[van-announce] Counter Culture! Sept. 26 screening and talk on Lebanon

[Fiona Jeffries]

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* **Tuesday September 26 *
*SFU School of Communication Counter Culture Series presents*


*"Autumn comes back to find its lover gone"--Beirut artists respond to 
yet another war*

*A presentation by SFU Prof. Laura Marks, recently returned from 
Lebanon, with screening of videos produced by Beirut artists during the 
Israeli bombardment.*
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*SFU Vancouver Campus, 515 West Hastings St.*
*Room 1900*
*7-9 pm*

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*All Counter Culture Events are Free and Open to the Public*
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Laura U. Marks is a theorist, critic and curator of independent and 
experimental media arts. She has curated programs of independent and 
experimental media for festivals and art spaces worldwide. Her current 
research includes: formal commonalities and historical connections 
between Islamic art and contemporary computer art, contemporary Arab 
media arts; and audiovisual forms for intellectual work; and non-Western 
approaches to new media. Dr. Marks is the Dena Wosk University Professor 
of Art and Culture Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.* *
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*Laura Marks’ letters from Beirut during the bombardment have been 
turned into a window installation by artist Ho Tam. They are also 
downloadable from his site, www.windowproject.org 
<http://www.windowproject.org/>


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