Friday February 1, 2008
12:00 PM : Joe Sacco @ PNCA
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Friday, February 1
Joe Sacco is a Maltese citizen currently residing in Portland, OR where he makes his living as a cartoonist and journalist. Sacco was awarded the American Book Award in 1996 for his book Palestine, a collection of his serialized comic book depicting Sacco's encounters with Palestinians and Israelis as he traveled the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. His exhibit "Graphic Articles" curated by Mack McFarland, will be Sacco's first in Portland, and will include over 20 pages from four books: Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95, The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo, and War’s End: Profiles from Bosnia 1995-96. Also exhibited will be photographs, sketches, and audio interviews made during Sacco's travels.
Joe Sacco
EXHIBITIONS
Event runs:
Fri, Feb 1 –
Sun, Feb 24
Feldman Gallery + Project Space
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06:00 PM : Wild Wild West @ gallery Homeland
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gallery Homeland invites you to join us and guest curator, Todd Johnson
, at the opening of "Wild Wild West"
Friday February 1st
6pm - 9pm
2505 SE 11th Ave
Portland, Oregon
A look at the legacy and influence of the mythology and romanticism of the
American western frontier on contemporary photography. Wild Wild West
looks at the cultural icon of the pioneer as an explorer of unresolved
wilderness; heroic individuals traveling across a rugged and dangerous
terrain, mapping out an idealized territory. Photography played a critical
role in documenting this magnificent and impressive landscape of the new
Americas. Manifest destiny stated the belief that the United States had a
mission to expand, spreading its form of democracy and freedom. What
captivates us still with the legends and myths of the Wild Wild West?
Artists:
Mark Hooper: Lewis and Clark: Re-expedition photographs.
Timothy Hursley: Brothels of Nevada,
candid architectural views of America’s legal sex industry.
Ethan Jackson: Spaghetti westerns, signs, symbols, and symptoms. David
Levinthal: Wild West, toy cowboys reconstruct historic icons. Marne Lucas:
Logging pin-up photographs.
Richard Misrach: Cultural landscape photography.
Pipo Nguyen-duy: AnOther Western: cultural identity and immigration. Lori
Nix: Disaster Photographs, blending truth and illusion.
Shawn Records: Ironic and anecdotal photographs of the suburbs.
Berthold Steinhilber: American ghost towns, luminous folklore images.
07:00 PM : Netscape Memorial Service @ Backspace
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Memorial Service For Our Friend, Netscape
Old Town Computers invites you to help us bid a fond farewell to an era.
January 15th, 2008 -- PORTLAND, Ore. -- As the AOL/TimeWarner Voltron finally draws the curtain on the last remaining vestige of the 90s internet euphoria, join Old Town Computers in a celebration of Web 1.0. The festivities will feature screenings of "A Brief History Of Memes" (dir. T. Bradford) & "Hackers: the Movie" and a round of .com bubble pub-style trivia. They'll be lubricated with the preferred beverage of online pet store startups: Beer. Revelry will transpire at the center of Portland's geek life, Backspace, on Friday, February 1st, beginning at 7pm. Dress up as your favorite pre-YouTube internet celebrity and receive a free beer for compromising your dignity.
"We're excited to take this chance to look back on those heady days," says Tyler Bradford, owner/operator of Old Town Computers. "The thing of it is, Netscape proved that what we geeks believed was important, in our basements and garages, could change the world for the better. It also proved we could get ludicrously rich by selling out at the right moment."
"A Brief History of Memes" is a hastily assembled collection of irony & nostalgia, evoking the irrational exuberance and short attention span of the day trading set. A highlight reel for nascent cyberculture's self-important phase, if your friends made you watch it before y2k, it's in there. Hackers, requiring little introduction, was the most misguided and ambitious attempt made by the mainstream to appropriate the signs of arcane nerdery.
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Old Town Computers is a full service PC & Mac computer shop located in the heart of Portland's Old Town/Chinatown. We opened our doors in 2005. Our goal is to bring the highest quality technical support to the downtown Portland area. We have a deep, burning, somewhat unnatural desire to fix computers. Any computers. PCs, Macs, desktops, laptops, handhelds, servers, you name it. If it beeps, we're on it.