[Giving Birth: Margaret Mead 2]
An interview with cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead for the documentary Giving Birth: Four Portraits, directed by Julie Gustafson and John Reilly.
An interview with cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead for the documentary Giving Birth: Four Portraits, directed by Julie Gustafson and John Reilly.
In the early 1970’s Chicago’s Loop Center YWCA implemented a variety of anti-rape programs to combat societal beliefs and institutional practices that negatively impacted women. Self defense for women was one of these programs. In this video, comments by men, women and interviews with women self-defense instructors, Carol Whiteside, Sue Gould and Andra Medea, document prevailing attitudes about women’s ability to defend themselves from physical attack. The video shows techniques taught in the women’s self-defense classes at the Loop YWCA.
On the field at Comiskey Park, Tom Weinberg introduces Ant Farm’s 1975 video, Media Burn.
A single-channel version of a multi-monitor live, interactive electronic installation and performance by Barbara Sykes on the video synthesizer and Michael Sterling on the audio synthesizer. And a NASA computer simulation of celestial orbit.
This is a reel consisting of Barbara Sykes’ live performance of “Circle 9 Sunrise” (1976) and the work “The Poem” (1975) and made with the Sandin Image Processor.
The work presented on this tape is one excerpt of three pieces in a live performance of dance, audio, and video synthesis. Originally conceived by Barbara Sykes and Michael Sterling in November, 1976, the “Ngoma Dance” was a total interaction work with an electronic environment performed at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle Campus.
This is a reel consisting of Barbara Sykes’ live performance of “Circle 9 Sunrise” (1976) and the work “Reflections” (1976) made with the Sandin Image Processor.
Advocates for the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin discuss the 1950s federal act which terminated their tribe, dissolved their reservation, and adversely affected the members of their community.