THE FACTS TV/Web series For Immediate Release - New York, New York Two new episodes, ART & ITS ESTABLISHMENTS, will be released Sept.11, 2013 and Sept. 18, 2013 respectively The Facts is a TV/web art video series produced in NYC • Broadcast Wednesdays, 5:30 in Manhattan & the Bronx on MNN Channels 67/68, Verizon 36, & RCN 85. Streamed/archived on the web. Links include: 1687.org blip.tv You Tube ART AND ITS ESTABLISHMENTS A discussion between three artist/teachers about making art, art training and censorship Moderated by composer Lenore Von Stein 1. Playwright Charlotte Meehan, Playwright-in-Residence and Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College, Artistic Director of Sleeping Weazel 2. Visual artist Kristina Arnold, Associate Professor at West Kentucky University 3. Intermedia artist Jessica Feldman, teaching in the Graduate Media Studies program at The New School The topics for these two discussions include: • The relationship between craftsmanship and artistic expression • Developing students’ independent voices • Artists in a capitalist society – Art doesn’t fit into capitalism it is an intervention” C. Meehan and “95 percent of undergraduate art school students do not go into art.”- K. Arnold • American attitudes towards modern fine art and artists • Art as a search for truth – panelists’ points of view on this differed The Facts is an artwork made in a TV series format that has been on air for five years. The series uses composed and improvised music and words (played by classical and jazz musicians) and incorporates episodes of discussion.
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 18:45:00 +0000