Features Editor:
John Liebhardt
johnIiebhardt@dailyemerald. com
Thursday, March 14,2002
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Pulse calendar for this week’s events.
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Promoter Marc
Moscato (left) tells
sophomore Mike
Spangenberg about
JAMCONatabake
sale outside the
University
Bookstore on
Wednesday
afternoon.
Adam Amato Emerald
Adam Amato Emerald
Devin Dinihanian (left) and Jevon Cutler work to raise interest in JAMCON in a class Wednesday.
The pair performs in the band Chevron in Geriinger Hall as part of JAMCON.
The future of art
By Alix Kerl
Oregon Daily Emerald
After the pressures of dead week,
students can watch a robot-fu
eled film, gaze through home
crafted kaleidoscopes, and take a
ride on the trippy “galaxy glider”.
These things and more will appear at
JAMCON, a multimedia art event from
7 to 10 p.m. Saturday in Gerlinger
Hall. JAMCON is a forum for new and
experimental art than isn’t made for
commercial reasons.
Marc Moscato, a graduate art student
and one of the organizers of JAMCON,
said that he wants to create a new forum
for Eugene artists to express themselves.
“Art here is very commercially ori
ented; there is a lot of arts and crafts
made by hippies for the Saturday Mar
ket,” Moscato said. “We’re trying to
get people to open their minds up to
new and interesting things.”
JAMCON will open with a collabo
ration of video, dance and music, fol
lowed by a group of bands that will
play in a ‘jukebox’ performance. In
the jukebox, the bands Chevron, Lit
tle 2s, Alamoconspiracy and Mine37
will take turns playing songs and
Turn to JAMCON, page 7A
Film festival challenges patriarchy, discusses ‘girl power’
■The Womens Center tackles
issues of feminism in the media
during its annual festival
By Jen West
Oregon Daily Emerald
From “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” to
Britney Spears, the phenomenon of “girl
power” has generated millions of dollars
in entertainment revenues. But men
continue to be on the receiving end of
this multimillion-dollar money-maker
that has been driven by women.
The Women’s Center will address
these and other issues about feminism
in the media through its sixth annual
“Women’s Film Festival 2002,” running
at 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday in 207
Chapman Hall.
Men making money oil ot feminism is
problematic,” said Heather Mitchell,
events coordinator at the Women’s Center.
She said the film festival will address
issues such as “what it is to be sexy,” and
will include a variety of feminist theo
ries from around the world.
“The films all challenge the higher
structure of patriarchy,” Mitchell said,'
and they will “focus on personal and
political experiences of women in U.S.
and abroad.”
Lidia Karmadjieva, editor-in-chief of
the Siren, the Women’s Center newslet
ter, said feminism manifests itself in a
variety of ways in many countries. Dur
ing communist control in her native
country of Bulgaria, feminists tried to
make women like men, she said.
Turn to Power, page 7A
Courtesy Photo
Clockwise from far
left: ‘Hammering
It Out: Women in
the Construction
Zone,’‘A Boy
Named Sue’and
‘Righteous Babes’
are three of the
films that will be
shown this
weekend during
the ‘Women’s
Film Festival
2002.’
Pulse brief
‘Fight Club’ author
will join ‘Reactin' in the Rain’
University alumnus Chuck Palahnuik will
speak on Ken Kesey’s life and art at 7 p.m. to
day in the University Bookstore.
The discussion will be a part of “Readin’ in
the Rain,” a new city-wide reading program
that currently features reading and discussions
of Kesey’s novel “Sometimes a Great Notion.”
Palahnuik, a 1986 journalism graduate, hit
the literary scene in 1996 with the release of
the comically perverse, male-bonding drama
“Fight Club.” 20th Century Fox subsequently
made the book into a hit movie starring Brad
Pitt and Edward Norton. Palahnuik is also the
author of three other books, including his most
recent “Choke.” His fifth novel, “Lullaby” will
be published in the fall.
Don’t expect Palahnuik to read from his
own work, said Tom Gerald, author events
coordinator at the Bookstore. Rather, Palah
nuik would like to lead a
discussion on Kesey.
“Chuck is an artist
who has great respect for
what Kesey did,” Gerald
said. “And he very
specifically wants this
discussion to be about
Ken Kesey.”
Gerald said he ap
proached Palahnuik to
participate in “Reading
in the Rain” because he sees a strong simi
larities between the two Oregon novelists.
Gerald called Kesey books such as “One
Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” and “Some
times a Great Notion” allegories that tapped
straight into the Zeitgeist of a generation. He
said Palahnuik also connects in a similar
vein with a younger generation. “Just ob
serving younger people, Chuck really has
plugged into something that rings true to
their generation.”
—John Liebhardt