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Germany in Class: Announcements March 11 , 2008 Educators Invited to (Re) Discover Germany: The Ideal Study, Work, and Research Destination
Professors and university study-abroad and career center advisors are invited to attend a special information session about the latest programs and funding opportunities for students and recent graduates to study or work abroad in Germany on Friday, March 14, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m at the German Embassy in Washington, DC. The “(Re) Discovering Germany” event, which is co-sponsored by DAAD, CDS International, and the German Embassy, offers university professionals an exciting glimpse into the newest German-language and English-language study abroad programs as well as scholarships and other funding opportunities to work, study, or conduct research in Germany, which are available to current students and recent graduates in a variety of academic interests and professional fields. Following a welcome address by Kai Schachtebeck, Deputy Head of the Cultural Affairs Department of the German Embassy, a panel discussion titled “Why Choose Germany?” will be conducted with guest speakers, including Adam Hunter (US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security), Bradley Shingleton (General Counsel, Deutsche Telekom, Inc.), Louis Reith (Georgetown University Library, Department of Technical Services), and Erika Hamalainen (American University, DAAD Young Ambassador 2007/08). Participants will be able to meet and exchange information with fellow professors, study-abroad and career center advisors, and scholarship-granting institutions before the event concludes with a catered lunch. To attend this event, please RSVP to Mia Zonaras at Zonaras@daad.org with your full name, job title, and the name of your university by March 7, 2008. The German Embassy is located at 4645 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, DC, 20007. ***Photo ID will be required to enter the German Embassy*** Please note: Similar events have been planned for San Francisco in the spring and Atlanta in the fall of 2008. Links: German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD
Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik und Pazifik The annual summer German studies on both coasts of the USA are once again accepting applications! Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik and Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik will once again offer their intensive language instruction on all levels and other cultural or language-area specific courses this summer. Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik The 28th Annual Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik will take place in Kingston, Rhode Island. It offers a total-immersion setting with instruction for all levels of language learners. The course dates run from June 22 ¡V August 1, 2008. For more information please visit the website of Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik (http://www.uri.edu/artsci/ml/german/summerschool/index.html). Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik The 51st year of Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik will be held in Portland, Oregon. Immersion courses will be offered at the undergraduate and graduate level from June 25 - July 31, 2008. The one-week teacher training course will be from July 24 - July 31. For more information please visit the website of Deutsche Sommerschole am Pazfik (http://www.summer.pdx.edu/dsap/). Links Deutsche Sommerschule am Atlantik Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik New Exhibit Examines the Dream-Like State Induced by Cinema
From the seemingly peaceful sleep of the poet John Giorno, whom Andy Warhol filmed for over five hours in 1963, to the darker recesses of the imagination or the digital dreamworlds of video artists of 21st century, “Dreams,” the first part of the new moving-art exhibition by the Hirshhorn Museum, “Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image,” explores how cinema affects our perceptions of what is real and what is an illusion through works by range of influential and emerging international artists, including some from Germany.
These days, we no longer need to go to a movie theater to experience
cinema; film, as well as television and the internet, have become part
of our daily lives. This idea is underscored in the work Rheinmetall/Victoria
8 The process of projecting or the projection itself becomes the subject matter in British artist Anthony McCall’s work You and I Horizontal. With the help of a fog machine, the projection turns into 3-D curvilinear planes of light. Visitors who stand directly in these beams will enjoy the sculptural qualities achieved by the hazy light.
Similar to the way a DJ takes a few beats of a song and scratches out an entire rhythm, German artist Christoph Giradet used scenes from the 1933 movie “King Kong” to create a work titled Release. The artist has drawn out the frenzied cry at the moment when Fay Wray first sights the colossal beast into nightmarish, twitching scenes with screeching sounds. In another room, British artist Darren Almond utilizes strobe effects, trancelike imagery, and electronica music in his work. The eeriness of the footage, which was taken in an old-fashioned Geisterbahn, or haunted house amusement park ride, in Vienna, is heightened by the abstract, minimalist soundscapes of the Berlin music artist Stefan Betke, a.k.a. Pole, who became known for his work in the glitch genre.
Some works in the exhibition delve into dreamscapes created through digital technology that are reminiscent of the early days of video games, while yet others blur the lines between reality and fiction or documentary and feature films. The large-scale projection of the Niagara Falls by German artist Wolfgang Staehle appears to be in “real time.” Meanwhile, the seemingly “actual” reflections of Berlin that British artist Tacita Dean shows in the bronze mirrored windows of the Palace of the Republic no longer exist, since that building, the former seat of the East German Parliament, is in the process of being dismantled.
Whether a moviegoer or consumer of today’s media searches for a temporary escape from “reality” or seeks to learn more about the world around us, one remains suspended between belief and doubt in what we see and between our desires to be informed and yet also entertained. The exhibition ends with American artist Siebren Versteeg’s digital double portrait in which, as the title states, the individual is neither completely present nor entirely absent in the two representations. The individual is using a hand-held electronic device while particles of him flow from each screen into the other as part of a closed-circuit transmission. This image also serves as an apt depiction of modern-day man’s relationship to the ever-changing technological and media-centered world we live in. “Dreams,” part one of the exhibition “The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image,” runs through May 11 at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Part two is titled “Realisms” and will begin June 20. Links:
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