This week is making up for last weeks failure in the opportunity department.

The first notable Internet-y thing though is the fact that Google is taking applications for a professional “Doodler” which could be really awesome. Did you see the Eadweard Muybridge radness the other day? Apply, apply, apply!

More info here:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/product/doodler-mountain-view/index.html

Otherwise there is about a thousand things to look at internationally speaking, as well as something going down at Harvard Museum if you’re fancy. The last few posts have been NYC-heavy and I think we need to scale that back a bit. If, for whatever possible reason, you do live in New York and you’re reading this, I’d suggest joining the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) email list like everyone else on the planet.

We occasionally like to feature our friends when they’re in the midst of their Kickstarter fundraising and this week we heard about a weirdo abandoned amusement park in Berlin that must be changed into Kulturepark – a magical site as a place for creative exchange, site-specific art, urban design, historic memory, social connection, and public imagination.

Fund it.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1353197694/kulturpark/

 

Chicago-centric updates:

- Acre extends residency application by 2 days?! What? Why did I stay up late stressin’ last night…

- Firebelly design is inviting the brightest and most talented design students + recent grads to join forces inside their Chicago studio for Camp Firebelly 2012

 

Everywhere Else:

 

Now for an all encompassing insane list of crazy opportunities of everything from Houston’s Lawndale residency (hi guys!) to something called “VIDEOHOLICA” in Bulgaria. Hopefully your German is better than mine.

 

 

JOBS (ACADEMICS, ARTISTS, CURATORS):

Director at artworks-mk, UK, England, Milton Keynes.
Deadline: April 19, 2012
http://www.artworks-mk.co.uk/home/jobs-and-opportunities-2/ 

Zum nächstmőglichen Zeitpunkt ist an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden die Position des/der Rektors/Rektorin zu besetzen. Germany.
Deadline: April 19, 2012
http://www.hfbk-dresden.de/hochschule/offene-stellen.html

Milton Keynes MK Gallery: We’re currently seeking an ambitious and capable person to join the Gallery team and work closely with the Director on the organisation and delivery of the exhibitions programme. UK.
Deadline: April 20, 2012
http://www.mkgallery.org/information/jobs/

The National Gallery: Assistant Conservator – Band 5 JOB REF: CON/05 – UK, England, London.
Deadline: April 20, 2012
http://login.amris.com/wizards/nationalgallery/viewAttachment.php?attachmentId=11420&filename=AssistantConservatorCON05Mar12.pdf

Der Regierende Bürgermeister von Berlin, Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten: Leiter/in der Kulturabteilung – Kennzahl 08/12 – Berlin, Germany.
Deadline: April 20, 2012
http://www.berlin.de/sen/kultur/stellenmarkt/subindex4.html

Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, USA
Deadline: April 20, 2012
http://www.newschool.edu/hr/staffing/

AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE IN NÜRNBERG: W3-Professur KUNSTTHEORIE UND KUNSTVERMITTLUNG (LEHRSTUHL). Germany.
Deadline: April 20, 2012
http://www.adbk-nuernberg.de/

The Trustees of The Cooper Gallery and Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council are seeking to appoint a fine art researcher for a short-term contract. For further information and a full brief, please contact Natalie Murray at Natalie Murray per e-mail. UK.
Deadline: April 23, 2012
nataliemurray@barnsley.gov.uk

Die Stadt Schwäbisch Gmünd sucht zum frühestmőglichen Zeitpunkt eine/n Museumsdirektorin / Museumsdirektor. Germany.
Deadline: April 24, 2012
http://www.schwaebisch-gmuend.de/116-Service.html

Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst: Vizedirektion/Forschungsleitung. Switzerland.
Deadline: April 25, 2012
http://www.hslu.ch/d-st-ins_vizedirektion_b176_web.pdf

Michigan State University, MATRIX: The Center for the Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences is seeking an experienced, creative, and talented individual to fill the position of Assistant Director. USA.
Deadline: April 25, 2012
http://www2.matrix.msu.edu/2012/01/job-assistant-director/

The Skirball Cultural Center seeks a dynamic and imaginative curator to develop temporary exhibitions as a member of the Museum curatorial team. USA.
Deadline: asap.
http://www.skirball.org/get-involved/jobs#curator

Deputy Dean: Faculty of Art, De Montfort University, Leicester. UK.
Deadline: April 26, 2012
https://jobs.dmu.ac.uk/webrecruitment/Default.asp?Section=Vacancy&VacID=7239

Museum für Kommunikation Bern: Projektleiterin / Projektleiter Dauerausstellung. CH.
Deadline: April 27, 2012
http://www.kulturmanagement.org/fileadmin/user_upload/redaktion/Stellenausschreibungen_2012/10_4_12_MfK_Bern.pdf

Dulwich Picture Gallery: Exhibitions Officer. The holder of this post will report directly to the Head of Exhibitions (HOE). UK.
Deadline: April 27, 2012
http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/the_gallery/vacancies/exhibitions_officer.aspx

Dulwich Picture Gallery: Assistant Curator. The holder of this post will assist the Chief Curator with the care and display of the Gallery’s paintings. UK.
Deadline: April 27, 2012
http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/the_gallery/vacancies/assistant_curator.aspx

BCA Center Curator – Burlington City Arts – USA.
Deadline: April 27, 2012
http://www.burlingtonvt.gov/HR/Job-Postings—DMS-Documents/Curator—BCA-Center/

Research Associate: UCL, London. UK.
Deadline: April 27, 2012
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) launches the Young Curators Program and the Power Corporation of Canada Curatorial Internships Program.
Deadline: April 27, 2012
http://www.cca.qc.ca/curatorialopportunities

Program Director, Artisphere Cultural Center, Arlington County Government (Arlington VA). USA.
Deadline: asap.
http://goo.gl/Vfomc

Binghamton University is seeking a Director of the University Art Museum. UK.
Deadline: Open until Position Filled
http://binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=31138

Volkswagen Fellows at MoMA PS1: Call for applications for year-long fellows to work on a large scale international exhibition at MoMA PS1. USA.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://www.momaps1.org/vwfellows

Das Festival CULTURESCAPES sucht per sofort eine/n ProduktionsleiterIn Bildende Kunst & Musik: 80-100%. Basel, CH.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://www.kulturmanagement.org/fileadmin/user_upload/redaktion/Stellenausschreibungen_2012/10_4_12_Culturescapes.pdf

Galerie Thomas: Assistent/in der Geschäftsleitung – München, Germany.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://www.galerie-thomas.de/Galerie-Thomas-Modern/en/home_en/the-team.html

La Haute école d’art et de design – Genève met au concours le poste de :
Chargé-e de cours HES en Arts visuels / Orientation WORK.MASTER. Pratiques artistiques contemporaines. Taux d’activité : 40-50%. Entrée en fonction : 1er septembre 2012. Switzerland.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://head.hesge.ch/-LA-HEAD-GENEVE-RECRUTE-#IMG/jpg/wrist_watch_03-3.jpg

Chargé-e de cours HES en Histoire et théorie de l’architecture, de l’architecture d’intérieur et du design. Taux d’activité : 40%. Switzerland.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://head.hesge.ch/-LA-HEAD-GENEVE-RECRUTE-#IMG/jpg/wrist_watch_03-3.jpg

La Haute école d’art et de design – Genève met au concours le poste de :
Chargé-e de cours HES en photographie technique/pratique. Taux d’activité : 50%. Entrée en fonction : 1er septembre 2012. Switzerland.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://head.hesge.ch/-LA-HEAD-GENEVE-RECRUTE-#IMG/jpg/wrist_watch_03-3.jpg

Die HPZ-Stiftung sucht eine(n) Mitarbeiter(in) mit kunsthistorischer und medienwissenschaftlicher Vorbildung zur Assistenz und Sekretariat des Vorstands. Düsseldorf, Germany.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://www.hans-peter-zimmer-stiftung.org/kontakt/info/

Mount Holyoke College – Five-College Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship
in African Art 2012-2015. USA.
Deadline: May 3, 2012
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/about/employment.html

Die Kulturdirektion der Landeshauptstadt Erfurt sucht 1 Kurator/in: Forum Konkrete Kunst/Kunst im őffentlichen Raum/Aussermuseale Kunst. Germany.
Deadline: May 4, 2012
http://www.erfurt.de/ef/de/leben/beruf/stellen/print_42359.shtml

Renke B. and Pamela M. Thye Curatorial Fellowship (Joseph Beuys) at Harvard Art Museums. Busch-Reisinger Museum. Inquiries may also be directed to the Human Resources Office (telephone - +1 617.495.3555. USA.
Deadline: May 4, 2012
http://employment.harvard.edu

Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellowship at the Harvard Art Museums is
designed to broaden the experience of persons embarking on professional
and scholarly careers in art history who are considering the museum
profession. Cambridge, MA, USA.
Deadline: May 4, 2012
http://employment.harvard.edu./

Volkswagen Fellows at MoMA PS1

Deadline: April 30, 2012

The Volkswagen Fellows will assist various museum departments in research, writing, correspondence and other tasks required to produce a large scale international exhibition at MoMA PS1 in 2013, which will be made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen of America.

http://www.momaps1.org/news/view/83

EUNIC is delighted to present the Curatorial Exchange Programme 2012 for internship in European museums and galleries. Young Russian curators will get internships (from 3 weeks to 2 months) in the leading museums and contemporary art galleries in Europe.
Deadline: May 4, 2012
http://www.eunic-online.eu/node/534

The British Museum Africa, Oceania and the Americas is looking for a Curator: American Collections, Full-time, Permanent. London, UK.
Deadline: May 9, 2012
http://goo.gl/ON0Y7

Museum Folkwang: Freie Mitarbeit / Werkvertrag, Kunst- / Kulturvermittlung. Germany.
Deadline: May 13, 2012
http://www.museum-folkwang.de/de/information/team.html

Heart of Brooklyn, a nonprofit cultural consortium, seeks a dynamic self-starter and highly motivated individual as Director to manage the partnership activities. NYC, USA.
Deadline: May 15, 2012
http://www.heartofbrooklyn.org/jobs.htm

Toledo Museum of Art Fellowship Program in collaboration with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation invites applications from candidates who completed their doctoral studies within the last five years in art history or a related discipline. USA.
Deadline: May 15, 2012
http://www.toledomuseum.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Position_MellonFellowship2013.pdf

 

 

STUDIES & SCHOLARSHIPS (ACADEMICS, ARTISTS, CURATORS & CRITICS):

 

Lynne Newman Foundation scholarships: Master’s Degree programmes at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London and New York
Deadline: as long as space is available. Programmes begin in September
http://www.sothebysinstitute.com/Admissions/Overview.aspx

ERSTE Foundation offers four fellowships for young artists and four fellowships for emerging curators from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2012.
Deadline: April 30, 201
http://www.erstestiftung.org/blog/fellowships-for-curators-and-artists-at-salzburg-summer-academy/

maHKU (Utrecht, The Netherlands) offers one-year Master of Arts programs in visual art or design. maHKU Master degrees are internationally acknowledged and accredited by the Open University Validation Services in London (OUVS).
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://www.mahku.nl/application/index.html

École du Magasin, Curatorial Training Program Session 22 (2012–2013): Call for applications. Grenoble, France.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://www.ecoledumagasin.com

BIAA Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship 2012/13 in Turkey. Applicants must have a demonstrable connection with a UK University.
Deadline: May 1, 2012
http://biaa.ac.uk/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=93

Kingston University London: Masters studentships for 2012/13. UK.
Deadline: May 1, 2012
http://www.kingston.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research/funding/ahrc-studentships/

Master programme Arts in Public Spheres at Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais ECAV. Switzerland.
Deadline: May 11, 2012
http://www.ecav.ch/en/

Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa 2012-2013: call for Applications for Admission to PhD Programmes (art history) – Academic Year 2012-2013. Reserved to Citizens of European Union Nations – Faculty of Arts, Italy.
Deadline: August 1, 2012
http://www.sns.it/en/didattica/corsodiperfezionamento/lettere/

 

 

RESIDENCIES (ARTISTS):

 

 

The Cornaro Institute, Cyprus

 

Deadline: 1 August 2012

 

The Cornaro Institute (formerly the Cyprus College of Art) is an international cultural organisation located on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. We invite applications for our programmes and artists residencies starting in September 2012.

 

http://blog.re-title.com/opportunities/2012/04/cornaro-institute-cyprus.html

I-Park/Expressiones Residency Program for Latin American Visual Artists, East Haddam, CT, USA.
Deadline: April 29, 2012
http://www.i-park.org/residency.html

Artist in residence program at Triangle, Marseille, France.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://www.trianglefrance.org/en/residence/

Artists-in-residence program of ARCUS Project 2012 IBARAKI has been opened. Japan.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://www.arcus-project.com/en/residence/

The Harvestworks New Works Artist in Residency Program, NYC, USA.
Deadline: May 1, 2012
http://www.harvestworks.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28:new-works-residency&catid=21&Itemid=53

The Distillery Residency is an 8 week free workspace-only residency running from June 18th  to August 17th  at The Distillery, a former rum distillery and arts building in South Boston, MA, USA.
Deadline: May 1, 2012
http://distilleryresidency.org/

The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts & Literary Arts Residency Program. Italy.
Deadline: May 1, 2012
http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-center

Residency program, Art Foundation of Schloss Plüschow (Germany)
Deadline: May 3, 2012
http://www.plueschow.de/

Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), the first artist-in-residency program in the United States exclusively for GLBT emerging artists, is now accepting applications for its 2012 Summer Residency Program in New York.
Deadline: May 4, 2012
http://www.fireislandartistresidency.org

McColl Center for Visual Art’s residency program: UNC CHARLOTTE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE. USA.
Deadline: May 7, 2012
http://www.mccollcenter.org/artists-in-residence/submit-materials-for-residency-programs

McColl Center for Visual Art’s residency program: Carolinas Healthcare Artist-in-Residence. USA.
Deadline: May 7, 2012
http://www.mccollcenter.org/artists-in-residence/submit-materials-for-residency-programs

Artist Residence “The Old School”, Gorna Lipnitsa, Bulgaria.
Deadline: May 9, 2012
http://www.gornalipnitsa.com/

From the beginning of the year 2012 offers Art Center Haihatus in Central Finland an opportunity for artists practicing any art form to work temporarily in its Utopia house.
Deadline: May 15, 2012
http://www.en.haihatus.fi/

Interacciones urbano_rural provides periods of residence in Terra UNA (Brazil), Residencia en la Tierra (Colombia) and CENTRO RURAL DE ARTE(Argentina).
Deadline: May 15, 2012
http://www.terrauna.org.br/urbanorural2012/

Big Bang Projects: Art at Zero KM Summer Residency Workshop, Italy.
Deadline: May 20, 2012
http://www.bigbangprojects.org/

2013 AIR Taipei Open Call for Arts-in-Residence. Taiwan.
Deadline: May 20, 2012
http://www.artistvillage.org/Residence/Residence

Lawndale Artist Studio Program Call for Applications, Houston, USA.
Deadline: May 25, 2012
http://www.lawndaleartcenter.org/studio-program/application12-13.shtml

ComPeung Grant 2012 – Call for applications, Thailand.
Deadline: May 31, 2012
http://www.compeung.org/_images/cp_grants/grants.html

Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder residency: Lademoen artists’ studios are in the centre of Trondheim, Norway.
Deadline: June 1, 2012
http://www.lkv.no/eng/guest-recidency.htm

Amsterdam OAZO-AIR call for 2013: OAZO AIR invites artists of all disciplines, curators and cultural producers to live and work temporarily (1 – 3 months) in Amsterdam Zuidoost. Netherlands.
Deadline: June 1, 2012
http://www.oazo-air.com/

The SIM Residency is an international residency located in Reykjavík and run by SÍM, The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists.
Deadline: June 5, 2012
http://www.sim.is/sim-res

Klaustrid (the Monastery) is a residence for artists, writers and scholars, Icelandic or foreign. Iceland.
Deadline: June 15, 2012
http://www.skriduklaustur.is/ensksida/klaustrid/klaustrid.htm

Residency at 33officinacreativa: a small but active cultural association based in an old church/theatre. Toffia, Italy.
Deadline: June 25, 2012
http://33oc.wordpress.com/

ISLAND Hill House Artist Residency Program, East Jordan, MI, USA.
Deadline: July 2, 2012
http://artmeetsearth.org/artistresidency.html

IAAB (International Artists Exchange Program) is an exchange program for artists and curators. Basel, CH.
Deadline: July 8, 2012
http://www.iaab.ch/

Residencia Corazón Casa de Artistas, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Deadline: August 1, 2012
http://www.residenciacorazon.com.ar/

Applications to Nes Artist Residency may be submitted at any time (open call). Iceland.
Deadline: Anytime
http://neslist.is/application/application-form/

McColl Center for Visual Art’s residency program: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE + ENVIRONMENTAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE. USA.
Deadline: Anytime
http://www.mccollcenter.org/artists-in-residence/submit-materials-for-residency-programs

Artist in Residency Program, Shanghai @ The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China.
Deadline: Anytime.
http://www.swatch-art-peace-hotel.com/apply

 

 

RESIDENCIES (CRITICS, CURATORS):

Air Celeia: Open Call – International Curatorial Residency, Slovenia
Deadline: May 1, 2012
http://www.celeia.info/program_umetnik_na_delovnem_obisku

Amsterdam OAZO-AIR call for 2013: OAZO AIR invites artists of all disciplines, curators and cultural producers to live and work temporarily (1 – 3 months) in Amsterdam Zuidoost. Netherlands.
Deadline: June 1, 2012
http://www.oazo-air.com/

Klaustrid (the Monastery) is a residence for artists, writers and scholars, Icelandic or foreign. Iceland.
Deadline: June 15, 2012
http://www.skriduklaustur.is/ensksida/klaustrid/klaustrid.htm

IAAB (International Artists Exchange Program) is an exchange program for artists and curators. Basel, CH.
Deadline: July 8, 2012
http://www.iaab.ch/

 

 

COMPETITIONS, EXHIBITION PROPOSALS (CURATORS):

 

ERSTE Foundation offers four fellowships for young artists and four fellowships for emerging curators from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to take part in a course of their choice at the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg 2012.
Deadline: April 30, 201
http://www.erstestiftung.org/blog/fellowships-for-curators-and-artists-at-salzburg-summer-academy/

Főrderprogramm *KURATOR der Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, CH.
Deadline: August 31, 2012
http://ausschreibung.kurator.ch/Ausschreibung/Idee/tabid/54/Default.aspx

Open Society Arts and Culture Program for individuals and organizations: the Call is open to applicants from and activities in one or more of the following countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. 
Deadline: December 31, 2012
dbolganschi@osi.hu

 

 

COMPETITIONS, EXHIBITIONS, FESTIVALS & PUBLIC ART PROPOSALS (ARTISTS):

 

Wirksworth Festival invites high quality, ambitious and engaging work from national and international artists as well as artists in the locality and the region. UK.
Deadline: April 18, 2012
http://www.wirksworthfestival.co.uk/home/trails-applications-for-2012/curated-programme-applications-

Maria Jose Jove Foundation – 5th International Visual Arts Prize 2012 for artists aged under 35,  Spain.
Deadline: April 20, 2012
http://www.fundacionmariajosejove.org/

Without Walls invites artists and companies from any discipline to propose ideas for the development of new outdoor work for presentation in 2013, UK.
Deadline: April 20, 2012
http://www.withoutwalls.uk.com/news.php

ANGELIKA OPEN 2012: an award of £1,000 will be made to one selected artist and the winner will be offered an exhibition in the  Gallery program. High Wycombe, UK.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://www.angelikastudios.co.uk/Angelika_Studios/Angelika_Open_2012.html

The International Ibsen Scholarships: For Henrik Ibsen related projects worldwide.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://www.ibsenawards.com/scholarship/news/announcing-the-ibsen-scholarships-2012/

The Cynthia Corbett Gallery announces the Young Masters Art Prize 2012 call for applications, London
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://youngmastersartprize.wordpress.com/

Kernel Festival (ELECTRONIC MUSIC / AUDIOVISUAL MAPPING / INTERACTIVE & DIGITAL ART / TEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE) launches an international open call addressed to young talents under 35. Italy.
Deadline: April 30, 2012
http://www.kernelfestival.net/en/open-call-012-2/

The Department of Visual Arts, Weber State University is requesting artist, landscape architect or team qualifications for the redesign of the Ora R. “Dick” & Edna Ione Hall Sculpture Garden. USA.
Deadline: June 1, 2012
http://departments.weber.edu/dova/indexpdfs/HallRFQ.pdf

VIDEOHOLICA Video Art Festival in Varna, Bulgaria is accepting now video art submissions for its 5th anniversary edition.
Deadline: June 30, 2012
http://www.videoholica.org
Open Society Arts and Culture Program for individuals and organizations: the Call is open to applicants from and activities in one or more of the following countries: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan. 
Deadline: December 31, 2012
dbolganschi@osi.hu

Call For Submissions, The New Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
Deadline: Anytime
http://www.thenewgallery.org/submit

 

Bad at Sports first came on my reader radar for the interviews. Or, more precisely, the conversations. Beyond the accessibility of the medium, podcasting’s greatest contribution to broadcasting is the reintroduction of elastic time. Without the constraints of advertising and station breaks and schedules and all that, a program can last as long as it needs to. At least that’s the idea. I’ve found the long, wide-ranging interviews heard on this podcast and in others to be enormously instructive in thinking about the interview, in how conversational it can be and in what types of questions or prompts are most productive in elucidating the practices and personalities of those involved.

My feeling at this point is that a great deal of my output here at Bad at Sports will be interviews with artists working with moving images and in time-based media. In thinking through how I want these to function in the coming year, I’ve assembled a few smart, funny, strange or otherwise interesting interviews I’ve seen or heard in the last little while that have opened up the form to me a bit.

Felix Bernstein, a precocious 17 at the time of the interview, spoke with the late George Kuchar in 2010. I’ve experienced a lot of interviews with George and he’s always funny and sharp and excellently dodges whatever questions might seek to polish the stained, patinated scum skin of his cinematic cesspool. I am typically simultaneously in love with his responses and estranged by how they’re evoked. His best interviews were always those he performed on and by himself in his diary and weather films. Felix, though seems a nice foil for his quasi-serious, arch antics of a reclining George. This kid does well and it’s a nice glimpse into this period of his life.

Screening Room was a Boston television program that ran through much of the 1970s. Its host, Robert Gardner, is a filmmaker, visual anthropologist and academic who served as Director of Harvard’s Film Study Center for 40 years. The show featured long-form interviews with critical filmmakers of the period and is still a wonderful resource for learning about these makers and getting to know the texture of their personalities. Here is a short portion from his interview with Bruce Baillie. Or, at least, it’s something like that. The film shown is also quite extraordinary.

I think Charles Bernstein (no relation, at least to the best of my knowledge, to Felix) is simply terrific. I’ve long admired his poetry and his critical work in poetics is astounding both for its breadth and its depth. He’s a great critic in part because of how well he listens. He’s also very generous and enormously funny. As an interviewer, here are three examples of what he does well. First, from a series of commercials in the late-90s in which Jon Lovitz played the author of the Yellow Pages. I vaguely remembered these from when they initially aired but have gone back and enjoyed them tremendously. In this long cut, Bernstein’s mental agility and openness to the expansive nature of poetics enables the joke to take on a much grander scale. If only Lovitz could keep up.

Here, Bernstein interviews pioneering underground filmmaker Ken Jacobs on his excellent Close Listening radio show. My favorite moment is at around 25:40, when the weight of Jacobs’ Marxian humanism and empath(et)ic anxiety is revealed.

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Finally, here is Bernstein in the video-maker role, performing seasick camera moves and asking the amazing Caroline Bergvall language questions. A button film, but a wormhole into longer discussions.

This is a weird one. Filmmaker and curator Tyrone Davies is on the news in Missouri, chatting up his traveling film festival and then…

This video has been seen almost two million times. Davies was able to parlay his infamy into a spot on the tosh.0 show on Comedy Central. Beyond all this, of course, Davies is a real artist and one who uses the medium of television in interesting and inventive ways. The way internet video and video commingle, antagonize and sometimes exist as one is the subject for a whole other post, but this is one in a long queue ripe for examination. Or at least “Like”ing.

Finally, here’s an interview of sorts with the great filmmaker, ethnomusicologist and lifer Harry Smith. This is from late in Smith’s life, but his ebullience, defiance and wit are still ferocious.

For whatever it’s worth, I cut this post in more than half, so let’s just call this Part One.