A&S DEAI Documentary Film Festival
Tuesdays in September, 4-7 pm @ ARTSLab
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September 10th: La Abeja y El Colapso (Spanish with English Subtitles)
followed by Q&A with the film Director and Producer (Nelson Varas-Diaz and Daniel Nevárez Araújo), and Historian Joanna Camacho Escobar.
La Abeja: A Reflection on Women, Land, and Occupation
This documentary follows a feminist group of women beekeepers living on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Twenty years have passed since the US Navy stopped using Vieques as a bombing range. Still, the locals continue to live through the legacy of a military that savagely displaced the population and affected the use of their land.
El Colapso: One hurricane, one study, thousands dead
On September 20, 2017 hurricane María hit the island of Puerto Rico with category four winds. The local government reported the number of dead at 64, while a Harvard University led study estimated 4645. This film tells the story of the research team that completed this historic study from the perspective of Dr. Domingo Marqués, the only team member to experience the hurricane firsthand
Sponsored by:
- UNM’s DEI, LAII, SHRI and Chicano Studies
A&S DEAI Documentary Film Festival
Tuesdays in September, 4-7 pm @ ARTSLab
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September 17th: Ava DuVernay’s 13
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality in the United States. The 13th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution abolished slavery. But it also included a provision many people don’t know about and that is used to justify the use of forced labor as long as the laborer is a convict.
Sponsored by:
- UNM’s DEI, LAII, SHRI and Chicano Studies
Triton Mobley
Artist Talk: 5:30pm Thursday 9/26 @ ARTSLab
Triton Mobley is a new media artist and researcher known for his interventionist works and guerrilla performances, exhibited at prestigious venues such as Art Basel Miami and CURRENTS Virtual Festival. His practice combines critical making methodologies across performative installations and speculative design, addressing digital perceptions and cultural optics, particularly the en/coding of anti-blackness in digital technologies. Mobley, who holds an MFA from RISD and a PhD from USC, is currently an Assistant Professor of New Media Art + Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
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About Gale Memorial Lecture Series
Gale Memorial Lecture Series was established in memory of Dr. David his wife Sylvia whose generosity made the series possible. This is event co-sponsored by the Department Art and ARTSLab. All Gale Memorial Lectures are free and open to publi
A&S DEAI Documentary Film Festival
Tuesdays in September, 4-7 pm @ ARTSLab
REGISTER NOW
September 17th: White Like Me
Race and racism in the U.S. through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. A stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we’ve entered a post-racial society. Wise argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today.
Sponsored by:
- UNM’s DEI, LAII, SHRI and Chicano Studies
Majel Connery
Musical Performance: 5:30pm Friday 10/18 @ ARTSLab
Majel Connery is a composer, vocalist, and musicologist who blends Classical influences with electronic music, praised by the New York Times and Wall Street Journal for her superb voice and compositions. Connery will be performing Elderflora, a song cycle that explores the inner life of a tree from birth to death, narrated from the tree’s perspective, using its journey as a metaphor for the human experience and our connection to a world in danger. Written by Connery and performed with Felix Fan on electric cello, the cycle uses electrified instruments to evoke voices beyond human understanding. The immersive 1-hour performance offers audiences a layered and ethereal experience, blending direct and otherworldly voices.
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UNM Art Museum
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ARTSLab 20th Anniversary
Jared Tarbell
Artist Talk: 5:30pm Thursday 11/7 @ ARTSLab
Jared S. Tarbell is a generative artist, developer, and programmer who’s worked with code for over 30 years. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tarbell’s encounter with personal computers in 1987 sparked a lifelong passion. Fascinated by the system-like intricacies of the world, he visualizes abstract truths by observing multiple outputs and refining his algorithms. His works bridge to mathematical beauty and abstract exploration, intertwining a subtle sense of spirituality with computational precision. Jared is a co-founder of Etsy, an online marketplace to buy and sell handmade goods.
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August Muth
Artist Talk: Thursday 11/14 @ 5:30 @ ARTSLab
For over 30 years, Muth has been an internationally recognized artist, pioneering the use of light through holography, a passion that began in his teens. After studying art and physics, Muth moved to New York City, where he began exploring holography in 1980, eventually building studios in Telluride, Colorado, and later Santa Fe, New Mexico. In Santa Fe, he pushed the boundaries of large-scale holography, developing innovative techniques to create groundbreaking works that explore the light-space-time continuum.
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About Gale Memorial Lecture Series
Gale Memorial Lecture Series was established in memory of Dr. David his wife Sylvia whose generosity made the series possible. This is event co-sponsored by the Department Art and ARTSLab. All Gale Memorial Lectures are free and open to public.
Bryan Konefsky
Artist Talk: Thursday 11/21 @ 5:30 @ ARTSLab
Bryan Konefsky is a cultural worker dedicated to the advancement of undependent, experimental media arts through his work as a moving image artist, teacher, lecturer and film festival director. Konefsky is the founder and director of Experiments in Cinema, an annual international film festival in Albuquerque that showcases cinematic experimentation from around the world. Additionally, he is the president of Basement Films, one of the few remaining first generation micro cinemas in the United States.
From 1995–2020, he taught moving image production and critical studies through the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico, where he was honored in 2009 with a university-wide Teacher of the Year award. Konefsky was an invited lecturer in the Department of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 2003–2018. Presently, he lectures at Dongguk University in South Korea.
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