DIVA CENTER: Screenings and Events

JULY 13 - Distant Progress: An Evening of Video Art and Improvised Music
Time: 7:00 PM
Admission: General $5.00. Student and Members $3.00

Video artist, composer and flutist, Daniel Heila will screen selections of his single channel digital video work accompanied by live structured improvisation on flute, guitar and voice-over using looping techniques. The videos presented are part of an ongoing series of projects focusing on the West Eugene Wetlands. They include:

• Distant Progress - denizens and patrons of the preserve viewed from a great distance against the background of development
• Distant TRIO - a triptych of bird imagery
• Distance Airborne - animals and machines over the wetlands

Read more about Daniel Heila: Web or MySpace

JULY 3 - David Rovics Political Troubadour and Dave Lippman Acerbic Satirist
Purpose:  Fundraiser for the Iraq Body Count Exhibit
Time: 8:00 PM Doors open at 7:30
Admission: $10.00, $7.00 for students
Sponsor:  Will Sing For Change

Two Great Political Songwriters of our Time are coming for one memorable night in Eugene!  David Rovics has been called the musical voice of the progressive movement in the US. Amy Goodman has called him "the musical version of Democracy Now!"

Dave Lippman is widely known on many coasts and in some interiors for his sharp send-ups of topical subjects ranging from weapons of mass distraction to SUVs and the wars to defend them. He has toured widely in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Central America in a 35-year musical career.

Wonderful organic local refreshments served for donations.

JULY 21 - incite/ experimental audiovisual
Time: 8:00 PM
Admission: General $5.00. Student and Members $3.00

Incite/ is the Hamburg-based experimental audiovisual electronics duo of Kera Nagel and André Aspelmeier. Incite/ plays bone-dry minimal electronics, fragmented slomo grooves and broken rhythmic arrangements in sync with abstract grayscale videos.

The program opens with audio-visual excursions by Rejouissance and Clocks Ticking Backwards (on tour from NYC) providing live improvised scores for short works by local and regional video artists including members of Eugene's JiRCs.

Read More: incite/ , Rejouissance, Clocks Ticking Backwards, and JiRCs

Media Arts Programming on Summer Hiatus. DIVA's Media Arts Program is on break over the Summer and will return in September with a full schedule of film screenings, classes, exhibits, performances, and presentations for the fall.
    We would like to thank all of those who have come out to support our programming and we look forward to seeing you in the fall.
    The PSA, at right, was recently produced by DIVA volunteer Brian Walker. It now plays on our MySpace page. Media Arts Committee member videos will be featured here in coming issues.