Archive for March, 2008

2 Job Opps at Astor Center, NYC

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Junior Multimedia/Audio Visual Supervisor needed to aid and develop new media technologies for one of New York City’s most promising food and drink events centers. Astor Center is the newest and most innovative food and drink event establishment in Manhattan. Along with three newly constructed and unique event spaces, the center houses an advanced audio/visual system, giving it a technological edge over its contemporaries.

Your duties will be the creation and conceptualization of content for the events, as well as operation of the A/V system at some events. You will work closely with Astor Center staff as well as some of the biggest names in the food and drink world to develop, create, and incorporate dynamic and engaging new media for events.

Requirements are:
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint
• Strong knowledge of Adobe Photoshop
• Familiarity with computer and audio/visual technologies
• Light background in graphic design
• Basic to advanced understanding of audio/visual signal flow

This position is a great opportunity for New Media students to have hands-on experience with conceptualization and creation of content for an audience, as well as its physical application. It is a great and unique way to build or add experience to your resume.

The position will require you to travel to Manhattan. Experienced candidates are encouraged, but professional experience is not required.

Please send a cover letter explaining why you would be well suited for this position, as well as a resume, to kwilhelm@astorcenternyc.com
Please feel free to email with any questions.

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Junior Multimedia Content Manager needed to maintain, create, and build web/in-store content for one of New York City’s largest wine and spirits shops, as well as New York City’s newest center for food and drink events. You will be working with a diverse staff to develop content into dynamic and engaging multimedia pieces.

Responsibilities include: creating and regularly updating content for in-store signage; creating and formatting content for the web (podcasts, online video, images, etc.) and print applications (flyers, posters); composing email blasts; and regularly updating material on ancillary websites. You will be helping to bring a dynamic and technological edge to one of New York’s most popular and most promising establishments.

Expectations are:
• Proficiency in:
o Adobe Photoshop (strong)
o Adobe Illustrator (basic)
o Adobe Premier Pro (advanced)
o Adobe After Effects (basic)
o Microsoft Office Suite (strong)
• Strong knowledge of HTML
• Light background in graphic design
• Basic knowledge of audio/visual components

This is a great position for New Media students to utilize their diverse talents in digital art and technology to build or add marketing/advertising experience to their resume.

This position will require you to travel to Manhattan as well as work from home. Experienced candidates are encouraged, but professional experience is not required.

Please send a cover letter explaining why you would be well suited for this position, a resume, and if available a portfolio of past work (advanced standing portfolios will suit) to kwilhelm@astorcenternyc.com. Please feel free to email with any questions.

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Off the Grid — Wed April 2nd Extravaganza — Dont Miss out!

Friday, March 28th, 2008

April 2, 2008: 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Neuberger Museum of Art
Purchase College, SUNY
Curated by: free103point9

In conjunction with the exhibition Off The Grid, April 2 will feature a day of live performances by artists whose work subvert and circumvent conventional infrastructures.

4 p.m.: Radio 4×4 Four performers — Joshua Fried, Matt Bua, Alexis Bhagat, and Tom Roe — perform into four transmitters with performances transmitted to radios throughout the performance area. Audiences are encouraged to walk among the radios, “mixing” the collective and individual improvised performances. For this Radio 4×4, performers will all use battery-powered equipment, and all transmitters and radios will also not be plugged in. Brief explanation and discussion of Radio 4×4 with the artists after performance.

4:45: Joshua Fried, Radio Wonderland. Fried performs his “Radio Wonderland” show with a car battery.

5:30 p.m.: Jeff Stark, Secret DinnerThe Secret Dinner project is just that. The dinners are collaborative and they happen in clandestine spaces. The first was in a grain elevator in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in 2006, and we lowered a singer into an echoey steel silo. The second was the site of the 1964 World’s Fair in Queens, where we suspended an aerialist from the massive steel Unisphere. And at the third, we ate in the Freedom Tunnel, under Riverside Park in Manhattan. The Secret Dinner project was influenced by Dark Passage, a group of New York explorers, and the Suicide Club, a long defunct group of San Francisco pranksters. The project is a reaction to a culture of permission, including expensive venues, city permits, and institutional funding. It reminds participants that the most important thing is doing the thing, and that it’s possible to create work that compromises only to logistics. This talk will feature gorgeous photos by Tod Seelie that document the project.

6:15 p.m.: Matt Bua. Artist talk.

Sunrise to Sunset: Mare Liberum workshop. Mare Liberum Sunup-Sundown Build A Boat Workshop: Benjamin Cohen, Dylan Gauthier, and Stephan von Muehlen will construct a 12′ Grand Banks dory over the course of a day using materials salvaged from construction sites, basic tools and old-time intuition. The artists will be available to discuss the project over pauses for lunch, afternoon tea and dinner

Earlier in the day, their will be a Kites are for Peace exhibition. Kites are For Peace and Love is a one-day social engagement with the surrounding Westchester community. It is an open invitation to come together to make and fly kites in the wind and sun, all the while keeping in mind that the same wind power that fuels a kite, can also generate our electricity. Information will be on site relating to simple and effective ways that we as individuals can make a substantial difference in the path toward environmental sustainability. In addition, there will be kite-making workshops held at the Neuberger Museum of Art leading up to the event. This event is organized by John Daquino.

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REV Billy Coming to Purchase!

Monday, March 24th, 2008

I’ve attached the YouTube trailer for his movie, What Would Jesus Buy… please watch   http://youtube.com/watch?v=sGi21YQFjMM

All are invited

Rev. Billy
Of the Church of Stop Shopping and star of the film What Would Jesus Buy?

“Exorcise the Monoculture”

Tues. March 25 – 4 pm
Humanities Theater

Performance Artist and Activist, Reverend Billy, and his choir manager, Savitri D, will discuss the international resistance to consumption and The Church of Stop Shopping. They will share tactics and stategies for change and invite you to join them for a discussion of the First Amendment’s revolutionary promise.
Brought to you by Media, Society and the Arts and Student Services

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Want to see your image turned into a “hologram”!?!

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Be part of an exciting & unique project about stereotypes

Do you feel you have ever been judged/misunderstood because of stereotypes?

Feel you are ever judged by your race/color, style/look, etc.?

Is there more to you than your image portrays?

Please participate in my New Media Senior Project. I will be producing

 lenticular prints (similar to holograms) of people as their stereotypes

 morphing into their ‘inner selves’.

There is also a possible video option. Or just share a story or experience not on camera.

 Refer a friend.  Anything helps!

Interviews will be held this week (Other times also available just ask.

 Can also be done via e-mail or phone) (Interviews should not take longer than 10/15mins)

Tues, Wed, Thurs March 11th-13th 1-4pm [NS0010]

(RSVP asap is preferable/ Walkins are ok)

Or schedule a better time for you

Free Food/Candy! Free t-shirt(?)

Room NS0010 (Basement next to NS0043, across the elevators)

Interviews are set in order to hear your statement to figure out how you will best contribute to this project and if you fit the criteria. Photos will take place at another time that best suits you

The project will be on display May 10-16th at the New Media

senior show! Please help out a fellow student in need! Thanks!

For more info contact vanessa.assaro@purchaseedu / 6462961715 / 3626

Newmeda.purchase.edu/~vassaro/2face

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