Thursday, April 23, 1998
Speakers
Brenda L. Cotto-Escalera is a Puertorriquena theatre artist who has worked extensively as director, writer, dramaturg, and sometimes performer. Her work focuses on the development of new performance through collective creation and actor-centered research and improvisation. She also works with Popular Theater techniques in a variety of grass-roots community organizations. Her latest works include Motherlands (the exploration of a young Latina's coming of age while reconciling with her culture, her family, and her lesbian idenity), produced by Boston's Theater Offensive, and Pajareo Boricua (an allegory of Puerto Rican society done with bird puppets). Brenda is currently teaching at MIt, where she has developed courses on Contemporary Latin American Theater, Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S.A., and Gender Performance. She also teaches introductory courses on theater arts and studio courses on collective creation and actor-created theater.
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Glenn Kaino served as the board president of the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, where he developed a program to teach inner city children media literacy and the effective use of the internet. This program has now spun off into its own non-profit called On The Line, and is in the process of launching its pilot project, Waking Hours.
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Tara McPherson is an Assistant Professor of Critical Studies in the Film School at the University of Southern California. She is the co-editor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (forthcoming, Duke University) and is currently revising Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Place and Femininity in the Deep South, also for publication by Duke University Press.
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Erika Muhammad is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU, an instructor in the Graduate Communications Department at the New School for Social Research, and is a member of the Curatorial Department at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Muhammad writes for numerous publications including The Independent, Afterimage, and Ms. Magazine. Her work on new media by artists of color will be published in the forthcoming volume Strategies of Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video, edited by Janet Cutler and Phyllis Klotman.
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