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The 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival is an international biennial festival that brings together artists in all media who are using computers to advance traditional artistic disciplines and to create new interactive worlds. The Festival will take place at museums, galleries, theaters, educational institutions, and public spaces in and around Boston. This unique DVD magazine will allow for people to view video, installation, sound, and performance work of some of the outstanding participating artists.
Further Information:
Included in this issue:
CHRISTY GEORG: Attainment
with audio commentary by Roland Smart
RAVI JAIN: 3speed 2000
with audio commentary by James Hull
HENRY KAUFMAN: The Memory of Your Touch
with audio commentary by Denise Markonish
PETER TUCKER: Irrigation
with audio commentary by Bill Arning
DAVID WEBBER: Language Extension#4
with audio commentary by Dana Moser
| Catalog Number: MC-204 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: New Media, Modern Culture |
| Copyright: 2003 |
Length: 65 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
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Films In Compilation
Attainment directed by
Christy
Georg
USA,
2001,
Video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:03:49
Attainment is a device going through the motions, using a measured process, to attain harmony, or curb discord. A scientific instrument slowly drips water into a glass, which periodically spins to be "played" by a cork-tipped player arm. Concurrently, a small hammer strikes a tuning fork, indicating the aural goal. Again and again, as the glass fills with water, it alters its pitch closer to that of the tuning fork. Its struggle is in the attempt to attain perfect pitch, which once attained, is fleeting.
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3Speed2000 directed by
Ravi
Jain
USA,
2000,
Video,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:12:14
3Speed 2000 documents the journey of three ‘transportation pioneers’ aboard the first high speed train in America, Amtrak’s Acela Express. The video is part of an ongoing performance based piece in which I strive to be the first to traverse notable large-scale transportation systems. For each of these milestones I adopt a different personality. Drawn from literary and historical sources, these personae celebrate the romance of explorations past. Clad in matching flight suits and helmets, the 3Speed 2000 trio radiates a bravura and optimism that recalls the glamour of early space travel.
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Memory of Your Touch, The directed by
Henry
Kaufman
USA,
2003,
Color,
00:02:19
When someone touches you and takes their hand away, what do you feel afterwards? Is that tingling warmth sensation something of them, or is it created in your body? What do you leave behind of yourself when you touch something? If you could see the imprint of your touch, what would it look like? "The Memory of Your Touch" is one result of my exploration of these thoughts. My vision was to make it possible to see what you leave behind and turn that ephemeral residue into something physical with weight, and yet light at the same time.
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Irrigation directed by
Peter
Tucker
USA,
2002,
Color,
00:07:19
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a child playing on the sea-shore, diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Sir Isaac Newton
Like Newton, I play. I use a variety of materials in the search for that smoother pebble, with the hope that the process or product will have some truth to it, a point of inspiration or moment of contemplation for the viewer.
Play embraces ways of seeing, doing and being that are easily lost in our fast-paced world. I strive for an openness or awakening in attitude and approach to the world around me. My goal is to bring this approach to my artwork and, through the work, to transfer it to the viewer.
Irrigation focuses on the creation of new and merging forms and lines. It alters reality to help us focus on reality. The sound serves to disturb the environment as the mirrors disturb the image.
For me, Irrigation represents the disjunction between watering and the desert environment of the southwest. It also recalls the pleasure of performing this simple, solitary task.
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Language Extension #4 directed by
David
Webber
USA,
0,
Color,
00:03:29
The two blenders sit on top of a TV and mimic the speech of the people in the soap opera video. Blender noise becomes a vocal extension of the TV character that relays the sibilance of speech manifested in mechanical form. The voices pitch and loudness control the speed and intensity of the blender creating a sonic envelope of words. This piece deals with the McGurk effect, in the mismatch between the auditory signal and the visual signal to create a third phoneme different from both the original auditory and visual speech signals. Here the McGurk effect changes the perception of meaning by forcing one to rely on the visual reading of lips and gesture for the decipherment of the sound meaning. The meaning is altered but conveyed through implied meaning associations of lip motion and gesture. This piece is one in a series that investigates language and the multiplicity of meaning.
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