SUBTROPICS 03 VIDEOS ON-LINE

[WIGGED PRODUCTIONS]

  SUBTROPICS 03 VIDEOS ON-LINE AN INNOVATIVE INTERACTIVE VIDEO EXHIBITION ON
  THE WORLD WIDE WEB

  Exhibition dates:          April 15-June 15, 2003
  Exhibition location:      http://www.subtropicsvideo.org
  System Requirements:      DSL/Cable modem, Flash, Real Media Player and
  recent version of Netscape or Microsoft Explorer
  Producers:        Wigged Productions, Akron, Ohio and Subtropics New Music
  Festival, Miami, Florida


  Akron, Ohio-April 14, 2003-Akron, Ohio media artist/educator Seth Thompson


  and Miami, Florida based filmmaker/curator Humberto Ramirez collaborated to

  create an innovative Web-based video exhibition that invites viewer

  participation.  Subtropics 03 Videos On-line presents a cross section of


  video producers interested in art as a vehicle of cultural discourse.

   

  Curator Humberto Ramirez selected works that address such issues as


  patriotism, colonialism, nationalism, and AIDS.  Challenging in nature,

  these videos attempt to question current positions on these subjects.  He

  states, "The importance of these videos is that they do not retreat into the


  facile realm of the "experimental" and "abstract" but rather use the

  abilities of the medium to directly communicate and polemicize.


  Artists included are: Gregg Bordowitz, John Distefano, Elizabeth Hall, Mary


  Ann Toman, Craig Snyder, Deva Eveland and Jason Simon.


  Seth Thompson comments, "No longer is an exhibition restricted to a physical

  location with the advent of the World Wide Web.  With a computer and


  Internet access, artists, curators and audience can globally interact and

  generate dialogue.  This site was created to provide a venue for politically

  and socially motivated videos and to encourage discourse on related


  contemporary issues ."

  The exhibition is co-produced by Wigged Productions (http://www.wigged.net),

  Akron, Ohio and Subtropics New Music Festival (http://www.subtropics.org),


  Miami, Florida.



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  Seth Thompson
  Wigged Productions
  seththompson at wigged.net
  http://www.wigged.net