Power
continued from page 5A
“We thought we had equal oppor
tunities,” she said, but after the fall
of communism, she realized that
she had simply “been sold” on one
version of feminism.
“It’s necessary for people to be
aware of other versions of femi
nism,” she said.
She said there are many different
kinds of feminism and as many dif
ferent groups that are each fighting
for different forms of feminism.
Many people try to put women in
certain categories, Karmadjieva
said, because it is much easier for re
searchers to “conceptualize people
and put them into boxes.”
But women don’t fit conveniently
into a categorical box, she said.
“This year (the Women’s Center)
has a really good balance of ideas,”
she said, and they are “bringing in
people from different venues of life”
for the film festival.
Kathleen Karlyn said much of the
debate on “girl power” in entertain
ment stems from the idea that noth
ing in the mainstream can do any
thing positive for feminism. The
more radical messages will always
be on the fringes, she said.
“Any artist that is working in the
Women’s Film Festival
Rims begin at 5 p.m. Friday
and Saturday m 207 Chapman.
‘The Righteous Babes’—commenting
on the commodification of feminism
through ‘girt power in music
‘Performing the Border’—looking at
the growing numbers of Mexican
women living and working in poverty
in the town of Ciudad Juarez on the
Mexican-U.S. border
‘Hammering It Out: Women In the
Construction Zone’—exploring
issues of identity and equality of
women and changing gender roles in
the working place, focusing on the
construction industry
‘Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter*—
an Emmy award-winning film about a
family, love, memory and aging as a
daughter deals with her mother’s battle
against Alzheimer's Disease
‘A Boy Named Sue*—a documentary
following the six-year transition of a
transsexual man who was born
biologically a woman
‘Age 12: Love with a little L‘—a
short film addressing the construction
of the lesbian identity during
childhood and teenage years
‘Selbe’—a film delving into the social
and economic lives of women in
Senegal, West Africa.
Contact the Women’s Center
af 346-4095 for more information.
mainstream is going to compromise
her principles,” said Karlyn, associ
ate professor in the English depart
ment. And perhaps this could be
judged as “selling-out.”
But she said as long as men con
trol the media, they will make mon
ey from the women that are por
trayed. Men make money from
producing films with “girl power,”
but just because men are making
money from these films doesn’t
mean the films are anti-feminist,
she said.
“The wider the audience, the
more diluted the message will be,”
she said.
Karlyn said that she often uses the
film “Scream” as an example to
show how feminism can be found
in many places. She said the female
characters in this movie could be
viewed as empowered women.
“We need to find (feminist) mes
sages wherever they occur,” Karlyn
said.
E-mail reporter Jen West
at jenwest@dailyemerald.com.
JAMCON
continued from page 5A
then engage in a 15- to 20-minute
improvisational session. While the
bands are playing, a film made by
two University students will be
shown in the background.
“It’s going to have ‘hots in it,”
Greg Dusic, a co^-creator of the
video, said. “And footage of Eu
gene and all of the ‘bots in Eugene.
It really speaks for itself.”
After the bands play, Noel
Lawrence, a filmmaker from San
Francisco, will show his under
ground horror film. Next, two hip
hop DJs will alternate spinning
songs while people take a ride in
the “galaxy glider,” a kind of
whirling teeter-totter. One person
sits in the control station of the
glider and plays a keyboard while
the rider lays in a hammock-like
platform and listens to the music
over headphones while together
they float around the center of the
contraption.
Besides the events of JAMCON,
there will be a variety of other art
displays, including three-dimen
sional paintings and interactive fur
niture. There will also be dispos
able cameras with attached card
board kaleidoscopes — filled with
wire and other found objects — for
taking pictures of JAMCON.
The organizers started JAMCON
as a way to establish a small month
ly art event, but it turned into one
giant multimedia event.
“(JAMCON) is for artists
to show and share art.”
Mi Jeong Kim
JAMCON organizer
Mi Jeong Kim, also a graduate art
student and organizer, said that
JAMCON is a place for people to see
the art of the community in an im
provisational and interactive way.
“It’s for artists to show and share
art,” Kim said.
Moscato agreed.
“We go to a huge university with
20,000-some students, and there is
a rather large art department and
small galleries, but there isn’t much
collaboration between depart
ments,” he said.
Moscato said that he wanted
something different.
Before coming to Oregon, Mosca
to was involved with non-profit
media centers in Buffalo, N.Y., and
he wanted to establish something
similar here. The event’s organizers
feel that it is important for the-com
munity to have a spot for new art to
come together.
“I just read this study that
showed that there are more art cen
ters in ethnically and economically
diverse areas,” Moscato said.
Moscato also wants to see more
media-based art that incorporates
television, video, computers and
new media to counter the increas
ing homogenization of art.
Moscato decried the growing cor
porate philanthropy in art, because
it seems as if art is decreasingly
controlled by artists.
“They’re building a McDonald’s
in the Smithsonian,” he said.
JAMCON is targeted at anyone in
the University and surrounding
community, especially young peo
ple and artists.
“This is where art is heading in
the future,” Moscato said.
E-mail reporter Alix Kerl
at alixkerl@dailyemerald.com.
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