Friday, November 16th, 2007
at Nexus Gallery

located inside The Crane Arts Building at 1400 N. American St. (two blocks north of Girard Ave. between 2nd & 3rd streets)

Featuring
SOUNDS OF THE EARTH (Sound Artists; New York City)
ANDREA LAWLOR (Fiction Writer; Philadelphia)
REBECCA BARON (Film & Video Artist; Los Angeles)

THE SOUNDS OF THE EARTH project began almost 2 years ago when Ben Holtzman was giving Jason Candler a lesson on geodynamics. Ben works in rock mechanics and seismology at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Jason Candler works as a film-sound editor, recording engineer and musician and teaches Sound Design at NYU Tisch School for the Arts. The combination of their respective fields of study resulted in this machine that communicates the physics of the earth by compressing time and space using images and sound. 

ANDREA LAWLOR is a fiction writer whose work has appeared or will appear in publications such as Persiflage, gURL.com, Forge, and Encyclopedia, Volume II. Lawlor, a recent graduate of Temple's Creative Writing program, won the Joseph Beam prize for Twice Born, a collection of short stories located at the intersection of Greek myth and contemporary queer culture. Lawlor lives in Philadelphia at the moment, edits the Pocket Myths series ( HYPERLINK "http://www.pocketmyths.com" \t "_blank" www.pocketmyths.com), is an adjunct professor at Temple, and attempts to avoid using personal pronouns in bios. 

REBECCA BARON’s lyrical essay films explore the construction of history through vernacular as well as “official” imagery. Her work is particularly engaged with still photography in relation to the moving image. Her films have screened widely in international film festivals and media venues including New York Film Festival, Rotterdam, Viennale, Oberhausen, Cinémathèque Française, Anthology Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, Flaherty Film Seminar, the Whitney Biennial and Documenta 12. Her films have received awards at numerous festivals including the San Francisco, Black Maria, Montreal, Leipzig, Athens, and Ann Arbor Film Festivals. She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Radcliffe Fellowship. She is currently on leave from Calarts where she teaches experimental and documentary film.