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1. 1979 IU South Bend advertisements (01:34)

Date:
1979
Summary:
Three 1979 advertisements for IU South Bend. The first two advertisements feature fast and slow versions of a jingle proclaiming that IUSB offers "lifelong learning" and "evening classes." The thir...

2. 1997 IU South Bend advertisements (01:37)

Date:
1997
Main contributors:
Richard Harrison Bailey/The Agency
Summary:
Three 1997 advertisements for IU South Bend. The first shows an animated character with a red box for a torso attempting to cross a busy street. A vehicle runs over the logo, leaving tire marks on ...

3. Act II (05:19)

Date:
2009
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
Geometric slashes of white accent a spattered abstract image of yellows, golds and blues. In the foreground an animated wire swings in a narrow arc. In the audio, a mixture of indistinct, abstracte...

5. Annunciation (05:00)

Date:
2016
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
Annunciation is a video object operating within the aesthetic of painting. Each panel's background cycles through images sampled from an original digital abstract composition. One sees this composi...

8. Black Women: Uplifting Voices panel, part 1 (1:34:36)

Date:
February 9, 1989
Main contributors:
Leonard-Dent, Marva
Summary:
Part 1 of the panel "Black Women: Uplifting Voices," presented at a class session of B250 Interdisciplinary Analysis of Women's Role on February 9, 1989, at Indiana University South Bend. Features ...

9. Black Women: Uplifting Voices panel, part 2 (47:19)

Date:
February 9, 1989
Main contributors:
Leonard-Dent, Marva
Summary:
Part 2 of the panel "Black Women: Uplifting Voices," presented at a session of B250 Interdisciplinary Analysis of Women's Role on February 9, 1989, at Indiana University South Bend. Features black ...

10. Cats and Kittens (34:50)

Date:
198X
Main contributors:
Kaufman, Gloria J., 1929-2004
Summary:
Silent handheld footage of cats playing and sleeping.

11. Clothes (1:02:18)

Date:
1983
Main contributors:
Kaufman, Gloria J., 1929-2004
Summary:
An illustrated lecture on the semiotics of clothes, written, narrated and directed by Gloria Kaufman, who models a variety of outfits at the close of the program to demonstrate her arguments.

13. COVID-19 Stories: Buck, Brenda (43:59)

Date:
August 11, 2020
Main contributors:
Buck, Brenda
Summary:
Tyler Davis interviews Brenda Buck, a custodian at Indiana University South Bend and officer in AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees) Council 962. This oral histo...

14. COVID-19 Stories: Cwidak, Claire (1:08:00)

Date:
August 11, 2020
Main contributors:
Cwidak, Claire
Summary:
Rachel and Zach Schrank interview Claire Cwidak, an undergraduate student in the School of Nursing at Indiana University South Bend and Patient Care Assistant at Memorial Hospital (South Bend) work...

15. COVID-19 Stories: Davis, Hope (48:45)

Date:
August 7, 2020
Main contributors:
Davis, Hope
Summary:
Scott Shoger interviews Hope Smith Davis, the Dean of the School of Education and Associate Professor of Secondary Education/Reading & Literacy at Indiana University South Bend. The following inf...

16. COVID-19 Stories: Haithcox, Susan (53:32)

Date:
August 7, 2020
Main contributors:
Haithcox, Susan
Summary:
Zach and Rachel Schrank interview Susan Haithcox, an Assistant Clinical Professor with the Vera Z. Dwyer College School of Nursing at Indiana University South Bend. The following information was ...

17. COVID-19 Stories: Kennedy, Maureen (56:15)

Date:
August 11, 2020
Main contributors:
Kennedy, Maureen
Summary:
Catherine Behan interviews Maureen Kennedy, Interlibrary Loan Supervisor at the Schurz Library at Indiana University South Bend. This oral history was conducted through COVID-19 Stories, an oral h...

18. Crossing, Berlin 1927 (05:46)

Date:
2008
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
Crossing references memory and narrative. With its multiple, time-scattered views of a young woman crossing a Berlin street just ahead of a thunderstorm, the piece also touches on the connection be...

21. Epiphany (05:18)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
Single-channel HD video animation, stereo, riffing on Marshall McLuhan’s famous line about medium being the message. In Epiphany, I take medium to be the entire text of American advertising and ent...

26. Excerpt: IU Journal on IU South Bend Children's Theatre in 1988 (03:17)

Date:
March 1988
Main contributors:
IU Office of University Relations
Summary:
Excerpts from IU Journal's 1988 report on the IU South Bend Children's Theatre production of King Arthur and the Magic Sword. Features interviews with theater program director Warren Pepperdine and...

27. Excerpt: IUSB: Realizing the Vision (03:06)

Date:
February 15, 1993
Summary:
Excerpts from "IUSB: Realizing the Vision," a 1993 development and fundraising video produced by the Edie Haskin Agency. The slate title reads "Development; Visionary." The on-screen title reads "I...

28. Excerpt: The Politics of Humor: A Feminist View (01:51)

Date:
1986
Main contributors:
Kaufman, Gloria J., 1929-2004
Summary:
Excerpt from the hour-long video "The Politics of Humor: A Feminist View," directed by Gloria Kaufman. This excerpt features portions of the introduction and a puppet show about anarchist foremothe...

31. Fear of Lesbianism lecture (1:34:56)

Date:
April 9, 1990
Main contributors:
Kaufman, Gloria J., 1929-2004
Summary:
Gloria Kaufman gives a lecture entitled "Fear of Lesbianism" at a session of B250 Interdisciplinary Analysis of Women's Role on April 9, 1990, at Indiana University South Bend.

32. Figure, Perception & Authentic in Media, & Abstraction (50:09)

Date:
2025
Main contributors:
Somerville, Natasha.
Summary:
My work is about the exploration of the figure in visually textured and layered surfaces. I create paintings and mixed pieces that investigate the combination of representational imagery from socia...

33. Five Modernist Essays (02:55)

Date:
1998
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
Five Modernist Essays was my first exhibited work in art video, produced immediately following my participation in the TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) summer 1998 workshop taught by c...

34. Flight (04:03)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
For Flight, I 3-D wrapped digital soup cans with images from my family and flew the cans over a river cityscape. The visual rhythm of the soup cans provides an ostinato over which I composed a musi...

35. Fran's Puppies (22:31)

Date:
198X
Main contributors:
Kaufman, Gloria J., 1929-2004
Summary:
Handheld footage of puppies playing with humans and each other.

36. Hurdy-Gurdy Man (06:06)

Date:
2019
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
A boy with a brass instrument stands watching a hurdy-gurdy (barrel organ) man as he turns the handle of his instrument. Although they occupy the same frame, they are separated by a flickering, nea...

37. Lester Wolfson interview, 1978 (28:33)

Date:
1978
Summary:
Lester Wolfson, Director and Assistant Dean then Chancellor of IU South Bend from 1964 to 1987, discusses his contributions to the university.

38. Mise-en-scène ... (05:59)

Date:
2015
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
The genesis of Mise-en-scène is the Stravinsky/Cocteau treatment of Oedipus Rex, first performed in 1927. I have been familiar with this composition from many encounters, including performances as ...

40. One, Two (09:38)

Date:
2016
Main contributors:
Lasater, Michael (artist)
Summary:
One, Two is a self-portrait. The image of me as a boy is split left and right, one side the echo of the other. In the audio, a single claves strike, doubled at the octave, mirrors the visual motif....

42. Oral History excerpt: "A nest of snakes" (02:17)

Date:
September 6, 2019
Main contributors:
Burt, Johnny (narrator); McIntosh-Burt, Exnar (narrator)
Summary:
Johnny Burt recalls how as a boy, he once found a large nest of snakes at the edge of his yard in the Small Farms. He recounts, "They were coming up on our fence! I had to get on the fence, and gra...

46. Oral History excerpt: "Everybody was a farmer" (00:42)

Date:
December 6, 2019
Main contributors:
Truchan, Steve (narrator)
Summary:
Steve Truchan details life growing up in the Small Farms community in Lake County, Indiana. He says that "everybody was a farmer." He describes a beautiful scene surrounding the Chase Street Spring...

47. Oral History excerpt: "He would sell for $1 a bottle" (02:13)

Date:
December 7, 2019
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
The Black Oak spring was located on the property of Dorothy Waters' childhood home in Black Oak. Waters says that her grandfather (who built the house in 1926) sold the water from the well to a man...

48. Oral History excerpt: "Hey, let's go get spring water" (00:19)

Date:
September 13, 2019
Main contributors:
Hughes, Chuck (narrator)
Summary:
Chuck Hughes, executive director of the Gary Chamber of Commerce, describes how the Chase Street spring water was like a treat for him and other children. This was one of a group of excerpts gath...

50. Oral History excerpt: "I just loved drinking from that spring" (01:30)

Date:
December 7, 2019
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator); Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
Dorothy Waters grew up in the Black Oak neighborhood of Calumet Township and her parents owned farm land near the Chase Street spring in Small Farms. Waters and her siblings pulled weeds in their f...