Canadian artist gives lecture, slide show
Zbigniew Blazeje, Canadian artist, gave a lecture and slide show for the Student Union Activities Association Art Forum Wednesday afternoon in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Blazeje, who has an exhibit now showing at the Art Research Center in Kansas City, Mo., works exclusively with rectangular forms, bringing them to life by using kinetics, light and sound techniques.
Blazeje ran the gamut with his slide show, projecting slides about his progression from early pigment paint media paintings
to his latest light and sound exhibits.
"My early works are mostly fluorescent paintings with rectangular areas sticking out," Blazeje said. "I did that so that the canvases would incorporate the surface they were against into the whole painting, Also, by using different forms of lighting, many of the colors would appear or disappear, giving unusual qualities of an organic nature to the paintings."
Many of his works incorporate the use of music and sound. He said that music was not mathematically oriented to the works, and that there was no definite way to tie certain colors in with certain types or notes of music.
His latest works consist of illuminated plastic sculptures mounted on electrical photoelectric systems.
"That way," Blazeje said, "the spectators can control the intensity and colors in the museum or exhibit."
Blazeje uses kinetics mostly in filmed sequences of light events: He showed slides of the impulses which are produced when light is
electrically stimulated by music or noise. By mounting these film sequences, Blazeje said he obtained a graphic representation of a kinetic happening.
"I only use technology to produce a visual effect," Blazeje said. "I'm only interested in the visual returns which it can produce, not technology for its own sake."
He said he was mostly interested in the colored plastic medium because of the accurate, good colors it produced with various types of lighting.
"You don't have to go through a regular medium to achieve rich colors," he said. "All of my work seems to be visually good, and does not need light or sound to make them art."
After his lecture, he fielded questions from the audience. Among the questions asked was why he used only rectangular forms.
"I use rectangular forms as a matter of self-discipline," he said. "I feel I can explore more freely. I emphasize form and color in my work."
Trial opens, evidence lost
UNION, Mo. (UPI)—A trial which hopes to establish the date of death of outlaw Jesse James opened Wednesday in the Franklin County Court here and the main piece of evidence for the prosecution, a family bible, was reported lost.
The suit was filed against Rudy Turilli, who has offered $10,000 to any one who can prove that Jesse James died with a bullet in his back in 1882 as legend and history books maintain. Turilli, denies the reported death. He said Jesse James died peacefully under the alias J. Frank Dalton at age 103 in 1951 in Granbury. Tex.
The suit was filed by Mrs. Jesse James Jr., who said she was the daughter-in-law of the notorious train robber and was seeking the $10,000.
The prosecution was seeking to
Schools close; protests spread
By United Press International
California's 27 state colleges and universities were ordered closed for four days Wednesday and 5,000 Illinois National Guardsmen were called to duty to cope with disorders in a spreading campus rebellion.
Police fired tear gas at student protesters on the University of Wisconsin campus. The Texas State capitol was evacuated and guarded by hundreds of armed Texas Rangers and state troopers against threatened attack by University of Texas militants.
District of Columbia police fired dozens of canisters of tear gas at rock-and bottle-hurling student demonstrators at the American University in Washington. One student suffered a broken leg, two policemen were injured by flying missiles and at least 14 students were injured.
Three University of New Mexico students were stabbednone seriously—in a fight overwhether to raise or lower the U.S. flag in memory of four Kent State University students.
Hundreds of thousands of university and college students stayed out of classes on campuses from coast to coast in clamorous protests against the U.S. military drive into Cambodia and the slaying of the Kent students by National Guardsmen.
A newly organized National Strike Center at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., reported strikes were under way at 240 colleges.
Numbers released for draft lottery
establish only the date of death.
TOPEKA (UPI)—The Kansas draft quota for June will be 158 men holding lottery numbers between 1 and 170, state selective service headquarters announced Wednesday.
This represents an increase of 25 lottery numbers over the May call which was restricted to numbers under 145.
The quota for May was 193.
Robert Cedarburg of St. Louis, attorney for the prosecution, said the date could be established by three means—a family bible, a tombstone or testimony from the family.
Cedarburg said the bible, which had been considered the main piece of evidence, was lost. He said no tombstone with a date would be presented and the only testimony from the family was an affidavit signed by Thomas Mimms, a brother-in-law of Jesse, who signed the document at age 91 in 1937. The affidavit states that he attended the funeral of Jesse James.
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The only other evidence presented by the prosecution, before Judge Herbert K. Moss adjourned the court for the night, was a deposition signed by Mrs. James on July 11, 1969.
The deposition devoted 45 pages to her history, but basically contended that her father-in-law died on April 3,1882, as was generally accepted.
Judge Moss accepted the document and had it read to the jury of eight men and four women
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after ruling that dates of birth, marriage or death based on hear-say evidence could be admitted.
The judge also insisted that the word "killed" in relation to the death of Jesse James be deleted from any evidence since the court was attempting to prove only the date of death, not the cause.
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