2007 Nov 12 to Nov 18

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
8.30pm. Frick Fine Arts Auditorium
for the FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Pittsburgh Premiere of the film
A Paper Tiger (Un Tigre de Papel) by Luis Ospina (Colombia, 2007)
Awarded with the National Documentary Prize—Colombia, 2007.
RECEPTION. 8.00PM. FRICK FINE ARTS CLOISTER
(offered by colombiaenpittsburgh.org)
Q&A with the director to follow
Generously supported by:
The Modern Languages and History Departments at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), UCIS, A& S Graduate Studies Office, Cultural Studies Program, Studio Arts Program, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, and the English Department at The University of Pittsburgh
First Short Film and Documentary Festival organized by Los Amigos del Cine Latino Americano
for more information about the Festival please visit: http://amigosdelcinelatinoamericano.googlepages.com/
synopsis of the films available at http://rojaszotelo.googlepages.com/shortfilmanddocumentaryfestival
About the film and the director:
Based on the life of artist Pedro Manrique Figeroa (a leftist militant) who has been called the pioneer of collage art in Colombia after artists Lucas Ospina, François Bucher, and Bernardo Ortiz discovered his work in 1996; the film attempts to construct a biographical sketch of Manrique Figueroa, proposing nothing less than the retelling and re-imagining of a crucial period of Colombian history, from the civil war that began in the 1940s to the guerrilla wars and the new drug cartels of the 1970s and 1980s. After a series of national and international exhibits of his work Marique Figeroa has become central to understand the fragmented history of a complex nation, this film A Paper Tiger is a collage itself, placing art and politics, truth and lies side by side, letting documentary and fiction intermingle.
Luis Ospina was born in Cali, Colombia, in 1949. He studied film at USC and UCLA in California. His film-related activities include not only the many films he has directed but also his efforts as a Film Club organizer, co-founder of the film magazine "Ojo al Cine", teacher at universities, critic and chronicler for journals and magazines. He has also directed film workshops and edited several books. A collection of his articles and essays was recently published in Colombia. Up to date he has made two feature-length fiction films and more than forty short films and documentaries.

Tue Nov 13 - 5 PM
Kresge Recital Hall, College of Fine Arts
The School of Art presents Ken Rinaldo, an artist and theorist who creates interactive multimedia installations that blur the boundaries between the organic and inorganic. He’s been working at the intersection of art and biology for more than two decades in the categories of interactive robotics, biological art, artificial life, interspecies communication, rapid prototyping and digital imaging.

Nov 13 - 6 to 8 PM
CMU - McConomy Auditorium
Lecture with John Bowe
John Bowe is the author of Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy. He will be giving a lecture on how outsourcing and immigration fraud allow forced labor to continue in the United States while most of us notice nothing but the everyday low price at the checkout counter. After the lecture and Q&A, a reception and book signing will follow.

Tuesday, November 13 - 4:30 PM
College of Fine Arts-Alumni Concert Hall
Riccardo Schulz, Associate Teaching Professor of Recording Technology, School Music
Diapason d'Or Award-winning recorded performance of George Crumb's Black Angels and Makrokosmos III
Join the Center for the Arts in Society for a recorded performance of American composer George Crumb's famous Black Angels and Makrokosmos III, compositions for two pianos and percussion.
The recording, on the Mode record label, is conducted by Juan Pablo Izquierdo and features Cuarteto Latinoamericano pianists Luz Manriquez and Walter Morales, tenor Douglas Ahlstedt, and several students from Carnegie Mellon's percussion studio. Riccardo Schulz and Harold Walls collaborated extensively with Maestro Izquierdo in the editing and mastering of the recording.
This recently released recording won the coveted "Diapason d'Or" Award, the most important independent European record prize in classical music.

Wed Nov 14, 4:30pm (refreshments at 4:15)
Location: CMU - Wean Hall 7500
Speaker: Red Whitaker, Robotics institute
Topic: Boss, winner of the 2007 DARPA Urban Grand Challenge

Thu Nov 15 - 4 PM
CMU - Wean Hall 7500
The School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series presents the Hank Suz Chi Wan Memorial Lecture by Jeff Hawkins, founder of Numenta, founder of Palm and Handspring, and author of "On Intelligence." His talk is titled "Hierarchical Temporal Memory: How a New Theory of Neocortex May Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines." "Distinguished Donuts" will precede the lecture at 3:30 p.m. outside the auditorium.