April 5th, 2009
Saturday April 25th @ 6:30pm- Greg Kise, Flo Leibowitz and Dana Reason
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Join us for an exciting evening of music and discussion!
Greg Kise-Intellectual “Property?”
The freedom of our intellectual commons is being challenged in courtrooms around the world. From the RIAA and MPAA to ThePirateBay.com to sampling and mashups, this challenge is mostly happening out of site of the majority of citizens, yet it is central to the idea of our very freedom as artists and creators (if not freedom itself). Greg will host a wide-ranging discussion in which we challenge our pre-conceptions and explore the very notion of ideas as “property.”
Bio:
Greg is a professional gadfly who flits between interests, ideas, and projects. Most recently he has been interested in understanding the problem of file-sharing and other intellectual property issues.
Dana Reason will perform her piece Collapsible Forms pieces followed by a discussion with philosophy Professor Flo Leibowitz on ” Authenticity and Improvisation”
Dana Reason is a Canadian born pianist, composer and critical musicologist. Her recent compositions focus on the tensions and negotiations between notated forms and improvised spaces. She currently teaches music at OSU and at her private studio. This Spring she is releasing a new CD titled Revealed on Circumvention Music.
Flo Leibowitz joined the OSU faculty in 1977. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from The John Hopkins University. Her primary research field is aesthetics; her work has addressed the experience of film viewing, taste and reasoning in film reviews, the colorization controversy and art in the electronic age, and whether films can philosophize. Her scholarly writing has appeared in such journals as Philosophy and Literature, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Persistence of Vision, and in anthologized collections. Flo teaches courses in introduction philosophy, aesthetics, and metaphysics and created the department’s course in “Art and Morality.” She was a winner of the 1987 American Society for Aesthetics essay competition and wrote a series of op-ed essays for the Portland Oregonian on art and morality during the public-funding controversies of the 1990’s. Her recent work includes “Pianists in the Movies,” Why Intention Matters,” and an essay on the aesthetics of alpine gardening co-authored with her husband, Loren Russell, a past national secretary of the North American Rock Garden Society. Flo is a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division, a frequent member of its national meeting program committee, and she has served on the selection committee for the OSU Phi Kappa Phi Emerging Scholar Award. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women. In the community, Flo has served on the exective committee of Chamber Music Corvallis. She is a Cat 4 amateur bicycle racer for the EWEB Windpower team. In 2006, she won the state championship road race in the women 50 and over division and was ranked 9th (of 143) in the Best All-Around Rider points competition for masters women.
