Syndicate: (Fwd) artintact 5 now availabl

[Inke Arns <inke@berlin.snafu.de>]

Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 02:48:54 +0100
From: sommer@zkm.de (Astrid Sommer)
Subject: artintact 5 now available

artintact 5 is now published and available. artintact can be ordered via
your bookshop, <www.amazon.de> or at <sales@hatje.de>.

artintact 5
Artists' interactive CD-ROMagazine
ZKM|Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
CD-ROM with interactive art works by Masaki Fujihata (J), Agnes Hegedüs (H/D),
Forced Entertainment & Hugo Glendinning (UK) // Book with texts by Gerhard
Johann Lischka, Tim Etchells, Masaki Fujihata, Peggy Phelan, Hans-Peter
Schwarz, Tjebbe van Tijen

160 pages
c. 40 b/w images
6,25 x 8,25 in.
Hardcover with interactive CD-ROM for Mac/PC
c. US$ 49,- / DM 98,--
ISBN 3-89322-949-3

artintact is a combined book and CD-ROM package in which the ZKM-Center for
Art and Media Karlsruhe presents pioneering works of interactive media art.
It is a collection of art treasures of a very specific kind: the editions
of artintact are among the few examples of concepts devised specifically
for the CD-Rom medium. It has become a multi-facetted cross-section of
media art. Each edition casts a new light on ideas and concepts of the
practice of art in view of the variegated, forking paths programmatically
offered by the medium. The fifth annual edition equally reflects
developments in the context of ZKM (Masaki Fujihata and Agnes Hegedüs
are/were artists-in-residence at the ZKM-Institute for Visual Media) as
well as the perspectives of artists whose terrain is not primarily media
art: the performance ensemble Forced Entertainment stages projects in
theatres and galleries spaces as well as in public spaces or on the
Internet.
        The artintact book contains texts on the works by various authors,
along with detailed lists of the artists works and biographical
information.

The artists and their works on artintact 5

Masaki Fujihata
born in Tokyo in 1956, lives and works in Tokyo. He studied at the Tokyo
University of Arts, and in 1990 became Associate Professor at the Faculty
of Environmental Information, Keio University, Kanagawa. His works have won
several prizes, including the Golden Nica of Prix Ars Electronica, Linz. In
1998 Fujihata is working as artist-in-residence at the ZKM-Institute for
Visual Media. Fujihata's work is concerned with investigating virtual
systems and examines concepts of information storage and communication. His
interactive installation Beyond Pages is one of the highlights in the
collection of the ZKM-Media Museum.

Masaki Fujihata: Impalpability, 1998
Detailed images of sections of human skin form the surface of a ball which
the viewer can rotate at will by manipulating the mouse. The abstract yet
physical/sensorial impression roused by the ball disturbingly raises the
question of what, exactly, one is touching - mouse or image? Image or
flesh?

Forced Entertainment
is an ensemble of artists based in Sheffield, UK, working together since
1984. Led by artistic director Tim Etchells Forced Entertainment is one of
the UK's most renowned performance groups, whose work in theatre spaces,
unusual sites and in gallery collaborations has won them a considerable
reputation in the UK and beyond. The company makes work which explores the
complexities, joys and difficulties of urban life toward the end of the
20th century. Building a process and set of concerns over nearly fifteen
years of collaborative practice, the group's long term committment is not
to specific formal strategies, but simply to challenging and provocative
art-work that asks questions and fuels dreams. They are "fearless purveyors
of the best in radical theatre and urban mythologies" (The Guardian Guide).
Hugo Glendinning
is an arts photographer who has documented and collaborated with a wide
range of leading performance and fine art practitioners. His editorial
photography appears in many British magazines and newspapers, while his
work in arts publicity includes commissions from North America and
throughout Europe.

Forced Entertainment & Hugo Glendinning: Frozen Palaces (Chapter One), 1996-98
A series of scenes playing in a deserted house where time has stopped
still. Frozen Palaces is an exploration of how place, identity and the
imagination interact; about how place might both influence and archive
dreams and events. It is the creation of a fictitious history - an
overwriting of a real house with photographs of strange events that have
never 'really' taken place.

Agnes Hegedüs
born in Budapest in 1964, lives and works in Karlsruhe. She studied
Photography and Video Art at the Budapest Academy of Applied Arts, followed
by the Minerva Academy, Groningen, the Kunstakademie Enschede and the
Institute of New Media, Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main. In 1992, she was
artist-in-residence at the ZKM-Institute for Visual Media. Her works have
won several prizes, including the 'Sparky Award' at the Interactive Media
Festival, Los Angeles. Since the early 1990s, Agnes Hegedüs has been
developing interactive installations which, often through the deployment of
game structures or echoes of historical models, thematize fundamental
aspects of perception and concepts of virtual reality. Two of her works are
part of the collection of the ZKM-Media Museum.

Agnes Hegedüs: Things Spoken, 1998
An archive of personal memorabilia presented on a conveyor belt-like
'shelf' on the black monitor screen, and able to be arranged according to
numerous objective criteria. Associative spoken texts accompany each
object, hyperlinks within these texts lead to chance encounters between the
objects and the narratives.



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