February 2008 Art, Activism and Analysis Tour in California
Featuring screenings of "Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television"
*Non Screening Events
PAPER TIGER READS PAPER TIGER TELEVISION TRAILER
Now that media justice is growing from an isolated concern to an increasingly powerful national movement, it is an ideal time to look back at the pioneering work of a small New York City collective that began to address the issue 25 years ago. Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) has used art, video and media criticism to question corporate media ownership since 1981. Celebrating PTTV’s two and a half decades of leadership in media art, media activism and media analysis, the collective has produced a documentary to raise awareness of this significant history and encourage new, creative media.
Screenings of the documentary and related presentations and events will be the launching point to explore how the intersection of art, activism and academic analysis can guide and inform the next generation of innovative media.
Maria Juliana Byck, director and producer of "Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television" (2007, 45 mins) and collective member, will be at all screenings except for SFAI. Events are free and open to the public unless noted otherwise.
San Diego State University
Monday, February 11, 2008, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Little Theater
TFM 462 Documentary History and Criticism
Contact: Mark Freeman mfreeman(at)mail.sdsu.edu
California State University San Marcos
Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 3:00 p.m.
Media Makers Series
ARTS 101
A new documentary on art, activism and analysis smashing the myths of the information industry for 25 years! An early innovator in video art and public access television, PTTV developed a unique aesthetic that experimented with the television medium combining art, academics, politics, performance and live television. Presented by VPA and Mass Media, support by IRA Funds.
Contact: Kristine Diekman, kdiekman(at)csusm.edu, 760.750.4188
University of California San Diego
Wednesday, February 13, 2008, 7:00 p.m.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Visual Artist Facility BlackBox Performance Space
Lyman Lane, UCSD Campus
Introduced by: Adriene Jenik
Contact: Adriene Jenik ajenik(at)ucsd.edu
UCSD Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Pitzer College, Claremont CA
Thursday, February 14, 2008, 7:00-8:30 p.m.
The Cinematheque Series presents the alternative media outlet, Paper Tiger TV.
Broad Center
Broad Performance Space
1050 N. Mills Avenue
Mills and 10th Street
Claremont, CA
909.607.3889
Pitzer Cinematheque Series
Laney College, Oakland CA
Saturday February 15, 2008, 10:00 a.m.
Oakland Digital Inclusion Summit*
Laney College Theater
900 Fallon Street
Oakland, CA
A collective step forward for organizations and service providers working to end the digital divide in Northern California.
www.media-alliance.org
REDCAT, Los Angeles CA
Monday February 18, 2008, 8:00 p.m.
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series curated by Steve Anker and Berenice Beynaud.
Jesse Drew in person
Formed at the height of the Reagan era to "smash the myths of the information industry," Paper Tiger Television is a collective of artists and activists whose raucous public-access shows are some of the quirkiest and most compelling alternative media ever to hit the airwaves.
Also screening "Judith Williamson Consumes Passionately in Southern California" (1988, 26 mins)
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA
www.redcat.org
Tickets & Information: 213.237.2800
General Admission $9
Students, Alumni with Affinity Card $7
CalArts Students, Faculty and Staff $5
San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)
Monday, February 18, 2008. 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Co-founder of Deep Dish Television and long time Tiger Martha Wallner and guest respondent Dalida Maria Benfield in person.
Also screening: classic Paper Tiger West production "San Francisco Says No to the New World Order"- created in response to the first Gulf War. (1991, 28 mins)
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco CA, (between Jones and Leavenworth)
415.771.7020
www.sfai.edu
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 7:30P p.m.
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Recent Experimental Documentaries
Do you know where your brains are? The latest communiqué from the pioneering radical media collective Paper Tiger TV mines the organization’s archive of bold, sassy DIY activism with classic Paper Tiger shorts: "Donna Haraway Reads The National Geographic on Primates" (1987, 29 mins). "Sock Ads: Judith Williamson Consumes Passionately in Southern California" (1988, 26 mins)
(Total running time: 100 mins, Color, Mini-DV, From Paper Tiger TV)
2575 Bancroft Way between College and Telegraph
Berkeley, CA.
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
$5.50 BAM/PFA members, UC Berkeley students
$9.50 Adults (18-64)
$6.50 UC Berkeley faculty and staff, Non-UC Berkeley students, Senior citizens (65 & over), Disabled persons, Youth (17 & under)
Presented with support from the Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley.
University of San Francisco
Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:30-8:00 p.m.
New Directions in Radical Documentary: Screenings and Panel Discussion
Featuring among others:
Sam Green (Weather Underground)
Madeleine Lim (Queer Women of Color Film Festival)
Maria Juliana Byck (Paper Tiger Television)
David Binegar (USF TV)
Eloise Rose Lee (Media Alliance)
Lone Mountain Room 100 (Handlery Room)
USF Campus Map
University of California, Davis
Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:40-3:00 p.m.
Technocultural Studies Building (formerly the Art Annex)
Berkeley Community Media
Saturday, February 23, 2008, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Event and production in collaboration with the Video Feedback Collective*
2239 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA
510.848.2288
www.betv.org
Paper Tiger Television is supported by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, New School Media Studies Department, New York State Council on the Arts, Experimental Television Center and Manhattan Neighborhood Network.
Presented in partnership with hosting organizations and Media Alliance, Bay Area Video Coalition and SF Access
*Non Screening Events