NOVEMBER 30, 2004
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
University Hosts Nebraska Information
Technology Security Day
The Nebraska Information Technology Security
Day, in cooperation with the National Computer Security Day group,
will be held Nov. 30 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The day-long event, which is free and open to the public, will feature
experts in various areas of computer security. Topics addressed will
include:
• secure communalizations
• security planning
• cryptography and security certifications
• "malware" - viruses and Trojan horses
• digital signatures, digital watermarking & authentication
• security audits & security assessments
• identity management
The information will be suitable for Nebraska businesses, government
and educational institutions, university administration, faculty,
and students.
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LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7:30PM
Lied Presents Michael Martin Murphey's A
Cowboy Christmas
Michael Martin Murphey's story reads like
the screenplay for John-Wayne-the-musical: Childhood summers spent
on family ranches and farms in Texas inspire the boy's love of the
cowboy's life. He learns to play music on a plastic ukulele given
to him by his grandfather. By the time he is 16, he has his own local
TV music show; and by 18, he has his own coffee house nightclub.
He's the one entertaining at the local ranches, singing around the
campfire. He heads to college in southern California, and he promotes
the alternative country and western scene there. He returns to Texas,
this time to Austin, to cultivate its now-legendary community of
cowboy singer/songwriters. In 1982, he scores his first number one
hit on the country charts, and continues his life spreading the cowboy
sound.
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SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 5:30PM
Lindberg to Give Talk on New Sheldon Installation
The patterns assumed by flocks
of migrating birds, which seem to have an almost mathematical impulse
while also being a fleeting and sinuous cluster, are the inspiration
for air/mass an installation Anne Lindberg is creating for
the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery this fall. Lindberg, who lives in
Kansas City, has achieved recognition for her drawings and for installations
that evoke the movement of prairie grasses or cloud forms.
These projects are often realized by
suspending objects from delicate wires that are attached to the wall,
whose repeated linear forms suggest drawing in space. air/mass, in
which hundreds of delicate shapes strands of thread will be suspended
from the gallery ceiling, will likewise become a three-dimensional
experience offering allusions to a landscape, a flock, a field, a
biomass.
In many ways related to poetry or music in its suggestiveness and
duration asking to be experienced over time Flight air/mass will
engage multiple senses. As Lindberg relates conceptually, the linear
and point constellation will be mute, a silent mesh of atmospheric
density that fills the exhibition space with floating forms, changing
density and a sense of lifting. The filigree quality of this matrix
of fluid lines and weighted points will become an abstract language,
a hovering cloud. While the concept of Flight Air/Mass relates to
the Nebraskas bird flyway corridors, Lindbergs' work also reflects
the engagement of contemporary artists with immersing viewers in
environments that are conceived for a particular gallery or other
space.
Among her intentions are to join flexible line with solid form and
weight gravity, creating a formation that will be reliant, responsive,
and gently move. In addition to her installation, Lindberg will exhibit
related drawings that focus on flocking formations, conveying varying
densities, shapes, and movements and offering insights into the genesis
of air/mass.
A graduate of Miami University (B.F.A.) and Cranbrook Academy of
Art (M.F.A.), Lindberg taught at the Kansas City Art Institute from
1993-98. Her work has been featured in numerous one-person and group
exhibitions, including Awakenings at the Daum Museum of Contemporary
Art and Drawing the Thread in San Antonio. She will present a talk
on her work with the opening of air/mass on November 30 at 5:30 p.m.,
which will be followed by a reception for the artist.
SHELDON
MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: Nicotina, Woman
Thou Art Loosed
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents Mexico's highest grossing film in 2003, Nicotina and
the film Woman Thou Art Loosed, a screen adaption of the
play by legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West
Angeles Cathedral.
From the producers of Amores Perros comes Nicotina, a
highly stylized crime caper set in Mexico City about a simple exchange
that goes awry, causing the lives of nine unsuspecting characters
to explode in one tumultuous night over a fortune in diamonds.
Diego Luna stars as computer hacker Lolo, who is infatuated with
his neighbor Andrea (Marta Belaustegui) and catalogs her every move
via high-tech peeping devices. Lolo teams with amateur criminals
Tomson (Jesus Ochoa) and his younger counterpart Nene (Lucas Crespi)
in a deal with a Russian mobster (Norman Sotolongo) that involves
the exchange of diamonds for computer access to Swiss bank accounts.
But the deal goes terribly wrong after Lolo's attempts to spoil Andrea's
romantic trysts spiral out of control.
Down the street, the irritable pharmacist Beto (Daniel Gimez Cacho)
and his fed-up wife Clara (Carmen Madrid) inadvertently become entangled
in the exchange, along with the humble barber Goyo (Rafael Inclan)
and his domineering other half Carmen (Rosa Maria Bianchi).
Infected with diamond lust, these characters become obsessed with
the intoxicating possibility of an easy life and their greed quickly
transforms into fiery desperation. When the haze finally clears,
computers have been hacked, people have been whacked and lives have
gone up in a cloud of smoke.
This R-rated Christian film about child abuse, drug addiction and
murder is startlingly raw and honest, playing at times like one of
those blistering Donald Goines blaxploitation pulp novels, only with
Jesus. Directed with seamless competence by Hollywood veteran Michael
Schultz (Car Wash), Woman, Thou Art Loosed is based
on the fact-based novel and stage presentation of the same name by
the legendary revivalist pastor T. D Jake of South L.A.'s West Angeles
Cathedral. Jake, a preacher of improvisational genius, plays himself
in the film as he counsels a death-row inmate whose story unfolds
in smoothly integrated flashbacks. Michelle (Kimberly Elise) was
fighting back valiantly from the effects of child sexual abuse and
incarceration when she backslid with a vengeance.
More information is available at the Ross website.
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N172 BEADLE, 2PM
Redox Biology Center special seminar -
'How Do Iron Sulfur Clusters Cleave Disulfide Bridges'
Shaodong Dai, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Integrated Department of Immunology, National Jewish Medical and
Research Center and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center,
faculty candidate for structural biologist, Nebraska Redox Biology
Center
N172 BEADLE, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry and Redox
Biology Center Seminar - 'Evolution and Function Glutathione Transferases
of the Mitochondria'
Dr. Richard Armstrong, Vanderbilt
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