Thank You and Congratulations!

Thank you all so much for coming out to Claremont this past Saturday to the premier of S'NOT NARRATIVE Student Video Art Festival 2008! We had a solid turn out and good representation of several SoCal schools and the works were well received, so again, thanks for the support. The after party was a riot and I loved to see everyone get down to Holy Mountain and talk media. I especially want to thank our four judges for driving out and test driving the experimental deliberation style we threw at them... and might I add they pulled it off amazingly with eloquent commentary and fun, insightful dialogue.

And a HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to the S'NOT NARRATIVE finalists:

Best in Show: Party in the Club in the Time of Cholera by the Coward Brandon Tartikoff by Stuart Friedel (Pomona College)

Best Non-Objective/Abstract: Close Up Series by Megan Daalder (UCLA)

Best Experimental Narrative: Fairy Grotto by Emett Casey (Chapman)

Best Experimental Documentary: Love Murmurs by Moana Casanova (Occidental)

Prizes compliments of Samy's Camera

*Don't be a stranger, and tune in for S'NOT NARRATIVE 2008*

Sincerely Anna Wittenberg

  

Erica Cho (Judge)

Erica Cho is a visual artist and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. In lo-res fashion she makes film, music video, animation, installation, paintings and drawings loosely connected by an interest in how friendship, amateurism, playfulness & sexiness can make papier maché mountains move in people's lives. She enjoys digging through historical archives, saving forgotten film, and making art with abandoned technology. Her present projects include: Are You Me?, a series of short videograms with an artist in Germany exploring that mysterious haze separating all folk; Blurry Buddha, a small collection of paintings delving into an adolescent photographer's mind when confronted with nature's awesome power; and Corean Boi, a graphic memoir. She taught in the Scripps College Art Department and Media Studies programs between 2002-2007. You can keep up with her here: http://www.wegotmoves.com.

Lisa Marr (Judge)

Lisa Marr is an award-winning filmmaker/musician/writer and the Operations Director at Echo Park Film Center, a non-profit media arts organization in Los Angeles. In her spare time, Lisa travels the world with her sweetheart Paolo Davanzo, bringing music and movies to the masses. www.echoparkfilmcenter.org http://www.lisamarr.org/

Dan Martinico (Judge)

Daniel Martinico is a film and video artist based in Los Angeles. His work often approaches video with a hacker's mentality, playfully sampling and reworking appropriated material to reveal and reconsider the dominant systems of structure found within the debris of popular media culture. Martinico's videos have been included in exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MOCA's Geffen Contemporary, Art in General (New York), VideoEx (Switzerland), Vidarte (Mexico City), and the Oberhausen and Rotterdam International Film Festivals, among many others. He currently serves as visiting faculty in UCSD's Communication department.

Tomas Aguilar (Judge alumn)

Tomas Aguilar
I am Tomas. I attended Pitzer College. I graduated with my Bachelors in Media Studies (with honors of course. hell yea!). I am corrupting minds at a high school. I am considering grad school so I may corrupt minds at the college level (should I?). I like comic books. I like I.

Anne Bray (Judge)

Anne Bray is an artist, teacher and founding director of Freewaves, a media arts organization and biennial festival in Los Angeles

Specifally she directs Freewaves, a non-profit arts organization presenting a decentralized video and new media festival every two years at art venues in Los Angeles, on web, public TV, and video billboards.

Anne now wants to start an international culture program on satellite TV but since that seems impossible she launched broadband video art streams on www.freewaves.org

She has exhibited her own artwork at gas stations, malls, movie theaters, on tv, in department stores, on billboards and art venues, combining personal and social positions via video, audio and 3-d screens.

As a teacher she covers public art and multimedia at USC and new genres at Claremont Graduate University.