Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall
New York
15 February 2008
As the presidential race shifts into high gear, Americans are inundated with propaganda. Where does truth end and “spin” begin? Madison Avenue veterans and other media experts offer some perspective in Where the Truth Lies: A Symposium on Propaganda Today, presented by the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in cooperation with the PhD Programs in History and Sociology of the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY).
The keynote presentation will be given by celebrated designer and creator of the “I Love NY” logo Milton Glaser, who asks, “Is there any difference between good propaganda and bad propaganda?” Among other topics, the program will address how American presidents persuade the public to go to war and what progressive politicians can learn from Las Vegas. There will also be a sneak preview of Carrier, Maro Chermayeff’s original PBS documentary about life on the USS Nimitz warship during a recent deployment to the Persian Gulf and a screening of propaganda videos. David Brancaccio, the Emmy award-winning host and senior editor of NOW, the weekly investigative news program on PBS, will moderate.
The event is organized by Stuart Ewen, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Film & Media Studies at Hunter College, and in the PhD Programs in History, Sociology and American Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center; Steven Heller, design authority and co-chair, MFA Design Department, SVA; and Mary Jeys, of the MFA Program in Integrated Media Arts at Hunter College, CUNY, who curated the video screenings. Heller has written about propaganda in his forthcoming book Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State (Phaidon).
Media Contact: For more information, please contact Michael Grant, assistant director of communication, at 212.592.2011 or mgrant@sva.edu.
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