Arts ©Entertainment
Wednesday, October 26,1994 Page 9
Minority artists discuss
roles in mainstream art
By Paula Uvlgw
Senior Reporter
Three minority artists defined main
stream art and their role within it Tuesday
during a panel discussion and slide presen
tation at the Richards Hall Gallery.
“Minority Artists in the Mainstream”
centered on a visit by Linda Anfuso, an
American Indian artist. Anfuso’s visit is
sponsored by the College of Fine and Per
forming Arts’ Curriculum Advantage Pro
gram.
Anfuso was joined by Peggy Jones, an
assistant art professor at Peru State Col
lege, and Littleton Alston, an associate art
professor and sculptor at Creighton Uni
versity.
Karen Kune, a University of Nebraska
Lincoln assistant art professor, moderated
the discussion. She asked the panelists for
their interpretations of mainstream art.
Jones supplied the panelists with a dic
tionary definition of mainstream.
“It’s the prevailing current or direction
of activity and influence,” she said. “But
who defines mainstream?
“What is mainstream? Is it ‘90210?’ Is
it ‘O.J. Simpson! O.J. Simpson!’?”
She said mainstream differed from art
ist to artist and that it was disconnecting to
individuals.
Anfuso took a more economic look at
defining mainstream.
“Mainstream is where dollar signs start
multiplying,” she said. “As an artist, I want
the opportunity to show my work to the
“Mainstream is where dollar
signs start multiplying. As
an artist; I want the
opportunity to show my
work to the audience I want
to see it. ”
m
LINDA ANFUSO
American Indian artist
audience I want to see it.”
She said she encountered difficulties
while finding a place for her art at galleries
and corporate settings, because people con
nected her art with ner appearance.
When galleries receive herslides, they’re
interested in her work.
Anfuso designs nonrepresentational art
made of paper and fabric dipped in plaster.
She paints designs on top of the media. Her
work strays far from the stereotypical Ameri -
can Indian art of feathers, Indians and
horses.
“When they meet me in person, they say,
‘Oh, well, we don’t deal in Indian art, ’” she
said.
But sometimes galleries see her and
want her art — until they see her slides.
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Kart Rolnhard, a Uidvorslty of Nobraska-Uncoln assistant profsoaoroT
anthropology, sits undortho lights of a BBC film craw Tuosday for an
Intorvlow In Boosoy Hall.
BBC documentary to feature
anthropologists in Nebraska
By J*ff Randall _
Staff Reporter
For most Americans, the British Broad
casting Corporation has been a provider of
old episodes of “Monty Python’s Flying
Circus” and “The Benny Hill Show,” but
the BBC actually provides a lot more for
viewers than slapstick comedy and politi
cal satire.
Danielle Peck and Alex Seaborne, pro
ducers for the BBC, are in Nebraska to film
a documentary on the subject of repatria
tion and its effects on the scientific commu
nity.
“There really is no more important sub
ject concerning anthropologists today,”
Seaborne said, “and we thought it would be
fantastic to produce a documentary on this
topic.”
Dr. Karl Reinhard, professor of anthro
pology at the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln, and Dennis Hastings, an anthropolo
gist with the Omaha Tribe Council, have
been working together for the last four
years in this area and will spend this week
in front of Peck and Seaborne’s cameras.
Repatriation is the return of the remains
of a people to their native land. This prac
tice is a controversial subject among Ameri
can Indians and modern scientists who
have recently been dueling over who has
the rights to the skeletal remains of Ameri
can Indians.
Reinhard and Hastings caught the pro
ducers’ attention because they had been
able to bring the two opposing sides in this
matter to an agreement.
MWe have managed to cooperate where
others haven’tbeen able to do so,” Reinhard
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Courtesy of Geffen Records
Pictured Is the main screen of the Geffen Records and Jasmine
Multimedia CIHKOM game “Vld Grid,” which plays 10 different videos.
CD-ROM game perfect
for music video lovers
By Jo#l Strauch1 _
Senior Reporter
It’s nothing special to see Metallica,
Jimi Hendrix, Soundgarden or the Red Hot
** Chili Peppers jammin’their videos on a TV
screen, but imagine seeing them rockin’
and rollin’ on your computer screen.
Geffen Records and Jasmine Multime
dia recently released “Vid Grid,” the first
CD-ROM game that has been produced by
a record label.
The rules of the game are simple. The
player has to piece together a jumbled video
that is mixed up into nine, 16, 25 or 36
individually moving pieces before the video
ends.
But the visual effects represented by the
constantly shifting images add to the com
plexity and the enjoyment of playing the
game.
The game has nine complete videos,
featuring songs like “November Rain” by
Guns NrRoses, “Sledgehammer” by Peter
Gabriel and “No More Tears” by Ozzy
Osbourne, and it offers a 10th bonus song
if the players get good enough.
The songs on the game mostly fall on the
thrashin’ side of rock.
“We’re a rock label,” Roy Hamm, a
publicist for Geffen, said. “We’re keeping
in our genre of music.”
But Geffen was given rights to use popu
lar videos from different labels for the
game.
Epic Records provided Ozzy Osbourne’s
hit song “No More Tears,” and Elektra
*' :d “Enter Sandman” by Metallica.
game was produced by Norman
Beil, the head of new media for Geffen
Records.
“Beil came up with the idea for the
game,” Hamm said. “We’re a pretty loose
company. If somebody comes up with some
thing, we’ll run with it.”
And run they have. Although “Vid Grid”
has been released only recently, it is quickly
gaining popularity.
“Computer stores don’t have sound
scans, which keep track of how many cop
ies have been sold,” Hamm said. “But
we’ve had some large reorders, so we know
it’s selling well.”
Plans are in the works for another ver
sion of “Vid Grid” that would appeal to a
different audience.
“It’s called ‘Kid Vid Grid,’” Hamm
said. “It’ll be with cartoons and other stuff,
and it will be out next year.”
“Vid Grid” won the Innovations Award
for Best Multimedia Software at the Con
sumer Electronics Show in Chicago in June,
and it is selling at $34.95 in head-bangin’
computer stores everywhere.
“Vid Grid” is available on IBM. Plans
are being made to have a Macintosh ver
sion by April 1995.
Halloween season releases
carve a poor, boring face
By (terry lalti
Staff Reporter
Blech! The one good new video release
this week cannot onset the number of bad
flicks coming out at the same time. It's time
for Halloween, so the pick-of-the-week sec
tion will be devoted to Halloween-related
flicks.
Sadly, the entertainment industry re
ceived a double blow in the last week with
the tragic deaths of Burt Lancaster and
Raul Julia. Some of their films are listed
below as well.
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs**
(G) — Disney's animated classic has been
restored to its full glory and is available for
rental or purchase.
Witches, poisoned apples, spells — you
all know the story. For young or old, the
film is a classic.
“The Cowboy Way" (PG-13) — Yet
another “good guys out of their element”
flick, “The Cowboy Way” teams up Woody
Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland to chase
kidnappers in the Big Apple.
It’s a fun flick that the kids will probably
enjoy, but the adults will be in the kitchen
reading about O.J. Simpson’s fanatical,
subconscious love of cribbage.
“Guarding Tess** (PG-13) — Shirley
MacLaine plays a presidential widow who
could frustrate Gandhi into picking up a
pair of brass knuckles to punch her lights
out. Nicholas Cage is assigned to protect
her, much to her chagrin.
Hoorah. Cage’s character is a twit, but
MacLaine provides some laughs. This one
will appeal more toward the older crowd.
“Jimmy Hollywood** (R) — Ewwww!
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