[Nettime-bold] Wigged.net: Fresh and Fancy

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+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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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

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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

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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