra Red de cinematografía
Permite visibilizar la producción afro de la ciudad

11. PELÍCULA DE APERTURA
12. PELÍCULA DE CLAUSURA

En la sucursal del cine se exhibirían alrededor de 50 largometrajes y de una veintena de cortometrajes. Los caleños y turistas podrán asistir totalmente gratis y participar de talleres, master classes, ruedas de prensa y encuentros de los directores invitados con el público.

Las salas dispuestas para estas películas son:

Proartes, Centro Cultural de Cali, Cámara de Comercio, Royal Films Centenario Salas 1, 2 y 7, Comfandi, Lugar a Dudas. Todas las funciones serán gratis excepto las películas programadas en Royal Films. Mayores Informes: http://www.festivaldecinecali.gov.co/

The Aftermath Project / Convocatoria para fotógrafos de guerra

The Aftermath Project tiene abierta la convocatoria para presentar proyectos destinados a fotógrafos de conflictos. El tema puede ser abordado a partir de retratos, paisajes, reportajes, entre otros. Se entregará un honorario especial de 5.000 dólares para un traductor que haya trabajado con un fotógrafo en conflicto y que desee contar su historia. Si el fotógrafo y el traductor desean aplicar en conjunto, serán elegibles por la suma de 25.000 dólares. Fecha de cierre: 1 de noviembre

ANNUAL FUNDRAISER / PRINT SALE TO SUPPORT PUBLICATION OF "WAR IS ONLY HALF THE STORY, VOLUME 4"

© Danny Wilcox Frazier

Once again, we've raised a $15,000 matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support publication of our annual book. We've got some amazing photos for sale, as part of our fundraiser. Download the Annual Fundraiser Brochure to view prints and information. To purchase, please contact Sara Terry directly at


sara@theaftermathproject.org.

THE MISSION

The Aftermath Project is a non-profit organization committed to telling the other half of the story of conflict — the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for peace.

The Aftermath Project holds a yearly grant competition open to working photographers worldwide covering the aftermath of conflict. In addition, through partnerships with universities, photography institutions and non-profit organizations, the Project seeks to help broaden the public’s understanding of the true cost of war— and the real price of peace — through international traveling exhibitions and educational outreach in communities and schools.

CURRENT GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

2012 AFTERMATH PROJECT GRANT
DEADLINE: November 1, 2011

Submissions for the 2012 Aftermath Project grant cycle are now open. Thanks to the ongoing generous support of the Foundation to Promote Open Society, we will be giving one $20,000 grant, as well as naming four finalists. The work of our grant winner and finalists will be published in “War is Only Half
the Story, Vol Six.” 2012 Grant Application (PDF)

SPECIAL GRANT FOR CONFLICT PHOTOGRAPHERS AND HONORARIUM FOR FIXERS/TRANSLATORS
DEADLINE: October 1, 2011

The Aftermath Project was created to help photographers cover the aftermath of conflict, and was founded on the understanding that war is only half the story. But for quite some time I’ve been thinking about how the Aftermath Project could engage more meaningfully with conflict photographers – who, after all, are the ones telling the first half of the story....
Project announcement and grant application (PDF)

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101011 101110 111010 Steve Jobs as remembered by FIX

I couldn’t let the day go by without commenting on Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple CEO. But rather than write something totally new I’m going to post two entries I made on Facebook that capture my views of the situation:

#1:

While my friends and I were playing around on ASR33 teletypes connected to BOCES LIRICS’ DECsystem-10, Bill Gates and Paul Allen were doing the same (the Lakeside School in Seattle had its own DECsystem-10). That is what got us all hooked on computers. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak followed a slightly different route but ended up in a similar place. Many SHS alumni went on to careers in computing, and we’ve made some major contributions (although obviously nothing on the same scale as these other guys). In particular Jobs and Gates became the two key leaders of the computer industry as we transitioned to “personal computing”, and just as importantly the two most important industrialists of the baby boom generation. I went to work for Bill, but have no less respect for Steve’s importance to our industry and our generation. When Bill decided to move his full-time focus from Microsoft to charity work I was saddened that I wouldn’t be working with him but happy for what it meant for the world overall. But Steve being forced from his CEO role at Apple over health reasons saddens me tremendously. It is, as Stephen Gyetko points out, pretty ominous and I am taking it quite personally. And so in the spirit of this group, you really know you’re from Syosset if you used the ASR33s when there was one each in adjoining closets on the second floor of the E wing (around the corner from Mr. T’s) when the teachers were clueless (or even scared) about what to do with them and everyone else in the school thought you were nuts; And you can trace that experience to the news of the day.
#2:

The interesting thing is that I don’t consider Jobs that unique in the “visionary” camp. Everything Apple did came from somewhere else. Jobs real contribution was in being the perfectionist who turned those concepts into products that people wanted and wanted as passionately as he wanted to make them. And what he did more brilliantly in his second life at Apple than he did in his first was to have perfect timing of bringing new products to market just as the underlying technologies reached sufficient maturity to allow mass market adoption. The iPod wasn’t the first music player, the iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone, the iPad wasn’t the first tablet. Nor was the Mac (or even the Lisa) the first GUI OS. But in each case the execution (from the end-user standpoint) was superb. Gates had similar, or even more far reaching, vision but Microsoft’s software-only business model, reliance on OEMs and other partners to complete even the basic product offering, breadth of activities, and even Bill’s management style couldn’t realize those visions in the same polished way that Apple (as a vertically integrated systems vendor) could. Bill’s huge business innovation was the OEM model for software. Steve’s was in getting both media companies and telecom carriers to alter their business models to accomodate the experiences he wanted to create. And overcoming Apple’s inability to get shelf space in retail stores by creating his own (again, not the first computer manufacturer to try it but the first to truly succeed at it) retail stores. Apple will of course continue on and do well for now. The real test will be when the next sea-change comes along and there is internal friction over how to respond. That’s when Jobs will really be missed.

Agenda Cultural @ FIX University Campus

LITERATURA - Palabra Suelta

Recital de poesía erótica

Grupo: Barco Ebrio

Fecha: Sábado 8

Hora: 8:00 PM

ENTRADA LIBRE

Lectura dramática

Obra: LA CASA DE RIGOBERTA

Grupo: Barco Ebrio

Fecha: Viernes 21

Hora: 8:00 PM

ENTRADA LIBRE

MÚSICA

Conciertos Camino al AJAZZGO 2012

Agrupación: TANGO EXTREMO – HOLANDA

Fecha: Miércoles 12 y jueves 13

Hora 8:00 pm

Valor: General $ 25.000 * NO APLICA DESCUENTOS

Agrupación: JAZZ-TÁ ENSAMBLE

Fecha: Viernes 28

Hora 8:00 pm

Valor: General $ 10.000 * NO APLICA DESCUENTOS

NARRACION ORAL

Obra: CUENTOS EN LA CUERDA FLOJA

Grupo: Walner Jaramillo

Fecha: Sábado 15

Hora: 8:00 pm

Valor: General $ 10.000

DANZA

Obra: RECORRIDO POR EL FOLCLOR COLOMBIANO

Grupo: ASOCIACIÓN CULTURAL TERPSÍCORE “Un Canto Corporal”

Fecha: Sábado 22

Hora: 8:00 pm

Valor: General $ 10.000

TEATRO

MUESTRA FINAL TALLER DE TEATRO NIVEL II

Grupo: Actores taller Teatral Salamandra

Obra: Siete perros

Fecha: Sábado 29

Hora: 7:00 pm

Entrada libre con invitación

CINE – Cine Foro CINEMANDRA

CICLO: CAMINO AL CAOS

Película: LEAVING LAS VEGAS

Director: Mike Figgis

Fecha: Miércoles 5

Hora: 7:00 pm

Película: EL LUCHADOR

Director: Darren Aronofski

Fecha: Viernes 14

Hora: 7:00 pm

Película: ASESINOS POR NATURALEZA

Director: Oliver Stone

Fecha: Miércoles 19

Hora: 7:00 pm

Película: REQUIEM POR UN SUEÑO

Director: Darren Aronofski

Fecha: Miércoles 26

Hora: 7:00 pm

ENTRADA LIBRE