This exhibition features photographic works by twenty-seven notable Kansas City Art Institute alumni, acknowledging the rich and diverse history of the KCAI photography program from the 1960s to the present.

Included are works by Thomas Barrow, Joe Deal, Edward Gallucci, James Hajicek (with Carol Panaro Smith), E. G. Schempf, Lawrence McFarland, Ellen Carey, Karen Glaser, Mark Osterman, Frank Hamilton, Russell Phillips, Chuck Avery, Don McKenna, Jeff Burk, Jamie Tuttle, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Dana Fritz, Stuart Allen, Nicole Cawlfield, Raïssa Venables, Cortney Andrews, Colby Sempek, Allyson Lubow, Robert Heishman, Ross Sawyers, Jeff Eaton, and Jaimie Warren.

More information available on the Nelson-Atkins website.

IFP FILMMAKER CONFERENCE

September 19 – 23, 2010 – NYC

Taking place during the 32nd annual Independent Film Week, IFP’s five-day Filmmaker Conference: The Future of Film, is the must-attend event that welcomes the independent film community to participate in discussions on financing for docs and narrative films, finding an agent and manager, outreach and audience building, working on a micro-budget and much more during a full week of case studies, panels and debates.

Buy passes by Friday, September 3 for a chance to pitch your film, tv or new media project to top executives.

Don’t pass up your chance to learn the ins-and-outs of financing, producing and distributing your movie and sustaining a career with reps from BBC, BMI, Cinereach, College Humor, Cinetic, HBO, Impact Partners, Kickstarter, Magnolia Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Roadside Entertainment, Sony Picture Classics, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival and many more.

For more information about the Conference and to purchase passes go to: www.filmmakerconference.com

NDX will be showing features and shorts from all genres; representing all cultures and perspectives. For our more sophisticated movie goers we will have Coury Deeb’s documentary The New Sudan or Jeffery Goodman’s acclaimed drama The Last Lullaby starring Tom Sizemore, also one of the festivals more prominent indie features budgeted at $20 million. For our late night crowd you can attend the Midnight Matinee Series, featuring specially selected horror films. Don’t miss your opportunity to be experience our Live Social Networking area. A venue created specifically for indie filmmakers. Giving them an exclusive chance to promote their films and talents all while networking with their peers. With such a wide range of indie fare coming from all over, there will be something for everyone.

With the expansion of the downtown initiative comes a fresh new face of Owensboro and NDX aspires to help mold that new perspective by offering the community and region something they can’t get just anywhere, to experience Hollywood in Owensboro. The influence of film can be seen all around us and in 2010 has been ingrained into our lives like never before. Stories of success from the sons and daughters of Kentucky are begging to be heard, let’s give them a reason to return home and tell their story. Let’s give them an opportunity to inspire Owensboro’s youth by expanding their views through educating and informing. NDX will be the doorway into the lives of Kentucky filmmakers as well as filmmakers from surrounding states. Talent that can only be accessed by attending the Independent Experience Film Festival, coming October 2010. For more information or to contact festival staff visit the official website at www.ndxfilmfest.com.

Wave Energies FeedBack:
30 Years of Electronic Media
at Kansas City Art Institute

Lloyd Schnell started Kansas City Art Institute’s Photography Department in 1970 and soon thereafter Richard Matthews began teaching 16mm filmmaking. In 1975 Gary Sutton joined the Photography Department, and in 1976 Mitch Deck began offering video elective classes with three Sony PortaPaks and a color studio camera.  Enrollment was primarily from the Photography and Sculpture Departments. Deck also taught single frame or stop motion 16mm film animation classes.   In the late 1970s Larry Hope began teaching beginning and advanced 16mm filmmaking, and departmental equipment at that time included movieolas, edit bins, a flatbed editor, a film chain, an optical printer, Bolex H-16 cameras and Nagra audiotape recorders.  In 1983 Deck worked with Douglas Davis in establishing the Kansas City component of the International Art Network funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, a project that Davis initiated whereby several schools including KCAI utilized video technology as a creative and communicative medium of expression.  This made it possible to incorporate a 3/4 inch video-editing system in the video studio with Deck serving as technician and instructor.  At this time 16mm film was discontinued and Reed Estabrook replaced Lloyd Schnell as Chair of the Photography Department.  In 1986 Patrick Clancy was hired as Chair of the Photography & Video Department to begin a new program emphasizing camera arts, sound and emerging technologies.  It was clear that digital technology would eventually become the norm and that although analog technology would still be relevant, a dialog between the camera arts, light, sound, wave energies and interactivity emphasizing emerging technologies would shape the future of this new program.  Since that time the faculty has developed a unique undergraduate multidisciplinary department that emphasizes three primary components: photography, video and sound. The re-structuring of the curriculum also allowed the faculty to teach a broader range of elective courses in performance, installation, computer modeling and animation, contemporary art theory and history of media arts.  There continues to be a strong dialog between analog and digital technologies, performance and installation art, the still and moving image and all aspects of the camera arts.

Wave Energies FeedBack emphasizes recent works produced by graduates of KCAI’s Photography & Video/New Media/Digital Filmmaking Department who attended KCAI between1980 and 2010.  Full-time faculty during this time included: Mitch Deck, Gary Sutton, Patrick Clancy, Wendy Geller, Kenvin Lyman, Kristine Diekman, Christopher Burnett, Sheldon Brown, Celia Dougherty, Magaly Ponce, Dwight Frizzell, Ellen Zweig, Andrew Wells, Cyan Meeks, Andrea Flamini, Rebecca Dolan, Diana Heise, and Tom Lewis.  Part-time faculty included: Gwen Widmer, Tal Wilson, Martin Arnold, Gene Cooper, Isa Gordon, Tony Allard, Caitlin Horsmon, Frank Hamilton, Hesse McGraw and Jeff Witt.  Departmental Technicians have been Marc Deckard, Jeff Brown, Hafiza Capehart, and Tom Livesay. – Patrick Clancy

October 8

Atkins Auditorium, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art — Free tickets available online

On a Piece of Chalk, Kristian Derek Ball (USA) and Dwight Frizzell (USA), Live Performance for chalk, voices, contra-alto clarinet and video projection, 16 min.

The chalk talks when dropped in water and tells of its origin in the calcareous nanoplankton that blanketed an expansive inland sea in the Cretaceous period. Thomas Huxley’s 1868 address to Norwich chalk miners is used as commentary and to intermodulate the chalk soundscape.

The History of America, MK12 (USA), 2007, video, 30 min.

Centuries of campfire tales have spun America’s true origin story into a folkloric web of myths and half-truths. We’re here to set the record straight in this penetrating look into the Civil War as it actually happened: in Las Vegas, featuring cowboys and astronauts fighting for their way of life.

TELEPHONEME, MK12 (USA), 2010, video, 2:49 min.

The Voice Research Laboratory has partnered with Swedish Secrets Productions to produce this televideo as a means to inform the public of a massive linguistic conspiracy.

The Crone, Kevin Berg (USA), 2010, video, 51 min.

The Crone is a contemporary retelling of a popular American myth about a shape-shifting miscreant from Southern folklore.

Other events in series:

October 8
October 15
October 22

Credits: All videos, performances and image stills courtesy of the artists. Shelf Life image still courtesy of Tina Erickson © 2008. Shelf Life image courtesy of Tom Butler ©1965. Christopher Willits image courtesy of Jan Kruml. Electromediascope is curated by Patrick Clancy and Gwen Widmer.