Brakhage Center
The mission of the Center is to encourage experimentation within the media arts
and, in so doing, acknowledge the legacy of Stan Brakhage’s teachings and his
landmark body of work. Additionally, the Center will document and, when
possible, collect other artistically significant time-based works regardless of
medium. It organizes an annual symposium with guest scholars, curators, and
artists to promote an understanding of innovation in the cinematic arts. Finally,
the Brakhage Center should provoke a national forum the aim of which is to
advance the moving-image as an aesthetically and socially responsive art form
within a culture that is increasingly expressed through visual means. The Center
has a programmatic connection to the Art and Art History Department as well as
the Film Studies Program.
Activities
Center activities include the care and oversight of the Brakhage Collection to
insure that the films and related materials are made available in perpetuity for
study and appreciation by students, scholars, and the interested public.
Occasional Center-disseminated exhibitions and publications will broaden the
film-going public’s awareness of Brakhage’s remarkable legacy and its impact
on subsequent generations of artists. The Brakhage Center also engages in
preservation, research, and education in the service of moving-image art. The activities of the center are managed by a steering committee of faculty from Art and Art History and Film Studies, the Donner foundation, national curatorial representatives, a representative of the from the University Archive and CU foundation. The committee is chaired by Professor Daniel Boord.
Brakhage Center Space
The Brakhage Center is supported through a generous gift from the Donner
Foundation to the Art and Art History Department.The Brakhage Center is
housed in a suite of rooms and offices on the third floor of the new Alliance for
Technology Learning and Society (ATLAS) Center building.Visiting artists and
scholars are provided workspace for meetings and creative research within the
Brakhage Center.
Archive
The University Library houses the complete collection of Brakhage's films in archival quality facilities. The care, oversight and preservation of this collection by the Center ensures that these films and materials are made available to graduate students and reputable scholars. In 2008, the Center will continue the archive process to preserve and catalogue the works of Stan Brakhage. It will reorganize the inventoried material into workable sections, better identify the correspondence and papers, and refolder and rebox the collection. The CU Library will contribute the cost of boxes, folders, supplies, computer time and supervisory time.
Click here to go to the Library Archive Website.
For more information regarding access to the Archive, please contact Bruce Montgomery (Bruce.Montgomery@colorado.edu).
Symposium
The Brakhage Symposium began in April, 2005 as a forum to discuss and explore contemporary experimental film. It brings guest contemporary filmmakers, scholars, critics, and curators to the Brakhage Center on an annual basis. Guest lecturers add to the resources and programs housed in the Center for students, faculty, graduates, and the community. The 2007 Symposium was the first held in the new ATLAS building. In 2009, the CU Film Studies Program expanded the one-day symposium to a special two day event, and in 2010 to a three-day program with film/video screenings, special guest lectures, and intellectual discussions. |
Stan Brakhage
Symposium 7, 2011
Symposium 6, 2010
Symposium 5, 2009
Symposium 4, 2008
Previous Symposia
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