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9/22 at noon: From Blockbuster to Art Films: Professional Perspectives on Visual Effects, Post Production, and Beyond

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nyu flagAs part of NYU Inauguration Celebration Week in honor of President Andrew Hamilton, NYU SPS and  The Center for Applied Liberal Arts is collaborating with the NYU Production Lab to host this special panel . It is open to the public, no RSVP required.

From Blockbuster to Art Films: Professional Perspectives on Visual Effects, Post Production, and Beyond

Overview: While it is easy to see the impact of graphic design, visual effects, and post-production in Hollywood blockbuster movies, many new filmmakers may not understand the value of these tools for the development of cinema. Whether to reduce costs, plan a cinematic sequence, or achieve an impossible shot, digital tools have a fundamental role in contemporary filmmaking. In this 1­-hour panel discussion, three film production professionals will present a sample of their work and talk about their experiences working with digital methods to support the creation of cinema. The panel will conclude with a Q&A discussion. Afterwards, stay at the Lab to see demonstrations from NYU alumni.

NYUproductionlab2Location: 16 Washington Place, Lower Level

Panelists:

erolBioPicErol Gunduz  is a New York City based artist and educator who works with 3D printing technology to transform virtual designs into real world sculptures. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Syracuse University with a focus on 3D design and sculpture, his Master of Science (MS) in Digital Imaging and Design from New York University Center for Advanced Digital Applications, and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Art and Art Education (EdDCT) with an emphasis on studio teaching from Columbia University. As a digital artist, he has worked on the Hollywood productions of The Incredible Hulk (2008) and Iron Man (2008). Erol’s fine artwork has been exhibited in New York galleries at Columbia University, New York University, Harlem, and Chelsea.

mishZabranksaVotruba_headShotMisha Zabranska is writer/director and animator. In her career she has used computer generated imagery in a number of non­traditional ways. She developed her broad storytelling skills creating a number of original short films like “Runs”, “Passers by” or “The First Political Speech”. For many years Misha was a Lead Animator at Industrial Light and Magic; a company founded by George Lucas. She contributed to films like “Star Wars: Episode I”, “Frankenstein”, “Green Mile”, “Small Soldiers”. While she enjoyed being a team player in the Visual Effects and CG Animation Field, her curiosity and freedom lead her to hybrid forms of expression focusing on the emerging mixed­media arena and developing a number of performance: “ReCreate”, “J.S. Bach: Art of Fugue”, “Spirits” or “Finn” in collaboration with Mabou Mines. Misha is also an Adjunct Professor at ITP, Tisch School of the Arts.

brad_headshot_onwhite_v01Bradley Friedman is a Visual Effects (VFX) professional and graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts Undergraduate Film and Television (UGFTV) department and Center for Advanced Digital Applications (CADA) masters program, both at NYU. His professional experience includes: post production at the Jim Henson Company; high­end Previsuaization (Previs) on Marvel’s, IronMan; Previs, sequence design, VFX and Post Production on Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Voyage of Time; and many other film and TV projects over the years. He was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work on The Tree of Life and co­presented the work at The Academy’s VFX Bakeoff. He also served as a Director\Manager at Method Studios, a large global VFX company. Currently, he is developing his own content and technology base for Mixed Reality and other mediums.

gavinGuerra_headShotGavin Guerra has been creating award winning visual FX for over 20 years. His experience ranges from movies and TV to video games, theater and medical simulation. As a visual effects supervisor Gavin has a wide range of tools at his disposal, not least of which is the critical eye that he brings to every project. His broad experience enables him to lead teams of various sizes and diverse disciplines. Having developed good working relationships with clients and artists world­wide, Gavin is uniquely qualified to bring great talent to any project and create a level of comfort and trust to both artist and client alike.

New York Circle of Translators’ Annual Speed Networking Session

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networkingfiguresThis Thursday from 6 to 8pm, the New York Circle of Translators will be hosting its annual speed networking event for current members.  Bring your 60-second pitch and your business cards and prepare to meet project managers, interpretation service coordinators, and other language industry professionals at our second annual speed networking session, which will be followed by a wine reception where you can continue the conversation with the people you’ve met and mingle with fellow translators and interpreters.
circle of translators incLocation: NYU School of Professional Studies
15 Barclay Street, Room 430 | New York, NY 10007 (between Broadway and Church St.) – Remember to bring photo ID to show to lobby security staff
Please RSVP to: nycirclemanager14@gmail.com on or before Wednesday, September 21, 2016
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Fall 2016 courses  at NYU SPS’s Center for Applied Liberal Arts:

Courses in Translation

Courses in Interpreting

Courses in Foreign Languages

MS in Translation

Negotiating Translation Agreements- from ATA

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CONTRACT3Today (Sept. 8) at noon, the American Translator’s Association is hosting a webinar on negotiating translation agreements. From the ATA website: “Using a series of case studies, presenter Paula Arturo will demonstrate strategies that work in real-world translation business agreements. Particular attention will be paid to how translators can adapt negotiating techniques to different types of clients.” Registration information available here.ATA

ATA is a great resource for any prospective or practicing translator. Apart from certification exams, ATA also provides networking opportunities through its chapters and affiliates.

Fall 2016 programs at NYU SPS’s Center for Applied Liberal Arts:

Courses in Translation

Courses in Interpreting

Courses in Foreign Languages

MS in Translation

Art & Cultural Heritage Crime Symposium Nov. 1-3

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emptyframesRegistration is now open for the Art and Cultural Heritage Crime Symposium taking place at NYU November 1-3. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) currently ranks art crime as the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world. The increase in international art transactions has incubated a booming market for stolen and fraudulent art, and major US arts institutions still grapple with repatriation of stolen or looted objects in their collections. Co-organized by Jane C.H. Jacob, art historian and provenance research expert, Jacob Fine Art, Inc., Chris Marinello, director and founder, Art Recovery Group, and Alice Farren-Bradley, Museum Security Network, the symposium brings together experts from major museums and auction houses, NYU’s School of Law and School of Professional Studies, the US Department of Homeland Security, and the President’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee, as well as independent scholars and authors, art crime victims, art crime attorneys, forensic scientists, and other major players working to address art crime worldwide.

noselesssculptureJoin us and learn about the legal, forensic, governmental, and political strategies being employed to address the enormity of this global phenomenon. Topics include the history of fakes and forgeries, insurance fraud, art theft and art scams, scientific and forensic approaches, provenance research, cultural repatriation, issues facing auction houses and purchasers, and current case studies.

Additional information and registration links: http://www.sps.nyu.edu/academics/departments/humanities-arts-and-writing/events/special-events.html

Fall 2016 courses in art business:

Law and Ethics in the Art Market

Today’s American and International Art Market

The Art Dealer in the 21st Century 

Fine Art as a Financial Asset

Post-War and Contemporary Art Movements and Markets

Starting a Successful Art Business

The Art Auction

Fall 2016 Translation and Interpreting Courses at CALA

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CALA will be offering a wide variety of Career Advancement courses in Translation and Interpreting this fall! Taught by industry experts, our courses will help you develop your expertise and prepare you for a successful career in this growing industry.

For more information and a full list of offerings, visit our website: https://www.sps.nyu.edu/professional-pathways/topics.html#PS0295

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The final day to take our translation admissions exam is September 9th, so don’t delay!

Free Talk on “Hitchcock’s Blondes” This Monday

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Stephen Whitty, one of CALA’s accomplished film studies instructors, will be hosting a free talk on “Hitchcock’s Blondes” this Monday, August 15th at 12:30pm in Bryant Park.  He will discuss the director’s iconic cast of leading ladies, his longstanding battle with censorship, and much more.

The material derives from the extensive research Whitty conducted for his most recent book, The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia, which was published this past June by Rowman and Littlefield.

For more information on the event, visit his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/stephen.whitty.film/posts/663410550476215

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Sign up for one of our cinema studies courses this fall!

The World According to the Coen Brothers’ Films: From Blood Simple to A Serious Man
More Great British Cinema
Espionage on Film: From the 39 Steps to Zero Dark Thirty
The Cinema and the City
International Politics and Film
Italian Cinema: Envisioning a Country’s Complex Identity
Superheroes: A Mythic Battle of History, Media, and Culture

‘Unflattening’ Our Ways of Seeing, Reading, and Writing: A Review

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New technologies and digital media have altered the way we read, write, make connections and communicate in our everyday lives. According to Kristine Rodriguez Kerr, Academic Director of CALA’s M.S. in Professional Writing program, that makes this a very exciting time for writers, communication specialists, and anyone interested in understanding the multimodal ways modern narratives are consumed and produced.

In their recently published review “Unflattening” Our Ways of Seeing, Reading, and Writing, Kristine and co-writer Lalitha Vasudevan review Nick Sousanis’  graphic novel Unflattening—a theoretically ground text that takes seriously the blending of visual images and written words. Written and drawn entirely as a graphic novel, Sousanis’ text embodies and validates the stance it advocates for. The unconventional format seeks to literally unflatten conceptions of meaning, reading, and writing through an active embrace of multimodality in its integration of images, design, and various genres of written text.

Going forward, Kristine and Lalitha will continue to co-edit the Professional Resources column for the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, inviting the journal’s readers to consider the impact of new and emerging communication practices on their pedagogical practices. To that end, they have lined up a mix of resources for review over the next year, including written texts, graphic novels, documentaries, and mixed-media pieces.

Read an excerpt from the review and check out some of our favorite pages from Unflattening below.

Inviting his readers to challenge “what Marcuse called ‘a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior’” (Sousanis, [6], p. 6), Sousanis encourages us to “step out and look anew” (pp. 25–26). In selecting this book as the inaugural text under our editorship of this column, we would like to encourage practitioners to engage Unflattening with the goal that Sousanis describes within the first chapter: “to discover new ways of seeing, to open spaces for possibilities, and to find ‘fresh methods’ for animating and awakening” (p. 27).
[… ] In reviewing Unflattening for this column, we echo Sousanis’s ([6]) statement that “to prepare good thinkers we need to cultivate good seers” (p. 81). Without being prescriptive, this text does the work of both advocating for and being an example of taking seriously image in concert with other modes of expression to open spaces of understanding and seeing differently.

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CALA’s M.S. in Professional Writing program encourages our students to develop multidimentional ways of thinking, seeing, and writing. Our program prepares students for critical, active, and engaging professional writing careers across industries.

For more information on the program, please visit our website:http://www.scps.nyu.edu/academics/departments/humanities-arts-and-writing/academics/ms-in-professional-writing.html

Applications for the Fall semester are currently under review, so don’t delay!

The Met Announces New Fashion Exhibit

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Aug1_met900x1200The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced its next fashion exhibit will be“Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion”,  scheduled to open on November 8th. The show will feature the museum’s  new acquisitions from the past decade,  exploring  techniques, trends, and materials that have shaped fashion from the 18th century to the present.

In this article from Artwire about the upcoming exhibit, curator Andrew Bolton explains  that the Costume Institute’s  mission is “to present fashion as a living art that interprets history, becomes part of the historical process, and inspires subsequent art.” The Institute now has a collection of over 35,000 costumes and accessories. This recent report from CBS news further describes fashion’s growing presence in museum collections.

But does fashion really belong in museums? Is it art? This Fall, students at the Center for Applied Liberal arts will explore these questions as they take take a behind-the-scenes look at fashion exhibitions in NYC’s most prestigious institutions, including the Museum of the City of New York, The Fashion Institute of Technology,  Cooper-Hewitt (and yes,  the Met as well).

For more information and to register for this course:

Fashion in Museums 

Other courses:

Women Artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art of the Afro-Atlantic: From Eeckhout to the Present

An Introduction to Abstract Art

Art and Architecture of Muslim India

New York in the Jazz Age

Vienna 1900

Splendid Legacies: Private Art Collections at the Met

Join Us for the Young Translators’ Summer Institute Conference!

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As detailed in a blog post earlier this week, CALA’s Young Translators’ Summer Institute has been an educational, fun, and enriching experience; the variety of activities and panels not only prepared students to one day become professional translators, but also gave them memories to last a lifetime. 
To celebrate the students and their achievement in the program, we will be hosting a conference day this Friday, August 5th from 9:30 am to 6:00pm. We  would like to invite all faculty, alumni, and M.S. students to join us. Please find the full schedule below.
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Young Translators’ Road Trip to Boston

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YoungTranslatorsBostonThis past weekend, 14 students from the Center for Applied Liberal Arts’ Young Translators Institute joined Prof. Julie Tay on a trip to Boston, Massachusetts. From a campus tour of Harvard University to lobster rolls at Quincy Market, students had a number of quintessential Boston experiences. Other highlights included a meeting with Martin Roberts, the founder of Linguistics Systems, Inc., a multi-million dollar translation services company that employs over 7,000 translators.
The Young Translators Institute is a three-week course of study that introduces students to the business and practice of translation and interpreting. Besides  going to Boston, students also visited the language service divisions at the United Nations in New York City as well as other major translation agencies and client organizations. The program culminates in a full-day symposium of panels and student presentations.

Here is a full  account of the Boston trip by By Zirui Zhou, a student from Beijing:

lobster“At the thought of a trip to Boston, the first thing that came to my mind was lobster. Personally, I had starved myself before the trip so that I could enjoy more tasty dishes when we got there!

Around 8 am, we set off from 7 E 12th Street with much curiosity. The bus was freezing but not so much as to cool our excitement. After a tedious four-hour ride, we arrived in Downtown Boston and headed straight for Quincy Market – a gourmet paradise: Steamed lobsters, lobster rolls, shrimp rolls, all of which shocked us at first sight. We had never seen lobsters that huge before. Juicy and natural, a pure taste of Boston, the lobsters seemed to translate the story of the deep Atlantic Ocean, revealing the character of the northeast itself.harvard

East Coast United States is of course famous for prestigious universities as well. The next morning, we toured Harvard with a very tall student guide, Ramsey, who turned out to be a football star! According to Ramsey, hidden in the peace and comfort of Harvard yard are three lies concerning John Harvard: The first is that the John Harvard statue is actually not of John Harvard himself; the second is that John Harvard was not the founder of Harvard University, which is astonishing; finally, the time tag carved on the statue is incorrect. We also learned that Harvard freshmen are entitled to limitless ice cream in the dinning halls everyday.

Next, we stopped briefly on Massachusetts Ave, long enough to admire the majestic MIT building and take more pictures. Then it was off to visit Linguistics Systems, Inc., situated on a quiet street also named Broadway but this one was in Cambridge. Here we learned a lot from the company founder Martin Roberts. Apparently, to keep pace with globalization which has penetrated different Industries, the process of translation has become more than a linguistic issue. Many machine translation tools are used nowadays to deal with the massive volume of text to be translated in different directions back and forth in many different languages. Mr. Roberts told us his company has over 7000 translators in their database! It was amazing how he turned a tiny outfit started in 1967 into a million dollar business.”

Fatigued and filled with memories, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who fell asleep on the ride back to New York, dreaming of limitless ice cream.”

CALA offers a variety of courses and programs in Foreign Languages, Translation, and Interpreting including:
Non-credit courses:
Diplomas: