Thursday, 15 November 2007 | 7PM

CAL STATE L.A.

THU 15 NOV 2007 | 7pm

CAL STATE L.A. MUSIC 149

5151 State University Dr.

Los Angeles, CA 90032

Campus Directions




Roundtable Conversation Series on Socio-Political Graphics: Conversation with Eric Lindroth, Tomas Benitez + Garland Kirkpatrick

Hosted by GAUGE, the AIGA Student Group at Cal State L.A., in conjunction
with the exhibition The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace,
Social Justice and the Environment 1965-2005, at the Luckman Fine Arts
Complex, on the campus of Cal State L.A.

Moderated by Jon Beaupre.
This event will be filmed.
Free and Open to the Public.

Participants
Garland Kirkpatrick is a social designer and educator. In 1995 he formed
Helvetica Jones, a "needs based" creative practice focusing on designing
identities for community groups, cultural organizations, and progressive
businesses. His social graphics have appeared in the The Design of Dissent:
Socially and Politically Driven Graphics, The McKinsey Quarterly, and the
recent indy film Fast Food Nation. He has received awards from the American
Institute of Graphic Arts, and the American Center for Design. In 2003 he
received a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship for
Design. His design work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and is
in various permanent collections including the AIGA Design Archive, Center
for the Study of Political Graphics, Cooper Hewitt National Design
Museum?Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of
Fine Arts in Budapest, and Self Help Graphics. He is currently an Associate
Professor of Design at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Eric Lindroth received his MFA from Cal State Northridge. He is a practicing
artist, activist and teacher. His work takes the face of the corporation,
its logo, and manipulates them in ways that expose their abusive and
negligent behavior. Employing the same materials and tactics that the
advertisers use: signs, banners, t-shirts, and web-based media, and turning
a dissenting eye back to the companies.

Tomas Benitez has been a cultural worker for the past thirty years, working
with a variety of non-profit community arts groups. He is former Executive
Director of Self Help Graphics & Art, has worked with the Bilingual
Foundation for the Arts, El Teatro de la Esperanza, and with the late, great
C. Bernard “Jack� Jackson at the Inner City Cultural Center. Tomas is the
Architect of Folly to the Ministry of Culture, a collective of artists
dedicated to using ridicule as a form of non-violent resistance to social
injustice and the “stupidityness of governmentalicalism�; current projects
include Pinatas for Peace, which sends virtual pinatas to world leaders who
demonstrate a penchant for violent behavior, the Great Wall of Chinga, a
project designed to deconstruct the proposed U.S./Mexican border fence
(hah), and We Say No, a video project designed to capture Americans just
saying “No� to war. Tomas is also a member of the County of Los Angeles Arts
Commisson (past president).

Jon Beaupre is Asst. Professor of Broadcast Journalism in the Communication
Studies Department at Cal State LA. He is an award winning journalist, with
years of experience as a reporter on National Public Radio, Bloomberg News,
Sirius Satellite Radio, and a long series of syndicated radio programming
including Market Place, The California Report, Latino USA, Living on Earth,
The Looseleaf Book Program, and others. He is a frequent host on NPR station
KPCC in Pasadena California. At CSULA, Prof. Beaupre teaches a wide range of
production classes including TV/News Magazine Production, in which students
produce an hour long news-magazine style special on a selected topic each
quarter. He also teaches Media Law, Documentary, Audio Production and
Announcing.

Elizabeth Resnick AIGA Boston 2007 Fellow. Associate Professor in the
Communication Design Department at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston.
She holds both a BFA and MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School
of Design, Providence. Elizabeth is the principal in Elizabeth Resnick
Design, specializing in publication design and design for artists and
non-profit organizations.

Resources:
GAUGE
Luckman Gallery
Graphic Imperative
Looking
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
Helvetica Jones
Grim Sneaker
Ministry of Culture
RMCD
XCD.AIGA

For more information, contact Christine Cortina (christinecortina@earthlink.net) or Jimmy Moss (jimmy.moss@calstatela.edu).

The Roundtable Conversations will be held at the Music Building, Choir Room
(MUS 149) on the Cal State LA campus. 5151 State University Dr., Los
Angeles, CA 90032. Please park in the top level of Lot C. Permits can be
purchased from the dispensers, sold at $0.50/hour.

Poster available at: http://www.tinyurl.com/3ch9u2