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...Media scenography,” a term coined by Heide Hagebölling, is the union of two classical Greek root words. Hagebölling, who gave a lecture—“Media Scenography: Creative Approaches in Intermedia and Public Art”—at the Carpenter Center last Thursday evening, is a professor at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany. “‘Sceno,’” she explained, “is the architectural aspect of the ancient Greek theatre, or the mise en scene...

Author: By Alyssa A. Botelho, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hagebölling Explores New Intermedia | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...Ortiz’s opinion, students walk around all day with little regard for the staff members who make Harvard tick. To counteract audiences’ ignorance, Ortiz aimed to tie “Working” directly to Harvard itself. He approached Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), and formed a partnership. The actors in “Working” now wear HUCTW uniforms, and HUCTW workers attended their final dress rehearsal...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proletariart | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Whereas HUCTW is an active union and “Working” represents labor in a positive light, Lehyt presents a bleaker picture of the average union’s social weight. Lehyt’s research at the Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program made evident that unions in Massachusetts are not what they once were. “The heyday of unions was in [the] 1950s and 1960s in which you have basically hard-core industries—manufacturing,” explained José Luis Falconi, the curator of Lehyt?...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proletariart | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...same way that our union is steeped in traditions of the American labor movement but also trying to update and innovate, I have a sense from talking to these students that they are trying to do the same thing,” Jaeger continued. “[They are] taking some of the ideas about the dignity of work and of recognizing and humanizing working people and putting a fresh, modern, local flavor with that...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proletariart | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party didn't just lose the March 21 regional elections--it got trampled. In a shocking reversal of the 2007 elections that put the UMP in power, a coalition of leftist and environmentalist parties took control of 21 of France's 22 regions, winning 54% of the vote vs. the UMP's 35%. Critics point to France's high unemployment rate and immigration fears as reasons for the public's discontent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

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