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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

For more information, please email Alt-X Publicist Kendall Pata at
kendall@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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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 piece www.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's L'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@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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