Wigged.net: An Original Flavor
Seth Thompson
seththompson at wigged.net
Fri Jul 5 15:34:20 CEST 2002
WIGGED.NET JUNE 2002 E-NEWSLETTER--VOL. 2 ISSUE 13
Wigged.net (http://www.wigged.net) is an evolving Webzine focused on
bringing innovative short videos, animations and interactive works over
the Internet. Our mission is to be a showcase, distribution and promotion
center for pioneering artists via the World Wide Web.
For information on advertising in Wigged.net's E- Newsletter or on
Wigged.net, please contact seththompson at wigged.net.
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INDEX
+Call for Works
+Shows & Performances
+ Book Releases
+New Screen Media
+Alt-X launches three new PrintOnDemand books
+ Website Launch-LaurieTumer.com
+ Happenings-Netlinkz Group Invites you.
+Now Showing on Wigged.net
+Publicity Opportunity
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ADVERTISEMENT
Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media
Video Documentary. 2002. (Color, 56:35)
Directed and produced by Seth Thompson.
Profiles four internationally recognized artists who have incorporated
current computer technology into their work to enhance their artistic
visions. Artists addressed are: Mark Amerika, Tennessee Rice Dixon, Toni
Dove, and Troika Ranch.
The documentary is currently distributed by Wigged Productions and is
available for $29.95 (includes S/H) at
http://www.wigged.net/evolvingtraditions/ .
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BOOK RELEASES
New Screen Media
Martin Rieser, Andrea Zapp, editors:
New Screen Media discusses how classical narrative in many areas has been
giving way to a new, more fragmentary culture of drama. The book explores
the differing creative platforms such as the Internet, Media Installation,
Interactive Broadcast, CD-ROM and Expanded Cinema within a social,
political and
cultural context. The advent of new media presents a serious challenge to
our understanding of visual representation, of narrative and indeed the
whole art of the moving image. New narrative forms in hypertext,
multimedia, computer games, interactive broadcast and screen media are
constantly redefining the relationship between the creators of content and
their audiences, who increasingly are becoming the co-producers of
meaning.
Accompanying the publication is a DVD that provides a rich sampler of
interactive work and videos. Such work has usually been shown in
international gallery and conference venues, which have been inaccessible
to a general audience. This compilation is carefully cross-referenced with
the book to open a comprehensive overview to a wider public. The
cross-platform DVD-ROM provides up to 4 Gigabytes of detailed illustration
and analysis of the work of artists and interactive filmmakers from around
the world, who are at the cutting-edge in creating and critiquing these
new hybrid forms of interactive narrative. Practitioners such as: Zoe
Beloff, Michael Buckley, Luc Courchesne, Toni Dove, Ken Feingold, Chris
Hales, Graham Harwood, George Legrady, Merel Mirage, Martin Rieser, Jill
Scott, Bill Seaman, Jeffrey Shaw, Eku Wand, Grahame Weinbren and Andrea
Zapp are featured. A representative selection of
Installation forms, CD-ROM, Web and Broadcast are examined in depth.
For full details including how to order your copy visit:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/newscreenmedia/
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THREE NEW BOOKS FROM ALT-X PRESS
Alt-X announces the publication of three new PrintOnDemand books.
The three books encompass three generations of innovative fiction. George
Chambers and Raymond Federman's Twilight of the Bums establishes these
two veteran experimentalists as the Abbott and Costello of postmodernism.
Adrienne Eisen's debut novel, Making Scenes, brings back to life the
rival tradition of American writing from Henry Miller to Kathy Acker.
With Alan Sondheim's novel of mystical eroticism, .echo readers will
lose themselves in a net fiction charged with sex, obsession and codework.
The three new books join the three recently published books of Alt-X
Press POD: Mark Amerika's collection, How To Be an Internet Artist;
the novel Cows by Ronald Sukenick, this year's winner of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters Award for innovative fiction; and Eugene
Thacker's Hard_Code anthology of experimental data prose.
Producing books by, for and through the computer, in both e-book and
PrintOnDemand formats, Alt-X has already launched its highly successful
e-book series which is now followed by the appearance of the POD versions.
They are available for credit card purchase at altx.com, booksurge.com,
half.com, and other channels.
Reviewers may refer to the free complete e-book postings now available in
PDF and Palm Pilot versions at www.altx.com/ebooks.
For more information, please email Alt-X Publicist Kendall Pata at
kendall at altx.com
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WEBSITE LAUNCH
The photographs of Laurie Tumer can now be viewed on her recently launched
Website: http://www.laurietumer.com. Artist Holly Roberts has called the
site an "aesthetic restraint and playful mystery." Tumer teachers college
writing, photography, and digital imaging courses as well as workshops,
including two this summer at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New
Mexico.
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CALL FOR WORKS
Seeking innovative and experimental video, animation and net art. Please
visit http://www.wigged.net and go to the "submit media" page to fill out
our on-line registration form and send requested materials.
DEADLINE: July 15, 2002 for Wigged's September-December, 2002 issue.
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HAPPENINGS
The NetLinkz Group, Inc. invites you every Tuesday for an evening of Kool
Vibes All Night !!!
Featuring...
Open Mic - Comedy - Dining - Live DJ - Kool Vibes
The RumBar Lounge
@
Negril Village
70 West 3rd
Btwn Thompson & LaGuardia
Greenwich Village, NYC
212 477-2804
Doors Open @ 6pm
Comedy & Open Mic @ 8pm
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NOW SHOWING ON WIGGED.NET
Humberto Ramirez's HATE.
Ramirez writes, "This is a video in which the cultural dynamics of hatred
are explored through a series of talking heads and monologues. The video
seeks to denaturalize a condition in which the potential solidarity
amongst different people is subverted by notions of nationalism, race,
gender, class etc.
By problematizing what seems to remain hidden or at least unspoken this
work seeks to provoke a conversation." United States. 2002.
Agricola de Cologne's Never Wake Up.
Based on the artist's poem of the same name. The poem/movie uses some
fundamental images: The "soldier" is metaphor for the human individual.
"War" is a metaphor for life, respectively the fights of everyday day
life; and the "veteran of war" is the human being who cannot rid himself
of the shadows of the past. Never Wake Up addresses the loss of identity
where the soldiers become distorted and veterans have difficulty with
reintegration into post-war society. Germany. 2001.
Jimpunk's www.nowar.nogame.org.
Jimpunk ironically states that in his piecewww.nowar.nogame.org,
"everything is under control." However get ready for a nerve-racking
event. At first you may think that your computer has been infected with a
virus. But don't worry, it's not. Fasten your seatbelt as you embark on
a mind-blowing journey that is a masterful mixture of image and sound.
Kudos to jimpunk! France. 2001.
Daniel Young's NewZoid.
NewZoid is a work of generative art. It plays with the most common
information form of our time - the headline.NewZoid continuously collects
the daily news, tears it apart, chops it up and endlessly reassembles the
pieces into absurd, funny, shocking and thought-provoking headlines. The
Site has been operating on its own since April 8, 2001. United States.
2001.
Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez & Gustavo Matamoros'sL'Anatomie du Désir. This
assemblage of erotic images, found and damaged footage, and handcrafted
16mm film was originally projected onto the torso of Butoh artist Helena
Thevenot as part of the one-hour collaborative piece "The Anatomy of
Desire." A tribute to biophysical impulses, the video version
synchronizes the film to its original score by Gustavo Matamoros. United
States. 2002.
Thomas Swiss and Seth Thompson's In the Woods.
In the Woods, a collaborative effort between Thom Swiss and Seth Thompson
examines the ideas of memory, aging and loss. The result of the
collaboration suggests the way language (in this case a poem by Swiss) can
be re-represented and changed by images (a film by Thompson). United
States. 2002.
To view these works visit the "Now Showing" page at http://www.wigged.net
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PUBLICITY OPPORTUNITY
We are looking to promote your upcoming exhibitions and new releases. If
you would like for us to promote your work either through our newsletter
or Wigged.net webzine, please send your press releases to:
Seth Thompson
Wigged Productions
418 Woodland Ave.
Akron, OH 44302
or you may e-mail press releases to seththompson at wigged.net. No file
attachments will be accepted. If you have images that you would like to
include, please send them via snail mail to the above address.
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