Adult Education presents: "Micro-genre" January 22, 2008

Sponsored by Stay Free! magazine, "ADULT ED" is a monthly lecture series devoted to making useless knowledge somewhat less useless. Each month will be devote to a given theme, and 4 or 5 speakers will address some aspect of that them, using visual aids of one stripe or another. Speakers will include writers, editors, storytellers, and amateur scholars discussing some area of their expertise.

Tonight's program is MICRO-GENRE. On YouTube, there are scores of toddler's expressions after sucking on lemons. Entire groups of flickr photos are organized around photos of people wearing sweatshirts, photos of painted trains, photos of body hair. You could fill a small bookshelf with fake children's memoirs. In this show, we discuss several examples of what we're calling "micro-genres."

SCHEDULED TALKS

Liz Clayton: The Architecture of Converted Fast-Food Restaurants

Paul Lukas: On Elevator World, American Jails, Nut Grower Monthly, and other obscure trade magazines

Heidi Cody: Eskimos and Indians on Food Packaging

Jim Hanas: On meta-tourism: photos of tourists taking photos

Russell Scholl: On TV Commercials for Personal Hygiene Products

With host Charles Star

BIOS

LIZ CLAYTON is an obsessive-compulsive who tries to contain the world in words and pictures. Her work has been published in the Globe and Mail, Time Out New York, and on three million websites. She recently moved to Brooklyn from Toronto, where she ran the Pontiac Quarterly reading series.

HEIDI CODY ( http://www.heidicody.com ) is a Brooklyn-based artist and founder of CHOW ( http://www.heidicody.com/chow/chow.html ).

JIM HANAS (http://www.hanasiana.com) is a freelance editor and writer who lives and works in Brooklyn.

PAUL LUKAS is a freelance writer and former zinester (Beer Frame) in Brooklyn. His Uni Watch column currently runs on ESPN.com (http://www.uniwatchblog.com).

RUSSELL SCHOLL is a New York-based media archivist. He assembles moving image programs on a wide variety of subjects (the history of animation; early jazz shorts; burlesque; educational and propaganda films, etc.) and exhibits them at Barbes in Park Slope and other NYC venues.

CHARLES STAR (HOST) (http://www.myspace.com/Charles_Star ) is a Brooklyn-based comedian who has written for the Onion News Network and Stay Free! magazine. Charles hosts the comedy show Pant-Hoot on the third Tuesday of every month at Magnetic Field.

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