CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, LECTURES

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LAS VEGAS, NV
March 21-24, 2002
Tropicana Hotel

SPE 2002: FACT OR FICTION: PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIATED EXPERIENCE

"SPE's 39th National Conference will incorporate Las Vegas as a means to explore themes which include virtual experience, identity and facade, fantasy, and the role of through-the-lens culture in our unfolding 21st century....our meeting site on the infamous Strip, promises myriad opportunities for visual (and other) entertainment"

The SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION's 39TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE will feature a keynote address by Tracey Moffatt, guest speaker Rev. Ethan Acres, and featured speaker Dave Hickey.

BART PARKER will be celebrated as the Honored Educator.

_Photographer, film, and video artist TRACEY MOFFATT was born in Australia and is currently based in New York City. Her works include NIGHT CRIES A RURAL TRAGEDY (1990) in which an Aboriginal woman nurses her dying white mother, set against the background of the assimilation policy that forced Aboriginal children to be raised in white families; and ARTIST (A video collaboration between Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg 1999) described by Women Make Movies as "a fast-paced journey through Hollywood's depiction of the artist. Using a wealth of clips from classic cinema bio pics and popular television sitcoms, the video voyage spans centuries of art and art-making to reveal how five decades of mainstream media have perceived the creative process and creators themselves.... this amusing, thought-provoking array of well-known images paints an incisive portrait of the artist as a total Hollywood fabrication."

_ Las Vegas-based installation and performance artist and ordained minister REV. ETHAN ACRES documents his various personae in photographs and text. including in THE SERMONS OF REVEREND ETHAN a pop chapbook of sermons which features The Parable of Mothra/Exorcism of the Santa Monica Museum; a history of televangelism; a pilgrimage to the Getty Museum; and many more accounts of the Reverend's fight against the devil and his crusade to put the "fun" back in fundamentalism.

_Las Vegas-based freelance writer of fiction and cultural criticism DAVE HICKEY is professor of Art Criticism and Theory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and contributing editor to ART ISSUES magazine in Los Angeles. He has also been owner/director of A Clean Well-Lighted Place gallery in Austin, Texas; director of the Reese Palley Gallery in New York City; executive editor of ART IN AMERICA; and a contributing editor to THE VILLAGE VOICE. His most recent book, STARDUMB, (Artspace Press, 1999) is a collection of stories with drawings by artist John DeFazio.

Panels and presentations include:

Fleming Lunsford with Rebecca Sittler, Sush Gaikotsu Machida, Alexander Mouton
PERFORMANCE: A PHOTOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE

Valerie Mendoza
ROAMING THE SHADOW SIDE: PERFORMATIVE SPACES; VIRTUAL IMMERSION

Cheryl Younger
SEPTEMBER 11: THIS ISN'T A MOVIE, WHAT DO WE DO NOW?

Susan kae Grant
NIGHT JOURNEY

Krista Elrick and Debra Hughes
LEAVING THE REAL WORLD BEHIND: A COLLABORATION THROUGH IMAGE AND WORD

James Lerager with Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Clayton Spada
CENSORSHIP-BANNED & BARRED

Nick Tobier
PHOTO COLLAGE ON THE LAS VEGAS STRIP

Barbara DeGenevieve with Dale Bogucki, Monashee Frantz, Stacy Goldate, McKay Grundstein, Sheree Hovsepian, Courtney Kelley, Tobaron Waxman
UNDER THE RADAR: PORNOGRAPHY AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM

Carol Flax with Allison Nordstrom, Peter Goin, Abelardo Morell, Lorie Novak
VOYAGES (PER)FORMED

The four day conference will also include an exhibits fair which will provide attendees with the opportunity to learn more about the latest equipment, technologies, publications, and support organizations -- as presented by over 50 corporate exhibitors -- as well as Career placement services, workshops, one-on-one portfolio reviews and group portfolio sharing sessions.

For more information visit: http://www.spenational.org/

Resources:

Tracey Moffatt and Gary Hillberg
ARTIST WOMEN MAKE MOVIES -- http://www.wmm.com/catalog/pages/c477.htm

THE SERMONS OF REVEREND ETHAN ACRES -- http://www.smartartpress.com/catalog.lasso?product%20id=1165

"A Conversation with Dave Hickey and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe"
UCLA HAMMER MUSEUM -- http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/hickey.html

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