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.

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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.
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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.
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Please find the call, the regulations and entry form on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8
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http://mac.le-musee-divisioniste.org
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[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net -
the experimental platform for art and New Media operating from Cologne/Germany.
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info & contact
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DISCUSSION

Festival for Art on Film: Call for Entries


Festival for Art on Film
Call for Entries

Location: Daum Theatre at The University of Akron
Date: Saturday April 9, 2005

Deadline: December 1, 2004. No Entry Fee.

Seeking video, film and Web-based works that interpret pieces of art
such as dance, music, poetry or visual art. The festival invites
media artists to submit interdisciplinary works and documentaries on
art and artists.

Entry forms available at: http://www.artonfilmfestival.org/entry.html

For More Information visit http://www.artonfilmfestival.org or e-mail
artonfilmfestival@wigged.net.

Produced by Wigged Productions.

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

DISCUSSION

Festival for Art on Film: Call for Entries


Festival for Art on Film
Call for Entries

Location: Daum Theatre at The University of Akron
Date: Saturday April 9, 2005

Deadline: December 1, 2004. No Entry Fee.

Seeking video, film and Web-based works that interpret pieces of art
such as dance, music, poetry or visual art. The festival invites
media artists to submit interdisciplinary works and documentaries on
art and artists.

Entry forms available at: http://www.artonfilmfestival.org/entry.html

For More Information visit http://www.artonfilmfestival.org or e-mail
artonfilmfestival@wigged.net.

Produced by Wigged Productions.

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

DISCUSSION

Jacelyn Biondo's "I know all about the words we cannot speak" at Wigged


Wigged Productions (http://www.wigged.net) an organization dedicated
to making new and innovative art more accessible through broadcast
and Web-based presentations is pleased to showcase online Jacelyn
Biondo's dance on camera video, I know all about the words we cannot
speak. A link to the video can be found on Wigged's homepage
(http://www.wigged.net).

Biondo writes that the piece I know all about the words we cannot
speak "plays with the idea of whether or not one can actually die of
lonliness. The desert setting creates a feeling of vastness and
desolution; a place where a woman can be alone with her thoughts, or
rather try to escape them."

Jacelyn Biondo is currently a student at the California Institute
for the Arts majoring in dance and photography. I know all about the
words we cannot speak was also screened at the International Film
Festival in Athens, Greece.

I know all about the words we cannot speak will be on view at Wigged
through October 14, 2004.

This dance on camera series is curated by Francesca Penzani.

QuickTime 6.4 or later and a DSL/Cable modem or faster are required
to view the video.

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

DISCUSSION

Julia Antonick's "Exiting Softly and Singing Sideways" at Wigged


Wigged Productions (http://www.wigged.net) an organization dedicated
to making new and innovative art more accessible through broadcast
and Web-based presentations is pleased to showcase online Julia
Antonick's dance on camera video, Exiting Softly and Singing
Sideways. A link to the video can be found on Wigged's homepage
(http://www.wigged.net).

Antonick describes Exiting Softly and Singing Sideways as "A gentle
wander through the plethora of feelings left imprinted on the body
and found amongst daily experiences once love has left."

Julia Antonick graduated in 2003 with a BFA in Dance at CalArts
where she began "playing in the hinges between words and movement,
two-dimensional image and performance, and the crossroads between
science and the arts." She recently received a six month residency at
Links Hall in Chicago to create a performance scheduled for April
2005.

Exiting Softly and Singing Sideways will be on view at Wigged through
September 14, 2004.

This dance on camera series is curated by Francesca Penzani.

QuickTime 6.4 or later and a DSL/Cable modem or faster are required
to view the video.

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

DISCUSSION

Julia Antonick's "Exiting Softly and Singing Sideways" at Wigged


Wigged Productions (http://www.wigged.net) an organization dedicated
to making new and innovative art more accessible through broadcast
and Web-based presentations is pleased to showcase online Julia
Antonick's dance on camera video, Exiting Softly and Singing
Sideways. A link to the video can be found on Wigged's homepage
(http://www.wigged.net).

Antonick describes Exiting Softly and Singing Sideways as "A gentle
wander through the plethora of feelings left imprinted on the body
and found amongst daily experiences once love has left."

Julia Antonick graduated in 2003 with a BFA in Dance at CalArts
where she began "playing in the hinges between words and movement,
two-dimensional image and performance, and the crossroads between
science and the arts." She recently received a six month residency at
Links Hall in Chicago to create a performance scheduled for April
2005.

Exiting Softly and Singing Sideways will be on view at Wigged through
September 14, 2004.

This dance on camera series is curated by Francesca Penzani.

QuickTime 6.4 or later and a DSL/Cable modem or faster are required
to view the video.

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