Ongoing Activities at the AMC
Exhibition Area
The AMC features an exhibition area showcasing an exciting collection of book and zine distributors; non-profit and activist organizations; technology presentations; sellers of art, film, music and handmade crafts; and acupuncture!
Joe Namy - language. power difference.
In his first solo exhibition in Detroit, Joe Namy explores the issues born out of the space between languages, the codes that are used to translate, and the loss of context and meaning that occurs within translations, both internal and external. A Lebanese descendent, Namy uses his own relationship with the lexical gap experienced as a bilingual artist, and its resulting “double consciousness,” as a catalyst for his work. Exploring primarily photography and video, his current work also utilizes images and sounds to reveal the subtle cracks and crevices within language, inviting the viewer into a broader contemplation on the many issues that reside within. “language. power. difference.” opens at Re:View Contemporary on Thursday, June 17, 2010 with an opening reception from 7pm – 11pm. This exhibition is presented in connection with the 2010 Allied Media Conference. Open gallery hours during AMC/USSF week: Fri (6/18) 12noon-8PM; Sat (6/19) 12noon - 8PM; Wed (6/23) 12noon - 6PM; Thu (6/24) 11AM - 8PM; Fri (6/25) 11AM - 8PM; Sat (6/26) 11AM - 6PM.
AMChildcare
Parents or adults in care of children can enroll children in Allied Media Childcare (AMChildcare), which is provided for all children who attend the conference. AMChildcare provides fun, creative, and educational activities as well as healthy snacks twice daily. Our hours will be 9AM through the last conference session each day. Additional childcare is available for after-hours, upon request. The AMChildcare Collective is a locally-based group of individuals dedicated to creating a healthy, safe, and caring environment for the children that attend the AMC.
Kids Club
Do you want to hang out with other kids (ages 9 - 13) during the AMC? Kids Club will be a space for everyone who is waaaaaay too old for childcare, but not quite a high schooler. We will go to workshops together, make art, play kick ball and 4-square, and work on a Kids newspaper together throughout the weekend. Meet-up with us in Room E each day to join the club.
Mobile Silkscreen Lab
Presenters: Mary Tremonte, Justseeds Artists Cooperative; Ashley Brickman, Heather White
The Mobile Silkscreen Lab is a space for image generation and production that will be available as a resource throughout the AMC. Participants in the Mobile Silkscreen Lab will be able to reproduce images representing the issues important to them on t-shirts or posters (bring your own paper and shirts) by burning screens with emulsion or cutting simple stencils. Feel free to bring your own designs to the lab! We will also offer Justseeds designs for printing.
BLOODLINES : Quakes, Faith, and Unshakable Bonds
Artist: Naima Penniman
This will be an interactive installation that AMC participants can visit throughout the weekend. Bloodlines is a soul-stirring performance ritual weaving poetry, film, dance, song, and testimony to redefine Diaspora, Disaster, and Resurrection. The aim of the art is to raise awareness and accumulate resources in support of a grassroots delegation based on principles of solidarity, mutual aid, collective resilience, and resourcefulness that aims to facilitate psycho-spiritual healing for quake survivors and contribute to building a saner, fairer existence the for the future generations of all Haitians. piti, piti, wazo fe nich li.
Media Lab
The Media Lab is a hot bed of hands-on skill-sharing. It stays open all weekend-long in the basement of McGregor Conference Center. In the lab, you can explore the skills
you have picked up in workshops throughout the conference weekend. Engage creative stations such as: Linux/open source exploration, audio editing, video editing, online
game design, live radio broadcasting, social media. Take technology into your own hands and help build wireless mesh networks, radio transmitters, computers from salvaged parts, and homemade electronic instruments.
We Are Ready Now (WARN ) Radio Broadcast
Prometheus Radio Project in collaboration with KBCS presents a live radio broadcast throughout the AMC. This broadcast, “We Are Ready Now Radio,” will be webstreamed and archived online so listeners around the world can hear what’s going down at the AMC. Folks are also encouraged to drop by the “We Are Ready Now” radio station with digital media that they have produced that they would like aired during the conference.
Relaxation Room
We know that, awesome though it is, the AMC can be overwhelming. The relaxation room is a space where you can go chill-out, take a nap, make some tea, and recharge your batteries–literally and figuratively. Detroit Community Acupuncture will be offering treatments here throughout the weekend.
Detroit Summer “Another Detroit is Happening” Mural
The Detroit Summer Live Arts Media Project will launch an interactive community mural project around the theme “Another Detroit is Happening.” Leading up to the AMC, DS youth will develop the mural concept through conversations with elders, farmers, artists, activists and communitytransformers. In the Rad Art track of the AMC, DS will partner with the Beehive Design Collective and Justseeds Artists Cooperative to design the mural. Following the AMC, from June 21 - 27 during the USSF, there will be opportunites for small groups of people to help install the murals. Contact Jon A. Blount with interest in joining the mural-painting crew: jonblnt@gmail.com . Please
put “DS Mural” in the subject line of your message.
Community Wi-Fi Build
The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition is working to establish community wireless networks in neighborhoods throughout Detroit. Join the DDJC and the Open Technology Initiative, starting June 18th in the AMC Media Lab to build wireless routers and program them with open source software. This wi-fi build is part of the DIY Technology track. Be a part of the installation at the Hush House (6179 Wabash) in the Northwest Goldberg neighborhood and Spaulding Courts (2737 - 2747 Rosa Parks Blvd.) in North Corktown. The big installation day is June 22. Contact Diana to get involved: diana@alliedmediaconference.org
