Wigged.net: Fresh and Fancy

Sat Jul 20 16:24:22 CEST 2002

   WIGGED.NET  JUNE 2002 E-NEWSLETTER--VOL. 2 ISSUE 14
   Wigged.net (http://www.wigged.net) is an evolving digital magazine 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.

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   Wigged.net, please contact seththompson at wigged.net.

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   INDEX

   +Call for Works

   +Performance

   +On-Line Exhibitions

   + Book News

   + Web Projects

   +Now Showing on Wigged.net

   +Call for Works

   +Publicity Opportunity

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   PERFORMANCE

   S H A R E . E V E N T . I N . N E W . Y O R K . C I T Y

   Every Sunday 5:00-9:30 p.m.

   at

   PENAIR, 121 St. Marks Pl. (near Avenue A) NYC

   or

   Watch it live on-line at: http://share.ffem.org

   Share is a weekly assemblage of portable computing, founded in 2001 by

   Barry Manalog, geoffGDAM and Newclueless that provide a "real life" open

   forum for data exchange and media performance.

   Share begins every Sunday at 5pm (EST) with the open jam. An open-mixer

   systemfor video and audio lets participants patch their equipment into the

   multi-channel, multi-room sound system and multi-screen video system.

   Artists are encouraged to bring any portable audio and video gear and take

   a turn sharing, join in an open jam, or form impromptu collaborations. We

   accommodate both solo performers and those looking to jam, as time and

   space allow. Arrive early for best results.

   Share has collaborated with other electronic festivals and events,

   including Electroluxe in NYC and the PhonoTaktik festival in Vienna.

   Collaboration with 2002 PhonoTaktik festival took two forms: live

   performances and collaborations when the festival was in NYC, and a

   streaming NET.JAM when the festival continued in Vienna.

   Weekly Share Stream: http://share.ffem.org [ SUNDAYS 17:00 to 21:30 EST ]

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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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   ON-LINE EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT #1

   "Actual Positions of Italian NetArt"

   Curated and developed by Agricola de Cologne

   JavaMuseum

   Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art

   www.javamuseum.org

   For many, Italy represents the craddle of European culture and art.  It is

   geographically where some of the most active and influential online New

   Media publications and  net art can be found.  This on-line exhibition

   features twenty Italian artists at various career stages from the

   up-and-coming to the well known.   Each represents a unique aspect of

   approaching "NetArt."  The featured artists are: Caterina Davinio, Carla

   Della Beffa, Mauro Ceolin, Bugs, ego, Isabella Bordoni, Domiziana

   Giordano, dlsan, Sergio Maltagliati, Speranza Casillo, Domenico Olivero,

   Coniglioviola, Giocomo Verde, Luigia Cardarelli, Avatar project, 80/81,

   Francesca di Gregorio Gruppo A12, Carlo Zanni, 0100101110101101.ORG

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   ON-LINE EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT #2

   FAf (http://www.fineartforum.org) is pleased to present the first

   installment of a new work by Molly Hankwitz. Peripheral Property is an

   autobiographical piece emerging out of a personal interest in the latent,

   myriad poetries of the commercial website eBay (http://www.ebay.com) and

   similar 'architectures' of things.

   Describing Peripheral Property as a culture-jam, Hankwitz says on eBay,

   one finds and identifies with images of toys and gadgets as one would the

   contents of a "real" fleamarket, a messy room, or collection of other

   found things.

   In this process, memories are attributed to the objects from deep within

   the recesses of one's mind, past and present. In new media as in all art,

   we often find ourselves restructuring and reordering information to form a

   continuity of idea, she says of the work. "Memory-retrieval, performed

   subjectively is both psychoanalytic and highly personal, a way of

   reconstituting desired events selectively to organize a new whole.

   Peripheral Property is a conceptual document then, which deals with these

   arenas of process and value."

   Molly Hankwitz is a U.S born writer, filmmaker and media artist based in

   Brisbane, Australia. Her work encompasses a number of disciplines,

   including architecture, digital culture, art history and media activism.

   Characterised by a concern with memory, identity and self, Hankwitz's work

   constitutes an interdisciplinary examination of the contemporary cultural

   landscape.

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   BOOK NEWS

   THE LANGUAGE FOR NEW MEDIA is now On-line

   by Lev Manovich [MIT Press, 2001]

   http://www.manovich.net/LNM_SITE_NEW/lnm_main.html

   Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.

   He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of

   the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions

   of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera, and shows

   how new media works create the illusion of reality, address the viewer,

   and represent space. He also analyzes categories and forms unique to new

   media, such as interface and database.

   Manovich uses concepts from film theory, art history, literary theory, and

   computer science and also develops new theoretical constructs, such as

   cultural interface, spatial montage, and cinegratography. The theory and

   history of cinema play a particularly important role in the book. Among

   other topics, Manovich discusses parallels between the histories of cinema

   and of new media, digital cinema, screen and montage in cinema and in new

   media, and historical ties between avant-garde film and new media.

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   WEB PROJECTS

   _ _ _ _ _H_F _ _ _ _ _

    _C_R_I_T_I_C_A_L_

    _ _ _ M_A _S _S _ _

   v1.0 SOFTWARE

   http://www.wildernesspuppets.net/hfcm/

   HF CRITICAL MASS is freely available software, which is based on a 1971

   film by Hollis Frampton titled "Critical Mass".

   HF CRITICAL MASS adopts the structure of the earlier film as an interface

   for improvising playback of digital video (quicktime movies).

   Mac and Windows versions for download at:

   http://www.wildernesspuppets.net/hfcm/

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   The films of the late Hollis Frampton spanned the late 1960s through the

   early 1980s. His work, Critical Mass, is one of a series of films

   collectively titled "Hapax Legomena" that investigate "the specific

   conditions of cinematic representation and the limitations and paradoxes

   of visual description and narrative."  (description by Steve Polta - San

   Francisco Cinemateque, 2002)

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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: Nov 15, 2002 for Wigged's January-March, 2003 issue.

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   NOW SHOWING ON WIGGED.NET
   through August 31, 2002

   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

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