Seth Thompson
Since the beginning
Works in United States of America

BIO
Seth Thompson is an educator and arts journalist whose work has been exhibited internationally and shown on PBS. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Design at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. In addition, he has written on the arts for such magazines as Afterimage, Art Calendar, Bidoun and Dialogue. Thompson's documentaries, Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media and Outside the Box: New Cinematic Experiences have aired on such television stations as PBS 45 & 49, Northeast, Ohio; KDOL Channel 18, Oakland, California; DUTV, Philadelphia, PA; and Triangle Television, Auckland, New Zealand.

Thompson began his career at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts in New York City where he was the Business Manager and Education Director. In addition to teaching at The University of Akron and Cuyahoga Community College, he was a Contractual Artist/Lecturer with The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Associate Educator at the Akron Art Museum.

Thompson holds a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Colorado, an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College.

For more information, please visit his site, http://www.seththompson.info .

Wheeler Winston Dixon - Serial Metaphysics


Serial Metaphysics
Serial Metaphysics #1 (1984-86, clip, 6.4MB, 1:08 min)

Serial Metaphysics
Serial Metaphysics #2 (1984-86, clip, 5.9MB, 1:08 min)

Wheeler Winston Dixon is now a professor of film studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Before he did that he made a lot of (on the evidence of these clips & others) really great short movies. In particular these two clips from Serial Metaphysics, apparently almost entirely constructed from TV ads, whet the appetite for a viewing of the whole twenty minutes. Dixon conjures fever dream magic from commercial banality.
Check in particular the end sequence of clip one:
David Lynch eat your heart out.

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Residency



Cat’Art, international centre for research and creation
Visual arts, writing, performing arts, music…

Cat’Art is a place where the diversity of the art expressions is encouraged and where the exchanges between cultures from all over the world can be developed, so that the art expression remains a universal language.

There are still opportunities of residency in spring 2007 at Cat’Art.
Application open to professional artists only, for temporary stays from 2 weeks to 1 year.
Average residency fee: 600 € (lodging, studio and energy costs included). Detailed estimation of costs on request.

Every resident has his/her own independent bedroom with common cooking facilities.

Space for the creation:
9 independent studios from 30 to 200 m²;
3 individual rooms for writers;
a 140 m² room with excellent natural light and good show conditions to visualize the works;
a specialized library with permanent Internet connection.

The environment is exceptional (unspoilt nature, mountains, lake, in the south of France). The region has a rich historical background (Cathar castles, old city of Carcassonne and above all the cave of Niaux with its original paintings). Close by cultural centres, like Toulouse, Montpellier, Barcelona.

More details and application to residency on our website www.catart.org

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Interview with Alejandro Tamayo


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Alejandro Tamayo is an artist-engineer and a teacher working in the intersections of design, art and new technologies in a country that is often seen as the land of wild cartels, coffee, futbol, the terribly boring Fernando Botero (i'm quoting you here, Alejandro!): Colombia. I discovered his work by chance. He had emailed me to say that he wished i'd cover more of the Latin American art scene. That's something i'd love to do but i wouldn't know where to look for information about what's going on up there (although i read Spanish). Then i realized that the best way to start was to ask a few questions to Alejandro about the lab he's currently directing in Bogota.

The v*i*d*a lab, part of the Aesthetics Department at the Javeriana University, is focusing on the development of new design products and ideas. Guided by a reflexion on life itself, the course proposes to engage with organic (biological) and "post-organic" (electronic, digital) visions, trying to identify new relationships and interrogations that could be translated into the realization of concrete projects.

Read more...

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Mix & Mash


neme.org:

Creative Commons’ UK film competition “Mix & Mash” in association with Google UK invites short video submissions mixing and mashing digital content. Submissions can be made from the 8th of February to the 10th of March. The winners will be notified by the 12th of March and screened on the 16th of March at the Optronica National Film Theatre in London.

Deadline: 10 March 2007

More on http://neme.org/main/584/mix-and-mash

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Call for entries: Slowtime 2007


Wilfried Agricola de Cologne:

Call for entries
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Deadline 31 March 2007
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Theme:
Slowtime 2007 -
Quicktime as an artistic medium
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Cinematheque -
http://cinema.nmartproject.net
http://mac.le-musee-divisioniste.org
is the centre for streaming media in the framework of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net, and will open in 2007 - Cinema_C by launching the new show, entitled:
"Slowtime 2007 - Quicktime as an artistic medium".
Already in 2003, Cinematheque was exploring the artistic potential of the popular streaming videoformat
Quicktime as it can be visited in Cinema_B (access via the Cinematheque site). As Quicktime was undergoing a rapid technological development during the past years, it is time again for exploring the current state of Quicktime and its use as a medium for artistic expressions.
-->
Cinematheque is inviting artists, video and film makers to submit up to three videos in Quicktime format - originating from 2004 or later, preferably sized 480x360 px, but not smaller than 320x240 px, a maximum duration of 6 minutes and make them available online on a separate webpage for review and download.
-->
Please find the call, the regulations and entry form on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8
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Cinematheque at MediaCentre
http://cinema.nmartproject.net
http://mac.le-musee-divisioniste.org
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powered by
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net -
the experimental platform for art and New Media operating from Cologne/Germany.
.
info & contact
info (at) nmartproject.net
.

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DISCUSSION

Re: re: that day


I find this whole conversation troubling. Maybe some people on this
list need to get off their computer every once in a while and
volunteer at a soup kitchen, homeless shelter, or psychiatric center
to name just a few. NYC offers diverse experiences. If you think
that New York is full of "cotton-fluff" you need to go to the places
in the city where "you're not supposed to go," "middle class" New
Yorkers. Volunteering in some of the places I listed above can show
you that life's "difficulties" do not necessarily come in one blast
but rather can last over a lifetime.

It seems as though sensitivity is only a result of what has happened
to oneself rather than being empathetic to others. I hope that this
can change. I think its awful that people have felt that they have
found a sense of community due to disaster. I hope one day that some
people will realize that there was community all the time--all one
had to do was reach out.

Seth Thompson

>>hey joy,
>>
>>seems like ivan was saying something else. didn't read like he
>>actually thought YOU had glossed over the real horrors of being
>>bombed. rather that in the US (esp in such a big US city), the
>>average person still has the "luxury" of intellectually separating
>>the traumatic from an appreciation for the experience itself. What
>>PERCENTAGE of the population here was tangibly more effected than
>>folks in paris?
>
>i would say a very large percent. we're just speculating, but there
>are lots of lots of kids in nyc exhibiting symptoms of
>post-traumatic stress disorder and i would speculate that your
>average parisian youngster isn't having that problem as a result of
>9/11.
>
>anyway,
>
>i would also speculate that joy is grateful for the trauma. even in
>the rawness of nyc, the 'cotton-fluff' of average middle-class
>american existence provides it's own special flavor of grinding
>ennui (i've heard that boredom is the sensation that humans hate the
>most, we can take pain longer than boredom). 9/11 brutally punctured
>this fluff, and to those who weren't personally traumatized through
>injury or death it has given us something we've never had before
>(however briefly) both good and bad; a sensualist can appreciate
>both: a true sense of connectedness and community and REAL emotions
>of horror and outrage.
>
>>
>>If Kabul gets bombed, a larger majority of the people there
>>wouldn't care how much "realer" their experience was than the news
>>coverage. To many in the world, this distinction is a triviality,
>>though maybe you find it fascinating. (esp. if we aren't
>>completely absorbed in the task of plain surviving the aftermath)
>
>our cultures our totally different. i don't see the distinction as
>trivial at all. the mediation of western culture is one of it's
>defining characteristics.
>
>>
>>Obviously, the Picasso/Guernica thing is just an illustration that
>>this first-hand witnessing is hardly a necessity. there is no
>>benefit to it besides very PERSONAL interest.
>
>of course an artist could imagine human suffering.. but if one had
>NEVER witnessed it, i don't know how powerful that artist's
>depiction of it would be.
>
>>But for most of us NYers, we may have seen something meaningless
>>out of a window or from a roof-top but
>>don't be fooled. We are ALL getting the story from "CNN" in some form.
>
>that's joy's point: the mediated culture. and she shared her
>feelings, however horrible it may sound, of gratitude for this
>particular event not being mediated for her. we can all understand
>that i think, i know i've had similar feelings. if you stood on a
>rooftop and watched what happened and it was 'something meaningless'
>than i'll never know where you find meaning. personally, as a i
>watched the first tower collapse my little brain was busy making
>synaptic connections that it never knew it could (we call them
>horror). i've never felt anything like it. it may sound sick, but
>i'm glad i had a chance to experience those emotions.
>
><snip>
>>
>>judson
>>
>>
>>>You distort my meaning in order to state a truism. Obviously "greatful"
>>>was not applied to the experience of being bombed; it should be a given,
>>>especially in this tech savvy community that we in the 1st world foster
>>>and live through a super-mediated culture in which "reality" and fantasy
>>>are frequently blurred. that is the reference point for my remarks, it
>>>should be pretty obvious.
>>>
>>>nuff said.
>>>
>>>JG
>>>
>>>
>>>On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Ivan Pope wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > > more on the distance/mediation thing:
>>> > >
>>> > > To be fair, I think it was *easier* in some ways for those of us who
>>> > > actually experienced it to deal with it. it was unreal
>>>enough as it was --
>>> > > my friends who happened to be out of town at the time needed
>>>to get back
>>> > > in, to see to feel to hear what was going on without the
>>>mediation. those
>>> > > of us who were right downtown watching had more to deal with
>>>sooner, more
>>> > > horror if you will, but we had the gift of our own senses, our
>>> > > insufficient physical and psychological "mediation" or
>>>self-protective
>>> > > devices. we didn't have to make that leap from mediated
>>>horror to register
>>> > > the reality -- it sounds crazy, but i've felt grateful that
>>>I had my own
>>> > > experience of it
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> > I guess its a western luxury to be able to be grateful for the
>>>experience of
>>> > being in a city when it is bombed. This is, of course, an experience had
>>> > counteless times around the world by other individuals. Seldom
>>>do we hear
>>> > that they are grateful for the experience. The warring
>>>factions around Kabul
>>> > killed 50,000 by raining missiles randomly down on the city. I
>>>guess most
>>> > inhabitants weren't grateful and would rather have watched in
>>>on CNN etc.
>>> > Only it wasn't on CNN because the world had no interest at all.
>>> > Picasso made a work about Guernica, the genesis of bombing
>>>civilians, though
>>> > he wasn't there to experience it. Maybe he was the CNN of his day :)
>>> > Sow the wind ...
>>> > Ivan
>
>-
--
Seth Thompson
Wigged Productions
seththompson@wigged.net
http://www.wigged.net

*************************************************************
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.

http://www.wigged.net/evolvingtraditions/
*************************************************************

DISCUSSION

Wigged.net: An Original Flavor


WIGGED.NET JUNE 2002 E-NEWSLETTER--VOL. 2 ISSUE 13

Wigged.net (http://www.wigged.net) is an evolving Webzine 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.

For information on advertising in Wigged.net's E- Newsletter or on
Wigged.net, please contact seththompson@wigged.net.

******************************************
INDEX

+Call for Works
+Shows & Performances
+ Book Releases
+New Screen Media
+Alt-X launches three new PrintOnDemand books
+ Website Launch-LaurieTumer.com
+ Happenings-Netlinkz Group Invites youS.
+Now Showing on Wigged.net
+Publicity Opportunity

***************************************************
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/ .

***************************************************

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/

**********************

THREE NEW BOOKS FROM ALT-X PRESS

Alt-X announces the publication of three new PrintOnDemand books.

The three books encompass three generations of innovative fiction. George
Chambers and Raymond Federman's Twilight of the Bums establishes these
two veteran experimentalists as the Abbott and Costello of postmodernism.
Adrienne Eisen's debut novel, Making Scenes, brings back to life the
rival tradition of American writing from Henry Miller to Kathy Acker.
With Alan Sondheim's novel of mystical eroticism, .echo readers will
lose themselves in a net fiction charged with sex, obsession and codework.

The three new books join the three recently published books of Alt-X
Press POD: Mark Amerika's collection, How To Be an Internet Artist;
the novel Cows by Ronald Sukenick, this year's winner of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters Award for innovative fiction; and Eugene
Thacker's Hard_Code anthology of experimental data prose.

Producing books by, for and through the computer, in both e-book and
PrintOnDemand formats, Alt-X has already launched its highly successful
e-book series which is now followed by the appearance of the POD versions.
They are available for credit card purchase at altx.com, booksurge.com,
half.com, and other channels.

Reviewers may refer to the free complete e-book postings now available in
PDF and Palm Pilot versions at www.altx.com/ebooks.

For more information, please email Alt-X Publicist Kendall Pata at
kendall@altx.com

***************************************************

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.

***************************************************

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.

*******************************************************************
HAPPENINGS

The NetLinkz Group, Inc. invites you every Tuesday for an evening of
Kool Vibes All Night !!!

Featuring...
Open Mic - Comedy - Dining - Live DJ - Kool Vibes

The RumBar Lounge
@
Negril Village
70 West 3rd
Btwn Thompson & LaGuardia
Greenwich Village, NYC
212 477-2804
Doors Open @ 6pm
Comedy & Open Mic @ 8pm

********************************************************************

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 Jesus Rodriguez & Gustavo Matamoros's L'Anatomie du Desir.
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

******************************************
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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Wigged Productions
seththompson@wigged.net
http://www.wigged.net

DISCUSSION

Wigged.net: An Original Flavor


WIGGED.NET JUNE 2002 E-NEWSLETTER--VOL. 2 ISSUE 13

Wigged.net (http://www.wigged.net) is an evolving Webzine 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.

For information on advertising in Wigged.net's E- Newsletter or on
Wigged.net, please contact seththompson@wigged.net.

******************************************
INDEX

+Call for Works
+Shows & Performances
+ Book Releases
+New Screen Media
+Alt-X launches three new PrintOnDemand books
+ Website Launch-LaurieTumer.com
+ Happenings-Netlinkz Group Invites youS.
+Now Showing on Wigged.net
+Publicity Opportunity

***************************************************
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/ .

***************************************************

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/

**********************

THREE NEW BOOKS FROM ALT-X PRESS

Alt-X announces the publication of three new PrintOnDemand books.

The three books encompass three generations of innovative fiction. George
Chambers and Raymond Federman's Twilight of the Bums establishes these
two veteran experimentalists as the Abbott and Costello of postmodernism.
Adrienne Eisen's debut novel, Making Scenes, brings back to life the
rival tradition of American writing from Henry Miller to Kathy Acker.
With Alan Sondheim's novel of mystical eroticism, .echo readers will
lose themselves in a net fiction charged with sex, obsession and codework.

The three new books join the three recently published books of Alt-X
Press POD: Mark Amerika's collection, How To Be an Internet Artist;
the novel Cows by Ronald Sukenick, this year's winner of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters Award for innovative fiction; and Eugene
Thacker's Hard_Code anthology of experimental data prose.

Producing books by, for and through the computer, in both e-book and
PrintOnDemand formats, Alt-X has already launched its highly successful
e-book series which is now followed by the appearance of the POD versions.
They are available for credit card purchase at altx.com, booksurge.com,
half.com, and other channels.

Reviewers may refer to the free complete e-book postings now available in
PDF and Palm Pilot versions at www.altx.com/ebooks.

For more information, please email Alt-X Publicist Kendall Pata at
kendall@altx.com

***************************************************

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.

***************************************************

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.

*******************************************************************
HAPPENINGS

The NetLinkz Group, Inc. invites you every Tuesday for an evening of
Kool Vibes All Night !!!

Featuring...
Open Mic - Comedy - Dining - Live DJ - Kool Vibes

The RumBar Lounge
@
Negril Village
70 West 3rd
Btwn Thompson & LaGuardia
Greenwich Village, NYC
212 477-2804
Doors Open @ 6pm
Comedy & Open Mic @ 8pm

********************************************************************

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 Jesus Rodriguez & Gustavo Matamoros's L'Anatomie du Desir.
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

******************************************
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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DISCUSSION

Wigged.net's Mid-June E-Newsletter


WIGGED.NET JUNE 2002 E-NEWSLETTER--VOL. 2 ISSUE 12

Wigged.net (http://www.wigged.net) is an evolving Webzine 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.

For information on advertising in Wigged.net's E- Newsletter or on
Wigged.net, please contact seththompson@wigged.net.

******************************************
INDEX

+Call for Works
+Shows & Performances
+ Kudos
+Reflections on Utopia: Sarawut Chutiwongpeti's Work in Perspective.
+Publicity Opportunity

******************************************
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.

***************************************************
SHOWS & PERFORMANCES

NIGHT VISION
Curated by Joy Garnett
June 14 - July 20, 2002

White Columns
320 West 13th Street (entrance on Horatio Street)
NYC 10014, USA

Night Vision presents artists who are influenced by technologies
developed by the military, government intelligence agencies, and NASA
for use in research, surveillance and combat. The title of the
exhibition is taken from the high-tech optical apparatus used in
nocturnal military operations, whose green glow has become familiar
to television viewers. Some of the artists in this exhibition co-opt
these technological advancements while others examine public
perception of them as revealed by film, television and news media in
order to explore the various murky implications surrounding their
uses.

Participating artists:
Jordan Crandall | Christoph Draeger | Joy Garnett | Adam Hurwitz |
Bill Jones + Ben Neill | John Klima |Joseph Nechvatal | Jonathan
Podwil | Radical Software Group

Thursday June 27th, 2002, 7-10pm
BEN NEILL + BILL JONES LIVE PERFORMANCE
Ben Neill and his mutantrumpet will play music from his forthcoming
album "Automotive" along with midi-video performance by collaborator
Bill Jones.

Wednesday July 17th, 2002 7-9pm
ARTIST PANEL + OPEN DISCUSSION
Night Vision artists and writer Tim Griffin will present their work
and ideas touched upon in the exhibition.

*****************

GenTerra,
A project by Critical Art Ensemble and Beatriz da Costa

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 583 Broadway, NYC
Thursday, June 20, 2002, 6.30-8.00.pm

GenTerra is a performance by Critical Art Ensemble and Carnegie Mellon
University Robotic Art Researcher Beatriz da Costa. Posing as a company
dealing with transgenics - the isolation of one or more genes from one or
more organisms to create another, new organism - GenTerra highlights the
complex relationship between for-profit ventures and the ethical
considerations involved in transgenics research and product development.
GenTerra is a participatory 'theater' made up of a lab tent, four computer
station displaying the company's CD-Rom, and a "bacteria release machine."

This event will take place on the first floor gallery and is free with
Museum admission. ($3 on Thursdays from 6-8pm)

GenTerra is planned in conjunction with Open_Source_Art_Hack on view through
June 30, 2002 in the New Museum's Zenith Media Lounge. For more information
about the exhibition, please visit http://www.newmuseum.org .

*****************

Prints + Chips

bitforms
529 west 20th
New York, NY 10011
212 366 6939

June 20 - July 27 2002
Opening reception Saturday, June 22, 2002 6-8
Guest Curator: Michele Thursz

"Prints + Chips" is realized as a unit of styles being presented by
artists using gaming systems, communication platforms. Each work
reveals the relationship between production and object specificity.
As a dialogue Prints + Chips looks at the temporality of mediums and
the fluidity of the concepts as objects being realized by artist
using computer or electronic mediums.

***************************************************

KUDOS

GRANT APPROVED TO RESEARCH COMPUTER ARTS IN BRITAIN FROM 1950S TO 1980

A team of outstanding researchers, including fAf's Executive Editor
Paul Brown, Dr Charlie Gere from the School of History of Art, Film
and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London, and George
Mallen, the co-founder of the Computer Arts Society, has been awarded
over half million US dollar by UK's Arts and Humanities Research
Board, to research, document, contextualise and archive the history
of the computer arts in Britain from the 1950s to 1980. This piece of
exciting news features in the June issue of fAf
(http://www.fineartforum.org).

***************************************************
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/ .

***************************************************

WIGGED NEWS ARTICLE

Reflections on Utopia: Sarawut Chutiwongpeti's Work in Perspective.
By Seth Thompson

Two years have passed, since Sarawut Chutiwongpeti's Utopia 1997 came
to my attention. At first, I was intrigued by the aesthetics of the
piece and did not realize the implicit foresight that the work would
have in the upcoming years. Due to a chain of events two years ago,
I had placed the article on the backburner.

Recently, Chutiwongpeti contacted me in regard to the status of the
article. This exchange began a dialogue with him that spurred me to
look once again at his work and to reexamine his ideas in a June 2002
timeframe. With such events as the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks on the United States' financial and political capitols;
inflated conflicts between Palestine and Israel; and now threats of
suicide bombers and anthrax have crept into the United States
landscape, I realize how Chutiwongpeti's work foreshadowed these
events.

The installation presents the viewer with ideas of more than just
gorgeous lights and lines within an environment. Pieces of broken
glass lay on the floor; dates of long ago events accompanied by
different geographical locales such as Iran and other texts are
scattered throughout the room; video monitors lay on the floor
presenting "man's" great accomplishments; and missile crater relics
are encapsulated in this environmental sculpture. Utopia 1997 is not
a depiction of Eden, but rather envelopes remnants of chaos and
danger of a society past. It is a cautionary sign to be wary amidst
superficial peace and beauty.

The piece reminds me of Thomas Cole's 1836 painting The Course of
Empire: Desolation which can be found at the New York Historical
Society. The final piece in a series of five, the painting
illustrates the aftermath of a society once great--destroyed by
warfare, overindulgence and greed. Nature is now overtaking the
architectural artifacts of the once great society--slowly returning
the urban landscape to its natural beauty. In Chutiwongpeti's
installation Utopia 1997, sounds of nature are all that remain except
for audio artifacts from the media that reminds the viewer of what
once was.

Chutiwongpeti writes,

"The contradictory side of utopia is full of pessimism. Man's quest
to conquer distant galaxies, endless search for territories and
colonies reflect this inner instinct for power, aggrandizement, and
control. The imbalance of power between those who control and those
under control has contributed to this order and dilemma.

In the era of confusion and distortion values of aesthetics and
common sense have been greatly transformed. At the end of the
century we are facing the crisis of world civilization."

It is my fear that Chutiwongpeti is right--that we live in a world
that is becoming increasingly chaotic and inhumane. I ask myself,
"Why are we killing each other in the name of religion? Isn't
spirituality and religion's mission to provide us with a structure
for peaceful living?" The beautiful facade of Utopia 1997 is evident
at first glance but as we look closer we begin to see some possible
disturbing artifacts of our future's past.

Born in Thailand, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti is a young artist who has
already received international acclaim. He can be reached at
utopia1998@hotmail.com . His website is:
http://artists.banff.org/sarawut/

******************************************
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.

Please Note: To remove your e-mail address from my list simply reply
to this message and type the word "unsubscribe" in the Subject field
at the top of your reply. If you have more than one e-mail address
through which you might be receiving this, please be sure to list
them all.
--
Seth Thompson
Wigged.net
seththompson@wigged.net
http://www.wigged.net

DISCUSSION

Wigged.net's Mid-June E-Newsletter


WIGGED.NET JUNE 2002 E-NEWSLETTER--VOL. 2 ISSUE 12

Wigged.net (http://www.wigged.net) is an evolving Webzine 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.

For information on advertising in Wigged.net's E- Newsletter or on
Wigged.net, please contact seththompson@wigged.net.

******************************************
INDEX

+Call for Works
+Shows & Performances
+ Kudos
+Reflections on Utopia: Sarawut Chutiwongpeti's Work in Perspective.
+Publicity Opportunity

******************************************
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.

***************************************************
SHOWS & PERFORMANCES

NIGHT VISION
Curated by Joy Garnett
June 14 - July 20, 2002

White Columns
320 West 13th Street (entrance on Horatio Street)
NYC 10014, USA

Night Vision presents artists who are influenced by technologies
developed by the military, government intelligence agencies, and NASA
for use in research, surveillance and combat. The title of the
exhibition is taken from the high-tech optical apparatus used in
nocturnal military operations, whose green glow has become familiar
to television viewers. Some of the artists in this exhibition co-opt
these technological advancements while others examine public
perception of them as revealed by film, television and news media in
order to explore the various murky implications surrounding their
uses.

Participating artists:
Jordan Crandall | Christoph Draeger | Joy Garnett | Adam Hurwitz |
Bill Jones + Ben Neill | John Klima |Joseph Nechvatal | Jonathan
Podwil | Radical Software Group

Thursday June 27th, 2002, 7-10pm
BEN NEILL + BILL JONES LIVE PERFORMANCE
Ben Neill and his mutantrumpet will play music from his forthcoming
album "Automotive" along with midi-video performance by collaborator
Bill Jones.

Wednesday July 17th, 2002 7-9pm
ARTIST PANEL + OPEN DISCUSSION
Night Vision artists and writer Tim Griffin will present their work
and ideas touched upon in the exhibition.

*****************

GenTerra,
A project by Critical Art Ensemble and Beatriz da Costa

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 583 Broadway, NYC
Thursday, June 20, 2002, 6.30-8.00.pm

GenTerra is a performance by Critical Art Ensemble and Carnegie Mellon
University Robotic Art Researcher Beatriz da Costa. Posing as a company
dealing with transgenics - the isolation of one or more genes from one or
more organisms to create another, new organism - GenTerra highlights the
complex relationship between for-profit ventures and the ethical
considerations involved in transgenics research and product development.
GenTerra is a participatory 'theater' made up of a lab tent, four computer
station displaying the company's CD-Rom, and a "bacteria release machine."

This event will take place on the first floor gallery and is free with
Museum admission. ($3 on Thursdays from 6-8pm)

GenTerra is planned in conjunction with Open_Source_Art_Hack on view through
June 30, 2002 in the New Museum's Zenith Media Lounge. For more information
about the exhibition, please visit http://www.newmuseum.org .

*****************

Prints + Chips

bitforms
529 west 20th
New York, NY 10011
212 366 6939

June 20 - July 27 2002
Opening reception Saturday, June 22, 2002 6-8
Guest Curator: Michele Thursz

"Prints + Chips" is realized as a unit of styles being presented by
artists using gaming systems, communication platforms. Each work
reveals the relationship between production and object specificity.
As a dialogue Prints + Chips looks at the temporality of mediums and
the fluidity of the concepts as objects being realized by artist
using computer or electronic mediums.

***************************************************

KUDOS

GRANT APPROVED TO RESEARCH COMPUTER ARTS IN BRITAIN FROM 1950S TO 1980

A team of outstanding researchers, including fAf's Executive Editor
Paul Brown, Dr Charlie Gere from the School of History of Art, Film
and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London, and George
Mallen, the co-founder of the Computer Arts Society, has been awarded
over half million US dollar by UK's Arts and Humanities Research
Board, to research, document, contextualise and archive the history
of the computer arts in Britain from the 1950s to 1980. This piece of
exciting news features in the June issue of fAf
(http://www.fineartforum.org).

***************************************************
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/ .

***************************************************

WIGGED NEWS ARTICLE

Reflections on Utopia: Sarawut Chutiwongpeti's Work in Perspective.
By Seth Thompson

Two years have passed, since Sarawut Chutiwongpeti's Utopia 1997 came
to my attention. At first, I was intrigued by the aesthetics of the
piece and did not realize the implicit foresight that the work would
have in the upcoming years. Due to a chain of events two years ago,
I had placed the article on the backburner.

Recently, Chutiwongpeti contacted me in regard to the status of the
article. This exchange began a dialogue with him that spurred me to
look once again at his work and to reexamine his ideas in a June 2002
timeframe. With such events as the September 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks on the United States' financial and political capitols;
inflated conflicts between Palestine and Israel; and now threats of
suicide bombers and anthrax have crept into the United States
landscape, I realize how Chutiwongpeti's work foreshadowed these
events.

The installation presents the viewer with ideas of more than just
gorgeous lights and lines within an environment. Pieces of broken
glass lay on the floor; dates of long ago events accompanied by
different geographical locales such as Iran and other texts are
scattered throughout the room; video monitors lay on the floor
presenting "man's" great accomplishments; and missile crater relics
are encapsulated in this environmental sculpture. Utopia 1997 is not
a depiction of Eden, but rather envelopes remnants of chaos and
danger of a society past. It is a cautionary sign to be wary amidst
superficial peace and beauty.

The piece reminds me of Thomas Cole's 1836 painting The Course of
Empire: Desolation which can be found at the New York Historical
Society. The final piece in a series of five, the painting
illustrates the aftermath of a society once great--destroyed by
warfare, overindulgence and greed. Nature is now overtaking the
architectural artifacts of the once great society--slowly returning
the urban landscape to its natural beauty. In Chutiwongpeti's
installation Utopia 1997, sounds of nature are all that remain except
for audio artifacts from the media that reminds the viewer of what
once was.

Chutiwongpeti writes,

"The contradictory side of utopia is full of pessimism. Man's quest
to conquer distant galaxies, endless search for territories and
colonies reflect this inner instinct for power, aggrandizement, and
control. The imbalance of power between those who control and those
under control has contributed to this order and dilemma.

In the era of confusion and distortion values of aesthetics and
common sense have been greatly transformed. At the end of the
century we are facing the crisis of world civilization."

It is my fear that Chutiwongpeti is right--that we live in a world
that is becoming increasingly chaotic and inhumane. I ask myself,
"Why are we killing each other in the name of religion? Isn't
spirituality and religion's mission to provide us with a structure
for peaceful living?" The beautiful facade of Utopia 1997 is evident
at first glance but as we look closer we begin to see some possible
disturbing artifacts of our future's past.

Born in Thailand, Sarawut Chutiwongpeti is a young artist who has
already received international acclaim. He can be reached at
utopia1998@hotmail.com . His website is:
http://artists.banff.org/sarawut/

******************************************
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.

Please Note: To remove your e-mail address from my list simply reply
to this message and type the word "unsubscribe" in the Subject field
at the top of your reply. If you have more than one e-mail address
through which you might be receiving this, please be sure to list
them all.
--
Seth Thompson
Wigged.net
seththompson@wigged.net
http://www.wigged.net