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IIACI INSTITUTE PROGRAM LAUNCHES DURING CANNES AT AMERICAN PAVILION

IIACI PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Dr. Janeann Dill, Institute Founder-Director
IIACI.com@gmail.com 
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The chilled air is a delight as the sun rises over the Mediterranean and the yachts begin to dock for the CANNES FILM FESTIVAL ... all quite exciting as the IIACI Institute prepares for its launch party in partnership with the Capstone International Study Abroad Program at the University of Alabama on May 19th at the AMERICAN PAVILION to celebrate the first IIACI ACADEMIC INTERNSHIP PROGRAM and IIACI INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PROGRAM at Cannes! Twenty-one academic students were selected  by the Institute Director, Dr. Janeann Dill, and the Director of the AMPAV Student Program, Walter Harris, to be IIACI ACADEMIC INTERNS when the American Pavilion opens its 22nd year as the hospitality center to the American production companies at Cannes in 2010.  Exciting days ahead for IIACI INTERNS!

The IIACI launch event  will be held at the American Pavilion and will focus on the Institute of Interdisciplinary Art's ACADEMIC INTERNSHIPS with a program of Dr. Dill's experimental shorts and documentary feature in-progress and films by students she has mentored and guests: Laura Godorecci (Cambridge, M.Phil. candidate in Screen Studies), Anna Brenner (Oxford, M.A. candidate, Aesthetic Studies), and Courtney Marr (entering NYU, Steinhardt School, M.A. Candidate in Arts Administration). Jens Blank (guest presenter from the National Film School, United Kingdom) is showing his film, "Cooked," at the Cinefondation Short Film Competition and will present a brief talk about his work and screen another of his films not in competition. Ryan Davis, IIACI INTERN, debut in a live performance his HipHop song, IIACI MISSION STATEMENT (composed by Davis and published by MississippiBlueMusic, ASCAP).

Don't miss this if you are at the Cannes Film Festival: May 19th, 7:30pm, American Pavilion!

Dr. Dill's short film of excerpted, rare footage, “Jules Engel: An Artist For All Seasons,” will screen in non-competition at the SHORT FILM CORNER alongside the "Behind the Scenes of Ourselves" short documentary directed by Hallie Carroll. Carroll is an IIACI INTERN and former student who filmed the making of Dr. Dill's experimental film, “MAH: Moving Around Heidegger,“ a collaboration employing a unique sound track of poetry by Dr. Hank Lazer, and another of Dill's students who choreographed to Dill's monumental drawings and arrangement of Lazer’s sound track, Courtney Marr. Marr is presently the IIACI Program Administrative Assistant for the academic internships.

Two more IIACI INTERNS, Alan Lazer and Nick Mahone, both students at the University of Alabama, will screen their student films with the American Pavilion's program at the SHORT FILM CORNER. This will be a memorable inauguration of the IIACI INTERNSHIPS in collaboration with the AMERICAN PAVILION and CAPSTONE INTERNATIONAL STUDY ABROAD at University of Alabama!

To learn more about the IIACI ACADEMIC INTERNSHIPS,
read Interns’ BLOG, & follow on twitter:

http://intern.iiaci.net
www.twitter.com/IIACI_INTERNS

  www.twitter.com/JaneannDill
http://www.interdisciplinaryartinstitute.com/ACADEMIC_INTERNSHIPS_OF9Z.html

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IIACI SUPPORTS HEZZIE AND THE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS CENTER IN THE PEPSI CHALLENGE GRANT: Revitalization Project

Hello folks!
 
I am working with a great art organization in Troy New York.
It's a national artist residency program and exhibition space in a historic church that needs our (mine and yours) help
to keep moving forward.  Hezzie is the Executive Director and I can't say enough about how dedicated and brilliant
this woman is as she leads CAC into this period of revitalization.
 
Right now the Contemporary Artists Center is in the running for a $50K grant from Pepsi to finish renovations on its building. 
The Pepsi winner is determined solely by the number of VOTES ONLINE. 

I am asking you to help me help them by signing-up to vote for the month of APRIL.  Join us in making this happen!  
We have only two weeks remaining to push them into the TOP 10 and right now they are #27:  THIS IS DOABLE !
 
Go to their site but remember that you must also register with Pepsi to complete your vote! It's a "vote twice" scenario but it only
takes two minutes of your day to do this:  www.cactroy.org/grant  

Will you please tell them that IIACI and Dr. Dill sent you to them?
 
Please forward along to friends and family! We've got to get the word out and swell our support for them during the next two
weeks only!  I love the grassroots quality of this campaign and hope you will join me in your daily votes for CAC and Hezzie!

DAILY: VOTE YES FOR THE REVITALIZATION OF THIS CULTURAL COMMUNITY AND ITS CONTEMPORARY MISSION!!!!

IIACI TRAVELS TO SAUDI ARABIA!

WHAT A JOY TO VISIT DAR AL-HEKMA WOMAN'S COLLEGE                                         

SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE IN JEDDAH ...


You may have become aware of this woman's college recently because

Dar Al-Hekma is the woman's college in Saudi Arabia where our Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton held a Town Hall Meeting a few weeks ago.  Dr. Salfeha Abdein

is the Vice-Dean in charge of Institutional Development at Dar Al-Hekma and 

is the person who slated the college as Secretary Clinton's site for her Town Hall 

meeting while in Saudi Arabia. And I understand why! Like Secretary Clinton, 

these are  a m a z i n g  women who run this university as brilliant scholars 

and thinkers in their own right; such as Dr. Abedin who earned her Ph.D. at 

Cambridge in Sociology. What a pleasure to meet Dr. Abedin and to have the 

privilege of spending time with her.

My positive impressions didn't stop with Dr. Abedin however! This invitation

to present my work and to teach Experimental Animation to the girls at

Dar Al-Hekma came from an impressive Chair of the Design Department,

Professor Dima Schneider. Professor Schneider came to Dar Al-Hekma from

the American University in Beruit, Lebanon five years ago where she had taught

for thirteen years and since taking the reins in Jeddah, she has led

the Department of Design into a School of Design that is internationally

accredited through the UK/London.  Yet another brilliant woman who's

background prior to Dar Al-Hekma was as a 3-D computer animation artist.

The faculty! A widely diverse and highly educated international faculty of artists,

graphic designers, and scholars from Poland, Lithuania, Portugal, America, and

Saudi Arabia. Do not misunderstand me here: not only highly educated, but

warm, inviting, humorous and supportive women who ROCK! 

And the girls: twenty-one lovely young women in their black abayas who

impressed me with their intelligence and authentic desire to be introduced to

the history of experimental animation and to the creative practice of

experimental animation outside the digital environment: in this case,

an 'analogue' art of experimenting with animation that leaves the marks of

the artist's hands on the drawn images. These girls are the brightest of

undergrads, not unlike my terrific students in America! While the cultural

differences are enormous between the two, the love of learning and taking

intellectual risks remains constant.

Are you beginning to get the sense of this now? Of how delighted I was

to find myself invited to present in this cultural environment?

Finally (until I return to share photos with you), I presented the IIACI Institute

alongside my paintings, drawings, scholarship, and film, PARIS IS A WOMAN,

the final evening of the TAWASUL II Conference. The two keynote speakers

presented: myself and Monsieur Phillipe Jalladeau, a French filmmaker and

Film Festival Director who was the first film scholar to bring a Middle Eastern

Film Program to Europe many years ago. Jalladeau was educated in France

and majored in Oceanography as an undergrad but found himself at Princeton

for his graduate work in film with a post-grad stint at Stanford Film Institute

where he produced award winning films world-wide. Every morning while there

I delighted in his company while eating the absolutely delicious breakfasts at

the Hotel Intercontinental ... yummy fresh figs, salmon, and hummus.

While I am not speaking here specifically about the challenges of a Kingdom

that prohibits women from driving or from going out in public without covering

themselves or for even going out in public alone, I was not unaware of those

prohibitions. I was given a lovely abaya to wear while there and I wore it in

respect for a culture I, as a Westerner, was visiting.  In this short visit to Saudi

Arabia, these prohibitions didn't deter from my sense of purpose towards

my academic colleagues and my students. IIACI and I were there to advance

the artist as a philosopher of creative intelligence, one whose necessity is to

access the intuitive and the intellectual simultaneously.

How longer visits to such a diverse international culture will challenge me

in the future remains to be seen, but I am quite clear on this visit:

an absolute delight!

Dr. Janeann Dill

IIACI: Institute Founder-Director


GLOBALSCREEN EXHIBITION OF DIGITAL ARTS OPENS IN THE FILM MUSEUM, Düsseldorf, Germany

Globalscreen zeigt in Kooperation mit der Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf im Filmmuseum das aktuelle Programm “Simulations” :
Black Box - Kino im Filmmuseum – Montag 22.3.2010, 
20 Uhr Schulstr. 4 - Düsseldorf-Altstadt, T. 0211.899 22 32

Globalscreen in cooperation with Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf / Filmmuseum/ Black Box
www.filmwerkstatt-duesseldorf.de
 <http://www.filmwerkd.de
Mo 22.3. 20:00 / March 22, 2010  8:00 PM Opening of Exhibition   

Globalscreen: „Simulations“
26 Videos (Gesamtlänge: 59 Min.) als Auseinandersetzung mit Fragen der Wahrnehmung in einer Zeit der Bilderfluten und Realitäts-Simulationen. In Anwesenheit der Initiatoren Judith Nothnagel und Hubert Baumann, sowie der Düsseldorfer Künstler Weitere Infos: http://www.filmwerkstatt-duesseldorf.de/filmbeschreibungen/globalscreen/ 
 
Künstler/ Artists : 
Sky David, USA; 
Janeann Dill, USA with Hank Lazer;
Reynald Drouhin, FR;
Shahram Entekhabi in coop. with Martina Schoene-Radunski IR/D;
Susanne Fasbender, D;
Gabriela Gerber und Lukas Bardill, CH (Galerie Luciano Fasciati, CH); 
Nikos Giavropoulos, GR;
Astrid Hagenguth. D;
Anneke Ingwersen; NL;
José Jimenez, RA;
Gudrun Kemsa, D;
Axel Klepsch, D;
Detlef Klepsch, D;
Norbert Kraus, D;
Lena Lapschina RUS/A;
Franziska Megert, D/CH;
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, D;
Ibrahima Niang, SN;
Judith Nothnagel, D;
Irena Paskali, MK/D;
Juanjo Fernández Rivero, E;
Ran Slavin, IL;
Jan Verbeek, D/JP;
André Chi Sing Yuen, D and Frank Schablewski, Poem
Nelly-Eve Rajotte, CDN


Globalscreen is a flexible media-art platform for artists and arts institutions.  It stands for collaboration worldwide among video and media artists engaged in finding new, contemporary avenues in art and communication. Globalscreen presents videos by media artists in themebased projects. :: In line with the overall Globalscreen concept, artists and curators taking part are augmenting the DVD collection with their own screenings, installations, performances, talks, workshops. The growing circle in the :Simulations: project is being developed continuously until the end of 2010. 

IIACI ACADEMIC INTERNS™ SELECTED FOR IIACI_CANNES FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM!


Twenty-two AWESOME 

IIACI ACADEMIC INTERNS™ 

LAUNCHING 2010 PROGRAM IN CANNES MAY 9TH! 

Follow them on 

http://Twitter.com/THINK_IIACI_Int 

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French Riveria bringing you news on films!
Listen to IIACI iTunes for hip-hop and song:

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Check out IIACI CHANNEL for video up-dates!
http://youtube.com/user/IIACI 



STAY TUNED FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT THE  IIACI ACADEMIC INTERNS™ SELECTED FOR VENICE FILM FESTIVAL TOO! 
Interested in participating?  See how to apply below!

NOTE:
APPLICATIONS FOR CANNES WILL REOPEN AGAIN IN NOVEMBER, 2010. IF YOU WANT TO BE NOTIFIED, GO TO ENTER_IIACI, SIGN IN AND VERIFY YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO BE ON LIST OF ANNOUNCEMENTS!


IIACI ACADEMIC INTERNSHIPS at Cannes and Venice Film Festivals

IIACI has created an innovative academic internship program for film students, recent grads, and students not currently enrolled but fall into the 'twenty-something' generation.

The American Pavilion (AMPAV), the Institute for Interdisciplinary Art andCreative Intelligence (IIACI) and Dr. Janeann Dill are partners in a highly innovative festival program of IIACI Academic Internships™ for the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals.

Open to all inquiries:  IIACI.intern@gmail.com
2010 GUIDELINES TO APPLY:  http://tinyurl.com/IIACI-Intern

General Deadline:  January 15, 2009 (or until filled)
Final Deadline:  February 12, 2009  (no more applications accepted) 

THINK IIACI ! (pronounced ee-ah'chee)
Institute for Interdisciplinary Art and Creative Intelligence
A virtual Think Tank advancing the practice and study of the arts across the disciplines.

http://www.interdisciplinaryartinstitute.com 

SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL RETROSPECTIVE PROGRAM FOCUSED ON ABSTRACT ANIMATION INCLUDES JULES ENGEL's FILMS


View these GREAT experimental animation films curated by Larry Cuba and the iotaCenter.  The retrospective program
includes Jules Engel's TRAIN LANDSCAPE and MEADOW with citations of critical comments by Janeann Dill.


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Jules Engel
[Budapest, Hungary 1909 | USA +2003]

Jules Engel is a pioneer in the field of animation as a visual art form. Born in Budapest in 1909, Engel grew up
outside of Chicago and then moved to Los Angeles as a young man, where he successfully created dual careers
as an abstract artist and experimental filmmaker.  Engel's aesthetic is informed by the principle of abstraction,
whether or not the work is representational, and regardless of purpose.
 
Engel's contribution to two Disney films in particular, Fantasia and Bambi,contains a finely tuned visual aesthetic
that Engel subsequently explored and developed into his work as a filmmaker and as an artist. Acknowledged as
an early California Modernist, Engel's extensive fine art exhibition record has paralleled his completion of more
than thirty independent experimental animation films.
 
Engel has also been enormously influential as a teacher to international artists and filmmakers who have created
a presence for their work from Harvard to Hollywood.

-- Janeann Dill [excerpt]

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punto y raya festival, Barcelona, SPAIN 25th - 29th of November 2009 Arts Santa Mónica

iotaCenter, Los Angeles

IIACI; Institute for Interdisciplinary Art and Creative Intelligence

IIACI_CHANNEL

SPONGE BOB's BIRTHDAY BASH: A STOP-MOTON EVENT!!

Nickelodeon Culminates SpongeBob's 10th Anniversary Celebration with Star-Studded Prime Time TV Event SpongeBob SquarePants 'Truth or Square' Premiering Friday, Nov. 6 at 8:00 p.m.

 

Rosario Dawson, Craig Ferguson, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais, LeBron James, P!nk, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Robin Williams Appear in Hour-Long Special Featuring Never-Before-Seen SpongeBob Flashbacks, Plus Cee-Lo Green Performs All-New Opening Theme Song

BURBANK, Calif., Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Nickelodeon culminates the 10th anniversary celebration of pop-icon and top-rated kids' series SpongeBob SquarePants with the premiere of "Truth or Square" a star-studded one-hour prime time television event airing on Friday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT). Celebrity guest stars Rosario Dawson, Craig Ferguson, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, LeBron James, P!nk, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and Robin Williams appear as themselves in live-action sequences throughout the special, which follows SpongeBob and the Bikini Bottom gang as they reminisce through a series of original, never-before-seen flashbacks. Ricky Gervais narrates the special and Cee-Lo Green (Gnarles Barkley) performs a cover of the SpongeBob theme song to an all-new stop-motion opening title sequence.


Big congrats to Steve Hillenburg (creator) and Paul Tibbitt (producer)!!

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nickelodeon-culminates-spongebobs-10th-anniversary-celebration-with-star-studded-prime-time-tv-event-spongebob-squarepants-truth-or-square-premiering-friday-nov-6-at-800-pm-64092142.html

IIACI: VIMEO CHANNEL FEATURES JULES ENGEL PROJECT

"9" : TIM BURTON'S RELEASE OF SHANE ACKER'S FILM


HERE IS AN EXCERPT FROM ARTICLE I WROTE PUBLISHED IN FPS (CANADIAN) ANIMATION MAGAZINE.
The feature film produced by Tim Burton, "9," was once a short film by Shane Acker that garnered "Best of Show"  
at SIGGRAPH 2005.  With Burton's feature release in 2009, here were my thoughts about "9" then!  

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Immersed in Domes, Falling Bodies and Stereo Vision: 

Where's the Gravity?

     "I think SIGGRAPH 2005 was meant to prepare our bodies for space travel and, doubly, for the loss of earth’s natural environment by redefining 'nature.'  [ ... ] 

    9,  a beautiful and poignant film by Shane Acker, received top honours as Best of Show by the jury (on which our esteemed editor sat). While viewing the film, I couldn’t help but think of Tim Burton and Henry Selick’s Nightmare Before Christmas and, somewhat, the Brothers Quay, both in imagery and sensitivity.  In fact, these influences alongside John Lasseter and his PIXAR productions were spread throughout the shorts, probably largely due to the number of films screened in the festival that were student films, and secondly, because these animation artists are of the age to have seen these works as children so that these figures now replace the Disney film as early influences. Beautiful in is the choreography of a kind of mime-movement of its character, who faces a Gollum-like skeleton portrayed as a stalking force of death. In contrast to Nightmare, this film is of a sombre, industrial colour palatte and reads as a futuristic dismissal of warring skeletons, textures and mechanical structures—a fabricated rebirth of wandering into a circle of light—the hero’s journey.  Its universal theme both grounds the story and differentiates it from its predecessors. It was only after returning home that I read Tim Burton had picked up the film to develop a feature. How much of the feature version will remain Acker’s will be interesting to note after he is absorbed into the machinery of bigger budget Hollywood.  That said, what might or might not happen in the evolution of 9 as a feature can not diminish the beauty of the animation of Acker’s ten-minute version."  --- Janeann Dill 

fps, Festival Watch feature article, Emru Townsend, Ed., pp 14-16.

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To download the complete .pdf of the Sept. 2005 issue of fps, go here: