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28-441: Chumlum is largely non-narrative, with no dialogue or clear succession of events. It begins with the exterior of a building before moving to a loft inside, where Jack Smith is swinging. Many more people, dressed in elaborate costumes with ambiguous gender presentation, join. They lie in hammocks, smoke opium, caress each other, and dance. Smith appears as a wizard who has cast a spell to entrance and pacify them. The setting shifts to

56-660: A B.F.A. in Intermedia/Cyberarts. Herron School of Art and Design , Indiana University , Purdue University , Indianapolis, has a M.F.A. Program with Photography and Intermedia degrees. The University of Oregon offers a Master of Music degree in Intermedia Music Technology . The Pacific Northwest College of Art offers a B.F.A. in Intermedia. In the United Kingdom , Edinburgh College of Art (within

84-466: A Picasso is readily classifiable as a painted ornament. Similarly, by invading the land between collage and photography , the German John Heartfield produced what are probably the greatest graphics of our century ... With characteristic modesty, Dick Higgins often noted that Samuel Taylor Coleridge had first used the term. In 1968, Hans Breder founded the first university program in

112-502: A collection of pictures of New York artists, that was re-published in facsimile by Granary Books in 2001. As a draftsman , his posters , hand written scripts and drawing-notes superimpose a very eccentric personal imagery onto the traditional language of theater. In 1978, Sylvère Lotringer conducted a 13-page interview with Smith (with photos) in Columbia University 's philosophy department publication of Semiotext(e) . It

140-476: A forest and finally a beach. The film uses multiple superimpositions to create abstract patterns. Visual elements such as sheets, hammocks, dancers, limbs, pearls, waves, and birds are layered over each other. It contains exoticist visual references to ancient Rome, tropical Latin America, and Orientalism . During the production of Smith's Normal Love , Rice often accompanied the director to film shoots. After

168-515: A live performance and which was later released as a film directed by Jill Godmilow and produced by Jonathan Demme . Playwright Richard Foreman was influenced by Smith. Tony Conrad produced two CDs from the Jack Smith tape archives subtitled 56 Ludlow Street that were recorded at 56 Ludlow Street between 1962 and 1964. In 2017, Jerry Tartaglia directed a documentary called Escape from Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith which

196-515: A visual cosmos heavily influenced by Hollywood kitsch , orientalism and with Flaming Creatures created drag culture as it is currently known. Smith was heavily involved with John Vaccaro, founder of the Playhouse of the Ridiculous , whose disregard for conventional theater practice deeply influenced Smith's ideas about performance art. In turn, Vaccaro was deeply influenced by Smith's aesthetics. It

224-530: Is a film essay concerning the works of Jack Smith, aimed at the artist's most devoted followers. In 2009, Germany's Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art  [ de ] in Berlin staged Five Flaming Days in a Rented World, a festival and conference on Smith's work. The event included several commissioned short films in tribute to Smith's films, the most noted of which was Guy Maddin 's The Little White Cloud That Cried . Intermedia Intermedia

252-428: Is an art theory term coined in the mid-1960s by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the strategies of interdisciplinarity that occur within artworks existing between artistic genres. It was also used by John Brockman to refer to works in expanded cinema that were associated with Jonas Mekas ' Film-Makers’ Cinematheque. Gene Youngblood also described intermedia, beginning in his Intermedia column for

280-467: The Los Angeles Free Press beginning in 1967 as a part of a global network of multiple media that was expanding consciousness . Youngblood gathered and expanded upon intermedia ideas from this series of columns in his 1970 book Expanded Cinema , with an introduction by Buckminster Fuller . Over the years, intermedia has been used almost interchangeably with multi-media and more recently with

308-518: The Atom Man and Senseless . The city's license department charged the venue with presenting an improperly licensed program. John Fles arranged the film's West Coast premiere, a double feature with the Flash Gordon serial Rocket Ship . Anthology Film Archives preserved Chumlum with a 35 mm restoration which premiered in 2018. The film is part of their Essential Cinema Repertory collection. It

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336-641: The Intermedia program at Arizona State University and the Intermedia M.F.A. at the University of Maine , founded and directed by Fluxus scholar and author Owen Smith. Additionally, the Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California features Intermedia as an area of emphasis in their B.A. and B.F.A. programs. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County offers an M.F.A. in Intermedia and Digital Art . Concordia University in Montreal , QC offers

364-536: The Plaster Foundation created the archive and took possession of the work only after 14 years of repeated, documented attempts at communication with her. In a six-minute trial, Judge Eve Preminger rejected the Foundation's argument and awarded the archive to Slater. By October 2006, the foundation still refused to surrender Smith's archive to the estate, claiming money owed them for expenses associated with managing

392-655: The Rented World (1972–1984) was never completed) he created small intermedia performance and experimental theatre work until his death on September 18, 1989, from AIDS -related pneumonia. Smith produced many theatrical mini-productions, often using slide projectors , in his loft and in art space settings such as Artists Space and Colab 's The Times Square Show . Descriptors of lobsters as greedy landlords dominate, along with crabs , Atlantis , 1950s exotica music, and camp-glamorous North African costumes. A pungent odor of burning incense and marijuana often perfumed

420-536: The United States to offer an M.F.A. in intermedia. The Intermedia Area at The University of Iowa graduated artists such as Ana Mendieta and Charles Ray . In addition, the program developed a substantial visiting artist tradition, bringing artists such as Dick Higgins , Vito Acconci , Allan Kaprow , Karen Finley , Robert Wilson , Eric Andersen and others to work directly with Intermedia students. Two other prominent University programs that focus on intermedia are

448-484: The apartment as Smith had transformed it – an elaborate stage set for his never-to-be-filmed epic Sinbad in a Rented World  – as a museum dedicated to Jack Smith and his work. This effort failed. Until recently, Smith's archive was co-managed by Arcade, alongside the film historian J. Hoberman via their corporation, The Plaster Foundation, Inc. Within ten years of Smith's death, the Foundation, operating largely without funding but through donations and good will,

476-561: The archive—and hoping Smith's work would be bought by an appropriate public institution that could safeguard his legacy and keep the works in the public eye. According to curator Jerry Tartaglia, the dispute was resolved as of 2008, with the purchase of Smith's estate by the Gladstone Gallery . Smith was one of the first proponents of the aesthetics which came to be known as ' camp ' and 'trash', using no-budget means of production (e.g. using discarded color reversal film stock) to create

504-485: The categories of digital media , technoetics , electronic media and post-conceptualism . The areas such as those between drawing and poetry , or between painting and theatre could be described as intermedia. With repeated occurrences, these new genres between genres could develop their own names (e.g. visual poetry , performance art ); historically, an example is haiga , which combined brush painting and haiku into one composition. Dick Higgins described

532-592: The day's shooting was complete, Smith and the cast members, still in their costumes from the film, sometimes congregated at Rice's loft on Canal Street . Chumlum was made during these visits. Actors in the film include Smith, Beverly Grant , Mario Montez , Gerard Malanga , and Barbara Rubin . One of its outdoor locations was a field of goldenrods that also serves as the setting for Smith's Yellow Sequence . The Gramercy Arts Theater screened Chumlum in December 1963 with two other films by Rice— The Queen of Sheba Meets

560-437: The movie were confiscated at the premiere, and it was subsequently banned from public view. Despite not being viewable, the movie gained some anti-heroic notoriety when footage was screened during Congressional hearings and right-wing politician Strom Thurmond mentioned it in anti-porn speeches. Smith's next movie Normal Love (aka Normal Fantasy, Exotic Landlordism of Crab Lagoon , and The Great Pasty Triumph ) (1963–1964)

588-585: The performances. Apart from appearing in his own work, Smith worked as an actor . He played the lead in Andy Warhol 's unfinished film Batman Dracula , Ken Jacobs 's Blonde Cobra , and appeared in several theater productions by Robert Wilson . Smith also worked as a photographer and founded the Hyperbole Photographic Studio in New York City. In 1962, he released The Beautiful Book ,

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616-488: The tendency of what he thought was the most interesting and best in the new art to cross boundaries of recognized media or even to fuse the boundaries of art with media that had not previously been considered for art forms, including computers. Part of the reason that Duchamp 's objects are fascinating while Picasso 's voice is fading is that the Duchamp pieces are truly between media, between sculpture and something else, while

644-621: Was Vaccaro who introduced Smith to glitter and in 1966 and 1967, Smith created costumes for Vaccaro's Playhouse of the Ridiculous. Smith's style influenced the film work of Andy Warhol as well as the early work of John Waters . While Vaccaro and Smith disputed the idea that their sexual orientation was responsible for their art, all three are thought to have been part of the 1960s gay arts movement, In 1992, performer Ron Vawter recreated Smith's performance "What's Underground about Marshmallows" in Roy Cohn/Jack Smith which he presented in

672-678: Was able to restore all of Smith's films, create a major retrospective curated by Edward Leffingwell at PS 1 , the Contemporary Arts Museum, now part of MoMA , put his films back into international distribution, and publish several books on Jack Smith and his work. In January 2004, the New York Surrogate's Court ordered Hoberman and Arcade to return Smith's archive to his legal heir, estranged, surviving sister Sue Slater. Hoberman and Arcade fought to dismiss Slater's claim, arguing that she abandoned Jack's apartment and its contents;

700-509: Was collected in 2013 in Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book . In 2014, it was released as a limited-ledition vinyl picture disc by Semiotext(e). In 1987, Smith was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) degree from Whittier College . In 1989, New York performance artist Penny Arcade tried to salvage Smith's work from his apartment after his long bout with AIDS and subsequent death. Arcade attempted to preserve

728-430: Was digitized for home media as part of the 2009 DVD box set Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947–1986 . Jack Smith (film director) Jack Smith (November 14, 1932 – September 18, 1989) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema . He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art , and has been critically recognized as a master photographer . Smith

756-479: Was raised in Texas , where he made his first film, Buzzards over Baghdad , in 1952. He moved to New York City in 1953. The most famous of Smith's productions is Flaming Creatures (1963). The film, that first put camp on the map, is a satire of Hollywood B movies and tribute to actress Maria Montez , who starred in many such productions. However, authorities considered some scenes to be pornographic. Copies of

784-579: Was the only work in Smith's oeuvre with an almost conventional length (120 mins.), and featured multiple underground stars, including Mario Montez , Diane di Prima , Tiny Tim , Francis Francine, Beverly Grant , John Vaccaro, and others. The rest of his productions consists mainly of short movies, many never screened in a cinema, but featured in performances and constantly re-edited to fit the stage needs (including Normal Love ). After his last completed film, No President (1967), (Smith’s follow-up film, Sinbad In

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