Event: Artist Janice Tanaka will present the 14th Annual RTF Gender and Sexuality Lecture, “This Ever Present Gap.” Tanaka will screen several of her films and participate in a Q&A session following each screening.
When: 3:00pm - Screening of Who's Going to Pay for These Donuts, Anyway? (1992, 58m) and Q&A
6:30pm - Screening of Memories from the Department of Amnesia (1990, 13m) and Swimming in Air (2008, 28m) and Q&A
Where: CMA 3.116
Background: Janice Tanaka began in the arts with the Allegro American Ballet Company, studied music composition at the Conservatorio Internaccional de Musica and later built an analog computer for processing video imagery where she began experimenting with image processing as a narrative form. Her work influenced by these early experiences blends social and political observations, philosophical inquiries, and personal introspection into an intricately woven visual collage of live action, and electronically enhanced imagery, transforming the autobiographical into the universal. Her work has been recognized nationally and internationally, receiving several awards, the most recent is the 2003 Rockefeller Film/Video Fellowship.
This event is supported by the Department of Radio-Television-Film, the William P. Hobby Centennial Professorship, the RTF Master Class, the UT Documentary Center, and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies.